The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
One OF Those Georgia MOrmons
Writes Another Letter

Auburn, Georgia, wrote me a scurrilous letter,
asking me not to give his name His request
was respected
But here he comes again, and this time he
asks that his communication be published.
Therefore, we print it, just as he wrote it:
M Stern, President. E. J. Smith, Treasurer.
r. B. Dixon, Secretary & Gen. Mgr
THE ATHENS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
OF Athens, Georgia.
Auburn, Ca, July goth, 1911.
Thomas. E. Watson,
Thomson, Ga,
Dear Thomas
Oh how i would like to be at Thomson this
morning to hear you spiel. since
you got Hoke Smith out of business. and you
went to the United States Senate you will per-
maps get to see gentleman there. Senator Reed
Smoot if you please,
Oh Tom told you that you was barking up
the wrong tree what do you say now (Watson)
you don't seam to have knowledge enough to
know the difference between fact and fool,
So you have proved your have you if you
ever read the news papers you would know that
apostle Taylor was turned out of our Church on
account Of not obeying the teachings of the
Church and Cowley,
No you amt proved any thing only that you
are poor little dryed up thing trying to get some
body to notice you. (you poor little bat you)
You remind me of fee dog trying to stop
train going at sixty miles an hour. Say how
would you like for me to call your wife nanny
goat well she is if my wife is and you jack
ass. how do you like that it's free country you
see for me we'll as you,
Whey Tom you have ben dead since 1892 and
you don't know it poor foolish thing. and the
people just aint taken the time to put you in a
hole you amt worth dogs notice all you want
is for somebody to notice you, | guess if you
could get some of the solid of Ga behind you
you would be willing to burn Mormons at
the stake but will tell you something if
you wont let it go any father. it's this your day
is passed old boy Oh how Soloman like you
you scholar you will be than nothing time
me and Harvey gets done with you you grub
worm you,
Tom whey don't you do as any other fair mind
ed would do go to the mormans for
the truth about our belief. II you wished to
learn Of the Catholic faith would it be fair to
obtain your information frome a Presbyterian
clergyman? In all fairness should not the rule
you apply to others apply to us? You simply
quote frome our enemies Or twist the meaning
of words to suit your SELF By useing
that rule of reasoning do away
with the resurrection of the Master for did not
the Roman soldiers say that Christ not
rected but that while they slept the friends
of the Redeemer came and stole the body away?
Only the friends of Christ said He risen
and you build your faith on what our Savior
and his friends said In handling this question
whey don't you take the bible. And expose Nor
manism; principle by principle? Perhaps you
have profted by the experience of others before
you and are too wise to undertake such a large
contract? Our faith would be popular to day
if it had only a form of goodness, and l defy
you any other to prove frome the Bible
Or the great book of reason, that Mormanism
is not the pure Gospel of Christ, If Mormanism
is what you say it is then what a horrible con-
dition the Mormon people must be in. But stay;
the Master says by ther fruits We shall know
them; Mormonism goes into the entire civilized
world, and in this age. in the days of Christ,
it is the poor, and you claim the ignorant, who
embrace it. Very well, M0rmonism takes them
to place where you claim social purity is I'M
known; what horrible condition these poor ig-
norant deluded creatures must be in in few
years,
Now listen, Brother Watson; 90 per cent of
the Mormon people LIVE IN THEIR OWN
HOMES and upon their own farms Utah stands
equal to Massachusetts, in education the rate of