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ZETTEKS FROM THE PEOPLE.
SAD INDEED.
The veteran had met with an ac*
cident, was on his dying bed, and in
consolable. “Don’t take on so,”
said his wife. “We must all die, and
surely such a brave soldier doesn’t
fear death.*’ “Oh. it isn’t that I r ’
wailed the sufferer. “But to think of
all the chances I had to die glorious
ly on the battlefield, and then to be
kicked to death by a durned old
jackass.”
We clip the above from The Hor
net, of Sevierville, Tenn.
It reminds us that Col. John Wil
liams, one of the best soldiers Ten
nessee ever had, made substantially
the same remark when about to die
from the sting of a nasty little spider.
Col. Williams was really the hero
of the battle of Horse Shoe Bend,
which established the fame of Andrew
Jackson.
In his last hours he expressed the
natural regret that he had not fallen
while leading his regiment to victory
instead of surviving the wars to be
come the victim of a miserable spider.
Spread, Ga., 6, 15, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Yours of a few days
ago. Reduce the price of the Jef
fersonian; at all my spare time will
do my best to get everybody to sub
scribe for it. I am always ready to
help you in any way possible for me
to do. No man is prouder than lam
for the stand you have taken; besides,
I know I am holding office for the
stand I took for you. The banner
has never been lowered by me. Please
find enclosed three dollars for six
. new subscribers. May God bless you
in all that you may do.
John Hughes, Spread, Ga,, 50c.;
Joe E. Hall, Spread, Ga., 50c.;
W. H. Parrish, Spread, Ga., 50c.;
Stapleton & Denton, Spread, Ga.,
50c.; T. F. Rhodes, Louisville, Ga.,
R.F.D., 50c.; Rev. L. S. Barrett,
Spread, Ga., 50c.; total, $3. Check
to cover the above. Your friend,
J. E. HANNAH.
P. 0., Spread, Ga.
Bald Prairie, Texas.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: It is at least amusing
to see bow our paid custodians of
the law are getting after the trust
magnates in these days. I suppose
We Commenced Selling Good
Clothing Sixteen Years Ago
We improve our Manufacturing facilities with every season’s advent. We
can’t possibly see where there’s any room for improving our Clothing. We know
there s no room to improve prices. But they have always been very reasonable.
New Spring Suits for Men$ 7 . 5 0, S IO , $12.50, si S> S2O, $25.
Boys and Children s Suits $,.50, s 2> $3, $4, s s> $6.50.
Men s Pants sl.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.
it is the best they can do under the
laws as they stand, and it furnishes
employment for said custodians and
a world of printing matter for our
great papers. We might as well en
joy the tussle while we can, for pay
day isn’t far off, and we will have to
pay the fiddler, fines and all.
What does a trust magnate care
for a little fine when he has the
legalized power to collect it off the
people ?
Yes, there’s the oil trust, the steel
trust, the lumber trust, meat trust,
paper trust, money trust, in God we
trust, drug trust, and trusts, trust’s,
trusts, transportation trust.
I suppose they will all be duly
prosecuted and fined, as soon as the
prosecutors can arrange it to eret
at them, it seems to be a hard mat
ter for any one but a purchaser to
find one of these trusts.
As to foreign immigration, T be
lieve the thumbscrew should be tight
ened to the last thread on that bolt
(so to speak), as it is general
ly some trust magnate, land spec
ulator, large land holding interest,
or their paid agents that is clam
oring the most and yelling the loud
est for foreign immigrants to “re
place the shiftless nigger, and devel
op the country’s resources, as the
wage workers, renters and one-hoss
farmers realize that this country is
developed already till them can hard
ly hope to ever own a home of their
own or improve one if they do, and
make an honest living for themselves
and families, and pay taxes on” en
hanced values under trust rule.
In the name of common sense and
reason, would it not be better to leave
some of the “developing” for future
generations to do, than to develop
and leave it in the hands of a few
with full power to dictate to future
generations the terms under which
they will be permitted to live upon
the earth? Yes, I think it would be
better for future generations and for
us who are already here.
It seems that when a man gets so
much above himself that he doesn’t
want to work 12 or 14 hours per day,
every day in the year, without re
muneration sufficient to decently
house, feed and clothe and school his
family, he immediately becomes “un
desirable” labor to moneyed and land
ed interests and they straightway go
to howling for “desirable” foreign
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
labor (and the observer understands
when he reads the papers what is
meant by desirable labor), and to
make it more popular they say to * ‘ re
place the shiftless nigger.”
As to the negro, he can’t be held
responsible for being here in this
white man’s country, but we ought
to give him a country to himself
somewhere in the world, as we did
the Indians (only not take it away
from him if it proved to be valua
ble), and let him work out" his own
salvation.
Then let the government own and
operate the railroads, the telegraph,
the telephone, and exercise its func
tion of issuing plenty of money, di
rect to the people, and limit land
holdings to not more than two hun
dred acres to each head of a fam
ily ; then a few stringent laws against
combinations in restraint of trade,
laws that «would put offenders in
prison with striped clothes on, then
I think these foreign immigration
agents would get out of a job, and
the foreign classes that come to our
shores might be some real benefit to
the country.
Respectfully,
J. W. STERN.
McKeesport, Ja., June 12, 1907.
Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I have tried to secure
a copy or copies of the Jeffersonian
of Nov. 1, but the office reports that
they have none. It seems that the
circulation must have been rather
confused at the start for I wanted all
back numbers when I subscribed. ’I
missed several of them, though the
paper stated that they could supply
all. November 1 was among the miss
ing. I am particularly anxious to
look over a copy of that issue as your
postal of April 22 says that a full
page was devoted to our League. If
you could suply me with one I would
be very grateful. Or if you could
only loan it I will promptly return
the same.
We are getting a fine enrollment
of very able men. Many of the stal
wart leaders in the monetary reform
work of the past are enlisted in the
fight and the League principles seem
to grow in favor with study and con
tinued investigation. We need to
have our project more fully brought
before the public. Could we not de
pend upon you to give our League
and its objects an occasional “lift”
in your publications? It would do
much good and be greatly appreciat
ed. Yours,
JAMES A. FULTON.
. ..
Anniston, Ala., July 28, 1907.
My Dear Mr. Watson*
I am a reader of both of your pub
lications. While I read many other
papers and magazines, I get some of
the best thoughts from your weekly,
especially was I pleased with your
editorial, “Why don’t they plead
confiscatory ?’ * which appeared in the
issue of July 25. It brings out a
thought that ought to be of much
concern to all citizens. But can’t we
bring it down a little nearer home
than the lumber manufacturers, and
ask why we farmers and wage earn
ers can’t get out an injunction? We
really need an injunction. We farm
ers who can’t pay-off the mortgage
and we wage earners who can’t pay
current expenses of the family cer
tainly are having practiced upon us
“confiscatory methods.” What I
would like to know is, what judges
shall we apply to for relief, and what
amendments to the constitution pro
vide that we shall have net profits
upon our labor and farm produce?
But then, maybe we fellows who in
vest our “toil” are not investors of
the class to whom the law guaran
tees net profits. Mr. Watson, is there
any chance for us fellows to get the
protection of the constitution to the
extent that we can have a reasonable
amount of the necessities and com
forts of this life, with “net profits”
enough to provide these in our old
days ?
Hoping you the great success yon
so rie-htly deserve in your work as
an editor, I am,
Yours truly,
J. ROLAND TURNER.
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