The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-08

Journal is quite young
But several years ago, when mind first be-
gan to reach out for knowledge outside the realm
of childhood, began to appreciate the real sig
nifcance of the word politics; we learned that
some form of government was necessary, in order
that the lives of men and women might be lived
to the best advantage; learned that in this
country the responsibility of the government
rests upon the individual citizen, and that to
know how to ntelligently dictate the affairs OF his
government the individual citizen must be close
student of political economy, the science of gov
eminent. We have devoted what time we could
to this subject, with the result that our faith has
been gradually strengthened in the righteousness
of the principles Of government enunciated by
Thomas Jefferson.
servation the tariff. study of this subject
proved to us the business of the Democratic posi-
tion-"tariff luxuries for revenue only" We
have always been an enemy to the principle of
protection not because it protected certain indus
tries in the North and didn't protect certain in
dustres in the South, but because we firmly be-
lieved it was wrong. This was the position of the
Democratic party before the war.
What does Democracy of today say?
1t says this "YOu Northern Republicans voted
for tariff law that enables the corporations of
your section to rob the people of the United
States; we voted against this law, but we couldn't
defeat it, therefore, it is the duty of Southern
Democrats to vote for law that will enable the
corporations of our section to rob the people, in
order that we may keep even.
Wouldn't Thomas Jefferson be ashamed of such
reasoning in the name of Democracy?
This is the very position that Democratic Con-
gressmen and Senators took the lumber Ques-
tiOn the iron question: and others.
And the Atlanta Constitution and other Demo-
cratic newspapers are trying to defend them in it.
If the people will do it, they can make these
Deceivers stand by real Democracy, Or put some
in their place who will be true to the princi-
pies upon which they elected
Mr. Voter, you owe it to yourself and your cOun-
try to make the next man who gets your suffrage
measure up to the mark this important ques-
tiOn.
Will you do t?-J. Roy McGinty, Whigham
(Ga) Journal.
When the young men of the country begin
to study the important questions that are now
confronting us, there is some hope.
When editors of weekly papers begin to tell
their readers the truth, instead of using lot
of corporation syndicated stuff, the people
will know more about what is going on in
Washington and they may not be as easily
fooled in 1910 as they were in 1908
Let the people once wake up to the present
situation and there will be trouble for a lot
of men who are now drawing fat living
from the peoples tax money.
Some will have to get back to honest work
again, instead of drawing $1,000 of the tax
payers money each year.
It will be the end of the Congressman who
goes to Washington and delivers himself,
body and soul, to old Joe Cannon and AL
drich.
Out of the present lot of Congressman there
will hardly be enough left to make the re-
quired number of pall-bearers, after the peo-
pie are told how they have been betrayed.