People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-28

Falling prices Of produce and labor
and land, simply mean that the price
of money is going up.
The democrats of 1892 went into
power denouneing the Republicans
for giving you only 100000 each
month, based on silver.
Pledged to give you 100000 per
month (the amount which "free sill
yer" would have furnished) they not
only did not give you the s6,O00,OOo,
but stopped the 100000 per month
which the Republicans were giving
you. What is the result? Five
cents cotton.
You have to take smaller amount
Of money for your cotton because
the Democrats shut off the supply OF
new although they well
knew that the amount of money
already out had been "cornered''
through the manipulation of the
Wall street Gold Kings.
Mr.. Atkinson says "the govern
ment cannot create money" Then
what does the Georgia Platform OF
the Democrats mean when it de-
mands that the amount of circulating
medium be speedily increased" to
meet the requirements of business?
The Georgia Platform of 1892
contains the above demand. The
convention which nominated Mr..
Atkinson endorsed the Platform of
1892.
Mr.. Atkinson probably has not
read the Platform upon which he is
running.
If the government cannot ''create"
money who CAM
And if tie government can only
give the value of dollar to thing
which is already dollar, why make
any money at all?
And, if the government stamp is
worth nothing to coin, why is it
that two silver half dollars always
pass as equal to the silver dollar,
when, as matter of fact, silver
dollar contains 4123 grains while the
two halves contain only 391?
We would like to see some din.
trinsic value" crank or some "parity"
lunatic, try to solve this puzzle upon
q line which tallies with his anti
diluvian idea that the fiat of a great
government amounts to nothing.
Hon. Frank Little, of Sparta, tells
of an honest, but slightly illiterate,
democrat who complained that it
was very difficult to get up an Cen
thuse" among their men this year.
When cotton is fetching five cents,
while jute bagging and sugar and
taxes are climbing up every day, the
article of "enthuse" can only be
found around the house of the man
who holds fat office and rides on a
free pass.
Amid the gathering gloom of
farmers who can't pay and of mer-
chants who Ecan't collect, the only
serene face is that of the Office holder
who rides on a free pass and draws
a fixed salary which grows more val
liable every day.
Our Congressman, Governors, ETC.,
can buy twice as much land, twice
as much produce, and twice as much
merchandise, with the salaries they
now draw, than they could have
bought with those same salaries in
1892.
Consequently your Democratic
office holder bitterly reviles the "Ca-
lamity howler," and rosily paints the
future with the same brush which in
1892 painted rainbow promises for
1898, and which in 1893 colored for
US gaudy illumination Of the flush
times we were going to have in 1894.
Give the artist another "chance."
We really want to see just how
long these salaried humbugs can keep
up the game of eternally painting
pictures on the clouds for the people,
while they pass laws which add to
the purchasing power of every debt
held by the North or East against
the merchants and farmers of the
South and West, and which will as
surely beggar our producers and
bankrupt our merchants as the mex