The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-22
Falling Into Republican Nets.

taking off public attention from the unsurpass-
able monstrosties of their living laws and assist
resolution IN purses. These cut purses Of en-
piro and rale'' run up the expenditures to $1,000,
o?ooooo;., OF course they tried to pass the force
laws, superaddIng to the protected taxes OF
the tariff of 1888, the reciprocity humbug
and the new subsidy and bounty swindle, still
sugar, every dollar from which went straight to
the federal treasury they abolished for the sake
taxes, which, besides taking no less sum from
the peoples pockets for the needs of the peoples
treasury, takes also many times greater sums
from tho peoples pockets, not one dollar of which
goes to the peoples treasury, nor to raise the
workmen's wages, but all goes into the private
cash boxes of a few employers of less than per
cent of our Industrious toiling millions ZAP
plause.)
TO call republican taxation like that unconsti-
tutiona is like calling highway robbery fault OF
conduct and fiat burglary an indecorum
daughter and applause) But seek to make it
clear that to repeal the Mckinley laws, to wipe
them Off the statute books, reViving the lesser
wrongs they supersede, is merely to take the first
step toward living up to our unimpaired authori-
tative constitution and to keep in plain sight OF
the people till next November the republican
crime, the peoples verdict, the need of It's re-
newal. (Appause)l
congress also passed the Sherman silver law, into
which every republican monetary heresy is
crowded, that has kept finance in perpetual
disorder for thirty years, tortured our merchants
with uncertainty and fear, and turned our foreign
commerce, our sales of wheat our sales of cotton,
into daily gamble. 1t revives the most danger
Gus heresy for which the republican party once
packed the bench of the supreme court to get
false judgment upon as constitutional. But that
was the last and final tribute of their political
hypocrisy to legal virtue. (Applause) Never once
since they compelled this supreme court to re-
and put our public law to public shame; never
since then have they cared enough to get fig
leaves for their indecenclcs to pack that court
again. daughter and applause,) And while
Shcrman's silver law is draining off our gold
Europe in steady streams and driving
US headlong to an exclusive silver basis,
not one republican lawyer, not one repub-
lican merchant board of trade, or
chamber of commerce in all the north has raised
against that law demand that we re-
peal it for that constitutional reason, and reviy-
ing less bad law which it superseded.
The Issue for November.
But that would be the first step toward living up
to the constitution, and would keep in plain sight
of the people until next November, the repub-
lican crime the peoples verdict and the peoples
duty to unite in its renewal. Propose to repub-
lican to return to the constitution just where its
violation is most fresh, most tlagrant, and he will
start with genuine surprise. Yet lnhlbltlons OF
criminal codes are not more sacred than the lnhi-
billions in the written constitution of the govern
ment. Restraint upon maletacr0rs, like the re-
straint upon republican congressman, is for the
purpose OF preventing evil There IS no certain
penalty for tho violation OF the constitution az
there is Tor ech violation of the criminal code, to
why the people, still living under an
unchanged constitution, should let tot
Grated Violations become the normal way OF NE,
than there is for making murder, rape and theft
Can0nIcal because hitherto unpreyen.ed 1t ID
idle to expect help from the republican partisans
III our endeavor. They find it profitable to make
laws ''to promote the general welfare" bat for
their particular welfare.
That most stringent limitation written upon the
very preamble OF constitution, they convert
into blanket clause for q cover for every stretch
of lawless license. Permitted to make laws in
order to promote the general welfare, which can
mean nothing else but what is for the welfare Of
ALL they put into it maignity, and breathe in their
own little rascallty permssl0n5 to promote any
b0dy's welfare that can bride an Appropriation
from the peoples taxes, or force his way in gov
eminent partnership with protected monopolics.
That is the way they promote the general well
fare" They promote their own welfare.
But we need no help from republican parttsons
in the next November election if the good people
of the United States will mako alliance with one
another and the democratic party, TO place their
verdict on the wrongdoings of the republican
congress and upon the executive VINO endorsed
them all and made them law. (Applausc) That
is the first and greatest step in the pathway OF
our return to the old democratic faith and trad-
ton. That is tie way to begin living up to our
constitution in full Obedience to its unqualified
supremacy, instead of taking paternal guidance
from the republican revolutionists over cruclfed
constitution.
We need no help from the republican partisans.
1t is enough that we all of us unite to hate these
republican wrongdongs in order to elect con
gross and executive that viii put stop to them.
Repeal their odious laws and restore the country
to peace and prosperity. Applause)
What Defeat Would Mean.
we must never GGDilE Oh Lic ItPuUilC. bub
can truly say that if these enemies Of the renub-
lie who now possess its powers shall escape an
overwhelming defeat next November by our d.
visions, or our failure to unite and conquer, they
will be able with that repreive so to buttress
about their stolen powers, so to fortliy and en-
trench themselves that another generation wiser
ana more self-sacrificng than we, may have to
suffer and take up tho noble effort when mas
failed and dropped from our unworthy hands.
But by unity and concord In our ranks now, we
can surely triumph. Unity viii endow with need
full power the great democratic party, today the
sole efficient instrument Of reform Unity will
enable it to force relief from unjust tarid taxes.
Unity will enable it to call halt to the growth.
and spread of grinding monopoiies. Unity wi!
enable it to restore to the south safe, sufficient
money of our fathers when every dollar was as
good as a gold dollar. (Checrs)
An Appeal to the Farmers.
But to discard co operation with the great dem
ocratic party organized in every state, Old as
the government, incapable to die, ls to blnd the
hand and foot of every farmer or our lang ana
land them over to the cruel mercies OF their
thirty long republican spoilers, from whose
clutches they are now almost finally freed. The
day Of the deliyerance of the farmers of the United
States draws nigh. 1t is set down in the demo-
cratic calendar for the 9Th OF next november, II
then again the farmers themselves SNAIL as they
did in November, 1890, reinforce the democfat1c
marty and empower us to dethrone the endorSer or
every act OF the billion dollar congress, as your
help empowered us to drag down the billion con-
Alone yon can do nothing but defeat all your own
hopes Alone you win hut re-elect the party whose
DOICV OF protected lakes rs uo
ALWAYS plundered the farmers first ana most ana
worst of all. That has been for twenty years the
democratic Indictment of the republican party.
At last you arose with us against the common
spoiler. At last you helped lis drag him down.
And now their president comes to his trial, whose
signature endorsed every act of the billion con-
gress, whose veto now blocks every possible re-
form by the democratic house. Had his official
term expired then, our victory would nave been
as complete as it was overwhelming. But his term
had two years more to run, and, therefore, Two
victories were indispensable to do the work OF one
The last citadel of republican power stands now
at the mercy of our united assault Is TINS me
time to divide our forces? Is this the
time for the army of the Farmers ALI
ance in any state to renounce co-ope-
ration with the democratic hosts of all the
states? Is this the time to divide and separate
and split? Gentlemen, it is madness. once
more to the breach, my friends. All together just
once more. (Applause)
The peoples victory requires but the union OF
all together once again, and then it stands COM
plete.-(cheers)-for then the peoples SER
wants will be empowered as they cannot be until
then, empowered to execute the peoples Will
(Applause) No, gentlemen, we cannot afford a
division next November. Our strength is enough,
but it needs our united strength. Division IS de-
feat. Division in Mississippi IS nothing
else but a vote to prolong republican domination
and renew that partys life But unity now will
destroy the republican partysand sweep 1t OIL Inc
face of the EARTH
1t can never survive a renewal OF the peoples
verdict, pronounced in their great uprising TWO
years ago. The republican party viii 60 where
the federal party went. 1t will Ego where the
will know