The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-09-29

The only two demands in our State platform of
1896 which have not been put into effect and
being enjoyed by the people are these: The aboli-
ton of the fee system, and the substitution of the
salary system in the payment of public officers.
Nothing is more certain than within the next two
years that plank in our platform is also going to
meet public approval and will become the law of
Georgia. (Applause.)
Another one of our demands has not material
lied and that is, that the State furnish along with
the school house. along with the school teacher,
along with the desk, the seat, the blackboard, and
the other paraphernalia for the running of the
school, free primary textbooks, which shall not
be changed without good reasons therefor. (Great
applause and cheers)
And I predict that the gospel, which
is being preached by yours truly, all over
this State we going to shake loose the strange
hold of the School Book Trust and we are going
to have the State furnish to the schools the books
which are necessary to the education of the child
Great applause and cheers) (Cries of "Hurrah
for Tom Watson.')
Well, it shows you that, after all it is
worth while to try and do something for the bet
terment of conditions. 1t is worth while to make
the effort 1t is worth while to fight the battle
of right
tell you, men, that there is something noble
in the effort itself, and if we went down to one
hundred defeats it would be more creditable to
us to have made the fight than to have submitted
cheers.)
Open those doors, gentlemen and let in the
air. am not afraid of Lon Livingston's ennis
saries. (Great applause and cheers) (Contin-
ued cheers and applause.)
I served personal notice on certain individuals
this morning if they try again to break up one of
meetings there would be trouble applause
and cheers. A voice: eve will give them all they
want. Talk to them.')
In the great Atlantic Ocean there is region
of calm waters weird, silent and still; no cur
rents flow there. No ships sail there. Driftwood
and wreckage collect there; it is putrid, calm
unruff1ed, silent within sea- 1t is known as
the Saragasso Sea; and why it is there and what
purpose it subserves tell. Outside of
and around it are the living waters of the Allan
tic. Over those storm-tossed rides the
ships of CONNIE ce like things of life They carry
commodities from the country of the surplus to
the country of the deficit. They exchange for the
sary to comfort and to our pleasure. There
FORE on the stormy waste outside of the Sara
gasso Sea those waters which are useful to
mankind; conducive to the progress of the hu-
man race: 1t is true that the awful voice of the
storm frequently arises out in the active Atlantic
where currents run and waves mount mountain
high. 1t is true that often the tempest RACES and
the ship goes down and the cargo and crew are
lost but STILL in the main it is the living waters
of the storm-tossed Atlantic that necessary to
the commerce of the world.
1t is in national life. Take great tribute
nation like China, with her three four hundred
million population; they have lost the arts Of
war, and therefore they don't enjoy the peace
which those who know how to fight for it enjoy
All the nations of the earth can impose on and