The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-06

shame CnaC cannot be denied or 0X-
planned; a foul SANDER to the Demo-
cracy of the 18th Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia, that this same aris-
tocrat we have to represent us
has betrayed every true principle of
truthfulness and fidelity to trust
Old Joe Cannon had bought him and
had him completely subsidized by
that little appointment on the Judi
ciary Committee, and, of course, Mr..
Brantley had rather betray his con-
stituency than to turn his back on
Dear Father Cannon who had COM
pletely captured him by that infa-
nous appointment. He received his
compensation in the forehand and
acknowledged the receipt thereof by
his unprincipled vote for Cannonism.
Another thing that Mr. Brantley
can't explain is that vote for higher
duty on lumber. All makes the cir
cumstantial link that is sufficiently
satisfactory to prove that he has be-
trayed his people on more than one
occasion. The time is ahead for
William G.. Brantley. The time is
coming when the Democrats of the
18th Congressional District will re-
pudiate the Infamous and disgrace
full action of her Representative in
Congress and will turn him out to
Craze on Corporation practice, and
he had just as well sharpen up on
Corporation law for the time is COM
ing when his constituents will resent
his unprincipled demeanor in Con-
gress, and will place him, politically,
where he will never have another OPP
pOrtunity to save Joe Cannon and
vote for increase on lumber tariff.
Those other politicians who be-
trayed the people will also receive
their orders from their constituents,
and if they have done nothing more
than vote for Cannonism, that one
thing is enough to make every man
in their district abstain from con-
nection with them.
The masses are stirred as they
have not been in many years, and
they are beginning to study their po-
litical situation more carefully than
they have in recent years; they have
awakened and discovered that this
outrageous tariff law that was
framed for the protection of the
trusts is the most dangerous bane to
prosperity, which shuts the ones that
would sell us cheaper goods COM
pletely out, and we are compelled
to pay whatever price the manufac-
turers are heartless enough 20 de-
mand. The people have learned that
they have to accept whatever price
the trusts offer them for the product
of their toll, and have to fork over
any price for the goods that they
have to buy, leaving us in the cruel
situation in which we neither price
what we have to sell nor say what
we will give for what necessaries we
have to buy. This kind of a scheme
can't work always. 1t has already
starved many to death, and invoked
a rule that compelled these free peo-
pie to be unable to provide them
selves with the essentials of life.
Of all things that Thomas Jeffer-
son fought with the utmost of his
power it was the tariff and national
banks. He knew that these usurpa-
lions would destroy the rights of the
masses in favor of the classes. The
Democracy that Jefferson set forth
for the betterment of all the people
has not been followed, and the peo-
pie are aware that he was the purest
Democrat that ever lived in America,
and unless the inhabitants of this
nation go back and adopt the princi-
pies of Jefferson and make war upon
the tariff which breeds the trusts,
Tho dow ic not 70 defiant uhoy, tbic