The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-04
TO THE PEOPLE OF COBB.

EDI-ogs Journal In last week JOUR
NAL your Sandy Plains correspondent does
me an injustice, hope not intentionally.
but probably through wrong information.
| In nv speech before the Democratic club
in Gritter district, this correspondent says:
"Mr Barber tore up his play house when
| he said that any man or woman who would
let the Peoples party paper come into
their house was not fit to keep company
with dog
Now, this is total perv srsion and mis-
representation of what l said. Such are
not my sentiments, for | read the Peoples
party paper myself. referred to one pa
per only from which read an article con-
tanning the following language:
And yet the dsilies and weeklies are
doing their best to defeat the reform move
ment, yet they know that women are SELL
ing their bodies to the lustful eye OF men
and their souls to the devil that they NAV
support themselves Men have been driv,
en- TO become thieves, house-brrners and
murderers that they might get and have
money 20 feed themselves. When was
there ever SO many burglars, house burners
and murderers? They are even teaching
the boys to become such to get money"
In commenting on this, said that no
woman who had respect for herself, her
family, her sex and for the laws of God,
would sell her virtue, but would die
for her honor, but governments could not
prevent these, but such characters came
from the rich as we'll as the poor vice be-
ing confined to no particular class, and
therefore we should not charge such evils
to our government. And further more /
have no respect for person who will way
lay any man and murder and rob him of
his hard earnings or burn and rob any
man s house, and such false impressions
should not be left on the minds of the peo>
pie, that the government is to blame, for
any woman selling her virtue, etc., and
that my opinion is the government might
be changed thousand times and yet such
evils would exist. We have a country of
free religion, end no Newspaper should oe
teaching the boys and girls that these PEG.
pie have an excuse to blame the govern
ment for resortiug TO such evils, but to
teach them as the great Webster said, that
the common law of our country is Christian
ity and can never be anything else until it
suffers subversion from the foundation
stone" ard that those characters who
steal, murder, ETC., can blame no one but
themselves. And | further said that no
man who tried to pull down the intelli>
gence OF our people, by such editorials as
that, for political purposes, should not
have the respect of dog, and that any
man who was true to his wife and children
and to his God, ought not let such come
into MS house for his family to read.
Now, that is what said, and | am sorry
that wrong construction has been placed
on my language l was raised in Cobb
county, a poor boy, and in all probability
will die poor and be buried in her soil.
Ny sympathies are with the laboring
classes, and have no desire to reflect on
any one who reads the P. P. Paper, for
there is just as good people as Cobb county
has who read that paper, and some OF
them are my friends, whose houses / visit
and at whose tables have ate. 1t is the
duty of every citizen to promote the hap
piness, unity, harmony and intelligence OF
our country, not by false teachings, but by
the dissemination of truth.
Respectfully.
FOSTER B. BARBER.