People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-03
CORRESPONDENCE.
Not Idle, THOUGH Sick.
CANTON, GA, Feb. IA.

ing anu Iell0CL1Ilg' A@fC OOOh AON
to wonder if the mossbacks have ever
asked the Lord to forgive them for
making the ignorant and unlearned
believe that there was soldier pen
sion plank in our platform. Ignor-
ant and unlearned men told me that
they told them that If the Australion
election system was adopted that
men who could not read would not
be allowed to vote. Moses came up
here to Canton and told that the
third party wanted to take the peo-
pies land from them and divide it
out. Sad to say, there were some
men ignorant enough to believe him.
Moses and Atkinson told them it
would forever bankrupt the govern
ment to own the Railroads, They
made the mossbacks believe that
these Railroads would be dead ex-
pense, when these very speakers
knew that the Railroads were ruin
ing the wealth producers of the
country in the way of freights and
fares, and building up for themselves
fortunes untold.
A man who would believe a
speaker when he said Railroads were
not paying institutions has not got
sense enough to cast an intelligent
vote. There very men, Moses and
Atkinson, were then candidates on a
platform that indorsed the little steal
of one hundred million dollars to the
Nicaragua canal swindle. But that
is a movement of plutocracy and
hence meets the appreciation Of these
hewers of wood and drawers of
water.
Nothing short of a united concert
of action on the part of us reformers
is going to prevent that steal from
being contaminated. Think of it!
After having for years sustained the
legalized system OF national bank
robbery; the contraction of our cur
rency; the refunding; the resump-
ton, and the demonstration of sill
yer, l repeat, just think that right on
top of all this rascality, that they
would have the impudence to steal
another one hundred millions! Oh,
isn't it sad to think that such gov
eminent as we once had should come
to this! Our only remedy is to edu-
cate the people, and this devolves
entirely on the Peoples party to do
this. 1t salts the other two parties
for ignorance to predominant. Ig-
norance has been the secret of their
success. Eut, thank God, darkness
is being dispelled under the superior
light flowing out from the reform
movement, and the people are read
ing and thinking fog themselves.
This is what saved our School Fund
one hundred thousand dollars that
Northen and his crew attempted to
finger for the Worlds Fair. Fear of
this movement prevented many
wicked appropriations that would
have been made by the last Legisla-
ture of our State. This Legislature
that was elected by fraud, bribery,
intimidation, repeating and stufing,
mustforever remain a blot on Geor-
gia's fair name. They consumed
well nigh the fifty days in trying
and clearing Judge Gober, and
everybody knew that they determln-
ed to clear him before they went into
the investigation. High schools for
the education of rich mems sons and
daughters, and military encampments
for drilling tops, were objects of
special care of members who had
promised the people retrenchment,
reform and economy. Their econo-
my amounted to taking forty dollars
per annum from the poor war wild
ows. A more unjust measure was
never adopted by men who set them
selves for legislators. The people
had voted for them to have this pit
lance, and farmer legislature had
said it was right
l want to say to my farmer friends
that it is Of the utmost Importance
that you inform yourselves ON all
the issues of the day. Every class
is organized and educating them
selves. We who support the world
have too long submitted ourselves to
the dictation of Others.
I know hundreds of men who toll
from early dawn to dewey eve that
do not know anything at all about
the condition of the government in
which they live. They do not know
that bad and oppressive laws cause all
their financial distress. They do not
know that the class of men that they
generally elect to make laws for
them neither know nor care how to
represent them. They come around
about election time and make them a
speech prepared for the occasion,
and after they have got their vote
and secured the election, they laugh
at their demands. They pay for and
read the subsidized partisan press
without knowing that these papers
make their living by hiring them
selves to Wall street and other wick
ed corporations and combines to mis-
lead and deceive the people.