People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-02

fools, you have run the thing in the
ground; you have made too much"
An Overproduction of good things!
Too much food, with hunger and
starvation all around us!
Too much cotton, with rags and
nakedness everywhere among the
laboring poorri
When we see abundance and star
walton, oyerproduction and rags
walking hand in hand, we feel con-
vinced that something else is needed
of far more Importance than that
wonderful democratic fve-per- cent
tariff reduction.
Something else, Governor Northen,
is the cause of our depression than
'guano and the mule"
We fear starvation even more than
that wonderful democratic scare
crow, the force bill, kindly lent to
them by their twin brother, the res
publican party, to use to scare the
third party chickens back on the old
roost, where the demo-repubEcan
owls feast nightly. A very good
cracker on the party lash, but it will
never pop loud enough to drown the
voice of an oppressed people crying
aloud for financial relief!
All our just demands have been
repaid with scorn by the old party,
after promises to give us relief if re-
turned to office. Realizing the hope
lesSness of obtaining our demands
by harmless petitions, as little note
of warning to the bosses we sent
thirty-fye members to Congress
pledged to push our demands for re-
form till every congressman was
placed on record on the various
measures. twenty-five of these
members bound themselves to act
with the old party, still trusting the
promises made in the campaign, and
what has the result been? Swal-
lowed down by party who itself is
owned and controlled by the bitter
est enemies of the welfare of the
people, the money kings of Wall
street. This will be the fate of any
further efforts for reform through
the same party.
We demand more circulating me.
dunn and less taxes.
The promises that won the un-
precedented majority of 148 in the
House were distinct and unequivocal.
l. Free coinage of silver. Plain,
straight along free coinage, and not
that miserable tumble of meaning
less words found in the Chicago plat
form, intended to stand for the
genuine article in the South and
West, and. in the East just the re-
verse.
2. Tariff reduction.
3. Opposition to billion dollarism.
Has the democratic House made
good these good democratic princi-
Piles and promises? Let us see.
Speaker Crisp, who, it will be
remembered, was elected over Mills
solely on his professions of undying
love for the white metal, killed the
Bland bill by his little patent back
action Rule committee, consoling
themselves with ooh, we'll, the re-
publican Senate would kill it any
way" But when the Senate passed
the Stewart bill and handed it over,
the same little Benedict Arnold act
was done by ninety odd good demo
Gratis rushing to the leadership of
Tom Reed and his gang. Demo-
Gratis uniting with republicans to
keep from doing the very thing the
promise of which won their offices !
If you want to make an orthodox
democrat faint, just say Free Silver
to him. Before Congress met, the
edict had gone forth to ''pass no free
coinage bill this session." Who was
obeyed, the people or Wall street?
Where is the relief from taxation ?
A few little two by four bills like the
free wool farce, that takes the little
protection from the farmers wool,
but takes particular pains to keep the
tariff on the manufacturers wooden
goods. Wonderful relief
Have they reduced the expenses
of the billion dollar Congress?
Go to the records and see if it does
not show forty-eight million dollars
more spent this session than the same
session of Reeds billion dollar Con-
gress.
Now, our friends, in the light of
all these broken party promises, and
with financial ruin staring us in the
face, have we not acted as brave men
should, scorning to go cap in hand
before our bosses and begging further
for those measures which we had a
right to demand, but choosing rather
to stand by our rights and principles
rather than party?
The farmer, owning only 20 per
cent. of the total wealth, paying 80
per cent. of the taxes. Is this
justice?
The rich mans bonds and stocks
exempt from taxation, while the very
sewing machine of the mechanics
wife, that stitches his rags together,
and the farmers pillow must answer
to the tax gatherer's call. Is that
equal justice to all?