People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-12
WHERE WILL 1T END?

OuI HudHCldI system DIluSS us, IL the
man who believes that Governments
just "happened So" and that what
ever things are done by the ruling
powers must be endured because they
can't be helped.
There is nothing so depressing as
the man who talks but does not
think; who repeats a phrase until he
ceases to know its meaning; who al
lows himself to be dominated by q
dogma without stopping to reflect
whether it be sound.
The Eastern farmer who scratches
the soil with a stick just because his
granddaddy did it, ought to come
over to the Chicago Fair just for the
keen joy of meeting some of his
messy brethren on this side; not that
we have any farmers who would con-
slider it a sacrilege to use any other
plow than that which was approved
by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but
because we have so much the same
type of man, whether farmers, law
yers, doctors or merchants-men
who seem to think that their minds
were made to act as waste baskets
to the errors and absurdities of the
past.
But to those who believe that
oman made money" and will con
tinue to make it; who believe that
the people make and modify and
unmake Governments, the situation
is little short of appalling.
Knowing as we all know that GER
tain beginnings and certain ten
denotes lead inevitably to certain re-
suits, we find ourselves, with fear
and trembling, asking, "Where is it
to end?'
What destructive consequences
are creeping toward us, almost un-
suspected by their victims?
In the lair of the near future,
what foul beasts threaten our
progress?
When the Chief Magistrate of all
our magistrates deliberately sets
aside the law of the land in the
payment of silver notes, by refusing
to pay them in anything but gold
when he insolently informs the
American people that Wall street
preference, and the private interests
of his National banker friends, con-
stitute bis law; when he thus, with
imperial disregard of the rights, the
sufferings and the demands of the
producers, turns the lambs over to
the wolves, who can fail to appre
ciate the fact that the instinct of
self preservation should suggest the
inquiry, "Where will it end 2"
When eight million dollars are
taken from the common treasure of
all the people and paid out as
Doodle fund to the sugar-kings of
Louisiana, to keep them quietly
within the ranks of the dear old
Democratic party; when 100000 is.
taken from the same source and
spent on the feastings and dancings
of the naval officers in New York
when sums aggregating, directly and
Indirectly, the enormous total of ten
millions of dollars are ravished from
the taxpayers and given outright to
greedy corporation at Chicago,
how can the citizen, who feels that
his interests are bound up in those
of his country, fail to ask, "Where
will it end?"
When the servants of the Repub-
lie, elected to carry out the wishes
of the people, deliberately break
every campaign pledge they publicly
made; when they fail to do at Wash
ington what they promised to do, but
succeed in doing what they promised
not to do; when they spent more
than a Billion dollars, to emphasize
their displeasure with the Republi-
cans for doing the same thing when
they increased the the Pensioners by
adding all the Army Nurses to the
roll, to prove to. the people that the
pension business had been overdone;
when they subsidized the Richmond
and Danville Railroad to the tune of
$4,000, to make it clear to those
whose eyesight is defective that the
dear old Democratic party is utterly
opposed to subsidies; when they
gave $4,000 (as a starter( to a lobby