Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-13
The Lawyers Northcn and "silve,
rongue."


ances. Thes' associations are consti-
tuted mainly. we should remember. of
the followers of the Savior, and that
they should adopt. even modestly. the
opinions of our Lord and Master in
reference to these social adventures
who undertake 60 live upon the griefs
and follios of other people, the fact
should neither distress nor enrage
these students OF Blackstone and Chit
ty. Nobody but lawyers, men trained
from their youth up, in arts of sophis-
try and deceit, would have dreamed of
making the world believe that the
country is indebted to the Democracy.
so-called, for the reelection, or for the
first election of Gov. Northen. And vet
the cunning raScals who run the Dem
ocratic machine at Atlanta have forced
the outside world to believe that Gov.
NorthCn's re election was Democratic
deed and victory. Nothing is further
from the truth lie was the great found
cr and leader and exponent of the
I Alliance. He was the best farmer in
Georgia and best schoolmaster, and. of
course never having learned the tricks
and devotion to class that distinguishes
the lawyers. who prey upon society and
live through the Intervention of dread
ful courts that cost US untold millions,
and saddle It's with burdens only out
rivalled by those that the Mckinley
Tariff imposes Gov. Northon, the
staunchest and wisest Allianceman in
Georgia having been reelected aud by
the Alliance, with which the lawyers
were forced to cooperate i'll this behalf,
the rascally Democratic newspapers
and lawyers proclaim it everywhere
that,
NoRTHEN Is THE ELECT OF THE DEMoC-
RACY.'
On the contrary, he is adhered by the
governing class, the Constitutions
gang, who thought, until Northen came,
that they owned the blessed old Com
monwoaith of Georgia. They held lit
tie love feastS for q series of years
in the Constitution Office and parcelIed
ont the offices as they pleased. But
Northen came up, through the Alliance
and bursted up the whole scheme OF
lawyers domination, and Georgia is
redeemed and through the interven-
ton of the Alliance and of Gov. North
en-.
How miaerably the Constitution fail
ed. when not long ago, it sought coop
Grafton with the ingenious Mr. Colquitt
to reconstruct the old lawyers league
Democracy and depose Northen and
Cleveland and set up Gov. Hill as the
candidate for the presidency But We
won't make the big Atlanta paper mis-
cradle by adverting to its lawyers
tricks. 1t is now all right, or pretends
to be. and is booming both Northen
and Cleveland with an righteousness
and grace that would do credit to
Uriah Heep, Dickens model lawyer.
''Woe unto you, ye, lawyers Fol-
ye lade men with burdens grievous to
be borne (McKinley Tariffs and We
yourselves touch not the burden with
one of your fingers. (See Luke 18th
chap, 4Gth verse;.
The Savior was even GenGnciatory OF
the lawyers. Therefore was it said by
Andrew Johnson. that true Democracy
and the religion CT the Savior ran
parallel bat on o0nYorging lines,
upon neither of which has the
Protectionist Constitution ever tray
eled any further than forced by
NOrthen and Cleveland. But the
sharpest, keenest criticism ever
pronounced by the Savior upon this
governing class the ''gowned frater,
nifty, "so-called, was when He demolish-
ed them with the anathema embodied
In an extraordinary speech, so terrible
that modern preachers hardly dare to
read it to their trustful hocks.
"All, therefore, whatsoever they the
lawyers BID you observe, that observe
and do But DO not ye after theil
works For they say and do not. FoI
they bind heavy burdens big fees and
tariffsl and grievous to be borne and
lay them tariffs and taxes on mems
shoulders, but they, themselves, will
ger" \ i
And they do love the uppermost
. rooms at feastS and chief seats in the
| synagogues."
And then the Savior deals blow at
the cunning Constitution and the law
iyers, that would have foored Sulli.
} van the first round if he had not law
yers's check: "And whosoever shall
eXalt himself shall be abased, and he
that shall humble himself shall be ex.
alted.n
The egotism and brazen self-assur-
7 ance of the Constitution is only paral-
cled by that of the SILVER tongued
Orator. s0-called lone of the finest
specimens Of Christ's pets, these law
, yers), that has lifted himself up robed
in vanity, full many a day in this tax
accused commonwealth. We ask this
lawyer for bread. He gives us stones. We
want relief from insufferable burden
so great that the children of farmers
are too poor to we'd and our daughters
are driven to toll, as never before, for
self-support. He goes ''gassing" around
the district, delivering a nice little
speech telling the people how he has
voted on all sorts of dead questions
while we are starved by infamous codes
+ enacted and enforced during his term
, of service. He never mentions these
living issues of the hour. He is law
yer. lie knows how to keep out of hot
water and thrust in the many and the
poor.
Meanwhile, read the Scriptures,
and don't forget to obey the injunc-
tions of our Savior and study the his
tory of the crooked Constitution and
Gov. Northern. ALLIANCEMAN.
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: The election in Georgia went Demo
cratic by over $1,000 majority, Peck,
the Peoples party candidate for Gov
nor, carried only eight out of the 1877