The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-20
Socialism and Democracy.
webster. Ma. MAN 5. |!

Dear Sir and Friend / have just read with III
terest the letters and your comments on Socialism
in your last two or three weekes. Mr.. Watson,
ccrtainly wish the Populists and Socialists would
JOIN forces some way to gain the victory for
the masses in 1912. l will give you my idea as to
how they could agree the land question.
Let have graduated Land Tax, SO that as
mans acreage increases, his Tax per acre would
increase in such proportion as to make it very un-
profitable to own large bodies of Land and thereby
monopclizng the earth, and either crowding other
people off Or making them slaves. Mr.. Watson, did
not land monopoly help to bring about the French
Revou,ion? And won't like causes produce like eff
fects? You know land monopoly, we'll as all other
monoDolfes, is what eisaves Labor. think the soil
should belong to him who ts it:
Excuse these poor remarks and accept them as
coming from who has loved and followed YOU
ever since you debated with the Hon. J. c. c.
Black in the grove at The Old Cotton Mill in
Sparta, Ga.
(signed) F. Todd.
It is a pleasure to give space to the above.
The letter supplies additional testimony to the
effect that many Socialist is nothing more
than Popust
We are constantly receiving communications
from writers who say they afe Socialists and
who contend that finder Socialism everybody
can own so much personal property and land
as he needs for his own use.
For example, we have letter from Mr.. Kyle
Stuart of Thomasville, Ga, in which occurs
the statement, eff | understand Socialism on
the Land Question it is tfis-each man, as you
say, should own enough land for himself and
his mate to make comfortable living on
Mr. Kyle Stuart expressed a fear that Mr.
Watson would ignore his letter and throw it
in the waste-basket On the contrary, the
Jeffersonian will publish it, just it was writ
ten. 1t is human document of deep interest
Thomasvlle Ga.
Dear Sir:-In your Jeftersonian of the 10Th you
publish able article from w. w. Wilkes. Then
you attack his arguments and claim that Socialists
should have right to curtail land ownership that
the Socialists want all land in No, Mr..
Watson, you are smart man, and man to lead
men, we'll meaning man, and Of the greatest
reforlners that held pen; but fear that you
do not at all understand Socialism, do not know
that myself fully understand it, while have been
for years reading it and contending for its princi
plies / understand them. You must remember
that Socialism like every party, has many
corrections to make, and many fanatics to fight who
jump into it with but faint knowledge of the
party, and spread out like forest fire consuming
everything before them The cussedness of the
capitalists in their treatment of the people in the
middle anu lower life has been damning, that
when the common Ignorant man is awakened to the
true condition of things he wants to rise in his
might and destroy everything in sight and many
times kills his benefact0r. Now if I understand
Socialism on the land question it is this: Each
as you say, should own enough land for himself
and mate to make comfortable living on (This
was settled | think in the old land grants of the
HeVoluuon, When soldier got land warrant for
MS service for 100 acres, no less This
was supposed by those wise and patriotic fathers
as su1llclency for any to rear a family on
Land was worth but song, and the Government
Of