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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 JOHN A. STEWART COKE S. DAVIS STEWART & DAVIS Life, Accident, Casualty and Surety Insurance 504-5-6 PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, .... ATLANTA, GEORGIA MANAGERS: THE MARYLAND LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Baltimore; THE GENERAL ACCIDENT, of Perth, Scotland; THE METROPOLITAN SURETY CO., of New York. Live Agents in Georgia cities and towns can increase their writing capacity and earnings by communicating with us. Special Inducements Offered First Class Men WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. 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.” 11