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Banks County Gazette.
VOL. IU.---VO. 7,
ADAM THE FIRST FARMER.
AND HE WASN’T A FAILURE
BY A GOOD DEAL.
What One of Our Brightest and
Best Young Men Says in De
fense of the Workingman.
When God made Adam and placed
him in the garden of Eden the condi
tions on which he was to obtain a
subsistance were easy and light, but
Adam sinned and was turned out of
Eden to earn a living by the sweat of
liia brow, then the conditions were
not so pleasant as before; they were
harded to comply with; they were
galling and bitter, but Adam met his
misfortune with the courage of a
man; he worked, toiled and struggled
to furnish food for his God given wife
and innocent, prattling children. How
well he succeeded wc do not know (
but the multiplied millions of earth
can testify that he was not a failure
as a farmer.
Adam was the first farmer and his
pathway was not strewn with flowers.
There are thousands of farmers to
day who are having rougher sailing
across the stormy and tempestuous
sea of life than Adam ever experi
enced. Their frail bark is driven
ly the breakers across the dark, seeth
ing, angry waters. Thousands are
being wrecked against the rocks of
bankruptcy and left to struggle with
the waves for a short time and then
perish. The dark cloud of op pres ;
sion which hangs like a pall over us j
makes the scene dismal and hideous.
The cries of those from whom the last
vestage of hope has been torn is
enough to melt the most callous
heart and soften the most obdurate
being.
The whole scene is full of sights
too pitteous for discription; men, wo
meu and children starving in a grain
country; freezing while living at a
coal mine, nearly naked in a country
of over production; penniless while
batiks abound all over the country.
The robbers and pirates are pro
tected, their interests are carefully
attended to by our law makers while
the interest of the workingman is
ignored and disregarded. Time has
wrought changes, wonders have been
accomplished, discoveries have been
made, labor-saving methods have ■ ecu
adopted, electricity links the conti
nents together, the railway train
brings the country closer together,
distance has been annihilated, we live
in an age of improvement, culture
and refinement, yet with all the pro
gress and enlightenment of the age,
with all that tends to help man on-
ward and upward the farmer is ex
po led to be happy and contented
-\\ ith less than a living.
Adam was better off without any
of our modern improvements than
thousands of our outraged fanners
of this progressive age. It seems
rather strange that our progress
should not benefit the workingman;
that it should not help him to earn
better wages, to make a better living;
that it should not help him to live in
ea.-y circumstances. The working
man finds it is harder to earn a dollar,
ho finds that he lias to work longer
and harder for a dollar now than ever
before, and that it will not pay debts
one half so fast as a cheap dollar.
He is told by the plutocratic press
that he ought to be satisfied, he is
told that a dollar will buy more wheat,
corn, cotton and other farm products
than ever before. \ es, that is what
is the matter, the products of labor
are cheap; they are too cheap; no
money can be made raising cotton at
... J tj
present prices. The grain men of
the west and the cotton inen of the
south are in the same boat.
And, dear reader, they have united
under one flag. They stand on one
platform. They are united in a com
mon interest. They demand redress
of llioir grievances. They stand
shoulder io shoulder, a solid phalanx
of might and strength against the
e. ils that has brought them to the
verge of ruin and disaster.
"What is more Commendable Ibau
right ? What is more desired than
liberty ? "What is more amicable than
justice ? What is more enjoyed than
freedom ? What is more sought after
than truth ? What is more sacred
than honor ? What is more valuable
than virtue ?
If you love any of the above graces
and wish to see them defended in all
their purity and simplicity; if you
wish to regain your rights; if you
wish to redeem your homes from the
clutches of the sliylocks; if you wish
to live better and happier; if you
wish to educate your sons and daugh
ters so that they may be an honor to
you, to themselves and to their coun
try; if you wish to make this country
what it ought to be; if you wish to
make earth and heaven to rejoiee,
come out and enlist under the banner
that is battling for your safety. For
your own welfare come out and stand
on the platform that, not only prom
ises relief but is thundering at the
doors of congress for redress.
Come and count yourself one of the
men who has the manhood to resent
the party lash, and to usher America
into an age of freedom.
W. P. Neal.
democratic Allianceman.
Editor Gazette:
Please allow the writer a little space
in The Gazette just this once more.
You say in your issue of May 31st:
“We heal a man say: ‘l'm an alliance
democrat.’ That sounds a little like
a fellow saying: ‘l’m a devilish Chris
tian.’ There is just as much consisten
cy in the one as the other.”
My Brother, wlmt did we all say
two years ago ? What is it that lias
changed ? Have allianca o. - demo
cratic principles changed?
Men may change, but principles
never change.
The alliance lias done great good.
It has set in motion a reform which
is destined to sweep over the whole
country. The storm of reform may
rago, the lightnings flash and the
thunders roar; the old ship of state
may rock, but she will not sink.
There is a God that rules. When
the mist has cleared away and the
political atmosphere has once more
become pure the eternal priciples of
dcmooiacy will stand out untouched
and unharmed.
When the democrats of Georgia
adopted the Ocala platform they did
a wise thing. The little charges they :
made in it were for the better. When
they elected Cleveland delegates to
the national convention they did un
other wise thing. Grover Cleveland
is an honest man, a statesman and a
patriot.
David B. Hill and his agents did
their work well in prejudicing the
alliance of Georgia and of the south
against Cleveland. Alliancernen were
made to believe that Cleveland is the
candidate of the “money kings,” when
Hill was the very man himself all the
time.
Cleveland lost the state of New
Yoik, and in loosing it he lost the
presidency. He lost it because those
very plutocrats and money kings
poured out their money against him.
They bought votes enough to defeat
him. Why ? Because he is in favor
of reducing the tariff.
When Livingston had the alliance
of Georgia almost in his ow
he made sport of the tariff qu.sliou
He was working for Livingston first,
and then for Hill. Post is now try
ing to play the same game. I will
not attempt to tell who he is working
for.
The tariff or rather tlie proper
regulation of the tariff, is the thing
and the only thing, except the proper
adjustment of the money question,
that will alter the condition of the
farmers to any extent. Your cotton,
your corn, your flour and your meat
is not priced in America, not accord
ing to home demand, hut it is priced
in Europe. Why not let you have
their cheap hats, shoes, cotton goods,
etc.? Oh, no; that would never do.
The American manufacturer must be
protected.
Protected!! The farmers must
p.iv upon an ttvereg ■ ’ one ILu u
IIOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: JUNE 21, 1802.
more for every tiling he uses. For
what? To protect American labor?
Not a bit of it. Labor is ground
down to the bottom, and all that extra
money goes into the pockets of the
mill owners.
Is it right ? Grover Cleveland says
it is not, and Ben Harrison says it is.
What do you say ?
There is hardly a man in Georgia
to-dav who is engaged in manufacture
but what is opposed to Cleveland.
What is the matter with Pat Walsh
and The Atlanta Constitution ? They
are interested in manufactures in
in Augusta and Atlanta. What is
the matter with C. C. Post & Cos. T
They are not friends of the farmers
of Georgia. Could anything be
plainer?
But you say Cleveland is opposed
to free silver. Cleveland knows a
ther.sand times more about the silver
question than you or I; but let me
tell you: Not very long ago a promi
nent people’s party speaker said in a
private conversasion that when he
heard that the silver bill had failed to
pass congress he just sit down and
patted his foot and laughed, and
1 aligned.
Happy! A people’s party man
happy!! Why? Because he knew
that the silver question is a “hobby.”
My farmer friends, if we had free
coinage of silver would it do you any
good ? Who owns the silver mines?
The man who is worth lus millions.
Who works those silver mines? The
day laborer. How much does he get
for his labor? Just as little as be
will work for. If tlie government
raises the price of silver from seventy
cuts to one dollar who will get the
thirty cents ? Th ; man who owns
the silver mines Cleveland says it is
not right . What do you say ?
If men would be honest and tell
the truth the silver question could
soon be seltiecl.
There is one thing that the demo
crats Of the South a, ill nut I:
is this: The silver men of the west
saved the south of the “lorce bill.”
Hoping that my alliance brethren
will read this with the same kind
spirit that I have had in writing it,
let me say in conclusion: read both
sides; keep cool heads and wann
hearts. LI. P. Quillian.
Tim London I'oKtinan.
No whistles are used by the car
riers in London. Instead, they use
tlie postman’s double knock, winch
i-i made by giving two distinct mj is
o i tlie door. Every door is provided
with a knocker and tlio doors are
ways locked; even tlie and welling: if
th. j very poorest of London’s popula
tion are provided with their km ’er
and k< pt closed. There are peri .ps
a few that have four stories, but they
are very few. Of course this refers
to dwellings only. They have large
office buildings such as are found in
any city in this country.
Tlie postman in England is looked
upon as an integrate part of the gov
ernment, and as such is treated with
the greatest of consideration and re
spect. Such a thing as a carrier hav
ing to wait in the hallway of a house
for two, three, or sometimes five
minutes before he gets an answer, as
we have to do, and to he unable to
deliver a letter and to have to mark
it “no answer” is something unheard
of.
When a carrier starts at the heart
of a street to deliver his mail he gives
his double knock on the first and sec
ond house, and the entire street al
most is awake to the fact that the
postman is coming. The result is
they are waiting for him. In an or
dinary city Mock it would not lie
necessary to knock more than two
or three times, once or twice at the
head of the street and again in the
middle. The carrier never has to
wait, and this enables him to make
better time. —Postal Record.
Why Negroe* C'an Bear if out.
The function of a negro’s black
skin is supposed to be the conversion
of the sun’s light into heat. The heat
thus generated remains in the skin
and does not penetrate to the deeper
tissues. Being thus provided with a
sun proof armor, the negro can stand
an amount of heat that would be
fatal to a white man and run little
or no risk of sunstroke.—St. Louis
The opponents of the people’s party
offers as aigument the source fro:
whence it came. Did Jesus Christ
come into this world in a mansion ?
Did he advocate the cause of the
learned r.ud high in authority only ;
AN OPEN LETTER
FROM HON. THOS E. WINN,
rTIMBER OF CONGRESS
T Or- People’s Party People of
tu-3 riot'.i Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia.
Fellow Citizens :
I had hoped to bo able to meet you
face to face and give an account of
my stewardship, as well as to urge
my claims before my fellow citizens
of the people's party for nomination
and election to the 53rd congress.
But seeing the convention to nomi
nate my successor is called earlier
than usual an 1 is fixed for the 2 th
of July, it will be impossible for me
to leave my seat here and return to
canvass the district.
My opponents arc both busily en-
gaged during my abserse in urging
their own election and are canvassing
the district, I am informed, while I
have no one to represent me. I have
therefore thought to drop you this
letter and place before you my own
claims for re-election.
it has been an unbroken custom of
many years standing in our state to
give an incumbent a second term if
he has faithfully represented his peo
ple. I claim to have been true to
every pledge I made the people two
years ago. Elected as a democratic
allianceman I advocated every princi
ple of the St. Louis platform includ
ing the sub-trca.:avy plan. I held to
the doctrine that the question of
finance was superior to every other,
and l believed and so advised that
we contend for our demands through
the democratic party as promising
the most speedy solution of the de
mands the industrial classes wore
making. But when the democratic
party failed to pass the silver hill—
Hi- •-err least. of our, fin-mml de
mands and I saw the Litter fight
made against it in the house of rep
resentatives by northern democrats,
I saw at once that it was utterly
utile to expect financial relit
through either of the old parties, and
at once declared it necessary to organ
ize the people's parly, and ally the
south and west against -the money
power of the east. In doing so I in
clined the denunciation and bitter
hatred of the partisan democrats and
press of the district. And they are
constantly pouring out the vials of
their wrath on my devoted head.
Under these circumstances I am com
pelled to ask the endorsement of my
people. 1 cannot retire under the fire
of the enemy, but I come to you and
ask vindication by placing the banner
of the people again in my hand which
I bore to victory two years ago, and
which I will do again and place it
triumphantly on the battlements of
the enemy. I can then retire with
grace from the turmoil and strife of
public life, and leave the field to
others who can well afford to wait,
and have the proud reflection which
fumes to him who conscientiously
floes nis duty.
Fellow citizens, this is my speech I
make to every voter of the ninth
congressional district.
Your obedient servant,
Washington, D C. Thus. E. Winn.
June 14th, 1892.
Mrs. Post’s Card.
Atlanta, May 28.
Editor Journal:
Mr. C. C. Post being absent from
Atlanta, I feel justified in saying a
word about the charges brought
against us by Governor Northern
J)r. Whitley conveys the impres
sion that he can prove those charges.
Dr. Whitley knows that ho cannot
do if There is nothing he would
not do to injure s, but he cannot
perform the impossible.
We are not anarchists; wc are not
atheists. J ever wrote a letter to
an auarnhist’s wife in my life, nor
would I have known how or where to
direct it even if I had written one.
And 1 do not wish it to he nuder
..tcod by this that would not send
money to a suffering sister woman
under such circumstances, for by the
Holy Spirit of Christ I would do it;
but I am simply stating a fact in this
case, and that I did not do it.
Neither in all our lives has any
postmaster in Douglasville or else
where refused to send a letter
through the mails for us.
Very much less has any ono ever
yet screwd his courage up to the
point of proposing a coat of tar and
feathers for my husband.
In Douglasville the people—with
the exception of Dr. Whitley and
two or three others of his stripe —
loved us, and we loved them. When
we left there they got up a petition
asking us to come hack, signed by
all the best people in town. I have
the petition now, and can show it to
any body who wants to see it.
If Governor Northern really said
the cruel things about us that he j<
rep'-rted to have said, l am sorry for
him; since in all probability he lias
his information from an entirely char
acterless and unreliable political op
ponent of my husband, who in his
degeneracy makes a mere pastime of
lying.
In th s case Governor Northern
will regre. his words, as no honorable
man could help doing in the face of
the grievous injury be has so reck
lessly inflicted on those who never
harmed him nor anyone else.
I only have one more charge to
answer. It is said that I have uu
sexed myself by writing against the
demreratio party and am, therefore
legitimate prey for every demagoge
who delights in retailing a lie.
Men of Georgia, I ask nothing of
your chivalry on this score. I am
writing against the democratic party,
and I shall continue to write against
it. If there is no way by which an
earnest, conscientious woman can
purchase immunity from campaign
lies but by silencing a pen that for
twenty years lias worked unceasingly
for the poor, and defrauded, the out
raged and crushed portion of human
ity, and against their oppressors and
oppressions, 110 matter in what form
nor in whom embodied, then go on
with the contemptable work. Stand-
ing by one of the purest men in the
world, a man who scorns a lie for any
purpose whatever, and who can do
more with the simple truth tnan all
his enemies can do with all their lies,
I feel myself able to meet and master
the worst that shall be said about me.
To Induce Humility in it l'ea<3ock.
If you wish to take the conceit out
of a peacock pull out his tail feathers,
and as soon as he finds tlio glory of
Ms plumage gone he becomes tlio
humblest, most subdued and ashamed
looking bird that ever walked the
earth. A peacock in mill feather is
so vain and conceited as sometimes
to be really troublesome. Not satis
fied with squalling at the top of his
discordant voice, and with pa i: r
himself through the yard and i ■
down the walks with expu id
plumage, ho will attack cats, tiugs
and even children, and has beer
nown to seriously iniiu small hoys
or girls that were incautious enough
to venture within his reach.
Plucking his tail feathers, how
ever, causes all his courage to evapo
rate. He will sneak around the yard
like a whipped spaniel, will keep out
of sight as much as possible, anil you
will hear nothing of him until his
plumage has again grown.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
It All Ddpfiinl
“What kind of a man is he—good,
bad or indifferent?”
“Well, that depends a good deal
who teeters on the other end of the
plank with him.”
“How so, sir?”
“Well, if you size him up alonside
of Judas Iscariot he looms up mid
dling fair; hut when you come to sit
him down between such follows as
you an me, judge, de does dwindle
tenable surprisin—ho does, for a
fact.”—Texas Siftings,
The democrats cry “tariff for rev
enue only,” hut by prodigal expendi
tures of public money they see to it
that a large revanue is necessary;
and consequently a high tariff. Like
the old Dutchman’s advice to his son.
“Now, Shacob, remember dot Got
dampers de vind to der shon lamp;
but ilon you forgit to slier dot leeflle
shop.”—Advocate, Greensboro Ga
SI NCI. : (.'Ol’V THREE CENTS
WHERE S YOUR DEMOCRACY?
",'l> TI:I.I. (JR SOMETHING
ABOUT Ki:i‘l 111. KAMSII
A Solid Array of Facts—Tlie
Press, Pulpit and Statesmen
On the Witness Stand.
'aiilloier bounty (Kas ) Wheel*
In considering any question, wo
should ask ourselves: “Is it true?” “Is
it necessary?” Now we all recognize
the fact that times are getting harder
and harder each year, with no visible
how of a change for the better.
This being true, is it nscessary in
show' why things are thus? We an
swer it is. We shall now first under
take to show that this government
was of a Divine origin. We real
the Declaration of Independence
'When in the course of human
events it becomes necessary for ono
people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with an
other, and to assume, among the
powers of earth, the separate and
equal station to which the laws of
nature and of nature’s God entitled
them, a descent respect to the opin
ions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which im
pel them to the separation.”
Now, if you will follow this declar
ation through, you will find the same
oppressions are upon us that our
forefathers had to undergo, and that
caused that great revolution 116
years ago.
A' o find in this deolaratian, the
plan outlined is for every man, great
and small, rich or poor, wise or igno
rant, should have “say” in all polid
eal uestions. Have wo this day a
government, for the people, of the
people and by the people? Verily
not.
Thackery, one of the ablest English
writers said:
“A republic and an aristocracy
wont amalgamate. A country must
bo governed In one principlo or the
other. But give, in a republic, au
aristocracy ever so little chances, and
‘t works and plots and sneaks and
bullies and sneers itself into place,
and you find democracy out of doors.”
This was written many years ago.
Now after many years of forbear
ance, endurance, etc., we only awaken
to find ourselves in chains of bondage
grievous to be borne. This same
aristocracy, composed of the two old
political parties, are plotting, bully
ing, sneaking and sneering at us for
asking deliverance from this oppres
sive bondage.
Let us submit a few facts for con
sideration:
[The lCazzarcl Circular, written in ?ne -
can Bankers.]
“F’avery is likely to Lb abolished
by war pov < r. and chattel slavery
wi! i ; destroyed. This I and my
Eu ican friends are in favor of for
sla ry is but tfye owning of labor and
carr . with it the care of the laborer,
while the European plan, led on by
Enland, is: ‘Capital control of labor
by controlling wages.’ This can bn
done by controlling the money. The
great debt that capitalists must see
to it is made out of the war must be
made as the means to control the
volume of money. To accomplish
this the bonds must be used as a
banking basis. We are now waiting
to get the secretary of the treasury
to make this recommendation to on
gress. It will not do to allow the
greenbacks, as it is called, to circulate
as money any length of time, for we
cannot control them; but we can con
trol the bonds, and through them the
bank issue.”
Now you see the infamous plot
concocted, and what was the result ?
It worked like a charm. The secre-
tary of die treasury made the recom
mendation as requested. Who en
acted this villainous scheme into
Yes, who? The vote stood, fifty-fivi
republicans for it, fifty-three republljß
cans against it. Twenty-nine demfl
erats were all that were in the houggi
Friends of the farmers and lalxindH
iof course! Twenty-eight of thW
I Co>i£ntuil on fevth