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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-21
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

than | ever heard Of all the presi-
dents since the Civil War. And
assure you that he is looked upon as
being the greatest traitor TO Amefi-
can liberties Of any man that has
ever been honored as chief eXecu-
tive OF this great Nation. And this
criticism comes from every politi-
cal and religious shade, except the
Catholics, and they laud him to the
skies. Yes, this is the burning
question of today in every state in
this Union and must be made a ma
tional issue to save the Nation from
the bloody inqujsiti0ns Of the past
ages.
Yours for American Freedom.
The original of this letter was
signed by Leslie White and J. G.
Stuart, B. T. Mcclure, Ne. D.; Jas.
Henry; w G, Ramsey NJ. D., and
could have been signed by many cit
liens Of our town.
Comment.
would like to see Charles Bryan's
reply. His garrulous brother, Will
liam J., is one Of the Pope's Ameri-
can apes.
T. E. w.
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philadelphia. May 6, 1914.
My Dear Brother Watson: The
May number Of your magazine came
today and ! regard it as most excel
lent ranking we'll up with the best
that you have yet produced [ was
especially pleased with the splendid
laghing you gave that assistant Cath
olic--Rey. John Faville--Who writes
exactly as a Jesuit would be expected
to do.
When the Protestant ministers in
this country can be awakened from
their rip Van Wrinkle" snooze we
shall be nearer victory over the bit
torest tyranny ever known to man
kind.
There can now be added to the
story Of OelWoin, Carbonate, SPRING
5i2ld, Pittsburg and Denver the
dastardly outrage upon myself at
Buffalo, an account of which I en-
close you.
There was q column and a half
in the Buffalo Courier, and long ac-
counts in the other papers, but the
Associated Press was apparently
chok2d off, for SO far rs ! am aware
no report Of it got outside Of Buffalo.
This, OF course, Is strictly in line
with your own admirable remarks
in this months number On 'ROmc's
Capture OF the Press. "
With every good wish, I am,
Yours fraternaIIy,
A, il. BARNETT.
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NO: THE ATLANTA PAPERS CAN
NOT BE FORCED TO PRINT
THE TRTTFF4

Dear Sir; wish to ask you if
newspaper can be forced to print one
OF your editorials if offer them the
cash for the space. The editor of one
CT our papers here told me he
wouldn't print it under any corsid-
GRAFTON. L told him / wouldn't give
him your paper for all the AtIrnta
papers.
Yours truly,
o. l.. THOMSON.
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Comment.

Or. Barnett was brutally mobbed
in Buffalo by the priest-incited mob.
We Will priIt the story next week.
I. Il. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-21
ANOTHER DEAR FRIEND PASSES
AWAY.

Dear Sir: Enclosed please find
P. 0. order for $500, and ten names
secured by J. II. SILVER, some Of
them are for renewals, they can't
get along without the Jeffs, One Of
our club died last year, j, S. Henry,
he was a great admirer Of Mr.. Wat
SON Hoping this will help some, I
remain true friend
Georgia. c. w. JONES.
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Comment.
NOBBEGD BY PAPTSTS FOR TELL
ING THE TRUTH.

Church Of Our Redeener
SiXtcenth and Oxford Streets
augustus II. Barnett, Rector.
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Watch the label On your paper.
Don't let your subscription expire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
The Indebtedness of Cities

The recently issued census bulletin on the financial statistics of cities affords in- teresting food for reflection as to the con- trast between the debt of the United States as a whole and of the chief mu nicipal units, says the Philadelphia Led ger. An analysis of these figures has been made by Le Grand Power, of the census bureau, for the National Indus trial Review. which reaches the conclu- sion that. while the comparison should inspire caution in municipal financNg there Is nothing in the situation to worry over.
 It will surprise most people to learn that the net debt of the 146 leading cities of the United States increased from SgO0 . 17s,16i in 1902 to s1.s01, ,129 oS5 in 1oe1,. a little more than 100 per cent. In the same period the net debt of the federal gov ernment increased from s969, ,457,2H to $l,01o, lS433s, or only AS per cent. The uer capita debt of the United States as a. whole actually decreased. the increase of population having been far greater than the debt Increase. so that the per capita debt was Sl0S3 in 1911. as against $224 In 1902, decrease of 11.6 per cent The per capita debt of the 146 cities in the same time increased from s4i19 to s67.3l, the latter figure being 6.2 times greater than that Tor the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
Czar Nicho1as P1a,,s Gigantic Money Trust

atively poor people and a rich state; and everything should be cone 10 attain this aim. The first thing IS to continue the policy of concencratins wealth. and increasing state control ovel wealth which is in private hands
 This programme for state money trust was approved of. continues Khari- tonoff, by Count Witte When minister Of finance in 1900, Witte got the Czar to consent to a law which forbade the gem stvos. or provincial administrative coun- cils. to increase taxation more than limited amount annually Witte's aim was thus to divert money, which might be taken in the form of taxes, into the central treasury. The more starved the Aemstvos the fatter the imperial budget In many other respects Witte concen- trated money in the hands of the state, and did everything to prevent concentra- tions in private or in local government hands.
 As result of Witte's rolicy and of the policy outlined by Kharitonoff Russia which Is the poorest country in Europe, is the richest state The economist, Afanasieff shows that the average annual peasant income is only s15.60, and peasants of this kind make up four-fifths of the population. Although Russia has 1600O0.- eco population, her total wealth, including land at present sale prices. is only $S5, ,OoO.- 00o.oO0; while England with fourth of that population is worth s65, coo. 900 600, and Germany with third population is worth s75 .0C0, 100000. The national income of Russia has the biggest annual budget. Her present budget is ever sl,Joo,Ooo,0oo; whereas the British is $s5O.0 GOO. and the French and German each about $20o,0o0,- 000. Also Russia's budget increases at an unexampled rate. In 1903 1t was only ss90 0oO.Oou; 50 that there was a rise of over 50 per cent in nine years.
 Russia remains the poorest country in Europe precisely because tho state t the
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lad. used morphine, which had not hith- esto been suspected, owing to the pres ence of the chloroform. The body was at once exhumed and traces of morphine were found, the examining doctors guard ing the secret faithfully until the trail.
 After this information had been ob- tained from Maxwell it was unneces- sary to keep Dingfeter in jail any longer, and it was accordingly arranged to have him released on ball. When Dingfelter told Maxwell that he. was about to leave the prison he added that if there was any way in which he could assist him he would be glad to do so
 You can do a whole lot for me, answered Maxwell. "by getting two of your friends to come here when my trial Is called and have them testify that they met Preller and myself in Boston, and that they accompanied us to the depot when We were leaving Boston; that al the depot I proposed that the party take d parting drink; that Preller, these two men, and myself went to a cafe. and that when l paid I displayed a roll oi seven one-hundred-dollar bills; that I ex- plained that l wanted to change one of these bills so that I might have smaller bills with which to pay my expenses on my way to St. Louis. Ii they will testify to this it will account for the six one hundred dollar bills that I took from Preller."
 Are you sure that your lawyers will not get these friends of mine into trouble or let the police get next to them if l can get them to come?" asked Dingfelter
 Maxwell assured Dingfelter that his friends would be perfectly safe in com ing to St. Louis, and that the police would not get next to them, provided, of course, that they were not already known to the police,
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lconvriaht. by Curtis Brown )

Copyright, by Curtis Brown.)
 (r. PETERSBURG. February 2s.--
 Special. .)-Nicholas II hopes to re- 0 store his lost author.;y py estap- fishing control over all t!e financial fs- sources of his vast empire. The aim of his present policy. and of the policy of his court and ministers, is to create money trust with political ends. This fact/ has long been suspected by Rps . sian economists, who ascribe to such p,otives the vast growth in Russias rev. enue and gold reserve; and the increas- ing grip which the state is getting on private industry. The suspicion that this is conscious state policy is confirmed by the revelations published in Vienna by an ex-official of the ministry of iin- ance.
 The state money trust scheme is the creation of the state comptroller, NJ. Kharitonoff. M Kharitonon is one of the ablest of the more reactionary higii officials. To the public he IS best known by the intentionally lax manner in which he exercises his functions or controlling state expenditures; and by the pliancy with which he allows money voted for . specific purpose to be spent on dlf- fcrent aims. Kharitonon four years ago presented to the Czar memorandum de- claring that the financial independence fthe local governing bodies Is a m.n- ance to state security; and that the only way to check the growking power oe these bodies Is to starve them of funds. The taxes which they could be prevented collecting for local needs would easily. said Kharitonoff, be diverted into the cen tral treasury
 Money" said Kharitonofr ill his mem orandum. lis the chief power in the moa- ern state. Your majesty's autocracy was threatened in the past mainly by the rise of wealthy and independent bour. geoisie existing without snvor of the state. The ideal should bs rather . rel-
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own state property. For the same req son she aims at controlling the prices of products. She has already fixed the prices of raw spirits and sugar and she has the> same policy in a vailed way toward the great metallurgical works Ex-President Zakrewski of the South Russian Metallurkical union com plains that the governments aim is a state steel trust. in which the present iron masters will remain de jure as owners but de facto merely as sub ordinate employees of the state. The annual trade congresses nowadays merely register the orders of finance ministers. This is effected through the government representatives who al- ways attend congresses. Formerly the representatives had the duty of watch ing and reporting. Now they aspire to lead the congresses. They decide what is to be and what Is not to be said, and they practically dictate all price agree ments. The law gives the government representatives no power to do this.
 The ironmasters depend for three fourths of their custom upon state rail- road and state shipbuilding orders and they are helpless to resist NJ Zankrew- ski says that "State control has already gone so far that the state might as well purchase the ironworks outright"
 In regard to private land a similar policy Is being pursued. Land Is a pn- tential economic rival of state flnancc: and, therefore land must be brought into subjection. M. Krivoschein, director of the department of agriculture, breaches this doctrine. As the Ia wdoes not coun- tenance 1t he goes behind the law. This was recently done in regard to two Scheremetieff properties in Moscow and Voronezh provinces. The properties ace worth $3,000,000. The owner proposed to sell them to a land speculator named Yelkin. Yelkin has two years old dis. pute with the state in regard to taxi- ton of his present estates. The govern ment lost the case; and the result is a loss of some millions of rouDies from taxes on other estates. Krivoschein came to the conclusion that Yeikin must not be allowed to buy more land. He. there fore. got Nicholas II to issue a private prohibition to Scheremetieff against sell ing hiss estates: and the prohibition al- though not lawful had to be obeysd.
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kr1voschein declares that the political hegemony of the state depends upon the concentration of land by Individuals. in the end. he says, the Russian state will claim final control over aii lands. The land and the profits from It will be left Tn private hands, but the disposal uf 1t by sale will be subjec, 10 the coo trol of the state. "Only the srate IS fit to handle the vast accumuiations or capital and the vastly Increased lnnd values which are the fruiis of model, 4 economic development"
 IT this theory is carried out the Russian state will have in its hands either as ab- soiute owner or as controller everything worth having. It already owns outright D,Wo miles of state railroads, all tele- graphs, the vodka monopoly, and lands which cover sixth of the area of the empire. and are far bigger than any sir- gle European state. The stock exchange. the iron and sugar industries, and finally the privately owned land are already under government control. This process is bound to go further.
 Duma member Volkoff. who as '.ca- det IS strong opponent of government policy. says that the new money autoc- racy will be bad for private individuals. A state which, instead of unchallenSed political power has unchallenged money power, will be able to disregard popular wishes in way impossible in the past. The controlling of country by money power, of which much is now being heard in regard to South America will soon be in Russia an accomplished fact. By its unparalleled accumulations Of wealth and its unlimited power to hurt or help individual interests. the Russian state has far stronger weapon than even it's 1.5Oo.o0 soldiers and its system of police espionage"
 The time is near, says Volkofr. when Russians wial be slaves of the money power of the state. Our people have al. ways been slaves. But whereas formerly under Plehve and Sipyagine they were slaves of the ministry of the interior, they are in future destined to be slaves of the ministry of finance. The former slavery was the more obvious; but the latter is the more subtle and insidious. In the end servitude to state money trust Is likely to prove the hardest scryi- tude of all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
PRELLER MURDER CASE
The True Story of How the Evidence that Hanged the Mur-
 derer Obtained Published for the First Time

1y subdued.
 Dingfeller was taken to headquarters and searched. In an inside pocket was discovered a letter directed to some per- son in San Francisco together with a large sum of money. The letter seemed to duplicate the prisoner in a series of bank swindles which had excited the people of the Pacific coast. The news papers had printed good deal about this gang, and the St. Louis detectives felt that they were on the trail of the ceh- bers. The afternoon newspapers cen sured and ridiculed me for having failed to discover this letter.
 However. I was not disconcerted for it had taken me about two hours to compose and write the same epistle.
 The St. Louis papers devoted to Ding felter a good deal of the space that they had been devoting to Maxwell, much to the disgust of the latter. The two men met in the bull ring in the jail, and Maxwell hastened to make the acquaint- ance of so notorious swindler as Ding felter seemed to be. The more the latter held himself aloof. the more anxious Max we'll appeared to be to cultivate his ac- ouaintarce.
 You are Dingfelter. I believe" said Maxwell.
 Dingfelter replied that he was, and
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banks have stood still or gone back of late; the Russian reserve alone has rapidly increased. Eight years ago a stir was made when Premier Kokovt- self. then finance minister, allowed d hoard of $4OO,000,OOO. That such a big sum existed sceptics had refused to relieve. Today this sum is nearly doubled. This gold reserve has the function of backing Russia's issue of credit notes. But the reserve is suf- ficient for 37 per cent more notes than have been issued against it. Witte de- clares that if there is a great war Russia will have recourse to forced ex- change. and thus will be able to use at least two-thirds of the gold hoard.
 Russia aims at getting as much as possible of the national substance into state hands. What cannot be ac- quired In this way is to be controlled The St. Petersburg stock exchange has of late been put entirely under the government thumb The germ of this policy dates from the days of Finance Minister Vyschnegradski and his sue lessor. Witte, who said, "the bourse is state department This view Is in dorsed by Premier Kokovtseff, and by Ti'nasheff, the minister of trade and industry. The government claims that it has right to declare at what prices stocks and shares shall be sold As long as stocks go up the government is content, but 1t threatens trouble when they go down. The assistant finance minister lately summoned the chiefs of the exchange and announced that "the bourse has, in government opirion fallen sufficiently and it must rot be allowed to fall any more." He threatened disciplinary measures against the brokers if the fall con tinued. Timasheff is at present busy on a plan of tstate intervention by means of purchases whenever stocks fall unpleasantly low.
 By artificially supporting stocks, Russia aims at the protection of her
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It was about o'clock in the evening when Dingfelter was released from jail on bond, and at that hour the courts in the building had adjourned for the day and the newspaper correspondents and all others had left the buile ing exec
 for the few attaches who were on duty. Thus Dingfelter left the jail unobserved. He took circuitous route to my house. where he remained until late hour, when I sent him to New York. l had instruct ed him to open correspondence with Maxwell from that city so as to get posi- tive instructions from Maxwell as to what
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seems to me that you have already been talking too much about your case. If you are not guilty of the crime with which you stand charged you ought to be acquitted, and l hope you will be-
 Dingfelter was in jail for AZ days, dur ing which time Maxwell never let the opportunity pass without talking to him. Meanwhile Dingfelter was making daily reports to me. Maxwell, who seemed to have implicit confidence in Dingfelter, ad- mitted that he had killed Preler to ob- tain the $700 which the latter possessed.
 Maxwell also told Dingfeter that he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
By JULIUS OSTMANN

state bank has now bigger gold reserve than that of the Banque de France, and a much bigger reserve than the reserves of the Bank of England and the German Reichsbank put together. In April, 1913, her gold reserve was $75o GOO, ,O00;, where as the French figure was s525,0O O,OOO, the German $l93O0O, 600 and the English $151,- G00,O00.
 The gold reserves of other state
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Maxwell continued:
 against you
 You will have to excuse me, sir,'' an swered Dingfelter. II don't want to seem impoite, but must decline to talk to anyone in this place about my case, as you call it. I don't believe it would be a good thing for me or any other per son to talk about a charge that Is pend ing against him in place of this kind. Besides, I don't know you
 q am Maxwell" replied the other. T am the fellow who is charged with the
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richest. The sucking dry of the provinces py St. Petersburg checks all normal local development. The expenditure per head on local govefnment and productive local enterprises is only seventeenth of that of England. Money is not to be had be- cause it is all in the capital, and because St. Petersburg jealously checks any ex- penditure for other aims than those of the central government. The Russian
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murder of that man Preller, who was killed in the Southern hotel, and whose body was found in a trunk I was ar rested at Auckland New Zealand, and brought back here to St. Louis to stand trial, but have been assured by my at torneys that I will be acquitted. They have no case against me. and just as soon as I can get a trial, why, of course I will go free.'
 "I have been reading in the papers about you" answered Dingfelter, "and if you will pardon me for saying so, it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-01
WESLEYAN DOES
ITS SCORING EARLY
Then Holds Worcester
Tech Eleven Safely for
Rest of Game.

Middletown, Conn, Oct. 3l.-Wes-
leyan defeated the Worcester Tech
eleven on Andrus Field here this after
noon by . score OF IA TO 0.
The first touchdown came in the first
quarter. when. after rushing the ball
fifty yards. Socum carried it over iron.
the 3-yard line. Captain Kenan kicked
an easy goal. In the second quarter
Nourse carried the ball over on for
ward pass in the first FIVE minutes o.
play. receiving the ball on the 23-yard
line. Kcran again kicked the goal.
Worcester braced after this and held
We-leyar for downs on the l-yard line.
In the second half Wesleyan used half
= dozen or more substitutes, and the
playing was more even, although
mostly in the Worcester territory.
Three times Wesleyan had the ball
within the 25-ysrd line, but lost 1t
once on a tumble and twice ON an Ia
tercepted forward pass.
In the fourth quarter Worcester made
several good gains, Dunbar bucklng the
line for II and - yards. Captain
keenan, returned 70 the game. however
and turned the scales in Wesleyan
favor The Worcester backheld DID
good work. but was handicapped by the
line. which was weak.
Tho ine-up follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-01
STEVEN BRACES
IN NICK OF TIME
Takes Ball from Delaware
on One-Yard Line and
Game Ends in Tie.

stevens and Delaware College played
an exciting game on Castle Point Field
Yesterday. which ended in scoreless
tio. Both teams resorted 10 straight
football throughout the contest, and
neither eleven could gain lasting adj
vantage.
Todd. the Stevens halfback. caught
Delaware's kickoff and ran 1t back
twenty Yards before he was downed.
By series Of line plays by Todd and
Webb Stevens brought the ball to Del.
aware 30-yard line, where they brsced
up and forced Webb 10 punt. The Wis
itors advanced the ball only ten yards
when the Stevens line took brace and
held for downs.
Delaware opened the last quarter
with the ball on its own 40-yard line,
and rushed il down .he field. After
.cyeral charges Gray got ten yards
around end and Crawford gained twelve
through guard Then. with the ball on
Stevenss l-yard line, the Hoboken
eleven made wonderful stand and
held for downs, the ball going TO Ste
yens Just one loot from the goal line.
Webb. Todd and Anderson, by num-
Der Of spectacular end runs and j
bucks. advanced TO Delaware's 30-yard
line. where Webb dropped back TO try
a goa from the field, but failed IN the
attempt.
VLe ftvo-un follows.