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'Brief Sketch of Jas. L. 'flayson
James L. Mayson was born in At
lanta on August 2D, 1862, and at
tended the public schools of the city,
graduating from the high school in
the scholastic year of 1879. He en
tered the sophomore class of Emory
College in the fall of the same year
and remained there for nearly three
years, leaving shortly before gradua
tion, in the spring of 1882, when he
returned home. Later, he entered
the law department of Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee, and
graduated from that department the
following year.
After graduation he returned to
Atlanta and entered the office of
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JAMES L. MAYSON.
Jackson & King, remaining in this
office sor x sabout a year. Following
this connection he opened up an
office on his own account and soon
thereafter formed a partnership with
Mr. W. J?. Hill, which partnership
still continues.
SOCIALISTS’ BEAR PIT.
Congress at Stuttgart a Saturnalia
of Rancor —Delegates Trade In
sults —Vituperation and Unre
strained Outbursts Turn Hall Into
a Bedlam —American Trades Un
ionism Declared to Mean Adher
ence to Bebel’s Creed—Militarists
Win Victory in Bitter Discussion.
Stuttgart, Aug. 24 —The widespread
propoganda of socialism during the
last two years has won many sym
pathizers among the kind-hearted
academic folks, who believe that hu
man nature has reached such heights
of purification and exaltation that its
theories are now capable of practical
application. It is a pity that these
advocates of the immediate estab
lishment of the social millennium
could not have been witnesses of the
scenes in the International Socialist
Congress, held here this week. The
world owes a real debt of gratitude
to the delegates here assembled for
the convincing demonstration they
have given of the fundamental impos
sibility of reorganizing human society
on the basis of their theories in the
present day and generation.
The assemblage opened with Herr
Bebel’s grandiloquent assertion that
“Not The Hague conference, but the
He has continued the practice of
law with success, and at present oc
cupies a high position among his col
leagues at the bar of the Superior
Court of Fulton county, and holds
the important position of pttornev
for the city of Atlanta. He has
filled this position with credit, be
ginning with the year 1901, and has
attained considerable reputation in
representing the city of Atlanta in
its important litigation at different
times and on important questions.
He was at one time a member of
the board of education of the city
of Atlanta, and took a very active
interest in educational a flfairs.
At another time he was aiderman
of the city, and concluded his ser
vice of aiderman by acting as mayor
pro tern. It is not going too far to
say that he secured and held the es
teem of his colleagues in municipal
sendee, and was recognized as an
honest public servant and a safe rep
resentative of the people. Many
questions of great importance to the
city were before the council during
his term of office, and he gave them
close attention, and was active in
their consideration and adjustment.
He has, for some fifteen or twenty
years, taken an active interest in the
affairs of his church, the Walker
•Street Methodist Church. He is now
serving as superintendent of the Sun
day school, being his third year in
this office, and he has acted for many
years as chairman of the board of
trustees of the same church.
Mr. Mayson is held in esteem by
the citizens of his native city, and
they are proud of his record, and will
be glad to see him advance to a place
of more importance. Many of them
have tendered him their active ser
vices for the approaching campaign,
and he has every assurance of an en
thusiastic and large following.
present conference is the true peace
assembly, for it unites the proleta
riat of the world. ’ ’ Since Bebel’s
words were spoken the socialist con
gress has been a saturnalia of rancor,
vituperation, and unrestrained out
bursts of the worst human passions.
Holds Record for Quarrels.
No international assemblage, gath
ered presumably for a common ob
ject, ever witnessed such hopeless di
vergence of views, such bitter quar
rels, such violent language, such ab-“
sence of self-control as were indulged
in by the self-constituted apostles of
peace and good will. It would dis
courage even those who believe in
the democratic as opposed to the au
tocratic form of government if they
were obliged to admit that human na
ture is still so poor and weak a
thing as has been exemplified in this
convention hall.
All the wrangling, moreover, has
been concirned, not with the enemies
of the faith, but with their own com
rades and with the essential theories
of their common belief. Some of the
scenes were more suggestive of an
cient religious fanatics dealing with
desperate characters than of modem
progressive seekihg an ideal form of
government
They began with a furious squab
ble militarism, which one would
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
suppose was of the essence of anti
socialism. Yet the militarists won.
Then the different brands of Social
ists represented from England turned
the congress into a raving bedlam
over their rival claims to the simon
pure faith.
Say Labor Men are Socialists.
This particular dispute was of con
siderable political interest, for it ex
posed the complete disintegration of
the party that now controls the Brit
ish government. It brought out the
fact that the British trades union
delegates desired recognition by the
International Socialist Bureau. This
is the first time that organized labor
in Great Britain has declared itself
in its true colors. The delegates
here assert that trades unionism
means socialism just as much in
America and the world over, for that
/matter.
But the issue is not really clarified
at all. The delegates are all ready
to shout for socialism, but what is
socialism? Stuttgart is the last place
to seek for an answer. The moment
any one in the congress attempts to
define it its representatives metaphor
ically fly at each other’s throats and
pandemonium reigns. They are un
able to agree upon a single point
when any definite application of the
term is suggested.
But this great international con
gress of socialism is an abundant suc
cess as an object lesson. It is com
posed of men and women who agree
in the theory of taking things from
their possessors and giving them to
others, but when it comes to ways
and means and deciding whose ox
is to be gored, there is no possibility
of their agreement.
After the adoption of Herr Bebel’s
resolution and another on expressing
sympathy with the Russian revolu
tionists and protesting against the
Moroccan expedition, the congress ad
journed sine die. The next congress
will be held at Copenhagen:
“The average negro doesn’t worry
much over the problem,” says a con
temporary. Why should he? Water
melon time is gently merging into
’possum time down where he lives!
A CORRECTION
By inadvertence, we published a notice of a certain
farm paper, offering that paper and ours at the price
of ours, and recommending that paper as the best of
all farm papers.
Our friends will please take notice that this was
one of those inadvertences that happen now and then
in spite of the “Eternal vigilance” that is the price
of liberty and other good things.
• We cannot offer any two papers at the price of
ours, nor can we afford to recommend the paper named
as the best of all farm papers.
PAGE THIRTEEN
WELLMAN’S AIRSHIP ALIGHT
ED ON A GLACIER.
Tromsoe, Norway, Sept. 13.—Wal
ter Wellman and his party arrived
here last evening from Spitzbergen
and announced that he had definite
ly abandoned for this year, after a
disastrous trial of his airship the
proposed attempt to reach the North
Pole, but will try it again next year.
He says his airship, America, left
her shed September 2 and made an
ascent in bad weather, but she proved
so strong and behaved so well that a
start North was immediately made.
She encountered a storm, however,
and was driven back.
When the airship left the shed it
was anchored to a steamer, the Ex
press, which helped to tow it to
Vogel Bay Island, two miles north
ward to Camp Wellman. Riesenberg
and Vaniman occupied the car. When
the motor was started it drove the
America ahead of the steamer, and
the airship answered her helm well.
Off Vogel Bay Island the America
was freed from her anchor ropes, but
an increasing gale and a driving
snowstorm beat her backward over
the mainland of Spitzbergen. Seeing
the hopelessness of attempting, to
battle with the gale the valves were
opened and the balloon quickly de
scended on a glacier.
A rescue party from the steamer
had considerable difficulty in saving
the airship. The balloon portion had
to be cut in two and the car was
taken to pieces to be transported over
the ice-hills and fissures to the sea.
After two days’ work this was ac
complished, and in the evening of
September 4 the members of the ex
pedition got back to Danes Island,
wherce they sailed for Tromsoe Sep
tember 8.
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