The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-22
Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 18th, 1914.

Atlanta Ca, Jan. 18th, 1914.
Dear SIR | indeed glad to have this
opportunity to write you few lines this evening
to express my thanks for the glorious work you
have done for the in the past, and for the
great good you doing. I have never dur
ing the time [ have tried to keep up with your
work known people to be interested in your
great work as they at the present time Many
people who years ago failed to study the import
ant problems in which they were interested have
arranged their thinking caps so that they see
matters in different light. Having done so,
they find that Thomas e. Watson has been seeing
and thinking the right line all the while.
Therefore hundreds Of them have become Wat
sons best friends
the trial Of Mr. Watson and I feel fully convinced
of the fact that John Morris, of Mobile of Shred
ded Wheat fame, was not needed among that
bunch OF loyal GeOrgians and true Watsonites;
in fact he would not have been in his class
May God spare you for many years to come to
permit you to finish the great work in which you
have been engaged for many years.
Your true friend,
G. w. SEALS
It is perhaps true that a greater number
OF people are appreciative of my work than
ever before. Nevertheless, [ will always be
one OF a minority: those who approve me
Today, were against me Yesterday; and by
the time the enemies of Today become
friends, others will fill the gaps Tomorrow,
and SO [ will go in the small crowd-as long
as I live.
Yet, there is nothing more firmly fixed
among nay beliefs than the conviction that the
things that place me in the minority now,
will be the accepted faith of the millions. in
the future.
You see in Congress, and in the legislatures
of States, the men who won their spurs rid
ing our principles. When a Populist of 1890
declared that the public should own tele-
graphs, telephones and railroads, the very
children were taught to boot at us as we
passed. Postmaster Generals now demand
the same thing; and our railroad presidents
advocate government ownership, while Con-
gress is about to take $34 100000 Of your
money to build railroads in Alaska. What is
good for Alaska, will soon be good for the
48 States that own Alaska.
Poor dolts that we are! We build and
maintain at Washington a costly Astronomi-
cal observatory, and tell the Western Union
Telegraph Company, every day, when the
noon hour has arrived.
The Western Union sells the information
for more than million dollars year, to
thousands of towns, cities, corporations, &C..
and we do not get cent. We do not even
charge the Western Union for it's desk space
IN our Observatory.
That was one of the small matters that I
meant to raise Cain about when [ went to
Congress, but they got me into so much hot
water about other things, and kept me in it
so constantly, that | temporarily forgot that
we made that yearly gift to Mr.. George
Gould's dropsical corporation.
We Pops were great old seed scatterers.
We shore did SOW the grain. Most of us are
dead now, but the harvest is here all right.
AS [ look back over the past and remember
what a splendid band followed me in the
Nineties, my deepest regret is that so many
of them, all bruised and heart-sore because