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CALLS FOR MEETINGS. PEOPLE’S PARTY CALL. Announcement. All citizens of Whitfield county who are in sympathy w’ith the Peo ple’s Party and will support the St. Louis platform are requested to meet at the court house in Dalton, Satur day, June 4th, at 10 o’clock, to elect delegates to the Rome convention and for any other business that may property come before the convention. All who are with us are earnestly requested to turn out and bring your friends along, too. I also urge all fair-minded men who believe in equity and justice to unite with us and help us in our struggle for equal rights to all. Thomas Cox, Ch’mn P. P. Ex. Com. Southern Alliance Farmer and all other friendly papers please copy. Mass Meeting Called. The executive committee of Dooly county calls a mass meeting of all friends of reform in Vienna on May 30th, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the pur pose of electing delegates to attend the district convention which meets in Fort Valley on the Bth of June. Good speakers will be invited to address the meeting. All citizens in sympathy with the People’s Party are invited to be present. S. E. Lamb, Sec’y, J. G. Thurman, Chm’n. All persons friendly to the People’s Party are invited to meet at tha court house in Rome at 11 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, June 1, 1892. Distinguished speakers will be present. Equal time and fair show will be given to speakers who are not in sympathy with this movement of the people. Delegates to several conventions will be elected. Come one, come all, regardless of party lines or color, and let us reason together in a friendly way, touching vital doc tries which are fast forming the basis of a successful party—the only hope of saving and perpetuating our institutions from both anarchy and socialism. G. W. Fleetwood, Chairman Executive Committee People’s Party, Floyd County, Georgia. PEOPLE’S PARTY MASS MEETING. A mass meeting of the People’s Party will be held at the court house in Craw fordsville. Taliaferro county, on Satur day, May 28th, inst., to elect delegates to the senatorial and congressional con ventions. Col. C. C. Post and other speakers have been invited and have promised to be present. We are going to give the democrats(?) a shove down the steeps of time, and ere the echoes of that meeting are lulled to sleep they will be buried in the sea of forgetfulness. The issues of the day will be handled with gloves off. Be sure and come out. W. H. Bagby, Secretary People’s Party Executive Com mittee, Taliaferro County, Georgia. SEVENTH DISTRICT. The chairmen of the executive com mittees of the different counties of the seventh congressional district, together with the members of the state executive committee in said district, are requested to meet in Rome on June Bth in con junction with the convention which is to elect delegates to the Omaha convention (as suggested by our state secretary), for the purpose of perfecting a permanent district organization and for other pur poses. I suggest that the members of both bodies make the Armstrong Hotel the place of rendezvous as we arrive in the city, for the purpose of forming acquaint ance and consultation. H. D. Hutcheson, Member State Executive Committee. Greenway, Ga., May 16, 1892. DeKALßcounty. A mass meeting of the People's Par ty of DeKalb county is hereby called to meet in the court house at Decatur on the 2Gth day of May at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of electing dele gates to the State and District conven tions. Also to consider advisability of nominating candidates for all other offices, and whether it shall be done by primary or otherwise. The county executive committee, the Congressional and Senatorial com mittees to meet at same time and place. A full attendance desired. T. Y. Nash, Chm’n., W. P. Lankford, Sec. McDuffie county’. Thomson, May 7, 1892. A convention of the People's Party of McDuffie county is to be held in Thomson court house on May 26th, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Gubernatorial, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions, and to trans act other business. J. H. Boyd, Chm’n., Joe. DeMedicis, Sec. CARROLL COUNTY. Notice to all People’s Party men in Carroll county is hereby given that a mass meeting of that party will be held at the court house in Carrollton at 12 m., on Saturday, May 28, for the purpose of electing delegates to a dis trict convention to be held in La- Grange June Sth, which will elect dele gates to the Omaha convention. A meeting of the executive commit tee will also be held in Carrollton on that day, and all members are urgent ly requested to be present. J. W. W. Russell, Chm’n. DOUGLAS COUNTY. A mass meeting of the People’s Par ty is called to meet at Douglasville on the fourth Saturday, 28th day, of May, for the purpose of electing two dele gates to Gubernatorial convention, al so delegates to Congressional conven tion of fifth Congressional District, which meets at Atlanta June Btb, at noon, and to elect four delegates to represent the fifth District and eight delegates from the State at large to the National convention which meets at Omaha July 4th, to nominate candi dates for President and Vice-Presi dent the United States. W. H. Nally, Pres., W. A. Baggett, sr„ Sec. NOTICE! There will be a mass meeting of the People’s Party in Jefferson on June 4th at 10 o’clock a. m. for the purpose of electing delegates to the Gainesville con vention and to attend to other matters of importance to the party. A. S. Venable, Chairman Executive Committee People’s Party, Jackson County, Georgia. 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. Kened y, John McGee, AND FIFTY OTHERS. All members of the People’s Party of Dooly county are requested to meet in Vienna at 10 o’clock a. m. on May 30 for the purpose of electing delegates to the District Convention which meets in Fort Valley on June 8. Good speakers will be invited to address the meeting on the issues of the day. A People’s Party mass meeting will be held in Oglethorpe, Macon county, on June 4th, to select dele gates to the Congressional and State Conventions. Let all in sympathy with the reform movement turn out. W. T. Christopher, Chm’n Ex. Com. Who is The Fool I Laboring Man—Mr. Banker I want to desposit SIOO for a year, what inter est do you pay ? Banker —If you will leave it the full year I will give you four per cent: Laboring Man —All right, give me the check. Banker —Certainly, my noble fellow, here it is. Laboring Man —Now I guess that I can loan some money out here to a farmer and at a good per centage and as you are paying me $4 for the use of my SIOO I will leave this check with you for security, and I want you to loan me S9O on it at one per cent per annum. Banker —We don’t do that kind of bustness. You must think we are fools, to let you have money and then pay you for the privilege of doing so. Laboring Man—ls that the name you call fellows who do that kind of busi ness? Why old fellow, that is what Uncle Sam has been doing for you these many years past. Do you mean to say that he is a fool ? —Arena. . Military Conspiracies. Secretary Elkins wants an early in crease of the regular army to 50.000 men and the immediate establishment of closer relations between the national and the state troops. His “experts” have told him that a strengthening of forces was still more necessary in the western than in the eastern states, and his fellow plutocrats have assured him that no support would bewitheld from the war department by either of their boodle parties. Our authority for this state ment is no less a personago than Bro ther-in-law Shepard, of the Mail and Express, who, as everybody knows, is a personal friend of Elkins and the jour nalistic mouthpiece of the Vanderbilts. Rayner, of Maryland, in his speech on the tariff bill, in the house on the 17th said: “I challenge you at this moment to eliminate the issue of revenue reform and to give me a single definition that will distinguish the tw r o parties, the one from the other.” The Johnnys now are coming, Glorious day! South and North uniting In array. The battle line is forming, Blue and Gray! Behold the charging column, Clear the way. It is sweeping on unshaken, For the fight! Its power is augmenting, Day and night. To catch the tide oncoming, It will pay. Its missions debt relieving, Watch and pray. J. R. L. —In Dakota Ruralist. Rotten System. A financial system under whieh more than one-half of the enormous wealth of the country, derived from the bounty of nature and the labor of all, is owned by a little more than thirty thousand people, w 7 hile one million American citizens, able and willing to toil, are homeless tramps, starving for bread, requires readjust ment. A social system which offers to tender, virtuous and dependent women the alternative between pros titution and suicide as an escape from beggary, is organized crime, for which some day unrelenting justice will demand atonement and expia tion.—John J. Ingalls. Here is what Hogg has to say; “Last year the federal government took from the people for revenue by way of a tariff $430,000,000 and the railroads took for transportation, which is a tax upon the people, $1,970,000,000. The federal tax and the railroad tax amounted together to more than all the circulating me dium of the country. Then if it takes all the money of the U. S. to pay the federal tax and .the railroad tax, I ask what will the people do business with ? It is a problem of finance that the American patriots would do well to think about. But they say it is a federal matter. I tell you reforms always begin with the people. Let us set the example in Texas : Texas granted railroads 38,- 000,000 acres of land, which at $2 an acre amount to more than the whole assessed values of the rail roads, amounting to $63,000,000. But these railroads have on them $455,000,000 of bonds and stock, amounting to more than half the assessed value of the whole state, in cluding the railroads, and more than the land valuation of the state. Is not that a serious menace? Are those bonds and stocks legitimate and ought not the people to have the power to investigate this question ? Will they do it? The two old parties have their orders, from the gold bugs, to ignore all financial issues and make tariff the on]Jy issue. Congress is trying hard to follow instructions but such pressure is being brought to bear through the demands of the senti ment of the people that word comes from there to the effect that wher ever the old threadbare question of tariff comes up no enthusiasm what ever is manifested. The members go to sleep in their seats, have busi ness in the cloak room, get out a dime novel to read. This apathy is cnly natural when we consider there is no intention or desire to effect anything except to kill time and fool the people, and is about the way the people are beginning to feel on the subject. Finance is the question and if the old parties are bound to ignore it the people will seek redress through another source.—People’s Defender. It is coming time of year now to begin to settle your mind on your choice of parties to vote with. If you are in favor of a larger supply of money, an increase of silver coin age, a checking of alien land-owner ship, a restriction of the power of corporations, a lowering of the rates of interest to small borrowers, a re duction of taxation, and of good times generally—if you are in favor of all this realty, truly and at heart, you will vote with the People’s par ty. It is the only party that holds to these principles. We must have better prices for the products of the farm or quit the business. We must have a freer money system or prices will still go down. The People’s party offers the only remedy for hard times—more money and better prices. Then why hesitate a mo ment as to where you will cost your vote ?—Alliance Liberator. Our National Bird. It has been proposed lately to or nament the tip of the flagstaff used in the regular army of the United States with the representation in metal of the bald eagle, which is the emblem of our republic. The staffs i of regimental standards now' termi nate w’ith pikes. The eagle has al ready done duty in this w'ay upon the standards of other nations, and particularly upon those of Rome and France. The American eagle, how ever, is of a different variety from the eagle of France and the Roman republic. It is of an American va riety—the “bald” or white eagle. The ordinary name of the bird is a misnomer. It is not bald, but simply white-headed, * the feathers on the head and neck of the adult speci mens being snowy white. The honor of first naming this bird as the emblem of the United States belongs to John J. Audubon, the naturalist, whose name will be for ever associated with our bird life. He called the bald eagle the “Wash ington eagle,” because, he said, “Washington was brave, as the eagle is. Like it, too. he was the terror of his enemies, and his fame, extending from pole to pole, resembles the soarings of the mightiest of the feathered tribe. If America has reason to be proud of her Washing ton, so has she to be proud of her great eagle.” The bald eagle, with wings extended, or “displayed prop er,” as it is called in heraldry, was made the emblem of the United States in the year 1785. Benjamin Franklin did not approve the choice. The bald eagle, he de clared, was a very evil-disposed bird, who would not earn an honest living, but got his livelihood by violence, deceit and rapine. He did not con sider such a creature the worthy em blem of a people who had gallantly driven out of their country all kingly birds of prey. Franklin’s critical judgment did not prevail. It is true, as he declared, that the bald eagle lives chiefly by violence and theft, swooping down upon the osprey, and snatching from this industrious bird the fish that it has just caught. But the eagle, on occasion, can take fish out of the water with great skill. The eagle is, moreover, a bird of dig nity as well as of bravery and beauty, and its strong attachment to its young and to its ( home certainly recommends it as an American em blem.—Baltimore Sun. ♦ FARMING BY ELECTRICITy. Engineering Magazine for May. Some of our rising young journalists are finding food for amusement in a bill recently introduced by Senator Peffer of Kansas, providing for the establish ment of an experiment station for the purpose of determining if electricity can be profitably used and applied as a motive power in the propulsion of farm machinery. Now' we would like to place ourselves on record with the opinion, that if Con gress would make as liberal an appro priation for this purpose as it did for certain idiotic experiments in “rain making” not long ago, which served to make that august body the laughing stock of the civilized world, and the business could be put in charge of some such intelligent and technically trained electrical engineers as those, for exam ple, who have within a few years revol utionized our methods of municipal transportation, the ultimate result would not be one whit less valuable to the people of the United States than that of the historic appropriation of $30,000 with which Morse’s experimental tele graphlines were built from Washington to Baltimore half a century ago. Os course, if the appropriation is made, the chances are that it will be squandered or stolen outright by some of the elec trical fakirs who are always on the look out for such opportunities. Neverthe less we believe in Senator Peffer’s idea, and do not hesitate to predict that the day is not distant when the entire labor of preparing and tilling the ground, as well as that of seeding, harvesting, threshing, and transporting the crops to the nearest railway station, where ever done on a large scale, will be per formed by electric moters, at a cost as much below the cost of animal-power as the latter has proved to below the cost of manual labor. The emancipa tion of the car-horse will be followed at no distant day by the emancipation of the farm-horse, and the results of the substitution, in the purely agricul tural districts of our country, will con stitute an industrial revolution of al most inconceivable magnitude. “The Alliance is dying.” Thirty six new’ sub-allia.nces were organized in low'a week before last. Let ’er keep on dying.—Ex. A War to the Death. The New York Recorder recently published the following paragraph : “John Jarrett’s resignation of the Birmingham consulate will release for campaign duty one of the most effec tive champions of protection to Amer ican industry.” The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, a leading'paper, which reproduces this statement, says in the same issue that Mr. Jarret is coming home to take com mand of combined capital engaged in the iron and steel business “in a war to the death” against the wage and other demands of organized labor. In other words he is to be secretary of the new iron and steel association “which,” the paper states, “will open up the greatest labor war of the past ten years.” Fur ther it is stated on behalf of the associa tion that has secured his valuable ser vices : “No half way measures are contem plated, but each and all of the demands made w'ill be urged and insisted on. That they will meet with most deter mined opposition, both from the Amal gamated association and the iron manu facturers, is certain, but the members of tiie association have carefuly weigh ed all questions and are prepared to ac cept all the consequences of the radical demand. It is composed of the wealth iest and strongest firms in the iron and steel business; that it will maintain its demands there seems to be no question. It is the beginnidg of a war to the death between the manufacturersand labor associations if the demands are not granted. It inaugurates the greatest struggle between capital and labor yet had in this vicinity and will effect the iron and steel industry of the United States, and it is notice to the Amalga mated association that the manufact urers mean to dictate their own terms. Many of our readers will doubtless re member the name of John Jarrett. Some years ago he was secretary of the Amal gamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers, and it was he who opposed the affiliation of his association with the American Federation of Labor. John Jarrett was never more than a hirelingof the protectionist manufac turers, and it is quite becoming that he should be prominent on the side of the manufacturers in a “war to the death between the manufacturers and labor associations.” The manufacturers may regret having invited the war-—Paterson Labor Standard. IS IT TRUE ? Has There Been a Change of Sentiment in Relation to Free Coinage of Silver ? The subsidized press and single stan dard advocates are just now’ industri ously circulating the statement that a “change of sentiment” has recently taken place on the silver question. This is the excuse Congressmen give for the failure to pass the silver bill in the House. If there is a change, what has caused it ? A few months, or even a few weeks ago, you could scarcely find a. man in all the great West, North west and South who was not a persis tent and determined adyocate of the free coinage of silver, not on account of any special love for silver, or any personal interest in silver mines or sil ver bullion, but because they knew that gold was owned and cornered by the plutocratic millionaires,and that hold ing to a single gold standard made these men “princes and rulers over us.” The people felt the need of a broader base for our money—felt the need of a money freer from plutocratic control. They naturally turned to silver as the money of the constitution, of the ear liest days of the republic and of the fathers. It involved no experiment, it was simply getting back into the chan nel worn by eighty years of successful use. It complied with the clamor of a few years ago for “hard money.” It afforded the least objectionable plan for an increased monetary base and a broadened financial system. Now, if there is a change of senti ment on this subject, what has made it ? Not a single condition has chang ed. In fact, there has been no change of sentiment among the people in re gard to the justice of free coinage. The indignation of the people, however, has increased rapidly since the treachery of the Democratic majority in its de feat of the Bland bill, and is crystaliz ing toward independent action to se cure their rights and enforce their wishes.- National Economist. The People’s party are not only “Marching through Georgia,” but they are w alking all over the Demo cratic party in that state. You can hear the Democrats squeal clear to here.—Cincinnati Herald. The farmers and laborers are re spected just in proportion as they begin to exercise their political rights. Nobody respects a fool who votes just as the leaders dictate. He is only a tool for schemers to use.— Colorado Workman. The People’s Party is the only party which squarely toes the mark in favor of the free coinage of silver, on a parity with gold. Remember this.—Farmer’s Advocate. The Important Thing. The important work to be done just now is to put People’s Party papers in the hands of the people. So persistent are the efforts of the opposition press to misrepresent the true condition of the movement and the men w r hom circumstances have made prominent in it that especial effort on the part of those who be lieve in our principles is necessary to prevent many from being deceived and misled. Put the truth and the facts in the hands of the people, and the cause is safe. There is no way of doing this so successfully or cheaply as to get subscribers to our reform papers. Every county committee, every Alli ance, ought to see to it that every voter is at least solicited to sub scribe, and w’hen any one is really too poor to do so, those better able should subscribe for them. It is the best investment that can be made, and will do more to keep our friends in touch one with another than any thing else that can be done. Remember that our 10 cents for eight weeks offer is still open. 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. Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville, Johnson county. A despicable little creature the other day said to the editor, “You third party fellow s are going to ruin this country. You have made the money-lenders specify in their notes that payment must be made in gold.” We said if the scoundrels were do ing that we hoped they never would be able to collect a dollar of it. After mature reflection we are rather glad to learn this, for it will, we be lieve, open the eyes of the gold ites.—lndiana Globe. A decreasing volume of money and falling prices have been and are more fruitful of misery than war, pestilence and famine. They have wrought more injustice than all the bad laws ever enacted. —U. S. Money Commission. Be careful you People’s Party cranks or you’ll have a law yet that will enable a farmer to borrow money on an equality with the poor banker, and then the country will go to the demnition bow-wows. See ?—Cin cinnati Herald. SHEARER MACHINE WORKS, MANUFACTURERS OF Engines, Boilers and Mills. ALSO REPAIR LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES AND all kinds of Machinery,' Engines, Boilers, Mills, Gins, Pumps Presses, Elevators, Etc. 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