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Debt a Factor of Prosperity.
Under this head the esteemed Con
stitution devotes nearly a column of
its valuable space to a dissertation on
the advantages of being in debt.
None can appreciate this doctrine of
’ the Constitution more than the man
with a mortgage on his home, de
priving his wife and children of the
comforts of life to raise the neces
sary money to pay the annnal in
terest, with the certainty before him
that sickness or a temporary loss of
employment will bring the sheriff to
his door and his demand for shy
lock’s ponnd of flesh not being satis
fied, the fortunate debtor is turned
out of doors and his family become
homeless wanderers.
The Constitution becomes eloquen t
over its theme. “Debt,” it says, “is
in reality the cornerstone of pros
perity.” It quotes Robert P. Por
ter, that “prosperity and debt march
hand in hand,” and claims that—
The facts sustain him. In this coun
try debt, is the rule. The federal gov
ernment, the states, the counties, the
cities and towns, the great corpora
tions, and the majority of our rich and
poor nu n, are up to their cars in debt.
Our national banking system is based
on a debt-—the indebtedness of the gov
ernment.
The census reports show that the
P'TC-. ntiige of our real estate mortgage
indebtedness is greatest in the most
prosperous sections.
And then the Constitution moral
izes further thusly:
When we look into the matter it is
impossible to resist the conviction that
debt lias been one of the leading fac
tors of our progress. It has fought our
great wars, established our big enter
prises, turned the wilderness into a gar
den and developed our continent from
sea to sea. Where states, corporations
an i individuals are the freest from
debt will be found the slowest advance
ment and the smallest per capita
wealth and circulation.
Is it any wonder that the constitu
tion should support a man for gov
ernor whom it denounced as a “Yel
lowstone Kit statesman” and who,
it declared, is unfit t<> fill the office?
Is it any wonder that it works to
send a man to congress whom it rid
iculed as a thirty dollar statesman
and who, it hinted, had swapped his
honor for boodle? Is it any wonder
that it should profess io favor the
free coinage of silver, yet labor in
the interest of a party which is op
posed to silver coinage?
Prosperity and debt march hand
in hand !
Wo can now understwnd why the
democratic administration added
$50,000,0(10 more to our bonded in
debtedness. J! was to add to our
prosperity. “Prosperity and debt go
hand in hand;’’ the larger the debt
the greater the prosperity.
This is the democratic, teaching.
When wa read about the marble
palace of the millionaire, a single
door of which costs $10,000; of his
beautiful conservatory filled with
faro and costly orchids; of liveried
servants to be ready at the beck of
diamond bedecked devotees of fash
ion and pleasure; of palatial stables
in which $30,000 horses pass a use
less existence; of sumptuous feasts
which cost SIO,OOO given to a social
entertainment to poodles and pugs;
of pleasure yachts which rival the
dreams of fairyland in magnificence,
and find that in spite of such lavish
expenditure the fortune of the fa- j
vorite is constantly increasing—we
see, as the Constitution does, that
“debt is a factor of prosperity,” for
these colossal fortunes are built upon
debt, and they grow atd increase
from the interest on debt.
But the Constitution like other
journals of its kind, is blind in one
eye. It can see only one side of thi a
debt and interest question. If it had
two eyes the Constitution might see
the humble home of the honest toiler,
f. -e the want of the comforts of life;
the careworn look of the father and I
mother prematurely aged by inces
sant ill-paid toil; see reflected in the
lines of care upon their features the
para which is in their hearts as they
behold the fruitful fields and gather
the abundant harvests and realize
that with all this they are not enabled
to properly educate their children
end start them out in life. It is debt,
“federal, state, county, city corpora
tion and individual debt,” that factor i
of prosperity- to him who reaps
where he has not sown.
An industrial sytem founded upon
debt is not a factor of real prosperity-
It breeds the extremes of wealth
and poverty, the millionaire and the
tramp, a feast for one and a famine
for another.
To teach that it is a blessing is un
christian— it is untrue.
Populist State Government.
Democratic stump speakers and
journals, finding nothing in the re
cord of their party or in its platform
to commend it to the people, seek I
refuge in pointing to populism in ;
Kansas, relying upon the ignorance !
of their hearers or readers to deceive
them with the distorted picture of
populist state rule which they draw-
Let us sea what the rule of popu-
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1894,
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Can This Animal Make Another Race?
■ lism has done for Kansas.
It was the first state to fall into
1 the hands of the populists, the first
, state where the populists had a
“ chance ” to show how they would
i
govern a state. Now what is the re
. suit of populist rule in Kansas?
In the first place Mr. Ingalls, a
rabid south hater, was turned out of
the United States senate, and Mr.
W. A. Harris, an ex-ConTederate
veteran, was enthusiastically elected
as congressman at large.
Sectionalism was buried by the
populists, and they are prepared to
■ unite with the south in resisting the
encroachments of eastern class legis
lation.
Now as to local management. 'The
old party leaders claim that it has
I been inimical to the interests of the
people. The Constitution calls it
i the “Blight of Populism,” and-says
I 1 of it:
■ | Thonsanlls of r7 ood citizens in Kan
. I sas and • olorado view with alarm the
' results of populist rule In those states,
> i and unless T.iere is a spee.lv change for
■ the better a wholesale exodus may be
‘ expected.
I This is a statement, sweeping as
iit is indefinite, made for partisan
I effect, and totally unwarranted by
‘ j facts.
From the official reports of Kansas
I wo gather that the state tax levy
was reduced $71,324.36, and ye 1
there remained in the treasury' at
tiio end of the fiscal year (June 30,
1894) an unexpended balance of
$189,657.08, the largest in the his
tory of the state, notwithstanding
the fact that $170,650.38 had been
expended for deficiency bills, a legacy
of the preceding republican adminis
tration. Reductions of expenditures
i have been made in every depart,
i ment, $50,971.27 being saved in tin
single item of public printing. In
the salaries of county officials a
saving of $214,650 has been effected-
It is unreasonable to suppose that
a representative government of the
people should legislate against the
interest of the state. The records
make a favorable showing for the
now party, and tin? peace and order
which has prevailed in Kansas
while oilier western states under
democratic and republican control
have been scenes of violence and dis-
I order show that it is a parly of law
and order.
Populist government has benefited
Kansas, and after having been tried,
is endorsed by 7 the people. The only
class dissatisfied are the disgrunted '
old officeholders who have lost their
jobs. _
Charity Which is Counterfeit. 1
In winding up a frantic appeal to J
i the voters of Morgan county to“vote>
the full democratic ticket,’' the Ad
vertiser declares:
“With malice to none, with charity
to all, wo have performed our duty.” I
Wo will not impugn the motives of
our brother and grant him perfect
honesty of purpose. But he seems
to have a peculiar definition of the
term “with malice to none, with
charity to all.”
In making his doleful plaint to i
the people he asserts.-
The proposed undertakings of the i
populists, as promised in their nlutform ;
and indicated by tl. ■ bills tlu-y have
introduced in eon. re ,s. aid too wild and
impossible to d. > , i .x-any rational liu-
■ man being who'..ill only consider I hem
c almly for just :i imiimmt. It is just :
I about as reasonable i >r th- m to pro.u-
I ise to build a railroad from the earth to !
the moon, us to promise, as they do ■
promise, the simple-minded negro that I
they w ill, when in power, buy mid own '
all the railroads of the I'uit-'d States
and will give him a free ride over them '
whenever and wherever he wishes to
go. It can be proven that their leaders
have told several negroes that when
' their party is enthroned, they will
• simply paste a postage stamp on their
foreheads and they can go, just like a
1 letter, all over the United States.
! Oh no! brother. If a halter were
placed about your neck, and your sal
vation depended upon your ability to .
prove your assertions, off you would
swing. That you are sincere in re
tailing such bosh we will not ques
tion, but “as a jouralist who loves hi s
country- and his people” do you think
you have done your duty in attempt.
' ing to be theii teacher when yon are
chock full of idle tales and youl
- is choked and strangled by
ignorance?
Here is some more of the brother’s
charity, that heavenly- virtue which
“vaunteth not itself, and thinketh no
! evil:”
Now, it is not the members of the |
s third party but its principles we de- ■
nounce. There are. some few of our
best citizens strangely in its ranks; but
a vast majority of its members are men
, who have lost all their property, or are
badly in xiebt, or have become bank
rupt in ■ character, or are downright
, crazy-. The latter are prompted by an I
evil spirit, and no argument or persua
sion could reach them.
This is truly a peculiar way of not
denouncing the members of a party,
but its principles. If that is charity,
it must be a new edition, pressed in
a democratic form.
. Why should populists be thus de
nounced? If it is true that avast
majority of them are in debt, are not
- the democrats in the same fix? Is
not the burden of debt a common
curse to our people; almost as inev-
' itable under our present system as
death and like death no respecter of
persons or party-, stalking like a grim
spectre into the homes of democrat
i.n l populist alike? Has not the
democratic press come to the point
where they claim that debt is the
foundation of prosperity? Why ac
cuse populists of being “downright
crazy or men without character?" i
Let the Advertiser teach its peo- i
pie that populists and democrats are |
brethren, equally honest, equally in- '
terested in the common welfare and;
equally desirous to see better times .
differing only as to the best methods
required to secure the thing both de
sire and labor to accomplish with
equal earnestness and singleness of
purpose. Let it demand that equal
chances be accorded to them to as
certain the will of the majority by a
fait election and an honest count.
'Then it can truly claim that with
“malice to none, with charity to all”
' it has performed its duty, not as a
narrow-minded partisan, but as a
I Christian and a patriot.
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