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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14
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insurance companies, trust companies, and
banks, to obtain the funds with which another
railroad is bought. With the securities of that
railroad, the same juggle is made, and the con-
sequence has been that all the loanable funds
have been poured into these ratho1es.
One instance of the fearful recklessness with
which these corporations have been managed
was that Of Mr.. Peabody, President of the
New York Mutual Life Insurance Company.
This astute trustee of money belonging to
the widow and the orphan actually loaned
out SI 100000 of the trust funds to one little
corporation which was capitalized at $4,000.
Such thing makes a sober man wonder
whether he is awake or dreaming. Such fnan-
cial methods were never known before in the
history of the world.
The h1gh-hnance spectators are now clam
oring for more credit money. They demand
that the Government shall allow them to food
the country with additional torrents of pa
per. The Associated National Bankers are SO
certain of their mastership of the Government
that they have had the amazing audacity to
propose new plan, which will de1uge the
business world with a tidal wave of paper,
paper, PAPER, on which the pet banks will
reap the harvest of compound interest. These
modest gentlemen actually propose that when
they do not redeem their own paper, the Gov
ernment shall do it. In other words, they will
exploit the country by making the business
world pay compound interest for the use of
the bankers evidence of indebtedness, and if
the banker after all, should not honor his
own note, the taxpayers of the country shall
do it.
Is there to be no end to this lunacy? Are
we to quench the thirst of the storn-tossed
mariner by drenching him with salt sea-water?
Let Mr.. Roosevelt double the amount of the
Greenbacks and thus save a tOttering sky
scraper of credit paper.
Instead of $346,oooooo of Treasury Notes,
give us $500, 100000
Then we won't need any prop-work doings
of Morgan and Rockefeller
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14

in the purpose to divide the money among
those heroes Of the Lost Cause who are still
left to us. They won't be here long. Let us
make their remaining days as free from want
and as full of comfort as possible. Let us
try to remember that the unwilling of monu-
ments-while glorious thing-is not quite
the best thing for the old soldier who may be
in need of the necessaries of life. Honor the
dead; nothing too good can be said of them;
but remember that these old veterans who
bend as they walk along your streets and high
ways deserve exactly the same thing at your
hands as the glorious dead whose devotion
to duty you commemorate with marble mon
ument.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14
Honor Roll.

Here are few of the loyal and active SUI
porters of the two Jeffersonians:
A. Benoit, Shreveport, La
Hon. Frank Burkett, Okolona, Miss.
]. M. Braselton, Plainview, Tex
G. Fl. Kenyon, Parrott, Ga
P. G. Bloodworth Perry, Fla.
w. ]. Marsh, Idabel, I. T.
Hen. VIM. Walden, Spread Ga
(7Ro be Continued.)
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14
The Panic. Or. Taynaqin S Letter.


Elsewhere the Jeffersonian presents to its
readers a brief letter from DR.. J. c. Jarnagin,
of Warrenton, Ga.
The Doctor is one of those men who have
no axe to grind no Office to seek, and who,
therefore, brings to the subject mentioned in
his letter the unbiased judgment of an intelli-
gent citizen.
The Jefersonian unreservedly endorses Dr.
Jarnagins suggestion to the President If
this Government should now resort to the
method of supplying the demand for sound
money which has been pronounced legal by
the highest court in the land the panic would
disappear, like casual cloud. The Govern
ment has full authority to issue it's Treasury
notes. Back of these notes would be the pow
er of the Government and the wealth of the
nation.
A few years ago, we witnessed the shame
ful spectacle of Democratic President mort
gaging the future of his country by the issue
OF S262, 100000 Of bonds, in time of profound
peace. These same Wall street gamblers, spec
ulators, Watered stock manipulators-created
a situation which seemed to Mr. Cleveland to
make it necessary for him to give to J. P.
Morgan, August Belmont and few Others
United States gold bonds at lower rate than
that at which the gold bonds. of certain New
England railroads were quoted. The gold bonds
actually quoted in the open market at higher
figure than Mr.. Cleveland exacted from Nor
gan and Belmont in that famous midnight deal
of his.
Now, it must occur to everybody that if
president has the right, of his own motion, to
issue interest-bearing bonds which bind the
Republic, he has precisely the same right to
issue interest-bearing notes, or Greenbacks,
simply. If it was legal for Grover Cleveland
to give the Wall street bankers $262, 100000
in bonds, it is just as legal for Theodore Roose-
welt to give to the suffering millions of peo-
pie an equal amount of Treasury notes. If
he would do this, the difficulty would be met
Immediately. If he even declared his purpose
to do it, the panic would instantly be checked
What the country needs is greater amount
of actual money. What the Jeffersonian means
by money" is something which the Govern
ment declares shall be legal tender in payment
of all debts, public and private, large and
small. Nobody cares snap of the fnger-for
gold or silver in its commodity shape, at this
time; what the country needs is money
something which will be legal satisfaction
for debts and dues and contracts of all de-
scriptions We do not care whether it is gold
or silver, or copper, or BRASS or zinc, or linen,
or leather, or paper. What we want is money,
and nothing is money until the Government
puts back of it the law of legal tender.
The vast fotations of watered stock which
have been issued by high-fnance criminals
like E. H. Hartman, August Belmont and
Thomas F. Ryan, have acted as huge sponges
to suck up available cash. The securities of
one railroad have been increased tenfold, and
nAa~ ExkEo snAvea,Htaah smSrs
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-11-14
PAGR MINE
Editorial Notes.
BY 7. D. Watson.


North Carolina
If after fair trial the rates are found too
low said Governor Glenn, though in nv
Judgment it will be found they will increase
receipts, then the railroads may rest assured
that the State will do what is right appeal
to the railroads to stop their litigation, which
Will result in no good to them or the people,
and let us all await results until the next meet
ing of the general assembly
IF some of our business men would stop
trying to persuade me to violate the law passed
by the legislature" said the governor, (which
under my oath, it is my duty to maintain, and
which have no right to alter or repeal, and
will turn their persuasive powers and influence
toward inducing the railroads to obey the
law as passed until it has had a fair trial, they
would be doing much greater service to their
State"
This statement is the plain truth, and the
railroad officials know it, but they have been
controlling governments, both state and ma
tlonal for SO long, and have practically made
the courts decide cases as they wanted them
decided that they seem unable to stand the
change from controlling to being controlled
The time when any railroad measure can be
lobbled through almost any State legislature
has passed.
The time when they could openly violate
laws and go unpunished has also passed.
The public-be-damned policy will not work
any longer, and the railroads had better realize
it.
The more they try to set aside Just laws
and disregard the rights of the different states,
the more they arouse the people, and the
more they arouse the people the worse it will
be for the railroads.
The State Railroad Commission of Georgia
seems to look upon the reported sale of the
Central of Georgia Railroad to E. H. Harri-
man with some suspicion.
An order calling upon the Central and South
ern Railroads for "full disclosures touching the
sale of the stock of the Central, so far as the
facts may be known to them or their compa-
neS, or appearing in the books or documents
in their possession"
The Commission asks for complete list of
stockholders at the present time, and at all
times since October I, 1906.
AS this information must be furnished on
or before November IS, we may look for some
surprising disclosures within day or two.
Since winning the city and county election
in New York, Charles F. Murphy and other
Tammany bosses, seem to be working to bring
out a candidate who can defeat Mr.. BRYAN
for the Democratic nomination next year.
If Mr.. Bryan does secure the Democratic
nomination next year he will stand a much bet
ter chance of being elected if he defeS Tam
many, Murphy & Co., than he will with their
support
The association of any nominee with Muir
ply and his kind will drive away thousands of
honest voters who would otherwise give the
same candidate their support.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is the Republican nominee
for President in 1908 which is not at all unlike
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
EXPECT TROOPS AT JACKSON, KY
Case of Ex-Judge Hareis May Be Re.
opened Next Tuesday.

Lexington, KY, Jan. 1.-THE situa-
ton at Jackson, Breathitt county, is
again quiet. Many of the feudists
have left town to remain until Tuesday,
when the case of eX-Judge Hargis will
be reopened unless Judge Carnes is
permanently enjoined from trying the
case.
General Roger d. Williams of this
city, says the troops may not be need
ed, but he has ordered the local COM
pany of militia to be ready to start at
any time. The men of the company
are reporting regularly at the armory
here.
Jackson, KY, Jan. 14.-It develops
that, simultaneously with the publica-
ton of John Smiths confession of the
Cox murder, Smith has left the coun-
try. He was seen to pass the head of
Long creek, going into Perry county.
Telephone messages to his home es-
tablished the fact that he is not and
has not been there. Judge James Har-
gis and Alex. Hargis are alarmed over
his disappearance, as they are on his
bond to the extent of 100000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
GAS I ORA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s sssss the q lz1Ezzzzz1
Many Chilarsn arc sickly.

Mother GraY's SWEET Powders for
Children, used by Mother GRAY,
nurse in Chlld ran'S III ma, New YORK,
Break up Coils in a hours, c1re Few
erishness, Nesdseha, Stomach Trouh-
les, Teetning d sord3rs, and Destroy
worms Asa1 drDeglsds, 25, Sample
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To Break in New shoes Always Use
Allen, Foot-E 4se, q powder. I5pre-
vents Tightless aad Busaering, cures
Swollen, Sweating, Aching fest At
All Druggists AID shoe stores, Csc.
Sample mailed FREE Address. A. S.
Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y. 1874
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Severe Storms in California.

Los Angeles Cal, Jan lin the
precipitation the storm that has
drenched southern California during
the past four days is the heaviest III
Is yeares. The storm has been Sc
we're in its effects north and east Of
Los Angeles. Landslides south of
Santa Barbara had, at last accounts,
tied up four OF five passenger trains
bound for this city. Fou, or five
lives are known to have been lost as
iii indirect result Of the storm.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
WORkNEN CRENATED
IN MOLTEN METAL
AVALANCHE OF HOT STEEL
TAKES % LIVES IN A PITTS.
BURG PLANT.
CHARRED REMAINS OF
SEVEN MEN FOUND
Loosening of Band About Bottom of
One of the Furnaces Allows 1t 10
Give Way, Causing the Terrible
Accident

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 11-As a result
of the explosion of molten metal at
the Eliza steel furnaces of the Jones
& Laughlin's company, limited, the
charred trunks of seven men are at
the morgue and IL badly burned and
crippled employees are in hospitals,
while anxious workers, with crowbars,
picks and shovels are digging through
a mass of steel and cinders for the
bodies of several more who are miss
ing. 1t is thought % altogether met
death. OF the injured three will
probably die.
Pathetic Scenes at Moraue.
The scenes at the morgue Thursday
were pathetic, as the building was
besieged by constant stream of
relatives of the .workmen who lost
their lives in the accident. The bod
les of the victims We're badly burned
and are almost unacceptable but
despite this five of the seven taken
have been identified.
E. L. Messler, the superintendent,
thinks the accident was caused by
the loosening of one of the steel
bands about the bottom of the fur
mace. 1t fell, he says and that made
that portion of the shell weak The
great pressure of the steel charge
and gas against the weak point re-
suited in the plate giving way and al
lowing the avalanche of molten steel
to roll down on the workmen.
ThilSy-five men We're at work about
the furnace. One man alone of the
So, George Knox, escaped injury. The
others not accounted for were con-
sumed by the awful fiery food
Charles Bennett, yard brakeman,
who was passing near the furnace on
freight train when the explosion
occurred, describes what he saw, as
follows:
Clothes Mass Of Flames.
when the metal poured out of the
furnace over the ground l saw the
men running for a place of safety.
To the right of the furnace | saw
party of ten men, all of them run
ming wildly and their clothes a mass
of flames. The hot metal ran over
the poor men in moment"
Officials of the mill refused to al
low outsiders to enter the yard where
the fornace is located A heavy
guard of foreign wcrkmen has been
placed at the yard entrances, and
even the police are poweress to get
past the foreigners.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Cured of Lung Trouble.

ut is now eleven years since [ had
narrow escape from consumption, -
writes o. Floyd, d leading business
man OF Kershaw, S. @ ~ had run
down i'll weight to 135 pounds, and
coughing was constant, both by day
and by night. Finally | began taking
DR.. Kings New Discovery, and con-
tinued this for about six months, when
my cough and lung trouble were en-
tirely gone and / was restored to nv
normal weight, ITO pounds" Thous-
ands of persons are healed every wear,
Guaranteed at P. A. Clemmer's Drug
Store. sec and $1.00. Trial bottle
free.
A Small Farm at Big Bargain!
ITO acres; we'll improved, good build
ings, fenced and crs)ss-fenced, good
we'll and spring brook, all cultivated
except one acre of nice, light timber,
20 bearing apple trees. Call at this
office, or enquire Of
JOHN BATgsET,
h + d No. s. Cresco, Ia.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
Siashee to Be Retired.

Washington, Jan. lit was an.
nounced at the navy department
Thursday that Rear Admiral Charles
D. Sigsbee. who was in command of
the battleship Maine when that vessel
was blown up and destroyed with
great loss of life in the harbor of
Havana, February Is, 1898, will b9
placed on the retired list of the navy
on the sixteenth instant, on account Of
age.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
TWENTY DIE IN GERMAN FIRE.
Vat OF Boiling ceIuloid ExpIodes,
EnveIoping Factory in Flames.

Strassburg. Germany, Jan. 12.-SM-
teen girls and four youths from Is to
Is years old were burned to death at
the village of Ceispolsheim, near here,
in a fire at Hubert company's factory
at six o'clock Friday morning A
basket of celluloid scraps caught fire
from a spark and exploded in a room
where 40 persons were working. The
flames spread quickly, cutting off the
exits. Twenty of the employees were
driven by the fire to the end Of room
ans persisted there.
"Dr. Th' mas Ec'tct,ic Oil Is the
fSt remedy for that often fatal DIS
ase- Group. Has heen used sitb sue
IS N cur family for eight lers."
iTs l. Wbiseacre, Buffalo, N Y.
& - ~ sas - I'd E q.
Beers tie o'hs lind yol HAYS Always Bought
i's, ., I1lkzZzzM
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15

despondenuy nut Tn not IN the
secret. They don't tell any secret or
anything Else that concerns this case.
don't believe they'll help us a bit,
Godfrey. They're about everything
under the sun but the one thing we're
interested ili."
/ went back to my chair and APP
piled myself to my cigar; 1 hardly
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15

dared look at Godfrey, his disappoint-
ment would be SO intense. A silence
Of three or four minutes followed,
broken only by the rustling of paper
and the bowling of the wind about the
building.
Then 1 glanced at Godfrey. His
cheeks We're flushed, his eyes We're
beaming with triumph.
what" l cried, starting up. do
you thinll"-
He looked up with little nod.
eyes," he said; "they tell us the
whole story, Lester
no be continue6)
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15
B()ll(lSlllell
SUPERSEDED

The personal bondsman is fast
becoming obsolete; the risk to pri.
vate fortune is TOO great.
The corporate bond is just as rap.
idly supplanting the old form and,
in time, men will marvel that thew
were ever called upon to incur the
danger Of personal suretyship.
In point of safety. convenience and
propriety, there can be no COM
parison between the two; the one
is just as weak and perilous as the
other is strong and safe.
The time is near when it will be
q thought as reasonable to borrow
q the key of friends safe as to
borrow his name for surety pur.
poses.
Fidelity, Judicial, License and Con.
! tract Bonds promptly furnished.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-15

For a mild, easy action OF the bow
els, a Single dose of Doan'S Regulets
Is CROUCH, Treatment cures habitual
constipation. % cents . box. Ask your
druggist for them.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07
wife, BEATEN,
!. ORDERED BY COURT
TO WHIP MATE
Kansas City Husband Whining,
Pleads for Mercy and Wo-
man Grants 1t.

Kansas City. Mo, March Sect a
whip. Let his oma whip the man
who beat her. That is the only way to
make these brutes who e their wives
feel what they have done"
! Judge Kyle made this order in police
court after Mrs. Elmer Ogle had told
"a story Of brutal abuse on the part
Of her husband.
Lieutenant SNOW, the court bailiff,
secured a whip and handed 1t to the
woman Spectators in the court room
Strengthened up, eager to see q man
given a good thrashing. The order of
the judge was without precedent in To-
cal courts, and the audience crowded
about to see the woman pay her hus-
band in the same kind of treatment she
had received.
Don't whip me-" whined Ogle. I'll
promise to do better in the future. /
love you better than any person in the
world. Don't whip me, please"
The woman took the whip and raised
her arm. but her face twitched with
pain.
II can't do it, she cried. My arms
are so sore from the beating he gave
me that / can do it just yet. They're
covered with black and blue marks.
and SO sore / can hardly raise my hand.
Send him to the w~orkhouse. judge
Ogle was lee $l00, which meant
nine months o n the rock pile. He was
taken to the workhouse.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07
GIRLS fOuNDDROGGED;
LYNCHINC AYERTED
Six Mere Children Discovered
Lying on Floor, Assault At
tempted on Two.
DRINKS FORCED BY MEN
Ohio Mob Surrounds the Marietta Jail
Whers Advertising Sketch Ar
fist and Pal Are
Confined.

Marietta, o.. March 6.-Six girls
ranging in age from II to 16 years,.ly-
ing on the floor unconscious from
drugs. upon at least two of whom at
tenpts at criminal assault had been
made, caused the arrest here of Walter
w. Savage, an advertising sketch ar
tist, and his pal, Andy Coruthers, who
We're nearly lynched before being locked
In Jail. A crowd surrounded the jail,
but was thwarted.
Savage, has been here a week occupy
ing a window in the Dime Saving So
ciety building. He has made a spe-
cialty of getting GUN girls to allow
him to make their pictures.
He had six young girls between the
ages of ~ and IA in his room. and 1T
is alleged gave them whisky, wine and
beer and administered some lind Of
drug.
The police upon investigation found
all six of the girls unconscious and W
ing on the floor. The girls and the two
men. Coruthers having been found in
his ROOM. were taken 10 the city jHii.
Physicians were summoned and made
an examination of the girls, admins
vomit, and later they partly regained
consciousness. The girls claim the men
forced them to drink.
The physicians are convinced that
two of the girls are the victims of an
attempted assault, and at his time are
in doLbt as to the others.
Under the protection of the entire po-
lice force the two men were taken to
Jail. The sheriff and his deputies, as
sisted by the police force, are guarding.
the prisoners.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07
RAILROADS WERE ONLY
BLUFFlNG, SAYS COURT

Lincoln, Neb., March S.-Attorney
General Thompson received a copy this,
morning of the decree of the federal,
supreme court in the railroad tax
cases. 1t is even more sweeping than
before given.
The railroads lose on every point and
there are half a dozen plain intima-
tons given by Justice Holmes, who
wrote the decision, that the railroad
attorneys began the suits as bluffs
and when pinned down to the real
issues before the court made a sorry
showing.
The court declares that the attorneys
had no more right to drag members
of the state board of equalization into
court to quiz them how they ar
rived at their valuations of the prop
erty of roads, than to haul a judge
from the bench to ask him why he
rendered a decision. 1t says in effect
that while the railroads had a long
list Of grievances in their petitions
when they came to put their case to
the supreme court they abandoned
most of them and upon the remainder
failed to bring evidence to support
their contents.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07
UNWRITTEN LAW
GETS A BLACK EYE
IN WASHINGTON
"No Such Thing" Declares the
Judge, and Jury Forthwith
Finds Man Guilty.

Spokane, Wash, March 6-Judge Will
liam A. Huenlke. in superior court, has
ruled that the ''unwritten law" cannot
receive consideration by the juries.
There Is no 'unwritten law in Wash
ington," he said in his Instructions to
h twelve Jurors hearing the case of
h state against A. j. Hosticka,
charged with a statutory crime. adding.
you are to be guided solely by the
laws made by the legislature of this
state"
This declaration of the futility of the
"unwritten law" as a subterfuge for
lawyers was called forth by the plea
OF Attorney Losey, representing Hos
ticka, that there Is a curse Of life reg
ulated by the law higher than that pre-
scribed by legislatures. The jury, he
said, should consider these higher
statutes IN passing opinion Upon the
merits OF the case.
After celebrating for less than an
hour the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty. The punishment for the crime,
optional with the judge, varies from
one year to a lifetime.