People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-05-27
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

set OF polIIlclans Knowing L1CCle alU
caring less about the needs of the
people, can do when frightened by
threatened revolt of the masses.
In an effort to deceive the people
into believing themselves and their
party the friends of the masses while
at the same time giving satisfactory
proof to the money power of their
intention still to serve it, they have
made themselves ridiculous in the
eyes of all sensible people, and have
succeeded in deceiving no one.
Making a pretense of conceding
to the demands made by the farmers,
they have shown an utter ignorance
of the principles involved in those
demands, and have offered in place
of government issue and loan direct
to the people, the taking off of the
tax on the notes of state banks, thus
adding insult to injury by increasing
the number of persons given especial
privileges" and doing it under pre-
tense of conceding to the rightful
demands of the people.
In thus attempting to deceive the
Alliancemen, they have exposed both
their ignorance and their hypocracy.
Their ignorance of how closely the
farmers have studied this question of
money, and their intentionto use him
as voting machine to keep them
selves in office as in the past.
The politicians deceived themselves
vastly more than they will the peo-
pie in this instance.
They have made themselves be-
lieve that they can continue to de-
ceive the people, but they are mis-
taken.
There is not a militia district in
the state, nor sub-alliance in Geor-
Ola, where the farmers will not take
up that state bank plank and after
Kidding it with argument, put it
under their feet and spit upon it,
The people are determined to have
their tool of exchange, money, at
cost, or as near it as possible, and to
have it direct from the government
without the Intervention of any bank.
Only so can they retain for them
selves the fruits of their own toll
only SO can they protect themselves
in their right to make their domestic
exchanges untaxed of the banks, and
they will resent any effort of the
politicians to fatter them into accept
ing anything less than this as an in
suit to their intelligence and pre-
meditated attempt to continue and
perpetuate the wrongs under which
they suffer.
But the plank declaring for state
banks, is not the only one that con-
ceals poison beneath a coating of
sugar. In fact, the wholes%platform,
taken in connection with the election
of Cleveland delegates. is a master
piece of intended double dealing.
Take for example the plank in
which they declare themselves
Composed to every species of class
legislation"
This sentence is of itself so general
in it's terms as to convey no pledge
of reformation in the control of cor
porations, but lest even this indie
finite reference to the corporations
that are consuming the substance Of
the people should offend the monop=
olsits, the resolution continues with
out so much as pause wherein the
reader may catch his breath, with,
"And government partnership
with private enterprise"
Read these two parts of the SEN
tence together and it is plain when
taken in connection with the declara-
ton in favor of extending the privi-
leges of the National Banks that this
plank of the platform is intended to
give the fullest assurance to the
whole litter of monopolistic wolves
that the party that adopted it could
be depended on not to interfere to
any extent in their exploiting of the
people-that nothing like the sub