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Where Was the Georgia
Delegation.
ACCORDING to The Congressional Record,
of February 24, 1916, the Hon. Mr. Hull
made a speech in Comm fee of the Whole,
during the course of which he said of the
R. F. D. System:
It might be timely here to go a little into the
history of the inauguration of rural routes in the
United States. This wonderful department of the
mail service had its inaugurataion under the wise
and beneficent policy of the Republican party. It
was during the administration of the late Presi
dent Harrison that the first money, the small sum
of SIO,OOO, was appropriated by Congress to es
tablish the first rural route. Then our Democratic
brethren came into power and concluded that the
Government had no right to waste such a sum on
such a foolhardy proposition, and during the
Cleveland Administration the money was not used.
When McKinley was elected, and the Republicans
once more assumed their own, the active work of
establishing rural routes was really begun. Its
immeasureable value w r as instantly recognized by
the farmers; from all over the country came calls
for additional routes, its scope grew by leaps and
bounds, from thousands the appropriations grew
into hundreds of thousands, and then millions,
until today it is recognized as one of the most
important, if not the most vital part, of the mail
service of the United States.
This wonderful development has taken place
entirely under the wise and judicious management
of the Republican party. Under its regime there
was almost universal satisfaction, and it remained
for the present Administration to inaugurate a
policy which has not only retarded the develop
ment of the rural routes but has actually placed
them in a state of deterioration.
Where was the Georgia delegation, when
this aggressive Republican was punching the
facts ?
Where was Bill Schley Howard, and Tom
Bell, and Gordon Lee, and the rest of the
boys ?
Has the Democratic party no floor-leader,
these discordant days?
Have German kicks and British prods
taken all of our valor out of us?
Has our Congress reached the point where
the Democratic part of it is “too proud to
fight ?”
This man Hull stood so fair, that some
Democrat should have aimed at least one shot
at him.
Is it possible that the Hon Claude Kitchin,
Democratic House leader, does not know that
the R. F. I), service was inaugurataed by
Hon. William L. Wilson, Postmaster-General
under Cleveland?
Is it possible that Democratic Congressmen,
generally, do not know that the SIO,OOO ap
propriation referred to by Mr. Hull, was
made on February 17, 1893, and that the bill
carrying it did not become a law until the last
days of the Harrison Administration?
It was the New York man, Bissell, who, as
Postmaster-General, ignored the appropria
tion that I had fought so hard to obtain: but
he died, and President Cleveland put in his
place a very noble genthnan and clear-headed
statesman, when he named William L. Wilson.
P. O. Inspector. Knight, was recently pro
moted to overhaul the R. F. D. system, and
he seems to be pleasing the patrons of the
routes immensely.
His promotion is attributed to his indus
trious efforts to purge the U. S. mails of such
putrid matter as Saint Liguori’s “Moral
Theology.”
It is a pity the Government promoted him,
before he had a chance to prosecute the Hearst
Sunday papers, the Hearst “sex” magazines,
and-the hundreds of authors and publishers
who produce obscene and lascivious novels.
Knight, I am sure, meant to send Hearst
and Brisbane’to the penitentiary.
Unfortunately, his energies are now’ monop
olized by the tearing up of the R. F. D.
service.
The Jeffersonian, SI.OO per year; in Clubs
of Ten. 50 cents.
thejeffersonian
The Majesty of the Law: Two
Cases.
I N the City of New York, an Israelite of
progressive proclivities, gathered into a
bank of his the sum of two and one-half mil
lion dollars, w hich belonged to 15,000 deposi
tors, most of whom were wage-earners, and
many of whom were his own employes, in his
Department Store.
My amateurish knowledge of the law’ sug
gests to me, that this huge sum of money,
placed in the hands of Siegel by his work
people, was essentially a trust; and that when
he embezzled the funds of these 15.000 work
people, he was guilty of Larceny after Trust,
a felony punishable by a term of years in
the penitentiary.
However, New York is largely dominated
by the Belmonts, the Strauses, the Schiffs, the
Guggenheims, and other millionaires who be
long to the Chosen of the Lord; and the legal
triggers w’ere so adjusted that Siegel was
merely trapped for a misdemeanor.
He was detained by the Law in elegant and
indulged seclusion for the period of eight
months, and is now’ at liberty.
As yet, I have heard no roar of indigna
tion from Straus' Puck magazine, nor from
Adolph Och’s Times, nor from Pulitzer's
llm’ZcZ, nor from the Hearst papers.
The progressive Seigel has resumed his
place among the Eminently Respectables of
Gotham; and he will probably open aonther
bank, w ith a view’ to the stealing of another
$2,500,000 from another 15,000 confiding
fellow-creatures.
The other case happened at about the same
time as Seigel's, but it happened in the black
sheep State of Georgia.
A Cobb County boy snatched a purse from
the hand of a lady, and ran off with it, intent
upon stealing its contents, which probably
did not exceed two million five hundred
thousand dollars.
The boy w as perhaps quite as dishonest as
Seigel, but his opportunities were not so
good.
He stole a pin, as it were, while Seigel stole
a much greater thing.
The boy was an untutored country bump
kin. w’hile Seigel was the finished product of
pedigree, collegiate education, synagogue
morality, edifying examples, and cultured
environment.
Seigel robbed 15.000 work-people, who had
trusted him with their little savings: there
was basest treachery and blackest turpitude
in his crime: and besides he, a middle-aged
man. went about robbing his employes, delib
erately.
Besides, he was rich, and did not need to
steal.
The Cobb County boy—not being a Chink,
or a Jap. nor a Hindoo—had never been sent
to college, nurtured by the churches, and
kindly led to the open door of honest Oppor
tunity.
Moneyless, friendless, jobless, and perhaps
hungry, he was tempted to snatch the exposed
purse, as it passed him on the road.
(“Our Father who art in Heaven, lead ua
not into temptation!”)
It is to be doubted that he got as much as
live dollars; and there was no evidence—so
far as I have heard—that the boy had ever
broken the Law before.
But he was convicted; and JUDGE BEN
HILL, of Atlanta. sent him to the peniten
tiary. FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!
Judge Ben Hill, by the way, is one of the
men who backed John M. Slaton, in reversing
all the courts, in favor of Slaton's own client,
Leo Frank, legally convicted, upon over
whelming evidence of more than 40 white
witnesses, of choking a poor little white girl
to death, when she repulsed his lustful attack
upon her, in his own house!
Two m' Hie Aitor*
*T HE firs t w’as a young Catholic woman in
1 Massachusetts.
While kneeling in prayer, her priest came
gliding upon her from his private den (sa
cristy), seized her. dragged her into his room,
and violated her person.
Cardinal O'Connell appointed the bishop
who appointed the priest, the former named
Beaven and the latter. Petrarca.
The woman sued the bishop for damages,
alleging that at the time he put Petrarca in
charge of this flock, he. the bishop, knew the
priest to be a vile reprobate who would take
advantage of the Catholic women of the
parish.
The bishop's lawyers admitted this fact—
this terrible fact—but argued that the bishop
had had no reason to suspect that Petrarca
would ravish any of the feminine members of
his flock.
They argued that the bishop knew that
Petrarca would seduce some of the Catholic
women, and commit fornication or adultery,
but there had been nothing in the priest's life,
so far as the bishop knew, to put him on
notice that the priest would rape a woman in
the church.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts held
this reasoning to be sound, and sent the case
to limbo.
Ihe State did not prosecute the priest for
rape, nor does it appear that Cardinal O'Con
nell censured either the bishop or the priest.
The woman was doubtless blamed for it
all. and they have probably got her under
lock and key, in one of their hell-holes.
The second case was that of a priest who
was kneeling at the altar, with several women
around him.
And another woman, a good Catholic, en
tered the church, glided toward the priest,
placed a pistol at the back of his head, and
blew his light out.
She says he had ruined her.
It happened in St. Paul. Minnesota, last*
week, the name of the priest's victim being
Agnes Dueke, and that of her seducer. Henry
Jajgeski.
The blighted woman had no doubt read how
the priest. Hans Schmidt, had cut the throat
of Anna Aumueller. while the poor girl was
asleep in the priest's bed; and Agnes Dueke
may have come to the conclusion that she'd
better kill her priest, before her priest killed
The Roman Catholic system is hell; and
the lid is being lifted, week by week, in this
greatest of Republics.
Let the pope's paper rant and rave; let
Protestant editors and preachers close their
eyes to the coming storms; let the cowardly
politicians keep on kissing the foot of the
Italian pope, to get Catholic votes in Amer
ica: the first thing they know, the roar of
thunder will wake them up.
Thus, you see. Judge Ben Hill is one of the
men who have done nobly in building up. in
Georgia, a profound respect for the majesty
of the Law.
Watson’s Books on Sale In
Atlanta and Macon.
A complete line of Thos. E. Watson’s books aro
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cities and vicinity would do well to call and look
them over. Jeffersonian Publishing Co.
Bethany, by Thos. E. Watson. A Romanes
of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures of
plantation life, before the war. Bound in
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nian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga.
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