The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-09-19

changing, shifting sands of Time
I have evidently worn off some of the
rough edges of Mr.. Watson's turbu-
lent restless nature, have tempered
and mellowed his perspective, and he
sees the world in a different light
than that which iI1umined his
stormy pathway in the revolutionary
days of the latter eighties and nine
ties.
Mr. Watson congratulated the ex-
populists present upon the fact that
the principles of populism, as advo-
Gated by him for years, had-many
Of them-been enacted into laws.
He referred to the election of Uni
ted States Senator's, judges and So
hcitors by the people; the r. f. D.
service for farmers, the parcels post,
which becomes operative January
LIST, 1913. He said they now call
themselves "Progressives but that
they are simply advocating, adopt
ing and appropriating popuhst prin-
cipies. He had little to say of
National affairs, except in discussing
the tariff, and its present disastrous
effects upon the farmer; he said
that the Democratic party would
remedy these inequalities. He said
that the Bull Moose party was the
only party standing for one of the
principles for which he led the fight,
viz: The recall Of the judges.
He paid his respects to the Ro-
man hierarchy and Roman Catholic
ism, referring to his recent arrest
by the Federal authorities, caused
by his using in one of his magazines
quotation from a Catholic book,
which he said had been circulated
through the mails for over a humid
red years. Mr.. Watson also gave
the "school book trust Jolt, and
there were many in the audience
who would have been glad to have
heard more about this monster which
has apparently become strongly en-
trenched in Georgia, and is thrott-
ling the childhood Of the State be-
cause Of the fact that many child
rem are too poor to buy books in or
der to enter our public schools.
Foreign missions were also dis
cussed, and Mr. Watson made it
clear to the minds of many church
people present that he does not OBJ
pose foreign missions, per Sc. He
NOS0 SPPO0C' AOHOFSA1 oh 1IISSV-
larities which have crept into the
system, and he opposes the offer
of secular education and free doc
tors and hospital services to Chi
nese and Japanese by our mission
aries in order to induce them, to be-
come converts to Christianity. He
said he was a Missionary Baptist"
and he believed in obeying the Di-
vine command, "Go We into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every
creature. Said that this did not
mean offering temporal rewards to
heathens to accept the teachings of
Jesus Christ. He believes that the
Gospel should be preached to all
heather nations in all it's simplicity
and purity, and free from temporal
attractions or inducements.
Is Thomas E. Watson a dema-
gogue, or is he fighting the battles
of the common people in all sinceri-
ty? That is the question which has
puzzled the mind of the writer for
several years. We have watched
his career, heard many of his speech
es, read his writinss-and still won
dered. If his motives were impure,
why should Tom Watson, on a sui
try August day, ride many miles,
make speech, check fulk of whole
some truths, to several hundred
folks without money and without
price? Why? He declined to allow
the people of Apaiachee to even pay
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