The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-16


help to pass the force bill on you 1t has been
bitterly denied, but stand here ready to prove
1t. / have here a proof before me to offer
you that was reported in The Washington
Post, an independent newspaper, at the time
1t wa reported in in, The National Economist
time and it was denied by nobody: These
democrats Of the north and east threatened
the Texas delegation, who waited on them,
| that IL the free silver bill passed, the force
bill would go down on the southern people.
Coquitt's secretary, Mr.. Henry Jones' that
the same threat was made at Chicago. The
northern ana eastern democrats said to the
bill upon our people and we will aid in putting
the force bill upon yours"
! relief that was promised by these democratic
leaders is needed. 1t is Indispensable 10 the
the ths % d IL ey ape
| ern democrats not to pass 1t, l don't care
much whether they are democrats or republi
cans, they are enemies of my. people, whether
they are democrats or republicans.
| Now let me read you this. The attempt has
been made to show that the republicans have
| always killed the free silver, but every time
that free silver has been killed in the last ten
or fifteen years the democrats have killed it.
| And don't you forget that fact. ] want to
| read you what one of the democrats OF this
house said after the defeat of this free silver
claiming the credit of having killed the bill,
| and they wanted to make themselves solid
| with the bankers and commercial interests or
| the east. The democrats are not willing that
| the republicans should have all that credit.
| Mr.. Gessenmeyer said this:
| Mr.. Reed, who took the leadership Of the
republicans in that fight plumeS himself ii that mat
his party has defeated the silver PHI and
would have It go forth TO t tne woT 'te I RE
called at this distance the fact that the senate
| of the fifty first congress had passed a OIL Tor
! the free and unlimited coinage OF silver, ana
! it went to the house and was defeated by the
| democrats IN other words he considered IL
b E91d ts ID it strong
to play to win the favor of the eastern ana
| northern bankers, that he was not wllliiS lor
| so it was with the democratic help that that
measure promised to he white ana black neq
| pie of the south was killed. CA voice, Hurrah
i0 want wa YOU to remember that because if it
can be shown to the Geope that d9af n Srent
| tiaI newspapers, deliberately make pledges TO
! the people which they as deliberately repud,,
| ate | want to know whether or NOT You VIII
| stand by that party or whether you Will stand
! for principle and make your votes Tor your
| houses and homes.
Rural Free Postage and Income Tax.
they tsV"' only took $1o,ooo0O0 Of your
out droo0G f 4G f E% malls to to sf p%l
| them on the office tables of the men in the
cities, and when we 1$ked tnem TO give us us
| the country and soc If it would not work just
as well for us i did for the city people,
! they spurned and denounced Us as dem;l-
| gogues because we wanted some OF your taxes
! expended amongst the people VINO pald tlem'
/ won't dwell on that want TO say this;
| I stood there demanding the income tax. |
| introduced that myself. It referred to the
| committee on ways and means ana never
| heard OF it any more. They would not report
tell you, fellow citizens, we never will have
| free government in this country, we never
| will have an equal taxation until these great
companies, out Of their drafts ana p4ndS are
made to contribute their fair share to
| this country. This great democratic party
was the party of the people, praying Tor the
for the people and would get up in the morn
| ing weeping bitter tears. This great party
never had chance to do anything With their
AS majority they had this bill before them.
| They had the other bills that | haYa desig.
mated before them ! urged the members OF
the committee To report that bill, but they
| simplv said in effect that the tax must con-
| tinue to be raised out Of the poor people, on
their clothing and their household and farm
| ifuplcmentS and the great mi!ltOnaireS must
go untaxed. Don't you think that they have
| had chance enough?
| give your subtrcasury bill; not only did they
| fail to give your income tax bill any con
sideration whatever. They wanted to sho%
| you that they were great corporations and
! YOU were nothing but simple people. You
| stay separated and alone in your shops, fields
aud school houses and in your stores. You
| there to speak your wishes. ON the other
hand, the great corporations had lobbyists
! there; they had agents there; they had at
! torneys there. TO show you the difference in
how the thing works out: This great fair Mt
|
e0d the at republida sag''''h had given
| them n million and half of your money that
they might have big thing of it there that
| the hotels might pay that the railroads might
! pay, that the barrooms might pay. The re,
! publicans were abused about this from one end
! Of the country to the other because they did
it, and properly so. 1t was the
Most Outrageous Glass IegisIation.
1t was a most fragrant violation of Il public
! trust in the disbursement of public funds.
| When the democrats are charged with any
! thing for the people; they had no chance to
| pass the income tax and make these great
! fortunes help you to bear the burdens OF the
! government; they had no chance to pass a
! currency act SO rs to let you have money on
| the produce OF your lands. | want to show
Won This These men didn't have n chance to
! lessen your burdens, but they did have q
/ chance to add two and a half million dollars
/ to the amount of money given by the re.
! not only did bad as the republicans. but they
! went the republicans one million dollars bet
/ ter. The republicans gave them one and It
! half million and the democrats gave them
/ two and half million dollars. They are as
much kin rs my black bat is to yours:
! Now, in the one case they had promised to
! relieve you In the one case they had promised
| to give you free silver they had promised Ia
! tighten your burdens; they had promised to
! reduce your taxation and to give you more
I rewards of your toll and make the farmer more
! contented ut home and more happy. They
/ promised this and yet the leaders of the
! democratic party violated these promises with
| not Il moments hesitation. On the other hand,
/ people and they had pledged themselves to
| you taxpayers net TO give your money to
| Chicago.
Hydraulic Mining.
Ont In California they had method of
mining that they called hydraulic mining.
/ You take Il nozzle uf Il great long pipe and
| play the water against the hill or mountain
| and It washes down to the place to find the
precious metal. The mountain washed down
! into the valleys and covers over the formers
! fields, and bis orchards, and his house, and
| sends him out housela IS and homel SIS upon
| a world that gives him no redress. That has
| DESTROYED $4,000 acres of the best land in
! California. and many n poor man VINO went
| there in the pioneer days and built himself
| a house and planted his orchard, saw this
! earth rise little by little, until there is nothing
! left of his home. That was stopped
! by law. This congress, l am ashamed
| to say it, this congress passed
! n bill TO start hydraulic mining again, and
| from the first to the last line of the bill there
| is not a word to give relief to the land holder
| in California. VINO is driven out Of his home.
! / fought it on the floor OF the house, and some
! time, if | ever go to California; l would not
! be surprised to have some farmer come and
| tell me that he wished / had had the vote to
| have killed the bill, and then he would never
| have lost his home, and his wife and children
! reduced to beggary because they passed that
| bill.
AS to Ahsentaoism.
| A man paid $14 day to work and don't work.
| For weeks and weeks when we We're anxious
! 10 attend to our work and get away, we could
/ nor get The members there to transact the