People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-14

a serpent. We have asked them il
the name Of justice to put us upor
an equal footing before the law v It'll
the banker, the bondholdef, and tbs
whisky maker, and they have replied
In solemn tones that it1oWould be-
unconstitutional. With such treat
ment of our just and reasonable de
mands, in my opinion, there is moth
ing left for The great com1lon people
but to array themselves in ceaseless
warfare upon the existing conditions
as our forefathers did upon the con
ditions of Seventy six, until every
American shall be freeman and nc
usurer will dare demand his pound Of
flesh.
That which our forefathers accom-
plished with the bayonet can be &C
complished by us with the bollot, if
we are but wise enough, to begin in
time and make thepropef use OF the
means of defense yet left US. We
have been taughtabSE one of the old
political parties ttlfssq2a high protective
tariff would bring osp9rity to every
home; the other hass taught us just
the reverse, while It lfas7onIy attempt
ed to reduceffhe t& Efftf .per cent.
II the tariff be tie great robber as
pictured bylls1the Bem8cratic party,
instead of cutting ialdown seven per
cent. every Testigesofgit should be
blotted out forever ! Bnt / have found
the great trouble with this party on
this subject to lie in. the fact that the
controlling elementg6fcthe party be-
ing intereted in these protected in
dustries, arejust as much in favor Of
protection as the Republican, party
itself. There is no p8rceptible diff
ference, SO far as the1record goes on
this subject, between an Eastern
Democrat and an EASTERN Republican.
This sham battle over tariff has been
going on for more than half CEN
fury. The people have been arrayed
on either side, Loyalty, and I might
say blindly, following their leaders
with a devotion unparalleled in po-
liticaI history, while both sides have
been systematically F6bbed by sys-
tem purposely kept i1athe background
and almost entirely ignored as po-
litical issue [ refer to the financial
system which has $50 ruthlessly
snatched away the aoniforts and hap
piness of 50 manyf Of our business
men, and brought absQlation and ruin
to the once happy homes Of SO many
farmers and 3mechapits.
In proof Of the above statement as
regards the BUSINESS men Of the
country, I subnit5bhes following from
Bradstreet's Confnerical Bulletin:
'In 1865 here were $40 failures,
with liabilities ST., 625,000. In
1875, after silver had been demone-
TIED and theacurreney of the coun-
try had been, contracted from $52.01
per capita inea866 to $14.04 in 1875,
there were 7,T40 ! failures, with liza
bilities $202,00Q,GO0, and in 1889
number Of failures IS, PIT, with La
bilities 81, 1896 42."
These continually increasing fail
ures of the business men of the
country is a continual harvest for the
money gamblers Of this country and
Europe. AS proof I submit that
twenty-five years ago the million
aires Of this country could be count
ed on a mans fingers. Now they
are numbered BY t4e thousands.
OF course the . above figures,
coupled with the fact that cotton is
selling at six cents per pound and
wheat at fifty centsdper bushel, are
not very reassuringa to the bushes
men of thee country, and do not
make them content with present
conditions. liam satisfied that when
the BUSINESS men of9the country find
time to investigate the true causes
of the depressed condition Of their
business they WILDE as willing as
we are to lay aside their blind parti-
san zeal and unite with the pro-
ducers OF the coun6ryrin one supreme
effort to rid the country of the causes
that have produced such direful Ell
fects.
Let us now examine into the con-
dition of the farmers and working
people Of the country.
We find from the. census bulletins
of 1890 that there were 100000
recordedaabetween 1880
and 1880 on the homes of the peo-
pie. From statistics already given
out, estimates fairly made show that
from $9,OO0,O00,000to $4,000, 1000
900 yet remain 91baid. This sum
at 8 per cent interest would amount
to $720,000,000 that must be paid
from the products Of labor annual
~ into the golfers 5of the Usurer.
Allowing 5000, 0b8ssbales Of cotton
for an average crop it would take
three entire crops Of cotton to pay
this interest 43sslo2aFeSa 9 How long will
the farmers and basihess men of the
country continue to vote to continue
in power POLITICAL parties that pro-
pose to continue present condi-
tions2 we're cob
John C.q.t9aHiouh said: "Why
compel the people to pay interest on
government, 5cr4ts11if1t through the bank