The advocate., 1891-12-23
WASHINGTON EDITORIAL CORRESPOND
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dsll's bill which increased the tax on cotton
ties, upon tinware and upon iron goods.
Therefore these papers all favor Crisp
we'll knowing that he is in favor of that
peculiar sort of tariff reform which pleases
the protected industries and deludes the
people.
Calvin Brice, the railroad king, is for
Crisp,
Cochran, who is general attorney for
Gould's Missouri Pacific roads, is here
working to keep Hatch's few votes from
going to anybody but Crisp.
These facts will go far to showing your
readers in Georgia why such an ordinary
man as Crisp has developed such strength.
He is backed by the money power, by the
proteCtionists, by the corporations and by
the machine politicians who made of public
life shameful series of trades, triCkeries
and mere salary grabbing"
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST ISSUE OF THE
ATLANTA "PEoPLE's PARTY PAPER"
Let the following thoughtful words be
pondered by earnest citizens:
"The Peoples Party Paper is pleased to
announce that letters will appear in it's col
umns weekly from GeOrgia's great COM
moner, Hon. Thomas E. Watson.
'These letters, it is needless to say, will
be rich, rare and raOey. They will
give inside facts in regard to legislation
something the people are not accustomed
to seeing in the partisan press.
''If you want to see the present Congress
through unsmoked glasses, subscribe for
this paper, and read Tom Watson's letters.
''The grain raiser and the cotton raiser
alike finds it harder with each passing year
to meet his obligations to the merchants,
and year by year the number and amount
of mortgages upon the homes Of the people
increases, and the natural tendency, the in
evitable elimination of all these things is
independent political action on the part of
the wealth producers of the countryside
unifcatiOn of the laboring elements and of
all labor organizations in new and grand
political party pledged to see the universal
motto of the toiling millions, equal JUS
tice to all, special privileges to none" crys-
talized into law and engraven upon the
statute books of the nation.
AS in olden times all roads were said to
lead to Rome, so all past organizations, and
all the efforts of the wealth producers to
better their conditions have led per force and
naturally towards uni6cation for political
action of all the producing interests of the
country, towards heconference of February
% now so near at hand. Whether they REQ.
ognize the fact or not the fate of the toilinR
masses hangs upon the result of that con-
ference. The fate of the republic, of civili-
zStion itself, hangs in the balance, and its
life or death will be determined in the hour
when the representatives of labor declare to
the world whether they will strike for free
dom or remain forever the vassals Of the
money power, the puppets and plsythings
of the old political parties.
Speak, now, ye men and women of the
Alliance, Of the Knights of Labor, of every
labor organization everywhere aloud
and tell the world what you intend to do,
what it is your will that your representa-
tives shall do in that great day.
''If you are afraid of your political bosses,
if you cling to old traditions, if you are not
in harmony with the spirit of progress and
of freedom that is abroad in the land, say
30, and let the brand of your masters, the
plutocrats and monopolists appear upon
your brow, that all men may know you for
a slave and esteem you accordingly.
"If you mean to stand shoulder TO shoul-
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