People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-23


acknowledging his allegiance to the
party. An interruption brought him
to Mr.. Watson's record. The speaker
called attention to the fact that the
honor which was about to be thrust
upon himself in his election to con-
gress was unsought. eff have been
put forward by ring, it is one that
goes all over the congressional dis
trict, among all classes. Letters
came from every part of this district
to me, from every part of this state,
urging me to make the fight, from
farmers, mechanics, etc, lawyers,
ministers of the gospel and men and
women, and il was not until after the
earnest solicitation had come to me
that | allowed my name to be used.
And think l will get there, and
with the distinction Of not being at
the head of a column of Augusta
politicians, or any other politicians;
but column composed of the rank
and file of farmers all over this dis
trict, and MERCHANTS and laborers, and
preachers, and white and colored, all
trades and professions, and shades of
color in this tenth congressional dis,
trict of Georgia, carrying that proud
old banner of democracy.
Mr.. wATsoN's REJoINDER.
Mr.. Black says people all over the
the State favor his election. Yes.
Outsiders have had a wonderful in
terest in the Tenth this year. (Laugh-
teri
There was not national banker
or monopolist anywhere who was
not willing to contribute to Doodle
fund to accomplish my defeat.
Cheers. Why? Because I am
making a stralght-out fight on.mono-
poly, and boss rule. Cheers.
Mr.. Black denounces our land
plank.
1t is founded on Jefferson's doc
trine that there should be no land
monopoly, and that all the sons of
men should have fair chance to
own home. Cheers.
We make no war on the private
ownership of land. But we say
land monopoly is as bad as money
monopoly or trade monopoly. Our
laws as people have always been
against monopoly.
Jefferson waged war on the en-
tailed estates ofsVirginia, broke down
the monopoly and threw the lands on
the markets so that each idiyidual
should have fair chance to buy a
home. Isn't that right? Great
cheering.
Hear what Jefferson says. In
letter from Paris in 1789-written
to Mr.. Madison. He writes:
The earth belongs in usufruct to the
living.
Analyze this sentence, and you
will see it means precisely what we
say in our platform. "The land is
the heritage Of all the people,"
Cheers.
Further, he says in the same let
ter:
The earth belongs always to the living
generation. They may manage it, and
what proceeds from it, as they please
during their uSufruct.
Further in the same letter he
says:
The principle that the earth belongs to
the living and not to the dead, is Of very
extensive application and consequences
in every country.
He proceeds to show that it is by
the application Of this principle that
the old Feudal system was ldestroy-
ed as we'll as the monopoly Of lands
in France, held by the State, and by
the aristocratic families.
The trouble with the Democrats
is they do not want Jeffersonian
Democracy. [Cheers.
Mr.. Black said Jefferson's endorse
ment of Government issue Of paper
money extended only to times Of
war. If the principle be sound, why
can't the Government use this power
to relieve distress, whether in peace
or war? Cheers. He says there
is no land monopoly in this country,
yet in the very next breath heA says
that the Democrats recoveretF100,-
100000 acres from the railroads.
Cheers. Why not go forward and
reclaim the balance? Cheers.
He says you'll never get money at
2 per cent. Why not? The ma.
tional banks get it at l per cent, and
the whiskey men get it at 5 per cent.
Why should he boldly tell the far
mers their Government should al
ways discriminate against them.
Cheers.
He says "Raise less cotton I"
Laughter. What we want is
currency system which will give us
a fair price for what we do raise.
Cheers.
He says trust to Providence and
the rains. Laughter. |. We say we
want to destroy this Internal system
which robs us of all we make by the
aid of Providence and the rains.
Great cheering.
He said half a dozen times you
had his sympathy. Laughter. My
God! Are we never to get anything