The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-07-17

They should remember the English
mans rule for cooking rabbit First
catch your rabbit"
Those who advocate tariff reform, free
coinage Of silver, an increased volume
OF currency, government supervision Of
the means of transportation, the aboli
ton of class distinctions in legislation,
the suppression Of monopolies and trusts,
the suppression of gambling in agri-
cultural products, an income tax to
pay pensions, an honest, clean, econom-
ical administration of the government,
and the policy of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none" belong
with the Democratic party. They are
at war with the Republican party on
every material issue, and they must
know that Republican success would be
the death of their hopos.
They are with the Democratic party
on every material issue, and
in it's success lies thoir only hope Of
relief. The man who docs not know
that either the one or the other of these
parties will elect the next President
does not understand the alphabet of
politics. The so-called Peoples party
had the double misfortune to be a mis-
conception and prematurely born. If
it had any mission except to control the
Republicans of the West who stampeded
last fall, and to prevent them from unit
ing with the Democratic party it does
not appear in its platform, 1t declares
for the Democratic policy on nearly all
the material issues, and adds to it the
subtreasury idea, woman suffrage and
the following significant resolution:
Resolved, That while tho party in
power in 1869 pledged the faith of the
nation to pay debt in coin that had
been contracted on deprecated cur
rency basis and payable in currency
thus adding nearly one billion dollars
to the burdens of the people, which
meant gold for the bondholders and de
preciated currency for the soldier, and
holding that the men who imported
their lives to save the life Of a nation
should have been paid in money as goo(
as that paid to the bondholders, we de
mand the issue of legal tender treasury
notes in sufficient amount to make tn,
pay Of the soldiers equal to par will
coin, or such other legislation as shall
do equal and exact Justice to the Uniol
soldiers Of this country.
These resolutions will not comment
it to our people.
Woman suffrage, under the most favor
able conditions, would not suit our pee
pie, much less under the existing condi
tions. On the latter resolution Their
will be an almost universal sentimen
against it, Granted that the Reput
ican party did rob the people of bill
lion dollars, more or less, and give it t
the bondholders by the act of 1869, tina
IS no reason why this Peoples party, SC
called, should be permitted to rob us o
billion moro and giveit to the soldiers
THE SOUTHERN STATES
are now being drained of between fort
andffty million dollars annually to pa
pensions to these same soldiers.
But the third party advocates say
will not cost the people cent; that tn
resolution provides that they shall
paid by issuing treasury notes. True
would not cost much to print the notes
but it would cost somebody somethin
to issue them. 1t did not cost much t
print Confederate money, built cost til
people who received it something
Such argument is too absurd to requir
an answer.
A very small quantity Of that bran
of reform which would begin by lootin
the treasury to bride soldiers will go
long way with our people, 1t Is passin
strange that this band of hungry patrio
especially charged with the welfare {
the farmers of the United States, di
not adopt resolution to pay the farm
ers the difference between the value
greenbacks and gold for the supple
which they furnished to feed the armit
and the people while the war was goin
on, and after it closed, up to the n
sumption of specie payment in 1871
They might have searched around fl
some tender spot in their hearts towar
their unfortunate brethren OF the Sout
who furnished supplies to the army fC
which, they have never received an.
thing, and. passed resolution to pa
lhem the gold value of the supple
they furnished, but they are evident
not looking South for aid.
Their stock of equal and exact iu
tice" was exhausted on the soldiers wi
are now annually receiving as 81
from the taxpayers $3.50, O0O OO0 abo,
one-tenth of all the money in existen
in the United States. 1t will be we
enough to study the movements of tn
party of great promises and latitude
GUS principles in connection with I'll
Presidential election of 1892 Is it
movement in the interest Of the farmu
or a movement in the interest of IL