The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-04-15

can the soldier demand it when he has given
his receipt in fulll
The proposition puts patriotism at q heavy
discount, and places the Union soldier on .
level with the Swiss guard who fights for pay.
J The demand includes every soldier. dead
and living, who served in the army. The
number is two millions eight hundred and
! ifty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty
| two. have been unable to find a table show
ing the difference in greenbacks and gold for
| the year 1861, but beginning with January,
! 1862. and running to May. 1865. / find that
paper currency was constantly worth less
than gold. sometimes a dollar in gold being
worth 81 IS in currency. To make calcula-
ton Of what it will cost to pay demanded
would be an endless undertaking, and can
| only be done as each soldier presents his claim
/ showing time of service. etc.
] Money Required Could Never Be Paid
1t is safe. however, to say that it will cost
! fully much 10 satisfy this demand as it did
to pay the original compensation. Officers
and privates paid alike
! 1t will require sum running into billions
| to meet this demand. Here is another tax to
| be met. pay all these and everything in the
! land will be consumed
have seen ii suggested that the Govern
| ment would be required only to issue its script
| of certificates to be used money without
money basis. To my mind the suggestion is
! absurd and ridiculous.
If that is TO be done it would be but short
time till Confederate money VIII be about as
valuable as United States currency. and we will
| and ought to have no credit at home or
| abroad.
Since the world began 1 suppose such
extravaganza never thought of until de-
/ signing leaders proposed to convert the
Farmers Alliance into political party.
So far 1 have confined my remarks to the
| impolcy and impractcability of the proposed
measures. They involve calls for money that
no nation earth can now or ever could
supply.
Beyond the objections already urged they
are contrary tn the principles and the spirit
of a peoples government They contravene
the Constitution at all points. There is no
power or a semblance of power in the Con-
stitution for such demand
They can be carried out by revolution
alone, total change in our form of govern
ment they only live in centralized or
consolidated government where the will of the
law-mal<ing power is the only Constitution
Democratic Success the Only REM
edy.
1t is admitted the farmers and laborers are
being oppressed and should have relief.
While making the admission. | remind them
that all the expressions of which they do now
or can complain come not from Democratic
rule Since the war the machinery of gov
eminent has been almost continuously in the
hands of the Republican party; by that party
have been enacted all laws and regulations re-
suting in the present cutlery. Not one Of
them be traced Democratic rule or
Democratic action. The Democratic party
has persistently and consistently resisted all
measures that in any way have had tendency
to Cypress the farmer or any other class 1
ask you to recur to the days when Democracy
held the reins and there see that here were
not only no such complaints ms lut that
there cause for them. 7. . nocracy
is the only organization that can n..pc to sue
cessfully resist and put aside the pre- sent and
threatened oppression of the people That
party. in my opinion, is promised success.
With the aid of the farmers and labOrers that
success is certain, and with it will come relief.
Why then these divisions ut the cost of con-
tinued Radical rule and still further oppres-
siOnl
1 repeat 1 know there are good. sound and
true Democrats. members of the Alliance 1
appeal to them TO come out. assert their man
hood, their freedom of thought. of speech. Of
action. and vote as they think, with the De-
mocrscy. The Government was made by the
people, for the people and can he preserved
only by the people resisting I'll measures that
propose to take power from their hands and
vest it in the hands of the few. We must
deal with the law making power so as to make
it understand it is the servant and not the
master of the people.
Every Democrat should strike the Ocala and
st. Louis heresies with ungloyed iron hands
and continue to strike until no vestige re-
mains.
To Young Men.
have a word for young men. Yet little
while and the affairs of government. State
and Federal will devolve upon you. You
uouSt NOW labor 70 r1ravant vO1r IN ari-
tanee coming to you in absolute bankruptcy.
Educate yourselves in the plain and simple
principles of Democracy. in them is found
remedy for every grievance, they have stood
the test of time in peace and in war, they have
been assailed by almost every imaginable ism
and have repealed it.
Democracy is the ruling of the people, and
will live as long determine to be free, do
not be alarmed, but be vigilant when depart
ures are threatened; when invasions are at
tempted no material harm will come if Demo-
Gratis are at their post; they are necessary
sometimes for the health and purity Of the
party to purge it of tricksters and Iop off the
rotten limbs. Young men, be up and doing,
you are now actors in of the most trying
ordeals through which the country has passed
in time of peace. Should the third party
come into control the principles of the Consti-
tuition are not worth the paper upon which
they are written; Democracy is the only hope,
and young Democrats must now make them
selves known and felt. Organize. form your
clubs be wakeful and watchful and all VIII be
well; the victory will be ours
Issues Which Threaten Democracy.
In this discussion have confined myself to
those issues which threaten the defeat Of
Democracy. 1 have attempted to point out the
dangers to the country if countenance is
given TO the radical innovations now sought to
be fOisted upon the party. have endeavored
to remind you of the evils with which the dis
franchisement of 100000 people is frought
/ have called your attention 70 the expert
ence of Tennesseans under the Brownlow
rule of disfranchisement when intelligence
was relegated to the rear and rufianism and
negro rule tied together by loyal league oaths
bore sway. These are the questions now de-
manding the consideration of Democrats.
Matters Of State policy present no issue
now; we need reform in our penal system, in
our tax laws, in coal inspections, etc. The
methods Of such reform to be settled
by the united wisdom and judgment OF
the representatives of the people in e0nven-