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The People’s Party Paper. Entered at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga., as second class matter, Oct. 16, 1891. OUR OFFICE Is up stairs in the elegant new McDonald building 119 1-2 Whitehall street, where our friends will always find the latch string on the outside. ; Speakers Appointments. S. A. WALKER. Bartow Co., May 2. Floyd Co., May 3. Chattooga Co., May 4. Walker Co., May 5. Dade Co., May 6. 1 Catoosa Co., May 7. Whitfield Co., May 9. Gordon Co., May 10. Murry Co., May 11, Gilmer Co., May 12. Fanin Co., May 13. Pickens Co., May 14. J. R. ROBINS. Milton Co., May 7. Gwinetto Co., May 9. Forsyth Co., May 10, Hall Co. ? May 11. DawsOil Co., May 12. Lumpkin Co, May 13. Union Co., May 14. Towns Co., May 16. Raburn Co., May 17. Habersham Co., May 18. White Co., May 19. Bro .Walker and Bro. Robins’ ap pointments will be at the county seat towns in each case unless other ar rangements are made by the friends and notice given headquarters in time to change. The hour of speak ing may be fixed by the local com mittees, who must, however, con sider the arrival and departure of trains, and when a trip across the country is necessary the friends will please make arrangements to see that the speaker is so conveyed. By order of campaign committee. Col. W. L. Peek has accepted in vitations to speak at the following places: Cedartown, Polk Co., May 7. Manassas, Tatnall Co., May 14. Knoxville, Crawford Co., May 28. j. w. CHUPP. Jackson Creek Alliance, Gwinette Co., April 30. c. c. POST. Chattahoochee Park, Campbell Co., May 7. HON. C. 11. ELLINGTON. Viena, Dooley Co., April 30. There will also blr meetings at Canton, Cherokee Co., and at Sparta, Hancock Co., April 30. and in Schley Co., May 3, at which good speakers are expected. BEWARE OF DEBT. The Alliance Offers a Remedy for Na tions as well as Individuals. Possibly no command of God is so universally disregarded as this injunc tion. “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.”—Ex. xxii, 25. “Take thou no usury of him or in crease but fear thy God; that thy broth er may live with thee. “Thou shalt not give him thy money upon ursury nor lend him thy victuals for increase.” —[Lev. xxv, 36 37. Ezekel xix, 7 says : “He that hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken an increase hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity and hath executed true judgment between man and man.” What is usury ? It is interest. Not as some would say, interest charged above the legal rate, but it is simply in terest. This command of holy writ is one of exceeding judiciousness. Its disregard has caused the tottering of nations and the wreckage of unnum bered thousands of individuals. In this day debt means interest, says the toiler. Jf interest had been pro hibited whei' the Christian religion first dawned upon an enlightened world we would never have known na tions to groan under bonded debts, neither would individuals have sacri ficed pleasures of home because of promissory notes and mortgages. The point is, had interest never been coun tenanced by civilization the infamous national and individual debt system would have died without a beginning. It would be a herculean task to now attempt to legislate against interest, that is to attempt to prohibit the prac tice between borrower and lender, but all admit that there would be no bor rowing or lending was it not for the interest or usury. Beware of debt, because with it comes interest and usury, a plague to nations and a curse to man. There is remedy for nations which is also a rem edy for indivuals. Do as the Allitnce proposes, give us legal tender green backs. —Ex. THE ISHMAELITE WEAKENS. It Has Seen the Hand-Writing on the Wall. It is very plain that the Atlanta Cleve land worshipers do not understand the temper of the democratic masses of Geor gia and in the other southern states. They evidently believe that the people are only half in earnest in demanding financial reform. They foolishly satisfy themselves that with the free coinage bill out of sight it will be out of the popolar mind ; and that, then, all that will l>e left to be done will be to trot out the corpulent and asthmatic old hack that shuffled on the track, and hobbled off it, in 1888, to win a glorious and sweeping victory. Very well; we shall see them have a rude awakening. The immense demo cratic majority in the present congress is due directly to the pledge of financial re form as well as tariff reform. What answer will be when the masses demand of their democratic representa tives why the pledge of financial reform, of the free coinage of silver, was not kept ? Weakened down bp third party defec tion, the democratic organization, at best, had only a fighting chance for victory before the disastrous failure of the free coinage bill. Now the defection will go forward at an accelerated pace, and thousands will flock to the revolutionary standards where only scores could have been counted under conditions of demo cratic faithfulness to democratic pledges. This the outiook ; and the paper that re joices in the existence of the conditions that have led up to it, is either faithless in its democratic professions or else has a fool way of manifesting its loyalty to thut great party. How far the nomination of a true democrat, on a platform pledged to tariff reform and financial reform and all other needed reforms, would serve to reconcile the masses of the south to further sup port of the democratic party, the Ish maelite has no way of knowing. Os one thing it is certain; if the treacherous blow which Wall street democrats struck the democratic free coinage measure in the house should be endorsed by the democratic convention and the principle, or the want of principle, involved in it should be embodied in its candidate, then democratic supremacy, even in the south, may be set down as a thing of the past. These are plain words, but they are truthful ones. There is never any justi fication for speaking words of any other sort, eithor for personal or party ad vantage.-—Sparta Ishmaelite. Simpson’s Challenge. When Jerry Simpson, on the floor of congress, challenged both democratic and republican congressmen to point out a single law that had been enacted for the wealth producers in the past twenty years, there was not one who had sand enough in his old political gizzard to accept the challenge. Yet Jerry is dub bed by the old party papers of Kansas an “illiterate chump.” There must have been two or three hundred “chumps” in congress about the time that challenge was made.—Winfield (Kan.) Free Press. Under Tammany statesmanship, New York can never expect to become a pro gressive and well-administered munici pality. When the great nonofficial mass of respectable citizens become suf ficiently awake to the loss they suffer through their present misgovernment they will forget the irrelevant dis tinction bstween republicans and demo crats, and will unite to deliver their metropolis out of the hands of the horde of gjanizaries and bashibazouks that now ravage and despoil it.—Review of Reviews. MIKE HAVERTY. $25,000 WORTH OF FURNITURE! -> To Be Slaughtered. PARLOR, BED ROOM. KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM HETJEETTITLHEUZE. REED AND RATTAN GOODS, PICTURE EASELS, BABY CARRIAGES, LADIES’ DESKS, BOOK CASES, MATTRESSES, BED SPRINGS. PILLOWS, WARDROBES, FOLDING BEDS, LAWN BENCHES &CHAIRS. All these Goods MUST BE SOLD by JUNE Ist, as I intend to make alterations in my store, and must make room for same. ZMZ. HAVERTY. CHEAPEST FURNITURE MAN SOUTH, 77 Whitehall Street, 64 S. Broad Sti-eet, ATLANTA, GA. I make terms to suit all purchasers. MR. J. W. BROWN’S CERTIFICATE. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : This is to certify that I was at Cincinnati at the conference of May 19th, 1891. That I went there at the request of Douglas County Alli ance, of which I was and am the president. That C. C. Post and L. F. Livingston were also at that Conference and that B. o. Post acted in full harmony with Col. Livingston during that meeting. I was at a meeting of the leading men at that conference, probably fifty being present including both C. C. Post and L. F. Livingston, and at this meeting Mr. Living ston gave those present to understand that he was with them in sentiment and only refrained from coming out openly for independent political action then because he feared the South was not yet ready, and because they were pledged to wait until che22dof February at which time he said they were going en masse into the third party. Col. Post accepted the position of member of the National Committee of the People's Party for Georgia with the full approval of Col. Livingston and with the understanding that he was doing so to prevent any one from being appointed who would not work in har mony with Livingston or who might for selfish purposes use the position to cause a split in the movement in Georgia, When Livingston changed his plans and decided to betray the movement Bro. Post had no recourse left but to stand in the breach and warn the peo ple of their danger, and at once proceed to do the work of organizing the People’s Party which we had expected that Livingston would do and which he was in honor pledged to do. J. W. BROWN, President Douglas County Alliance. CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. For sale by the Campaign Committee, the proceeds to go to help defray the expenses of the campaign of the People’s Party. HON. THOS. E. WATSON’S ADDRESS to the people of Georgia. Price $5 per thousand, 75 cts. per hundred, or one cent per copy for any less number. SPEECH BY J. H. TURNER, Sec’y of the National Alliance, delivered at The great Douglasville meeting, with synopsis of speech by C. C. Post at same place. Price same as for Watson’s Address. BOND HOLDERS AND BREAD WINNERS, a pamphlet by S. S. King, of Kansas, of great value to all who wish to be posted. All Peo ple’s Party and Alliance speakers should have a copy. Price 25 cts. THE ARENA for February. Among other valuable matter this magazine contains an article in support of the sub-treasury plan by C. C. Post which has been commented on in Europe as well as in America. Price 50 cts. DRIVEN FROM SEA TO SEA, OR JUST A CAMPIN’, and CONGRESSMAN SWANSON two political novels of intense interest and extremely valuable as showing how the com mon people have been robbed and plundered. Price of each 50 cts. Address all orders to OSCAR PARKER, Sec’y Campaign Committee. 11 Vhitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Tie National A PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER An Eight-page Four-column Weekly. PUBLISHED AT WASHINGTON, D. C. L’nder the Direction of the. Congressional Committee of the People's Party. N. A.. DUNNTINTG- Has been selected as Managing Editor. It will be impersonal, impartial and aggres sive, and at all times seek to place before its readers carefully prepared matter such as a residence at the seat of government is calcu lated to furnish. The high character of the men interested in the papei, the ability of Mr. Dunning, and the advantage of being at the Capital are sufficient guarantees for the kind of paper that will be issued. Among the contributors will be— Senators W. A. Peffer and J. H. Kyle; Con gressmen T. E. Watson, John Davis, Jerry Simpson, W. A. McKeighan, B. F. Clover, J. G. Otis, O. M. Kem. K. Halvorsen, T. E. Winn, w. Baker, Dr. M. G. Elizy, and many other well known writers. TERMS, - - - FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR. Twenty-five cents until Nov. 9, 1892. Address all communications to THE NATIONAL WATCHMAN CO., No. 13 C Street N. E. WASHINGTON, D. C. The People’s Party Paper, PUBLISHED AT A.TJLJLJSTTA., GEORGIA. AN EIGHT PAGE SIX COLUMN NEWSPAPER, AT ONLY SI.OO Per Year. SI.OO For the Present Only FIFTY CENTS a Year, N CLUBS OF TEN OR MORE. TRIAL TEN CENTS For Eight Weeks in Clubs of Ten or More. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER Is the most ably edited and most widely circulated paper of its class in the South* ITS NAME INDICATES ITS CHARACTER. It is a People’s Party Paper, AND A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Upon its Editorial Staff are C. C. POST, HON. THOS. E. WATSON, MRS. HELEN WILMANS-POST, Assisted by a corps of well known and able correspondents. A Political and Family Newspaper. The People’s Party Paper will, first of all things, defend the cause of the common people against the encroachments of the monopolies. It is for the St. Louis Platform and the People’s Party. After this it will endeavor to give the Important News of the day, domestic and foreign.- ALSO, Sketches of Travel, Occasional Stories, and Matter of Borne Interest. In fact, we propose to make it a paper of National character, which, while especially de voted to Southern interests, will yet seek a field broad enough to make it of interest and value to its readers in every portion of the Union. GET TTIE? JL OLTTB, At the Low Price at which we furnish the People’s Party Paper in clubs we cannot offer premiums. Fifty' Cents a year just about pays for the white paper and the press work, and we only put the price this low for the purpose of introducing the paper and helping on the campaign. For a club of 50, however, aSO cents each,, we will give either of C. C. Post’s books advertised in this paper, priced 50 cents, sent prepaid, or for a club of one hundred we will give both books. Under this offer the entire number of subscribers need not be sent at one time, but may be sent in a few at a time as obtained, and the books will be sent when the required number of subscribers has been sent in ; but parties taking advantage of this offer must notify us each time they send in names that they are to apply on club list, so that we may keep a record cf the same. YOU WANT THE PAPER. OF COURSE YOU ZOO. Georgia intends to lead the Reform column in the South, and you want to keep posted on the movement. The Paper will seek especially to represent the South, and the movement in the South. If you live South you want it because it is the leading Southern paper of its class. If you live North you want it for the same reason. AT A DOLLAR A YEAR FOR A SINGLE SUBSCRIBER IT IS THE BEST PAPER IN AMERICA, At 50 cents in Clubs it is the Cheapest Paper in the World. Send subscriptions and make all drafts and money orders payable to THE PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER CO., ATLANTA, GA. N. B. Price of Tom. Watson’s Address to the People of Georgia, one cent each for quantities of less than one hundred; one hundred copies 75 cts.; one thousand copies $5-OO- Address the People’s Party Paper, Atlanta, Ga.