The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-04-25

WI ~ AAJ SOM ~. ga, SOOI
history of France. The
remainder, apply to sending your
Magazine, or paper, or beth, TO some
sensible, but needy person. would
prefer some preacher, or some left
member OF their family. but leave
that with you. Ssrry can't oftenec
drop in a little, to help push
worthy cause.
l would be glad to see you sent
up, as delegate at large, and if I
could get you to write a little more
conciliatory, and 6 iittle more explic-
lily, on the subject Of missions, I
would have hopes CT seeing you, on
merit, at the head of the State, if
not the Nation. It is an amazement
to nae, that man with your mas
sive and incisive intellect, cant see
that there are missions, and mis-
slons, missionaries, and missiona-
rles, and that while they may all
have made mistakes that their
motives, their disadvantages, in the
work, the ODDS against them, their
peculiar circumstances, the peculiar
type Of the people, among whom
they work, and many other things,
count for nothing, with you. The
methods used in reaching the
heather, and the principle of mis-
sions, are so different, and the meth
DDS of encouraging them to attend
church, school, and the help rend-
cred 70 their bodies, is SO much like
the ones we all practice, with our
children, our negroes, and On each
other, as to that, that I have utterly
failed to see what you are driving
at. When I said this on another
occasion, you kindly told me that I
would see that you were right, when
the evidence was all in. I have
waited, but up to the present, you
have only succeeded in embarrass-
ing your best friends, and have
seemed to take delight in holding up
the plumbers of honest effort, with
out giving kindly sympathetic
remedy Your position, as the
thinkers Of the country see it, is so
at variance with their views, that it
hurts you, in our efforts to put you
where many feel that you belong.
Mr. Watson, it is not what your per-
sonal friends would do for you, as
am sure you see, and feel 1t is far
above that thought that | write. You
were Wronged, robbed out of your
fighting position. 1t was your coun-
try which were the great sufferers.
It was a calamity. Now, Sir, the
thinking preachers, and laymen go
with you, on your patriotic, philan-
thropic, Christian, American stand,
against Catholicism.
You are arousing thought, giving
light, provoking resentment, against
alien encroachment, on a level with
our revolutionary fathers-so esti-
mated, by thousands of our best men.
Your work on Socialism, has in it,
the saving of nation. You have
put half of the most worthy planks
into the platform of the old parties,
and healthy insurgency is the out
come Of your pioneer, and more
modern writings. You have been
benediction to the country people, of
a character, unprecedented, and. you
will be known by that, if nothing
else. You have made the social, and
intellectual desert to blossom as
the rose. None of these words, do
I consider fulsome. This is my
candid estimate, and it is the belief,
and expression of thousands. But,
Sir, when it comes to missions, you
literally and actually kick nine gall
Ions of the ten out of the "Piggin."
What good it will do to drop a
great big green fly into the best pot