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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IN GEORGIA. Farmers’ Light, Harlem, Columbia county. Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro, Burke ’county. News and Allianceman, Jackson, Butts county. Banks County Gazette, Homer, Banks county. Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville, Liberty county. Enterprise-Record, Gibson, Glass cock county. The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton county. Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta, Fulton county. The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank lin county. The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee county. People’s Party Paper, Atlanta. Gibson Enterprise-Record. Bill Walden is the hero of the People’s Party of Glascock. Long may he live. Bill Walden is as hard as a light wood knot and as game as a yaller jacket. . 11. A. Holliman of Warren county was in town yesterday. He says the majority of the people in Warren county are for the People’s Party, he thinks. We would like the best in the world to hear Congressman Watson make a speech upon the political is sues now. Col. Livingston tried to prize Edi tor Inwin off the tripod of the South ern Alliance Farmer, but he failed. Georgia, Glascock County, April 27, 1892. Mr. Editor: As I sit tired and lonely by the fireside surrounded by my children, I will write a few lines for publication in your valuable pa per. The farmers in this section are about done planting cotton, and are awaiting for a refreshing shower-to bring it up, grass and all, so they can tickle old mother earth with the plow and hoe and make another “overpro duction.” The farmers around here have had some hog and hominy, but no mon ey. Ain’t that funny ? It may be to some folks, but not to us. Being lonely reminds me of the “Lone Fisherman,” our gallant Thos. E. Watson. Where is he to-day? Not in Georgia skimming the land in palaced cars vith Messrs. Smith and Howell, but in Congress attending to his duties? Is he alone today? Not exactly. Congressmen Winn, Simp son and a few others are with him. What is McDuffie’s patriotic son do ing ? He is trying, to raise the ban ner of pure Jeffersonian Democracy from the dust, where it has trailed for many years, and if the people will stand by him, he will raise it so high that combines, trusts, monopo lies, money kings and rogues can never build'a tower high enough to reach it. I think I can truthfully say for this part of the 1168th dis trict that we can carry our crowd. Now I ask the oppressed people all over the country to keep their “lamps trimmed and burning.” Yours truly, J. C. English. Three cheers and a tiger for that, “Chap.” Editor. CHIPS. From the Hinesville Liberty county. Gazette. And now old Liberty stands forth with a solid phalanx of the People’s Party, and bids her sister counties cheer. The fight is on, and Liberty will stand abreast with the foremost in the struggle for equal rights. The People’s Party now is here, And Democrats are in despair, They say the nig will be on top, And farmers wont make half a crop, For ’tending meetings, And sending greetings, To Kansas State Republicans To help them beat the demodams; And carry every Southern State, For L. L. Polk, as sure as fate. If you want to nauseate an Alli anceman in this section, just say Liv ingston—Moses. It appears from the demonstrations made at his old home in Douglas ville at the late meeting that C. C. Post is very popular for a “veneered Republican.” Echoes from the Reform Press of the State. From the Farmers’ Light. When the Democratic convention meets next month in Atlanta, it should not forget to endorse Speaker Crisp for the masterly way in which he killed the silver bill, and at the same time it would be a most grace ful act to include the 83 Democratic Congressmen who so ably assisted the Speaker, Accounts of the People’s party are most encouraging, and the movement is growing stronger every day. The Democrats are “quaking in their boots,” and we have got them on the run. Carnesville Enterprise. The People’s Party are willing to adopt that plank now. What say you Democrats. We will answer for you and say, no. You make a terri ble howl over the tariff, and yet you are in favor of protection. The Democratic party is the “daddy” of demonitization. What fools we used to be ; with our'old ragged clothes on; throwing up our old wool hats and yelling like idiots ::or Democracy. Helping to forge the chains that bound us as slaves. Judge Lawson voted for the Re publican in the election contest— Noyes vs. Rockwell. It is to be supposed that he did so, from the ' aw, the evidence and his honest con victionfe, but why didn’t E. W. Bar rett report to the Constitution that the Judge had sold out to the Re publicans? We’ presume that the same influence governed Judge La wson that did Tom Watson, yet the atter has been dubbed a traitor and ’ormer a patriot. Whatever a Dem ocrat does for his own party or the Republican party, is all right, but when a champion of the people leaves the Democratic track he is all wrong. Railroad Rates. Arguing in favor of government ownership of railroads, the Industri al Banner, of Clinch county, Ga., says: “Several years ago the West Shore Railroad was built, running through the same section of country in which the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad held sway. The West Shore began carrying passengers at one cent a mile. Im mediately the Central dropped to the same figure and kept their price there until, by one means and anoth er, they obtained • control of the West Shore, when the passenger rate was advanced to two cents a mile, the regular rate on one of the most successful lines in the country. The point we make is this : During that war of rates, the Central’s officials boasted that they could car ry passengers profitably at one cent a mile. If they could do it then, why can they not now ? The Plug Hat Fellows. News and Allianceman. The so-called Democratic State executive campaign committee are devising means to conduct the cam paign. It is amusing to hear these plug hat fellows get together and talk over the situation. They dis cuss the farmers as though they were a lot of sheep that had strayed off from the flock, and all that is necessary is to send out a lot of fel lows to head them off and drive them back to the fold—“the old party,” and just so they are all got in by voting time is all they care for. Tom Watson. The Allianceman. Atlanta, Ga. There is no doubt-of the fact that Tom Watson is the ablest and straightest man w T ho has been in Con gress from Georgia since the war, and he will sit there an honered rep resentative long after Livingston, Ev erett and Moses have faded into ob scurity. A desperate effort is to be made to defeat him at the next elec tion, but it will be found that Watson is backed by men who will stand to the rack like men. Few and Far Between. The Democrats met here on last Friday, the 22nd inst., and reorgan ized their executive committee. The crowd w'as small, 57, as counted by several persons, and 14 of these, perhaps more, were People’s Party men. A very marked feature of the meeting was the absence of farmers, very few, if any, real farmers, that is those who make farming their prin cipal business, being present.- Hinesville, Liberty county, Gazette. THE REFORMERESS. « A favored few skillfully arranged affairs so that they could become a ; great income-taking class. Then they deliberately went .to work pla cing a great burden of debt upon the people and laid the foundations for larger incomes by making these conditions so as to force the farmers to mortgage their homes. After all these schemes were completed, then they added the crowning act of infamy by increasing the pur chasingpporerw r er of the dollar and correspondingly decreasing prices, which prevents the debtor from paying his debts, perpetuates the business of the income receivers and enables them to procure labor and all its products at low prices. Could anything be more infamous ? And all done through legislation.— Winfield (Ron.) Free Press. We hear it asserted sometimes that the Alliance is not in politics. We want to know where it is then ? If it is not in politics, why does or did it ever have a national body ? If the word national has any other signifi cance except a political one, we know nothing about it. The Alli ance was in politics from its very foundation, as is clearly shown by its declaration of purposes. God in spired and brought the order into existence as an instrument to punish plutocracy, as He used the Red Sea for a like purpose in the past. Then why claim a thing that we know to be false and say the Alliance is not in politics, when to take it but of politics would deprive it of any pos sible chance of accomplishing its noble mission on earth?—Alliance Farmer, Westville, Fla. It seems to be a common error with political papers and politicians to think on old party lines and sup pose this movement of the people is for office—a grave mistake. Jus if laws is what w r e are after, and we propose to elect servants who will act the will of the people who elect them, giving us just laws, and do away with the unjust laws that now exist. The servants of the people can never be secured under either old party lash, as the whip is held by the bankers’ association of America, that whips the tools of both par ties into line.—Hamlin V. Poore in Topeka Advocate. A short time since the daily pa pers announced that a deal had been effected betvreen the Democrats and People’s Party in Kansas whereby the former was to support the latter and place no opposition in the field, especially in districts represented by the People’s Party. Now comes the announcement that “Sockless Jerry” will have a Democratic opponent in the Seventh district where there never were more than enough Dera crats to make & respectable funeral procession. These things do not coalesce.—Racine Advance. From 1850 to 1860 seventy-three bushels of corn or thirty-seven bush els, of wheat would buy one ton of bar iron, while from 1870 to 1880 it took 113 bushels of corn or 48 bush els of wheat to buy one ton of bar iron ; and yet the cost of production of iron has been much more reduced than the cost of wheat in the two periods, of time mentioned. Some people, in their ignorance and preju dice,# tell us that “everything has gone down with the price of wheat.” Kansas Commoner. The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C., says: “Sixteen hundred of the 2,200 sub-alliances in Georgia have taken action and endorsed the St. Louis platform. Only three have condemned the platform. North Carolina is ahead on that matter. Only one alliance—Scotland Neck— has refused to endorse the platform so far.” The Clay Center (Kansas) Dis patch publishes in full the speech of Hon. Thos. E. Watson delivered re cently in the House of Representa tives on the tariff question, and makes this editorial comment: Don’t fail to read the speech of Congressman Watson, published on our first page. It is the most sensi ble tariff speech that has been deliv ered during the present session of Congress. The people are weary of half and half men. Mass Meeting. All citizens of Crawford county who are in sympathy with the St. Louis platform, and who favor inde pendent political action, are re quested to meet at the court house in Knoxville on Saturday, May 28th, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of organizing a People’s Party. Signed by J. W. Strand, B. F. Kenedy, John McGee, * AND FIFTY OTHERS. Let ’em go East for their Votes. The two old parties have disposed of the money question in Congress now and have settled down on the tariff debate. They have obeyed the commands of the Eastern shy locks and have each declared in favor of the “honest dollar,” this is the dol lar of the Plutocrats ; the dollar that left the country in the time of its great struggje for life; the dollar that has depreciated all the property of the nation until the prosperous people of a few years ago are becom ing homeless; the dollar that has created trusts, caused panics and compels the laboring man to toil from dawn to shades of eve for a mere existence. When the candi dates of these emissaries of Wall street come around to seek for suf frage, tell them to go East and seek advancement from their masters for whom they have been laboring while you footed their bills.—Fredonia Herald. Why This Difference 2 Strange, isn’t it. Vhen a receiver is appointed to take charge of cor poration property, as a railroad, the receiver runs the road until the debt is paid, then turns the property back to the stock holders. But when a receiver takes charge of the property of an individual producer, he holds it until the mortgage is foreclosed and sold and the rents gobbled up, then he turns the property, farm or factory, over to the corporation bid ding it in. Why is this? Is it done by virtue of law, or is it a matter of favoritism in the interest of robbery ? Reader, you are interested to know. Why should law-made individuals fare better than God-made indi viduals ? Why should the law be in favor of incorporations that are .without flesh and blood and con science, and against humanity, the thinking, acting and sentious be ing ?—The People, Paola. The Other Ox Gored. When a sub-Alliance anywhere in the State passes a resolution endors ing the Democratic party and re pudiating the St. Louis platform, the 'whole Democratic press in the State makes a great noise and claims a great political victory. But when a sub-Alliance endorses the St. Louis platform, the same crowd, with one voice, cries out against ’ “violating the constitution of the Alliance and carrying politics into the organiza tion.” It is the same old story about the ox being gored.—Alliance man, Atlanta. Well, Er, Ah’ Nothing in the country is run quite as correctly, smoothly and cheaply as the postal system, by the'govern ment, and 175,000 people are em ployed. But, of course, the railroad, telegraph and telephone could not be run by the government at all. Why? Well, because—now, you see—because it would—well, now you know—well, shut up—the gov ernment —it would cost an awful— well, I don’t want to argue with you, so there. Doubtless our readers will appreciate the force of the above ar gument. —Cincinnati Herald. Why? Why are the advocates of the Democratic party (not principles) so ready to believe what Livingston, Moses and company are saying now, when a year ago they were the ob jects at which the most virulent epithets were hurled by these self same advocates ? Banks county Gazette. w The Reformers of Clay county, Ala., met in Ashland on April Bth and organized a People’s Party for that county. They also issued a call for a mass meeting in all other coun ties comprising the fifth congres sional district, for the purpose of electing delegates to congressional district convention. SECOND DECLARATION OF AMERI- ’ CAN INDEPENDENCE. Platform Adopted by the Confederated Industrial Organizations at St. Louis, Feb. 22-24, 1892. Preamble. This, the first great labor conference of the United States and of the world, representing all divisions of urban and rural organized in dustry, assembled in national congress, invok ing upon its action the blessing and protection of Almighty God, puts forth to and for the pro ducers of the nation this declaration of union and independence. The conditions which sur round us beet justify our co-operation. We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legis latures, congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized. Many of the states have been compelled to iso late the voters at the polling places in order to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impover ished and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self protection? imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating to European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprece dented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of gov ernmental injustice breed the two great classes —paupers and millionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to en rich bondholders; silver, which has been ac cepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and en clave industry. A vast conspiracy against man kind has been organized on two continents, and is taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forbodt<B terri ble social convulsions, the destruction of civili zation, or the establishment of an absolute despotism. In this crisis of human affairs the intelligent working people and producers of the United States have come together in the name of peace, order and society to defend liberty, pros perity and justice. We declare our union and independence. We assert our purpose to support the political ! organization which represents our principles. ■ We charge that the controlling influence dominating the old political parties have al lowed the existing dreadful conditions to de velop without serious effort to restrain or pre vent them. They have agreed together to ignore, in the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff; so that corpora tions, national banks, rings, trusts, “watered stock,” the demonetization of silver, and the oppression of usurers, may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes and chil dren upon the altar of mammon; to destroy the hopes of the multitude in order to secure cor ruption funds from the great lords of plunder. We assert that a political organization, repre- , senting th© political principles herein stated, is necessary to redress the grievances of which we complain. Assembled on the anniversary of the birth of the illustrious man who led the first great revo lution on this continent against oppression, filled with the sentiments which actuated that grand generation, we seek to restore the gov ernment of the republic to the hands of the “plain people,” with whom it originated. Our doors are open to all points of the compass. We ask all honest men to join with and help us. In order to restrain the extortions of aggre gate capital, to drive the money changers out es the temple, to form a perfect union, estab lish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, pro vide for the common defense, pi*bmote the gen eral welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity we do ordain and establish the following of prin ciples: First—We declare the union of the labor forces of the United States this day accom plished permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Second —Wealth belongs to him who created it. Every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is robbery. If any one will not work, neither shall he eat. The interests of rural and urban labor are the same, their ene mies are identical. Platform. FINANCE. First—We demand a national currency safe, sound and flexible, issued by the general gov ernment only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private; and that without the use of banking corporations a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent, be pro vided, as set forth in the subtreasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system; also, by payments in discharge of its obliga tions for public improvements. (a.) We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver. (b.) We demand that the amount of circulat ing medium be speedily increased to not less than fifty dollars per capita. (c.) We demand a graduated income tax. (d.) We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand all na tional and stat© revenue shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government eco nomically and honestly administered. (e.) We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe de posit of the earnings of th© people and to facil itate exchange. LAND. Second—’The land, including all the natural resources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized for spec ulative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. TRANSPORTATION. Third —Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the in terest of the people. (a.) The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice sj stem, being a necessity for trans mission of news, should be owned and oper ated by the government in the interest of the people. OFFICIAL NOTICE. All communications to the Secre tary’s office should be plainly and dis tinctly written, and directed to No. 25, West Hunter Street, Atlanta, Ga. Secretaries of County Alliances will save time and worry by stating in their reports whether dues are sent by Register, Money Order or Express ; they wfill also notify me w T hen in need of blanks on which to make reports, and blanks for Farm ers’ Alliance. They should make their reports immediately after each regular meetihg of County Alliance. Yours Fraternally, A. W. Ivey, Secretary Ga. S. F. A. Don’t be afraid to take this paper out of the office. It has either been paid for or it is sent to you as a com pliment. Freedom is Marching Through Geor gia. Bring the good old bugle, boys, And sound a joyful strain I Sound it till its echoes ring From Mexico to Maine! Let it wake all careless ears On mountain, vale and plain; Freedom is marching through Geor gia. CHORUS. Hurrah! Hurrah! A glorious jubilee! Hurrah! Hurrah! The people shall be free! Hear the mighty chorus rise And swell from sea to sea! Freedom is marching through Georgia. How the toilers shouted When they heard the joyful sound ’ They knew that Georgia’s action would The money kings confound! Georgia’ll lead the whole procession If the rest don’t rustle round! Freedom is marching through Geor gia. CHORUS. The blue and gray united firm Are marching hand in hand! Before their truth and courage strong No tyranny can stand ! Aunt Columbia’ll heed their cry And grant each just demand! Since freedom is marching through Georgia. CHORUS. The eyes of sixty millions are On Georgia bent to-day; They watch her people fearless march For truth to clear the way! Soon will all the nation bask In liberty’s glad ray! Freedom is marching through Geor gia. . CHORUS. Emma Ghent Curtis. Canon City, Colorado. People’s Party State Conventions. Illinois, Danville, May 19. Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May 24. Kansas, Wichita, June 15. Indiana, Indianapolis, May 27. 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