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PAGE TEN ZETTERJ FKOM JHL PEOPLE. Sylvester, Ga., June 28, 1907. Hon. T. E. Watson. Dear Sir: Will you please be so kind as to send your book 11 Beth any” to Mrs. J. 11. Parrish, and trust me for a few days to get up the four subscribers? I have the promise of two of them and as soon as I can get the chance from my farm work I think it will be but lit tle trouble to get the other two. My wife has been an invalid for two years or will be next August if she lives. She can only walk with her crutch. Sits all day in her rock er only when she has an occasion to stir and my little girl, myself or someone else has to help her. She very often says to me, “Papa, when are you going to get the four sub scribers so I can have Bethany to read?” She is a dear lover of good books. Also of the Hon. T. E. Watson. Our dear little girl says she thinks of Hon. T. E. W. every time she goes out to our mail box. Yours truly in the cause of re form, ' J. 11. PARRISH. Answer: My Dear Friend: It will give me pleasure to have the book forwarded from New York to Mrs. Panish. I trust that she will enjoy the read ing of it. Please ask her to accept it with my compliments, as an ex pression of sympathy with her in her severe affliction. I hope your little girl will write me a letter some time. With kindest regards, Yours truly, T. E. W? Oxford, Ga., July 1, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson. Ga. Dear Sir: We intend to have a big meeting of our Farmers’ Union about the last of July or first of August, and could you come and ad dress them on the day of our meet ing? Some of the members may have written to you. We will be very proud to have you come. We will pay your expenses to and fro, if you will come. Will either have the meeting at Coving ton or Salem Camp Ground. I wish you would put in your next magazine how many law 7 s the pop ulists have drafted or put in our platform, that the old parties have • Kt We Commenced Selling' Good Clothing' Sixteen Years Ago We improve our Manufacturing facilities with every season’s advent. We can’t possibly see where there’s any room for improving our Clothing. We know there’s no room to improve prices. But they have always been very reasonable. New Spring Suits for Mens7.so, $lO, $12.50, sls, S2O, $25. Boys’ and Children’s Suitssl.so, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.50. Men’s Pantssl.so, $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $5, $6.50, $7.50. Everything that’s right in Hats and Furnishings. Mail Orders:—'Samples of Suits or Pants will be sent to any address. But always give size and price goods wanted. THE GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY 89-91 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA. put into effect, both state and Na tional. I wish you G d speed in all your calls. I hope you will be crown.d with laurels in life, if not, I know you will when you pass from this earth. The flowers are often re served for the dead, but I hope your path may be strewn with flowers while in life. Hoping that you will be with us at our meeting, I am, yours most respectfully, W. A. ELLINGTON. Meridian, Miss., June 27, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson,. Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: Will you please mail to me “Watson’s Magazine” (back number) containing article, with re ply to Booker T. Washington, on his assertions made upon the prog ress and advance of the negro race during the last forty years. Will you kindly give me in brief your best judgments upon the ef fects and influences of the 15th amendment, relative to the country? Also, the grievances of the South. Especially where the negro popula tion outnumbers the whites, as in Mississippi, 270,000. Here the white man’s money pays for the education al qualifications that will ultimately encourage the negro’s imaginations for political power and trouble. A keen foresighted suggestion dropped along the advance line of attack upon the approaching issue will aid materially. Without doubt, the 15th Amend ment was forced upon the countrv at a time when prejudice ruled and conditions were misunderstood. 1 am preparing an article for publica tion in the “Northumberland Coun ty Democrat,” Sunbury, Pa. (my native home). The democracy of the state will soon be in the midst of a hot fight over their support of Berry, the state treasurer, and against the Gang, and the state Cap itol graft. Having been an old Federal sol dier, although a Democrat, and an adopted citizen of Mississippi . for more than twelve years, I shall re fer’ very forcibly to the fact that Senator Cochran’s (Democrat) bill —— WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. providing for a local pension for Pennsylvania soldiers, was passed by both houses, and vetoed by a Re publican governor (Stewart). Wi h this outline, I want an article upon the 15th Amendment issue that will ring with sentiments and truths th a 1 cannot be misunderstood. Any assistance you can render to me will be kindly appreciated. With best wishes, I am, very truly, LEMUEL SHIPMAN. Adel, Georgia, June 26, 1907. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Georgia. My dear Mr. Watson: Why is it that Georgia school teachers cannot get their money this year? I know that the state is behind with the school fund and that Geor gia teachers are never paid for all their w T ork the same year that they do it, but they are usually paid about forty or fifty per cent of their salary. This year they have received but twenty per cent except in coun ties where the county Boards of Ed ucation have borrowed the money to pay them. Mr. Merritt, State School Commis sioner, stated to the county commis sioners, when they were assembled in their recent annual convention that he could not get the money— that the State Treasurer had in formed him that he had paid all he could, w’hich w’as only enough to pay for one month’s work. The county commissioners cannot get the money, of course, until it is paid to them by the state commis sioners. So the teachers are com pelled to do without the money un less the county Boards of Education borrow it, and, in that case, the in terest on the money borrowed will be deducted from the state funds when they are received and the teachers will be the ultimate losers. It seems that nobody knows what has become of the money since it was paid to the state treasurer last winter, and if there has ever been any explanation given as to why the money has not been sent out to the teachers I haven’t seen it. I wish you would find out, please, where the trouble is, and if there is any reasonable excuse for the way the teachers have been and are being treated, tell us what it is. If not, if somebody has been dishonestly withholding the money that they might use it until they dared keep it no longer and enrich themselves at the expense of the teachers —an ill used set at the best—l wish you would find out who it is and give them a few knocks. _ If you will do this, Mr. Watson, I am sure that you will have the heartfelt thanks of a whole army of poverty-stricken Georgia school teachers. Thanking you in advance for the favor I am asking and assuring you of my sincere appreciation of you and your publications and your splen did service to humanity, I am, yours very cordially, S. T. P. Buchanan, Ga., June 30, 1907. Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 28th received. Thank you for the information. I will certainly do all I can to get subscribers for your magazine and paper. I will be very busy in my crop for the next few days, but when I get through, will devote most of my time for you. You are the only Editor I know of I hat I can conscientiously work for. I am with you, and have been since I was old enough to understand you. Yours very truly, J. C. M’BRAYER. The Weekly Jeffersonian, Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen: Could you inform me where I can get the book entitled “The Letters and Addresses of Thomas Jeffer son,” and oblige. Yours respectfully, THOMAS E. CAREY, Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana. P. S. —Enclosed please find stamped envelope for reply. T. E. C. Answer: We don’t think there is such a book. Jefferson made no speeches. “Jefferson, his Life and Writings,” by S. E. Forman, is prob ably the work you have in mind. Bowen-Merrill & Co., Indianapolis, are the publishers. Any book-seller will order it for you. ’ T. E. W. Thomson, Ga., June 22, 1907.