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A McDuffie -county negro
WRITES A REMARKABLE
LETTER.
Raysville, Ga., Oct. 23, 1915.
Dear Sir: Please allow me space
in your Jeffersonian. I have been
reading your Jeffersonian ever since
March 23, 1911, and 1 am here to
say it is a good paper for anyone
that can read or wants to read. I
know it is for my race. Some peo
ple say that a negro can't be made
any more than what they are today,
but, Mr. Editor, 1 differ with them.
Why? Because if my negro race is
raised right I am sure that he will
go just the way he was ained to
go. I myself was raised by Mrs. B.
J. Collins rignt here in McDuffie
County, and my master was Dr. W.
A. L. Coilins. These two white peo
ple never did teach their negroes
what was wrong for them to do. If
any negro don’t give them credit for
it I am here to say they have plenty
of ignorance and some to spare to
anyone that wants it. If it had not
’ oeen for 'the white people of this
country this colored race would have
been in Africa, dead to civilization.
I say just here it will uaKe the
negro race just as long to become
a race as it took the white race.
It has been said that a negro could
not be taught anything, but I think
he can. If all the negro race of the
South-was educated we would treat
the white people better than we do.
We would know better. 1 show’ some
of the religious progress of the Bap
tist and the Methodist denominations
containing the majority of negro
church members. T*e negro church
is not alone the Methodist and’ the
Baptist branches uUt the others as
well.y The negro churcn is a great
force among our people and exer
cises commanding inuuence. Let all
doubters of the future of the negro
remember that we have 23,426
churches organized and that we have
built 23,77 v churches with a seat
ing capacity of 680,090. Our total
church membership is 2,6.3,977 out
of a population of 10,000,000. Very
few adult negroes are not members
of some church. Our church prop
erty is valued at $60,000,000. This
is a remarkable showing in propor
tion to total population. The negro
church members outnumber the
white church members in this coun
try. In addition to what I have said,
the negro churches have contributed
to the education of our people the
remarkable sum of $9,497.70 since
the civil war. I love the Soutii be
cause the South is my home. My
race was brought from Africa, and
1 thank God for it, because if this
colored race of negroes were car
.. ried back to Africa they wou— soon
er or later lapse into barbarism.
Without a leader, it will take my
race of people a long time to go from
where they are. 1 am for tne Jef
fersonian. ASA COLLINS.
ONE FARMER’S VIEW OF PRO
POSED WAREHOUSE PLAN.
Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Col
quitt County Farmer’s Union on the
22nd, a resolution was unanimously
adopted endorsing your position on
that state warehouse system, and
also of the Hon. Grover Edmondson.
It has the wrong crowd behind it.
We have had enough of their tricks,
and intend to have congress give us
a satisfactory rural credits law or
put this administration out of busi
ness so far as this county is con
cerned.
We call on all union men of the
state to see to the defeat of this
scheme of the politicians.
We favor a national warehouse
system with a genuine financial
system for the benefit of all pro
ducers.
Very truly yours,
J. W. WEEKS, Sect.
C. H. JOHNSON, Pres.
Colquitt County Farmers Union.
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
COMPTROLLER GENERAL WIL
LIAMS SAYS NATIONAL
BANKS CREATE
ANARCHISTS.
Dear Sir: Mr. W. P. G. Harding
in a recent public statement charged
that many National Banks showed
in their sworn statements that they
had made loans far above tne legal
rate of interest.
Several cases w r ere cited where the
interest charged on certain loans ran
from 33 per cent, to as nigh as 120
per cent.
John Skelton Williams, comptroller
of the currency, has recently pub
licly corroborated Mr. Harding’s as
sertions. He asserts that there were
1,020 National Banks whose official
reports to the government snowed
that the average interest on all the
loans made exceeded 10 per cent.
This means 13 per cent, of all the
banks working under federal laws,
under the control of the national
treasury department and inspected
by national bank examiners, are vio
lating the usury laws of the states in
which they do business.
Mr. Williams says: “Three hun
dred per cent, will make anarchists,
silently, faster than all the I. W. W.
apostles can.
When National Banks charterer by
the government, disappoint and de
prive toil of its just reward, and
stimulate resentment, we have pre
pared and fertilized ti.e soil for a
fearful disaster. We cannot per
suade ourselves or make others be
lieve that it is right or safe for banks
to charge 100 per cent, a year while
the producing people about them are
kept poor.
How about this Mr. Watson? Do
you know of a single instance in all
history where the priviledged classes
have ever relinquished any of their
privileges voluntarily, even though
they knew to persist meant destruc
tion?
Witness Rome and France. In my
humble opinion it is these things that
bring revolution and all its attendant
miseries and suffering.
“There are none so blind as those
■who wih not see,'’ and ic always re
quires an earthquake or thunderbolt
to wake them.
The “earthquake” is as inevitable
as that night follows day, if there is
not change, do you not think so?
If we, who are being ground to
powder between the millstones mur
mur they call us anarchists, so be it,
then. There are a thousand signs
that indicate the rising storm. Those
who could avert the disaster will not,
and those who would are powerless.
AV hat is your opinion?
Yours very respectfully,
C. E. WINGATE.
WAS SHOT DOWN IN THE BATTLE
OF ATLANTA.
Dear Sir: 1 see through the paper
that people are calling you tiieir Tom,
but if any of them have more right
to call you so than 1 have, I would
like to know who it is, outside of your
wife and cnildren.
1 have taken your paper since 1902,
the People’s Party paper, and the
others since they’ve been published
and I love them all, and I expect to
take them tne rest of the time I live.
I feel so rejoiced as 1 read and
re-read of the good people of Georgia
that they gave Frank justice.
1 was shot dowm and wounded at
Atlanta, Ga., 51 years ago the 23rd
of last July and been a cripple ever
since, and I’m now »n my 77 c- year,
and if the Knights want to taxe up
arms against you or any other honest
man. I feel just as young touay as
I ever did, and am willing to take
mine also.
I will send you a list of names on
a separate sheet of paper under your
club offer, and I’m paying for most
of them myself, and I’ve lost my
knife and if you furnish me another
one I’ll send you the money with my
renewal hoping you ..ill be spared
many years yet to fight the peoples
battles. Yours very truly,
W. C. BENSON.
W. W. RAMSEY. G. W. LEGWEN.
Ramsey & Leg wen
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