Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-17
WHAT DO you THINK ABOUT THE
TARTT7

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TIE
TARIFF
As the presidential campaign las
centered about the tariff on goods in
ported into the United States, with
some wise men clamoring for free
trade and other wise men against. IL
behooves US to know what We do me-
iieve in as TO the policy Of our ua-
tionsl government am fully salts
fed that our people are not fully n
formed on the subject. and ] do rot
expect The Journal readers 10 adODt
my ideas for our general business
/ believe in raising heavy tax from
articles brought from abroad which are
fads OF luxuries for the very rich, suc1
as diamonds. expensive liquors tnd
costly decorations.
1 greatly prefer TO have 4 duty LAID
on these things than TO overtaX 51r
oWn peoples pots and skillets to get
the wherewithal 10 pay our national x
penses. Hadn't you2 Whose purse
will you sharee Again. 1 have a great
deal more interest in my home people
those who bear our burdens here "a
home. who must fight our battles
when we are plunged into war by crazy
politicians. and VINO must struggle side
by side with me to pay enormous taxes
on everything we own here in the
United States. Haven't your l ice
lieve in my own folks. If shoes are
given out anywhere for barefoot folks.
I'll ger some for my own sort hrst'
ard this nation is made up OF units
family units and state and county
units desire TO get something TO
live on for those who call me mother
and grandmother. and the Bible says
he that careth not for his own IS
worse than an infidel." And ] believe
in giving my sort a chance before l
give all I've got in charity for other
people.
To my mind free trade is a silly
policy OF pulling down the bars ana
turning in upon US the goods and stu
that foreigners collect as manufactures
from miserable. poverty-stricken, IN
paid European laborers, and is I'M
worthy OF decent respect anywhere
don't want STUFF that comes from the
DEGRADATION and debasement OF human
beings. who rarely know the taste u a
beef steak in their natural lives ana
who must work for a few cents cay
10 I'll the pockets of these foreign mil
lionaires. I believe in a duty on iron,
to give our mine workers vases
enough TO live on. l believe in a duty
on sugar. to help our own folks against
Hawaiian sugar and Philippine sugar
want those beet sugar farmers 10
have a living wage for their work out
in the western states. and want an
administration at Washington that viii
helm the American tO.ler TO put some
thing in bank for a rainy day. 1 want
IL see our own folks helped into max
ing n living. and TO do this there must
he men with brains and capital to give
them employment We need the sane
sort Of a tariff as has made the nofth
and the west grow pOpulous and pros
perous. I am tired Of following
l. ~ h.elr
bodv and which has kept the south
poor and struggling
VOTE BUYING ~ MORGAN COUNTY.
I have a sincere affection for the cit
liens OF Morgan county. because my
grandfather and grandmother and my
mother were all born and reared there
and their forefathers before them were
born and reared in that county. was
partly educated in Madison. as was my
mother before me
The ties Of affection and interest
dat bind me TO them are strong and
enduring. In times past they ranked
high in the scale Of upright citizenship
and were worthy OF high respect MOT
gan was one OF the richest and most
intelligent OF Georgia counties when l
was Young and we'll acquainted with
the people
Tonishts Journal tells . dismal sto-
r. Of deception. tricSery and fraud In
the late primary election in Morgan
county. Men bought votes with money,
some as high as $50 each. 10 elect judges,
solicitors and county officials. The
didates who bribed voters are in no
whit better than the creatures who took
brides from them. and a man who will
sell his vote should be forever disfran-
sEfsed and forbidden 20 cast another
vote. He should be stsrilized and
turned adrfft as unworthy. A judge
Vho would buy a vote is not worthy to
wear the ermine. or even occupy the
bench. He has by that act branded
himself as unfit, and Morgan county is
indeed debased IL such a judge cannot
BE- set aside and a better man put in
his place
The story Of the late primary cleo
tion in Georgia may be limited at. but
the full text viii never be written II
has, for 4 long time. been the custom
OF unworthy Democrats TO smother
down. 10 hide and conceal the wrong
doing OF the party. 1 am acquainted
with the doings in the Seventh Con-
zressfonal district. and as sure as God
reckoning To steal and 70 lie is con-
summarize knavery.
man who will bride a voter will
steal vote. and stuffed ballot boxes
with fraudulent tickets were freely
used at many general elections The
plea was made that IL was necessary.
&c keep the negro down, and white men