The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-07-02

dUISs AAu 1CCiliy 1lC GdiIIS3 Ludt L
had in mind, when | started this love
letter, was to tell you where to get
the money. You can get it. You can
get it pretty quick, too, if you are
men Of sure enough courage. [ sup
pose that you would boast Of not be-
ing afraid Of anything in the world
not even chants" Well | am go
ing to see right now. Are you brave
enough to abolish this devilish Fee
System i'll our courts? If you are
you can get ali the money you want
to take care Of all the orphans and
let them stay with their own moth
ers. Yes, you can--you surely can.
Our Fee System.
I notice that the Solicitor of the
Macon Circuit will get $4,000 dol
lars this year-nineteen fourteen
out Of the Fee System. Does any
body believe for one little minute
that he is worth it? Worth TWEEN
TY-FIVE THOUSAND large beauti-
ful DOLLARS? Why certainly not.
He knows it himself, and about the
nearest claim that he can make to
being worth it, is, that he is as near
worth it is any one else would be-
In this | think that lie is light You
can set $4,000 OF the money there
and still pay that solicitor all that he
is worth.
The sheriff gets 1000, I believe.
You can get $4,000 Of the money
there. The ordinary gets $4,000.
You can get $4,000 Of the money
there. And gentlemen if you will
abolish this Fee System, and place
hoe OHi II IT,,
you will get nearly $4,000 to start
with and that will take care Of five
thousand orphans, at home with their
mothers, where they ought to be. It
is said that our courts are largely q
system Of 8rab all that you can pos
aib.y get out Of the people. If that
is SO, then the system Is q most dam
nahlG one, and you ought to be
ashamed to let it last another year
Arrest Q negro, hustle him to court,
fine him all that some farmer who is
ii need Of labor will pay, and take
the money and divide it-ins0lvent
cost. There has been more plain
stealing in the name Of ''insolvent
cost" than you can conceive Stop
the system! Stop it now, Pass that
Mothers Pension Law You will
close up the Church Institutions and
give at least one set Of preachers
something to DO besides worry the
people about money And you will
stop this Intern nable, long dreaded,
scramble for office which is the bane
of peace and quietness to the COM
munity. Yes, you can get the money.
That ''g'ax Equalization" Law.
And let ne tell you something else.
You agonized over that Tax Equali-
Z9tion Law and passed it. You
"shore did" You appointed your
Boards Of Equali2ers for the differ
ent counties and they are doing
wonders. They will accomplish some
gocd I hope. But do you know that
was not necessary? What have we
I'D there as LAWMAKERS? Is it
prep class? Wasn't it printed in
BLACK AND WHITE last year that
tie County Of Houston averaged
about $500 per acre for taxation
values on the land? Why surely it
was. / saw it myself And you
needed a Board Of Equalizere to labo-
Tiously work out the plan of getting
what was coming to the State? why
you could have fixed it in one day.
If you had doubled the value Of
every acre in Houston County, you
would have then been ready for some
such Board as tb oae which have been
appointed. But you have practically
nothing to begin with when it comes
IL.