The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-24
The Negro Revenue Collector of Georgia:
One off the Southern Congressman Who
Deserted to the Republicans, and
Thus Helped to Increase
the Cost of Living
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65Ies of the rich, and q taG OF 165 per cent.
upon the blankets of the poor. No man whose
heart beats in sympathy with the producing
and unprotected millions of this country
would have done such thing as that. You
enabled the Republicans to pass law o0h5ch
increases, more than ten per CENT, the tariff
rates on common cotton goods and clothing,
when the taxes were already SO outrageously
high that the people had to pay three prices
when they were purchasing these necessarles
of life Who gets the benefit of that! New
England, principally.
Consequently, the sum and substance of
your departure from civic virtue and honor
is that YOU delivered your own people over
to New England manufacturers, to be robbed
without mercy.
The cost of living went up, all along the
line. as soon as that new law got fairly into
operation 1t adds hundreds of millions OF
dollars to the expense account of the well-to
do: and it pinches the poor to the point OF
starvation-and thousands are pushed be-
You'd
Before God and man, Bill Howard you are
partly responsible.
What have YOU done for your people, any
way. to show for the $4,000 that they have
paid you? What bad lars haze you ende0-
U0red to repeal: achat good lar hare y0u en-
deau0red to pass? What measure for the re-
lief of the suffering people has euer had the
benefit of y0ur e7Oqu6nce on the floor OF the
House? Where have you gone into debate,
with your unquestioned intellectual supe-
riority, and given to your people the benefit
of that ability?
You have doubtless got few apprOprla-
tons that were of local benefit; you have
probably been diligent in the matter Of post
offices and rural routes It can scarcely be
doubted that you have been active in the dis
trbution Of vegetable and flower seed. You
may even have sent some experts from the
Agricultural Department to deliver lectures
on farming and dairying. You have proba
bly, had soils analysed, and caused maps to
be made. But qOhem the NeaO Emgzanders
mere making lars to rob your people, a0here
haze y0u struck q 6z0ao to prevent the out
raqe? When the Dalzells and the Cannons
we're riveting upon the citizens of the country
those zaqcs that take the property Of one man
and qive 1t to another, where have you been
heard, in protest?
AS long as y0ur record qO0S merely blank,
there was no particular reason for singing
you out for criticism; for the record, q am
ashamed to sayO of most of our Southern
Congressman, IS blank. They seem to think
that they have nothing to do but instruct
their Secretaries to send out seed copies of
speeches, soothing letters, and experts to talk
farming to farmers. Constructive statesman
ship, we look for in vain any particular
thing for the relief of the country, we do not
find. It is dreary round of, "elected", ere
elected, erpectimg, always e~pecting, and
never getting anything. Tt was only when
you, the proud Bill Howard, yoked up with
Lon Livingston, and that Pat McCarren
crowd from New York, and betrayed the
South to Neao England catering to old Joe
Cannon in order that you might retain high
rnlace ON ommittees=that I felt It to be q