People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-07-15

you, ana you squeeze the SOIL, ana
the whole system goes just that way.
Under that power of taxation, linn
ited only by the greed and cupidity
of its directing force, while we had
five millionaires in 1860, to-day we
have over 10000 millionaires in
America. You working people who
hammer the anvil and till the soil,
who stand at the scorching furnace,
think OF the sweat of millions of
yeople whose daily bread comes
from the daily exercise of your
muscles, and all the earnings except
bread ard meat is transferred to the
heads of corporations that got the
consent to live by your own votes.
When you vote for the old parties
You perpetuate the machine that is
grinding you into dust and despair.
We have made since 1860 an aver
age Of 1000 millionaires each year,
and under the same system we have
turned out over 100000 tramps.
Tou hear fellow say, "but that
tramp is of no account, anyhow" |
am willing to meet him half way, but
tell you, the same system that has
turned them out is turning out mil
lions and millions more. <In better
words, I shall turn it this way: The
tramp IS a kind of political body
1ouse; he is in the filthy garments of
bad government, and if you want to
get rid of the louise, wash out the
garment.
GIR. wIBIBERLY'S SPEECH.
A Georgia delegate, Hon. F. D.
Wimberly, Saturday night, bore the
palm, making the opening speech at
the reunion of the Blue and the
Stray, as follows:
lyon will me excuse for using to-
night a little of personal history. 1t
Is not because a presUming or bigoted
man, nor because | would win undue
applause. 1t is because | want to
make good use of it, and because |
believe it will, under the blessing of
Sod, serve this occasion well.
when this war opened | was a
ooy verging on to manhood, attend
ing the University of Virginia, and I
had learned before that time some
little OF the philosophy of history,
and I looked upon that movement as
all wrong. could not hel p but re-
gard it as dangerous to my own loved
section, but as portentious of ruin.
I could not to save my life, see how
the South, weak as she was in COM
parison with the North, having at it's
Back the sentiment of all Christen-
dom, was but entering into destruc-
tive war which could but result in
the exhaustion and utter ruin of our
every Institution and the complete
impoverishment of our people and
the BAD days of reconstruction and
finally the engulfment Of the liberties
Of our broad country, unless God AL
mighty in his goodness and wisdom
would arouse the people to their dan
ger. So when the electric flash came
over the wires announcing at Char
louisville that Georgia had seeded, I
knew that that was the signal for &C
ton on the part of the whole South;
that the die was cast and the Rubi-
con crossed, and in perfect anguish
of soul / bowed down and wept as if
burylng my own mother? [ went to
George Frederick Homes, professor
OF literature at that grand institution,
late at night and said to him: ooh
Professor Holmes! You are the pro-
foundest student of history | ever
saw. These are my fears and this is
my grief. Oh, man of wisdom, if
there be any relief, for Gods sake
give it to my bruised heart Prof.
Holmes bowed in anguish of soul
He wept long before he could speak
Rousing after while, with prophetic
-train be pictured to me war the
worst the world had ever known,
lasting through four years, he said
and ending just as feared. Then
using the word reconstruction he
told what we of the South must suf-
fer, then said gone quarter of cen
fury after the close of that war, un-
less all history is lie, the people OF
the North, as we'll as the people OF
the South, will be completely enslaved
by monopoly
4Fellow- citizens, originally union
man loving this country in all its
broad proportions, about ten days
after that conference with Prof
Holmes, feeling that | had no right
so a conviction, as Georgia had spo
ken, I fastened to Yorktown to lay
my life down willing sacrifice as an
humble private in the service of my
native land. All through those four
years, day by day and night by night,
I smothereds those convictions of a
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