The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-21
Easy Money, the Theorist, and the
Professional Agitator.

with literature of all sorts. and few news
paper folk stop to read all that comes their
way, by post. Occasionally, though, one gets
hold OF a circular that starts one to thinking,
and sometimes to Investigating the source of
the circular that attracted ones attention.
Recently pamphlet entered The Jeff office,
entitled 'The Reform Bulletin" Some of
the captions on the pamphlet were GLOW
Moral Measures are Passed at Albany"
'Why Good Measures Sometimes Fail"
"Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business"
"Must Raise $4,000 to Meet Note in Bank"
And that's as far as L. A. L. went in read
ing.
In the same mail that brought the pamph-
let, there was also a newspaper clipping to
the Editor in Chief, and it was plain, I'M
vanished newspaper report of the arrest of
two men in New York City, for the crime of
providing houses of i'll fame with girl vic
TINS, who were lured by promises of work.
to the city.
The copy of The Reform Bulletin from
which the captions were taken is numbered
sixth volume, third copy. The object of the
pamphlet IS IN the interest of all moral re-
forms in the State of New York, and the
head of the movement is preacher, Rev. O.
r. Miller
Recently, there has appeared in The Jeff
office, many circulars, elegantly gotten up, on
most expensive enameled paper, fancy type,
some pictures, and with a list of names of
prominent people, all asking for "aid for the
Belgians" 1t was a foregone conclusion that
scads of money were used in getting out this
literature, and it takes a six cent stamp to get
it to those to whom it is addressed.
The relation between these two circulars
is just this: the professional agitator is always
on the job, and it has gotten to be such a we'll
paying profession, he never lacks for money
which he has gotten from theorists who love
to see their name in print, and who have
scads of money to pay for that desired end.
At present, there are more poor, hungry,
jobless people in two cities of these United
States, than there are in the whole of Bel
GUM. There are as many children, deserted
by hopeless, penniless and homeless parents,
as there are in Belgium, and the worst of it is,
the professional agitator and the senseless
theorist, know this good and we'll, but fear
there would be fewer dollars as commission"
for the one, and less publicity for the other,
should they confine their efforts to looking
after the needs Of the homeless and friendless
at home.
Those who are financing and working in
the interests of moral reforms in the State of
New York, have mental strabismus-whch
means, in plain English, cross-eyes. They
strain to look at conditions they know, theo-
retically, exist, but they pass by, on the street.
the girl who has been duped into coming to
the city. and who is then ready to be passed
over by the man who has won her confidence
to the man who has paid him to do it. This
actually happened, and the girl was seven
teen year old, who had been promised work,
and who had been negotiated" to the
keeper of house of ill-fame, for $25.
Every community has its poor, it's ignorant,
its weak, and its homeless, and if every COM