People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-06-17

such securities to appreciate in selling
! value, deluded public being tempted
to buy. And then the cliques sold. Al
result the public had the securities O.
the road when the cliques wrecked it
, and thus were investors stripped o.
their accommodations.
OF course the low rates that wrecked
the railroad made the enterprises along
it, and favored by such cut rates, profit
, able. AS consequence they became
, salable at appreciated values and tbs
cliques were enabled to dispose of them
at good profit and buy up the wreck
ed road with the proceees. Then the
operation was repeated.
And 80 it went on until the wealth Of
the country became centralized in the
hands of a few railroad cliques. They
made the curse that blighted the pros
perity of an otherwise blessed people,
they made the curse that shut off men
from the enjoyment that should have
come with the increased productivenesE
of their labor.
Awakening to this, at last, this PEG
pie resolved to break the curse put
upon them by these cliques AS an
entering wedge they resolved to build
a railroad of their own across the con-
tinent, highway that would serve the
public not the cliques, that would pro
mote the interchange of commodities
and stimulate industry by insuring to
sll men the fruits of their labor. There
was ample labor IN the country and
out of employ to make the cuttings,
build up the filings, grade the roadb
and lay the track there were rolling
mills without employment quite capa-
bic of rolling the rails, there were
mines of iron capable of supplying the
needed iron ore, mines opened and
ready to supply the coal to smelt it.
above all were there idle miners only
too anxious to mine the needed iron
and coal, So too were there mssons
and bricklayers innumerable who were
ready to do the needed work, so there
were bridge builders, locomotive and
car builders, and men ready TO make
all kinds Of track supplies,
Thus within itself the country had
ell the resources to build the road. The
farmers were only too anxious to raise
the food that the men employed in
constructing such road might need,
and they were more than capable OF
producing food in abundance. And SO
could the manufacturers of clothing
easily keep the. men who would be en-
gagged in such work of construction,
fully clothed Such manufacturers
were without work simply because the
men who would thus be given employ
ment were without work or money and
unable TO buy the clothes they needed.
Simply because the workman out of
work was stinting himself and family
in food, simply because be could not
clothe himself and his decently, simply
because the farmer could not find re-
munerative MARI for his products or
the nanufactul Br bis, the product
ire force of the A.try was restricted.
Such was the ca pion when the peo-
pie Of this great Unnamed continent, a
people blessed by nature, cursed by
the greed of man, resolved to build q
railroad across their continent
Then to the government came an
;agent of foreign banking house, and
on behalf of that house, offered to loan
the money, at the rate Of 3 per cent,
needed to build tbs road. But the
wise man whom the people had put at
the head of their government replied :
oyou propose TO import an army
of aliens aud loan us their labor to
grade the road and build the roadbed?"
son, mol" was the reply, that your
own idle people will supply, they will
make the cuttings and the filings,
they win construct the road"
"Whst then do you propose to loan
us, " i1quired the wise man, 1.-THE steel
rails or the bridge structures or the
track supplies or the rolling stock?"
On, no! all that your own people
will supply, they will make the rails,
they the bridges, they the track sup
plies and rolling stock, they will build
the road"
What then viii you doP" queried
the wise man,
"Why, supply the money, to pay the
labor, to buy the rails, the locomotives, "
was the reply,
'Aud that will the people supply for
themselves. was the response For
that they will pay you nothing, They
create tbs road, with wealth OF their
creation it must be built, with their
capital not yours will it be constructed,
To build the road you offer no capital,
YOU offer but the representative OF cap
ital. And if our people must create
and contribute the capital they can
create tho representative OF capital,
the money with which to pav the
labor, to buy the rails, the locomotives,
the cars. Money Is but the mere rep
resentative by which wealth is ex-
changed, by which the product of one
man is exchanged foI the product OF
another, and the people who can Gre
ate the wealth need not borrow the in
struments by which il may be exchan-
ged. Those instruments they can
make for themselves, those instruments
they shall now make. The govern
ment will issue notes each OF which
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