The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-05-20

sooDled II up in order to keep the poor man from
eis H. mas run the price of land high that the
young man of today not see how he can farm
hence so many go to towns and trv TO do nuh,
WORK, 10 DO business, because thew can NOT huv the
land ITO till for himself and mate Tn this county
mere are about $4,000 acres of land owned by
ooAon lneA' VINO nave bought it up, fenced it and
pu0 euarus around 1t to keep people off of it. SO
'iat iallo mere now is worth $4,000 to $4,000 per
acre why! Because it mas been bought IN so
that there isn't near enough for the neonIe Rafor.
tnese land-grabbers to this country good land
could DC bought for $500 to $500 per acre: then
Ne young man With but few dollars could buy
nome for himself and mate. know of lots of vounx
men VINO now refuse to marry because thew haven't
little fortune TO buy that home If no man was
allowed to own more than he can use there would
be plenty for ALL 1t could be bought at prices that
or cent cotton would pay for; but at the prices
now IN this country, simply can not buy land
ahd pay Tor 1t out OF the products that he makes
Off that land Socialism means to give each man
as you say nome to lay his head, and to house
MS wife and nestle his children This is right and
the conservative Socialists are only striving for
that end. True Socialists declare for a pure home
"Iere Vile is queen, and husband is king and
condition that will equaze things $40 that tho 1ab
orer gets his hire. The Lord made the earth waiter
co1a' OH minerals for his creatures. Then let
'nem nave IT, and not few to gobble it up and with
bayonets Kill the rest that want small piece
NOW Mr. Watson, I admire you, and have voted
for you twice, and 1 just feel like if YOU under
stood conservative Socialism as YOU wrote once
you would be full fedged Social Democrat Popu.
ASSN IS socialism modified but it don't go quite far
enough SO let's cut out extremes in both and get
together and wipe up the earth in 1912 7 do not
know but this will go into the waste basket hut
feel Ike it is each mans duty ito rise up now and
unoosom himself, for the time is at hand when we
must either go up go down! A few more wears
and capitalism will wipe out the baot-box Then
we are slaves evermore KvIa Stuart
If the principles of Populism were enforced
there would be none of the abuses and in
equalltles of which such protestants as Mr.
Stuart denounce. These abuses are the ugly
offspring of Special Privilege, and WHEN WE
STAY THE PARENTS THE CHILDREN
WILL QUIT COMING.
There's where such papers as the Appeal to
Reason go wrong. They point to the terrible
consequences of misuse of governmental
powers, and they prescribe, as the remedy
revolution instead of reform.
On this, Mr.. Watson takes issue with the
Socialists. He says to them, II agree with
you as to the abuses which exist, but I claim
that they flow from a prostitution of the
powers of government. Let the people so
use their ballots to maintain in office repre-
sentatives who will destroy Special Privilege,
and we shall have the reign of Equal and
Exact Justice that we had during the twenty
years preceding the Civil War.
Consult Our oldest people, and get them to
tell you about the conditions which prevailed
in the Forties and Fifties. What they will
tell you will sound like the history of another
world. Things were altogether different then.
There were no monster cOrpOrations,-none
of these gigantic Trusts which the Socialists
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