People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-16

Some of the Democrats want to
know how Aunt Polly Hayseed feels
since Cleveland is elected and Tom
Watson is defeated in the Tenth.
We feel like the psalmist, David.
We will not fret because of evil
doors, neither be envious of the
workers of iniquity. For we have
been in the fight long enough to
know right from wrong, and have
been on the side of God and truth
for forty years, and have strong
abiding faith in the triumph Of truth,
justice and right.
Right is right since God is God,
And right will surely win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,.
To falter would be sin.
For years and years we have been
active in church work, helping on
the right, helping in Sunday school,
missionary and temperance work,
praying, waiting, longing for the
triumph of right. We watched as
sparrow alone upon the house top.
We saw whisky had our Government
by the throat. Money and whisky
controlled Democrat and Republican
and the combination was sapping the
foundation of our government. How
our hearts leaped for joy when our
Fork Alliance was organized and we
got into the merits Of it, and began
reading Alliance papers and found
out it's objects and aims. We felt
like shouting deliverance has come,
for the Alliance begins in prayer to
God and ends in prayer to God for
help. And when the Peoples party
was organized and endorsed the AL
lance demands, we said amen; if
God is for us who can be against us.
New Y ork, the mistress of these
United States, may sit upon her
scarlet colored beast full of names of
blasphemy against the God of the
Sabbath, against the God of the poor
and oppressed of our land. She
may dictate who shall be our Sena-
tors, Governors and President. She
may make our nation drunk with her
whisky, and make our merchants,
lawyers, doctors, preachers and rich
men do her bidding by voting Dem
ocratic votes when she says vote that
ticket, or Republican when she says
so. She may shoot and ring her
bells over her victories-victory over
truth and justice, over the homeless,
hungry and naked, over the OPP
pressed of our land and country.
But we hear q voice from heaven,
through the Peoples party, saying
Come out of New York, O my poe
pie, that We be not partakers of her
sins. For her sins have reached
unto heaven, and God hath remem-
bered her iniquities.
Now, if the foundations be de-
stroyed, what can the righteous do?
Let the rich grow richer in these
United States, as they have been for
the last twenty-five years, then fare
well to church work in the country,
farewell to Sunday schools, farewell
to missionary societies and temper
ance work in the country.
Why? do you ask.
Because rs per cent Of church or
Christian people are in the country,
and if these heavy taxes and oppres-
sive. unjust laws are to be continued,
the great mass of laborers will be too
poor to keep up the churches, too
poor to pay the preacher to preach
to them. The cities will have to
support preachers and missionaries,
the country will be the mission field.
Let the cities and towns rotten-egg
our reform leaders as much as they
please; let them turn up their noses
at the country people and laboring
people because the majority endorse
the Peoples party platform. But
say unto them wo! wo be unto you
if this reform movement is failure.
But will it be a failure? No, no !
He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear? He that formed the eye, shall
he not see
Cleveland, Northen and Black
have been elected with whisky and
money. Tom Watson has been de-
feated. But onward, oh, We Peoples
party God moves in mysterious
way his wonders to perform; and if
God is on our side, tremble whisky
and money! Tremble, New York
for your days are numbered.
SO will we sing and give praise
unto the Lord forever and ever.
AUNT Polly HAYsEED.
A Word With Hon. Tom Watson.