The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-01
THE PEOPLE SATISFIED
The 1908 Settlement Accept
able to the Masses.
For the CrTrzEx.

For the CITIzEE-
/ have read your several articles about
harmony in the democratic party and
ike the MurfTeesbOrO News, l think
your organ is a little out Of tune At
least i5 seems so, when you play that
/ piece. Your instrument does not give
/ as clear note Is when you play some
/ other pieces.
| If understand your position on the
/ debt settlement, you DO not oppose the
measure Itself, but you merely want
I something that VIII better harmonic
/ the party To save the party IL very
/ good object, but 10 save the state Is 4 Tar
/ higher, and my opinion Is, II you want
| the party saved, the best means would
/ be to make the party Instrumental IL
/ saving the state and that is the only
/ way to save it. Then the party VIII de-
serve success and It viii be sure TO COM
ma1d It There may be opposition for
q time, but it viii al vanish. But if
| the party is the Instrument of running
/ the state, il would not deserve success;
and it would have it but q short time, II
il even gained il temporarily. The
democratic party has made the mistake
several times of fighting for popularity
instead of for principle, and it has as
Invariably seen its folly and regretted
it. Principles are worth lighting for.
They VIII not die. They do not change
with the varying Winds They are en-
during. ''Be sure you are right, then
90 ahead is z motto 100 full Of wisdom
10 eyer die The consequences Will
take care or themselves. 1t is not !
worth while to De concerned so much 4
about them. As far As harmony is con- |
cerned, IL is useless to talk Of harmonic /
ing On any other basis than on the SET !
fIarF1ar1 o trearfr- rua|n fIhn~n a ra ~
more Of the party ana of those outside /
of the party, also, who VIII stand up 4
and fight for that settlement than for I
anything else that has been proposed. !
It is folly TO talk about harmOnizing on I
any other basis when there are not two
papers to-day in the state that can agree
upon any other basis They cannot
harmonic themselves, but are very tar
from it. Besides, the leaders Of the low
tax faction do not wan5 harmony in the
party, nor anywhere with reference TO
this question. All they want Is TO get
the settlement set aside. They want il
all back into chaos again. That is the
condition a which they can thrive.
They have been fighting against har-
mOny for years past. 1t is not strange
that they are desperate now. i settle
ment on any other basis would have
made them equally SO. But the people
are quiet. They are tired of eternal
strife and bitterness. They are not
alarmed at this ninety-nine year bug
bear, az the leaders Of a faction would
have them be. They see and know that
any debt viii be owing niuety-nine
years unless it's paid, and this can be
paid just as easily az if it were ten years
only.
You are correct in another article in
your last paper, when you say that !
those who console themselves with the
idea that 1909 has a meagre following
viii find themselves sadly mistaken. {
There was a very considerable Opposi- /
ton to the measure soon after the legIs- ,
Iature adjourned, but you DO not hear p.
so much now. There was about as
much opposition TO the road law then I
3lsO-they thought it would ruin them /
but who could defeat it now? l dare
Jay very large majority are strongly /
IN favor of il since they have seen its !
workings. So they were told their L
ands would all be cOuGscated 10 pay r
his tax, and we would be sold into sla- :
7eTy, and all that kind of nonsense, and :
ome people believed it. But how does l
nat look in the light of subsequent
acts. Here, nOtw outstanding the Sc
-ere drOutn, when IL would seem that
ltC " 1OaE LDt4l4A4F hOLE4 Slal vs. We
ave not starved, but have paid two Il
axes and paid them more punctually d
han usual, and the collectors say with b
ess trouble than ever before. How are {
re going 20 get around the cloduence Il
hat such facts as these utter? lt Is 2
nipple impossibility. They simply a
verthrow every utterance that has G.
cen made against the tax. They dem "a
,nstrate how false they are, and they II
also how light a burden it a
Till be wnen the rains come in due II
lason and when there is only one tax 9
, pay. The people see these things "
nd they are beginning TO take the
roper view Of them. They are begin
ing 20 see and realize some of the
-uths taught ia an article of yours in
re CITIzEN Of last week, in which you
i've a truthful and hopeful view of the =
esources OF our state. When | read -
nat article 1 did not feel like we were
Il on the ragged edge Of poverty and =
.arvation, and were going to the bad y
18th rail road speed. Nor did 1 think 5;
nat the best way TO get prosperity was Il
, be eternally complaining. But l tr
ave made this article longer than I in D
ended. J. =,