The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-18

the oppressed in low places; a call
ing, the noblest, that can employ
the mind of man, and one which in
OUr day and time, and right here,
needs to be exercised to it's fullest
capacity, night and day, with tireless,
R3eeDless perseverance, so that the
rank and file, the laboring classes,
which are indeed the foundation of
the whole social structure, may be
emancipated from thralldom and de-
Evered from the yoke and lash of
their taskmasters, who blind heavy
Burdens and grievous to be borne,
and lay them on mems shoulders;
but they themselves will not move
them with one Of their fingers" and
To use Matthew xiii chaps. 5: and
a verses as basis but with the
necessary changes; which we regret
TO say is unfortunately the case. But
they do a great many of their works
not to be seen of men. but behind
closed doors, schen1ing to wiring dol
lars from the horny hand of toll and
reap and garner what they have not
SOwed; making pyradidical promises
broad at the base, but tapering off
TO nothing in the apex or perform
ance, so they may get into the up
peTmOst rooms at feasts, and be
helped to the biggest plateful, and
the chief seats in the three depart
ments Of State, and have Hon. pre-
Fixed to their name when it ought to
have a Dis. before it,
Christ scored the Scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites which paraded
their virtues, but concealed their
vices in His day, but the U. S. A.
had not been discovered then. What
III His divine X ray was turned upon
some of our high officials, (our pub
lie servants,) living at the top of the
market, in the Legislative, Judicial
and Executive Departments Of State,
Federal and State,-if Freedom
Shrieked when Kosiusco fell" what
would she do if the lowly Nazarene
were to express His opinion of them
IN our modern, up-tO-date, elastic and
very expressive language, now.
1t appears that the poor, down
trodden farmer, the cotton farmer,
the ''buy-a-bale" pauper is the prin-
cipal object held up to the gaze of
the large-hearted, open-handed,
charitably disposed at the present
time, Poor fellow! he is over
wheimed with unsolicited advice.
Pillow deeper, plant less cotton, use
better farm implements, have this,
do that, try the other, till he is al
most ready to adopt the opinion of
Gabriel Warden returning with Bar
naby Ridge, as narrated in one of
Dickens bad books, (Jesuit opinion)
that, "Of the two, and after ex-
perience of both, l think I'd rather
be taken out Of my house by crowd
of enemies, than escorted home by a
mob of friends!"
You give us good advice which is
practicable if put into practise, i.e.,
vote for none but the right kind
of men, don't be fooled with promises
but be guided by performances, turn
the rascals and deceivers out, put
honest men who have the welfare of
their fellow men at heart in their
place, and then we will have good,
wholesome, honest laws enacted, en-
forced by honest men, and prosperity
will then gladden. our hearts, and the
political thief, the "buy-a-able'
sharper, the charity drummer who
represents no firm but himself, will
have to emigrate or reform"
You will think, doubtless, by this
time that my motive for writing this
letter is all to do with the farmer
and nothing else.
| have class Of people who are
at this present time greatly in need,
not of extraneous help or maudlin
sympathy, but of receiving what is