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than it will give to the merchant. KNOCK OUT THAT SECRET REBATE AND YOU KNOCK OUT THE MAIN PROP FROM UNDER THE MAIL ORDER HOUSE. M H Take Tour ?{ame Ofj. Were you one of those who signed the Peti tion against the Parcels Post? If so, pray read the article headlined, “Humbugging the Merchant.” Then, if it opens your eyes to the deception that was practised upon you, take your name off the Petition. It is not too late. Write to Postmaster General Meyer, Wash ington, D. C. Simply drop him a Postal Card, stating that you signed without having fully under stood the subject; and asking him to file your card as a Protest against the Petition. Such cards will have great weight with the President and with Congress. They will prove that the people are becom ing aroused, and are alive to their own in terests. How on earth can you expect to put a stop to corporation abuses unless you help those who are making a stand for your rights? It would have an immense effect if tens of thousands of Postal Cards went to Washington protesting AGAINST THOSE PETITIONS GOTTEN UP BY THE HIRELINGS OF THE MAIL ORDER HOUSES AND THE EXPRESS COMPANIES. Mr. Merchant!—you made a mistake when you signed that Petition against the Parcels Post: be a man, and write a card to Postmas ter General Mever telling him YOU WANT YOUR NAME TAKEN OFF! < M R Hake You this back Number, , We are short on the Weekly Jeffersonian of June 13th last. It is the number where the immortal Nye has a cat jumping on Harriman at the in stance of Teddy the Great. Please send me this back number, at once. Will do something real nice for you, in re turn. M M H A Scholarship Prize. •* ' Who wants a term in one of our best Busi ness Colleges? Any boy or girl interested will please ad dress THOS. E.- WAI SON, Thomson, Ga. H H M Poll of Honor. Now that all the mail of the two Jefferson ians goes to Thomson, Mr. Watson is able to see who is at work helping him build up the circulation of the Magazine and Weekly. Hereafter, the Weekly Jeffersonian will pub lish the names of twelve friends who have, during the preceding week, sent in the largest number of subscribers to the weekly. Beginning with the October issue, the Mag azine will give the names of the twelve friends who have sent in the largest list of subscribers to the magazine. In this Roll of Honor, Mr. Watson hopes to have the pleasure of writing the names of hundreds of his friends throughout the coun try. w w * The State and the Consumptibe. The writer of the letter below asks Mr. Wat son to write on the subject of the State’s care of Consumptives. His own letter, written in the Shadow of the Great White Plague, will go further and do more good than anything Mr. Watson could write. 416 Ross St., Macon, Ga., Aug. 29, 1907. My Dw Mr- Watson; WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. Noticing that my subscription of 6 months ago- is out this week, I regret very much to ask you to discontinue the Jeffersonian Week ly. I will try to re-subscribe again soon, but, as you know, I am a Consumptive invalid, with no way to make any money, and am de pendent upon my married brother for what I get now. Like your cartoons in September’s Magazine, everything has “gone up” in Macon, too. Right now. am really not financially able. Have certainly enjoyed every paper have ever read. Will still try to get you all subscribers I can. Mr. Watson, won’t you please write an ar ticle in one of your publications on this sub ject: “The State’s Neglect to Care for Her Con sumptives”? A Consumptive should be looked after be fore an Insane person; because, in going near the patient, you catch the disease and die. The person that gave it to you will surely die. The persons that wait on the two will catch it and die. Four deaths! There is a case on record of 5 sisters and their mother, nursing each other in succession, with the disease; all six died, one at a time. The consumptive must stay penned up like a prisoner. Barred from all society complete ly. Very few doctors will even come around, and that few don’t know what to do for you. There should be a Sanitarium for such un fortunates. A place where even the poor can get proper treatment—or what treatment is known. A place where fresh eggs, milk and other proper food and nourishment can be gotten. A place where just as soon as a per son is known to have the disease, send him right to the Sanitarium, and get it nipped in the bud. The State spends millions of dollars yearly in raising salaries, paying fake R. R. Commissioners, and supporting Sanitariums and Asylums, and fooling with the negro in some way—educating him, etc. Yet, there are more white people passing in to the Great Beyond, yearly, over the Con sumptive Route, than are killed or assaulted by the whole Black Race! Legislature after Legislature meets for the good and improvement of the State; yet, not one word is spoken of this Great Subject, and not one cent is reduced from the Consump tives’ high-priced, necessary medicine. That is to say. Digitalis, Nuxvomica and Opium. Please write your opinion soon. Yours always for success, ' ROBERT E. BENTON. (Note: The Jeffersonian will continue to visit Mr. Benton, just about once a week, as long as he abides on this side of the River— which we hope will be a long term of years.) H H H An Old Letter Comes to Light: And It Made Me Feel Good. Our readers will remember a reference, in my letter which closed the correspondence with Bishop Candler, to a remark made on the train by a gentleman whose name was un known to my informant. The gentleman, speaking to a Methodist preacher who is a good friend of mine, de clared that a letter written by me in favor of Prohibition had helped carry his County “Dry,” years ago. I expected that this reference to the un known gentleman would bring both himself and the letter to the front. And so it has. From the letter given below, it will be seen that the gentleman who made the remark on the train is Hon. S. A. Roddenbery, of Thom asville, Ga. He is good enough to send a copy of the let ter to which he referred. Our readers will see that it was written in 1898. If you are not in too big a hurry, PLEASE READ THAT LETTER. “Thomasville, Ga., August 31, 1907. “Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. “Dear Sir: Reading your recent article in the daily papers recalled to my mind a letter written by you which was used to great advan tage in the Prohibition Campaign in Thomas County, in 1898. At this time, I was Chair man of the County Campaign, and caused your letter to be thoroughly circulated throughout the country. We thanked you then, and we thank you now, for the contribution. “Enclosed find copy of the letter, as you have no doubt forgotten this service ren dered. “Yours truly, “(Signed) S. A. RODDENBERY.” The old letter of 1898 which he diers up is as follows: “Thomson, Ga., Oct. 30, 1898. “Mr. J. W. Barwick, Esq., Cairo, Ga. “Dear Sir: Yours received. Absence from home has delayed my reply. “I had supposed that my position on the Li quor Traffic question was well known through out, the State. In theory and in practice, Pro hibition is the inevitable doctrine of the lover of good morals—in my judgment. I can un derstand how the lawless, the disorderly and the immoral citizens can support the barrooms and rejoice to see the community cursed with the fruit which that sort of tree naturally bears; but I cannot, for the life of me, under stand how any citizen who believes in the maintenance of the peace, good order and dig nity of his community can give his sanction to the liquor traffic when he is bound to know that the barrooms are the breeders of vice, hot beds of crime, sowers of iniquity, and stand ing batteries whose business it is to batter down the school house and the Church. * He who pretends to be a sincere believer in the benefits conferred on the community by the schools and churches, stultifies himself when he votes for the barroom, for the work of the latter is to destroy the benefits of the others. “These views of mine are not new, nor ex pressed for a purpose personal to myself. I ask for nothing in a political way, and only write this much because you invited it, and be cause the experience of forty-two years has deepened within me those convictions which I held as a boy, and which I have always main tained as a man. “In my own county, I aided those who broomed out the Bar-room, some 20 years ago, and lam proud of it. All the money of the Lionor Dealers’ Association could not force whiskev back into McDuffie Countv. No decent white man or negro in this community would sign a petition to bring it back. “It is true that the Blind Tiger prowls about, here and there, but he crouches low a«d he changes his lair with everv moon. The damage he does, is considerable. but doec not compare with that we suffered from a dozen two-eved tigers which did not hide nor crouch, but which made their dens openlv.de fiantlv on the main streets and the main high wavs. and devoured their victims in broad day light. all the year round! “God help von in the fight. This land will NEVER be the home of peace, of morality, of contented and prosperous industry, as long as society permits the barkeeper to undermine the foundations upon which good government must rest. "Yours truly, "(Signed) THOMAS E, WATSON.” PAGE NINE