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THEY GET THERE JUST THE SAME. BY B. J., WOOTAN, GA. 1 Good Noah, working at the ark, Was put to open shame; There were parties laughed and hooted him. But he got there all the same! CHORUS. Get there! Get there, boys! Get there! Let principles be your aim! No matter what is said, just keep a level head, And we’ll get there all the same! 2 Our fathers brave in seventy-six, Our freedom did proclaim : King George pronounced them Rebel cranks, But they got there all the same! CHORUS. 3 When Watson led the people out, They marched thro’ flood and flame; Old Livingston tried to turn them back, But they got there all the same! CHORUS. 4 The old parties call us people cranks, And we accept the name. A crank is what you run things with. And it gets there all the same! HOW THEY DO IT. The System by Which the Gold Specu lators Enriched Themselves. . Senator Beck, in a speech deliv ered in the United States Senate, January 12, 1874, stated that the bondholders had made, since the first bonds were issed up to 1869, at which time the bonds were made payable in coin, ONE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS profit. The senator proved his state ment as follows: In 1862 the government sold 6 per cent. 5-20 bonds to the value of $60,982,450 for which we received, however, only $44,030,640 in gold. That is, the greenbacks which we re ceived for the bonds and which were destroyed, were only worth that much in gold. Here was a clear profit of $16,951,801 in favor of the bond buyer in the first transaction. Besides, the bondholder has received also in interest from 1862 to 1874, $11,187,188 on his bonds, which, added to his first profit, makes his total profit up to that day on the first deal $28,139,889. A clean steal, for which they did not gikc in return one cent. Who had to pay this? Why, of course, the farmer and producer. In 1863 the government sold bonds again to the amount of $160,987,550, for which bonds it again received greenbacks. At that time gold was worth $1.58 in greenbacks. It will be seen now that the bondholders paid only $101,890,854 in gold for them, which gave them a net profit of $59,096,696, adding the interest for 10 years, which amounts to $35,- 458,017, we have a clear steal of $94,555,713 out of the pockets of the people, for which they never re ceived one cent of value or labor. In 1864 the government sold bonds to the value of $381,292,250, received, however, therefore again depreciated paper, which at that time was worth very little. One dol lar in gold then would buy $2.01 in greenbacks. These bonds brought the government only $189,697,636 in gold, less than one-half their nominal value. The speculators made a profit of $191,594,614. Now comes also the interest on these bonds which the dear public paid, amounting to $114,956,768 in 10 years. In the year 1864 the robbers took fiom us, without our consent, $306,551,382. In 1865 the gouernment sold bonds to the amount of $279,746,- 150, it received therefor, however, only $208,213,090. The robbers re tained for themselves $71,532,060. The interest on these bonds amount ed to $38,627,307. Or they received a total net profit of $110,159,367. How do you like it? In* 1866 the government sold bonds to the value of $124,914,400, for which we received $88,591,7»3 in coin. Or the speculators made a profit of $36,332,627; add to this the interest for 8 years, "which amounts to $17,434,556, and we find that they made a total of $53,757,- 182 out of us. In 1867 the government sold bonds valued at $421,469,550. The purchasers paid, however, only $303,- 805,503, therefore giving them a profit of 118,254,047; add to this the interest for 7 years, which is $49,661,694, and that year they took from us $167,915,741, which you and I have had to pay these patriots (?) since. In 1868 the government sold bonds to the value of $425,443,800, for which it received $312,626,326. Clearing a profit for the speculators of $112,617,497 ; add to this the in terest for 6 years, $40,542,288, and you were swindled out of $153,159,- 765 that year. Besides these 5 per cent, bonds the government also sold 6 per cent, bonds during that time amounting to $195,139,550, for which it received only $122,957,410. A profit for the money sharks of $72,182,140; add to this the interest paid them, $26,- 115,724, and they have made a clean profit on these bonds of $98,298,864. The following table of profits or stealings from the American people, without a dollar of equivalent hav ing been given, therefore will explain itself: NET PROFITS ISbt. $ 28,138,989 1873 94,555,713 1864 306,551,582 1865 110,159,367 1866 53,757,183 1867 167.915,741 1868 153,159,765 6 per cent, bonds 98,298,864 Total $1,021,537,204 Now permit me to show you from the United States treasurer’s report of 1891 what you have paid in in terest on the bonded debt since 1862 up to 1891, inclusive : 1862 $ 13,190,324 1863 24,729,847 1864 53,685,422 1865 77,397,712 1866 133,067,742 1867 143,781,592 1868 140,424,046 1869 130,694,243 1870 129,235,498 1871 125,576,566 1872 117,357,840 1873 104,750,688 1874 107,119,815 1875 103,093,545 1876 100,243.271 1877 97,124,512 1878 102,500,875 1879 105,327,949 1880 95,757,595 1881 82,505,741 1882 ■ 71,077,207 L<B3 ** 59,160,131 1884 54,578,3 7 8 1885 51,386,256 1886 50,580,146 1887 47,741,577 1888 44,715,007 1889 41,001,484 1890 36,099,284 1891 37,547,136 Total $ 2,481,454,408 You have paid this amount of in terest to the bondholders, besides a clear profit of $678,561,482, or a total of $3,160,015,890. How do you like the system ? Now notice another thing. The Avar closed in 1865 and peace was restored, yet our interest kept going up right along from $77,397,712 in 1865 to $143,781,591 in 1867, and it did not come down below the war figure until 1881. Wnat caused the debts and interest ? The war ? Do you not see that your money was taken from you and destroyed and a debt put in its place? Are you blind, or won’t you see and learn anything ? Now permit me call your atten tion to another great swindle. In 1865 "when the way closed the entire bonded debt of* the govern ment was as per treasurer’s report of that year, $2,680,647,869. In 1866 it had run up to $2,773,236,- 173.69, and it did not come down below the amount of 1865 until 1870, when it was still $2,480,672,- 427.04. We yet owe $1,552,140,- 204.73. But now permit me to show you another swindle that I w T ant some one to solve if he can. In the United States treasurer’s report of 1891, on page 3, we find the government expenses for every thing since 1866 itemized. It shows how much we paid annually in inter est for pensions, navy and army, miscellaneous expenses, and how much -we paid yearly on our public debt. Looking down the list of ex penditures on public debt paid annu ally, I find the following paid on public debt each year. I will give only the figures in millions: 1866 $ 620,000,000 1867 $ 735.000,000 1868 692,000,000 1869 561,000,000 1870 393,000,000 1871 399,000,000 1872 405,000,000 1873 23. ,000,000 1874 422,000,000 1875 407.000, GOO 1876 419,000,000 1877 323.000,000 1878 353,000,000 1879 699,000,000 1880 432,000,000 1881 165,000,000 1882 271,000,000 1883 590.000,000 1884 260,000,000 1885 211'000,000 1886 205,000.000 1887 271,000,000 1888 250,000,000 1889 378,000,000 1890 312,000,000 Total $ 9,69*',000,<300 Remember your total debt was, in 1865, only $2,680,000, on which; by the governments own showing, you have paid about $ 10,000,000,000, besides 2,481,000,000, interest, 678,000,000, profits, 84,000,000, premiums. Total ( $13,243,000,000, Or, in other words, you have paid the debt over about six times, and are yet in debt $1,552,140,204, and, re member, it takes more labor and more products to pay what you yet owe than it did to pay all you have so far paid. But you are patient and suffer in silence. Why don’t you kick and get out of the old parties that never refer to the steals. 'My friend, yous vote helps to make laws, laws make good or bad legislation; the n why not hereafter vote for men who are pledged to repeal the laws that per mit this robbery? Hugo Pre yer, GOOD NEWS FROM TEXAS. A Union of the Reform Elements Ac complished and all go to Work for the St. Louis Platform and tne People’s Party. The fear entertained by some that there would be inharmony in the re form ranks in Texas is happily dissi pated. The organization of Jefferson Democrats, which was based in that State on pure Jeffersonian principles and defended the Ocala demands, was originally intended for work in side the Democratic party, and it was feared that the leaders of that organization and of the People’s Party might fail to harmonize. Our advices, however, set all such fears at rest and make apparent both the wisdom and patriotism of the leaders of both organizations in the great Long Horn State. We take the. the meeting, at which a union ci alb reform forces was effected, from the Dallas News: “Fourteen men gathered in the office of the Southern Mercury. Seven represented the Jeffersonian Democrats, or the sub-treasury par ty, as it is called, and seven were there to speak for the People’s Party. They w r ere talking seriously of the future. Measures of relief for the mortgaged, debt-ridden agri culturist, who cannot pay interest on his advances with 6-cent cotton, were discussed. It was decided that the end sought to be accomplished must be done through independent action outside both the existing par ties. Therefore they welded the Jeffersonians, or sub-treasury Alli ance people, and the People’s Party. The fourteen men w T ho did this were Messrs. J. T. Crawford, R. J. Sledge, Harry Tracy, Milton Park, Henry E. McCulloch and E. S. Peters on the part of the sub-treasury Alliance, and James H. Davis, Thomas Gaines, J. S. Robertson, R. A. High, Judge J. L. Harle, Dr. Harris and L. B. Upham on the part of the Peopled Party. They represented a majority of the State executive committee of the two bodies and were clothed with full authority to take any action they thought best and proper. The fourteen men decided to go to the people of Texas with a solid front in the name us the farmers and the laborers of the State. They were fixing up a call for primaries and conventions. The call is as fol lows : The undersigned, joint conference committee of the organizations in Texas known as Jeffersonian Demo crats and People’s Party club, by authority vested in us by the State central committee of each organiza tion, do hereby call upon all who endorse the principles set forth by the industrial labor conference held at St. Louis, Mo., on February 22-24, 1892, and the declarations made by the Dallas conference, February 10, 1892, and "who believe the time has come for independent political action in Texas, to assemble at their re spective voting places on the 4th day of June, 1892, at 1 p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to their respective county conventions, to be held on the 11th day of June, at 10 o’clock a. hl, at their respective county seats. The basis of repre sentation to be one delegate for every ten votes cast at such box at the last State election; and that such county conventions do elect one delegate for each 300 of the total vote or majority fraction thereof cast at the last State election—pro vided that each organized county shall be allowed one delegate—to attend a State convention at Dallas, Texas, on the 23rd day of June, 1892, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of effecting a permanent State organization and for nomina ting candidates for all State offices; also to elect fifteen presidential elec tors, two from the State at large and one from each Congressional district; also to elect delegates to the nation al nominating convention to be held at Omaha, Neb., on July 4, 1892; also to transact all other business that may be deemed advisable by the State convention. All men who endorse the princi ples referred to above, without re gard to previous party affiliations, are cordially invited to unite in se curing the attendance of every quali fied voter or reformer of whatsoever organization or branch of reformers at these precinct meetings, and par ticipate in perfecting permanent and efficient organization. Each county convention is recom mended to elect a permanent county chairman to serve for two years; also one chairman for each voting place. Said county and precinct chairman to constitute the executive committee for each county and to have charge of the campaign in the county. We recommend that said county conventions elect a like number of delegates to attend their respective congressional nominating conven tions when the same may be called. We recommend that said county conventions elect a like number of delegates to attend conventions to nominate State senators, representa tives and floaters and such other dis trict officers as may be deemed proper by the people to be nomi nated. J. L. Harle, W. L. Robinson, Thomas Gaines, On behalf of the People’s Party. . Harry Tracy, Milton Park, J. T. Crawford, On behalf of the Jeffersonian Democrats. A True Blue Allianceman and Peo ple’s Party Supporter. um §aj(ton, Ga., April 18, ’92. Party Paper: Dear Sir and Brother: —I have been shown by a friend the gag law ■handed out to the Alliance by the State executive committee and Col. Livingston in the daily Constitution, in which they threaten to take the charter away from county and sub- Alliances if they don’t rescind their endorsement of the St. Louis con vention and the People’s Party. It • would be a slim State Alliance that Col. Livingston would be president of if all were wiped out that have endorsed this independent move ment. Col. Livingston has changed his mind inside the last two years. So long as we endorsed him and Demo cracy, we were patriots of the first water, and he would say, “My peo ple are Democrats, but if they don’t get relief they will rise en-masse in an independent movement.” Os our platform, he said it was so broad that we all could stand on it. Now he has stepped off and out and left us ill on, and we have pulled down the middle wall that has divided the North and South for thirty years, and say : “Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Prohibitionists, Green baciers, and all other law-abiding citizens, get on this St. Louis plat form in a strictly nonpartisan spirit.” They may call us what they please. “Third Party?” We are the wealth-producers of the United States, and we are rising up en masse and demanding equal rights, and no more. We are organized, it is true, on the St. Louis platform. It’s the people not the party, that we want to benefit. Now, let every sub-Alliance in the State, at their next meeting go through with their regular w T ork and adjourn, and then call the house to order and organize a People’s Party xjlub, and carry the good work of re form to victory. As Col. Livingston’s hopes are routed, and the people don’t want him for Governor and will be glad when his term is out in Congress, he is struggling as a drowning man or a raving maniac, beating the air or tearing his hair. The Colonel is responsible for this movement in a great degree. He has led the people as did Moses, but will only get to view them en ter the promised land. He will be buried at the ballot box with partisan Democracy. For old man Partisan Democracy is sick, a».d the people say he will surely die about the fall ing of the leaves. Listen at old false Democracy in his dying hours. See him swell up till his lungs are fit to burst, and stand on his tip-toes and hollow at the top of his voice, “N-i-g-g-e r Equality,” until his breath is gone. We have heard that till w’e are tired, and we have answered to the party lash long enough. We have followed court house rings and clicks to our ruin, and if the white vote is to be divided, they are re sponsible. If the minority cant come with the majority, we are not going to them. Now, if they are going to turn Mr. Irwin off, as - editor, and have reform advocated in its columns no more, it will be an outrage on its supporters, who subscribed for it as such. Let the people rally to this independent movement. L. J. Doss. Act! Act! in the Living Present. “No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding river be red ; Our anger is banished forever, When are laurelled the graves of our dead. Under the sod and dew, Waiting the judgment day— Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray." It is now twenty-seven years since Grant offered to Lee at Appomattox a hand straight from a soldier’s heart, and at this time every year our pa triotic women gather the first roses of the spring, and with a mournful pleasure scatter them alike on the blue and the gray, and as they stop and are more careful beside “23 New York Unknown,” they know that “ Somebody’s darling lies buried there.” Our thoughts are solemn and our minds revert back to the time when “23 New York, Unknown” le t the farm-house with the kiss of a mother still warm on his brow and the fare well benediction, “God bless you, my son,” still ringing in his ears. What happened in New York had its coun terpart in Georgia. We take a de light in fixing the graves, be it either “23 New Fork, Unknown,” or “3 Mississippi, Unknown,” for in the beautiful strain of Osian “It is the memory of joys that are past and gone,sweet and mournful to the soul.” We have nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to retrieve ; nor has our Northern brother anything to take back. Our hearts feel a warm glow when we think of Lee and Jackson, touched with the same loving tender ness that makes our brother’s heart leap with emotion 'when the magic names of Grant and McClellan are called. We do not intend to slap our son down if he ever utters the ♦ word Confederacy, but we will teach him to honor and love the names of Davis and Stephens, at the same time we teach him that the great Lincoln was as great a patriot as ever occupied the Presidential chair. But now brothers, North and South East and West, “Let the dead past bury it’s dead, Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God o’er head!’’ Now is the time to get together and have a big love feast, “For the red rose is twined around the white rose and York ami Lancaster are at peace.” No longer is North arrayed against South; but a dreadful cor morant, more dreadful than all the combined bayonets of both North and South, perches upon the Nation al Capitol and with its ghastly eyes it surveys its prey, almost ready for its terrible grasp. Where is gone the brilliant civili zation of the South ? Where is our proud Southern chivalry, that out ranked the knights of old ? Why is it that once noble farmers, that went with their head erect, now go stoop ed and bent? Where is the old Southern Baronial mansion? Why is it when once it is burned a mis erable hut goes up in its stead? The answer comes back from the gloomy bird as it croaks, “Wall street.” Shall we submit longer? The crisis is now at hand; shall we unite with the West? The union is of fered ; if we choose we can accept the West and South are both agri cultural countries. Let us accept this union and thereby declare that our actions speaking for us de clare our intentions are to unite with the West. This country will be happy when it recognizes “no North, no South, no East, no West, but loves with equal tenderness both sections and trusts Georgia alike with Kan sas.” A. D. Kean. April 12, 1892. Let us Have a Discussion of Mesena, Ga., April 20, ’92. People’s Party Paper : Will you please give me space in your valuable paper for a few’ thoughts, which I think will be of interest to some, at least, of your readers. In the first place, I wish to say that in order to promote harmony and good feeling among our citizens., I would beg each and every one tc be forbearing and liberal in discuss ing the issues of the day. Abuse and ridicule never yet convinced a man or caused him to change his mind. lam sorry to say that I have heard merchants in Thomson abuse and ridicule men on account of their views. For instance, one says : “Look what your d d Alliance legislature has done. Any one who votes for an Allianceman or Third Party man is a fool, and ought to be hung.’’ Now, such talk as that has driven hundreds of men out of the Demo cratic party. It is all wrong. Another thing that is doing harm. These little two-for-a-nickel lawyers, going about stirring up lawsuits and oppressing poor working men who are struggling with poverty and hard times. They ought to be prosecuted for Barratry. But never mind, “the mills of the Gods grind slowly but they grind exceeding iijie.” Some merchants will buy large quantities of goods on time,, make a preferred creditor, “so-call ed,” then-assign, st?-y .ont busi ness a while, and then open up again. But let a poor man get in debt to one of them and, being un fortunate, fail to make his payments, then the dogs of the law are let loose on him, and if they can, by any means, do so, they are ready to land the poor devil in jail. But the day is coming when we will all have an equal showing, and then these petty-foggers and such like will get their reward. So mote it be. Yours etc., Sans Peur. Be on the Alert. Mills Weekly World, Every device that politicians, learned in the art, can frame, will be brought into play during the coming campaign. Misrepresentations, lies, abuse and all other plans known to the wiles of the “ward heeler” will be carried into the state and national campaigns, and in addition boodle will pl ay its part, which’ this year wull be a very large jpart. Industrial clubs will be formed by the opposition to be carried into the Republi can party in Kansas, or into the Demo cratic party in Georgia, so that the coun try can. be informed at stated times that the People’s Party is going back to the old party. In Kansas the Southern briga dier will be the bug-a-boo used to frighten, voters with. J. J. Ingalls will be called to skin’ rebels in Republican states, while in Georgia and other Democratic states “negro supremacy” will rule the roost so far as the orators of the plutocrats can use the argument. Whether they be Democrat or Republican makes no differ ence, for last week’s con clusively that though tiite okUparties may be no blood relation, when it comes, to facing the demands of the people for relief they are brothers, as inseperable as the once famous Siamese twins. The people can only be successful by being constantly on the alert. Gold ’ gold I I gold!!! will lx? the war cry, and gold will be the force depended on to debauch the leaders of the people and drag them to a common level with themselves. Be ever on the watch tower; be ever vigilant, and above all be prepared to meet lying, slander and abuse with truth. Our most bitter enemy will not deny that the demands of the people are just, and as “thrice is he armed who has his quarrel just,” the people are bound to win, but to win must keep their cause before the country and fight till the last, armed foe expires.