People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

VINO COuDLS L0db III required the
use of Doodle to secure the passage
of laws which thus made one Cur
rency for Bondholders, and another
for the people at large; one currency
for the favored, another for the I'M
favored?
Who believes it was right to lend
to these National Bankers, free of
charge, huge sums of the tax money
of the people to be loaned by the
Bankers at high interest to the very
people whose money it was?
Who believes it was right to pay
these Bankers ffty-odd millions of
dollars of the peoples money in order
to get the privilege of paying Bonds
which were not due
When did the world ever see such
finance as that, before?
No wonder we have about us the
rule of Plutocracy.
GOLDEN CALFIsM.
Money rules-insolently, defantly,
corruptly, ru1nously!
Money is the test of standing, So
cial and political. Money passes
laws, elects candidates, dictates poll
cies. It controls the Press, which at
It's bidding must defend the most in
famous laws.
1t controls politics, for without
campaign Doodle the old party mare
takes the studs and does not go a
step.
1t maintains It's chosen band of
agents and attorneys in every legis-
lature in America; and the United
States Senate, with few honorable
exceptions, is mere group of Cor
poration magnates or attorneys,
whose chief duty it is to preserve
the special privileges of the favored
classes which sent them there.
OLD PARTY METHODS.
How do they maintain these priv
leges which no one defends?
By wise, INSCRIPTIONS manage
ment.
Some of the National Bankers be-
long to one party, some to the other.
Some of the huge Corporations are
Democratic, some Republican. Some
of the Bondholders are of one faith,
some of tie other.
The Campaign fund of the Dem
ocrats comes from their Bankers,
Corporations, favored Bondholders
ETC., etc.
The Campaign fund of the Repub-
ilcans come from similar sources.
Hence, no matter how the election
goes, the favored classes are on top.
Campaign thunder may roll over
their heads pending the canvass; the
lightning of stump eloquence may
blast many tree in the backwoods
as the rampant ''snollygoster" de-
nounces class legislation.
But the Doodle magnates care
nothing for that. The storm is too
far off to hurt. They know perfect
ly well that the law will continue to
be written Just as they want it.
This is precisely the state of things
Mr.. Jefferson warned us against
Would to God, that the party
which pretends to be Jeffersonian,
did not have such mortal aversion
to all of Jefferson's doctrines
Would to God that the Democrat
ic masses would study for themselves
the creed of the founder of their
party, and thus be enabled to see
how far the party bosses, for purely
selfish purposes, have led them from
the old landmarks!
Yes, Jefferson foresaw all these
things, but there is one view of the
case which / trust was spared him.
l hope that his old age, made gloomy
by loss of fortune, and by seeing the
forces of vicious legislation creeping
steadily and treacherously toward
the citadel of the Republic, was not
made unspeakably wretched by the
knowledge that Hamilton's legions
would march to victory under Jeffer-
sons flag
Let us trust that even his keen
eye, scanning the future, caught no
glimpse of the time when the money
kings would bring practical politics
to the perfection of fine art when
they would apply, with a success
never dreamed of before, the adage
of "Divide, and Conquer" When
they would, by boldness and adri-
otness almost incredible, keep their
chosen representatives in control of
the machinery of both political par
ties, and thus have the people divid-
ed, while the Bosses were united.
He had no data upon which he
could base the belief that the time
would ever come when National
Bankers, Monopolists, untaxed Mil
ionaires, and specially privileged
classes, would not only seize posses
sion of the party of Hamilton but
also of the party of Jefferson.
He could not suspect that States
man, calling himself Jeffersonian
Democrat, would act as the partner
of John Sherman in violating the
prinolple of b-metallism, which he
established in 1892, anc in thus strik-
ing down Silver Money which had
served the people nearly one HIM