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■■ • ’***• '■ -' •■•'l • JBSffSK w T «• Weekly Jeffersonian. Vol. 11. A' XTVrTx’ ZM TSirt _- -C "fl * ft* Ift /X 1 *SS ■* I IS ( 'I R > »**•» / / "71 Mq M j x ** - **** ,, * - (S 'TWSOM^> y/ i ; IJ?i Wli n-!| 7M'FaT m h .1 OF AIR OR , i i bJIMX 7. water - ~jfi I' I gßPMSgOfgii ' > ft dm pends u'r S !^1 7 stocks n Wi H® JQMMflsrg? • : . -=4 n*ll I y i /@\ '■' lli! « |) ® '™r® i fflu I MW DRAWS BT GORDON NT! FOR THB WBBKLY JWrrBRSONIAN. The Public Hui It the Hoads and Harriman Nolv "Exploits Them. HARRIMAN. No better and no worse than others of his class, E. H. Harriman is a fair specimen of the product of Modern Commercialism. He is the monarch of the great transconti nental railroad which was built at public ex pense. The Union Pacific did not cost pri vate capitalists a dollar, but private capital ists now own it all. He represents that system which farms out to private greed the powers of government. State Legislatures do his will, from Califor nia to New York! The powers of taxation are his. Juggling the stock and bond issues of his corporations, he can levy such rates upon traffic as compel the people to put value into hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudu lent, fictitious capitalization. “Taxation without representation” was a dogma of tyranny against which COLON IAL AMERICA AROSE GUN IN HAND! Taxation without representation is Harri man’s specialty, and WE ARE TOO ROT TEN AND TOO COWARDLY TO RE SIST HIM. A Debated to the Adbocacy of the Jeffersonian Theory of Gobernment. Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, March 21, 1907. Openly, bravely, he defies law and public opinion. Acts of Congress make it a crime to stifle competition and to make agreements in re straint of trade. Harriman laughs at the law. and commits the crime. The facts arc on record. Ordinarily, he who sells what he knows to be worthless, or not suited to the use intend ed, is a common cheat and swindler, amena ble to the law: Harriman sold tens of mil lions of dollars of stock which he knew to be worthless, and when asked about it by the Interstate Commerce Commission, cynically answered: “Did anybody tell the public that the stock was good?” How many millions of dollars has Harri man taken from the public under the Wall Street forms of legalized robbery ? Nobody knows. From one little railroad, the Chicago & Alton, he and his pals took nearly $24,000,000. Into one stock juggle, water to the extent of $60,000,000 was poured. Where opportunities like these are ex ploited by such men as Harriman, the sums involved almost defy comprehension. “What’s a little matter of two or three mil lion dollars?” he coolly inquired, concerning some trifling transaction which he was re quested to explain, and could not. Two or three million dollars are clearly a small matter to a man who has only to mon key with stock issues to pocket $24,000,000. After the startling and shocking revelations which were made in response to those ques tions of the Commission which Harriman condescended to answer, no one can doubt his status as a hardened, confirmed, method ical law-breaker. What we would have known him to be, had he answered those questions which he refused to answer, must remain a matter of conjecture. That he is a criminal; that he has been guilty of frauds; that he has accumulated vast fortune and power by the most flagrant (Continued on Pago 12.) No. 9.