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journal for a few words to the Geor
gia Populists.
When I say Populist, I mean, every
one who believes in pure Jeffersonian
democracy, for every one who believes
in democracy from principle is a
Populist, and every Pc.puhst is a Jef
fersonian.
Now, knowing that this great body
of independent thinkers and patriots
make up a very vast majority in this
country, I wish to urge the great im
portance of a thorough understand
ing and a complete organization of
this element.
To this end, I would suggest an
early meeting to devise plans of or
ganization work. It seems to me that
the most economical, cohesive, har
monious and lasting plan would be to
put one or more organizers in each
county, with our platform of prin
ciples briefly stated, so as to be in
harmony with our previous declara
tions; with either emollment or in
dex cards for enrollment and filing.
Let these organizers enroll every
believer in these principles, and every
name be turned in fcr record when
as much as ten cents accompanies
each name.
These organizer's could also take
subscription for our reform papers on
commission, and thus a, complete
mailing list and a perfect organiza
tion can be secured on a self-sustain
ing basis.
I would be pleased, Mr. Watson, to
hear from you and other true reform
ers on this line. It seems to me the
time to act is now. We can not af
ford to sit idly, by and see millions
and tens cf millions of the hard
earned taxes of the people poured
into Wall street banks, owned by ex
change brokers, for the use of these
gamblers to depress us with. Neither
can we afford to sit still and let the
old party politician continue to rule
us with an iron hand till our liber
ties are completely destroyed.
The great rank and file of the com
mon people are desperately anxious
that some definite plan of action be
taken to free us from the old party
politician who is owned, body and
soul, by the trusts, and whose stand
ard of democracy consists in stick
ing to his old party. Let it stand for
“anything, everything or nothing.’’
Let each one read Chairman Fer
ris’ call, and let Georgia be represent
ed.
Yom'S for action,
J. J. HOLLOWAY.
COULDN’T REFUSE TENNILLE,
YOU KNOW.
TENNILLE INSTITUTE,
C. V. Asbury, Principal,
Tennille, Ga.
Tennille, Ga., Nov. 5, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Please accept our thanks
for your kindness in sending to us
your “Jeffersonian.’ ’ We appreciate
the fact that we have this excellent
paper coming to our school. We are
grateful for the noble character of
its editor-in-chief.
Very truly yours,
C. V. ASBURY.
ANOTHER BOY! !
Marshallville, N. C., Jan. 27, 1900.
Dear Sir: Seeing an article in your
magazine on Government Ownership
of the Railroads, perhaps you will be
able to help me a little on the same
subject.
If you have the spare time, I will
be glad if you will write me a short
debate speech.
(That was what made me faint.)
Valdosta, Ga., July 15, 1907.
Dear Sir:
I like your paper very much, but
the magazine doesn’t come yet.
It might be well to put this horri
rible piece, just as I send it, in your
paper. It may do some good.
Truly, etc.,
JNO. B. CULPEPPER.
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR THANKS.
Turin, Ga., Nov. 7, 1907.
Mr. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson,
Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find my
check for $2 and ask that you move
my subscription for the two Jeffer
sonians up twelve months. I failed
to get the- last weekly. Guess my
time is up. I like both of your pub
lications very much.
Yours truly,
W. F. WALDROP.
WITH PLEASURE.
High Shoals, Ga., Nov. 8, 1907. ,
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: Find enclosed herewith
check for $2, for which please send
me both of your papers for one year.
Yours very truly,
CLAUDE E. ANTHONY,
COMES AGAIN.
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. G, 1907.
Mr. Thomas E. Watson, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find
check for one dollar and fifty cents
for which send me your magazine for
another year. Please send to my ad
dress, and oblige. Yours truly,
GEORGE STEEDLY.
130 Bertrand St.
FOR LIFE.
Trinity, Ala., Nov. 4, 1907.
Watson’s Jeffersonian.
Dear Sir: Change the address of
my magazine from Hillsboro to Trin
ity, Ala., and oblige.
I send you a small check for your
weekly.
You are doing a great work in ed
ucating the people and I hope your
magazine and paper will continue to
increase in circulation. Count me a
life subscriber.
Your friend,
L. E. WOOD.
Principal of Gradd School.
MISSOURI LIKES THE JEFFER
SONIAN.
Duncan, Mo., Nov. G, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson. Ga.
Dear Sir: Please find enclosed
one dollar for which send me the
Weekly Jeffersonian for one year.
Yours truly,
B. O. WAMPLES.
THROWING BOUQUETS AT THE
OLD MAN.
Elberton, Ga., Nov. 7, 1907.
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson,
Ga.
Mv Dear Watson: Enclosed you
will find $2.50 for your monthly and
weekly publications. You are render
ing humanity an indispensable ser
vice. You are nobly leading the
fierce battle in behalf of the people.
I firmly believe that you will live to
realize that the great body of the
American people properly appreciate
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
the incalculable services that you are
rendering mankind. No longer than
today I heard the Hon. Ike Swift
say: “Mr. Watson is the greatest
man in the South.” Mr. Swift is a
staunch Democrat, but he is a fair
one and I heard him request Dr. A.
S. J. Stovall to send his subscription
for your magazine. Peanut Politi
cians and narrow minded bigots can
no longer keep the common people
from having confidence in you. I dif
fer with you sometimes, but I have
never doubted your sincerity and have
always admired your brilliant ability.
Your friend,
WILLIAM M. HAIRSTON.
Pretlow, Va., Nov. G, 1907.
FROM OLD VIRGINIA.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I see that my subscrip
tion is out to the Weekly Jefferson
ian. You will find enclosed $1 to re
new my subscription for another
year, sent to Pretlour P. O.; South
ampton county, Va.
R. N. WILLIAMS.
LIKES THE NAPOLEON.
Danville, Va., Nov. 4, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson.
Dear Sir: I feel that I must
thank you for the great pleasure I
have derived from reading your
“Napoleon,” which I have just com
pleted.
It is the most graphic, impressive,
interesting and instructive of the five
lives of that great man that I have
read.
While Napoleon was not a good
man in all respects, according to our
standards, you clearly show’ that his
v’orks benefited and uplifted man
kind. It makes the blood boil to read
how’ he was hounded to his death by
the Allies, especially England. The
tragedy which overtook him and his
nation was only surpassed in pathos
by that which overtook the South
when it was devastated, decimated,
and forced to re-enter a Union from
which it had withdrawn because it
proved detrimental to its happiness.
Have you had your life of Jackson
published in book form?
Very truly yours,
F. F. BOWEN, Ex- “Rebel.”
(No. The Jackson runs as a serial
in the magazine.)
AN OLD GREENBACKER
WRITES.
Mr. Watson:
I left the Democratic fold in 1876
to join the old Greenbackers, under
the leadership of Peter Cooper. I
have never seen the day that I wished
to retrace my steps politically and
place myself back in the Democratic
ranks. I have never vet read either
a Democratic or Republican platform
that it did not seem to me that every
utterance it made in advocacy of the
rights of the laboring people as
against the policy of plutocracy was
made in a half hearted, half com
promising spirit.
I believe there can be no such thing
as financial independence of the
masses,_nothing better than perpetual
serfdom to money lending class until
the old Populist theory of govern
ment loans to the people on staple
products is an accomplished fact to
enable producers to hold their crops
until they are in actual demand for
consumption.
I am an old Greenbacker in my
ideas of what constitutes money, and
I am in favor of this idea being elab
orated and applied in accord with the
old Ocala platform of the Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union. I al
so believe in a strong navy to help
to keep up a good understanding with
yellow men and all other men.
I believe that our people are paying
interest on too much bonded debt,
arid too much private debt. It is the
interest burdens that keep our people
enslaved. 'When public improvements
are to be made that require stales,
counties or municipalities to issue
bonds, let Uncle Sam supply us with
greenbacks, and take our first mort
gage bonds, and our guaranteed bonds
at one per cent, and let our people
work, earn the money, and pay Un
cle Sam back in greenbacks and can
cel the bonds. I should begin to feel
that Uncle Sam was looking after the
welfare of all his people if this was
done. How does a proposition of this
kind suit you, Mr. Watson?
Yours,
J. M. PERDUE.
Prescott, Ark., Oct. 25, 1907.
Dear Friend: I had not thought
of my time being out for your Week
ly Jeffersonian until I got to read
ing “Letters From the People” this
w’eek, and found several renewals.
How’ tempt s doth fugit, when a man
passes the sixty-five mile-post on the
road to the grave. Enclosed I hand
you $2 to renew my subscription to
the Monthly and Weekly Jefferson
ians. I notice the big national banks
of New York have sent out orders
to all the little banks to advance no
more money on cotton. They prefer
that the $170,000,000 of the people’s
money, turned over to them by Ted
dy, the great reformer (?), should lie
idle in their vaults, rather than it
should be used to help the farmers
hold their cotton for a living price.
Wil! the people never learn that, as
long as a few men control the money
volume, they can, and will, con
trol prices of commodities to suit
their own benevolent (?) purposes,
but, pshav.’!
Yours in hope.
OLIVER S. JONES.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: In the joint debate now
going on in the second congressional
district between Congressman Griggs
and Hon. S. A. Roddenbury, the lat
ter has charged against the congress
man’s record his vote for the South
ern Railway mail subsidy. The con
gressman says he voted for the $117.-
009 mail subsidy in order that the
farmers might get their mail from the
North and East twelve hours sooner,
but owing to some irregularity the
schedule was discontinued. The writer
remembers that you had something to
say on this subject some time in the
past, but does not remember your po
sition. Is there anything to it, more
than political babble? Doesn’t the gov
ernment pay all the railroads for car
rying the mail? What has been the
attitude of the Democratic party as
to bounties and subsidies in recent
years? As you are up-to-date on all
issues, it will be of interest to your
readers to make an exhaustive expla
nation of the whole subject in your
Weekly.
SUBSCRIBER.
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