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8 WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN A Newspaper Devoted to the Advocacy of the Jeffersonian Theory of Government. PUBLISHED BY THOS. E. WATSON and J. D. WATSON Editors and Proprietors Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga. SUBSCRIPTIC'N PRICE - . oo PER TEAR. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. Afflicatian made far entry as sectnd class mail matter at Atlanta, Ga., Ptstaffice. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907 Removal of the Jeffersonian to Atlanta. When The Jeffersonian was established, it had not been decided to undertake the publi cation of Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine. Later it seemed to be an absolute necessity that the magazine should be launched.- This being so, it becomes advisable, for sev eral reasons, to have them both in the same place and under the same management. Besides it was thought best to change the shape of the weekly paper from the large, old,- fashioned sheet to the modern magazine size. This could not be done in 'Augusta. Consequently The Jeffersonian is now lo cated in Atlanta. All exchanges and correspondents will please note the change in our postoffice address. Hereafter all communications intended for the weekly paper should be addressed The Weekly Jeffersonian, Atlanta, Ga., or to Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Exchanges of the weekly should, however, be mailed in all cases to the Atlanta office, where they will be needed by Mr. Chas. J. Bayne, the managing editor. * * * M * '*• Call Off the Dogs. Had it occurred to you that the Trust and Railroad politicians are going through the huntsman’s act blowing the horn to call off the dogs from tjie chase? That’s just what is being done. The Trusts are nervous, and the Railroad bosses are uneasy. They feel the ground rocking beneath their feet. They know, they know, that things cannot go on as they are, unless the attention of the masses can be drawn away to something else. The Railroad bosses who are killing and mangling about 17,000 human beings every three months, in the mad rush for Dividends on watered stock, are straining every nerve in the effort to get the United States mixed up in that Congo muddle, where it is alleged that King Leopold is butchering negroes who refuse to work as ordered. It is all right for our Railroad Bosses to maim and murder several thousand white men, white women and white children every year in the ruthless determination to earn fraudulent dividends, but all wrong for King Leopold to murder several thousand black men, black women and black children in Afri ca. Os course, it is wrong to murder anybody, white or black, in the United States or in Africa. But why should J. Pierpont Morgan put himself at the head of a movement whose THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. object is to have our government stop the atrocities of Leopold when Morgan’s own railroads murder more people every month than King Leopold’s men murder in a year? The reason why, is plain. Morgan hopes to “CALL OFF THE DOGS.” He wants Public Opinion, prose cuting officers, Grand Juries and indignant editors to let him alone. Stay the greed of Leopold. Stop that kill ing of the blacks in Africa. By all means check and chasten Leopold. But don’t stay the greed of Morgan. Don’t stop the awful killing of the whites by Morgan. On with THAT, by all means. Morgan MUST have Dividends from fraudulent issues of stock. Consequently trainmen must be overwork ed, cheap employees must be kept, worn-out rolling stock and locomotives must be used, bridges must go unrepaired, rotten cross-ties must still try to hold the rails, double track ing cannot be afforded, nor can the automatic Block system which poor little Switzerland uses be adopted by the richest nation on earth! Why does Switzerland adopt the automatic Block system which makes the collisions of trains an impossibility? Because the people of Switzerland own their own railroads and therefore take the necessary precautions to safeguard their own lives. THEY THINK MORE OF LIFE AND LIMB THAN OF DIVIDENDS—HENCE THEY HAVE THE BEST SERVICE POS SIBLE AND THEY KILL NOBODY. But such monsters as J. P. Morgan care more for Dividends than for human life— hence they refuse to spend the money to per fect the service. But don’t do anything to put a check on Morgan. Stop Leopold, who is mangling and massa cring the negroes away off yonder in Africa. Then there’s Foraker! Fire Alarm Foraker. He’s the Ohio Senator who stood by his Rail road Bosses to the last in the Rate fight. He belongs to the Trusts as truly as does John Dalzell or Aldrich. And what is For aker doing now? Trying to raise from the dead the fell spirit of Sectionalism! Trying to fan race-hatred into consuming flames! Taking the Brownsville affair and the Pres ident’s dismissal of the negro troops as his hobby he is riding it with a grim determina tion to kick up as much devilment as he pos sibly can. And those Southern Senators who take up Foraker’s challenge are doing exactly what he wants them to do. With Foraker as with Morgan, it is a case of calling off the dogs to put them on another trail. Southern Senators should sit steady in the boat, saying nothing. Let the President’s Northern, Eastern and Western friends defend him. Let the Southern members of Congress be silent but be in their places to vote when the time comes. * M * Merely Incidental. Our War Department is much worried be,- cause young men are not enlisting. The authorities marvel at this phenomenon —sagely wagging the military head. The said authorities cannot understand the thing at all, but vaguely hint that General Prosperity and an outrageous increase of comfort, away from that fascinating mili ta 1 seems so satisfactory to said auth But is it fascinating to the enlisted Is the temptation irresistible to become an officer’s slave on a battleship, or Discipline’s slave in the barracks? * Did you read how they shot and killed the poor fellow who was trying to steal out of Bamburg to visit his sick mother on Christmas Eve? That was his crime, AND DISCI PLINE SHOT SIX BULLETS THROUGH HIS HEART. While you were buying Christmas gifts for children x and friends that evening, and while every member of the family who could possi bly do so was hurrying home for Christmas, this poor soldier boy was irresistibly tempted. To slip out of the barracks, to steal off in the nigFt, to speed away to the old home, to burst in upon the loved ones with beaming face and merry words, to lift the. sick mother in his arms and hug her once more and kiss the withered cheeks, and help her back to health with the powerful tonic of love and joy; to grip the glad old father’s hand, to em brace the sweet little sister —all this was in the poor boy’s heart and mind, as he slipped out from the barracks and turned his feet homeward. Alas! they did not take him home! Vigilant sentries, unerring aim, flashes that ripped the darkness, and a dead man on the ground—his heart’s blood puddling there be neath him. DISCIPLINE VINDICATED, you see. Take that other scene. The United States Battleship, Ohio, is coal ing at the New York Navy Yard. John J. Hickey, of Portsmouth, Va., comes to the officer in command, Lieut. Commander McDonald, and requests shore leave. It is December 21, and the wife and chil dren of the enlisted man Hickey are in New York. They have come all the way from their home in Portsmouth to get a Christmas hug and kiss —and to give one. The husband, Hickey, tells this McDonald creature why he wants to go ashore. His wife has come from the Virginia home to visit him; his children are there in New York eagerly waiting to greet the father whom they have not seen for many a weary month. How much time did Hickey ask for, Broth er? Only two hours! Just one hundred and twenty minutes for a Christmas reunion with wife and children! It seems to me that the very devils in hell would have been ashamed to deny this man. But McDonald wasn’t. He remembered that the ship was coaling; that the rules forbade shore-leave while the ship was coaling; and he denied the man. Not only denied him, but had him put in ironis and flung down to the prison room of the ship. Why did McDonald have Hickey put in irons? Because he did not take McDonald’s refusal to allow him two hours to see his wife and children “with good grace.” Because he showed his heart-broken disap-