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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-29
JEFFERSONIAN PREMIUMS.

Owing to the crowded condition
of our columns during the last two
weeks Of the campaign we have been
compelled to leave out the notices
of our premium offers. Our issue of
November 18th, will contain another
list Of premiums, with instructions
as to getting up clubs. We trust
that all our friends will continue to
work for the premiums that have
already been announced We will
acknowledge receipt of all such SUBJ
scriptions, and whenever the proper
number of receipts are turned in to
us, we will send the premium called
for. THE JEFFERsONIANS,
Thomson, GA.
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A NEW JEFFERsoNIAN PAPER.

Mr.. W. B. O'Neal began the publ
cation of the Peoples Advocate at
D'Lo, Miss, few weeks ago, but his
press was unable to meet the de-
mands upon it, and he suspended I'M
til October II, when the second num-
Der appeared. 1t is a bright little
paper, and will undoubtedly find a
great many readers. Mr.. O'Neal lives
in a country where Jeffersonian doe
trines are fast coming to be "under-
standed Of the people," and the edi-
torials in the Advocate show that the
paper starts out along the right lines
to deserve and command success.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-29

The Saturday Evening Post has
been doing some figuring based on
documents issued by the State of
Pennsylvania. The Post finds that
the average labor cost of a ton of
steel is $6.33. 1t sells for $36.29.
The ton of pig iron which entered
into the production of the ton of steel
costs in labor $1.07. The Post timid-
ly inquiries: "What is reasonable
profit ?"-Unafraid, Evansville, In
diana.
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Yours truly,
FRANK CALHOUN.
THE SCHOOLEY co.

WHEAT grown on this Teenton
limestone soil Of Washington County
will make more, better, winter and
stronger -four than any other wheat,
and our grade milling wheat is worth
2 to 5 cents per bushel more than
any others. Our experience and
facilities are the best.
THE SCHOOLEY COMPANY,
Hagerstown, Md.
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Canon. Ga. Oct. 6. 1908.

CdHonj va, w. u, A0Oo'
Hin. Thos. f. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
NY Honored Friend: I see in The
Atlanta Constitution where an inter
view occurred with Governor Smith
and the Chairman of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee, whereupon Hoke
Smith gave it as his opinion that all
who voted in the state primary were
in honor bound to support Bryan's
electors. another thrust at Mr.. Wat
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-10-29
Editor Jeffersonian :

Editor JeffersOnian:
Some few days since there came to
my address a copy Of The Radical, a
paper published in Atlanta, so I sup
posed, and advocating the election Of
Yancey Carter to the governorship Of
Georgia and, I suppose, the election
of W. R. Hearst to the presidency of
the United States, as we'll, though it
has very little to say about him,
either for or against him. In fact,
one would be led to believe, after
reading Mr.. Carriers announcement,
that he rather advocated the cleo
ton Of Bryan than that Of Hearst.
At any rate, he seems to have no
word Of condemnation for him.
Strange, is it not? But stranger still,
is the fact that he has turned his
battery of invectives on Mr.. Watson,
because Of his persistent lambasting
of Bryan, when, in fact, he should be
commencing him for it. Bryan needs
to be lambasted and Tom Watson
can do it more effectually than any
man I know of But to Mr.. Carter
again. It is hard to understand his
position toward Mr.. Watson, for we
all know that at one time he was
battling along with Mr.. Watson for
the triumph of the principles for
which he has fought so long and so
courageously and for which he is still
fighting.
I have no unkind word for Mr.
Carter personally, but politically I
am far removed from him in senti-
ment, and in addressing a copy of
their paper to me it is very evident
that their firing has gone wide of the
mark, for I am one of the Old Guard
and have been on the firing line for
fifteen years, and at this writing my
physical anatomy is thoroughly per-
meated with the principles of Wat.
sonian Democracy.
JNO. B. GIBSON.
The state election will have come
and gone before this reaches you, per-
haps. and if there is nothing to it,
assign it to the junk pile, the fate
which befell the one before.
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Crane sent to the Quitman Adver-
tlser for publication a letter, just
after you spoke here in Quitman,
written in language so extremely
severe that the paper refused to
publish it, and returned it to the
writer without comment. This letter
OF Mr.. Cranes, as we understand it,
changed and put in milder form, by
being published in the Weekly JEFF
fersonian, has been thus dignifed
into notice, which otherwise was
ignored
To show that injustice is done to
the Quitman Advertiser and its
editor, and that Mr.. Crane is mis-
taken and has misconstrued both the
editor and the paper, statement of
the facts is given below:
The paper is open alike to Popu-
lists and Democrats.
While the editor Of the Quitman
Advertiser is a Democrat, the files
OF the paper show, that during the
brief time that Dr. Gaulden has been
editor, he has not written one word
OF abuse Of you or Of the Populists,
but on the contrary that, while diff
fering courteously from you and the
Peoples party, he has, editorially,
paid you the highest tribute in his
power, and has spoken of the Popu-
lists in the kindest and most con-
siderate terms.
Enclosed find several clippings from
the Quitman Advertiser. The first
is an editorial written by DR.. Gaulden
on the day you spoke here,
The next is an editorial written by
him, showing his kind feeling and
high appreciation Of the Populists.
The above facts show conclusively
our position that Mr.. Crane is mis-
taken and that the publication Of his
letter addressed to the Quitman
Advertiser), in the Weekly JEFF
fersonian, is calculated to do DR..
Gaulden great injustice among your
friends and readers of the paper, who
may think tina your paper endorses
the incorrect view taken by Mr..
Crane and approves the severe criti-
cisms made by him.
SUBSCRIBER.
Note: 1t gives us great pleasure
to publish the above. The clippings
enclosed bear out the statements made
by Subscriber.
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will be ours and the blessing will be
for all. [ enclose one dollar
Very truly yours,
W. J. GLOVER.
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JNO. B. GIBSON.

The state election will have come
and gone before this reaches you, per-
haps. and if there is nothing to it,
assign it to the junk pile, the fate
which befelI the one before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-26

duction during the coming summer and
fall. The committee may also be d.
rected to have hearings after the pres
idential election and ascertain what the
manufacturers have to say on the sub
ject. Then there will be a mass OF
material for the ways and means COM
mittee of the next congress to work
on.
'Tt has its own way of doing business
unsatisfactory ones, often-and 1t
cannot be driven into giving them up
If it does not want a commission 1t
cannot be forced to have one. But that.
after all, is an incidental matter. The
main thing is that about this time
next year, in all probability, congress
will be assembled in special session for
the purpose of revising tariff schedules.
many Of which have become unreason-
ably high. Then will be the time for
the manufacturers who have been ask
ing for a tariff commission and a re-
duction Of the duties In many of the
schedules to use their influence with
congress to secure an equitable, scien-
tifc tariff. The industrial trusts will
be straining every nerve to secure the
adoption of schedules preserving to
them the excessive protection they now
have
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HUNOR OF THE DAY

II don't mind making you cup of cof-
fee on the gas range, said the cook.
I'm willing t. work p for T. LADY, + de,
on de gas.''-Pittsburg Post.
New York is first Republican. and then
Democratic, a chameleon state.
change its ughes?''-Pittsburg Post.
''Tn bet $40 you are lying" declared
man engaged in heated debate
"Huhi'' replied the other, with a shrug
S of contempt you're no Ta!e %
Ledger.
Mrs. Gray-what books has been the
Mrs. BroWnNWebster dictionary. The
baby sits on it at the table, and it saves
the price of a high chair.-cleveiano
Leader.
Missionary-Do you ever contribute
money for the heather in Foreign ianos'
Millionaire-Oh, yes. Both of my daugh-
tiers married foreign noblemen--Judge.
ST guess said Mrs. subbubs. TIL have
to give a big dinner
What for?' asked her husband
ITS the only excuse I can think Oh 70
borrow back those fine plates I loaned
to Mrs. Naybor."-Des Moines Register
Jersey Commuter Crossing West street
slush)EW asn't the snow glorious In the
country this morning?
His Neighbor-Great by Jove! If we
could only stay out there and enjoy It'll
Puck.
"AIl of his poems have tragic endings.
why does he write that way?''
HE doesn't"
But you said"
IT said they all have tragic endings
Every magazine editor kills them
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eiector (to candidate)-No, sir. L VIII
never sell my vote. never. .
Candidate don't want you 10 sen IT.
Elector-Ah. that's a different matter.
What will you give me for t?-Pele
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.AYHAWKER .OTy

A communication in the Osawato-
mie Globe is signed masculine Gam
DER
The Waverly Gazette, which was 81
years old last week, announces its
purpose to vote for Taft.
There is on display in jewelry
store at Augusta watch which is
said to be worth $4,000.
The Chase county treasurer paid
bounties one day last week on 121
crows, 8 gophers and 1 coyote.
A 1ineman at Parsons fell from a
30-foot pole and "struck the pave
ment with considerable force"
Notice to the Protective Order of
Bums-Several seats have been plac-
ed in the shady court house square at
Chanute.
AS a result of a revival at the Po-
mona Presbyterian church during the
past three weeks there has been an
addition of fifty to the membership
of the church. .sz4 .if
Coffeyville has new paper which
will be devoted to the interests of the
negro. It is called the Coffeyville
Herald and Jess Brown and F. M.
EagIeson are the editors of it.
Ed w. winn of Winfield, has glad
dened his youngsters hearts with the
present of a couple of Colorado long
haired burros. Each of them weighs
less than one hundred pounds.
The Rock Island railroad company
may go into the hands Of a receiver.
The people of Pearl have quit patron
izing the road because it has dispens-
ed with the services of popular
agent.
Ottawa men are so infatuated with
the game of pitching horse shoes that
they have built a court and are put
ting up electric lights so they can play
at night. They also expect to have
their meals brought to them.
The Ell Dorado Republican declares
that the bounty of nickel each on
that there are a quarter of a million
crows within three miles Of Ell Do
RADIO and they frolic about as If they
had lost no relatives. Now the ques-
ton naturally arises how long it took
the myriad minded editor of the pa
per to count these crows and whether
or not his figures are to be relied
upon?
A town row has been started in
Pratt over a dozen eggs. Last winter
a woman borrowed that number of
eggs from a neighbor. They were
worth twenty-four cents then. Last
week she returned the borrowed eggs
and the price had dropped to twelve
cents The neighbor insisted upon an
extra dozen to make up for the diff
ference in cost, and the demand was
refused. All the women in the neigh
borhood have taken sides and the
question may become an issue in the
city campaign.
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THE WARMED VIPER.

Postmaster General Meyer has join
ed Secretary Straus in the effort to
suppress the activity of militant an
archists in this country and has estab-
lished a precedent which will discour-
age the managers of the anarchist
publication bureau.
He has declared that a newspaper
published in Paterson, N. J.. in the
interests of the Reds, is Immoral,
pernicious and harmful to the inter
ests of the public" Hitherto the
cherished liberty Of the press. no less
than the freedom of speech, has made
the United States a favorite field for
the PRONUNCIATION of anarchistic utter
ances. Some of the newspapers
emanating from Paterson and other
hotbeds of anarchy have openly in
cited ignorant aliens to murder. So
bold had these vice-regents of crime
become that, in some instances the
language used was not even guarded
in its phraseology. The murder of
President Mckinley was traced almost
directly to a noted anarchist speaker,
but the press can doubtless claim to
have had its influence.
The power possessed by the post
literature, so far as its conveyance
through the mails is concerned. can
not be questioned. In case of i'm
proper literature his power is I'M
limited. 1t can not be construed into
violation of the freedom of the press
to exclude from the mails newspapers
or other literature which incites to
murder or to the overthrow of estab-
lished government
That the government of the United
States has been too lenient in the
treatment of anarchists is the opinion
of many. The present activity of the
Reds in this country has assumed
grave proportions. and any legitimate
steps taken to suppress anarchist
agents will not meet with criticism by
good citizens. In the minds of most
people, the viper that has been warm
ed at the hearth OF freedom should
be dispatched at once and for all time.
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mist to his eyes Sick, was she, the
poor girl Like as not she had over
worked helping her aunt and the chill
dren. What she needed was some one
to watch over her and take care Of her
He would buy her some flowers that
very evening. But when he came to
turn out his pockets he found that fifty
cents comprised his worldly store.
Tt will buy a dozen of some kind of
posies. though" he thought, ana
what's bite to eat compared to that
I'm not hungry, anyhow"
He found his way to Kitty's tenement
with a box Of pink carnations and Kit
tvs aunt opened the door.
Who will / say they're from?" she
questioned. in the subdued tones people
use in sick rooms.
"Tell-te1I her they're from Des-
mond." he stammered, swallowing hard.
He CROPPED his way down the rickety
stairs, inwardly determined to send her
roses every other day. AS for the mon
ey-he could work evenings. There
were always plenty of odd jobs for a
man who was willing.
So each morning Thomas told him
how she was, and all day long and far
into the night Desmond worked with
passionate energy-an energy which
helped him in part to forget two dread
full questions. What if Kitty didn't get
well? And what If there were another
man whom she loved?
And not the lazy vagabond I must
have seemed" reflected poor Desmond.
musing bitterly on his past waste years.
But Kitty gained and gained and
was sitting in rocking chair by the
window when Desmond went to see her,
a box of roses under his arm. She was
as pale as the soft white wrapper that
she wore, yet she flushed at sight OF
him and held out thin little hand.
"Oh, Desmond she said, you've
m mo
were lovely couldn't have gotten well
like a garden when used to lie there
and look at them! And they tell me
they tell me you're doing finer
"If am it is all owing to you, Kitty"
said Desmond, fumbling in his pocket.
What have you there?" she cried.
Desmond looked a bit shamefaced,
and drew out a wiShbone.
DO you mind what you told me about
a backbone being the best thing in lief
I've brought you this as sign I'll win
my own way up instead of wishing"
Kitty's eyes danced.
but, Desmond" she objected, 1.-The
bone was meant to be broken, so sup
pose you take one wish more-the last
of all, and then have done with 1t for
ever? Twill be kind of celebration"
fright you are!" Cried Desmond
Here goes!"
They pulled.
IT whit" cried Desmond breathlessly,
'I win! And do you know what it was
that I wanted? I wished that I might
marry Kitty Macdonough, the sweetest
girl in the whole wide world"
| Kitty hid her blushing face on Des-
mond's shoulder.
"And I wished the very same thing
she whispered.-(C by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
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TARIFF CoMMIssIoNs

Senator LaFollette has drafted a
tariff commission bill which quite out
does Senator Beveridge" says the Chi
cago Tribune. THE Wisconsin senator
provides for commission of experts
to ascertain the domestic and foreign
labor cost of commodities. If after
having obtained the information it shall
ascertain that one corporation controls
too great proportion of the domestic
output of any dutiable product the fact
must be reported to the president, who
is authorized to put the competing
foreign product on the free list or re-
duce the duty on it. 1t is said that
this bill has been hailed in some quar-
tiers as great progressive and con-
structive measure. 1t is, however, a
morsel that congress will not digest.
Nor does there seem to be any pros
| pect of the passage of the Beveridse
bill for commission to collect infor-
nation in advance of the meeting of
| the next congress. The proposition
| arouses no enthusiasm in congress, but
| 1t is supported by most of the manu-
facturers and others who are asking
| for revision of the tariff Unoues-
| tionably several unprejudiced and dis
| interested business, experts could ac-
cumulate during the next II months a
mass of information which should be
| of value to congress. 1t needs all the
precise. up to date information it can
| get. Industrial conditions are constant
ly changing, and unless the congress
man who ten years ago considered
| himself a tariff expert has kept track
of them he cannot revise duties intel
| ligently.
| THE committee on ways and means
| wishes no rival. It looks on itself as an
| indispensable collector of information
/ The plan is for the house to direct il
to employ experts to study the tarif
schedules and questions OF cost OF pro-
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MADE IN GERMANY.

One of the latest parliamentary crises
is furnished by the strike" of the
reichstag reporters. The trademark.
made in Germany is unnecessary in
this instance. as the performance of
both the reporters and the deputy who
occasioned 1t is Enthusiastically Ger
man.
In the course of the debate on South
African affairs some members of the
press gallery were led to disapproye
of the remarks of a speaker belonging
to the Centre party. whereupon the
leader of that party, Herr Groeber.
turned towards the press men and
hurled at them the uncomplinentary
epithet Of Pigs
Result: A meeting of the parliament
tary reporters of all the German news
papers, and demand that the obnoxi-
GUS epithet be withdrawn, pending
Which no more speeches will be re-
ported. Twelve members, who had
given notice of their intention of speak
ing on the question before the house,
cancelled their notices, and are with
holding their speeches until the press
boycotting is lifted.
Parliamentary government is still in
its infancy in Germany, and reporting
there is not the impersonaI matter that
it is in England and this country. The
German reporters still look at things
subjectively, especially political speech
es, and hence the indiscretion of which
some of their colleagues were guilty in
permitting themselves the liberty of
expressing. aloud an opinion of a
speakers views.
This, however, was no excuse for the
coarse and opprobrious epithet flung at
the heads of the reporters by Deputy
Groeber. The incident painfully re-
veals the lack of preparation the Ger
mans have had for parliamentary Cow
eminent.
1t is far cry to the days when
the British house of commons refused
to allow press men the privileges of the
gallery. Today regulations are won in
the newspapers, and not in the ante
chamber of a court or a parliament.
The fourth estate has become the first.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's the chauffeur who knows too well
that it's the pace that kills.
X X X
A man has great luck as a fisherman
as long as everybody believes him.
X
Eternal vigilance is the cost Of the
continued possession of a handsome
umbrella.
Y X
Corset advertisements furnish the
real inspiration for poetic dreams of
fair women.
n X
Some men would not care to begin
life over again because they are deep
enough in debt already.
x X
Perhaps the correct definition of "a
reigning belle" is a girl who pours at
all receptions.
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ALICE-sEAsoN RusHER

yesterday Alice gazed out of her window
And noticed the roadway with sunlight
The blue Of the skies was as bright as her
And she said: Spring is here with her
wonderful DAYS.
So bless me,
II dress me,
In costume befitting the advent Of
I vii VIII don,
I'll put on
My peek-a-boo waist and my furs I will
TIL This she did. for. the truth must be told.
cold.
Yesterday Alice arose bright and early
AND noticed the sunbeams that danced
all about;
The birds merry chatter her heart made
She said: ''rn look swell when today I
Hooray! Now here goes,
For my open-work hose.
MY oxfords of tan without rubbers
I'll wear:
Though mother may scott,
My heavies I'LL doff
AND fa 60 for stroll while the weather is
This she did-and, of course, all the
truth must be said.
Today her blue eyes are most woefuIly
Today Alice speaks with thick. foggy
So cloudy her voice. which was clear as
a bell:
She gurgles and sputters, each word
that she utters
Proclaims the sad fate that to Alice befell
"I'b got a bad gold.
I'b a sight to behold
She murmurs, my head is stuffed ub,
cab't talk:
lib bot sure the way
I got 1t. I say,
But / think that I caught it while oubt
for a walk
So she says. but her waist and her open
work hose
Have gone back on the shelf till the May
blossom blows.
Detroit Free Press
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Professor Ellie Metchnikoff has writ
ten a book on 1.-The Prolongation of
Life" In which he announces the dis
covery of a new bacillus, which he has
named bulgaris or benevolent microbe,
and which he asserts is the natural
enemy of every other germ that finds
Judgment in the human body The new
bacillus is developed in sour milk
and Professor Metchnikoff urges folks
to drink it. It's a tipple that most
folks will have hard work in acquiring
a taste for