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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1891)
♦ •'i \ l ♦ Y0TED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE: “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NO' dE yoj. l X. S»mber 17. YHAT PEFFER SAYS. IASCE SENATOR ON THE ORGAN!— AIi zation's POSITION. Question Is the Great Prob The Money Farmers* Movement iem —When the lis There Will be no North, no Tv lump Country. South, but One United The great ov ersbadowing- problem [of time, then, is money. Far the are not repudiators. Tbey pers dollar of debt want to pay et ery Key and according to the letter wd spirit of the contract; but they powerless to help themselves. ire We ask relief from congressmen d they laugh at us; we propose a n remedy and they call us cranks, we isk time and money with which to pay our debts aDd save our homes, md we are told that it is our busi ness to work while statesmen take ;are of the finances. We have de¬ termined to rebel, and this great up¬ rising of the people means simply a rebellion against the usurpations of party managers who are wedded to ;he power which is crushing us, who rink at our misfortunes and laugh r hen our calamity comes. The peo¬ ple have concluded to take the gov irnment into their own hands; they ire now marshaling every force for [hat purpose. The Farmers’ Alliance means to iethrone the money power and thus imandpate the people. This does tot mean anarchy, it does not mean Repudiation, it does not mean war; It means only the rule of the people. Re people will take charge of their bwn affairs, they will make and is¬ sue their own money, aud charge borrowers only what the handling of t costs, just as they now do with postage M highways. stamps, with court houses That is the first and beat work to be done. With that kill come many other reforms, for every device of villainy which is pupportecl by the improper use of Poney will fall when the props are taken It is proposed to continue the or¬ ganization until it shall ripen into a national movement including all the working forces of the country, >o that in the campaign of 1892 the •oilers will be in line with a national iicket in the field, Nothing short if success will satisfy the ted masses, success means government con r °l of transportation, of money, and 'L'tiy other public function. And there is a great social problem Much is left for the Alliance to solve. 1S kuown in politics as the “south "****' .It has been made a y politicians for party pur »ses, and that will settle nothing, ^requires broad and brotherly treat £!'***? ^ 1CS - -Ibe farmersiwill a’stranger in party obli ierate soon sectional line, and local pre fcs will give m way as fast the ■wmd as sentiment grows and spreads. the supreme council of the ^ held thi rty-five in Ocala, Fla., last Y' states were re and delegates from every r -gamzed fanners in the pre sent to participate or •I. v. national Alliance of ers was held at th e same 1 place, ai! friendly , “ lbs greeting s .i c two bodies at least * wo au ‘I a Half Jlerg p Ve ^ ^te Alliance a-:rized E»e«rV° t c °Lted farm - i- lirere is no Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, May gg, L 89 J distinction of color among Kansas Alliance people. The Farmers’ Alii ance and Industrial union is of south ern origin, and, naturally, as far as prejudice of any sort has place in the order, it is largely southern prejudice; just asthe National Farmers’ Alli¬ ance, being of northern origin, what ever of prejudice may have place in its councils is northern prejudice These two kinds of prejudice are but remnants of conditions which have passed away never to reappear, and they, too, ought to be buried for¬ ever out of sight. Our great war ended long ago. We are now one nation in law, let us be so in fact. This means the getting together of the south and the west, for their material interests are identical. But that involves some sacrifices. Are we ready to make them? First we must sacrifice party prejudice. That is, indeed sacrifice; it cuts close to the heart; but when one sees his duty lying in particular direc¬ tions he has no choice but to follow if he would be true to his manhood and his country. One hundred and fifteen thousand men of Kansas have already made the sacrifice. Not many years ago we were Re"* publican or Democrat, but we have severed our moorings and are now in the flowing tide with our fellows, operating under the temporary name of People’s party, waiting lor the coming together of that grand army of toilers which in the years to come emancipate labor and re-establish the authority of the people. Destroy the influence of money in public affairs, restore the homestead and save it to the citizen, secure to labor its just reward, cripple the arms of avarice, give employment to the workers, purify politics, enact just laws, lighten the burdens of the poor, protect the weak, abolish caste establish justice, make commerce free, put the government in charge of every public function, and the mission of the Farmers Alliance will have been accomplished.— W. A. Ptffer in Cosmopolitan. Verdner Suter, a citizen of Pal¬ myra, Mo., accumulates considera¬ ble money and makes a business of dividing it among his children at intervals. Last week he divided $15,000. With previous divisions this makes $118,000 he has distrib¬ uted among his six children. Mr. Suter does not think it best fora man to get too rich, and has adopted this means to keep his estate down to a modest level. The plan is sat¬ isfactory to Mr. Suter, and the chil¬ dren do not complain. The Louisville Courier-Journal suggests that President Harrison swapoffbis silver brick for an honest Pension Commissioner. Ben is not likely to give up any of his valuable presents for the puipose of improv¬ ing the moral character of his ad¬ ministration. If he were, the Cape May cottage, as well as the silver brick, might be used to good advant¬ age. A Brooklyn receiver has exempli fied the possibilities of his business. In two years he has expended $38, 000 for a clerk and counsel fees, 7000 lor extra expenses, and $3300 in fee for himself. A London editor has just failed for $1,750, 000. He is an ornament to the profession, anti his brethren should get together and present him a testimonial for so handsomely sustaining and illustrating the fina ncial reputation of the press, THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. Many a good boy has gone to rum in the city. Dig, sow and reap; but the har¬ vest is death’s. Money made by chance will go with certainty. Waste of money and time usu ally go hand in hand. Friendship at the highest height is stronger than love. Be quick. You can use a minute but once—make the most of it. To make close connections with eternity Death must be run on time. The snowflake of winter, bow sig¬ nificant—and the first white hair! Life is a long course of mutual education which ends but with the grave. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. Above all things always speak the truth; your word must be your bond through life. Homely truths, like medicine, of¬ ten distress us, but that is part of the curative process. Lying is the basis of all evil. Af¬ ter one year of absolute truth crime would disappear. Some people spend their vacations in worrying over the business they left behind them. Justice is a little short sighted, perhaps, but it frequently has an eye on the main chance. You just bring a couple of little quarrels into your family and they’ll brood like sparrows. It is so easy to fancy one’s self right that self-condemnation is about as scarce as dodo’s eggs. God sets t he stars in the windows of night to cheer the belated world as it rolls through darkness. The happiest man is he who, be¬ ing above the trouble which money brings, has his his hands the fullest of work. Grief is not to be measured by the tears sbed, nor does the loudest mourners always deserve the largest bequest. Mayor Shakspeare of New Orleans is not a man to be trifled with. Recently there have been some threats made by the Provenzanos, who were prominent in the Mafia, against some laborers on the levee in that city. Mayor Shakspeare sent for the said Provenzanos to come to his office, and when they came be quietly but firmly notified them that he had been informed of their threats; that he was sick and tired of this stuff, and did not propose to permit it any longer; that their at¬ tempted intimidation of honest labor¬ ing men would not be countenanced, and warned them ot the conse quences if they dared to carry out their threats against any of these men. Mayor Shakspeare evidently tries to make himself quite clear when he talks, and it seems that he succeeded splendidly in convincing the Provenzanos that they must obey the laws of Americans and the country in which they live or pre pare themselves for a sudden de~ parture under painful circumstances. It is not likely now that there will be any further assassinations by these gentry. They are on notice there will be no temporizing of their villainy.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. The Electric City Cadets is the name of a new military company just organized in Augusta, It starts out with over 100 members. This paper is $1 only per year. Price per Year, $ 1.00 THIRD PARTY PLATFORM. Below we give the demands of the Cincinnati convention: First—That, in view of the great social, industrial and economical rev¬ olution now dawning upon the civil' ized world, and the new and living issues confronting the American people, we believe that the time has arrived for the erystalization of the political reform forces of our country and formation of what should be known as the People’s Party of the United States of America. Second—That, we most heartily endorse the demands of the platform as adopted at St. Louis, Mo., in 1889, and Ocala, Fla, in 1890, and Omaha, Neb., in 1891, by the indus¬ trial organizations there represented summarized as follows: a The right to make and issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for the common benefit; hence we demand the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and as a substitute for national bank notes we demand that legal treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to transact the business of the country on a cash basis, without damage or especial advantage to any class or calling, such notes to be legal tender in the payment of all debts, public and piivate, and such notes, when de¬ manded by the people, shall be loan¬ ed to them at not more than two per cent per annum upon non-perish¬ able products, as indicated in the sub treasury plan, and also upon real estate with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and the amount of money. b We demand the free and unlim¬ ited coinage of silver. c We demand the passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and that congress t ke prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of what is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. d Beli-ving the doctrine of equal rights to all aud special privileges to none, we demand that taxation, national, state or municipal, shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. e We demand that the revenues, national, state or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered. f We dem md a just and equitable symtem of graduated taxon incomes. g We demand the most rigid, hon¬ est and just national control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and, if this control and supervision does not remove the abuses now ex¬ isting, we demand the Government ownership of such means of commu¬ nication and transporation. h We demand the election of the President, Vice-President and United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. 3. That we urge the united action of all progressive organizations at¬ tending the conference called for •Februaty 22, 1892, by six of the leading reform organization. Mrs. Mary S. Huson, is still very low and little hope is entertained of her recovery. The Volunteers are getting ready for the encampment. The docters are now quite busy. CARE OF EX-CONFEDERATES. How the Southern States Treat Their Disabled Veterans of the War. Georgia’s Confederate pension sys¬ tem, under which disabled veterans re¬ ceive from $2 to §25 per month, ac¬ cording to the disability, is highly creditable to the state, but it should accept and maintain the home near this city in order to complete the good work. It will be of interest to review the situation in other southern states. Virginia led in the movement, and established a Confederate home at Richmond, for the support of which the state expends §10,000 a year. Pen¬ sions to the amount of §5,000 annually are also paid. Alabama has no home, but pays §125,000 a year in pensions. Arkansas has a home at Little Rock built by private subscription, supported by state aid. Florida has no home, but pays §30, 000 a year to disabled Confederates who have resided in the state fifteen years. Mississippi is without a home, but has made liberal provision for her indi¬ gent and disabled Confederates. Missouri pays no pensions, but a movement is on foot to raise §100,000 to endow a home without state aid. Maryland has a home costing §40,000 near Baltimore, aided by the state to the extent of §10,000 annually. Louisiana has a home near Now Or¬ leans, and the state grants it §10,000 a year. North Carolina not ordy pays pen¬ sions. but has appropriated §41,000 for a home. South Carolina pays about §50.000 in pensions, but has no home. Texas has a home established by sub¬ scription. It costs §3,500 a year. Tennessee has established a home at the old home of Andrew Jackson, “The Hermitage,” the state having given 475 acres of land and §10,000 for improvements in 1839. The legislature in 1891 appropriated §25.000 fer a build¬ ing and §5,COO a year for its support, and in addition §60,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for ex¬ penditure annually in pensions, which range from §2.50 to §25 per month. It is thought that §25,000 per year will cover the pension list. Of all the southern states Kentucky alone has made no provision for her ex Confederat.es. —Atlanta Constitution. He Opens Safes for a Diving. There is a man in this city who only a short time ago opened the big vault in the sub-treasury building where, §25, 000,000 was kept, without knowing the combination of the lock and without a tool of any kind, in five minutes. This man’s name is Sipp, and, notwithstand¬ ing the fact that. Inspector Byrnes knows of the occurrence aud knows also who the man is, lie has not been arrested. As a matter of fact the same man was taken on to Washington, and with an ordinary mallet opened the big vaults in the mint where a greater amount of money is stored. He is not a thief, but a hard fisted mechanic who lias made a stu Jy of locks and safes, and makes more money in doing repairing than he could if lie stole. He opened both vaults at the request of the authorities simply to show how wretchedly insecure the gov¬ ernment money is wliile locked behind old fashioned doors and poor locks.-— new slots txeeon-—, Tile Tarpon. The tarpon is the Megalops at.lanticus of naturalists, a member of the family Elopidse, and may be considered a gi¬ gantic heiring. They have a wide geo¬ graphical range from the extremity of the Florida reef t Gape Cod, two speci¬ mens having been captured in the lat¬ ter locality in 1871. From May to Sep¬ tember they are extremely common in the northern streams of Florida, seek¬ ing the warmer waters of the reef and the more southern inlets during the winter. Large ones are the rule, aver¬ aging 150 pounds in weight and from five to seven and a half feet in length, while their maximum length is said to be over eight feet, and tlieir weight 300 pounds. observed The smallest specimen in the St. John’s river, according to a careful observer, weighed si pounds, and its capture was ehe< ed in a manner that illustrates the agility of the species, It leaped aboard th© steamer Water Lily, clearing the guards, and landing fairly in the eaptai II s lap, who was sitting in a chair in the Middle of the forward deck.—C. F. Holder in
