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PAGE FOUR 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. * 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*.