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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-14

ters Pence and other revenues furnish him
a yearly income Of two or three million dol
lars.
But Papa is not satisfied; he wants more;
and the first move toward getting back what
he lost in 1870, commences 5'a Germany.
The Pope and the Kaiser are in co-hoot
on the war; and If the dynastics emperors
win, goodbye to democratic progress IN Eu-
rope!
The English diplomats made grave mis-
take in handling the Balkan situation. They
did not give sufficient weight to the fact that
the King of Bulgaria is Roman Catholic
of German extraction, and that the wife of
the King of Greece is the sister of William
Hohenzollern, the Kaiser.
Russia freed Bulgaria from the Turks, but
Bulgaria has now joined the Turks against
Russia England and France.
England and France won for Greece the
sea-fight which led directly to her escape
from Turkish thralldom but Greece is not
taking sides with England and France
against her former oppressor.
1t is strange mix-up. In letting Bulga-
ria drift into an alliance with Turkey and
Germany, the English may have made one
mistake too many.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-14
EDITORIAL NOTES
BY j. ID. WAITS ON

The first thing that Secretary Daniels Ma
val Consulting Board will ask for will be q
secret experiment plant to cost about S5,O00,
600 to build, and from S2000,00O to $1,000
600 per year to maintain.
This plant will be enclosed with high walls
over which no person can see, and the walls
guards in order that no spy gets the chance
to climb the wall and learn the secrets Of
what is being done inside.
The Board may now be considered at actu-
al work, having completed it's organization,
and the above is its first move toward big
ger Nayy-the move being the familiar
course of first finding some way in which the
treasury can be raided.
AS the time for Congress to convene draws
near we begin to learn that owing to the war
the tariff revenues have not come up to .ex-
pectations, and that it may be necessary for
Congress to keep on the war tax a little long
er, as well as postpone the putting of sugar
on the free list.
1t is gentle way. that the Washington of
fcials have of notifying us that their finan-
cial plans have all worked out wrong and
that the expenses of government will still
continue to fall behind our source of reve-
nue-it all being due to the wicked Euro
pean war, instead of the reckless appropria-
tions of the last Congress, and the hordes Of
useless pap-suckers that the Democrats have
created new offices for.
With revenues already running behind
the bigger navy people getting ready to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-14
Where are You Going, Farmer?
FROM the Washington, D. G. Post of Oct.
l, 1915, the following is clipped:

When Mr.. Harding of the Federal reserve
board, lifted the curtain that concealed the scan
dalous extortions practiced by some bankers in
the South he let in flood of light upon the rea-
sons of continued poverty OF some Woodworking
planters and, at the same time displayed a can
Ger in financial operations in the national bank
system practiced by some bankers that must
be cut out root and branch by the next Congress
If the comptroltr Of the currency does not pos
sess the power to do that now
According to the figures given by Mr. Harding
five national banks in Alabama had been taking
a maximum rate of 26 per aent one of them so
per tent. and ont "a per cent. In Georgia
eleven banks averaged 80 per cent. In Texas as
high as $50 per cent was reported.
Let us examine the legal rates for interest in
these States
IN Alabama the legal rate is per cent and
the penalty for charge above that rate is loss of
the interest.
In Georgia the legal rate is per cent. but
special contract rate of per cent is allowed and
the penalty is loss of the excess of interest
In Texas the legal rate is per cent. with 10
Ter cent. allowed through contract to that effect
and the penalty is loss of interest.
For years there were widespread statements as
to the planters being burdened with debt and
companies, merchants and money loaners, but of
later years the larger prices for cotton the ad-
vances in the prices of their lands, the general
transformation of the South in business affairs
had led the people of the Union to believe that
these conditions of the past.
The national banking system must not be
made machine for the getting of the pound of
flesh from any resident of the United States and
it. is very evident that so-caed bankers
have adopted the policy of Shylock
We trust that the Treasury officials possess
the power to curb this atrocous rapacity and that
they will not hesitate to take all steps necessary
to do this.
These disclosures a shock to the fair
minded people of the nation, and it is very evil
dent that rural credit legislation must be passed
at the next session of Congress that in, the
agricultural districts there will be funds at
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PAGE NINE


per cent interest, dnnNdWy compounded, ON
the same capital.
What is Mr.. Harding's remedy?
What does the Post offer as solution?
Mr.. Harding offers warehouse plan,
which, as | understand it. would create more
Offices and salaries, and which would per-
petuate the enslavement on the farmer by the
natiora. banks.
What is the only effective remedy?
Give the farmer Rural Credit system,
and let him have Government lNcney direct
from the Government, on the same terms en-
joyed by the national banks.
Prosperity must always rest on three pill
lars, Commerce, Manufactures and Agricul-
ture.
They are equals and should be treated so;
each IS necessary to the other; neither should
be the slave Of the other.
Commerce has it's 3 per cent government
money: Manufactures have their 3 per cent.
government money. What has Agriculture
got!
What has the yellow dog got
Agriculture gets kicks and curses and most
outrageously Unjust discrimination.
Warehouse plans are delusion; the coun-
try IS full of warehouses; now; and / don't
know of any demand for a new system.
What the country wants is. release from
greedy money trust which exacts 30 per cent.
What the farmer wants is. long loans. ON
low interest
If he blindly walks into any Z. J. Watson
John Observation-Disclosures Chamber Of
Commerce traps, the farmer will find that he
has been shunted off the mai1 I,ne OF Rural
Credits, left on the rusty siding of state
loans, and bottled up by the Reserve Banks.
Would to God that our farmers were not
so ready to swallow every plausible PROPOSE
ton that ambles smoothly down the pike.
Watch out farmer
If you want Rural Credits, don't 90 on the
side track
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THE JEFFERSONIAN

Are those disclosures new?
Didn't the Greenbackers hurl those charges
against the National banking system, away
back yonder in the seventies?
Didn't the Union Labor Party support
General Ben Butler for President, in the
eighties, on platform denouncing these very
abuses!
Didn't the Populists do their level best to
arouse the people to the enormities of the ma
tonal banking system?
Look In any of the books, speeches and edi-
torials of the old Greenbackers, or the old
Pops, and you will find the same arraign-
ment which Mr.. Harding and the Post now
make.
1t is indeed fearful showing, but unhap-
PLY, it is no news to us old Pops; we
knew it all, IN the nlneties.
We knew the storm of bankruptcy, poverty
and distress was coming, and we cried aloud
to the people to save themselves.
We pleaded to a prejudiced audience.
We pleaded to the readers of daily papers,
and church papers, and so-called "farm
papers such as the rotten Ruralist now is
and the readers of those papers could not be
made to believe that anything was wrong
Republicans stuck to their grand old party.
because their daddies had done it.
Democrats stuck to- Mei grand old party,
because their daddies had done it.
Some of the men who hated us most, were
the poor men who needed us most.
We were misrepresented, maligned, cheat
ed, betrayed and we went to pieces on
Bryan and fusion.
Another generation has come upon the
stage, and the same old problem, the same old
curse, the same old prejudice and blindness,
are here.
We tell the people how the government
broke its word to the farmer, refused him
rural credits, refused to lend him dollar,
and gave all the new money-$44 100000 of
ito the gamblers who wanted to buy the
cotton at $50. bale.
We show how the refusal of the government
and the banks to lend the farmer any money
forced him to sell.
We showed from the official letters of the
Treasury Department how the government
went into the insurance business, for the
gamblers and insured the $50 bale for $40.
We showed from the same official source
that, when the ships-the Evelyn and the
Carib-sunk at sea, the government paid
$1,000 a bale for the cotton on one of these
ships, and $1,000 a bale for that on the ether
we showed how the government allowed
the bondholders to exchange seven hundred
r?illion dollars of two per cent bonds for new
bonds bearing 3 per cent.
We showed how the government adopted
the Jew-made Money Trust bill, surrendered
all financial power to the Regional banks.
placed the peoples money in them free of
interest, and left it to the banks to say
whether they would lend money to country
merchants and to the farmers
In other words, the government abdicated
the throne of the Money Power, and the
national banks assembled it.
, 1915-06-16
J. Il. ERNER,

Mr.. Alton A. Adams, Bandmaster of the
Adams Juvenile Band Of St. Thomas, the grent-
est Flute player in the D w I. is ex-
pected here on or about the is h%lnst.to give a
musical concert assisted by the Nielsen
Brothers OF Frederiksted
Among his selections, are two brilliant
Flute Solos, VIZ: The Mocking Bird, and
Ben Bolt, composed by the worlds greatest
living Flute Player Fred. Lax. (Mr. Lax
has toured the world over, several times
PLAYING before all rulers, aud receiving many
Distinguished concentrations. medals etc
was formerly solOi9t OF the Boston Symphony
, 1915-06-16
J.H. BRREER.

Orchestra, and GeImore Band). 1t is there
fore hoped that the musical loving element
of both towns viii give Mr.. Albums their
cooperation and thus make his visit a per-
feet success. Mr.. Adams, while here, will
give Baudmaster Smith his assistance WI h
The industrial Brass Baud in accordance
with an invitation extended him. Pro-
gramme later. Communicated.
Having some time ago had an opportu-
nity Of hearing Mr.. Adams Bpnd, we can
heartily recommend the above 10 the atten-
ton Of our readers. ED. BULLETIN
, 1915-06-16


Noar poeen Person, deri F6se Dom enor Retskendeso eler t6i2e
ya1taoeIse linden Retten Hor for e Fofigkomml7slon eler1 H9nhoId
iii en- Afgorelse af g odministmhT Stats ehel hom m ~ oasn
bar a udrede en- snafbode gnske eler hIdes und"def at oet"1e s'nme
!Evor def like betnlte Belob, uden at Diet torst sLI tofso8es mddreYet
hos ham, at abone med simpet F@n9@i
Oct Belob If Boden, som ud6of hdh oO frooc4' "SopeS nt3
Doo for liver s Francs, Diet .Ee6b, som u over 90 Francs lndHI 2V3
cranes afsones med / Dag for hver le Francs, hyad der er Owe 900
Frarcs indil 5000 Francs, med l Dag for liver - francs o8 IVA dt
az ndover dette med / Dag for hver 100 franes, dog e"oiedes, at Also
,irosstrafens Vaighed like oversigor s Moaneder
0Boder af ct mindre Belob end 10 Francs "isones meI z D"2e8
anret Fgnpsol. men iovri8t tges der we'd Atsonn%en n Bottl kun
Uonsyu til den Del If samme, hvortl der svarer tnIde D's9S f@nS-
sestraf !, i, ...al 80 Ato,5nro e
Skoemulkter
Person gtaar dt denne fIt for at lade dem inddrive hos den skyldlSe;
men i6yrigt komme med Hensyn til Afsonngen If den Del at dss9
l6der, som like betaLos eer indkommer wee ENseko'oh' "e ! 5 Sl'"o
Reger til Anvendese, na Domhaveren d@ap8n'endo henYendef sig
I'll Guvernementet.
Hvor nogen under Tvang af gu fortl6bendo Bo}e e we'd Dom eHer
Afo5,else a administrative Stats ener kommunaI My nd1ghed Medhod
ST 0Iovene llLolat at opfylle en- ForpHgtese mod Diet ofontige, os
i, arkan denne Handling foretages, ener B6len etto8ges, Dor Beobet
&c soolan Rode Ioeledes pa Beearing If den ofentlge MyndlRhed,
som Lar Ret til at fordre Donnnen eller Resoptjonen tuIdhy1det atsones
<fLr poafannelsarnei l. dog saaedes, at AfsoninSon forste Gang 81
or ndstnaet' maa hengua 4 Ugcr, linden Afsonngon p2any kan fnde Stei,
bvorinlod do det hae Bodebeob, der er pmobet fra den IND, da den
for4te FuIdbyrdele af AfsomDgen var tlendebragt, kan to"tes afsohet
ener B4st elomeIserne i s I og saalede8 relndee-, hvergan8 I U8er ee
foIobne eter den sidste Af9oninss IJendebr7nSe".
Reskriytmno af "a December 1884, 80 August 1926 og 3
September 1890 S 7 SAINT Pukat is October 1920 l b ophevea
Denna Anordniog tnler Kraft 3 Maonder oter at den har erholit
kongeig StndfastolGe, men kommer kun til Anvendese Pa Bodor, son or
ikeudte efter dens Ihlafth@den.
Hvorefter allie vedkommende sic have at rette.
Guyernementet for de danskvestndisko Der
St. Thomas, den 28de Maj 1915.
Under min Hand og Guvenementets Segl.
BAUMANN.
- f. HG.
IL 81 ---
, 1915-06-16
PASSENGERS.
Christiansted.

June 11th-per schDr. "Donnebrog" from
st. Thomas-lEr. NJ. Merwin, Mr.. A. Oyesen,
Mrs. Cestes and 5 children, Miss ]. Siyert-
sen, Ernest Francis, Charles Lenhardt.
June 12th-per schnr. "D~annebrog" for
ST. Thomas-Osvald Ratcliff, NJ. Olandhlin,
james Smith, ]. Brown, School Director and
Mrs. Rubner-Petersen Sarah James and
daughter, Miss Bunla BIuke, Charles Reed.
, 1915-06-16

When any person who in consequence of sentence, decision Of a
conrt reconciliation before the recontiing court or any other court or
resolution ly any magistrate of State or Municipality has to pay a fine,
either entirely or partly onhs to pay same, the amount which has not
been PAID shall without any precedent attempt at dstaut be expated 10y
The amount Of the fine not exceeding so Francs shall be ezpated by
j days imprisonment for each 5 Francs, the amount exceeding so Francs
amount exceeding 500 Francs up to 5000 Francs by day for each so
Frame, and the amount exceeding 5000 Frames by l dry for ench 100
Francs. the time Of expiration however never exceeding & months
Fines not amounting to 10 Francs shall be eApiated by 2 days ordr
nary imIlsonment while in other cases by expahon Of fines only that
part Of same is considered, which corresponds with full days lmprson-
The above rules shall not be applicable to the ezpnton Of School
fines.
In individual cases, where the fines accrue to the agemeved persons
the latter is at liberty to have them collected from the offender. But
the expauon If the part of these fines, which has not been paid OF re-
covered by daluut, shall otherwise be subject to the same rules IS ia
/, when the obouer Of Judgment applies to Government on that
account.
When anyone has been ordered by sentence or by decision Of a ma
the SAID obligation be fulfilled nor the fine paid, the amount Of such fine
shaU likewise on request of the authorities entitled to demand that ne
rules in $ !, III such e way however, that the expmtion shall for the first
of1ce not exceed 80 days ordinary imprisonment and TINT after the
can TAKE pace, but the full amount of the fine which has accumulated
since the end Of the last expnton may then be demanded expiated &C.
coroing to the rules in s ], aud 50 forth whenever 4 weeks have elapsed
since the end Of the last expHtlon
The rescwpta OF 24h December 1884, 3Wh August 1926 and 3rd
September 1870 7 md also decree Of 18th October 1920 S | b are here
by cancelled.
This Ordinance shall become valid 8 months after having receive
royal sanction, but will be applicable to such 6ues only as have been i'm
posed after its coming into force
To which all concerned have to conform.
Government of the Danish West Indn Islands.
ST. Thomas, the 28th May. 1915
Uudn my Hand and the Seal Of Government
BAUMANN.
acting lice Governor.
JH DKRNER.
, 1915-06-16
Translation.
R0ilnund Baulnann.

acting Iice Governor of tie Doat&A Vest Lndpa Islands,
Knight Of Donne5roG
MAKES KNOWN: On the most submissive represer-
lU tation of the Ministry OF Finances His Majesty the King
was most eraciously pleased by Resolution dated the ~ March
1918 to sanction the following Ordinance concerning the ex-
piation Of Fines ia the Danish West India Islands as passed
by the Colonial Council Of St. Croix by Bird discussion the
2%rd November 1914 and by the Colonial Council OF St.
Thomas AMI ST. Jan by 3d discussion on the 10th December
1914.
, 1915-06-16
Reimund Baulnann,


0OR VITTERLTGT Paa Finansninisteriets derom ned
Ii lagte ltrunderlanigste F%orestillins h"r get beh@Stt
Hans Mai,stpt Kongpn we'd a~llerhojeste Resolution at l2te
71arts 1915 at stadfaste den at kolonialraadet for =. CroIX
we'd 3die Behand]ing den 23' November 1914 og at Kolonjai-
1aadet for st. Thomas % st. Jan yea 5dIe behandlh8 oen
Bo3er pa de dansk v~estndlske Ger;
, 1915-06-16

ORDINANCE
concerning the expiation OF Fines
in the Danish West India Islands.
, 1915-06-16
ANORDNING

I'm Afsonin8 At Boder paa dc
Gansk yestindiske Ger.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
WEEK. OF WAR NEWS

whelming for the Russian force thai
Is defending it. and il seems that
Its fall is almost assured. This IS
one Of the most important positions
in Austria. and probably the only
one that is more important Is era
COW. which is still retained by the
Austrians
There is hull in the fighting
along the western line. and 1t IS
said that both sides seem to be
taking a much-needed rest.
1t is reported in London that the
allies have made important gains
in their fight for the control of the
DardGnelles. but details are not Civ
en-.
ihe Italian parliament has giye1
the cabinet authority to declare war
against Austria, unless the latter
agrees to turn over to Italy much
important territory. including large
portions Of Tyrol. Triest. Pirano and
some islands on the AdriatiC. 1t is
not believed that Austria will grant
these demands, and thus war will
probably result
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
Wednesday

Allied troops are claiming more
victories in today's dispatches from
London. 1t is declared that the al
lies have made more gains in the
User region in Belgium, and that
they successfully repulsed the at
tacks of the Germans in Northern
France.
The report of yesterday from Pet
rograd announcing that the Russians
We're forcing the Teuton5 southwark
in Northern GaliCia, is contradicted
in a report today from Berlin. In
the latter it is stated that the leu
tons are surrounding Przemysl. which
was taken from the Austrians a few
weeks ago by the Russians, and that
already attacks have been started
on the out forts of that place. In
the two days fighting that preceded
the moving of the Teutons across
the San river. 1000 Russians are
reported to have been taken and a
large number killed. The Russians
are reported to have lost a number
OF important positions along the
Nistula river
1t is reported from London that
the allies have succeeded in silenc-
ing the forts on the north side of
the Dardanelles.
The British cabinet is to be re
organized, it is asserted, and this
will be followed by a change in ma
tional policy, according to a state
ment credited to Premier A3quith.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
Monday

What is declared to be great
battle is reported to be developing
in the vicinity of Przemysl. Galicia.
where the TeutonS are said to be
trying to regain ground they lost
some weeks ago by the Austrian
troops to the Russians. The details
of the fight are not given.
Considerable excitement prevails
in Rome today, where the new ltal-
ian cabinet is holding its first SEES
sion. 1t is expected that war will
be declared by the cabinet before
it ends its first days session
Thirty bombs We're dropped at
Ramsgate. England, in the night, but
it is said that no serious harm was
done. Several children were killed
by bombs dropped by an airship tina;
attacked Calais. France.
Officials of the Cunard line, ties
tifying in the investigation concern
ing the sinking of the Lusitana as
sert that the vessel was struck by
more than one bomb.
The Swedish steamship Bjoern,
bound for England with food sup
plies, was captured by German
warship and is being taken to Ham
burg, where the cargo Will be turn
ed over to the German government.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
Friday

Riga. an important shipping point
in Russia on the gulf Of Riga.
which is located on the east side
of the Baltic sea, is reported to
have been captured by the Germans.
The report comes from Copenhagen.
Denmark, but does not originate
from official sources, 1t is explained.
If this be true, it means that the
Germans have advanced northward
from East Prussia very rapidly, and
are now almost one-third of the
distance from Germany to Petrograd,
the Russian capital. This movement
is probably for the purpose of get
ting the Russians to withdraw their
troops from Austria and send them
northward.
French troops have made gains
in Eastern France. and in the VI
cinity of Cernay they are reported
TO have cut the Germans off from
their base Of supplies. In Northern
France and in Belgium there is re-
ported to be no change.
The attack made by the German
and Austrian troops upon the fort:-
fications of Przemysl, in Northern
Galcia. has developed into an iA-
portant battle according to a report
today from Petrograd.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
Tuesday

1t seems from today'5 dispatches
that the tide of battle has turned
in favor Of the Russians in the Pro
vince of Galicia, Austria, where the
Russians are said to be driving the
Teutons from two directions
The German and Austrian troops
recently succeeded in driving the
Russians from the Carpathian mount
aims, northward toward the Russian
frontier. but while this was being
done the Russians mustered their
forces on the East of GaliCia, near
the border of the province of Buko-
wilma. Now it is reported from Pet
rograd that the Russians are driv-
ing the Teutons southwark, from the
vicinity Of Przemysl and also west,
ward from the Russian frontier.
north OF Bukowina
In a dispatch from Paris it is an
nounced that the allies have made
important gains in the vicinity Of
Arras, France.
A London dispatch states that
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
Lane and Senators
Asked to come Here

Franklin X. Lane, Secretary of
the Interior; Senator Wesley l..
Jones of Washington, and Senator
George E. Chamberlain of Oregon
have been formally invited by the
executive board of the Fairbanks
Commercial club to visit this city
this year.
Feeling that the officials probably
would not have time to take the
long trip by way of the upper Yu-
kon river, the club has assured them
that this city will provide an auto
mobile to bring them across the
trail. provided they desire to come
by that route. 1t is hoped to get
them here by the time the crops
are ripe, so that they may see the
agricultural possibilities OF this
country. The invitations were sent
out more than a week ago, but the
fact was not made public until last
Wednesday,
The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-24
SPORTS BY
TELEGRAPH
MANAGER HONORED.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. May IS
All teams in the Pacific Coast league
will stop playing for five minutes 10
morrow, out of respect to the mem
DRY Of Wallace Bray. manager Of
the Venice team who died here a
few days ago. This was Wallace
Brays first year as manager of a
Coast league team. He was very
popular with the Venice fans, even
though his team was not leading.
Bray was not a playing manager.
FIGHTER SUSPENDED.
NEW YORK, May 1S.-Because
of the poor showing he made here
last Wednesday in his bout with
Klaus. Jimmy Clabby has been aus
pended for thirty days by tie state
boxing commission. Clabby had sew
eral bouts booked for the next few
weeks in this state, but will have
to call them off
STROMBOLi WINS RACE.
NEW YORK, May Stromboli
the thoroughbred threeyear-old owned
by August Belmont. carried off the
honors today in the Metropolitan
handicap, the opening event at Bel
mont park Stromboi was listed
seven to ten in the betting Sharp
shooter. the favorite. finished sec
ond. Jockey Turner rode Stromboli
to victory
On the same track last September.
Stromboli ran a mile in 1886 3-5