People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-09
ATLANTA. GA. FRIDAY DECEMBER 8. 1892.

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056,000 That amount was approprl-
Ated and deficiency amounting to $10,-
sos, 621 must be provided for by con-
press. The estimate for the year end
ing June both, 1894, will be 1876, 900, 900.
The commissioner Of pensions believes
that If the present legislation and
methods are maintained and further
additions to the penson laws are not
made the maximum expenditure for
pensions will be reached June 30, 1884,
and viii be at the highest premium.
An Efficient Department.
The president praises the efficiency of
the department of agriculture, and gives
facts and figures why it should be sus-
tanned. He then deals at length with
quarantine inspections and regulations,
and says that a liberal appropriation
should be made to prevent cholera gain
ing a foothold in this country next
spring. He also urges restricted imml-
grafton, especially for the present. He
refers in terms of praise to the work
already done on the Worlds Fair. He
next deals with matters pertaining to
the District of Columbia. He recon-
mends that congress, take some action
for the protection Of railway employees
in coupling and braking of cars. The
civil service commission ask for an In
creased appropriation for needed clerical
assistance, which he thinks should be
given.
Our Treaty Relations.
The president announces that recip-
rocal trade relations have been estab-
lished with Guatemala Salvador, the
German Empire, Great Britain, Mica
raugua. Honduras and Austria-Hung
since his last message to congress, and
in this connection refers to the increase
of trade brought to this country through
section 8 of the tariff bill; placing the
amount at $74, 1894, 525. He renders a
statement showing efforts that have
been made to establish similar close
relations with Canada, which efforts,
SO far, have been unsuccessful.
The closing paragraphs Of his message
are devoted to the election laws and
negro lynchings in the south.
He says:
In mylast annual message Iendeavored
TO invoke serious attention TO the evils OF
an unfair appointments for congress.
cannot close this message without again
calling attention to these grave and
threatening evils. I had hoped that it
was possible to secure a non-partisan in
quiry by means of a commission into evils,
the existence of which is known to all and
that out of this might grow legislation
from which all thought Of PARTISAN adj
vantage should be eliminated and only
the higher thought appear Of maintaining
the freedom and purity Of ballot, and the
equality of the eleCtor, without the guar
anty of which the government could never
have been formed, and without the con-
tinuance of which it cannot continue TO
exist in peace and prosperity.
Tt is time that mutual charges or un-
fairness and fraud between the two great
parties should cease and that the sincerity
of those who profess desire for pure and
honest elections should be brought to the
test of their willingness to free our legts-
latiOn and our election methods from
everything that teDds to impBir the pub
lie confidence in the announced result.
The necessity for an4inquiry and Tor leglS
lation by congress upon this subject is en-
phaszed by the fact ahat the tendency Of
the legislation in SOME states IN recent
years has been in some Important partlcu-
lars carried away from and not toward
free and fair elections and equal appor-
tionment.
1t is now time that we should come to-
gether upon the hig plane of patriotism,
while we devise methods that shall secure
the right of every man qualified by law TO
cast a fee ballot and give TO every such
ballot an equal value in choosing
our public officers and in directing
the pollCy or the government
The FREQUENT lvnchinQ of colored people
accused of crime is without the excuse
which has sometimes been urged by mobs
for the failure to pursue the appointed
methods for punishment of crime that the
accused have an undue influence over
courts and juries; such acts are areproach
to the community where they occur and
80 far as they can be made the subject OF
jurisdiction the strongest representative
legislation is demanded. A public senti-
ment that will sustain the officers of the
law III resisting mobs and in protecting
accused persons in their custody, should
be promoted by every possible means.
The officer who gives his life in the
brave discharge of this duty is worthy of
special honor. No lessons needs to be SO
urgently impressed upon our people as
this, that no worthy end or cause can be
promoted by lawlessness.
This exhibit of the work of the execu-
tive department is submitted to congress
and to the public in the hope that there
will be found in it a due sense of RESPONSE
bility and an earnest purpose to maintain
the national honor and to promote the
happiness and prosperity of all our peO-
pie and this exhibit OF the growth and
prosperity of the country will give us q
level from which to note the increase or
decadence that new legislative policies
may bring to us.
There is no reason why the national in
fluence, power and prosperity should not
observe the same rates of increase that
have characterized the past thirty years.
We carry the great impulse and increase
of these years into the future.
There is no reason why in many lines of
production we should not surpass all
other nations as we have already done in
some there are no near frontiers to our
possible developments
Retrogression would be crime.
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
ExacnfiNa Mansinn