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Yet, why not? If they are a part of the Public Road, they cati move when the road moves, and discon tinue when the road is abolished!but who will contend that Telephone lines and Telegraph wires—menacing and obstructing the highway —are a part of the Public Road ? Nobody. Then what business have the poles and wires in the highway? If they are not a part of the road, they are trespassers on that road, for they dig holes, go into possession, and stop and stay in the road. No one else does that. The traveler himself has no legal right to stop all night in the road, camp in it, sleep in it, or live upon any definite part of it. If we can suppose a case of an eccentric person who wanted to be in the highway all the time, the law would require him to keep moving. He could not, legally, live a single day in any particular part of that road. In short, the rule of the road is this: All the world may pass, but it MUST PASS, NOT STOP TO STAY. These trespassing corporations have violat ed all the law of the road. • (i) They take from the land owner that which is no part of the Easement of Travel. (2) They invade private property beneath the surface and above it. (3) THEY LIVE IN THE PUBLIC ROAD. (4) They endanger the Public’s use of the Public’s property, towit, the Easement of Travel. (5) They constitute a permanent obstruc tion of a part of the highway; and they, on that ground alone, have no more right to be there than a lot of gates would have to interfere with the free use of all the road. I hope to God that the lawyers through out the land will realize their opportunity to do a profitable thing for themselves, and to render a great service to people who have been mistreated. Let every man who has not been paid for his land go up against these trespass ing corporations and demand justice. ' These insolvent land-grabbers owe the land owners millions of dollars, for the Rights-of way which have been seized. The wrong should be righted. r r r WTry You Don ’t Get Your Paper. Perhaps it is natural that our patrons should take it for granted that the Jeffersonian is to blame when it fails to reach them, regularly. It by no means follows that the presumption is justified by the facts. The mailing list of the Jeffersonian is set up in type. These “mailing galleys,” as they are called, remain “set up,” all the time. The name of a subscriber, after it goes into the galley, cannot possibly get out. The mailing is done by machinery. Each name in the galley is clipped off from a printed slip, which carries a faithful imprint of the names in the galley. Now, the mailing machine may sometimes be carelessly handled, and the names may be split in two; or the P. O. address may be clipped in such away that the name of the subscriber will appear on the wrapper without the P. O. address. To illustrate how trouble may be caused at this point: . , Dr. E. S. Harrison is on the mailing list at Thomson, Ga. Os course, his name shduld be clipped off straight; but I happened to no tice on the wrapper of the one which comes to Mrs. Watson, the initials “Dr. E. S." . , WATSON’S WKKKLY JKFFIRSONIAM. This meant that the word “Harrison,” with out the identifying initials, was standing soli tary and alone, upon some other wrapper, and that Dr. Harrison, probably, did not get his Magazine. Now, such an occurrence was due solely to the carelessness of the mailing-machine op erator ; but the same thing happens in the bWt regulated families. On the wrappers of su«h standard papers as the Washington Post and the New York World, I frequently see the la bel split diagonally instead of straight across. To use a familiar term, the label is “cut bias,’* and the line, carrying the name, is divided when, of course, it should all go together. Another way in which papers and magazines go astray is this: Postmasters, P. O. Clerks, and Rural Route riders are human, even as you and I are. They make mistakes. When a new man is appoint ed Post Matter, or when a new clerk is engag ed by the Post Master, or when a careless or incompetent or crooked man happens to get a place in the R. F. D. service, mail will some times go wrong. The new man learning the business, is sure to make mistakes. And it would be miraculous if a new clerk at the dis tributive office did not sometimes err in routing mail for R. F. D. routes. Then again, in the hurry of distribution in the P. 0., the clerk will put mail in the wrong box. This happens, constantly. - Now, when somebody else gets your mail, by mistake, he may not always return it to the office. To illustrate: I am a subscriber to the Thrice-a-Week, New York, World—for rea sons that are good enough in their way. Os course, my idea was that the paper would come along three times a week. But it doesn’t. About all that I can say, is that I get the pa , per every now and then. Yet the Courier- Journal comes as regularly as the Tax Collect or. Why the difference? I don’t know. Our Georgia subscribers complain that the Weekly Jeffersonian does not reach them till Saturday. The responsibility for this would seem to rest on the Atlanta Post Office. My Jeffersonian reaches me invariably, on Thursday morning. It is specially mailed. But • the others are put into the Atlanta Office Wednesday evening. At least, that is the Re port made to me by those whose duty it is to attend to the matter. ( There has been a great deal of complaint of the Atlanta Post Office this year. The At lanta Constitution and other Atlanta papers have had much to say about it. What the troub le is, I do not know; but it would seem to be that mail is delayed therein too long, before being sent out. I have myself received letters from Atlanta, this year, which were three days old. I can assure our patrons that we are doing our level best to get everything going right. What I do ask of you, however, is this: Don’t always labor under the impression that nobody can make mistakes but us. We come up with pur full share, no doubt, but we are not the only people who make mistakes. * R R R To The Poor *Boy Who Wants To Go To College. I am arranging with a life-long friend, Prof. W. E. Reynolds, Principal of The Middle Geor gia Institute, Milledgeville, Ga., to secure a scholarship, for the full scholastic year/ This includes board and lodging, and is, worth in actual cash $l5O. My plan is to offer this Scholarship as a Premium. Thousands of poor boys are hungering for an education. Most of them yearn for at least one year in a first-class college. One year in such a school is something which will assuredly benefit those who are in earnest and who will make the most of the opportunity. Whether a four-year collie course is beneficial depends largely on what the boy intends to make out of himself. My own opinion is that the indiscriminate send ing of boys to college, for four years, is very much like giving piano lessons, indiscrimin ately, to the girls. Now, to the boy who hasn’t got the money to pay tuition and board at a college, here is an opportunity of inestimable value. I propose to help those who are willing to help themselves. Anybody who is in earnest, and who is will ing to do a little preliminary hustling, Can go to College. For, if the young men take to this, I propose to develop the idea into a system which will help scores of young men to go to college every year. Are you interested? If so, write to Mr. Watson for particulars. R R R A Political Platform For 1908. 1. Direct Legislation; election of all officers by the people; the right of recall. 2. The Necessaries of life on the Free List. Ports of entry in interior towns to be abol ished. Custom houses where outgo exceeds income to be closed. Import duties to be laid upon luxuries, and for Revenue, only. 3. The Income and Inheritance tax, to in crease progressively as the income and inher itance increase. 4. Repeal by Congress of all laws creating Federal Courts, excepting the Supreme Court, whose appellate jurisd’etion shall be abolished. In this manner, the Federal Judiciary can be practically wiped off the face of the earth, and the Corporations compelled to obey state courts. 5. Public utilities to be owned and operated by the public for the public benefit. 6. All money to be created by the Govern ment; the public debt to be paid off; no more bonds to be issued or endorsed by the Gov ernment; the Act re-chartering National Banks to be repealed; the Financial system of the country to be that established by the Consti tution and practiced by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and Lincoln. 7. The prodigal extravagance of the Nation al Government to be checked; the increase in military and naval expenditures stopped; the < Colonial Empire nonsense abandoned; the Philippines to be granted self-government. 8. No ship-subsidy, or mail subsidy. The compulsopr use of steel cars for the Railway mail service. Postal savings bank; the Par cels Post; the abolition of the franking privi lege; the continued extension of the Rural Free Delivery system. Is not that a sound creed? Cannot the peo ple, whether Democrats, Republicans, Popu lists, Prohibitionists, Single-Taxers or Social ists, unite on that platform until that much is done for the people? Why spoil the horn by trying to make too' big a spoon? Why cut off more than we can chew? If the people will pull, all together, for these reforms, until we get them, it will be time enough to strike tent and march onward. In the effort to do everything at once, we do nothing. ' > • Shall we never learn? The speed of the fleet is that of the slowest ship; the strength of the chain that of the (Continued on Page Tw«lve.P PAGE NINE