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14 LETTERS. Charlotte, N. C.» Feb. 25, 1907. Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir —I watch for the arrival of each number of Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine as eagerly as the boy and girl watch for old Santa Claus. Aft er reading the February number 1 said it was worth a year’s subscrip tion. Since looking over the March number I will say it’s worth two years’ subscription. It’s a hummer. Would to God that every voter in this state who is not bound hand and foot, body and soul to party stakes would read the magazine. North Carolina is fine missionary ground at this time. The old parties in many sections are clawing at each other’s throats and we are saying amen. Very respectfully, J. P. SOSSAMAN. For the middle of the road. Blue Hill, Neb., Feb. 11, 1907. Mr. Watson: Dear Sir —Enclosed you will find money order for $1.50 to pay for Mag azine one year. 1 would like to have a copy of your weekly paper. 1 sup pose your paper treats mostly on state and local news. The magazine is more on the line of national politics that is the reason I prefer the latter; if you have copies at hand please start me out with the January num ber. Yours respectfully, R. ARMSTRONG. Cleveland, Ga., Feb 12, 1907. Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir —I send you four subscrib ers for your magazine, have the prom ise of several more. I will continue to work for the magazine and paper at leisure times when the ground is wet so I cannot plow. They want the magazine as soon as you can send it. Yours truly, WATSON HULSEY,. Nettleton, Mo., Feb. 25, 1907. Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Mr. Watson —I wish to congrat ulate you on the splendid work you are doing through your two publica tions, in educating the people in the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy. I may not exactly agree with you on every point. Your editorials are time ly, to the point, and are very instruct ive. Your “Reverie and Suggestion,” in the Christmas number of the Jeffer sonian, met a responsive chord in my heart, for I think I love my wife bet ter than I did thirty-four years ago when we were married. Please do not falter, but keep steadily on, and, the day is not far distant when the people will honor themselves and the nation by putting in practice the principles for which you have so long contend ed. Sincerely your friend, WILLIAM CURP. Eastville, Ga., Feb. 1, 1907. Hon. T. EJ. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: Dear Sir —I received the first copy of the magazine on Christmas eve and I assure you that no Christmas pres ent was ever received with more pro found gratitude. A speech of yours, delivered at Milledgeville, and published in The Southern Alliance Farmer about fif teen years ago, was my first introduc tion. I was then a lad of nineteen, and president of a local Farmers’ Alliance of one hundred members. vMy father, then a man of sixty, was lecturer of the same local and I had him read your speech to the brethren. Today the same father and son are true believers in you and your theory of government Through all the chequered vlcissi- tudes of your career, we have been constant sentinels on the watch tower ready to come at your command. May God bless you and yours, and give you many years in which to de fend the cause of true Democracy and the cause of humanity. Brisbane’s comments upon brown eyes hit met all right but it had its redeeming trait after all. Her eyes are grey. R. W. HAYNIE. Deland, Fla., Jan. 21, 1907. Hon T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.: The magazine came all right. Would have written sooner but an engineer like an editor takes all the time he can rake up and little more if possi ble. I am only getting in 16 hours per day. I read every number of the New York Magazine. But when you quit I did also. I enclose you $1.50 for magazine. Tom Dixon can put up with terrapin stews, but I think life without the magazine would be kind er blank. Hoping for you all success. I am yours truly, W. A. MORRIS. * Oxford, Ga., Feb. 27, 1907. I have just been reading your piecp in magazine, “Not Quite.” 1 read all you write that I can get. 1 take both Jeffersonian and Magazine. When you are gone if there are enough good people to change the laws you will live as no other mortal has. I am going to think for myself and die believing I am right. And I do hope you may live on until you can say well done, I have not lived in vain, yet we know often that we never see our good works finished. May God guard and protect you and yours and shower upon you every blessing, is the prayer of your hum ble servant, W. A. ELLINGTON. * Collinsville, Tex., Feb. 8, 1907. Hon. Thomas E. Watson: Dear Friend —Yes, you are a great friend of the great mass of the people. Well, Mr. Watson, I am writing you this letter for the purpose primari ly of making you a proposition or in other words to make a request which 1 do with hesitancy and that is, that you add a new department to your Jeffersonian Magazine that is, a department for young and inexpe rienced writers. I am sure this would be popular and of very great benefit to boys of literary bent. I can’t write a very legible hand and on that ac count I can’t get my articles printed in the body of the magazines. But I know I have the energy and ambition and I believe I have the brains and the talent to make a success in the great literary field if I had a depart ment like this to develop the dormant faculties and there are thousands of young men of the same opinion and in the same condition, so you see I have a selfish, but very laudable motive in making the request. Now, Tom, do not consider this matter lightly for there are a host of young of literary aspirations struggling to get on their feet. I sincerely hope to hear from you on this matter. Respectfully, J. E. REED. * New York City, Jan 29,1907. My Dear Mr. Watson: Here is a helping hand across the miles. I have bought the January number of the “Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine,” on the newstand, so please enter my subscription with the Febru ary number. I didn’t ask to have my money re funded, though I had just subscribed a few months before you left the Wat son Magazine, because I knew better. In the Watson Magazine I only read your editorials, your life of Jackson, and your answers to questions, in your new however, I have read everything and want to say that THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. your “Survey of the World” is as good as any review which charges $1 a year and Ann Boyd is certainly a great story. I wish you would write more of the editorials like that on Legare, that on going to the woods in autumn, up in the mountains, convalescent. The lawyers today are playing a greater part in history than at any previous time, good and bad, and I wisH* you would write at times some thing of the great lawyers of the past, the idols of the profession then and today. 1 think it would be interesting and instructive to all, and especially to those who, like myself, are study ing law. Ending with good wishes for ths brave fight you are making, 1 am, Your friend always, HARRY WEINBERGER. 349 E. Houston St. COST OF CRIME. in the United States is More Than a Billion Dollars Yearly. (From Harpers’ Weekly.) The cost of crime to the government reaches the enormous sum of $140,- 000,000. Os this sum $80,000,000 is ex pended in a certain percent age of the maintenance of the supreme and federal courts, United States district attorneys, United States marshals, and the' secret service bu reau; part of it is the cost of crime to the treasury department to prevent smuggling, the cost of crime to the ar my and the navy and to the postoffice and to allied departments. The gov ernment losses by smuggling and pos tal frauds, etc., add the $6,000,000 to make the aforesaid total. In the last statement, which is only an estimate of what the national government pays for crime, it should be remembered that there are no reliable figures on the subject. In estimating the govern ment losses at $60,000,000 a year for smuggling, fraud, etc., the writer has endeavored to keep strictly under the mark. It is estimated that the govern ment loses from $75,000,000 to SIOO,- 000,000 a year by smuggling alone, while the postoffice frauds are believed to have cost the government some thing like $40,000,000 a year. The detailed cost of crime in the United States presents some astound ing figures. In 1906 the cost of crime in Greater New York was $35,562,- 133.24. The state, county, and city authorities outside of Greater New York spent for it $42,605,472.75. In forty-five states (New York exclud ed) the expenditure was $697,080,000, Criminal losses by fires totaled SIOO,- 000,000. By customs frauds the nation al government lost $60,000,000. Dur ing this one year the loss in wages to 100,000 state prisoners was $28,080,- 010, while the loss in wages of 150,000 prisoners in city and county jails was $33,000,000. The grand total, there fore, of the cost of crime in the United States reaches the stupendous figures of $1,076,327,605.99. The cost of religious work in the> United States is enormous. The cost of foreign missions, comprising all de nominations, is $7,000,000; home mis sions expend the same sum. We spend for education $200,000,000; for church expenses and ministers’ salaries, $150,- 000,000. Hospitals and dispensaries for the sick poor cost us $100,000,000; for sanitariums of all kinds we spend $60,- 000,000. City missions and rescue work of all kinds demand and receive $3,- 000,000; humanitarian work of every kind, $12,000,000. Our Young Men’s and Young Women’s Christian Asso ciations cost $5,000,000, while all other moral and social work in the United States requires an expenditure of $5,- 000,000. The total expenditure for hu manitarian and religious work is, then, $549,000,000. As against this, the to tal cost of crime in the United States Our Price ft ffll Retailer’s sso ft. II THAN DEALER CAN BUT . I T. 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Lurenee Casselman, Former Auditor McLean County, Ji.D. IDLEWILD PROLIFIC COTTON has captured the south. Two bales per acre sure. Seed limited. Price cheap. Selling fast Home grown, guaran teed garden and flower seeds, cheap. Sole owners of Siberian Lettuce, grows outdoors all winter. Planted new brings 10c per head. Pkg. seed 10c. Write us. IDLEWILD FLORAL GARDENS. College Park. Ga Light Draft Manure Spreaders FOR TWO HORSES * * Dunn Machinery Company 54 Marietta Street - ATLANTA, GA. for the year reached the incredible total of $1,076,327,605.99. That is to say, we spend more than $500,000,000 a year more on crime than we do on all spiritual, ecclesiastical, physical, humanitarian, educational, and healing agencies put together. M H H PALMA BRIBED U. S. SENATE. Remarkable Story Published in Spain —Cost Just $37,000,000. By Associated Press. Madrid, Feb. 28. —A sensation has been caused here by the publication of a story credited to the Diario De La Marina, of Havana, which pur ports to show by documentary evi dence that the United States congress was bought in 1897 by Thomas Estra da Palma to insure war being declar ed against Spain. According to the Havana newspaper bonds to the value of $37,000,000, re deemable when Cuba should become independent, were issued in Washing ton to senators, and a contract exists which contains phraseology like that of the joint resolution of April, 1898, voted by congress. The article says further that the value of the bonds fell heavily in 1899, and, therefore, a new contract was made between Palma and the Ameri can senators. Count Salazar, minis ter of foreign affairs, has telegraphed to the Spanish representatives at Washington for the fullest informa tion. H H H THE PROPOSAL. He (nervously)—Er-er, Margaret— er-er, there’s something has been trem bling on my lips for the last two months. She —Yes, so I see —why don’t you shave it off —Prlneeton Tiger.