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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
free Rural Mail Delivery.

TIE CONSTITUTION S effort TO pefSuaue
the postoffice department to begin the lrce
delivery of mail in the rural districts IS BRING
ing forth results.
In various localities the people have passed
resolutions favoring the proposed sys'eh'
and petitions asking for 1t are being pre-
pared. We have already given many times
over the reasons why our farmers Shouio
have free mail delivery. The government
has no right to saddle them with every bur-
den, and then confine its public conVeh-
fences to the cities. When the farmers are
taxed to death they want to enjoy some OF
the privileges Of their town neighbors. Inc
mail service is not run for profit, but simply
as a convenience. This being the case, II IS
as much the duty of the government 10
make it efficient in the farming regions as
in the cities. In point of fact, there is
stronger reason for favoring the rural ais
tricts. The farmers live some distance from
town, and it costs money, time ana laool'
and the wear and tear of vehicles to go after
their mail. In the city people are all col
lected within short distance OF the post
Office, and it would be an easy matter for them
to go after their mall
Free rural mail delivery has worked salts
factorily for many years in England, and 1t
would work we'll here. 1t would bring our
farmers to the front, keep them in touch
with the outside world, profit them in busl-
ness, aid in the work of general education,
and make people more contented with farm
life than is now the case.
The people must join us in pushing this
movement. The government is inclined to
Weld. but it needs the pressure OF pubic
opinion. Any resolutions or petltltions
dealing with this important matter Tor
warded to TIE CONSTITUTION will be
promptly placed in the hands OF the con-
gressmen representing the petitioners, and
they will be urged to put in their best work
for this much needed extension of the mail
service.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
A Federal Income Tax.

The federal tax on incomes, which
THE CONSTITUTION has advocated for
years, is looming up as popular issue.
1t is very generally demanded by the
people, and some OF the ablest democratic
newspapers, east, west and south, claim
that it is the only just and equitable
system of taxation.
Our present system is an unjust and
is felt disastrously by industrious people
whose visible property is not yet pro-
6uctivc, and who are working to secure
an income in the future. As the tariff
and other taxes are now conducted, the
workingman pays tax on his TIN
bucket, and lie pays another tax every
time he buys medicine, provisions and
clothing for his family. He pays these
taxes to build up the fortunes of few
privileged classes, who are well satisfied
to be taxed on their visible property so
long as their enormous incomes, derived
from speculation, as well as business
and industrial sources, so untaxed.
Now, this is simply an outrage. We
must follow the example of England and
other old countries having more expert
ence in such matters, and tax every in
come large enough to bear it. A grad
uated tax is the most popular system
yet proposed, and there are many strong
reasons in favor of it.
The men with the large incomes-such
men as our $1,000 millionaires and
others who are rapidly becoming million
aires-get more protection than anybody
else from the government, and they
should be made to foot the expenses in
CURED by the government in extending
that protection. Most of the work of
our officials, congress-, the legislatures,
the courts, the army and other branches
of the public service, deals with the
protec.ion of this class of citizens, and
they should pay their pro rata part
for it.
1t will be said that graduated in
come tax would discourage men in push
ing great enterprises that would accumiI-
late wealth for them. Perhaps such
Encouragement is needed. Take one
American citizen, for instance, who Is
known to be worth at least 500, OOO,O oO.
His income is $12, 100000 year. In
less than thirty years from now his es-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
Getting Ready for the Inevitable.

Editor Watterson is an old campaigner,
and he has learned degree OF caution
which the featherheads would do well to
emulate.
The other day The Minneapolis Tribune
playfully remarked:
Mr.. Watterson wishes to be informed by tele-
graph ''collect' when his paper declares for HILL
He may have a bill to pay shortly after the 21st
of june
Editor Watterson's half-prophetic reply is
as follows:
That makes difference. If Mr.. Hill Is the
nominee of the hext national democratic conven-
ton The Courier Journal will support him with
all possible effort and activity. In the meantime,
whilst Mr.. Hill does not represent it's judgment or
its choice, it will say nothing and think nothing
him which it will have to retract.
Spoken like genuine democrat. There
is no swapping, snarling muswump yawp in
that!
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FREE DELIVERY IN THE COUNTRY
Strong Alliance Resolutions of Encourage
ment in The Constitutions work.

S;ropo Alliance Resolutions of Encourage
ment in The Constitutions Work.
Whereas, Through the medium of the free mail
delivery in the rural districts an inteiligent ana
unselfish devotion would be increased tentod III
the building up of a pure citizenship, nothlng
should be overlooked in the aim OF true govern
ment which would elevate men and women to a
higher and nobler manhood and womanhood, ana
that no movement of reformation would be pro-
ductiye of such substantial and satisfactory re-
suits to the country that of having free mail
delivery at their doors daily, as do our favored
CITY citizens. With free mail delivery, farmers
could then patronize the daily papers, and by
reading fresh news and thinking more they would
see greater necessity for supporting home
journals With this boon life in the country would
be more desirable, and the anxious query, how to
keep the children ON the farm would be partially,
if not fully solved.
Therefore be it resolved by Garden Hill Alliance
No. 306 of Georgia.:
l. That the farmers of Georgia, and the whole
country is under lasting obligations to THE AT
LANrA CONSTITUTION for it's manly and timely
advocaton OF free mail delivery for the rural dis
tricts.
q That we earnestly request that our senator
and representative in congress from this state do
use their influence to give the rural districts
free mail delivery as matter of right, and simple
Justice to all citizens of this great country.
g. That copy of these preamble and resolutions
be sent TIE ATLANTA CONSTITUTIONS with the re-
quest that they publish them and that said paper
continue its noble fight for our cause.
Done IN open alliance, at Faceville, Decatur
county, this, the 23d day of January: 1892.
w. Z. MCDANIEL, President.
". j. TAYLOR, Secretary pro TEN.
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tate will possibly be worth eighteen
hundred millions of dollars!
These big fortunes are growing, and
they menace our republic. In few
years there will be in this country
100000 millionaires, whose combined for
tunes will be more than two-thrds of
the entire wealth of the nation. Posi-
bly, all these men will be good and true
citizens scorning to take undue advan-
tage of their wealth in controlling
the government, but human nature is
weak, and history may repeat itself in
the shape of a new plutocracy. The
safer plan is to guard against SO threat
ening danger by taxing incomes of say
$1,000, with graduated increase on
each additional $4,000 that the tax will
be almost prohibitory when mans in
come runs up into many hundreds Of
thousands a year.
Such tax will make it unnecessary to
grind the revenues of the government
out of the poor mans tin bucket, and
lis wife's few pieces of tin crockery. 1t
will strike the men who owe the great
est obligations to the government-the
men who ought to pay, and who are
the best able to pay the bulk of our
taxes.
This is the peoples view of the tax
problem, and it is a very sensible and
just view. The democratic party could
not do a better thing than to make it
practical reality.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

WHEN A MAN talks about Cleveland's avail
ability, just call his attention to these facts:
Cleveland was elected governor by $4,000
majority; Hill for lieutenant governor at the
same time by 10000 majority. Three years
later when he ran for president, that majority
was cut down to about two thousand, and even
that is in doubt to this day. When he ran the
second time for tho presidency he lost the
state to Harrison by 1900 majority, while
Hills majority for governor was 10000. Cleve-
land ran behind his ticket in every election
district in the union,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
GEORGIA POLITICAL NOTES.

The Irwnton World, in an editorial on the best
man for the presidency, says:
.HiN is described as the democrat that never
lost BATTLE He is the best material on the
market for d presidential success in the demo-
cratic ranks. Hill is stem winder, stem setter,
with successful movements. While we admit
that Cleveland is great man, his chances for the
presidency are not as good as those OF one
legged man in a foot race"
The Cedartown Standard, referring to certain
democratic newspapers in the state that have
been attacking Senator Hill, says:
sit strikes us that when the national democratic
convention the 21st of June dominates Senator
David B. Hill president of these United States,
some of our distinguished contemporaries who
are now abusing him so vicously will have a
well manage. They fly the democratic colors, but
to read their villifying attacks on Senator
HILL one would have good reason to think he had
hold of a rabid, radical sheet. Will they follow
theif present bent and go Oven to the radicals IN
June, will they eat croW"
Hon. Martin V. Calvin was in the city Thurs
day. He is q strong Hill man, and believes he
will he the nominee. Mr.. Nj. G. Fulton, another
strong ai!ianceman, and strong supporter Oh llll
was in the city.
culture for Georgia, Is man who goes out among
the people-.thc farming and working paople-of
Georgia very often. Io knows how they stand on
public questions perhaps as well as any man in
Georgia, for he h:s to be in familiar communicI-
ton with them officially continually.
"Mr. Cleveland does not possess that hold on
the people that ~ he once had" Colonel
former prestige by keeping so many republi-
cans in office, and by his opposition to the
popular demand for an expansion of the
currency. Mr.. Cleveland could never lead the
democratic party back into power il he were to be
put out by the democracy. Senator Hill is by
far the stronger man. There is no doubt of it in
the world"
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men voters. Many of them are ripe for revolt,
They will not trSin under Cleveland. Thew
will rally to Hill. Editors and
politicians who wish democratic success
are urgently begged to stop and think. to lninglo
with the masses of the people as I have. If they
will do this they must come to the same concius
sion that Cleveland will split, disintegrtte and
destroy democratic victory in the SOUTH and will,
with this, destroy the power of the democratic
party Hill will unite it and give victory, certain
and permanent. CHATHAM.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
To THE New York mugwumps: Tho word
''bolt" is not synonymous with "boom."
A Timely Investigation.

The proposed legislation in congress
against the sale of options is bringing out
food of interesting testimony before the
house committee on agriculture.
The New York produce exchange has no
tilted the committee that it heartily ap-
| proves the section of the bill against trading
in options, but the exchange protests against
the section prohibiting trading in futures.
1t is argued that business done in futures
moves the products of the country, benefits
the producers, and prevents depression in
the price of products in times of overpro-
duction by enabling capital to take up the
surplus, relying upon events which would
pay it for the risk.
On the other hand, it was said that ille-
Ultimate trading in futures was gambling,
and Mr.. Henry B. Nieland, Of the New
York exchange, admitted that the methods
of ''puts and cals' were gambling, and tha
it would be beneficial to producers if the
bucketshop business should be abandoned.
1t is to be hoped that the house commit
tee will go to the bottom of this important
subject. Let us get at the evils and the
benefits Of this speculative business, and
methods. If it is right to smash the bucket
shops because their methods are equivalent
to gambling, why not spot other gambling
methods in speculation and wipe them out?
One great evil growing out of these forms
of speculation simply needs to be mentioned.
1t is the inducement it offers to capital to
hold aloof from enterprises of slow but
steady growth requiring the use of money
for long periods at a reasonable rate OF IN
terest. The capital congested in our money
centers despises ordinary industry and COM
merce, and prefers system under Which it
can be loaned out on call at such rates as
gambling spectators are willing to pay.
These azard-loving adventures borrow
money on CALL putting up collateral that
can he instantly converted into cash, and
with each upward movement OF interest in the
money market they are squeezed to that eX-
tent by the lenders, while a downward move
ment in no way effects their contracts.
Clearly, it would be a great gain to the
country to eliminate or curtail business
which attracts the money of the country to
Wall street to be utilized in specuations
which produce nothing, build up nothing
and benefit nobody but crowd Of gamesters
who play tricks with values, without regard
to the interests of our millions of toilers and
their humble industries and honest trade.
Let the investigation proceed. No mat
ter if the cry is raised that it is class legis-
lation. When the public good and when
morality demand it, there must be class leg
islation. If class legislation was justifiable
in the case of the gamblers, it will be justit-
able in the case Of these option and illesiti-
mate future dealers if the pending investi-
ga,ion establishes the fact that they are in
furious to public morals and the general
welfare of the people
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ssI2ats!''

The other day kid-glove delegation
of New Workers called on Governor
Flower for the purpose Of discussing "hat
they deemed to be very important
matter They had heard that, owing to
the honest, economical and statesman
like administration of Governor Hill,
considerable sum of money was lying
lille in the treasury of the state. They
approached Governor Flower and sus-
gested the propriety of a five-mllion-dol-
LAT appropriation for the worlds fair.
Governor Flowers reply was brevity it.
self. II was:
"Ratsr'
Brief as this reply was, it served its
purpose. To the ears of the delegation
and to those of the public it conveyed
a volume of meaning. The tone, the
time, the place, the audience all con-
spired to give dignity and eloquence to
what is ordinarily regarded as slang
expression.
1t is a term that can be employed to-
Uay "4Nu -" tiIsef iilc!liliS'- w ASii+ Ih0
mugwumps ankgs Faias ssa.ic tramgs who
have been ding the democratic or
ganization 1s5New York point to the re-
suits oYneir meeting Thursday night, the
3ts may very appropriately cry
c;tsn'
H. party in New York, organized and
!: Il together by the master mind OF
avid Bennett Hil-fresh from the most
Unexpected and far-reaching victories
= over the republican trust and combine
is not likely to surrender its position and
disbanl its organization at the demand
of the mugwumps who never have had
the interests of the democracy at heart,
and who have been for years engaged in
republican dicllers. When the suggestion
is made that these men can make any
headway in their efforts to split the
party, the answer is:
''Rats!'
''Ratsr'
Is it to be supposed that the demo-
Gratis of New York will submit to the
dictation of these mugwums and i'll
eiiicients?
"Ratsn'
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combines enable monopolsts to successfully
reverse the laws of trade and those OF sup
ply and demand.
The farmer bears the burden, and if the
democracy does not attempt to remedy the
oppressive conditions now existing It will be
either blindly mistaken or false to it's mis-
sion.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

DIR. KELLEY, of gold cure fame, writes to
friend 81 have telegraphed you this morning to
use asafetida in pill forn sixteen grains four
times a day. This is much specific for la
grippe as quinine is for ague, and 1t is as inno-
cent as qyinine any other drug having specific
virtue. [ sincerely hope and trust that the neces-
sity for taking it will have passed when this
reaches you but am very anxious, indeed, that
YOU shall be protected III everything i'll which can
advise l do nothing enpirically, and my friends
when they know me as you do, believe in me.
Hence l say to you that since Ia grippe has first
made its appearance have never lost case, nor
even had man go to bed from its effects, though
| have had, as you understand, hundreds of
cases here among patients. know and can safely
say that asafetda is specific for this disease and
an innocent one. wish the physicians all over
the world would recognize this fact. 1t would
save many lives and much suffering" The Chi
cage Tribune advises people to try 1t when they
have the grip. 1t can do no harm, and it may
them
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

EDITOR WATTERsoN says he doesn't intend
to JOIN in the scnsc!ess hue and cry against
David B. Hill Editor Watterson ought to
dish out some of his wisdom to a few demo-
cratic editors in this section. They need it
ha1ly
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

BLAINE Is smart. He knew he couldn't
beat David 3. Hill, and SO retired. MIR. Har-
rison would do we'll to follow suit.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

THE CLEVELAND MEN point with pride to the
result of their early January conventions i'll Penn
syivania. Then, why is February convention in
New York such an abominaton?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

domination of the democratic party in this coun-
try for generation to come
We have given only a brief summary, but
IL weighs q ton.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

THE MUGwUMP fight against the Hill boom
is in;erestin. ard picturesque. So is blind
mans effort to put out a prairie fire with a
peyter syringe,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

THE MUGwUMrs say in New York that Hill is
Tor free silver Then they send the message to
Texas that he is against free silver. But the
mugwumps deceive nobody, either in New York
or in Texas.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.

THE HILL chorus continues to swell, from
Cape Cod to Culfey's Coye-from Tammany to
To N
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

The SOUTH is for Hill because the people
know that he is a tariff reformer and that he
will sign o free coinage bill.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

WHERE ARE the republicans going to get
man able to beat David 3. Hill?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

Ir WAS said that Peter the Great learned to con-
quer by being beaten over and over again. The
democracy cannot afford to train up its candi-
dates in such q disastrous and expensive school
of experience.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

Much OF the pleasant talk about Cleveland
is in the nature of a tribute to man OF the
past. rather than pledge to man of today.