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PAGE TWELVE ET TU, BRUTES (Continued from Page Nine.) 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