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lege which they grossly abused by having charged
to Uncle Sam bills for goods for which as senators
they could have no possible use, and the use of
which by them looked suspicious. And now comes
The Telegraph, fifteen years later, and takes up
this same matter exactly at the point where Mr.
Watson dropped it.
The Telegraph, quoting from another paper, lists
the following from the United States senate expense
account and then comments a la Watson:
“One skirt trunk, one old horseshoe, mouse traps t
hair vigor, cologne, hair' tonic (32.87), sponges,
brilllantine, cosmetic, whitewash brushes, gumshoes,
sewing sets, mustang liniment, arnica, gloves, hand
kerchief sets, opera bags, axle grease, rosin, tar
GOV. SMITH REPLIES TO CRITI
CISM OF HIS INTERVIEW.
Says That What He Said About Cot
ton Crop Has Been Miscon
strued by Critics. '
Governor Hoke Smith gave out an
interview Thursday morning in an
swer to those who criticise and find
fault with his optimistic view of Geor
gia’s future prosperity, as expressed
in a statement published in The Jour
nal several weeks ago. The inter
view is to the point, and will be
read with interest throughout the
State.
The governor calls attention to the
portions of his prosperity statement
that have been omitted by his critics,
and dwells upon his "well-known and
friendly attitude toward the farm
ci's of the State. He shows that he
has ever advocated the holding of
cotton for the highest possible price,
and says that even now he is holding
his own crop, and that of his tenants
for 15 cents per pound.
The Governor’s Statement.
Governor Smith’s interview fol
lows:
“About three weeks ago I gave an
interview’ to the press on the pros
pects of prosperity in the State for
the coming year.
“The effort to create the impres
sion that the interview 7 could bear the
price of cotton is not sustained by
what I said.
“The interview 7 contained the fol
lowing statements which have been
omitted in recent references to it:
“ ‘I believe the financial conditions
in Georgia will be better during the
coming year than ever before.
“ ‘Stock panics in New 7 York will
have practically no effect here.
“ ‘Our cotton crop, unless injured
by the hot winds of the last few
days, will be larger than at any pre
vious time, and the fanners should
sell at a higher price per pound than
they have ever received, .... for
the crop is short in Texas and along
the Mississippi river.
“ ‘The corn crop of the State will
be the largest evei' raised.
“ ‘lt does not require an optimist
to look upon the financial future of
oui' people with the greatest confi
dence.’
“I*expressly qualified my estimate
of the crop by the statement ‘unless
injured by the hot winds of the last
few days.’
“That the Georgia crop has been
injured as I suggested, and that it
will not be over an average crop is
now well known.
“I expressly declared that ‘the
farmers should sell it (referring to
cotton) at higher prices than they
have received,’ and I gave as a rea
son the fact that the crop in the
South, as a whole, was short, es
pecially referring to the short crop in
Texas and along the Mississippi.
“For years I have sought to aid
the farmers of Georgia in obtaining
a full price for their cotton. I have
urged the danger of dumping the
crop upon the market all at the same
time, and the importance of selling,
as far as possible, along through the
year, so that better prices would be
realized by those who produce cot
ton.
“I believe that cotton is now sell
ing below 7 its real value, and those
who are in position to do so, should
aid the farmer in distress to see that
the great staple upon which the pros
perity of our section so largely de
pends, brings a full price.
“I am in hearty sympathy with
the efforts of the farmers to get 15
cents for their cotton.
“I am holding the cotton on my
farm for 15 cents, and have proposed
to protect the cotton of my tenants.’’
—Journal, Sept. 19, 1907.
THIRTY-TWO HURT IN WRECK
ON SOUTHERN.
.Broken Rail Causes Accident Early
Sunday Morning Near Char
lottesville, Va.
Washington, D. C. Sept. 25. —
Thirty-two passengers were injured,
none of them seriously, by the derail
ment of the Chattanooga and Wash
ington Limited train on the Southern
Railway just north of Ryans Siding,
Va., thirty miles south of Charlottes
ville, early Sunday. A broken rail
was the cause of the accident.
The entire train, composed of a
baggage car, day coach and three
sleepers, left the track, the sleepers
being almost destroyed by fire. A
special train was quickly made up
and proceeded to this city with all the
passengers of the limited. The wreck
blocked the track for several hours,
all trains in the meantime being de
tained.
Among the injured, all of whom
were but slightly hurt, are:
B. B. Irby, Roanoke, Va.; white
man, refuses to give name, Knoxville,
Tenn., destination, New York; Mrs.
R. E. Wade and young son, New
Haven, Conn.; Charles Kuli, Potts
ville, Pa.; Edward J. Keefe, Wash
ington, D. C.; W. H. Geise, Jersey
City; Miss M. E. Herbert, Allegheny,
Pa.; Mrs George Dohler, Allegheny,
Pa., Mrs. C. W. Vaden, Washington,
Dfl C.; C. W. Davis, Baltimore, Mr.;
W. L. Taylor, Baltimore; Burdette
Hecker, Washington; James Wade,
Boston, Mass.; B. F. Turner, Alex
andria; G. W. Parker, Washington,
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
manicure sets, hay, oats, bran, meal and rock salt."
Some of these items are comprehensive but oth
ers are dark if not a bloody mystery. We all know
that whitewashing has been done in the senate from
time to time, and arnica should, of course, be kept
in readiness for the bruises which the gentlemen
of the upper house occasionally sustain in personal
encounters. The old horseshoe, manicure sets, and
mouse traps are explicable; also “sewing sets,” for
buttons will come off now and then when a gentl-e
man of considerable girth sits down suddenly.
But when a wearied senator retires to the cloak
room what use can be made of axle grease, rosin,
tar, hay, oats, meal and rock salt? And as our grave,
and dignified “ambassadors from the states” are
neither young dudes nor elderly dandies, why should
they wish to indulge—between speeches—ln hair
D. C.; D. A. Walton, New Orleans;
W. W. Garnet, Bayonne, N. J.; C.
H. Linn, cotton broker, Collins, Miss.;
C. Fields, Sparta, S. C.; W. C. Law
son, Roanoke, Va.; Joseph Abrams,
West field, Pa.
Farmers combine against
HARRIMAN.
Spokane, Washington, Sept. 21—
Wheat growers in the Palouse Belt,
south of Spokane, where several coun
ties will each yield more than 9,000,-
000 bushels of grain this season, have
organized a farmers’ union for the
purpose of handling their product
and establishing independent ware
houses to combat the Oregon Rail
road and Navigation Company, oper
ated in Washington and Oregon as
part of the Harriman system.
James Walters, a bonanza rancher
of Garfield, is at the head of the or
ganization, which has already ship
ped 500,000 bushels of wheat to the
Pacific coast over an opposition road,
which, it is given out, will get the
rest of the business. He says that
as soon as the crop is harvested the
union will organize the farmers in
every town and hamlet in the inland
empire, embracing- 150,000 square
. miles in Eastern Washington, North
ern Idaho, Western Montana and
Southeastern Oregon, an area pro
ducing 45,000,000 to 50,000,00(1
busneis of wheat, and that indepen
dent warehouses will be established
throughout the district to handle the
entire yield next year. He added:
“Some of the members of our or
ganization may be inclined to social
ism, but I have not yet learned of
one who is willing to divide his earn
ings with the Harriman people for
handling his grain to the seaboard.”
A GREAT PAPER.
That is what I think Thomas E.
\\ atson’s* Weekly Jeffersonian is—
a great paper.
I’ve good reasons for my opinion,
for I read it.
Watson has brains and uses them.
He knows history and how to inter
pret it. And he is still a student; and
a statesman.
He uses English we all can under
stand, terse, clear, vigorous, some
times vitriolic.
The Weekly is the unrelenting foe
of special privilege—nor is it any
mollycoddle warrior.
The editorials are Watson’s—right
or wrong they are untainted.
And the paper is clean as a hound’s
tooth.
There are other reasons, but these
will suffice.
Drop a card to Thomson, Ga., and
see for vourself.—Pennsboro News,
West Virginia.
tonic, brilllantine, cosmetique and cologne? As for
a “skirt trunk” at the expense of a generous and
paternal government, that Is the darkest mystery of
all.
To think that of all papers The Telegraph should
follow Watson in calling attention to this abuse!.
When Watson did it that was demagogic, and not
worth notice except to ridicule the effort. But now
The Telegraph!
Only a few days ago our esteemed contemporary,
in replying to The Herald, said: “No new text books
for us,” in a sneering allusion to the “democracy
of Mr. Watson, Mr. Smith and Mr. Watson.” And
then straightway it picked up one of Tom Watson’s
old texts, and preached a Watsonesque sermon up
on it.
Et tu, Brute! —Augusta Herald.
SIX BILLIONS IN HANDS OF SIX
MEN TO USE AT WILL.
(Continued from Page One.)
mittee eight years ago, said:
“Our greatest lawmakers and our
greatest lawbreakers are the great
trusts of today. They are at once
our legislatures and our anarchists.
They secure the passage of municipal,
state and national laws granting spe
cial privileges of various kinds—
franchises, tariff duties, subsidies,
patents, etc. —to themselves; they
mould commissions and courts to
bring about their will; they openly
and absolutely disregard and defy
such laws as interfere with their
plans. ” . x
Today the six men in the Standard
Oil group are greater than the trusts.
They control many of them, and the
others they have no fear of. Opposi
tion to the will of two Rockefellers,
Rogers, Flagler, Pratt and Stillman,
means a fight destructive to those who
would thwart their wishes.
They are the largest holders of iron
ore mines on Lake Superior; they own
the iron ore railroads which carry
ore to the lakes; they own and con
trol most of the ore-carrying steam
ers on the Great Lakes. They put
through the Amalgamated Copper
Company combination with $75,000,-
000 of paid-up capital which Thomas
W. Lawson declares netted Rogers
and his associates $36,000,000 before
a share of stock was allotted.
They own and operate the Ameri
can Petroleum and the German-
American Petroleum Companies,
which have great fleets of tank
steamers carrying Standard Oil prod
ucts to Europe. They are in the
American Smelting and Refining
Company, the United States Steel
Corporation, the American Tobacco
Company, the Linseed Oil Trust, tho
Wells-Fargo 'and American Express
companies, the Typewriter Trust, the
New York Warehouse Trust, Colora
do Fuel and Iron and the principal
telegraph and cable companies.
The interests of the Rockefeller
group in gas plants all over the coun
try are enormous. New York City
knows that the gas and electric light
trust is owned by “Standard Oil.”
And the expression “Standard Oil”
and “the Rockefeller group” are
synonymous. Both mean the same
—two Rockefellers, Rogers, Flagler,
Pratt and Stillman. The Rockefeller
group is in the Inter.-Met, in the
B. R. T., in the Pennsylvania, the
Long Island, the New York Central
Railroads. The trolley system and
the electric lighting system of Staten
Island are the property of H. H.
Rogers.
The Rockefeller group of banks is
headed by the National City, of which