The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25


means it, and when he has said
it he stands to it. L am greatly
pleased that the co!ored vote is no longer
unit. l have said repeatedly in public and IN
private have said everywhere that since the
suffrage was conferred on the colored people,
the republican managers seek to make politi-
cal laborers Of the colored race. When they
ceased to be labor bodnsmen, republican leaders
intended they should become political bonds
men. They knew that was impossible in human
nature without bitterness among the whites.
AS have said, the way to acquire your rights
and to secure respect OF all is to cast your
votes rs white men cast theirs, according to
the measure before you. II you will look INTO
the matter you will find that the freedom
which you have enjoyed will be traced to
declaration in which jefferson, the father OF
democracy, wrote the words, Free and equal"
All since has come from the ideas in the dec
laraton of Independence. Slavery has been
called a democratic institution. The truth is
the principle of Jefferson was undermining
and it was bound to grow. Now, say whatever
you think. write whatever you think. There
is liberty for all. If any people moro than
another have reason to be thankful for this
declaration, it is those who have been lately
set free.
81 don't underrate the men who helped. I
know well the uni lust claims that have been
made l know well that it was said it was not
to be a fight for abolition. I know that it was
said that if union could be preserved without
freeing the slave, they would preserve it on
man, said so but also know that when the
idea entered the brain of the radical leaders
that by emancipating the slave and giving
him the suffrage the south might be made
solid radical south, then there was a sudden
and wonderful growth of philanthropy and the
men who but lately had been willing TO see
slavery indefinitely prolonged became earnest
advocates Of abolition. In fact party interest
governed political action, and if it had not
been supposed by the radical leaders that the
nj nO111H hn ma
to take the place of the ancient bond
age you would have heard nothing
OF the republican party having freedislayes.
81 did not intend to make long speech, and
l thank you for your call and your attention,
If you will vote as your judgment dictates,
show that you think and form correct judg-
ment by your deeds, by your votes, by your
speeches and by what you. write. Then you
will enjoy the same consideration as others.
Once more thank you"
The judge spoke with ease, and after a cor
dial hand shake the delegation departed.
Drr. Hill Quits the Demo cratic Party.
Mr.. Walter B. Hill, of Macon, leaves the
democratic party and joins the national pro-
hlbltion party He writes letter in which
the following sentences occur:
To My Fellow Citizens: On question of para
mount Importance, the principles and purposes of
the national democracy are at issue with my deepest
convictions. While greatly regret this 1t leaves
open to Inc but one honorable course-and that is,
at whatever personal sacrifice, to sever my connec
ton with the national party. To remain among its
adherents while repudiatng its platform would be
faithless alike to the party and to myself
The conviction which impels me to this reluctant
course is the sincere belief that the next great step
in the progress ofciviliZaon is the suppression of
the saloon system. The movement called prohibit
ton is movement directed against the public evils
of this system-being at once a business protest
against its public burdens political revolt against
Or11ip IN o,1H al
ment against its propagation OF laWlessness and
vice.
Financially, the reduction of tariff revenue pro-
posed by the Mills bill (Which the national commit
tee declares to be only per cent? sinks into insig
nifcance compared with the immense waste of
resources and the burdens Of direct taxation caused
by the saloon system. Politically, the usurpation
of power by saloon organization, especially in our
cities, is the chief source Of the corruption of stuff
rage, and of corruption in ofce-while the ma
tonal liquor organizations hold the rod of terror
over the trembling heads Of the politicians in both
the great parties From moral point of view the
saloon SYSTEM. Is, by general admission, the
greatest evil in the land and in partnership with
nearly every other evil; while the infinite guilt of
the system is that it does not merely supply de-
mand that might normally exist but that in its
present expansion and by It's ever present solicta-
ton its social allurements, its treating usage its
for the young, it largely creates then multi
plies and intensfes the evils on which it thrives
With these convictions on this question, turn to
the national democracy to see what it has to say
about it. find with reference to the manufacture
of intoxicating liquors that it proposes to derive the
chief revenue of the government from this greatest
national evil and peril; and with reference to the
sale of intoxicating beverages. that it opposes the
suppres ion of the saloon under the false but we'll
understood phrase of opposing 'sumptuery laws"
1t touches the mind with sense of grandeur ap-
preaching the infinite to think of this great nation
of ours, holding in trust the highest hopes of the
human race To bear part in fastening that
glorious consummation when this mighty people
with brain unclOuded and heart unpolluted with
the curse of drink, shall go forward to solve the
grand problems that await it. This l esteem the
highest privilege OF American citizenship, and the
best title which one who loves his fellow men can
acquire to their grateful memory when he has
passed to where beyond these voices there is
peace" WALTER b. HILL.
AGR1CULTURE INTO THE CABINET.
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