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WATftJN’S EDITORIALS Sensible Jerome Jones; Labor Leader. From the Atlanta Journal we clip the fol lowing: “Jerome Jones, editor of the Journal of' Labor, and former President of the Federa tion of Trades, was asked Monday morning if the working men of Atlanta would contrib ute to the fund. ‘There has been no meeting called,’ said Mr. Jones, ‘to consider the ques tion, and I do not anticipate that one will be called. “ ‘We will not, in my opinion,’ said another prominent labor leader, ‘meddle in this affair. If these meh are guilty of murdering Gover nor Steunenburg, they should be hanged, and it seems that the funds already raised are quite sufficient to give them a fair trial. Personal ly, I agree with President Roosevelt, and be lieve that they are undesirable citizens, any how.’ It is refreshing to find a labor leader who has not been swept off his feet by the Socialist agitation in favor of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. The extent to which the unions of the great cities of the West and the North have been carried away in this senseless cru sade has already seriously compromised the legitimate work of union labor. The Governor of Idaho was murdered in a manner which indicated a deliberate, well matured plan. This Governor had incurred the deadly hostility of the Western Federation of Miners, and threats had been made against his life. The record of the Western Federa tion of Miners warrants the belief that some of its leaders belonged to the class of desper ate criminals —men whose morbid minds were saturated with such intense class-hatred that they honestly considered themselves justified in committing any crime to advance the cause of revolutionary Socialism. Judging by the published reports, there was ample evidence to cause the authorities of Idaho and of Colorado to suspect that Moyer and Haywood, officials of the Western Fed eration of Miners, had brought about the murder of Governor Steunenburg. That evi dence would be sufficient to cause any honest and fearless court to commit the accused for trial. In no land on earth, where law and or der prevail, would the authorities hesitate to arrest and hold these men for trial, without bail. Now, under our law, T may remain at my hymc in Georgia, hire an assassin to kill some in New York, and I can never be put upon jftd for the crime if I stay out of New York, •fS'ess the Governor of Georgia surrenders me to the Governor of New York in precisely the same manner that the Governor of Colo rado surrendered Moyer and Haywood to the Governor of Idaho. Yet the revolutionary Socialists have been moving heaven and earth to commit labor un ions to the horrible proposition that because the Governors of the two states kidnapped the accused, they shall not be punished for the murder of Steunenburg, EVEN THOUGH CONVICTED ACCORDING TO LAW. The labor unions of San Francisco have been so wrought upon by the agitators that, dur ing a recent demonstration in favor of Moyer WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN A Newspaper Devoted to the Advocacy of the Jeffersonian Theory of Government. PUBLISHED BY THOS. E. WATSON and J. D. WATSON, Editors and Proprietors Temple Court Building, Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1907. and Havwood, the United States flag was run down and trampled upon. Going still further, certain speakers at the meeting declared, amid a wild applause, that “our brothers’’—Moyer and Haywood—“shall not be killed.” In other words, if found guilty by court and jury of one of the foulest, most cowardly and most wilful murders in the his tory of crime, they shall not be punished. The speakers at the San Francisco meeting declared that they would resort to arms rather than allow “our brothers to be killed.” Similar meetings, with similar speeches, have been held in Chicago and New York, and immense sums of money have been raised for the alleged purpose of paying the legiti mate expenses of securing a fair trial for the accused. It is sai l that the purpose is to raise a fund of one million dollars. What for? No such amount of money is necessary to the employment of lawyers and other legiti mate costs of rhe trial. There must be some other plan on foot—what is it? The Jeffersonian has taken no part in the campaign either for or against Moyer and Haywood. They are entitled to the legal presumption of innocence until their guilt is established by evidence. At the same time, the showing against these men was, on the face of it, amply sufficient to create the imperative demand that they be tried according to law. If they are shown to be guilty, and the law should condemn them to death, thev should be executed —if it takes every soldier of every state in the Union to enforce the. sentence. The revolutionary Socialists who are chal lenging the strength of the government should be dealt with iust as we would deal with anv other public enemy that should defy the law and trample upon the flag. I? H M Snubbed! The horrid news is printed in all the news papers —the news that Mitchell was snubbed. There is nothing that riles me. quicker and deeper than to read horrid news about snubs. I am dead down on all sorts of snubs, for I myself am acquainted with the whole family of them, and there is not one of the bunch that looks good to me. Consequently a fellow feeling makes me wondrous kind to Mitchell, and his feelings of indignation find a responsive throb in my chest. By the way, you may want to know who Mitchell is, and how, when, where and bv whom he was snubbed. First and foremost, Mitchell is Chairman of the Georgia Commission which is supposed to embodv the State of Georgia at the James town Exposition. The snubbing occurred at the alleged open ing exercises, where President Roosevelt made another speech, and inspected another naval display and touched another button, for an Exposition which lacks a few months of being ready to do the rest. It seems that Joe Terrell, nominal Governor of Georgia, was to have been present at the Jamestown opening, to Represent the State. But Josephus had other fish to fry, apparent- SUBSCRIPTICN PRICE: SI.OO PER YEAR Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. Entered at Pottoffice, Atlanta, Ga., January 11, IQO7, at tecond clast mail matter. ly, for he was not in attendance. Therefore, the responsibility and dignity of carrying himself like the embodiment of the Empire State of the Sunny South, fell upon our friend Mitchell. It was not a good day to act the part, for the weather was nasty. Indeed it was what a blarsted Englishman, don’t you know, would call beastly, for it was cold, cloudy, drizzly, east-windy—in fact, a day to make the average man put his inner mean ness on exhibition and do things that make trouble. " /am the stateT CwE, DON'T CARE a ft. ' It was a bad day for our friend Mitchell. In spite of the fact that he was, for the time, the State of Georgia personified, he was un mistakably snubbed. Nobody seemed to know who Mitchell was. Nobody seemed to care. No mortal saw him from afar in the shivering throng and beckoned him to come up higher. No committee of reception and entertainment came smiling hospitably to greet the personified State of Georgia, and to give Mitchell that “me and the President” feeling which is so warming to the heart and inspiring to the soul. If there was any charmed circle reserved for the salt of the earth, Mitchell was not invited into it. With a callous disregard of consequences, the Jamestown authorities left Mitchel! to take care of himself. No flunkey showed him where to go and what to do. As though he were a mere crea ture of ordinary clay, he was ignored. Offi cially, he had no existence. As plain Mr. Mitchell he was there, all right enough, just as were plain Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones ami Mr. Smith. But Mitchell, as the embodi ment of tWe grand old empire state of Geor gia, was not there at all. is his griev-