People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-30

VIII not TINS money be good as long
as the government is good? Will
not that money die as soon as the
government dies? (Cheering.)
He says you must not have the
sub treasury because it will help the
landlord and not the tenant; because
it would help the wheat raiser and
would not do anything for the hay
man.
Mr.. Black. did not say that, Mr..
Watson.
Mr.. Watson. That is a legitimate
statement of your position. | did
not pretend to quote you literally.
Oh, my friends, | tell you they have
opened the bars.
Mr.. Black. You are in conclusion.
Mr.. v atson. He says, fellow citi-
zens, that I misunderstood him.
| Well, now, | will, with great pleasure,
let him re-state his position.
Mr.. Black. I did not say that I
opposed it because it would not help
the hay raiser. I said that it was a
piece of class legislation, and that it
did not lend money on hay, while it
did on cotton, corn and wheat.
Mr.. Watson. Now, my friends,
you have heard his own argument
again. Don't you think that objoc-
ton ought to come from hay raiser,
and not from a Central railroad law
year? (Uproarous laughter and ap-
pluus6.) He says that we must not
have money that the land owner can
borrow on his land and use to pay
the laborer with instead of orders.
We must not have a currency that
the cotton raiser can use to pay his
store bills. Why? Because the hay
man can't get some Of it on his hay.
(Renewed laughter.) Why in the
name of God is he in favor of perpet-
ating system by which nobody gets
this benefit but the bondholders
A voice. Tell US about Weaver.
Mr.. Watson. Oh, / know you
would like to get me off this question
but you can not do it.
! One of my friends put it to Mr..
Black that the whisky men got favors
from the Government, and that the
| Democratic party was not proposing
to tear that down. Mr.. Black denies
that. / have got the law in my
hand and referred it to Mr.. Black
and he said that he had read it. /
say that the law reads, that for the
first three years the private owner of
! that whiskey builds his own ware
house and gets loan of ninety cents
on every gallon of whisky at five per
! cent.
(There was some confusion caused
by the moving of the Lincoln county
band wagon at this point, and l
mis- ed a few words of the conclu-
sions)
Why, in the name Of God, can not
the people get money on the same
terms as the whisky men and ma
tional bankers? He says the proper
thing to do is to repeal the laws that
the classes have. Does the Demo-
cratic party, in it's platform, propose
to repeal either Of these laws?
Voices. No, no, no.
Mr.. Watson. No; they make no
promise to repeal those obnoxious
laws but they tell you to stand out
side the door while the feast is going
on. Yet you furnish the feast and
set the table, but you must not ask
for a mouthful Of bread. He says
the Government will never grant
your demands. Who is the Govern
ment?
Voices. That's it, that's it. Cheer
ing.)
Mr.. Watson. He tried to put you
colored people against me by saying
that this Bradwell claim, although it
had been paid once, ought to be
heard again in preference to having
bill reported by which, if enacted
into law, you would have some of
this money that the bondholders
have monopoly of and then let you
have from eight to any per cent they
can squeeze out of you. The man
that has been paid once ought to be
heard in preference to sixty-two
millions Of people.
The other night in Augusta, talk
ing to laboring men, he told them
that they ought not to go with US
because there was not a. plank in our
platform that would do them any
good. All for the farmer.
Voices. He said it. He said it.
I heard him. 1 heard him. (Great
applause.)
Mr.. Watson. Now to- day, in the
country, talking to you farmers, he
says there is nothing in it to benefit
you. daughter and applause.)
Fellow citizens, he says that there
never was time when we had more
money in circulation than to-day.
Look back to 1856 when we had
eight hundred million in circulation
of paper money. He says you shall
not take medicine out of our spoon
because he objects to the doctor.
The body polite is suffering and he
sits at the door and says, suffer on.
The rich manufacturers object; the
railroad mOnOnolists object. Wall