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Summary of TLbents as They Happen
The Moroccan Troubles Ended.
The troubles in Morrocco are re
ported as ended by the submission of
the tribesmen after several thousand
have been killed. When these semi
civilized, or uncivilized, nations butt
up against the sophisticated white
man it is like a small borrower going
to a big money lender, he has to pay
usurious rates of interest. In the
one ease payment is made in money,
in the other, with human life, but in
each case the usury is exacted to the
extremest limit.
Our Strenuous Government.
Secretary Taft is revolving around
the globe and at present is in Japan
dishing out large sticks of taffy to
the Japanese. Secretary Root is in
Mexico, colloquing with the grand old
President Diaz at an expense to Mex
ico of SIOO,OOO or more and will try
to work out a plan to keep the peace
in the little mis-called republics of
Central America (we have no trou
bles of our own).
President Roosevelt is getting ready
to hunt “b’ar” in the canebrakes of
Louisiana. Attorney General Bona
parte, with his assistant, Frank B.
Kellogg, is spending much public
money to convince the public of the
iniquities of Standard Oil, et als. We
knew it all before, but it is a great
comfort to have legal proof and' to
know as we wince under the pressure
of the exploiters that the Govern
ment is in sympathy with us. Sym
pathy is a great thing.
The New York Street Railways.
There has never been in this mo
nopoly cursed country a more vicious
piece of financial graft than that
which resulted in the consolidation of
the railways of the city of New
York (elevated, surface and sub
ways). Now comes the news that a
receiver has been asked for one of
the lines and that the whole system
is to be shown up in court and will
likely be reorganized. This is well,
but it would be better if the robbers
who have stolen millions in this rot
ten deal could be made to disgorge
and give the state a few years’ ser
vice.
Company in Trouble »
The anti-Japanese riot at Van
couver, British Columbia, has caused
the Canadian and British Govern
ments to sit up and take notice. There
is much caucusing going on among
the great ones, and those in author
ity are much shocked at the discov
ery that white men in Canada will
act like white men in California, giv
en the same conditions. It is now’
alleged that the trouble was caused
by the machinations of designing
Americans. It was of course to be
expected that our British cousins
would seek excuse.
Illinois Central Row.
It "will be remembered that one Mr.
Harriman set up a game whereby he
eliminated Mr. Stuyvesant Fish from
the Presidency of the Illinois Cen
tral R. R. Mr. Fish had been Presi
dent, and a good one, for a long
time, but he did not suit Mr. Harri
man** book.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Then Mr. Fish went to w’ork to
show Mr. Harriman up and did pret
ty well at that job. Now comes Mr.
Harahan, who is Mr. Fish’s success
or as President, and makes a very
hostile jab at Mr. Fish through the
newspapers, charging Mr. Fish with
being a bad man. To this Mr. Fish
retorts that Mr. Harahan is a mere
tool and mouthpiece of Mr. Harriman
and not worth attention on his own
account, and he (Mr. Fish) comes
out with an open letter to the stock
holders of the road.
The next annual meeting promises
a warm time, but it is dollars to
doughnuts that Mi-. Fish and uo one
else will ever succeed in getting Mr.
Harriman separated from any part of
the loot he is accused of having ac
cumulated as a result of his high
finance.
Not a Candidate.
Mr. William R. Hearst announces
with the most positive determination
that he is not a candidate for the
Presidential nomination. With Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Hearst eliminated,
it looks as if the campaign will be a
tame one.
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Enjoining the States.
Now Federal Judge Loehren has
enjoined Minnesota on her railroad
legislation. Latitude does not seem
to cut any figure. In North Carolina
it was Judge Pritchard, in Alabama
Judge Jones. Touch a corporation
and there is sure to be a Federal
Judge lying around handy, ready and
willing to rush to the relief of their
pets. As these gentlemen have as
sumed the’power to tie up the Sover
eign states at pleasure, would it not
be well to abolish our Legislatures
and let them run the whole machine?
Not being a lawyer, the writer can
not understand why it is that the
Federal Courts can find no law to
prevent the exploitation of the public
by the corporations, but plenty of
law to hinder the public from regu
lating the corporations. Curious,
isn’t it? Justice used to be pic
tured as blindfolded, but we have a
suspicion that the napkin has slipped
on one eye and that the august dame
is now keeping “one eye to wind
ward.”
Prohibition Sentiment Spreading.
In Tennessee Judge Pendleton has
declared the anti-liquor legislation to
be constitutional. This leaves only
four towns in Tennessee under li
cense, Memphis, Nashville, Chatta
nooga and the little mining town of
LaFollette. In Alabama, county aft
er county is voting no license by great
majorities and the Governor is being
solicited to add Prohibition to the
subjects to be taken up by the Legis
lature at the extra session which it
is now stated is set for November.
The Cleveland Campaign.
A most interesting municipal cam
paign is raging in Cleveland, O. Tom
L. Johnson is a candidate for re-elec
tion as Mayor. His platform is this*
“Shall we have a monopoly-owned
city, or shall we have a city-owned
monopoly ?’ ’ Congressman Burton
has taken the job of beating Mr.
Johnson, he having accepted the Re
publican nomination. Incidentally,
the President has butted in and writ
ten Mr. Burton a letter of endorse
ment, hoping that it will help him
beat the redoubtable Johnson. On
one thing Mr. Burton may absolutely
, count, he is up against the biggest
contract of his political life.
The Great Cotton Convention.
October 7, 8 and 9 there will be
in session in Atlanta a convention
composed of Foreign and American
cotton spinners numbering two hun
dred or more, together with a large
delegation from the cotton producers
of the South. It is claimed that this
convention will represent ninety per
cent of the 122 million cotton spindles
in the world and great things are ex
pected of it —by some people.
Meantime cotton goes down, to the
great advantage of the spinners who
do not seem to be falling over them
selves any in cutting prices on man
ufactured goods to correspond with
the decline in raw material.
No convention, nor any number of
conventions, will ever do a particle
of good in adjusting a fair price
basis for cotton so long as this prod
uct, the basis of the second industry
in the world, is made the football of
a lot of conscienceless gamblers who
neither grow nor own a bale of cot
ton.
When gambling in futures is out
lawed, when it is made a penal of
fence for men to sell that which they
do not own and in which they have
no equity, then and not until then may
we hope to see justice for the cotton
producers. In the meantime the spin
ners will blandly absorb a part of
the producers’ fair reward and as
blandly discuss poor bagging, gin
compression, damp in cotton, etc. By
co-operation with the producers they
could readily mash the gamblers
and until the time comes when they
do that it does not appear likely that
any good will come from these con
ventions beyond giving those who
attend a pleasant junket.
Fruit of the Trust Tree.
The Tobacco Trust by its grab-all
policy reduced the growers of Ken-
to despair. In their desper
ation on September 29, 1904, at Guth
rie, Ky., they organized the Plant
ers’ Protective Association. The
Trust retaliated by paying better
prices to the farmers who did not be
long to the Association and refusing
to buy tobacco from the members.
Then pandemonium broke loose. News
dispatches of September 28, from
Lexington, Ky., report the tobacco
section as being in a state of anarchy.
Tobacco barns and dwelling houses
have been burned, factories and ware
houses dynamited, men whipped by
night raiders, women terrorized, and
in one or two cases murder commit
ted. Courts are powerless, witnesses
afraid to testify and the states of
Kentucky and Tennessee are putting
forth strenuous efforts to suppress
the disturbances. In the end the law
will prevail. A few ignorant men
will go to the penitentiary and much
lost and damage will fall upon the
commonwealths, but the trust will not
suffer. Its losses will be paid by the
people. We permit trusts and pay
untold millions of tribute to them,
then when their exactions incite des
perate people to reckless deeds the
commonwealth foots the bill, but the
trust continues its career o£ spolia
tion without let or hindrance. Truly
we are an intelligent people. It is
not surprising that other nations ac
cuse us of “brag.” It takes a lot
of “brag” to make some things go
down.
WHERE GENUINE DEMOCRAOY
RULES.
(Continued from Page One.)
don died in 1906, but the work does
not slacken.
Every step was fiercely fought by
the Conservatives but they grew
weaker with each election. Today
the million of people in New Zealand
have the greatest per capita wealth
of any people in the world, fully
$1,500 per capita. There are no
strikes, or lockouts. The public rev
enue is fully twenty-five millions
yearly, including customs dues. The
foreign commerce is three times
greater per capita than that of the
United States; millionaires are al
most unknown and paupers and un
employed have been eliminated.
Government and Co., Unlimited, as
Henry D. Lloyd called it, seems to
be a success. Such are the fruits of
genuine democracy v We have the la
bel of Democracy blown in the glass
of the bottle, but somehow the con
tents of the bottle seem to have be
come much mixed. We need a bottle
washing.
MR. WATSON TO RESUME ACT
IVE LAW PRACTICE.
So many cases are being offered to
Mr. Watson, in various parts of the
country, that he has decided to ar
range a partnership which will ena
ble him to respond to some of these
calls in person.
Cases of sufficient importance to
justify it will be given his individ
ual attention.
His first court house appearance in
several years, will probably be made
in South Georgia where a large es
tate is being scientifically absorbed
by the Executor, in collusion with
part of the heirs to the exclusion of
others. He may also accept employ
ment in a murder case in Dodge
county.
Beebe, Ark., Sep. 26, 1907.
Tom Watson, Esq., Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: We desire to return
thanks for the weekly visits of the
Jeffersonian and intend to make an
effort this fall to send in a list of
subscribers to not only it but your
monthly magazine. Please place the
name of the News on the magazine
exchange list, for we can secure sub
scribers more easily with a sample to
show.
Yours fraternally,
T. M. WOODS, g
Editor New*.