People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09

Cleveland" | wonder if you will
hurrah for the recommendation OF
Mr.. Cleveland's which I am now
going to call to my friends attention
| say, wonder if he knows that he
IS supporting man who, as late as
1883, said, through his Secretary OF
the Treasury, that all the balance OF
the greenbacks should be burned,
just as all the others had been burned.
and In place of that cheap money of
the people which the bankers could
not corner, that we should have
national bank notes in their place. a.
A voice. That's what he said.
Another voice. He never said it.
Mr.. Watson. | will repeat that
proposition, and I challenge any re-
sponsible intelligent man to refute it.
AS late as 1888, Mr.. Cleveland
said, through his Secretary of the
Treasury, that all the greenbacks
should be burned, and national bank
notes take their place. If that policy
is carried out, if the people are to
be sold out to the money power, they
may as well hold up their hands and
let their masters chain them in eternal
servitude.
A voice. Just like Peek wanted
to chain them.
Mr.. Watson's friends on the stand.
Do not mind that fool.
Mr.. Watson. What do we want
to do? We want to strike down
that moneyed monopoly-that mon
eyed king-in the illustration given
you, that is getting your produce at
half price and robbing you Of half
your labor; we want to unshackle
your limbs and give every free man
fair share of the benefits of the ma
tlonal currency.
"Eho saves his country, saves all
things, and all things saved will bless
him; who let's his country die, let's
all things die, and all things dying
curse him"
Have [ succeeded in this campaign p?
Who are the men who will curse
me?
A voice. 1t won't be the republi-
cans.
Mr.. Watson without needing the
interruption). The national bank
ers, who are robbing the poor white
and black alike, will call down male
dictions on my head. Let them do
it! The monopolists, who are con-
trolling the price of money and the
price of produce, robbing the far
mers, the merchants and the wage
workers all alike, will call down
curses on my head. The million
aires, who pay no taxes on their
princely incomes wrung from a
plundered people, will call down
curses on my head. SO be it. But,
fellow citizens, if I receive the curses
Of these, where will I be blessed ?
In every humble cabin Of every farm
in the State of Georgia.
Cries of, eyes! Yes! God bless
you"
Mr.. Watson (oontinuing). In
every field of industry-where white
and bluck laborers till the land,
W here men work at the bench or on
the highway and are to have "a due
reward for their toil--my name will
be blessed. Where the poor women
of this land, God bless them, humbly
pray for the success Of our prinoi-
pies of ''equal rights to all and spe-
cial privileges to none,'' will my
name be blessed. I will cheerfully
take the blessings of Gods suffering
poor, and the curses of the arrogant
oppressor, and Major Black can have
the blessingS6f the banker and the
monopolist.
The impassioned tone Of the ora
tor, the fierce earnestness with which
he hurled the poisoned chalice from
his lips, and the power which shone
in his face thrilled his audience
into the most perfect silence during
the delivery of the foregoing splen-
did piece of word painting. It was
the lull, however, preceding the
storm. A wild burst of applause
swept over the audience and for the
time being you could not believe,
hardly, that it was so evenly divided.
The bow Of the master played on the
chords of sympathetic hearts, and
even enemies bowed their heads in
silence and admiration-if not ap-
proval.
Mr.. Watson. I find my country,
the beautiful South which I love so
dearly, bound down to a system
which has beggared her people,
stripped her farmers of their birth
rights and rninad her happy homes !;
[ would, if [ could raise the mort
gage from every home; I would, if
[ could, elevate all from the slough
of despond to dry land; | would, if
| could, elevate all to higher scale
in the progress of humanity I
would, if could, break the chain of
financial servitude and cas-: it from
her limbs. Oh, my fellow citizens
My work by the day, my work by
the week, my work by the year, has
been toilfully, cheerfully and faith
fully spent that her people might
understood 4hoco orroo+ o,1oo4;orC -,