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ZETTEKJ T<ROM THE PEOPLE FARMERS GETTING WISE. k Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: On Thursday, February 28, the Sixth Congressional District Union met at Griffin. The meeting was well at tended and was full of interest. The delegates came loaded and the dif ferent subjects were discussed with brotherly spirit and tended toward binding our members' closer together. Guano, warehouses and marketing farm produce were discussed intelligently and the meeting was in every way a success. After leaving Griffin I went to Covington and met with the Fifth. This was by far the best meeting they have had and by the way business was transacted could be seen the improve ment of our members. I have been attending union meetings for the past year in different parts of the state and the delegates of the Fifth have at each meeting been branching out until they can see a proposition, the danger or benefit, quicker today than ever before. It was a great treat to hear them dis cuss the warehouse plan and I believe that every county will own a ware house by fall. Taking the two as a subject for thought you can readily see how our farmers are benfited by their organi zation and we may expect great things from the citizens of our beloved Geor gia in the near future. Better homes, better schools and better people. All striving to build up the agricultural interest and bless the consuming world with pure food. Now that we have passed the experimental stage we sim ply ask every person to lay hold of the great movement and help us drive to success everything that is just, good and right and destroy those things that stain the name of the greatest, fair est and best state in the United States. Sycamore, Ga. J. L. LEE. * ESTABLISH ANOTHER ONE. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: Suppose we gain another congress man in 1910 what will we do about our eleven new agricultural schools in Georgia? J. L. P. Conyers, Ga. WILL TELL YOU LATER. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: It seems that Thomas W. Lawson after spreading toll corn along all the paths has finally pulled his trap and caught thousands of people and skinn ed them of several millions of dollars. What do you think of him anyhow? Give us your opinion of him and his He looks like a man who is working “both sides” of the street. Juniata, Pa. ELBERT MORRIS. IS MORGAN CONVERTED? Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: The great “autocrat” of all the states has at last been made to squeal. I have just read in a newspaper where J. P. Morgan of New York city had moved onto Washington, D. C., and called upon the president of the United States to stop the railroad agitation, which agitation, the people are simply making against oppression from those mighty corporations of our fair land, they have burdened and oppressed our people for 10, these many years, and now that the common people have ris en up and demanded of the various legislatures to do something for them; watch this “great autocrat” take to his private car, a perfect palace on wheels, this very car wrung out of the necessities of the people. Yes, I imag ine he consulted with the president He, with a bigger club than the pres ident’s, “demanded” this legislation must stop, and then it is written he left for Europe to consult the “money lords” over there as to what else he must do. So look out when he gets back and takes to that palace car and moves on Washington again. He may, and will, no doubt, demand the political heads of many congressmen; or may be governors, etc. But watch our president now squirm around and try to stop some of the agitation that is going on, you know when the “great autocrat” of “all the states” visits Washington something is doing and go ing to be done, for this man doesn’t speak or make a trip without dollars coming his way. Beware, citizens of our broad land, be ever watchful when J. P. Morgan goes after the president. He carries a bigger stick than ever Mr. Roosevelt carried, and he uses his too, even on the president and con gress, and the senate, also. His is the gold and silver club, better look out, when it falls, it falls hard, somebody is crushed or mangled, somebody has to be buried. American, “common or plain people,” watch J. P. M., because he has no mercy on the common peo ple. J. E. M. Jacksonville, Fla. A TRIBUTE TO COMER. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: We have hoped to read from Mr. Watson’s pen some just comments on the way our governor has so far re deemed his pledges to the people of Alabama. He appealed to us farmers to elect him by promising that he would do his best to regulate the cor porations, reform freight and passen ger tariffs and give the people back the rights taken from them by usurpa tion. He has done well. Although strongly opposed by the corporations he was as strongly supported by the country farmer members of the legis lature. The net results are many steps forward in curbing the lawlessness of the corporations and assuring better service by them to the people. You ought to give Governor Comer a boost. It might encourage him and other gov ernors to stand by the common people. “The Weekly Jeffersonian” is a great feast to me. W. B. TRENT. Montgomery, Ala. •6 DEATH FOR SEDUCERS. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: I want to express my heartfelt ap proval of the verdict acquitting the Strother brothers in Virginia for kill ing the despoiler of their sister. Real ly we have more to fear from the white seducing scoundrels than from black rapists. The latter are brutish and senseless beasts to whom death has few terrors. But the former are reckless, wilful, smooth tongued devils to whom life is dear because of des picable lust. Our daughters and sis ters must be saved from them at any hazard. Three cheers for Virginia jus tice in this case. MRS. M. P. R. Charlotte, N. C. IT IS STILL “THER’N.” Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: What’s the matter with the Georgia railroad commission that it does not promptly take up and act on Mr. Rowdre Phinizy’s charges against the Georgia Railway lessees? Is that com mission the servants of the people, or are they short-stopping for the rail roads? Are they our’n or ther’n? Madison, Ga. W, E. H. THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. JACKSON VS. ROOSEVELT. To the Editor of the N. Y. Sun: Sir: —Why did President Jackson be gin his war on the United States bank? Why did President Roosevelt begin his controversy with rich men, corpo rations and railways? Numberless historians have endeav ored to answer the first inquiry. The latest biographer of Jackson thinks “the real truth may some time be learned and told,” but he comes to no conclusion excepting that “the bank,” whether constitutional or not, was “in its best days” useful, and that Jackson really thought it wrong for the government to aid “any chartered monopoly.” Mr. Roosevelt wrote in his biogra phy of Benton that “the question had been worn threadbare in countless dis cussions.” He expressed the opinion that Jackson’s attack was on his own initiative and alarmed his “prominent friends”; that Jackson cared for a fight because it was a fight, and that while there were ex cellent grounds for much of his hos tility, yet many of his actions toward the bank “were wholly indefensible.” Mr. Roosevelt leaves his reader to infer that a main purpose was to get a winning issue in a partisan sense. He wrote (p. 115) that “an assault upon the money power is apt to be popular in a democratic republic, partly on account of the vague fear with which the poorer and more ig norant voters regard a powerful insti tution whose working they do not un derstand, and partly on account of the jealousy they feel toward those who are better off than themselves.” Whether or not that was the chief reason, “the old man” builded shrewd ly. He was up against formidable odds. The Supreme Court had decided that the bank was an agent employed by congress in the discharge of gov ernmental functions, and that congress had the right to charter such a corpo ration, not because of any “expressed” power, but because the bank was “nec essary and proper” for carrying ex pressed powers into execution. “Very well,” answered Jackson, “then I deny that the bank was thus ‘necessary and proper.’ ” On that question he insist ed that he and congress had as good a right to an opinion as the supreme court. History tells us the proximate and remote results. The bank was super seded under Van Buren by the inde pendent treasury system, which has been gradually whittled away, the last congress taking off another shaving. A business and trade depression ensued, something like that now thought by many to be on foot, which enabled Harrison to put an end to Van Buren, elected a Whig congress in 1840, brought Webster and Clay back to power, restored “the bank” so far as congress could, but Tyler prostrated it again by his two vetoes, till its sub stance reappeared a quarter of a cen tury later in the national banking system. Os what avail had it been to resist a fiscal and economic demand of the times? The inquiry returns: Why did Jack son begin the war? Has Mr. Roose velt given the true reason? Was it party politics? The author of the latest and best biography of Jackson dedicated it three years ago to President Roose velt as “the embodiment in our times” of the spirit of his illustrious demo- cratic predecessor in the white house, whose election achieved a greater po litical revolution than did that of Jef ferson. In many aspects the dedica tion would be natural now. But why did President Roosevelt begin his war on rich men, corpora tions and railways? It is risky for the country, as was Jackson’s on “the bank” and on Biddle, its representa tive. Who, by the way, is to be the scapegoat of the railways? Jackson’s war turned out to be a winning issue for himself and Van Buren. Webster and Clay fell. Is there not as much historical reason to commend Jack son’s Democratic war on “the bank” as to applaud Roosevelt’s Republican raid on rich men, corporations and railways? Is not the personal and party equation prominent in both? New York, March 16. FLANEUR. THE RIGHT SPIRIT. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: The farmers of Georgia should feel the high honor of having the head of the Farmers’ Union chosen from among them. The way to show their appreciation is to have a stronger or ganization of the union in this state than in any other. We ought to do great work this summer after the crops are laid by in drumming for new members and organizing to pro tect our interests in future legisla tion. F. W. B. Vienna, Ga. MARCH 15, 1767. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: When was Andrew Jackson born? A READER. (Note. —Why not know the best about “Old Hickory” by reading “The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson,” now running in “Watson’s Jefferso nian Magazine”?) CHICAGO TO THE SEA. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: I am much pleased with the project advocated by Governor-elect Hoke Smith to secure a through line of railroads from Chicago to a Georgia port, controlled by the public—by the states and cities through which it would pass. The plan has tremendous possibilities in it, if it can be arranged. Let Georgia lead the way by extend ing her own state road to the sea. L. B. SANDS. Chattanooga, Tenn. I? BOTH CONTRIBUTED. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: I see that Mayor Dunne of Chicago has bees renominated by the Demo crats of that city. Is the result due to his advocacy of municipal ownership of public utilities or to the economy of his administration? R. P. MOORE. Evansville, Ind. * IT WAS TALKED TO DEATH. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: Please tell me what was the fate of the woman’s suffrage bill in the En glish parliament. MARY D. MALLON. Andover, Ark. . : . * sll A HEAD ALL ’ROUND. Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: Please figure out for us readers of your valuable paper how much con gress taxed us for enjoying life in this k land of the free, and oblige. FAIRVIEW UNION. 5