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12 Guntown, Miss., Feb 6, 1907. Mr. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: 1 have just enjoyed the rare treat of your Magazine for January and February. Am delighted that you are issuing it, and hope you will soon have a great patronage. The ground on which you put it certainly apepals to many reformers. BUT —Why not ALL reformers work together? WHY are not you and Mr. Bryan together? ALL reformers SHOULD stand for all that is good. I can agree fully with YOU and Mr. Bryan. BUT do you either agree with me? I read with much interest all that I see from YOU and MR. BRY AN. But I have read it up to date with MUCH disappointmeat. Why not you and Mr. Bryan use your great influence against the greatest evil we have? He is a Presbyterian, and I think I have heard you are a Baptist. Am sure you are a good Baptist so far as your love for liberty goes. But there is ONE evil so daring, and SO destruc tive to every good interest that all GOOD men should find it easy to unite against it. But they do not. I have never seen ONE small article in any of your papers against THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC in our government. There is a HYDRA HEADED MONSTER for you with his fangs in the very vitals of our government, and with his heart fixed on the overthrow of the manhood of every patron of his, and yet you, a REFORMER, DO NOT FIGHT HIM. The railroads rob us, but they do not CORRRUPT ALL their pat rons. The express company takes our money to a severe muchness, but it leaves us our MANHOOD. After ALL, MANHOOD is the main thing, Mr. Watson. Leave us that, and we can live. You speak some noble words FOR a better manhood, and I am sure you see the thing clearly, but HOW CAN YOU BE SILENT on the saloon question? But I did not intend to write you a long letter. Please send me a specimen! copy of your weekly paper, and I would like to know your best terms to agents on subscriptions to the magazine. If you will ADD to your fight that of a heroic effort for the complete overthrow of the SALOON power I shall join you in getting subscribers to the maga zine. Why not turn that excellent Car toonist loose on the RUM POWER? There is a MONOPOLY worthy of YOUR STEEL. Why not help us to slay HIM? Yours for ALL that is right, G. T. HOWERTON. M M * FORMER WAR RECALLED. The present conflict between Nicara gua and Honduras recalls the war between these countries in 1894. In 1894. In that conflict Nicaragua was the victor. The cause of the trouble thirteen years ago was similar to that of to day, the alleged invasion of Nicara guan territory by Honduran troops. After a month’s fighting Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, which again seems to be the objective point of the enemy, was captured. President Vas quez of Honduras was deposed by the victorious army and General Policarpo Bonilla was placed in power. Then the Nicaraguans withdrew from the country. General Policarpo Bonilla is no relative of General Manuel Bonil la, the present Incumbent of the Hon duran presidency. A Nicaraguan in this city, who yes terday received confirmation of the ca ble dispatches from Managua, said: “History is about to repeat itself In Central America. Our forces will again take Tegucigalpa. Bhls time it will be accomplished much quicker, as our ar my is much stronger than it was in 1894. I expect to hear very soon of the capture of Hondusras’ capital by Nicaragua.” t LIBERAL USE OF FREE PASSES. The Railroad Rate Investigating Committee of the Tennessee Legisla ture had further evidence from Mr. L. K. Wenning, Auditor of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. Mr. Wenning was examined especially con cerning the number of passes issued by his company during 1906, and the mileage traveled on free transporta tion during the period mentioned. It was developed that about 20 per cent of the passenger transportation over the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis during 1906 was on passes. M M M EARTHQUAKE AT JAMAICA. By Associated Press. Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 23. —A vio lent shock of earthquake occurred yes terday which caused quite a scare. It was the heaviest shock since the disas ter of January 1. No loss of life occurred but damaged buildings col lapsed. * * * WILL DECIDE NEXT WEEK. By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 23. —It was an nounced today that a final conference will be held at the white house next Monday between the president and Secretaries Root and Taft relative to the award of the contract for the con struction of the Panama canal, and that the decision will be announced Tuesday. Al! the parties in interdfct have now been heard by the president and Sec retaries Root and Taft. Their repre sentations have been given full consid eration, and it is also known that he business and personal reputations of some of these persons have been sub jects of most careful and searching private inquiry, which is expected to have a most important bearing on the decision to be announced next week. m m m BOYS HAVE RIGHTS. A Mississippi small boy climbed a tree and was shocked and seriously injured by coming in contact with a live elec tric wire. Suit for damages was brought by the boy’s father and the electric company contended that the boy was out of his proper place in the tree, and the company was not to blame. The lower court decided to this effect, but the supreme court of the state has reversed the judgment of the lower court on the ground that a boy has a right to climb a tree. m m m LET ’EM FIGHT A LITTLE. It appears that the governments of the United States and Mexico, solic itously inclined to use their good offi ces to bring about peace between Hon duras and Nicaragua, have concluded that It is necessary to let those bellig erent bantam republics knock them selves a while before the proffer of arbitration shall be made. Nations are like individuals; they can sometimes be more easily parted after they have felt the punishment of their fighting. w it * WELL-KNOWN WRITER DEAD. Special to the Banner. Carrollton, Ky., February 23. George Dallas Mosgrove, Confederate veteran and widely known writer, was found dead on the turnpike near here. He is thought to have been the vic tim of heart disease. Mr. Mosgrove was the author of “A Kentucky Cav alier,” and was a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. He was a member of Morgan’s command in the civil war. M M M FOR MRS. J. T. JACKSON. Represenatlve E. Y. Webb has se cured the passage of the bill giving to Mrs. Stonewall Jackson a pension of S2O a month. This bill originated in the senate, having been passed at the Instance of Senator Overman, and will now become law as soon as THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. it Is signed by the president and the speaker. There was talk of the possi ble application of the “Loyalty test” while the bill was pending, and some doubt was entertained about its final passage. No obstacles arose, however, after the bill had finally been reported favorably by Chairman Laudenslager, of New Jersey, of the sub-committee in the house, to which the application was referred. M M M DISCUSSION OF NEGRO PROBLEM. Special to the Banner. Chattanooga, Tenn., February 23. — At the meeting of the Chattanooga Press Club, which was organized yes terday, the following resolutions on the race question were adopted: “Resolved, That it is the sense of the Chattanooga Club that the sooner the press of the country drops the dis cussion of the so-called ‘negro prob lem,’ the sooner the matter will be settled.” M M M BUSY ON THE ISTHMUS. (From the Tribune Bureau.) Washington, Feb. 22. —“President Roosevelt’s visit to aPnama will prove worth millions in money and years in time to the great enterprise,” said Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, of Portland, Ore. “There is a brotherhood in this whole canal business since Theodore Roosevelt was there, in which he and every worker on the zone worthy of the name of worker are closely knitted and which is to save the United States many millions of dollars in money and a vast amount of valuable time. Every steam shovel, every engine, every drill, there, is digging, hoisting, steaming, whistling, drilling and blasting, a mer ry unison of industrial music, and to day through all of it is a chord of thankfulness that the president was there. The men behind these guns of industry are vying with each other to do a little more today than was done yesterday, in honor of the president, ‘our friend at court, who has visited us.’ ” M M M SENATE PASSES RATE BILL. Raleigh, Feb. 22. —The feature of to day’s session of the legislature was the passage of the Graham rate bill, fix ing railroad fares at 2 and 2 1-2 cents, providing for first and second-class and interchangeable mileage. M M M INCOMPETENT RAILROADING. Sometimes it is a rear-end collision. Sometimes it is an open switch. Sometimes it is a misread order. Sometimes it is a careless train dis patcher. Sometimes it is a broken rail or a broken axle or a broken flange. Sometimes it is a reckless en gineer. But it is always something. Nothing interferes with the American railroad's beneficent work of reduc ing its patrons to pulp. The wreck of the New York Cen tral suburban express at Bronx Park bridge, in which twenty-two persons were killed and 150 injured, is the same old story of incompetent rail roading. Its only new feature was the element of the third rail, which added to the terror of the Injured and hampered the work of the rescuers. Whether the disaster was due to the spreading of the rails or an ex cessive rate of speed, the indictment against the management is the same. ATLANTA SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY Under the management of the long established SOUTHERN SHORT HAND and BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA GA. Received appli cations for five S6O per month opeiators in one day. Telegraphy, Short hand, Bookkeeping, Typewriting taught. Enter now. Catalog free. A. C. Brisco, Pres. L. W. Arnold, Vice-Pres. Atlanta, Ga. 70 Typewriting machines. F. P. 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This Si;:-. is the country for the Northern Farmer. We want to hear from every man who desires to better his condition. Casselman * Co., Richmond, Va. Lurenee Casselman, Former Auditor Mr Lean County, N.P. There is no excuse for spreading rails. There is no excuse for excessive speed. There is no excuse for flimsy coaches that cannot hold to the track. It is time that the responsibilty for railroad wrecks was placed where it belongs—and that is at headquarters. In the matter of rigging the stock market the American railroad mana ger has no superior. In the matter of providing safe and expeditious facili ties for transportation he has no in ferior in any nation of the first rank. He can manipulate politicial conven tions. He can debauch legislatures. He can send his paid attorneys to congress and sometimes put them on the bench. In these matters he is a master, just as he is a master in the art of issuing and juggling securities. It is only in the operation of railroads that he is deficient. The mere detail of transporting lives and property safely and satisfactorily he seems to regard as unworthy of his genius. His equipment is usually inadequate. His road bed is generally second class or worse. His employes are undisciplin ed and his system is archaic. Whatever the causes may be, the fact remains that, judged by the re sults of operation, the American rail road manager is incompetent, and the records of death and disaster prove it. New York World. * M * N. Y. C. WRECK DEAD 23. New York, Feb. 22. —Miss Mabel Smith, the Katonah school teacher who was injured in the Central wreck last Saturday night, died last night in Fordham hospital. Miss Smith had spent the afternoon at a matinee. Miss Smith was riding in the third car of the train, and had a seat near a window. A splinter of wood was driven through her right eye and deep into her skull. An astonishing thing, said the doctors, was that after ex tricating herself from the debris, she walked up Webster avenue and ran several hundred feet to a stable. There she got a man to drive her to the hospital.