People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14

"a Judgment. Take it out of the
State and it is not good. Do you
want a currency that may be good
here to-day, and not be good in South
Carolina? Do you want currency
that is good only at the pleasure Of
the bankers and spectators Not
only that, you have to pay eight per
cent for the privilege of using my
due bill, as banker, by means of
which | will be getting rich out of
what | owe you or the community.
That is what is proposed by offering
you State banks. The men who have
the privilege to pile up colossal
fortune because they owe the COM
munity, and have the privilege of
charging interest on that indebted
ness. Amt it shame that in this
age of material advancement in cleo
tricity and all the arts and sciences,
we should do the crawfsh act in f.
nance, and go back thirty years to
wild cat money? What will be the
effect? The State bankers will get
what is left after the national bank
ershave squeezed you to their content.
The State bankers will get what the
national bankers leave. The ma
tional bankers will be the reapers,
using the State bankers as their hum
bic cleaners in the fields Of the earth,
and the sun will not have gone down
before you will find the Boaz who
hires the reapers making love to the
Ruth who does the cleaning, for their
interest are the same, and their hearts
will be one.
Voices. The Gods truth.
Mr.. Watson. They say we must
have a currency which must stay at
home. In other words, Democratic
imbecility has reached point where
it says they will give you currency
that is so very feeble that it has not
cot the strength to drag its weary
bones across the State line. (Laugh-
ter and applause)EA currency that
the great centers of commerce scorn-
fully refuse to receive, and they are
going to make you take it here at
home just because it is not good
enough to go abroad. Amt that
craftsmanship? 0aughter.) Amt
that brilliant method of dealing
with the vast problems of the day2
Renewed laughter.) Here they are
doing the Lots wife act. 1t is no
Wonderfully are turned into pillars of
salt. (Uproareous laughter.)
We say we do not want any money
kings. We say let the government
do what the national banks have
been doing. Let the sovereign peo-
pie be the sovereign. Let the people
decide what shall be the money, and
how much shall be the issue, taking
the Jeffersonian idea, that money
shall be issued directly to the people
from the Treasury. We say that all
the people cannot get the benefits of
that money unless you recognize the
fact that there are such things as
cotton, wheat, and other staple COM
modities, entitled to recognition, tbat
keep spindles running, an
fatories in operation, and
Now, hqSEs % i - act !! Hefe
ig-.1Cene 80 not know, or care,
whether . + white or black, I know
his story. He starts in and pays
twenty-five d&llars for mule, 1000
pounds Of cotton rent, and two bales
for supplies. By the time he pays for ,
that mule, and the store account, and
the guano, he has not enough money
left to buy bottle of laudanum, and
not enough of cotton to stuff his old
lady's ear.
A voice. How did you find THAI
| out?
Mr.. Watson. I've been through
the mill.
| have been between the pillow
handles as we'll as in office, and be-
fore l would live off the poverty Of
my fellow men [ would go back to
the pillow handles again. (Great ap-
plause.) I want no special favors
under the law. I am willing to take
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court room, or in the field with my
fellow men. (Applause.)
The landlord grows poorer year
by year. Why? Because by the
time that he pays an occasional
shortage for the provisions account,
and pays for repairs and accounts
for washing away Of his land, he has
nothing lef;.
The land gets poorer year by year,
and the landlord has no money
to improve 1.-THE tenant has no
money to improve it. Thousands Of
your Georgia homes are going to de-
cay. I have witnessed it, and it
makes my heart ache with sadness.
It is a bad thing for the landlord in
another respect. He cannot COM
mand labor. Why? Because by
the time he pulls out pencil to
write an order the laborer is mad.
Why? He knows what an order to
the stores means. He knows per-
fectly well that he is at the mercy of
circumstances. He knows that he
cannot get the goods as cheap as for
the cash. He knows that there is