People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12

made to distribute their shares to the
support of the government. Cries of
''that's so true every word of it,"
| This great democratic party which
says that it is the champion of the peo-
Pile; whose leaders say they go
to bed praying for the people and get
up in the morning weeping bitter
tears for the people; this party with
one hundred and forty eight major
ity had that bill and dozen other bills
of like character before them and were
urged and entreated to report the bill,
but they treated us with contempt and
virtually said that the taxes must con-
tinue on the poor people. The farm
ing implements, the household and
kitchen furniture and the great mill
liOnaires. A voice, "that is what they
enough? T"Well, | should smile. u
Not only did they fail to give your sub
treasury and income tax matters any
| consideration, but I want to show you,
in contrast to that, how they treated
a great corporation, the Worlds Fair
Exposition Company.
You are nothing but common,
plain people, standing isolated in your
shops, homes and fields; you are not
organized; you have no representatives
to speak your wishes those that did
speak were laughed at. This great cor
poration had trained lobbyists and
feed attorneys there. I want to
show you how the thing turned
out. There was fair to be held
at Chicago. These lobbyists and attor-
neys were before Congress and before
the committees, and the Republican
Congress gave them one and a-half mil
lion dollars that the hotels might have a
fat thing that the bar-rooms might
have fat thing and the street car com
panies might have fat thing.
Well, these Republicans were de-
nOunced from one end of the country to
the other-and properly so. 1t was a
most outrageous piece Of class legisla-
tion it was q most indefensible lOotiug
of the treasury it was most fragrant
violation Of a public trust
Now, / want to tell you that the
Democrats, who never had a chance
laughter to do anything for the people ;
who had no chance to pass the income
taxC0; to give you q currency by which
your cotton could be held as collat-
eral-a better collateral than whisky :;
these men who did not have a chance to
tighten the burden of yur taxes, did
have chance, and exercised it, to take
two and a half millions of your hard
earned dollars and give it to the Chicago
corporation.
4'bey let only did3as bad 80 th<4 Ban,ab-
licans, ut they went them one million
better The Republicans gave 81, 5O0,-
900 the Democrats gave $2,500,O00. IA
i voice, What kin are they?"l
g4r[sc Z = l~''e - sa>zz- black Ghat is
tS1IJurr7C Loud laugter
Now / want to show you that in one
case they had promised to relieve the
people by tightening the burdens of taxa
55ion; they had promised to give YOU
free silver to make the farmer more
content, the home more happy, to give
you more sunlight and less of cloud :;
yet they violated these promises
On the other hand they promised not
to give this money to the Chicago expo
sitiOn company. Let me read the
pledge here is the promise, page 1862
official report, Gen. Spinola, then a
member Of this House from New York
City, uttered the following:
New York will erect all the buildings for
! the fair including the Government buildings
provided for 10 the bill, as reported by the
! will do all that may be necessary without any
| Government aid OF ahy kind, either in money
! or Government guaranty. Therefore no Gov
eminent help is necessary for the organization
or management of the fair in the city of New
York.
That was one thing said to bring the
fair to New York city. Now, Chicago
had to make similar offer, and here
is what was said by the Hon. William
NJ. Springer, chairman Of the commit
tee on ways and means-therefore the
leader of the House-the man who
had that increase tax bill sent to his
committee and never would report it
back TO the HOUse-the man who had
the sub-treasury and other bills under
his control and would not report
them.
Mr., Lawler said the same thing, and
lone quotation will do for both. Here
it is
Iwant the New York people to come beyond
the Allegheny Mountains once and see what
! we have got in the great West I say that
| Chicago stands ready to make this q success
fuI enterprise. Chicago does not ask dollar
to pear the expenses, but our business men
VIII uDScrIbe, II necessary, S25 600 900 to make
this exhibition what it oughb to be.
There is the pledge on behalf of
/ New York and Chicago that they
would not ask this money, but when
that bill came to a vote Mr.. Spinola
was dead and his colleagues (mOst of
them) from New York voted for this
gift. Mr.. VIM. M. Springer was away
from his seat on sick leave, but his
pair was announced. Mr.. Bryan, of
Nebraska, said if he (Springer) were
present, he would vote for the bill
land [ would vote against it," In
other words, Mr.. Springer, the leader
of the House, voted squarely to give
two and one-half millions of the peo-
pies money to this monopoly after
saying he would not do it, yet would
not report back those bills for the re-
lief OF the people, that they might even
be considered.
Don't you think they needed a
'chance?" [Laughter] Their "chan-
ces" ought to be handed out in a ham,
per basket, and their performances
could be passed around in a desert
spoon. Loud laughter.l Their prom
ises, if reduced to water, would be
enough to float the Great Eastern
steamship; their performances, if re-
duced to snuff, would not be enough
to make little girl sneeze. Pro
longed laughter and cries of "Hurrah
for Tom"
Not only that; they passed a bill
giving $4,000 for the IntercOntinental
Railway Survey away down towards