People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14
NUMBER 3

journed, and I say here and now
without fear of contradiction from
any man that the session just closed
has spent more money than any
Congress that ever sat in the United
States. I know they say that &c.,
100000 ought to be credited to them
because the Republicans put it on
them. What were the items the
Republicans put on them? Have
they made any effort to remove those
items? Not one of them, and they
every one stand there binding the
people in the future. Then have we
any right to complain of these bur
dens which we did not remove?
Surely not. Forty-eight million dol
lars, which the Democrats say they
ought to have credit for, were put
there by the Republicans for pen
sions. Did the Democrats repeal
them, or pass them over to the next
Congress? They passed them over
to the next, and the next Congress
has the same right to say that we
passed the burden over to them.
What else ? The sugar bounty of
$10,000,000. What is the sugar
bounty? A tax of two cents levied
on the cotton laborers, on the wheat
raisers, on the corn raisers, and on
the laborers of the country and put
into the pockets of the men who
raise the sugar. What does he do
to get it? He simply makes sugar
as you make cotton. Who are the
sugar planters ? The millionaires of
the Louisiana and Texas valleys and
the Florida Everglades. Are you
going to indorse by your silence this
fraud and pay ten millions of dollars
just in order that the others may
have encouragement to make sugar ?
Now, amt that a sweet thing?
A voice. We all get the price off
we all eat sugar. It's very cheap.
Mr.. Watson. Well, how does
anybody get the price off by eating
it )? If sugar is cheap it is for the
lack OF something to buy 1t with.
Do you not know, my friend, that
you would get 1t for two cents less
but for this tax? In other words,
the man who raises it would get two
cents less of your money. Then, if
it is cheap would it not be two cents
cheaper daughter and applause.)
Any one who wants to see it can see
it, but we have class of people in
the country who make up their
minds not to see anything. Iaugh-
ter And it takes that kind Of
man to make real old genuine moss
back Democrat. (ReneWed laugh
ter
What else do the Democrats say
that they should charge the Republi-
cans with Why, the appropriation
for the Chicago fair. Because the
last Republican session of Congress
passed a bill and gave the managers
a million and a half, they say they
are warranted and excused for giving
two millions and half. Did not
they have as coed chance to give
it to you as to the managers Of the
Chicago fair ? Did not they have
as good chance to work for you as
for the Louisiana sugar raisers +?
When they say they had no chance,
ask them what chance they had to
give your tax money to the Chicago
fair. Ask them what chance they
had to tax you two cents on every
pound Of sugar for the benefit of the
sugar raisers. Why can not you
treat us as fairly as you did the 9TH
ers-no fairer, but just as fairly
That is not all. We passed the
river and harbor bill of $21, 100000.
We entered into a contract to the
extent Of $31,OO0,00O more, there
fore that ought to be charged up
against US to rebut the $79,000,000
which they say the Republicans put
on us.
Then there were 100000 for a
war ship which was ordered and not
paid for. Add up all these items
and you will see that the $79,000,000
is unbalanced by these enormous
sums Of money which will have to
go on the next Congress. Therefore,
| say that this Congress, pledged to
economy, did not economic. Where
is the Democrat who can success
fully deny it f?
Voices. It is a plain case; they
can not do it.
Mr.. Watson. Let us discuss the
currency again. have shown that
the Democrats struck down free
silver as well as the Republicans.
Let us consider in the light Of reason.
I appeal to your judgment, not to
your prejudice or passions. | appeal
to sound logic and facts that can not
be disputed. Some people think
that money was born mysteriously,
or born Of God that it happened so
at some time by some miraculous
power. There never was a greater
mistake. Just as the wagon was
made as better way to carry cotton
than in hampers, so money was made
for the purpose ST exchanging one
commodity for another. You may
say that God made this wagon. He
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