If Mr. Burleson violates that Congressional
'mandate. HE WILL BEN DEE IIIM SELF
LIABLE TO IMPEACHMENT!
Read “Life and Times of Andrew Jack
son,” by Thos. E. Watson. Beautifully
printed. Illustrated. Paper, $1.00;. cloth,
$1.50. Jeffersonian Pub. Co., Thomson, Ga.
THE JEFFSRSONIAN
Have I Destroyed My Literary
Influence By Refusing to Act
Like a Dead Man?
fANCE upon a time, I sent to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, an advertisement of my
book on “The Roman Catholic Hierarchy,”
and it appeared once in those courageous
columns.
Once only, for the Italian pope’s treason
squad, The Knights of Columbus, sent a com
mittee to the Globe-Democrat, and the paper
crawled. It humbly apologized, and promised
never again to publish that advertisement.
In the September Ist issue of this coura
geous paper, The St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
appears the following:
• Authors, historians and experts in general are
more influential when they occupy a position of
aloofness from the clashes of current opinion than
when they mingle in the fray. During the free
silver campaign of 189 6 one of the most popular
American historians threw himself unreservedly
into the fight for free coinage. He did it at the
permanent sacrifice of his prestige. One of the
greatest historians of France, describing the
events leading up to the revolution and the revo
lution itself, was written by Thomas Watson.
But his activity in Populist politics prevented his
great historic work from winning general recog
nition. It may never overcome the handicap.
