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ZETTEXJ FROM THF PEOPLF
KEEP WATCH AND GUARD.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson,
Thomson, Ga.:
Dear Sir —Having failed to see any
thing in the Jeffersonian from Worth
county, Georgia, I therefore wish to
say a few words for publication, and
say that the Farmers’ Union of our
county is growing slowly. But we
mean business from start to finish,
and I think we will soon be strong
enough to organize a county union.
Perry local union is doing and talking
business of the right kind, and if every
member would subscribe for the Jef
fersonian they would do more and
talk more with that kind of zeal that
every farmer needs.
Brethren, the world is watching us,
and when we move lit it be with the dis
cretion of a Lee or a Washington, for
the Union is going to be just what we
make it.
Every one should watch the acts of
the railroad commission and all the
decisions of the courts; also the acts
of our coming legislature, during
which time we must look well to the
interest of marketing this year’s cot
ton crop, for I am one who is sore of
the plan and custom of the farmer
saying, What will you -give and what
will you take? I am willing to whack
up by the other fellow asking us,
Brother, what will you take for your
cotton? This is justice to the pro
ducer. The farmer can, by carrying
into effect the objects of the Union,
accomplish this. Brother, let’s turn
a leaf. We have spelled on this page
until we know it by heart. This may
cause some of the patent leather shoe
fellows to turn pale around the gills,
but if it does, just let him get up a
mule and some guano, brogan shoes
and a wool hat, and jine the Farmers’
Union, and he will feel more like a
gentleman than he thouught he ever
could. Mr. Watson, if I never see this
in print I will console myself over an
honest effort that I have tried to do
something for the good of our cause.
Your true friend,
G. A. CORNWELL.
Tyty, Ga., March 23, 1907.
HOKE SMITH’S IDEA.
My Dear Watson:
Hoke Smith spoke here last night
to the banqueting Receivers’ and Ship
pers’ Association. He showed how
easily and legally we can build and
own railways, and he cleared the
bush” in the name of reform; and the
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minds of those present on the railroad
question as advocated by La Follette;
also that railways are highways (pub
lic, not private). His talk did much
good. I was glad for the sake of the
hearers; they never heard such a sim
ple exposition of what they consider
ed socialism.
I shook hands with Hoke Smith,
and when I said to him, “Remember
me to my friend, Tom Watson, when
you see him,” he gave me an extra
pressure of the hand and his face lit
up. “Something doing” these days,
“old boy.” Hu! Aah! for Uncle Sol;
he will get his title back, soon.
Yours truly,
R. H. Reemelin.
Cincinnati, March 15, 1907.
RESOLUTIONS IN MERIWETHER.
The Farmers’ Union of Meriwether
county, Georgia, passed the following
resolutions:
Whereas, all industrial bodies are
being organized for the advancement
of their respective interests and where
as, thus organization is imperative to
the best interest of all industrial
bodies; therefore, we, the Farmers’
Union of Meriwether county, respect
fully and urgently request all farmers
to come into the Farmers’ Union and
help build a perfect organization of
farmers, so that agriculture will be
lifted to that high, independent and
profitable plane to which it is entitled.
Second. That the Hon. T. E. Watson
be extended the heartfelt thanks of
this body for his patriotic, able and
efficient endeavors to encourage the
farmers to organize, and we still in
voke his convincing tongue and able
pen to aid us until every farmer in
the United States is organized so per
fectly that they will act as one
man in all matters pertaining to their
interests. Third. Copy be sent the
Weekly Jeffersonian.
B. S. CLEMENTS, Sec.
THE MONEY TRUST.
Editors Watson's Weekly:
“Why do the heathen rage and the
people imagine a vain thing?” is a
pertinent inquiry at the present time,
so far as regards the efforts at reform
by some of our political economists;
those who are now officiating as high
priests at the altars of the “root of all
evil.”
There is much “beating about the
“little finger” of the offspring is
heavier than the “thigh” of that which
is to be supplanted by it. Os all
trusts, whose talons are more deeply
imbedded in the liberties, of the coun
try than any other, the money trust
is the greatest. This father of all
trusts draws its life and continuity
from that old relic of heathenism, that
“nothing is money but gold.” Even
those who are supposed to be the ex
ponents of the wisdom and intelli
gence of the American people, those
who stand in the halls of representa
tion and legislation, are affected by it.
It is a deep seated error. Truth can
find no abiding place where this false
god is worshiped. It engenders a
peonage more revolting to the spirit of
liberty than that which binds the igno
rant peons of Mexico. It is a source
of power and influence, irresistible at
the seat of government. It is the
petted and spoiled child of all civilized
governments. ,
That such an idea has been allowed
to get a foothold in the monetary sys
tem of the United States will forever
remain as a blotch upon their escutch
eon. The enormity of the wrongs in
flicted upon the American people
through the operation of this false
theory is beyond compute. But the
day is far spent, and the time is at
hand for the marshaling of the forces
that shall pull down the altars and cut
down the groves of this false god.
The time is at hand when the people
will claim the benefit of that clause
in the constitution, which gives to
congress alone the right to coin
money, and will demand the repeal of
all laws wherein this right is dele
gated to any private concern.
L. W. BEARH.
LaiPne, La.
THINKS IT GREAT.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson,
Thomson, Ga.: .
Dear Sir —Inclosed please find
money order for $1 for your Weekly
Jeffersonian. I am a subscriber to
your Jeffersonian, and think it the
greatest magazine in existence. I
don’t like the idea of getting old fast,
but I am always glad when the month
is out that I may get a new number.
Yours truly,
GEO. P. WILSON.
Midlothian, Texas, 1907.
New York city’s board of health
reports a remarkable increase in pneu
monia, tuberculosis, and cancer, above
the number of cases of a year ago.
WITH GOVERNOR BROWARD ON
THE EVERGLADES DRAINAGE
WORK.
(Continued from page 10.)
opening up the possibilities of that
section and shortening the water
route around Florida by several hun
dred miles?
♦ ♦ ♦
Eliminate entirely the whole drain
age feature from Governor Broward’s
scheme —put it to one side and for
get it —and you still have a project,
when completed, that will be worth
more to the state as a highway for
commerce than its entire cost. And
if, in the digging of this canal, the
practical value of drainage can also
be demonstrated —and it can either
be proven or disproven by that time —
the state will have solved a question
which will put millions of dollars
worth of taxable property on the
books which is now of no value either
to the state or anyone else.
* ♦ •
I am in favor of continuing this
drainage canal, not because I am sure
that the drainage feature itself will
prove so valuable, but because I am
absolutely satisfied that a waterway
across Florida will be worth more to
the state than the construction of the
canal can possibly cost and because
with the value of that project assured
we shall still have the possibility of
reaping all the good returns that the
drainage feature, if successful, will
bring. The commerce and agriculture
of Florida are destined some day to
outrank in value those of any other
state in the union and that waterway
will help to develop a state that needs
development at this time more than
anything else.
HEARST’S LIBEL SUITS.
William R. Hearst has entered libel
suit against the Chicago Tribune in
five cases for $500,000 each, for print
ing five articles which are quotations
from Mr. Elihu Root’s speeches in New
York when Hearst was running for
governor.
ON THE WOOZY MISSISSIP.
(Detroit Free Press.)
A humorist has said that “the Mis
sissippi river is so crooked in some
places that a steamer going south has
been known to meet itself coming
north, giving passing signals, and nar
rowly escape a collission with itself.”
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