People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-29

Of finance in a republic; the devil in
side of body of saint. Who is
here today who will contend for a
moment that this growing republic Of
ours would today, were the motto,
that glorious motto Of the Farmers
Union that says Equal rights to all
and special privileges to none,' suffer,
if that were carried out. That is the
spirit Of the golden rule, my broth
ers. What is the golden rule? GAS
you would that others should do unto
you, do We even so unto them" That
is the motto of the Alliance. equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" That is the golden rule in a
new setting, and that is all it is in the
world. Nobody wishes to change
upon revolutionary lines. Nobody
wishes to do it hastily, but what this
country needs is that it should be
done upon conservative lines. A
republican system of finance that
shall be in harmony with our republi-
can system of government. Cheers.
And we believe in the use of two
metals, as Washington did, as Madi-
son did, as Franklin, and Monroe,
and Abraham Lincoln did and ev-
erybody did until few purse proud
European capitalists put it into the
minds of few weak minded Ameri-
can statesmen that idea Of inaugural
ing system for the benefit of class
of people who lived by usury and not
by the sweat of their faces. Cheers. I
Now, my friends, "With charity for
all and malice toward none," ALLURE
you and appeal to you, without dis
tinction of party, to investigate these
questions, and to investigate them
honestly, and, for the sake of human
ity, for the sake Of your families, and
for the countless posterity that is to
follow in this country, I ask that you
shall lay aside in this great political
contest in this year Of our Lord 1892,
that you
LAY ASIDE POLITICAL 1DOLATRY
that you shall establish strength !;
that you shall investigate, and hav-
ing found the truth, that you shall
show the world that you have the
courage of your convictions, and that
you will have the courage to go to
the polls and cast your ballot on
honor and not timidity for any man
or woman on the face of the earth.
| ask you to take these matters
into careful account for in my judg-
ment we are nearing a fearful crisis.
The republic today is finder box,
the train is laid by the long operation
of our past laws and aristocratic
financial system that may be ignited
by single spark, aud in a moment
when you little look for it, in an hour
when you think not, this republic
may be hurled into atoms and led to
bloodshed. AS talk to you this af-
ternoon scores of human bodies lie IN
the morgue. in one of the labor cen
ters of this country; veritible bat
tie has been fought, and the recur-
renee of these things should be
dreaded and avoided by all good men
and women, and it is our duty to
bring to bear upon the solution Of
economical questions all the best
heart and best knowledge of this re-
public that we may bring the ship of
state through the stormy pillows
safely to the dock, and honor her a
true ship of state upon which we can
surely embark with our human
freights and destinies and avoid all
the breakers of civil war, and better
than that, avoid the crushing into
hopeless poverty the great mass of
the laboring poor.
God has reserved to himself the
power and the right to punish those
who Cypress the poor, and has said,
'That nation which Expresses the
poor, I will Judge"