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NOTICE.
The Executive Committee of the
People’s party of Cherokee county
are requested to meet in Canton on
the third Saturday in May next at
10 o’clock sharp, as important busi
ness will come before the body.
Brethren, let us have full attendance.
AV. W. Hawkins, Chairman.
Wilkinson County Alliance
Will meet in Irwinton on Saturday
before the third Sunday in May next.
All true Alliancemen are invited to
attend, as business of importance will
come before the meeting.
Ike Davis, President.
Big Alliance Meeting at Griffin.
All Alliancemen in all the counties
around Griffin who ever carry any
cotton to that market are invited to a
meeting to continue the Warehouse
business at Griffin on the old plan of
distributing all profits to the Alliance
men who patronize it. Come and
let us show the people we are not
dead. We meet the third Saturday
in May (20th) at 10 o’clock a. m., at
the Court House.
W. E. H. Searcy, President.
“I Will be With You on July 4th.”
The caption of this notice is the lan
guage of the Hon. Thomas E. Watson in
reply to an invitation to speak at
Douglasville on the 4th day of July. The
great champion of the People’s cause in
Georgia will speak to the citizens of
Douglas county at Douglasville on the
above named day. We earnestly request
every Reformer in the counties of Camp
bell, Carroll, Paulding and Cobb to meet
with ns. We also invite all the old sol
diers to lie with us on that day. We will
have a basket dinner and a good time
generally. Come one, come all, and see
the grandest rally ever held in this sec
tion of Georgia.
E. H. Camp, Chairman.
A. G. Weddington.
NI. H. Bassett,
W. N. Magouirk,
G. T. Ruthiford,
F. M. Zancey, Jr.,
D. M. Allen.
In Either Gold or Silver.
Senator Stewart, in Washington Post.
The view of leading New York
bankers published in the .Post are re
markable. The bankers appear to
assume that the Secretary of the
Treasury has the right to use the
public money according to his dis
cretion, without regard to the stat
utes of the United States. They
ignore the fact that there are no
paper issues in circulation which
authorize the holder to demand gold
coin, except gold certificates.
The resumption act of July 14,
1875, provided for the redemption in
coin (not gold) the legal tender notes
(greenbacks) outstanding on the Ist
of January, 1879, and authorized the
sale of bonds to buy coin (not gold)
“to the extent necessary” for that
purpose.
The act of July 14, 1890, mis
called the Sherman act, provides that
the Secretary of the Treasury shall
“redeem such notes [Treasury notes
issued in exchange for bullion] in
gold or silver coin at his discretion,”
and it further declares that “he [the
secretary of the Treasury] shall coin
of the silver bullion purchased under
the provisions if this act as much as
may be necessary to provide for the
redemption of the Treasury notes
herein provided for.”
The greenbacks and Treasury
notes, by the express terms of the
statutes providing for their redemp
tion, are redeemable in the sam£
kind of money, namely, coin—not
gold coin. When there is not
sufficient coin m the Treasury for the
redemption of either greenbacks or
Treasury notes the Secretary has the
power to make up the deficiency.
When there is not sufficient coin in
the Treasury to redeem greenbacks
he may sell bonds and buy coin for
that purpose under the resumption
act. M hen there is not sufficient
coin for the redemption of Treasury
notes issued under the act of 1890 he
must coin silver for that purpose.
When there is sufficient of either
gold or silver coin in the Treasury
for the purpose of redemption he has
no right to sell bonds. The law only
authorizes him to sell bonds to buy
coin “to the extent necessary” to re
deem the greenbacks outstanding on
January 1, 1879.
There are over $50,000,000 of sil
ver coin and bullion subject to coin
age in excess of the silver certificate
and Treasury notes outstanding
which is applicable to the redemp
tion of greenbacks, and the amount
is accumulating every month to the
extent of the difference between the
coined value and the market price of
PEOPLE’S PARTYPAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA/FRIDAY, MAY 12. 1893.
the 4,500,000 ounces of silver bul
lion acquired monthly under the act
of 1890. All this excess can be used
for the redemption of greenbacks
and leave sufficient silver in the
Treasury to be coined for the re
demption of Treasury notes issued
under the act of 1890.
The fact that other Secretaries
have exercised their discretion to
furnish gold for export and retain the
silver in the Treasury, or pay it out
to the people for use in this country,
does not change the law, or author
ize the bankers of New York or any
one else to demand gold redemption
for either greenbacks or Treasury
notes of the act of 1890.
The bankers should understand
that Mr. Carlisle is the first lawyer
who has been Secretary of the Treas
ury for many years, and that his ed
ucation and training will not allow
him to disregard the law as an exe
cutive officer. He has ample means
at his command to comply with every
obligation of the government without
increasing the public debt, or adopt
ing any other extraordinary or ille
gal proceedings.
The promise of ex-Secretary Fos
ter, made to the bankers of New
York on the 17th, of November,
1891, was a gross violation of law,
and no trained lawyer could make
such a promise. He said :
“ The resumption act confers au
thority upon the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue bonds to any extent
he may feel called upon to do to in
crease or maintain the gold reserve.
The act of July 14, 1890, commands
him to preserve the parity between
gold and silver. It has always been
the custom of this country to pay its
obligations in gold. [Applause.]
Therefore, should there be any
trouble about this, and the present
hundred millions of gold, or reserve
fund, we call it, be intrenched upon,
it was in his power under the law to
issue bonds for gold, paying 5 per
cent, and replace or increase the re
serve fund.” —[Speech at Delmon
ico’s.]
The resumption act does not au
thorize the issurance of bonds to any
extent to increase gold reserve or to
increase them at all. It authorizes
the sale of bonds to the extent neces
sary to buy coin (not gold) to redeem
greenbacks outstanding on the
Ist day of January, 1879, and to no
otlier extent and for no other pur
pose.
The act of July 14, 1890, does not
command him (the Secretary of the
Treasury) to preserve the parity be
tween gold and silver; nor does it
command him to do anything. It
simply recites, “ It being the estab
lished policy of the United States to
maintain the two metals on a parity
with each other upon the present
legal ratio or such ratio as may be
provided by law. ”
It says nothing about the parity
between gold and silver coin. That
parity is established by legislation
which makes both a legal tender in
payment of all dues, public and pri
vate. It declares it to be the policy
of the United States to maintain the
parity between the metals, which can
only be done by legislation, and the
only legislation which ever has ac
complished or ever can accomplish
that is the coinage of silver upon the
terms and conditions which are ap
plicable to the coinage of gold.
It is true that it has been the cus
tom of the Treasury Department in
disregard of the statute, to pay the
obligations of the United States in
gold, but that is no reason why the
law ought not to be obeyed. It is
not true that if the so-called SIOO,-
000,000 reserved fund is intrenched
upon the Secretary of the Treasury
has power under the law to issue
bonds to replace or increase the fund.
He can only issue bonds, as before
stated, to the extent necessary to
purchase coin (not gold coin but
either gold or silver coin), to redeem
the greenbacks which were outstand
ing on the Ist of January, 1879.
It is time for the Treasury Depart
ment to observe the laws of the
United States, which are ample to
protect the Treasury and comply with
every obligation of the Government.
No other government in the world
manages its finances for the accommo
dation of speculators in gold. All
obligations of France—the same as
those of the United States—are pay
able in either gold' or silver coin.
France will not pay out gold in large
quantities for export, but answers
every demand of that kind by an
offer to pay in silver. Germany pur
sues the same policy.
The Bank of England protects her
gold by favorable rates of exchange
and by an increase of the rate of in
terest whenever there is an undue ex
port of gold. The United States
alone has been made subject to the
beck and call of the money changers
by the administration of the Treasury
Department and not by the legisla
tion of Congress.
A G. 0. P. Going.
New York Voice.
The condition of the Republican
party is not made any better by the
antagonisms between its leaders that
are finding open expression. The
late chairman of the national com
mittee, Clarkson, who is still the
president of the national league of
clubs, has, since the election, rushed
into print to tell the w r orld that ex-
President Harrison is a Benedict
Arnold to the Republican cause; and
now we have John Sherman inform
ing the public that the leader of the
Republican party in this State is no
better than Tammany Hall, the epi
tome in Republican eyes—and most
other eyes—for all that is venal and
wicked in politics. “As between
Tom Platt and Tammany Hall I
would not toss a copper. ” Such was
E. A. ANGIER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
171 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in all the Courts,
State and Federal.
the expressive utterance by Senator
Sherman in a letter published a few
days ago in the Niagara Falls
Gazette. It was probably not writ
ten for publication, but that fact does
not allay Mr. Platt’s feelings any.
He retorts, in good temper, but in a
sarcastic vein, broadly intimating
that Senator Sherman’s poor opinion
arises from his # (Platt's) refusal
to co-operate with the Senator’s
friends to nominate the latter for
President, and accusing the latter of
being a constant self-seeker and trim
mer. Sherman is about the only one
of the recognized leaders of the Re
publican party in war times left in
active political life. Edmunds has
retired. Hoar and Dawes have retir
ed. Blaine has followed Garfield
and Conkling to the tomb. The new
leaders, Reed, Lodge, McKinley,
Reid, Clarkson, Quay, Platt, Fora
ker, are already thoroughly discred
ited before the public, and and
at sword’s points with such men as
Sherman and Harrison, the survivors
of the party’s heroic period. If it is
not dissolution that is overtaking the
party, what is it ?
The Foreign Population.
The figures show that in 1850 only
9.68 per cent, of the entire popula
tion of this country was foreign born.
This percentage was increased in
1890 14.77 per cent., or to a total
foreign born population 9,249,547.
Os this enormous aggregate, the bul
letin shows nearly 45 per cent, are
now living in 124 cities of the coun
try. Os the Italian and Spanish em
igrants 58 per cent, are found in the
cities, of the Poles and Russians 57
per cent., of the Irish 55 per cent.,
Austrian and Bohemian 48 per cent.,
German 47, South American, 46,
French 45, Hungarian 44, and so on
down to the Welsh, which show only
20 per cent, living in the cities, and
the Belgian, Danish and Norwegian
only 7 per cent.
The bulletin shows that there are
now living in the States 980,000 Can
adian-born immigrants, figures that
constitute a powerful argument in
favor of anexation. They constitute
nearly a million living testimonials to
the fact that the States afford better
opportunities for making a livilihood
than does Canada under the existing
government. There are only about
14,000 of these Canadians found in
the South. On the other hand, of
the 77,000 native Mexicans in this
country, but about 1,300 are found
in the North. The Chinamen for
the most part stick to California and
they number 106,000. One hundred
and eighteen thousand Italians were
enumerated, 24,000 in the North
Atlantic States and more than half
that number in New York, 24,000 in
Pennsylvania, 15,000 in California,
12,000 in New Jersey and only 7,000
in Louisiana where they managed to
create such a big sensation not long
ago as to give rise to the supposition
that every other man in the Pelican
State is a native Italian.
In 1850 the Irish in America ex
ceeded the German born by the dif
ference between 961,000 and 583,000.
Forty years later the census returns
showed 2,784,000 German born and
1,000,000 of Irish born in America.
The same census showed 909,000
Englishmen, 478,000 Swedes,322,ooo
Norwegians, 242,000 Scots, 182,000
Russians, 132,000 Danes, 123,000
Austrians, 118,COO Bohemians, 113,-
000 French, 104,000 Swiss, 100,000
Welsh, 81,000 Hollanders, 62,000
Hungarians and 22,000 from Cuba
and the V/est Indies. Save the Italian
immigrants, it is observed that the
great mass of the foreign born popu
lation, in coming to America, seek a
climate that most closely resembles
the climate they left. Nearly all of
the Scandinavians are found in the
Northwest.
Absent Witout Leave.
At the recent banquet given in
Philadelphia in honor of the 306
who stood by Grant for a third term
at the Chicago convention, in 1880,
w’hen the name of Walter Q. Gresham
was called some one answered, “ Ab
sent without leave. ”
Kansas the Battle Ground.
An effort is persistently made by old
party papers to create the impression that
the voters of Kansas have returned to
their former party affiliations. To con
trovert this you need only to
INFORM YOURSELF
as to what is really happening by send
ing for the
WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
Junction City, Kansas. SI.OO will pay
for one copy one year.
The TRIBUNE is recognized as the
pioneer People’s paper of Kansas, having
stood consistently in line with the reform
principles for over 19 years. It has earned
a national reputation under the staunch
editorial management of Hon. John
Davis, twice elected (in 1890 and 1892) to
represent the sth Kansas district in Con
gress. The paper will remain his per
sonal organ during his concessional
term, and his contributions to its columns
will be frequent, lacking nothing in old
time vigor. The spirit and tone of the
paper will advance with the progress of
the Industrial Movement, and any one
desiring to keep abreast of the times will
do well to send postal for sample copies,
mentioning The People's Party Paper,
or remit as above, SI.OO for a year's sub
scription, or 25 cents for a trial trip of
three months.
CHAS. S. DAVIS, Editor,
Junction City, Kansas.
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Give It a Trial.
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Contains No Ingredient
Injurious To The Throat, As
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Try It.
FOR SALE BY
Dr. G.W. Durham,
THOMSON, GEORGIA.
PRICE,
SI.OO Per Bottle.
O. S. LEE,
TUOJSZESOISr, - - GEORGIA
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A COMPLETE LINE OF SHOES,
For Spring Trade. I guarantee price and quality on ever
pair sold. Also, an elegant stock of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Etc.
I continue to sell BETTER FLOUR for less money than
any house in Thomson. A full line of
SUPPLIES
Kept on hand for sale at lowest prices. Give me a call and I
will save you money.
Cholera. Cholera.
Thousands are n'ow dying in the East. Cholera will be the
plague here this summer. The World's Fair will bring it.
DR. E. B. LOUDEN’S
Clio era Compound
Is the only known preventive. None ever known to have
taken the dread disease who have used this compound
TAKE IT WITH YOU TO THE WORLD’S FAIR,
and take no chances on the dread disease.
Price $2.00 per bottle, or $9.00 per half dozen bottles.
Address The Louden Medical Company,
Agents wanted. TIFFIN, OHIO.
GEO. R. LOMBARD & Co. r We carry the largest stock south of—
Foundry, Machine, Boiler engines?^ o 75 horse pbwer.
> ANO GIN WORKS. BOILERS. 6 to 150 horse power.
Railroad, Cotton Fsctorv, GRIST-MILLS, sl6 TO S4B.
Mill Rnglne and Gio "• FEED MILLS, SSO to SIOO
?. aw Gins, Roller Gins. Furnace Grateg.
AUGUSTA, Cane Mills, Kettles, Evaporators,
GA. Stacks, Fronts, Building Castes,
. Stacks, etc.. Bolts.
Pulleys, Hangers,
:< Packing, Injectors,
Um P3. Piping. Valves. |sizes,
5—35 W * Saws, Bar Iron, all
w All kinds of Machinery Work, new, and Re
’ r pairs Promptly attended to,
■ ■ Write us before you buy and get our prices
TRADE ABC MARK.
PEOPLE! PEOPLE! PEOPLEi
LOOK AT OUR LEADERS:
TOBACCOS. RAVEN’S
Jim Q.. 9 in ss, good chew. HORSE, CATTLE and POULTRY
Rock and Rye, 9 in., ss, medium chew. ~ n
Hoe Boy, 9 in., ss, medium chew, rOOD
Big Seller—Big 10-cent plug. TO CURE CHOLERA
Cora Moore, 9 in., 4s, fine chew. AND REGULATE THE SYSTEM.
Old Bob, 9 in., 4s, fine chew.
7-inch 5s from 30 to 35 cents in caddies. GUARANTEED.
“GET THERE” Flour, our leader. Honest value. Nails, Lime
and Kerosene Oil. We clothe the people inside. It is economy to buy
the best goods, but at an honest price. Yours to serve,
ARRINGTON BROS. & CO-
21 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WHEN IN THOMSON, GO TO
H. A. BURNSIDE'S,
WHERE YOU CAN BUY ANYTHING YOU WANT.
Best Shoe Stock in Town. Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Notions. Also
a Select Stock of Groceries. The Best Tobacco for the Least Money.
In fact, a dollar gets a hundred cents’ worth every time. Come and
see. We will be glad to show you our stock.
H- A- BURNSIDE,
THOMSON, GEORGIA
T, W. RIVERS, JAMES STAPLETON,
Formerly of Rivers & Arrington. Os T. D. Stapleton & Co., Spread G
RIVERS & STAPLETON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
-Plantation Supplies, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc
745 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA
Will be pleased to have our friends and the public generally call on us
We sell everything in the Grocery line at LOWEST CASH PRICES
We handle all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE on commission, and wil
be pleased to serve our friends.
THERE IS A WIDE DIFFERENCE
between a Piano that is not right in any one essential and one
that is right in all respects, particularly in tone, touch and
durability. Viewed apart you may not notice the difference.
Buy the one lacking in essentials, and compare it with
Piano.
and then the difference will be apparent. The strange thing
about it is this: You are sure to be asked nearly as much
for the cheaper as for the better piano. This seems incredibly
It is true. Why?
THE JOHN CHURCH COMPANY,
ciisrciiTisr-A-'Z'i, ozzio.
Something New!
I HAVE A RECEIPT FOR THE CURE
of the
Opium and Morphine Habit.
This prescription cured a man who took
one bottle (60grains) of morphine per day.
All who are afflicted with this dreadful
disease should procure this remedy with
out delay, and be cured with the least pos
sible cost and w’ithout pain or hindrance
from business. For additional informa
tion, address
G. W- SHEERER, M. D.
Rayle, Wilkes County, Ga.
THE DAKOTA RURALIST,
THE RURALIST is one of the pioneer
Alliance papers of the Northwest. It is
edited by H. L Loucks, president of the
N. F. A. & I. U., with J. R. Rowe, pres
ident of the South Dakota Alliance as as
sociate editor, which is a sufficient guar
antee that it will be a stalwart advocate
of Alliance principles.
It is a 13-page paper, published at Hu
ron, S. D. Price, $1 per annum. Sample
copies EREE.
FINE LIGHT BRAHMAS.
My birds are best laying strains. Eggs.
15 for SI.OO, CHAS. R. HILL,
Edinburg, 111,