And hard indeed would be the heart that, knowing what these people do and bear and suffer, yet would not fashion this prayer to the favored of the republic: “O rulers, lawmakers, soldiers, judges, bankers, merchants, editors, lawyers, doctors, preachers, bondholders! _Be not so unmindful of the toil and misery of those who feed you!_” _Not Parson Brownlow’s Son_ KNOXVILLE, TENN., April 26, 1905. _Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._ DEAR SIR: In your article on “Politics and Economics” in TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE for May, you speak of the salary grab of congressmen as follows: “Tennessee will not be shocked to know that ‘Slippery Jim’ Richardson voted for the grab. She may be shocked to know that Brownlow did the same thing—Brownlow, the _son_ of the famous Parson.” You are entirely mistaken about Walter P. Brownlow, to whom you refer, being a son of the “famous Parson.” Parson Brownlow has only one son living, Colonel John Bell Brownlow, who commanded the regiment in which I was an officer, the Ninth Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers of the Union troops during the Civil War, and who lives in this city and is not a member of Congress now nor has he ever been. Please publish this in full in your issue for June and greatly oblige me. Respectfully, W. R. MURPHY. P.S.—I am a constant reader of your magazine and am enjoying your articles very much; and not only yours, but those of Frederick Upham Adams. Many of the truths which you utter through the medium of your great magazine will prove to be precious seed sown in the rich soil of the national conscience, and the fruitage will be invaluable.—W. R. M. _Mr. President!_ Won’t you _please_ quiet down now and get to business? _Don’t_ you think you can give us a rest on speeches and photographs? _Can’t_ you leave it to the women to do as they think best on the baby question? If you will just sit still a while and attend to your own business, you have no idea how many people will be thankfully appreciative. Why don’t you _concentrate your efforts_ and peg away until you accomplish something? Why start up so much game which you never bag? You said you were going to compel the Cattle Kings to take their barbed wire fences off the public lands—and you haven’t done it. Why don’t you give Colonel John Mosby free rein and let him cut the wire? You said you were going to discipline the Railroads and the Trusts—and you haven’t done it. Why don’t you have your prosecuting officers take out warrants for such men as Armour, the Rockefellers and Rogers? You _know_ they are law-breakers; _deal with them as law-breakers_.