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PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1893.
THE DRIFT.
If ever there was a time for the
American people to watch their
rulers, it is now.
Sheltered by the general rejoicing
at the election of Mr. Cleveland,
there is being outlined a policy—
covertly and stealthily but reso
lutely—which means absolute ruin
to the business world.
In the most earnest spirit we im
plore our merchants, our farmers,
our laborers to study the situation
for themselves.
The great bankers of the financial
centres, where all our money is con
gested, are drawing closer together
every day, irrespective of party, to
extend their dominion. These are
the men who have “cornered” the
bulk of the money.
How have they done it ? By the
laws which have enabled them to
lower the value of greenbacks just
after the war; laws which said to
the holder of greenbacks, your
money shall no, longer be good in
payment of interest on bonds and
Custom House duties.
Further, the laws which enabled
the speculator who bought up a
large amount of that paper money
which bore no interest to exchange
it, dollar for dollar, for Government
nonds which paid six per cent in
terest and paid no tax.
Further, by laws which changed
the condition of those bonds and
said they should only be paid in
gold.
Further, by laws ’which allowed
the holder of those bonds, if he had
a large quantity of them and lived
in a city, to start a National Bank;
get ninety cents of money for every
dollar of the bonds, pay one per
cent for the use of that money and
have the privilege of compelling
every State Banker, every Factor,
Merchant, Farmer, Manufacturer,
Miner, Miller and Laborer in Amer
ica to pay him from Six to Thirty
per cent for the use of that money
which the Government gave him for
One. At the same time every man,
woman and child in the country was
taxed heavily to pay him six per
cent in gold on the bond he had de
posited as collateral. This interest
was paid generally in advance. One
year $13,000,000 w r as so paid nearly
twelve months before it was due.
And to make the thing completely,
luxuriously and lavishly lovely, this
pampered favorite of the Govern
ment was exempt from taxation.
Os course all the money has gone
to these financial centers. It was
bound to do so. The suction draw
ing it in that direction was irresisti
ble. Their bonds called for gold.
The coupons called for gold. Every
Custom House called for gold, to
put into the hungry maws of the
conspirators who were cornering
Gold, Gold, Gold I
This thing has been going on for
twenty years, and the National
Bondholders and National Bankers
have got the gold.
Every State Banker does business
at their mercy—every Factor, every
Merchant, every Planter. There is
a gradation in the servitude, but the
livery of the serf is there all the
same.
The Laborer felt it first, and his
children cried for bread while he
wearily tramped the street hunting
for work.
The Cropper felt it next; stood by
and saw the mule, and the cow, and
the cotton seed sold at Bailiff’s sale
and sadly went to “renting land.”
The Tenant felt it next; could no
longer get credit, employ labor or
“meet the rent” and had to “quit
farming” or “work about by the
day.”
The Landlord felt it next; got
discouraged under the mortgage and
under “time prices,” and with eyes
blinded by tears and a heart that
weighed him down like lead, headed
his little family group as it aban
doned in dispair the home of many,
many years and journeyed away to
join the emigrants who have “moved
to town” to “school their children.”
Next comes the Merchant. How
many of them hit the wall last year ?
Even Bradstreet, anxious as he was
to make a good showing, could not
conceal the tremendous slaughter
going on their ranks. How many
more of them are nervously scan
ning “Bills Receivable” and com
paring them with “Bills Payable?”
How many of them will frankly tell
you that their future depends on
how they collect up what they “car
ried over ?”
After these, come your Factors,
State Bankers, Rail Roads and
Manufacturers —the pressure being
light on them as long as they can
impose their burdens on the grades
below.
'When the Chopper and Tenant
cai| no longer make good to the
lanay or d charges he en
dureL, tl®- fads him and he
joins poverty. When the
landlord can no longer make goed
to the Merchant the heavy charges
the latter has to pay for money, the
Merchant tumbles. When the Mer
chant support falls from under the
Factor and State Banker, down
comes that grade; and so on till you
reach the highest.
No business on this earth, where
only fair and legitimate profits are
aimed at, can be safe when it has
to pay to some other class for ths use
of money a higher rate than is paid
by that class. Sooner or later,
through the inexorable operation of
natural laws, the man who has a
monopoly of issuing money and can
charge a higher price than he pays,
will own the world. As well might
the grass try to resist the law of the
Seasons as the business world at
tempt to escape from this situation
without a change of the Laws which
create it.
The Gold-Grabbers are alive to
their advantages and seek to perpet
uate them. How r By perpetuating
a Banking System based on Gold
Bonds.
Have you read of the Banquet of
the Bankers in Philadelphia?
Have you noticed how Democratic
and Republicau Bondholders got to
gether at that elegant feast?
Have you reflected on the fact
that there was absolutely no differ
ence between the representatives of
the two old Parties as to the pur
pose ? Did you read the plans pro
posed—especially the plan of Mr.
Harter (Cleveland’s pet) who spoke
for the Democrats and whose Bill
appeared in this paper last week ?
If so, no words of mine can rouse
you, if the facts themselves do not.
When the Financial Kings of both
old Parties openly meet and declare
their determination to extend the
monopoly of the Gold they so tyran
nically obtained; to lengthen and
strengthen their dominion over the
business world; to compel every
citizen who uses money to come to
them for it and to submit to their
terms instead of having the Govern
ment issue it on equal conditions to
all its people, it does seem to me
that the business men all over the
land would be warned in time and
make a protest so resolute and im
mediate that the Plan of the Gold-
Ring could never be enacted into
Law. ■ T.' E. W.
GET YOUR GUN AND KILL HIM.
In the opening speech of bis Cam
paign last August, Mr. Watson an
nounced the belief that the time had
come when “the Color line should
be wiped out in Politics.” He en
deavored to show that the South
could never settle the Race Question
and take her true place in the ranks
of Progress till the Negro was treat
ed as a citizen and given those rights
under the Law which the Law said
were his.
In other words, he announced that
the Populists proposed to give to the
Negro “equal and exact justice” in
political affairs according to the
grand creed of Thomas Jefferson.
For having dared to say this, Mr.
Watson was abused, villified and
slandered as no man has been in the
South these latter years. He was
outlawed from the ordinary rules of
fairness, courtesy and even of de
cency. He was hounded down by
his enemies as though he were a
wolf. He was insulted, threatened,
maltreated. A character for honor
which had never been assailed, was
no defence against the cruel charges
of corruption. The fact that he was
a citizen and a property holder, a
member from childhood of a Protest
ant church, a husband and a father
whose family happiness was abso
lutely involved in that of his home
people, were no barriers to the infa
mous indictment that he had sold
himself to the Republicans and was
preaching “Social Equality” with the
negroes.
One of the most rampant newspa
pers making these assertions was the
New York Sun. It was more pow
erful in the last Campaign than any
other Democratic Paper. It howled
“Force Bill” and the “Negro Domin
ation” till even the buzzards got sick
at the stomach and the man in the
moon held his nose every time he
sailed over New York.
The Election is now past. The
“dear people” been duly hum
bugged and misled. “The outs”
have outed “the ins.” Campaign
lies can be laid away for the moment.
Truth and common sense can afford
to make occasional appearance. The
veil is lifted once in a while, and we
see what thinking men really think.
Read carefully the morsel of
thought from a well written Edito
rial in the New York Sun on Sun
dry, January 15, 1893, printed be
low, and then remember that its
author, in common with the balance
of the Boss outfit, denounced Mr.
Watson for saying the same thing on
August 9, 1892, in terms so bitter
that many a moss-back, ring-ruled,
boss-driven, hide-bound, town-stuff
ed, lie-crammed Democratic pottage
sipper thought he ought to take his
shot gun and go to one of Mr. Wat
son’s meetings and “shoot his d—d
life out
The Race Line in Politics ought to
BE OBLITERATED AT THE SOUTH IN THE
INTEREST OF BOTH THE WHITES AND THE
Blacks, but more especially the
Blacks. First of all, the Negroes
need to command respect and confi
dence AT HOME, FOR IN THE SOUTHERN
States they have the greatest op
portunity FOR ADVANCEMENT WHICH
THEY HAVE EVER EMJOYED IN THE HIS
TORY OF THEIR RACE.
T. E. W.
THE MEAT SHORTAGE.
The over-production theory has
to encounter a knock-out occasional
ly, but it is a fool’s argument, ever-
to meet puzzling conditions.
It was most assuredly used to ac
count for the low price of meat for
several years. Believing it, raisers
of cattle have for two-or three years
bred and fed less, and there is, as a
consequence, almost a meat famine
in the cities. St. Louis reports not
enough meat on the market for the
daily use of the housekeepers, and
dressed pigs command double their
nominal price. The same conditions
prevail in all the commercial centers,
and the necessary expenditures of
the poor are increased by high-pric
ed food, as well as high-priced coal,
in the extreme cold weather.
Under the pretext of over-produc
tion a great syndicate reduced the
prices of meat products until farm
ers found they lost by feeding, and
consequently the stock was reduced
until a partial famine is threatened.
The enhanced cost of living will dis
sipate the earnings of thousands of
families in all the trade centers, and
the organized charities will find
work where but for the manipula
tions of the meat and coal monopo
lies a sturdy self-support would ex
ist. The monopoly will make more
money in handling less goods, but
the people will pay a greatly en
hanced tax.
It is evident that had there been
no contention of over production, the
present enforced economy in con
sumption would have been unneces
sary. By refusing compensation to
the breeder, he has been forced to
abandon his business, and the whole
people suffer. This, too, when in
fact at no time in ten years has there
been any accumulation of meats be
yond what should have been consid
ered as a prudent guarantee against
just what has befallen.
It is now apparent that until the
breeders increase operations pork
will remain high. But as the ab
normally low price caused a reduc
tion in the output, by sending Stock
ers to the slaughter, the same result
will follow the abnormally high price
now paid. Farmers will be inclined
to send to the shambles everything
marketable, rather than risk a future
market which his experience tells
him is uncertain and will probably be
unprofitable.
Egypt, the mother of civilization,
is not yet too decrepid to furnish pas
turage for the great money power.
English bankers hold a bonded debt
of nearly $600,000,000, and just now
the Khedive seems to be unwilling to
play the part of keeper in charge to
collect the annual interest. As a
consequence, a speck of disquiet ap
pears in the British financial world,
and the fleet may again be sent to
Alexandria to play bailiff. The dis
turbing problem is, what has stiffened
the Khedive’s backbone ? Perhaps
some other European power has been
monkeying with the Egyptian black
ness.
Kansas, the center of the reform
movement, has a population, by the
census of 1890, of which 84£ per
cent are whites of American birth.
The remainder, 154 per cent, is made
ud of negroes, Chinese and Europeans.
So it would seem that the people of
the sunflower State are not indebted
to foreigners for their ideas on eco
nomics—their “ isms,” as the pluto
crats would say.
Recently a negro convict in an
Arkansas camp, after his release by
expiration of his sentence, sued the
lessees for damages because of bad
treatment, flogging, etc. He proved
his case, and got a verdict of
No doubt more such suits would have
an influence on the condition of
Southern convicts.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A WEEKLY PICTURE OF EVENTS
AT THE CAPITOL.
The Fair Boodlers Lobbying Against
Sunday A Mohammedan Mis
sionary Comes to Convert Us.
Washington, Jan. 23, 1893.
The Chicago Fair Boodlers are
getting exceedingly fat and increas
ingly “ sassy.” They got the old
Parties to rob the Tax-Payers of
$2,500,000 on express condition that
the money-snatching concern, com
posed of a general mixture of gamb
ling shops, saloons, eating houses,
and every other modern invention
for fleecing the visitor, should close
on Sunday.
The money of which this dona
tion was coined, was stamped with
special designs so as to render it
specially valuable. In other words,
the Government Mints were put at
the disposal of the Boodlers so that
they make the utmost of their dona
tion.
They managed it well. The $2,-
500,000 is coined into souvenir coins,
differing in pattern from any ever
issued.
The first half dollar coin so issued
teas sold by these Boodlers for ten
thousand dollars.
It did not cost them a cent. The
material and the workmanship were
furnished by the people. But the
Ten Thousand Dollars were pock
eted by the Boodlers all the same.
Large batches of the remainder
of the coins were sold at fancy
prices to curiosity hunters. Not one
of these half dollar souvenirs has
been sold for less than one dollar.
It is safe to say that the donation
of $2,500,000 has thus been swollen
to $7,500,000. The Boodlars furnish
nothing but the brazen cheek which
can send a Lobby here to demand
Special Favors to the privileged few.
The people furnish the money
They always do.
Now at this session comes the
Lobby again, swarming through the
corridors and about the gilded mir
rors in Mr. Crisp’s Bar-Room, de
manding that the condition upon
which the gift was made and ac
cepted shall be annulled.
Return the money pending the de
bate ?
Oh, no. They’ve got the money
and propose to keep it.
And to cap the climax, one of
these insolent Boodlers said last
week that we might as well do what
they asked, for they were going to
open the Fair on Sunday, anyhow!
Os course they will, if they want
to. What do the people amount to
when the Boodlers set their heads?
NEW YORK IMPUDENCE.
Says the Speaker : “The gentle
man from New York (Mr. Dunphy)
asks unanimous consent for the pres
ent consideration of a Bill which the
Clerk will report.”
Clerk reads. Nobody listens.
Hubbub all over the hall. Able
Statesmen cracking jokes, swapping
news, etc. Pages laughing, or quar
relling, or tusseling near the Speak
er’s desk. Dense cloud of cigar
smoke hanging like a haze over the
scene.
Says the Speaker (after the Clerk
had rattled off the Bill as fast as he
possibly could): “Is there objec
tion ?” Then almost invariably he
adds, “The Chair hears none.” And
in five seconds the Bill would have
become a Law.
“Mr. Speaker, I object.”
Says the Speaker in a tone which
might be interpreted this way
“The gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Watson, confound him!) objects.”
Gracious! wern’t the Tammany
fellows mad ? Didn’t they snort ?
What was this little matter which
was thus thrown on the side-track?
It was a cool proposition to give
the city of New York a quarter of a
million dollars per annum to increase
her Post Office facilities where they
already have from Eight to Six
teen Free Deliveries of mail
EVERY DAY.
This Democratic House was wil
ling to give it without a word of
objection.
And yet every Democrat in Con
gress knows there are hundreds of
rural districts where our Tax-Payers
can’t get mail once a week.
Why not divide things around?
Why not give the towns and villages
and country neighborhoods some of
the blessings of mail facilities ?
This is a question which the
Democrats will have to answer be
fore many months roll round.
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
Puddling along Saturday on Quar
antine Bill. Rayner had made one
of his attractive speeches, marching
backwards and forwards in the
aisles. Cain, of Texas, had put in
some questions and had got used up.
Oates was trying to get in with
some. Then Mallory, of Florida,
obtained the floor and made a good
argument. Then Oates. Then
Amendments to the Bill began to
pile in. Great disorder existed.
Difficult to hear anything but the
Chairman’s gavel rapping for quiet
The Clerk began to read. Nobody’
could tell heads or tails of anything.
Then Mallory jumped up and sang
out, “Mr. Chairman, what are we
doing?”
The Committee of the whole rears
back for a laugh; and the floor and
the gallaries all join in, uproariously,
when a clear voice sends careering
over the chamber this conundrum,
“ Where are we at?”
Men laughed till the tears fell out
of their eyes, and Mr. Cobb of Ala
bama was the only man who didn’t
enjoy it.
TO CONVERT US.
An American Consul, sent to the
East to look after mercantile affairs,
has become a Convert to Mohamme
danism. Not only a Convert, but a
zealous one. He is to take charge of
a Mission in New York. Funds
have been raised in the East for the
work, and a complete organization
has been perfected. The Missionary
spirit among the Mohammedans
seems to be strong. They appreciate
our benighted condition and are sorry
for us. They are going to do their
best to bring us to the true faith of
Islam.
Let them by all means start on
Tammany. If they can do anything
with that gang, their claims to have
a doctrine which will regenerate ns,
deserve due consideration.
In the meantime, it seems to be
just a little bit funny to think of a
ship load of preachers going from
America to the East to convert
heathen and crossing, in passage, a
ship load of preachers from the East
on their way here to convert heathen
in America. The situation is m dan
ger of becoming tangled. But turn
about is fair play, I reckon.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE
PEOPLE
Passed the House without a division.
Almost without debate. It will
never be heard of in the Senate.
The Democratic Senators over there
will treat it just as they treated the
Free Trade Bills which Mr. Moses
and so many others said were to save
the Tax-Payers $158,000,000. They
will allow it to sleep in Committee
Room without the slightest effort to
bring it to a vote. Then they will
go home and accuse the Republicans,
as usual.
When have the Democratic Sena
tors made any attempt whatever to
call up the Free Wool Bill? Or the
Free Cotton Tie Bill? Or the Free
Binding Twine Bill? Or the Tin
Plate Bill?
Don’t all answer at once !
DEAR OCALA DEMOCRAT,
Dids’t thou note how the Democrats
of the Kansas Legislature went over
to the Republicans ? Dids’t thou see
how clearly it proved that thy fears
were well founded when the Bdeses
made thee believe the People’s party
was merely a trick of the Republi
cans to break up the grand old Dem
ocratic Party?
Dids’t thou see, gentle Shepherd,
that the only thing which saved the
Republican party from everlasting
smash was the timely aid of these
good old Mossback Democratic mem
bers?
Did’t thou ever behold a trick of
the Republicans work so well aa
this? A trick, mind thee, which
started out to “break up the Demo*
crats” and which worked on such a
new, improved, self-action, reversi
ble and stem-winder plan that the
Democrats had to rush to the sup
port of the failing Republicans ?
Dear Ocala Democrat, we t all love
thee for thy lamb-like and innocuous
desuetude. There is about thy guile
less and prattling innocence, a pecu
liar flavor of the fresh, fresh spring
time that we never grow weary of
studying and endeavoring to deeply
understand thine especial type of
donkeyism.
Kick thyself, honest friend! Kick
thyself in all the different varieties
of kicks known to the true penitent;
and then join the brave men who
have borne thy colors, fought thy
battles, endured all the sufferings thou
shouldst have shared, whilst thou
wert standing apart over against us,
reviling us as we passed on the toil
some march, and cheering our ene
mies (and thine) while they heaped
insult upon thy creed and with bul
lets riddled our flag. T. E. W.
P. S. Our people will do well to
bear in mind that The National
Economist is now being run in the
interest of the Democratic Party.
