Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

PAGE TEN 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. The Unipn News BARNESVILLE, GA, arid Watson’s Weekly 12 months for sl.lO This offer Is good until September 1, 1907. No commission on this offer. NOTE THIS CHANGE. Herafter address all letters to Watson’s Weekly Jene-sonian, and Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine to THOMSON, GA.