The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-01

But the third party platform makers have not
one word of condemnation for the Ubiquitous
Mckinley bill The word tariff" is not in he
platform. So anxious were they Co set up a
new party that they practically abandoned the
peoples cause of tariff reform rather than Join
the democracy In its heroic fight. viii alliance
men so soon desert the platform made at
OcalaF One OF Its strongest planks was in con-
demnatton OF the tariff.
4. The Democratic party is now. ever has
oeen, and always will be, II true TO its record,
the party of the great body of the common
people, who form the backbone Of the nation.
Those who prefer the classes to the masses
naturally ally themselves with the Republican
party, which has always relied on classism and
sectionalism. No surer means exists of op-
pressing the many for the benefit of the few
than the management of the currency or the
financial policy Of the government.
majority Of the Republican party is openly
opposed to the coinage OF silver on equal terms
with gold. large majority of the Democratic
party Is openly in favor of such coinage of
silver. From which party can the friends of
silver expects the earliest and most substantial
relief, II it is to be had at ALI Georgia's full
democratic vote went for the free coinage bill
In congress, The third party cannot gain any
more votes for silver Ia Georgia All of them
are for 1t now. II these noisy faults-f1nders
really want more votes in congress for free
silver, let them 20 to the missionary fields of
the north and west and seek converts there.
We are already converted here.
But let us not lose our heads on this money
question. IL Ia an intricate subject, q hard
problem TO solve. The people have been unduly
alarmed about II by persistent misrepresenta-
ton or the facts. You have heard il said from
the stump in this district and continual reneti.
ton gave 1t acceptance, that the circulating,
medium OF tue country was still being gradu-
ally contracted and the per capita circulation
made less and less thus increasing the riches of
the creditor and increasing the poverty of the
debtor. These statements are untrue. The
Republican party did contract the currency
soon after the war, but the per capita circula-
tion was greater in 1880 than in 1870 and greater
| in 1890 than in 1880. These are facts that can
not be disproyed. In the light of this now ascer-
tanned truth, what shall we say of those teach
| ers who have imposed upon the people: Their
only excuse is their ignorance and their ignor
auce is almost crime. Men who seek to lead
| the people should first inform themselves upon
such vital questions.
There is another important fact to be con-
sidered in this connection. The average daily
wages of an average mechanic or skilled work
! man, will buy more of the necessaries OF life
| to-day than In any previous period in the his.
| tory OF this country. If his wages are less in
amount than they formerly were, articles of
food and clothing have gone down in greater
proportion. The educated laborers have
steadily gained ground in their contest with
capital, and the end is not yet. They will GER.
tainly carry their just cause on to further
victory, and they can best do this with present
surroundings under the banner of the Demo
cratic party
In these latter days many strange doctrines
have been preached under the name OF Jeffer.
I
deliverance OF that wise statesman and noble
patriot. Hear him in his own words: 1.-THE
| truth is that capital may be produced by indus
| try and accumulated by economy but iugglere
only will propose to create 1t by legerdemain
tricks with money"
| s. The most hopeful optimist will not deny
that our people. especially the southern farm
ers are ia distressing financial condition. But
the cause Of that condition cannot. as some OF
the third party lenders claim, be laid at the
door of the Democratic party They would
make believe that prosperity will follow their
elevation TO power. But not So Poverty is
bad enough. but poverty, intensified by social
upheaval and political corruption, will be far
worse. The success OF the Republican party
means the force bill. 1t Is foreshadowed in theiI
state platforms-some or them adopted within
the last few DAYS.
By reason Of issues growing out OF the war
| the. Republican party has been able to per
petuate itself ia power; and now that those
issues are losing their hold upon the masses Of
the north and west, and the people of the entire
country are turning their attention to the
I proper solution Of our great economic questions
/ OF taxation and finance freed from the preJu
dice of sectional hate, why should democrats
/ why should Georgia farmers, who have borne
/ the heat and burden Of the battle, and beer
1 now desert the ranks of democracy, and turn
/ the tide OF victory again to our ancient foe'
The truth is. one of the immediate causes OF
/ the existing depression among the farmers oil
| Georgia Is the low price of cotton. Truck farms
! dairy farms, grass farms and the like are yield.
! ing fair returns. But cotton at cents means
! poverty. whether the Republican or the Demo
| cratic party is IN power, unless the cost OF pro
! dsction cen be lessened. This low price of cot