The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-23

political and economic lines of all
my books. | have been a great adj
mirer of your indomitable courage,
and constant patron of your liter
azure for 20 years, and have always
found you as true to your principles
as the needle to the magnetic pole
which principles are the basic princi-
pies of Christianity and Of true
American patriotism.
He who serves his fellow man best
serves God most. The only way we
can help God is to help his creatures
Hence true christianity consists of
doing something for humanity.
In the life of every individual,
there are times that which he most
needs is light. In every great gov
eminent which, like ours, is domi-
mated by few individuals, the
masses Of the people are purposely
kept in darkness and ignorance as
to economic issues that they may be
the more easily exploited and kept
in a condition Of Servitude to their
eXploiters. No man ever did more
than you have done during the last
twenty years to enlighten the COM
mon people as to their civil and po-
litical rights under our constitution,
and as to the discrimination against
them in the framing of our national
laws which place the burden Of the
government upon those least able to
bear it, and at the same time, in the
distribution of the wealth created by
labor and the land, gives to land and
labor an inadequate and inequita-
BILE share Of the wealth produced.
l honestly believe that the people
of the United States, if they could
only once realize the determinations
against them in the Tariff and Mon
etary laws alone, would rise up in
rebellion in less than thirty days, so
great are the burdens thus imposed.
Your work has been a work Of
sacrifice and love. | know that you
have often felt keenly the sting of
the lack of appreciation of your la
bors on the part of your own South
ern people, and more especially that
of your fellow Georgians. Would to
God that Georgia and the South
would learn to recognize and appre-
ciate merit in her own native born
sons.
Yes, Mr.. Watson, I have often felt
discouraged for you; but upon the
whole you should be encouraged The
measures that you have always stood
for and battled for are gradually
finding Judgment in the minds and
hearts of the people. Many of them
have been enacted into city and
State laws, and a few of them have
found their way into our National
statutes, as is evidenced by our Ru-
raj Mail System, the first appropria-
ton for which, was engineered
through Congress by you in person
during your short stay there; and
also the Parcels Post so recently es-
tablished, both of which will give
such extensive and lasting benefit to
the great masses of the common peo-
pie.
Next in order along this line will,
probably, be the government owner
ship of the express business and then
the government ownership of the
railroads themselves. Note what
Hitchcock says about ownership of
the express and what Governor Foss,
of Massachusetts, says about owner
ship of the railroads. Say! Hitch
cock would make good presidential
timber, wouldn't he? If Wilson
does not make good as a Democrat
then Hitchcock, as a Progressive
candidate, would make things hustle.
Pardon this depression and let us
be encouraged and labor on, rem em-
boring that it takes time to bring
truth to light, and that mems good