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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-08-19

The year 1909 bids fair to prove
one of universal labor discomfort.
France in the e arly
Strikes spring threatened a COM
and Their plete upheaval; Sweden
Meaning. is yet suffering the eff
fects of widespread stag
nation; Canada has had several
smaller strikes, and Fort Williams,
Ontario, is now under complete mar
tia1 law over the riotings of about
1000 dock-hands and their sympa-
thizers, growing out of the tension
between them and the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad; the Philadelphia
street car strike was short and de-
cisive, resulting in victory for. the
men; the Georgia Railroad strike at
fected us profoundly in this section,
and the conditions at PittSburg are
still those of bitter war, although a
certain number of the men some
weeks ago had been induced to re-
turn to their work. The methods OF
Mr.. Hoffstot, President of the Pressed
Steel Car Company, have been so vile
that it is doubtful when peace can be
restored His refusal to arbitrate,
his insolence and cruelty have ag-
gravated all the ills. He has made
war upon the women and children
through evictions of families from
the company houses, and even the
Sheriff has at length refused to carry
on these evictions, as Mr.. Hoffstot has
declined so much as to help the sher-
ifs men in the work of throwing out
the few handfuls of furniture belong
ing to the strikers. 1t is Mr.. Hoff-
stot's firm conviction that the county
constabulary must fight his battles
for him, and thus far they have been
but too willing to fire upon the men
and to drive out their families from
such shacks as they call home. The
Concluded on Page 100
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-08-19

President Barrel, of the Adams
Express Company, has succeeded in
obtaining from q. S.
millions Circuit Judge Baker an
for Profits, injunction temporarily
Not One preventing the auditor
Cent for of the State of Indiana
Taxation!" from certifying to the
counties Of that State a
tax valuation upon his company's
property of $239.50 per mile for the
1918 miles of railroad on which the
express company operates, declaring
that this valuation should be put at
the modest trifle of $15.75 per mile.
He further contended successfully to
the Federal judge, that the State
Board had no right to consider as
part of the company's operating prop
erty some $36,0o0,OOO bonds repre-
senting accrued profits from it's oper-
atoms.
Wonder if Justice Brewer would
consider an evasion Of taxation Of
this sort any devitaliZing of a states
rights? Or any reason for an in
come tax to take a drop of this
rich cream drawn from the resources
of the people of the state, out of the
buckets of President Barrett and his
stockholders?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-08-19

of liberty. And it cannot become
wholly socialized, for that means
that the individual is martyred to
whatever may be the dominant idea,
or error of his superior in numbers.
A society, socialized sufficiently to
encourage individual liberty along
lines that hurt no one in actually,
even though they do tread upon the
toes of somebody's narrow creed, is
apparently the ideal human condi-
ton.
When the doors close again upon
Harry Thaw, there will be in their
clang a ring of such
Matteawan. absolute justice as is
seldom heard in Amer
lea today. He has lost his attempt
completely to prove that he was now
medically sane, although, for pur-
poses of defeating the limit of JUS
tice, he might have been legally
sane" during his trial for the muir
der Of Stanford White.
In recommitting Thaw to the asy-
lum at Matteawan, Judge Mills re-
views the case clearly and succinctly
and takes the admirable position
that, in sending him back he goes as
''patient" and not as a "culprit''.
With the position of the justice, who
could quarrel? If guilty, Thaw
should have been electrocuted; if
insane, then to be treated, if possible
restored to health, but not subject to
whatever extraneous punitive meas
ures irresponsible attendants might
impose. O, just judge! May thy
tribe increase! Though he were an
angel of innocence, nothing could re-
store to life the slain, and to protect
society from such degenerates as
Thaw is as we'll done by interminable
Incarceration as by killing him. If
the confinement in itself is punish
ment, it is unavoidable. At least,
there need be no horrors heaped
upon horrors, no irresponsible bait
ing of one helpless.
But the reflection logically fol-
lOws-if ward life is hardship in
itself, and likely to prevent the cure
of otherwise durable cases, why
should especial consideration be &C
corded Thaw? Why not give the
same humane chance to the others?
The State could not provide for all
it's criminal insane at Matteawan the
same immaterial luxuries Thaw's
means permit, but taking the posi-
ton that it is misfortune to be-
come insane, and a terrible addition
to that misfortune that the diseased
mind was led to crime, the funda-
mentals to aid in restoration to
health, if possible, should be pro-
vided, and could be at slightly in
creased first cost of suitable build
ings and sufficient attendants.
Judge Mills paid his respects to
that sort of medical testimony that
can be hired to testify one way or
another and voiced the general pro-
test against such unethical methods
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-08-19

reason why a man should be contin-
uously mentally sound than that he
should remain from birth to death in
perfect physical health. Why should
not the brain get "out of order as
often as the stomach, for instance?
Both are over-worked, both often
feed upon most improper food, both
subject to injury from within and
without. Really the dyspeptic might
have more excuse for committing
homicide than the paranOiac. JUS
tice should after all, not need the
intercession of the alienist to induce
it impartially to restrain and punish
the guilty, impartially to restrain
and protect society, realizing that in
vengeance there is no victory.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-08-19
PAGE FOUR
Summary of Evemts

eff there should be tie, I will
vote for the adoption of the Confer
ence report" said Mr..
"Lest We Sherman, in discussing
Forget the tariff bill during the
latter days. The gentle
man is Mr. James Schoolcraft Sher-
man, of whom you may have heard.
Oh, yes, now you recall him. How
reassuring to know that in any case
of doubt he would have been right
there, ready to help the poor Trusts,
as ever. Some people in prosperity
forget their friends, but not so
James. He is the same old reliable
corporation property he was in the
dear old days of private life. He
seeks no notoriety, but he's there,
just the same. Inconspicuous, but
indispensable, like the groom at a
swell wedding, he was alert and
waiting for the tie.
Warnings still come from the best
informed sources to refrain from too
free assertions of what
In Spain. has been done, or will be
done, in the Spanish rev.
olution. Uncensored reports do not
yet reach the outside world With
governmental sanction could alone
be expected just such dispatches as
showed the revolutionists as execra-
bic savages, while the constant ex-
ecutiOns of the rioters must lead the
unbiased mind to the conclusion that
all the brutality is not on one side
Things have not gone we'll for the
Spanish troops in Morocco, and the
quiet restored in Barcelona has about
it that grim tension from which
much worse things yet may come.
In all written history, no more
breath-taking, absolute courage has
been displayed than by the Spaniard
and it is perhaps realization of this
which gives us pause. Decadent
though Spain has been, there is yet
that feline quality of treachery, and
wildcat ferocity, which gives the on
locker feeling of fascination and
dread, now that the land seems
awakening from it's long sleep.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12

biscuits, and keeps her awake nights
and makes her perfectly miserable and
ecstatically happy and glad and sorry
and shivery all at the sam etime. It's
just a flower
IT'S more like a weed" INTERRUPTED
the bachelor. 1T can't be cultivated,
you know, and it springs up exactly
where you least expected it, and flour
ishes best when let alone, and once it
gets started you can't choke it out
and
What is that burning?" cried the
widow, jumping up in alarm.
ITS the fudge!" cried the bachelor,
making dash for the chatting dish and
hastily extinguishing the alcohol lamp
"Oh!" The widow tried to stir the
hardened mass of sugar desperately.
"TIow perfectly horrid! It's ruined!
It's all burned out!"
"Just like neglected love!" sighed the
bachelor. my love, for instance
That's what always happens!"
YES" agreed the widow. "When
who ought to be watching the biscuits
or down at the office attending to i'm
portant business. We're wasting time
Mr.. Travers.'' 80. :--
mot at all!'' retorted the bachelor.
cheerfully. TITS a waste Of time to
bother about business and biscuits
while you are still young enough to be
making love. Business is all right
when you are old and decrepit, but the
h11c Af ic 81,
and he leaned over and caught the
widows hand as he added softly
Love is just morning glory, doomed
at noon to die;
Love is only half a story, told in pass
ing by; ~
Love is gold so delicate, the lightest
flame might melt it.
Loves nothing! But-God help the
man who's never known nor
felt it,"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12

means. For instance, on any South
ern railway train one car is filled with
blacks and another with whites, but is
there any social equality in either
car? Would Bill Simkins expect to
be invited to Mr.. Rockefellers private
social functions simply because they
happened to ride in the same car?
Social equality is the great sense
less bugbear that causes more trouble
than anything else in this country.
between whites and blacks. There is
no social equality established when
white man and black man ride in
the same car, sleep in the same hotel
eat in the same room, or even at the
same table, both paying the same
price for the accommodation. No
SANE man, either black, white,
brown, yellow or any other color. can
honestly believe that James ]. Jeffries
is entitled to the same social recog.
nltlcn or consideration that should be
TWO APPEAL
accorded to President Taft, or Booker
T. Washington, or Justice John M.
Harlan, or Prof. w. E. B. Du Bots:
yet, every fair-minded man must ad-
nit that a dollar should get exactly
the same thing for one as the other.
regardless of his social status. Pub
lie, civil and political rights and
equality should not be COMPOUNDED
with so-called social equality" So
cial equality always has, and always
will take care of itself and cannot
well be regulated by statutory laws.
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they let their wicked laws remain on
the statute books. Prosecutions in
the federal courts failed of their pur-
poses because of local prejudice.
1T is most significant thing that
the foreigners are once more aban-
doning the South almost entirely, and
they are doing that, of course, because
OF reports of officials of Italy, Austria
Hungary, Russia and other European
countries, who found it necessary to
advise their home governments that
any of their citizens who went into
the South under any conditions were
liable to Imprisonment fro a. mere
money debt or owing to broken con-
tract with planter"
It is historical fact that, immedi-
ately after the adoption of the 18th
Amendment, the Southern states es-
ta5lished a state of peonage far worse
than that of slavery; and, as shown
by Jas. G. Blaine, Carl Schurz and
other eminent statesmen, thereby rem
dered absolutely necessary the adop-
ton of the 18th Amendment. The
Institution, in modified form, still
exists in the South, it's most noted VIC
TINS being white foreigners. In a.
word, white foreigners are so CON-
monty the victims Of O,1trao a in this
country that their home governments
are giving the matter very serious at
tentlon. And, in some cases, as in
tnat OF the tobacco destroyed by the
Night Riders in Kentucky, the home
government is itself the sufferers, be-
ing the owner Of the property.
The South is reaping what it has
sOWn.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12
THE WIDOW
Gives One or Two Rythmic Recipes for Matrinony and
for Love-


But" she added, with a sigh, there
isn't any really reliable recipe for love.
There isn't even an authoritative def
milton for it,
"Oh, yes, there is" interrupted the
bachelor, cheerfully Love is the
thing that makes man wear fancy
neckties, shave every day, commence
his business letters Dearest Smith:
Send me ten cargoes of widows-and
hang around woman's skirts, quot
ing poetry, when he ought to be down
to the office attending to importa Mt
business.
Yes" sighed the widow, putting
down her spoon and sinking into a
chair, regardless of the bubbling fudge.
land it's the thing that makes a wom-
an read the Rubaiyat and Byron and
Richard lie Galliene when she ought
to be darning socks or watching the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12
BY DR.. MADISON c. PETERS.

Marriage remolds character. brightens
prospects, gives new meaning to old
words, elevates hopes, arouses ambi-
ton and gives purpose to life. 1t
doubles joys and divides sorrows.
Our social chariots should be attach
ed to the stars of love. All history
and experience have proved that the
only permanent arrangement in t he
social order is love between man and
woman.
Marriage'is not failure when it
has been true and when the welded
life is ruled by love.
And since the family relation is pre-
eminent among the chosen instrument
talities for the accomplishment Of the
divine purposes to our race, we should
resist every tendency to disparage this
sacred relation or impair our sense. not
only of it's divine authority, but of it's
permanent influence, relating to the
social organization in all it's manifold
blessings.
Full and trustworthy statistics cor
roborate the fact of the decline of mar
rage In the United States, and the
number of bachelors is so constantly
on the increase that many states have
seriously proposed to tax bachelors
there are over 100000 men in the
country past thirty years who are not
married.
Independent careers are becoming
more impossible to our young men,
Women are filing the positions which
men should occupy to build homes and
the salaries paid to men in many cases
do not exceed those drawn by women,
and the two cannot live on the one
small salary, when they could barely
get+on with the two salaries.
The greatly increasing cost of liv-
ing, both in city and country. is eff
fectually discouraging matrimony.
Girls expect to be supported in lux
ury which the average mans salary
cannot sustain, and while every wom-
an should be solicitous to have her be-
longings well chosen and in good taste,
it is true that the passion for dress is
the modern impeachment to marriage
We find in America. among the for
eigners of all nationalities, wives who
are working with their husbands. con-
sidering their interests Identical: and
these are the people who in the main
aer the home owners.
The American girl wants fun and
luxury-and plenty of it, and many
man today is forced to devote himself
to the one object of gaining the where
withal to keep peace in his house by
the unlimited Indulgence of woman's
fancies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12
MARRIAGE is MADE DIFFICULT FOR POR MAN
BY THE EXTRAVAGANZA OF MODERN GIRLS

1t 1say be a scandalous thing to saw,
but the scandal Of the fact is SO much
greater than the scandal of confessing
1t, that l will risk the statement of the
1act-the domestic life Of this country
is in an appalling condition-and the
young men are afraid to venture, be-
cause it has become prevalent notion
that only the exceptionally fortunate
man can marry.
The men who made the country-SO
per cent of them-began their married
life without a dollar. They began in
an humble way, worked together
saved, reached up and grew up, and if
the four millions of women in Amer
lea who are now bread winners be-
came bread makers, and, regardless Of
what the world will say. married for
love worthy men, and began their lives
as our fathers and mothers began,
there would be few bachelors, and
fewer women compelled to work out
side their own homes. .
But no, neither men nor women are
willing nowadays to begin their mar
ried life with simple. wholesome COM
fort, to be increased as life goes on.
They must cut a dash, and neither
seems willing to sacrifice any portion
of pleasure for domestic bliss.
Men have come to think that they
must make their fortunes before they
marry, ana women expect TO be pas
sively sustained without any concern
on their part. ...--
Great discomfort prevails among
married men. They find the expense
altogether out of proportion to the
comfort, and themselves driven to
despair to supply the wherewithal to
crafty notions which nothing but
ever-increasing riches can satisfy.
Our young women won't do house
work. The majority of men on SAL
aries paid them cannot keep a SER
want; besides there are not servants
enough to meet the demand and the
result is that we are rapidly becoming
a nation of boarding houses and hotels,
crowded with people who ought to be
in modest homes of their own, and,
like our parents. realize the dreams of
their youth by working and rising
together.
What we need just now is several
million sensible women who realize
that the nightiest institution on earth
is the home and who, instead of aping
the vulgar rich and the silly poor,
will revive the old-fashioned virtues
of thrift and domestic economy.
He cannot be poor or an unhappy
man, however humble his home, who
has the smile and love of woman to
accompany him, and she cannot, if
made right, be anything but happy
woman, however dark and cherries
the world may be without, if her little
asylum of home is lighted up by her
husbands love.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12

While many persons were elated
over the recent educational confer
once in Atlanta, Ca, DR.. Broughton,
pastor of the largest Baptist church
in that city, denounced it as a pagan
gathering whose damnably rotten
teachings would send all to the dogs
or, the devil" That is only a sam
pie showing how Southern men feel
about the way some Northern philan-
throDists are endeavoring to manipu-
late educational matters in the South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12
SOUTH REAPlNG WHAT 1T HAS
ESOWN

'SOWN.
The South is clamorous for more
labor, having succeeded by ruinous
policy in driving away much of that
she had as well as having destroyed
all hopes of accessions from abroad.
The case is we'll stated by Raymond,
the well-known correspondent, as fol-
lows:
THE southern people want labor
more than anything else in the world.
They need large addition to the la
Dor supply furnished by Negroes, and
unless they secure it from alien i'm
migrants they cannot possibly hope to
develop their great natural resources
as they are capable of being devel-
oped.
Few, if any, of the southern legis-
latures took the warning in good faith.
They continued to present seductive
claims for foreign settlement, but
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12

Like woman's recipe for love-" ac-
knoWledged. the bachelor cynically
All sugar and smoothness and mo-
notony and insipidity-just plain
'fudge!'" -
what is mans recipe, Mr.. Trav-
ers? inquired the widow in that cool,
sweet voice like the warming calm be-
fore the storm
Well" the bachelor leaned back and
regarded the widows dimpled elbows
through a smoke ring thoughtfuily. "a
little sugar and butter of course, and
some spice and vinegar-and a dash Of
rum and"
why, that's the recipe for 'tipsy
sauce'!" cried the widow in derision
1T would make your head go round
And give you the necessary dizzy
feeling" added the bachelor cheerfully.
And leave you with the usual head
ache and Indigestion"
But not with the nausea produced
by too much-fudge," retorted the
bachelor. Besides, tipsy sauce can
be cooled over quick fire.
,"And burnt out before it is half
done" rejoined the widow scornfully,
That's better than allowing it to 20
on slmmering forever declared the
bachelor, until it SINNERS down to
nothing. And nothing spoils love like
stirring it. Why" and he waved his
cigarette dramatically
"Love is just cobweb, wet with morn
ing dew;
Love is just fairy spell, invisible to
view 49,.
A tread-a touch too heavy-and the
cobweb is not there;
A sigh too long-and 10! the spell has
vanished into air.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-06-12
SOCIAL EQUALITY.

one Ously, of Texas, Informed the
Atlanta educational conference that
the man Who advocates or contem-
plates social equality is a dangerous
Zealot or more dangerous demagogue.
still harping on my daughter.' The
trouble with the Southern men is that
they don't know what social equality