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Brookfield, Ga., Juno 29, 1907.
Mr. Tom E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: On having read many
of your valuable magazines, I learned
that you are a strong advocate of
government ownership of railroads.
If you will kindly send me refer
ences for getting literature on the
affirmative side of the subject, your
kind efforts in doing so will be very
greatly appreciated. Yours truly,
CHESTER SCRUGGS.
Editor’s Note. —Write to either of
these book stores and either will sup
ply your wants: The American Book
Co., Americus, Ga.; F. E. Grant, 23
W. 42nd St., New York City.
Crystal Springs, Miss.
Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
I enclose you a clipping from query
column Weekly Commercial-Appeal,
Memphis, Tenn.
I know Tom Watson originated and
worked for this bill and got the first
appropriation, SIO,OOO. But the Hon.
John Sharp Williams is claiming that
he got an additional appropriation,
with a mandatory order to put it in
operation. What about this, how is
it? Yours truly,
J. B. ENOCHS.
Editor’s Note. —The very first ap
propriation, that of Feb. 17, 1893,
had the same mandatory words.
“SHALL BE EXPENDED,” used
in subsequent acts of Congress.
John Sharp Williams simply lied,
when he said that my Resolution
left it optional with the P. M. G. to
use, or not use, the appropriation.
THOS. E. WATSON.
Graves Station, Ga., June 19, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson.
Dear Colonel: Please find en
closed postoffice money order for
$1.50 for which be so kind as to re
new my own subscription which will
expire on July 18 next and send the
Watson’s Jeffersonian to following
names, viz.
I for the first time today have
erected a R. F. D. mail box, as I have
not been on one of the routes until
a change was made today. Many
thanks to you, Colonel, for having
introduced that resolution which gave
free delivery to the rural districts.
Ever your friend,
T. A. M’WILLIAMS.
Gordonsville, Ala.. June 26, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed you will find
pamphlets, which are now flooding
the mails.
Thinking you might not see them,
1 send them to you, hoping that you
might make comment in your maga
zine, which would be of interest to
the public.
It seems that the R. R’s. would
like to have the tariff brought to the
front. lam in favor of the Govern
ment ownership of R. R’s., etc.; also
believe in free trade.
Hoping that you may long live to
show the people the injustice of the
privileged classes, and that they may
become enlightened enough to throw
off the shackles of bondage, I am,
with great respect, yours truly,
W. J. JR.
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ZET7"E7?S' TROM THE PEOPLE.
Washington, Ga., June 28, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir: Yours of the 17th
inst. has just been forwarded me
from Loraine, Ga. In reply, v.ill say
that if I can at any time do anything
in the way of getting subscribers for
either your paper or magazine, I will
gladly do so.
I deem it an honor to solicit
subscriptions to such periodicals as
yours, which stand for equity, justice
and the golden rule. True, I have on
ly been reading your magazine since
it moved to Georgia, but your senti
ments have been mine, only better ex
pressed, since 1893.
Then, too, you have as far as pos
sible, lined up with nur great organi
zation, “The Farmers’ Union.”
If you will mail me clubbing list of
your paper with our paper, “Union
News,” also list with your magazine,
I will gladly do what I can while in
the field of organizing of F. E. C. U.
of A., which I joined over two years
ago.
Thanking you for the club rate, and
hoping you will ere long have both
your periodicals upon a paying basis,
1 beg to remain, Yours truly,
EDW. O. GUNN.
Harlem, Ga., 1907.
Dear Tom: Mr. R. F. L. Reedy says
send him a sample of Weekly and
Monthly and he will see what he can
do for you. I can’t see why every
body don’t take the magazine, for
it is the finest book I ever read. Hop
ing you success, I remain,
Your friend,
JNO. L. SMITH.
White County, Ga., July, 1907.
Prosperity Lodge No. 849, after
having met together for the purpose
of considering and discussing the sub
ject of foreign immigration as labor
ers in our county, state or the United
States, we view it as a menace and
a curse to the laborers of our nation,
and as the Farmers’ Co-operative and
Educational Union of America in
cludes, or should include, all the la
borers of the nation, we are resolved
to place our veto against the foreign
immigration being shipped into our
midst, as we realize that scarce la
bor would be the means of a good
price for labor and a good price for
our produce and to ship a class of
low priced, hungry and dependent
people into our midst would prove
a drawback and a curse to us native
citizens and would soon bring about
a hatred and a confusion, therefore
we are resolved to fight these princi
ples of immigration to the bitter end.
believing that we are adding to the
prosperity of our wives, children and
selves as the laboring class.
We further see and realize that
the element that is in favor of im
migration of laborers in our country
is the large land owners in our coun
try, also the manufacturing compa
nies and all the people of the money
power. Hence we would feel that we
were beastly ignorant to favor th*’
foreign immigration of laborers. And
should there be a few of our brother
union men that have favored this im
migration from a very ignorant over
look, we ask yon to stop and think
a few moments, and we further re
solve that we are the backbone and
sinew of the whole earth and that we
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
ought to rule and monopolize the pro
duction of the earth. Hence we in
vite all the laboring men to step in
line with us that we may be the lion
of the earth, that we may bring the
drones and the non working power
under our paw as God said in the
beginning we should get our bread
or living by the sweat of our faces.
Then, laborers, why will you not step
in line, as united we stand, and di
vided we fall?
We cordially invite and solicit the
Jeffersonian editor to publish our
resolutions on foreign immigration.
JOHN KING, President.
JAMES BLACK,
Sec. and Treas.
ALLISON SMITH,
Business Manager.
WHAT IS MAN
That He Should Be Puffed Over His
Ability?
He cometh into the world without
his consent, and goeth out of the
world against his will, the first thing
that he beholds is a spindle shank
ed, bowlegged M. D. that causes him
to squall, and as a r<ile his last sight
is a like specimen of humanity.
When he arrives at manhood, the
big girls get after him, and in old
age the little girls tease him, if he
giveth to charity it is said that he
does it for a name, if he does not
give they call him a hog, if he accu
mulates property they call him a
thief, if he does not they call him a
fool, if he is a preacher they say he
is too lazy to work, if he is a zealous
church member they say he is a hyp
ocrite, if he is over zealous as a church
member they say that he wants to
beat someone and is a fraud, if he is
a-temperance man it is for show, if
he is a drunkard they say he has a
soft place about his head, if he is a
lawyer they say he robs his clients,
if a judge he is partial, if a congress
man or legislator he is a sellout, if
he is a teacher he is partial to his
scholars, if a governor or president
he usurps his authority and is tyr
rannical, if he is a merchant he does
not tell the truth, if a groceryman he
gives light weight, if a huckster he
counts six dozen eggs and makes
them five and a half, if he is a doctor
he is a quack, if he is a surgeon he
is a butcher and maims his patients,
if he wants pay he is sued for mal
practice, if a faimer he is a hayseed,
if he is a saloon man he robs the or
phans and fills our infirmaries.
So there is none good, no not one,
while living, but when he dies his
preacher preaches him to heaven and
his neighbors shed tears over him
and it is said of him that a good man
is gone and the community will great
ly miss him, after traveling the high
ways and byways of life seventy
years, such is my observation:
Man is of few days and full of
troubles.—Rochelle New Era.
Ever read what Washington had to
say on the third term question? Nev
er mind. Washington was an “old
fogy.’’—Sioux City Journal.
•
If Mr. Roosevelt could break the
solid South, he would be willing to
break the Washington precedent.*—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
COME FORWARD, TOM WATSON.
The American Citizen (Boston)
wants the “Democratic” party to
take on the name “American,” so
as to placate thousands of protest
ant “Republicans” and get them to
support the new “American” party;
for, it avers that Roosevelt is the
“Republican” party, and is “solid”
with the “Catholic vote.” That is
true; but we ask the Citizen, Where
is the public man in the so-called
“Democratic” party (Bryan not ex
cepted) who has shown a disposition
to oppose the political schemes of the
papal hierarchy? Does the Citizen
editor know of a single so-called
“Democrat” who has openly, with
out equivocation and ambiguous
meaning, expressed himself regarding
the papal hierarchy as Tom Watson,
the Populist, and some Socialists
have done? Real Populists will not
“fuse” with the “Democratic”
party; they had their fingers burned
before; and the Socialists will not
“fuse” with any other party.
What controls the “Democratic”
party but Tammany Hall ? And is
not Tammanv Hall but another name
for political Romanism?
We fear the Citizen editor is mis
directing his efforts, and will only
bag the game of a “wild goose
chase.”
And, again, why did not the editor
of the Citizen print the able and il
luminating editorials written by Hon.
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, as
published in his Jeffersonian Maga
zine, on the subject of the popish
attitude toward the French Govern
ment, among foreign and “Ameri
can” spokesmen for “the church”?
Watson also “rubbed” at least one
presidential aspirant for his base sub
serviency to the papal power, in or
der to catch “the vote.”
And did not “gold-bug” Parker
support the same policies that are
characteristic of “Republican” rule?
Did not Bryan support Parker? And
just a week ago Bryan was in New
A ork City, hobnobbing with Tam
many “braves.” Fine prospects
there, Mr. Editor, to see an early ful
fillment of your laudable hopes!
We do not expect to start a
“boom” for Tom Watson; but we
believe that were he to take up this
fight, he would “make Rome howl.”
—American Whip.
INVITING NEW MONOPOLIES.
If the new law of Texas making
it a felony to sell goods manufact
ured by a trust or combination shall
be upheld and enforced, will not that
stale have opened a wide field to new
monopolies? If the Texas rival to
the Standard Oil Company is to have
no competition, what is to prevent it
irom charging monopoly prices? And
so of the hundreds of other articles
now made by trusts or combinations;
their relatively feeble competitors
will have a clear field in Texas, and
can charge all the trade will bear
without fear of prosecution, if they
do not combine. It is beyond the
power even of a Legislature to force
men to compete when the only ri
vals they fear are driven out.—Bos
ton Herald.
After the meat trust has been
broken up by everybody refusing to
eat meat everybody will go barefoot
ed to bust the shoe trust, of course.
Philadelphia Press.