People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-12
Editorial Comments.

Editorial Comments.
Unlike the messages of Mr.. Cleve-
land, which were artfully constructed
with view to confuse, mislead and
deceive the people, President Nc
Kinley's message is plain, to the point
and not to be misconstrued. His chief
remedy for better times is higher tar
ifs.
When prosperity is brought to a
people by compelling them to pay two
prices for the necessaries and comforts.
of life we may reasonably expect to
see man lift himself to the roof by
his boot straps. The.presidentd declares
against trusts, yet he must know that
a high tariff is the prolific mother Of
trusts. Besides he has already rem
dered hims elf powerless to war against
trusts, by filing his cabinet with
friends of the trusts. He declrres him
self an earnest friend to international
bimetalism, but his gold-bug friends
are too numerous and powerful to per-
nit him bring about genuine bimetal-
ism. He is silent about Cuba but de-
clares that Americans abroad will be
protected. We shall look for a clean
administration, but for no return of
prosperous times. Mr.. Mckinley is
honest and patriotic, but he is no match
for the trusts and monopolies that have
placed him in power. They will con-
troll him or crush him.
Militia officers think the present ap-
preparation of s4OO, 200 by the general
government is altogether too small.
They say that 100000 is about the
decent figure and it is likely that they
will contend for that sum when the
next appropriation is made. AS the
principal use of the National Guard is
to aid the corporations IN beating
down organized labori5 might be we'll
enough to leave their support to said
corporations.
New York women who go to church
and profess to be christians are deco
rating the legs of their pugs and
poodles with bracelets costing from
$3.50 to 5000, while hundreds of children
are suffering from insufficient food
and clothing, within few blocks of
their homes.
Either the laws of Georgia are inef-
fective or there is something radically
wrong in their administration.
Recently Otis Smith was behind the
bars of Fulton county jail, a proved
and self-confessed thief. Friends came
forward and paid up the amount of his
shortage, and he was at once liberated
by the officials who had him arrested
and imprisoned. After he has had
time to get out of the country, the
grand jury meets and indicts him for
his crimes against the law and another
official of the same law is instructed to
hunt him up and put him back in the
same jail from which he had been set
at liberty the previous week. If this
whole business is not a legal farce and
an outrage upon justice, what is it
Lawyer Glenn in speaking of his
client, Flanagan, who is in jail charged
with the murder of two helpless wo-
men, is quoted as saying: have never
suffered client to hang and Flanagan
will prove no exception. Mr.. Glenn is
an able lawyer and it is his duty as
we'll as his privilege to say all that
can be said and do all that can be done
in behalf of his client, but if it is true
as he intimates that criminal who is
able to hire first class lawyer, is in
no danger of suffering the penalty oil
the law, then we should amend our
laws and improve our judicial methods
or we should simplify matters by turn
ing loose without further expense or
trouble every murderer who is able to
pay fine.
If a simple matter of cash places a
criminal beyond the penalty of violated
law, let him pay down the money and
go his way, thereby relieving the peo-
pie of the expense and worry of prose
cutions.
If the hangmans rope is hereafter to
be used only on those who are unable
TO pay lawyers fees, let us know it.
We dislike to believe that poverty in
Georgia, is a greater crime than MUIR
der.
On another page will be found a part
of very salty arraignment of Cleve
land, clipped from the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. The arraignment is not only
severe but it is largely just, yet no
paper in the south did more to elect