The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-04-10
A TALK TO THE BOYS.


big, manly Weekly Jeff to have
little heart-to-heart talk with the
boys and young men who are your
friends and readers. Now boys, you
know already without my telling
you that Mr.. Watson is one of the
greatest men that the South has ever
produced, and after he is dead and
gone History will prove this to be
true, but it cannot and will not be
seen and acknowledged now on ac-
count of the great curse Of Roman
ism and rotten politics, combined,
and for this very reason l would like
to see one of the greatest monuments
built up in memory of him that has
ever been built for any great man in
the country. | want the monument
started and almost perfectly finished
now while Mr.. Watson is living, so
that he can see how wonderfully
beautiful it can be made, and what
beautiful effect it will have on the
great family of Watson friends and
readers. Hold ont Stop! Don't dive
down in your jeans after the coin to
help build this great monument, but
listen: This is what we want to see
it built With-Rigid honesty and
truthfulness, soberness and good,
laW-abiding citizenship. Can you
build anything more beautiful with
your coin, or anything more bene-
fetal to the whole country and Ma
ton at large? No, I say. All the
gold in the world cannot build
monument that would be more last
ing or beneficial, or more highly ap-
preciated by Mr.. Watson himself.
So young man if you are a friend to
him and you have not already
started to help build this monument
to his memory, | want you to start
now and show your manhood. You
can easily do SO by stunning bad
company and using some good COM
mon sense Will-pOwer. 1t has been
said time and again that Mr.. Wat
sons friends and followers were
nothing but the riff-raff of the cOun-
try. Of course this is nothing but
lies told by enemies and people that
don't know what the truth is, for
they have never seen it. But any
way, let us go to work and improve
our already good Watson citizenship
to the very highest degree, and walk
and lead such a life that people will
point us out and say, There goes a
great Watson young man. He is one
Of the most honorable young men in
this whole section and a great credit
to his section and community"
Young man, get your heart in the
right place and go to work. If you
are a Watson man and help to make
this one of the greatest monumental
structures that has ever been built
in memory Of one of our greatest
living herOes-let me switch off to
one side just a little right here and
say how strange it seems that some
people can and readily Go break
their church vows, and marriage
VOWS and freely mix and mingle
and associate with people that prac-
tise these things, and call themselves
in fine company. Oh Lord! How
they sniff and turn up their nose at
the man that happens to go into a
party primary and fails to stick to
the nominee. Will some one please
tell me who is the most rotten old
hypocrite in that bunch?
Mr.. Watson, go on with the great
fight against the wolves in sleeps
clothing and remember that Daniel
was cast into a den of lions and
came out without a scratch, and
something plainly tells me this will
be your fate. But the poor old lions,
in my opinion, are going to get
scratched like HI, and they Justly
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