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Jeffersonian
Vol. 13, No. 1
A DELUSIVE RURAL CREDIT BILL
*T TIE newspapers announce the main fea
tures of the Rural Credits bill, as
agreed upon by the Democratic leaders in
Congress.
If the published accounts are correct, the
bill is a cruel deception—cruel because aimed
to dupe those patient, loyal and sorely tried
Democrats whose votes have so long been the
one fixed, permanent, and indispensable
asset of the Democratic party. -
What is it that oppresses and robs the
farmer? It is the financial system which
creates a money-monopoly, and compels the
farmer to pay interest ranging from 15 to
150 per cent.
The Democratic Comptroller of the U. S.
Treasury recently made a thorough exami
nation of the workings of the National
banks, in their relations to the farmer, and
although John Skelton Williams is a seasoned
Wall Streeter himself, he appeared to be genu
inely shocked by his discoveries.
lie declared that the National banks had
outrageously abused their powers, and stated
that the worst instances he found were in
the South.
Particularly, he mentioned the Georgia
banks, and he said that Congress should pass
some law a stop to such inhuman and
ruinous usury.
Even the Washington Post, D. C., sympa
thized with the Comptroller and with the
helpless victims of the National banks; and
it published a leading editorial, Greenbackish
DO YOU INTEND TO ENRICH SUCH ROMAN CATHOLICS AS THESE?
TP ILROUGIIOUT this Republic, there are
thousands of business houses, patronized
by Protestants and patriots, composed of
“silent Romanists who are really the man
agers, but whose, names and religion” are
seldom known to the patrons of the firm.
Thus the Augusta, Georgia, cotton factors.
Phinizy & Co., obscures the actual controller
of the business, Mr. James Tobin, a most
ardent Roman Catholic.
Millions of bales of cotton produced by
Protestants have been handled by James
Tobin, the Catholic; and the presumption is
that the Protestant patrons of Phinizy & Co.,
have been exceedingly profitable to Mr,
Tobin, the Catholic.
That’s all right. I sent my own cotton to
that firm for about 30 years, and never
ceased to do so until the local Catholic daily
—owned chiefly by Jacob Phinizy the figure
head President of the Georgia Railroad—
made such a vicious and libellous series of
attacks on me, that when I was arrested at
the instance of the American Federation of
the Pope’s Treason Societies, and carried to
Augusta to give bail, my old factors. Phinizy
& Co., were conspicious by their absence.
Mr. James Tobin was not as tolerant of
me as I had been of him, and his action
seemed to imply that I might go to jail and
rot there, so far us was concerned.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, January 6,1916 i
and Populistic, in which it stated that the
Southern farmer was robbed of the crop be
fore it was gathered.
So! (For explanations, prophecies, and
pleas for relief, consult the “Handbook”, and
the Speeches of Watson, or any other Green
backer and Populist, 20 years ago.)
Now, any man who knows how to set a
plow, ought to be able to see that no form
of words, enacted into law, can prevent
money from fetching its price.
Over and above man’s law against usury,
is natures law of price; and every tyro in
political economy understands that money is
like Labor, or wheat —scarcity means dearness
and abundance means cheapness.
(Os course, I mean, where there is no arti-
FARMERS’ UNION GRAND
RALLY,
At Cordele, on 22nd of this month.
Hon. J. J. Brown and others will
address the people at 10 o’clock, a. m.,
in Cordele.
A strong policy will be announced,
and the people will be asked to adopt
a platform which will show to the
world what the Union stands for and
what it means to do.
Come out, good folks, and give the
Union a good starter for 1916.
Do any Catholics patronize and enrich
Protestant firms?
Ao /
Catholics patronize Catholies y and never
spend a cent with non-Catho]ics, if they can
avoid it.
As an evidence of the rapidly growing in
tolerance of the Romanists, I will tell you
about J. A. SMITH, of Atlanta, Georgia.
This person is so rank a Catholic that he
can scarcely endure the sight of a Protestant
in his place of business.
Some few weeks ago, my son-in-law, Mr.
O. S. Lee, was in Atlanta soliciting adver
tisements for The Jeffersonian Publishing
Company.
I presume you know that the bonds and
stock of our Company are widely scattered
throughout the South, and that among the
holders are boys and girls, men and women,
who entrusted their money to me, partly be
cause they had faith in me, and partly be
cause of their deep interest in my work.'
Therefore when Mr. Lee went to Atlanta,
seeking to rebuild the advertising patronage
which the Roman Catholic boycott had so
nearly destroyed, he was not working for me,
alone, but for every stockholder and bond
holder who owns an interest in the magnifi
cent plant at Thomson which the Pope’s
American traitors are so eager to ruin.
In the line of his duty, Mr. Lee entered the
ficial and arbitrary interference with na
tures law of supply and demand. )
Money, like everything else, seeks the best
market, and the highest price.
For example, Austin Corbin of New York
conceived the plan of turning 4 per cent.
Northern money into the South, and lending
it on (he land, at the regular 8 per cent,
legal interest, plus a commission paid to lhe
locai agent. As all of ns remember, (hat
land-loan system did not give the farmers (he
relief they needed.
The proceeds of the loan usually went
to pay off old debts: and when these
were cleared away, the farmer had no work
ing capital left, and his SC' urtlij v:<j.s gone!
Besides, the '■’Northern loan injured his
credit, almost as badly as if he had ’’taken
the Homestead.'"
I know what I am talking about, because
I borrowed some of that money myself to
pay for our “Old-home place"’ and acted as
correspondent for the Corbin Company sev
eral vears.
Toucan therefore imagine my surprise and
indignation when I learned from the news
papers, that the Rural Credits mm oilered
to the farmers by the Democratic party, is
nothing in the world but a modified Corbin
land-loan system.
The Democratic statesmen have simply
borrowed the plan of the “Northern loan”
agents, and are proposing to handicap the
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place of this A. A. Smith, the Fertilizer
broker!
As courteously as any one could have done,
my son-in-law accosted this Smith person, and
asked if he would give The Jeffersonian Pub
lishing Co. an advertisement.
Now. if Smith were a gentleman, and had
desired to civilly negative the proposition, all
he had to do was to answer “No”. and end
the matter.
But Smith is not a gentleman. Smith is
a raw, uncouth, unmannered boor. Smith is
a man who, if he ever had any decent raising
and manners, has allowed his- foot-kissing
jackassery to obliterate them.
Smith not only glories in the. fact that he
is a cannibal, who periodically eats God at
the altar rail—while the fat and lecherous
priest drinks Him—but he leaps eagerly
toward every opportunity to safely instill a
fellow-cit izen who does not kiss the Italian
pope's foot, and who does not believe that a
pone of bread and a bottle of wine can be
converted into the flesh and blood of Je-us
Christ.
Accordingly, when Mr. Oscar Lee solicited
an advertisement from this God-eating
jackass, A. A. Smith, he was astounded by
the words of coarse insult that Smith poured
out upon him.
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