The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-07
FROM ONE OF OUR sTAUNCH OLD
FRIENDS.

OF yours, and have been reading af-
Ter you for years. Heard you speak
three times once at Kite, Ca, once in
atlanta, and once in Dublin, Ca
Have been faithful follower of
yours from the days Of the jute bag
g1ng hight until today, and like the
Niger, who threw away his paddle,
and seized the bottom of the boat
when his canoe capsized with him,
he yelled Justify, Boys, come quick,
L can't swim lick, but I'm right dar
y1t. And [ too am right dar yit [
will be rs years old the oath Jan
uary, 1915, and have been following
you closely in your crusade of edu-
cation for the last twenty years, and
/ have learned more in theose 20
years from you than I have from all
other sources during my entire life,
Notwithstanding four years spent in
the Confederate army. From you [
have formed decided opinions of re-
l1g1ons, Of governments, of kings,
emperors. democracy and statesman
ship. You are not subsidized, while
many others are, all the others, or
a majority Of them, either do not
know themselves, or try to keep the
public from knowing what actually
is going on, yours is the only paper
that comes to my house that spells
falsehood with three letters, and tells
the people the whole truth as you
understand it,. | have never done
anything in my life by way of try
ing to make living but farm, don't
need a drafted bit of free news
paper advise as to when, and what
to plant, nor when to sell, nor how
to buy. All I want is fair deal, [
don't want to pay more tax in proper
ton than the other fellow. l don't
want any little jackleg, subsidized,
one-gallus politician, poor farmer
ing me. l want no deceitful, SYM
pathy, all [ want is a fair price for
the products Of my labor, and equal
ity rights before the law. To hell I
say with special privileges, and class
legislation, [ don't want the govern
ment to give me a damn thing, nor
do | want it to take my labor by I'M
just taxation and give it to pet
classes.
Now to the free advise editors. If
you gentlemen will just take few
days off and come down and take
hold, and show me by precept and
know about farming, and just how
little I know, I will thank you and
pay and feed you, while you work,
or if | could only get you to let up
for awhile on us poor, ignorant
farmers and advise the bankers how
to lend money, and who to lend it to
and with your able advise the merch-
ants, manufacturers miners, lawyers,
doctors, and all the trust magnates
could ride the waves of prosperity
without jolt. Behold how we poor
ignorant farmers prosper by your
advise. How [ know we prosper IS
because you gentlemen say we do.
Of course some have not paid taxes
yet, but we prosper all the same
If this should meet the eye of any
farmer who does not know that he
is prospecting, just SO and borrow
subsidized paper and l venture that
he VII not read two pages before he
will be sWamped by a wave of pros
perity. Now if you gentlemen in
sist on giving all your valuable ad,
wise to one class as heretofore, you
may bring on trouble. How can
other classes be content when they
begin to know how we prosper on
such profuse advise. We have had
two so-called Democratic Presi-
dents since the war, and I have seen
cotton sell for less than four cents
twice since the war, and I have seen
where we had to use stamps on GER