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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1908.
Mr. Watson s Address at At
lanta October 7th, 1908.
J'ellow Citizen a:
In theory, I am a King, addressing
-assemblage of fellow Sovereign*.
■ « matter of fact, I am a political
nonentity, addressing a good-looking
-crowd of citizens who are Just as
ifcclptoM a# myself.
We imagine that we have a great
4Ml To do with the government of
-•ott ■country. In theory, we rule It.
-The actual truth i« that nobody con
sults ns In the making of laws, the
.shaping of policies, or the selection of
: raises. To prove that this is so, we
.Jww only to take a passing glance at
Hr laws which govern us.
"We had an Income tax which was
jeornpolling the accumulated wealth
the country to pay seventy million
• dollars per year to the support of the
■ government. That tax was repealed
By whom? Did you do It? Was not
. rrery single one of you heartily In
ftror of the principle of the income
■fas. which simply compels those who
hare derived the greatest advantage
urt of the government to contribute
at portion of their net profits to the
«support of the government? Do you
ut know that the rank-and-file Re
publican—-the Republican farmers,
merchants, mechanics—Is as much
favor of the principle of the In
born® tax as you are? Then who re
pealed It? The two political ma-
■rhJnoH which control you are respon
sible for It* repeal. Democratic Sen
ators. Democratic Representatives,
locked hands with Republican Sena
tor and Republican Representatives,
ana at the behest of the millionaires
in freight and passenger rates tax
every man, woman and child In Amer
ica. and take into their own coffers
millions upon millions of the dollars
which other people’s labor produced.
Second. We have been acquies
cent. patiently submissive, while Con
gress has thirty years legislated in
favor of corporate capital, *rrlng
to the manufacturing class such ad
vantage over every other class that
foreign competition amounts to al
most. nothing; and we are taxed by
the trusts growing out of the tariff
to such a vast extent that the yearly
net revenues of the manfacturers,
a* shown by the official statistics, ex
ceeded the two billions of dollars vot
ed away by the Republicans and Dem
ocrats at the last session of the
Roosevelt Congress.
Third. While we have protected
the corporate capital of the United
States to such an extent that foreign
competitors cannot molest Its gath
ering and heaping up of riches—pro
tected to such an extent that it can
sell its products cheaper In China
than It will sell them here in Amer-
'ca—we have allowed the labor of
the old world to enter through the
doors of Immigration, and the capi
talist who is protected from the en
trance of foreign competitive money
can bring In foreign competitive la
bor to beat down and keep down the
wage of American labor.
Fourth. We have surrendered to
(he privileged capitalists the sov-1
erelgn power of creating currency. In
tended to be used as money, and
Street which has given ns two deso
lating panics within the last,fifteen
years? What plank In his platform
propose* to lift the burdens of gov
ernment from the backs of the un
privileged and to place at least a por
tion of It on the accumulated wealth
of the country? What part of his
Jpdge like Judge Jones, of Alabama,
or Pritchard, of North Carolina, we
would not hav© to wait an indefinite
period to remove Judge Grosscup,
who falsified a judicial record In
der to find a method of relieving the
Standard Oil Company of the $29,000,-
000 fine. In other w'ords, If the Pon-
platform offers a single suggestion' u,,flt pla,form were placed Info op-
of material relief from the exactions erat,on - ,:vfr >’ citizen would be In
and the tyranny of the public service ! fact wl,at h “ ls ln a aover-
corporations? What portion of his
platform proposea fo put back Into
the hands of the people the right to
rule themselves? Is It not to be found.
With Mr. Taft elected President, we
have the governmental system left
nractlcally where It Is . and where It
han been for these many rears prac
tically. ,Mr. Ta/i’s platform Is
stand-pat platform. The Steel
Trust need not be afraid ol
who hated the tax relieved them from which is used as mntiev—a power
. which the Constitution denied to the to rellevd the country from the 'evils
There wns once a Federal tax up- •tate. themselves, surrenderlnf It to lot ,mM. {axtrifon. He once stood
* express Tom,-"'-: *n-»rancc «»£*«• '* b « used for; for an .income tax. He no longer does
Cnles, Manufacturing eotnpahles. rtt 1- HVO • guilt. Tins we have allowed
Jtet ' 2i nJ banks. Tt was rm | “HP government to ho shorn of its
Kv whom? Hid you. my'ellow Sov
ereigns. do It? You certainly «d not.
Then- la not ft Democrat ln Georgia.
^rtsoonnectcHl with these corporations.
Oat would not vote promptly tr nun-
7*-! them to tmv « Yolr portion of Fed
eral tax. There Is not ft Republican
the rank-and-file disconnected with
these corporations, who wnnld not
as heartily favor a Federal tax n|K>n
tumm hr you voursclf would. Then,
5ST slid ■ these corporations ro1l£*e
the burden of rffl
•*thsi#n»nfVHf’from the burden of Fed-
^, U«rios7 who was It that said
SS-SEIn compel them to eon-
to the support Of the govern-
„ a which brought them Into life
charters, and* which gave them
rite vest immunities and T’ 0 ""™ 'i"™
which thev have grown so great? It
the Democrat* of th® rank
sto- It was not the Republlonns
^the^nk and (tie. l{ was the false
T the ran obey 1ng>he commands
tho secretly
fhl, %Mid*?he burden of'taxation, and
compelled the common people. Re-
.nuMloans and. Democrats atlhe. >t
nnv not only their own taxes but
those of the corporations time.
* -More than twelve hundred milt n
dollars ot your money. Issued by 1
"'“rnment. backed by the erod't e
rfrength or tho government, wns e
5, It. thrown Into the furnace and
.formed. Did you. my * .
Olgas, enter that done. \\ouVI u
l reduce the quantity of good
«ravs°huew°enougt»^nhout ttnanee to
£Tow that when yon reduce the qunn-
tftr. von add t» the valpe of the re-
S:c d when"“u dtd e nr'hnow .hat
^ryTeveTCre^of the
flint when you need cash to pay
a.aj. iivnfl rhnrSt'R. UUd HnIn** »
royal prorogatlvo, and we find our-
“‘■Ives at the mercy of those who con-
irol the available cash of the coun
try.
Every business man of eyery sec
tion of this Union—the merchant, the
farmer, the small manufacturer, the
country hank—th® last one of them,
fee] that they do business at the mer
cy of higher lowers , ln the financial
world: that they hold their lease o*
commercial life and commercial pro®-
s,v>. fixed charges, ond
vnu have to go Into the mars
Ju and buy- It with your lnhnr. or
r^r-Ttn “reuWtom !h“ mjre
.lip dollar? OrtitnlV
* teettful money
ZZl* r taVi 'times’" NeUhw
.Vttrrv nr_r. ortn^,!^ ^ tw ., V(1
Sis:
^STvou have found to be meet op-
*’%$£? Your public service corner*.
zSBvzJsr
•waJlwav rate* exore®* company rates.
Sr^a^^seouen.., the m-
er,I feet Is that we -re tamely sub-
cattfing to a violation of the prln
"phTupon which the Revolutionary
War waa fought-the principle that
rogresentatlon and trx-ten should
jew band In hand, nnd that no free
paaple. loving liberty and knowing
right a, should submit to be tax*
•d in councils where they have nelth-
,-wr voice nor vote.
fa Great Britain, the Revolution In
eh King Charles I. lost hts head
i largely caused by tho widespread
-^Agnation against the Intolerable
. government of the country by the
- fttar Chamber—a body of live public
. trlKclal* which me* behind closed
s and arbitrarily exercised the
' tremendoua jurisdiction over the
j and the property of the clti-
Yet, tn free America, in a r>
epaHe «t eighty-five million people,
vvw know K to be a fact that there
MM JJvo man, five railway kings, who
ttmm meet tn a private office ln Wall
land. Slew York, and by a change
pcrlty at the pleasure of men higher
up—men whose law-given advantage*
penhte them to concentrate the avail
able cash supply of the country In
New York, to hoard It there, to deny
to the country at large the free circu
lation of the life-blood of commerce
—money—and thus cause congestion.
paralysis, panic. . ' th . (
Who Is it that does not know that
thew> ihin.g* nro *o?l Wbo is that
doesn’t f&l tb*t the people
*»««.*'■
redo that the rnnk and ti\e of the
Democratic mirty. os well as the rank
nnd flln of the Republican party, are
it br»nrt opposed to these abuses or
government, and would tonight ffn-
nlhihiip (hem If an honest mans
blow would do it? How then have
we been brought to such a pass? We
tre sunposed to govern onrselve-
mhI to he the sovereign® of thl® T&
< nbllo. Hut we have surrendered our
>w*i birthright. W T e hove allowed to
vlip nut of our hands those pow
ir ancestors fought for eight years
«n secure. We do not take the Inltint-
1 ve 'n making laws. There is no right
f oars which we can assert. We have
* o method by which we can remove
"rem office the representative w’ho
bet rays us. We ha ve no method by
which we can arrest a law which we
abhor. We have no method by which
we con compel those who represent
ns In the legislature, or in Uongress.
to enact, the legislation which we
know the country reeds. The ma
chines of both the old parties rule.
Tho secret caucus dominates. The
back-room Influence controls those
who are supposed to be controlled b"
the people at large. P?very Intelligent
observer knows that something 1s
wrong, radically and fearfully wrong.
Wle know that legislation Is bought
nnd sold a Wo know that special fav
ors have their price In the political
market, and that the huge campaign
funds used by both the old parties
were equally corrupt and had the
‘tame damnable purpose of securing
for the men who finance the cam
paign governmental favors which
mean terrible consequences to tho
people at large.
Every thoughtful observer of events
is convinced that the present situa
tion Is full of danger. Things can
not go on ns they are ^o unbearable
are becoming the burdens of tax
ation direct and indirect- so tntole*.
•’hie Is becoming the effect of special
privilege on the great mass of the
un-nrivlleged. that our great cities
are already the hotbeds of «ed'tlon.
1 ast winter tens of thousands of
desperate people, men. women and
children, paraded the streets of nor*h-
ern cities, singing the Mareslllalse.
openly cnlllpg for *he overthrow of
oe.r system of government. The
dynamite bomb was heard, nnd the
Incendiary orator at the street corn
er openly advocated the doctrine of
class war and murder. One of two
things Is certan. The militarism of
such men as President Roosevelt will
subllmlnate ln military denotlsm. or
the revolt of the proletariat will con-
vulse us with the greatest revolution
known to history. Now you and I
ngroe that everything possible mus*
b« done to avert both military despot-
Ism and revolution. We don’t want
either the one or the other. T^t ps.
then earnestly study the present po^
llttoal situation with a view to find-
elgn In a land where the people rule
themselves. With our economic de
mands put Into *he form nf laws,
we would again have what we had
prior to the Civil War—the best gov
ernment the world ever saw—as near
ly perfect as the work of human
hands can hope to be.
In this campaign. I am the only
candidate who represent® the school
of Jeffersonian thought. The plat
form of Taft is Hamiltonian through
and through. The platform of Bryan
Is a clumsy effort to imitate the plat
form of Taft without u«lng the same
words.
Mr. Bryau may amuse himself by
calling iMr. Taft's platform a fiddle,
while he call® hi* own a Tolln, hut
the Instruments are Identical, and the
music 1* the same. In hi* mad de
sire to gratify hi* personal wish to
become President, he has abandoned
every principle that Jefferson would
have owned; every principle that you
have voted for when you roted for
him In 1896; every principle that you
said was sound when you voted for
him In 1900, and if you will be con
sistent with yourselves, still thinking
that those principle* are sound. It
Is for me that you must vote in this
campaign.
Again. I am the only candidate in
this race who make® a stand for
Southern rights and white supremacy.
The South furnishes two-thirds of
the electoral votes which elect a
Democratic President, but what Is the
South getting in return; In what man
ner Is she recognized? Who consult
her about t platforms, governmental
hmi muinratn^ . policies, or Congressional legislation"
z h /, d ,rS^^ a Nobody—-loast of all Mr. Bryan. Ah
' , , r ,ax ' though the eonventlon which nomin-
,,, <lea ’ ated him grossly insulted the South
of The Ze^ Jen " WM . n 1 whon the Haskell brass hand pranred
Un “ ™ .“ Wn ", r,hl '; I around the r.eorgla delegation, play-
lug “Marching Through Georgia," and
1 rust neon not be afraid of .tt, and
Isn't afraid of It: the National feink-
lng fraternity need not be afndd of
It, and are not afraid of it; those
■who are by freight and passenger
traffic compelling the bntlnesa of this
country to nay revenue upon seven
T,""T of do,lar " of Actions
capitalisation have nothing to fear
from Mr. Taft's platform and do not
fear tt.
How ts tt with Mr. Bryan? We
are not allowod to Infer from speech-
cs. editorials or platform heretofore
advanced by Mr Tlrvan that anything
!" 'he reform line can be expee'ed of
him. because he take, palp,
the country that hts platform la not
iZIx i, n< y n * '5 what u **71 than In
what It doesn't say. H e has not only
drooped every reform doctrine which
made him famous and made him
popular, hut he is taking pains to
make clear to the plutocratic cle
ment Of hts party who are financing
his campaign that he has dropped
th.-m. Therefore, we must judge Mr.
Bn,i i by that platform of his
Tt " me what plank of It proposes
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pick op and carry a
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smoke or smell—turn the wick as high as you can or
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of public* utilities. Ho has abandoned
that broad and sound and progres-
slvn dootrino. Tn former platforms
ho usod tho language and th® names
of Jefferson and Jackson in denounc
ing the national hanking system. He
now favors It and proposes to .per
petuate 1t with a governmental
guarantee whlcji will punish the' Itin'o-
c«»nt bankers for the crime* of the
criminal bankers. ' j- ’ *
Tn the opening gun speoh of Ws
camnalgn. he adopted as his cam
paign motto. “Shall the People Rule?"
What magnificent impudence; what
splendid bluff! “Shall the people
rule?" boldly.asks Mr. Bryan, hoping
that the people would forget that he
had dropped out of his platform the
only proposition whlcji^ offered the
people any hope of Mftkinlng ti>eir
•t to rnley-the-lni£(j "
rt. *
elected, his platform bftidp him to
nothing to remedy the evils from
which we suffer, and we have the
assurance of the association of New
York Uomor*ra»s that even If Mr.
Dr van should try fo do anything In
jurious 1n the way of legislation, the
Republican Senate will prevent him
for succeeding.
Very respectfully. T beg leave to
submit to you that the platform upon
which T an* matting th's flgh' offers
the onlv reas p ”'*b’e. practicable nnd
conservative remedy for those evils
which are threatening us with mili
tary despotism or with revolution.
First. We rrepose that t’e Fed
eral Government shall be supported
by an Income t ix laid upon the ac
cumulated wealth of the country; by
tariff duties Ir tied upon the luxuries
of life; by n franchise tax on the pub
lic-service cor orations:i by a tax
laid upon inheritances; and we con
tend that the necessaries of life
should be free from Federal taxation.
cure the trust evils we propose
t’*e simple, practical remedy of plac
ing on the free 1st those articles
handled by the trusts so that the
foreign competitors can come Into
our market with goods and compel
the American manufacturer to deal
n* kindly with us home folks as he
Is now doalirg with the foreigner in
♦ »*e foreign markets. The burden of
tarntlon and tvranny of public ser-
v'ce corporations wo would get rid
cf by having the government fairly
assess and honestly pay for the prop-
ertv of these corporations so that
they would he owned and operated
tar the benefit of all the people—
thus removing the motive for discrim
ination and exploitation. The mon
ey question wc would settle by abol-
IrMeg National Ranks. Just as Jack-
son and Jefferson put them out of
business, nnd by restoring to the gov-
Vroment its censtitntlonal power to
create money As the beat guarantee
f hank deposits, we would establish
I'ostal savings hanks, which would
not only br'eg safety and conveni
ence to depositors, hut would decen
tralize the monev supply, nnd de
prive Wall ®tn*et of its power to
hoard the cash of the country and
cause panic*. We would put back
Into the hand* of the people the pow
er of self-government*, by adopting
the Initiative and Referendum, the
Imperative Mandate, and the Rlcht
of Recall. T*ms. with the recall, the
people could remove at once from
office the representative who was be
traving his trust. With the Impera
tive mandate we could compel our
legislators, congressmen or senator*,
to . vote our will Instead of the will
of some grasping corporation. With
the Initiative we could put upon Its
passage a law which wc oursehre*
dee‘red to ha*-e legislature adopt,
nnd with the referendum, we would
compel legislative bodies, high and
low—city, state and national—to re
fer back to us any proposed legisla
tive measures. If all officers, lnclud-
it® eir. uryau uuu-
i ago. >.Tbe' South
htnltteb. Chairman*
Th. if Mr. Bryan
It hough this same Haskell-led gang
of Br^nltes hooted and hissed tho
name of Robert E. Lee—after having
honored with a whoop and a hur
rah, the name of Abraham Lin
coln—Mr. Bryan has not so much
expressed his regrets. Although the
Parker crowd gave the South the Vice
Presldency^fftlir years ago. the Bryan
crowd repudiated her claims for that
post this year. It had to go as Tom
Taggart said it was to - go—Tom. the
gambling hell and saloon proprietor
of French Lick Springs, Indiana. Tag
gart wanted Kern, the fellow who
1® denouncing the wicked Republicans
who give and take corporation fa
vors, and who himself is riding
through the laftd on a free pass—a
railroad favor—just as Mr. Bryan him-
JSr'
Jp*, and the
keeps his word, will lose the two
magnificent cabinet positions which
she now holds under the Republican
administration. Although Mr. Bryan
makos sixty-five speeches per day,
the South cannot get a single Bryan
sneecli. Tf you want to hear ten or
fifteen minutes of Bryan oratory, you
must go to the music store, buy a
phonograph record, carry it home, and
grind it off on the machine.
As a Southern man. full of the mem
ories of the greatness of the South
in the old davs prior to the Civil War.
T am ashamed of the political Insig
nificance of my section. What caus
ed It? Blind servitude to one party.
The South is the slave of the Demo
cratic party. cQunted as a fixed asset
which cannot be lost, counted as so
certain that no matter what Insult
1® heaped upon her no matter what
wrong, legislative or otherwise, is
done her. she cannot escape her po
litical shnckles.; she must vote the
Democratic ticket even though there
Is a dead dog in It.
How Is this political situation to
bo remedied? By becoming uncertain,
becoming a prize to be contended for
by two white parties.. It was that
way previous to the 'Civil War, and
then the South was great. Tt must he
that way again, and again the South
will be great.
On every hand you will find all
sort® of Southern greatness excepting
political greatness. Magnificent
scholars? We have them. Illustrious
scientists? We have them. Preach
ers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, of
commanding ability? We’ve got them.
But where are your great «tate*men?
Which one of them approaches your
ideal? Which one of them embodies
your principles, voice® your aspira
tions? Which one of them takes up
the line of march that is to carry
you hack from the Egypt of your po
litical bondage to the promised land
of your fathers?
Which one of your statesmen car
ries your cause in his heart, and
mind, and soul, as O’Connell carried
osiery
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hack anJ get a new pair absolutely free.
EVERWEAR HOSIERY has a rich, soft, silky finish anJ
the colors are fast. Men's socks are maJe in light anJ
meJium weight in black, black with vhite feet, blue,
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Women's hose are maJe in black, black with white
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(Continued on Sixth Page.)
l__ _ UTt* rawiBunn. uii utuva-rs, metuu-
im* Uia for Prps, ‘ In* Federal Judges, were elected by
X n " d r „T*!* h reason-. direct vote cf the people, as we de-
p n r' " ^"""ly (P r i round, and the erinctples Just stated
_ ,T hlch ••L 10 ' “a and which | were applied, wc would not have to
endanger the remibHc. j w ,i t s | x years to get rid of a Senator
‘■ e ' "* «nsld_er Mr. Taft. What like Foraker. or Depew, or Platt; we
trtank tn h!» platform offer* relief would not have to wait a life-
rrom the financial despotism of Wall time to get rid of a Federal
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Established 1880. Registered.
Dr.'
W. H. Newton,
Veterinary Surgeon
Treats diseases of all
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Residence 609 N. Ashley St.,
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At the Griffith Stables, corner
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re*” ■ ■—snreJI
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Valdosta, Georgia.
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times. Phone 217.
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Stop at New Florence.
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