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DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETIG At Carnesville Fully one-half Pres ent People’s Party Men. West Bowersville, Ga., May 4th, 1892. Pursuant to the calLof the chair man of executive committee and by every means possible to induce a attendance to the mass meeting, there was about four or five hundred persons present and at least one-half present were People’s Party men. In proof of the fact that the Demo crats were aware of this they took care not to call for a division in or der to test each other’s strength. Cong. Lawson, who bydhe way, according to his own statement, had got leave of absence from his post of duty in Washington ten days to come home to look after his own private business, had ascertained by some means that his interests were fast going to wreck in old Franklin coun ty, was on hand and labored for over two hours in trying to teach the yeo manry of this county how to vote. And although his fourteen dollars per day now is due to the fact that two years ago when he offered him self as a servant of the people of the Eighth Congressional district,his elec tion was due to the fact that he was a member of the Alliance, or as one of his opponents said, he had the Al liance bait. It has never been my lot to hear a more abusive, lying and misrepresentation of the facts per taining to our platform. He boldly denied the declaration that we as a nation were on the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. The Land Plank he read, “The land in cluding all the natural resources of wealth, is the heritage of all the peo ple.” He stopped there (while the remainder explained the above) and he tried to make his audience be lieve that that part was Powderly’s work—that he represented a class of men who wanted all the property di vided up equally, etc. He abused and tried to blacken the character of all the leaders of this movement. The Judge has struck a different kind of bait to what he had before when he solicited the sufferages of the people. To be up among the Eastern banks and capitalists has a peculiar effect on some people. As a sample of this meeting I will give you the committee of the delegates to the State convention : W. IL Little, attorney; A. N. King, attorney; N. A. Fricks, teach er; W. A. Mitchell, merchant; L. J. McConnell, ex-merchant; W. O. Trible, farmer. If there had been a little larger per cent of merchants in this committee the Democratic representation as to callings would have been o. k. as to old Franklin county. . Justus. LaClede Illinois. Editor People’s Party Paper : Dear Sir and Brother :—Hav ing been recently called from my Kansas home to Illinois to wait on an invalid father, I had my People’s Party Paper forwarded to this point, and one day last week I gave a copy of the paper to William Keen, jr., an earnest F. M. B. A. worker and an ex-ITiion soldier. He was so well pleased with the paper that he immediately went to getting up a club for the paper, and has handed me forty-two names to send to you. He said I should tell you that the county convention of the People’s Party of Clay county had decided to keep in the middle of the road, and he further said I should say to you, for him, that he and his comrades in in blue Extend a fraternal hand to the boys in gray of the South ; that no longer should the plutocratic poli ticians of the two d. o. p’s. keep the honest producers of wealth apart by the bloody shirt or any other means. The dynamite of thought is working in the craniums of the Illinois farmers as well as those of Kansas and Georgia, and when the eighth of November comes you will find that Illinois will have cast many thousand votes in favor of a “Gov ernment of the People, for the Peo ple and by the People.” Yours for victory, O. W. 11. Suppose you let up on Livingston, brethren. What’s the use of wast ing ammunition by firing into the carcass of a dead dog. WHICH BRANCH OF IT I Mr. Editor: We are told here in the south that our best and only hope to get relief is through the democratic party. Will some one please inform a “howler” to which branch of the party he is to tie on ? Is it to the high tariff, or low tariff, or free trade ? Is it to the Gold-bug or free silver democrat that we must look for help? Why all this racket about pen sions? Guess a democrat never voted for pensions, did he? If the democratic party is so in love with the south, why don’t it give her the tail-end of a presi dential ticket now and then ? The New York World, a -few weeks ago, in speaking of Senator Carlisle, said : “He was born a few hundred yards too far south to have any chance.” At Omaha you will see a southern man placed on the ticket, and he will beg put there largely through the in fluence of men who wore the blue. The old bosses may fret and fume, but the alliancemen and wage workers of the country have buried the dead past beyond all resurrec tion. All this cry about the leaders of the reform movement being broken down, office-seeking' politicians is as a “sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” Why, you’d think from the edito rials of the great dailies that the democratic leaders were angels dressed in “breeches.” They don’t want office; never did; wouldn’t take it if it could be avoided. Why, if these bourbon and moss back officials were paid according to quantity and quality of work done, as other wage earners are, two-thirds of them would come out in debt to the government every time. Now, what have these men done for the country or the people in re turn for the big salaries they have drawn ? They are the servants of the people, and if they have not earned their wages, let the people bounce them just as other worthless servants are bounced and employ other men who will do the work re quired# of them. A Howler. A Mistake. People’s Party Paper: The Augusta Chronicle, in its is sue of the 21st of April, speaks in flattering terms of Mr. J. R. Ken drick as Chairman of the. Democratic executive committee of the eighteenth Congressional District, in which are some mistakes needing correction. The Chronicle says he (Mr. Ken drick) “is a strong and popular Alli anceman.” The truth of the matter is, Mr. Kendrick stands suspended from his Alliance for non-payment of dues, and has stood so for a year or more, consequently the popularity and strength he posses as an Alli anceman is quite different from what the Chronicle? would have people be lieve. We have no objection to compliments being bestowed upon the gentleman, but don’t use the Alliance in connection with it when he is in opposition to and fighting it with every argument he can hatch up. Mr. Kendrick is neither strong or popular with the Alliance of Talia ferro county, as the members of that order well.know. True Allianceman. People’s Party Paper : As politics are warming up in Tatnall, I will say, for the benefit of all concerned, that the three P’s is ail O. K. in this county. Our coun ty Alliance has adopted the St. Louis platform and we are not going to re scind our principles or return our charter either, and Mr. Livingston can make any demands he likes, but we are for the People’s Party world without end. Killing the silver bill by those eighty Demagogues is suffi cient proof that the laboring people will not be benefitted by the present Congress. You may bet on Tat nall doing her duty next fall. With my kindest regards for your success and the cause you represent, I am your brother, G. W. Smith. A voter wants to know when Gen. Gordon is going to trot out that bet ter thing than the sub-treasury. . BI ALWAYS. The Advantages of Public Ownership in Germany. I was’ very much impressed during my stay in Germany this summer by the superior service of the state con trolled railways of that country as compared with the careless manage ment of our own lines. There was scarcely an accident in Prussia during the whole summer, while in this coun try nearly five times as many passen gers are injured or killed outright. The American railways have not enough employees to insure safety and attention. England has four times as many men, and Germany has even more. There are no unguarded crossings allowed to menace the public. Even at the stations there is no crossing the tracks to reach the outgoing trains, as is the case in our union station. To get on the other side in Germany you must descend a flight of steps and pass through a tunnel under the track. The stations themselves are models of beautiful architecture. The new one in Frankfort cost eighteen mil lions of dollars. When the govern ment intends to erect a new station it offers a prize to architects for or namental designs. There is a maxi mum of comforts in railway travel, as the stations are all union stations, which is possible since the govern ment controls all lines. Since I was in Germany, ten years ago, many improvements in speed have been made, fifty miles an hour being the schedule time* for many trains. The express from Berlin to Hamberg made fifty miles an hour, all stops included. Government ownership also opens up away for the use of the railways for social purposes. The general opinion is that the population is too much centralized in the large cities, and by the cheap zone or belt railroad system soon to be opened in Berlin, workmen may live in the suburbs and work in the city without much expense. The government management of the railway finances has also been a brilliant success, surpassing all ex pectations. ‘ ( In Prussia alone last year, after paying the interest and part of the principal on the bonded debt, there was a surplus of twenty-five million dollars. The reduction in fares and freights annually amount to to a gen eral distribution of over twenty-five millions of dollars. I must say a word for the high quality of the freight service, which is fully equal to the express traflic in many parts of our country. A trunk can be sent all. over Germany with perfect safety and convenience for a mere trifle, while a few cents extra will insure it, and a few cents more guarantee its delivery at a certain hour.—Prof. Ely, of Hopkins Univer sity. Old Party Bosses Paralyzed. Southern Mercury, official * organ Texas F. A. & I. U.: The seed of reform is bearing fruit. The political campaign of 1892 in Texas will stand out on the pages of her history as the most hotly contested and remarkable since the Loan Star was added to the Union galaxy. Old party organizations are going to pieces precipitately, in spite of the frantic efforts of bosses to hold them in line. Thousands upon thousands of both the old parties, disgusted with the trickery, cowardice and faithlessness of their old time lead ers, are repudiating the machine methods with a unanimity that pre sages their annihilation in Texas next November. The seed of reform is bearing fruit all over the State. But a few months ago no one pretended to place the Democratic majority, next November, at less than 120,000. Now, the shrewdest politicians have great fears that it will be complete ly wiped out. The old time party manipulators are paralyzed. They see their mistake. They realize that they have lost their grip on the peo ple. They see the people organizing everywhere, irrespective of former party affiliations, St. Louis and Dallas demands, and that they j are powerless to stay the tide. The Third Party. The Wheel, Arkansas. No matter who started it, who is in it, or coming into it, we are with it and for it. Born of a great necessity, it comes ; on the throb of time as a factor long needed and capable of more good than has ever been accomplished by both the old parties,, Had the old parties been true to the best inter ests of all the people, instead of being skinners of industry for the benefit of partisans, there would be no need, nor desire, nor demand, nor determination of the people to form a third party. To-day there is no more difference between the two old parties than there is between one hog with its nose in a pail of milk and another that wants to get its nose in. . With both the old parties it is simply a scandalous, disgraceful scramble for spoils of offices held by the favorites of one or the other of the old lines of plunderers. With both the old parties the reading between the lines is— THE PEOPLE EE DAMNED I For years we contended for the supremacy of the Democratic party, believing it to be an aggregation of honest men contending for a line of •honest principles. No man in this country has done more in defence of genuine democracy than has the editor of this paper and the writer of this article. No man has oftener found his life and liberty in peril as he has contended for democratic principles through the machinery of the democratic party organization. But none of this work has brought benefit to humanity or betterment of the conditions of the poor. He has found the Democratic party to be a slip from the same dirty carpet of greed as is the Republican party. He has found the machinery of the ! party to be in the hands of dirty, ' dishonest, ignorant, drunken dema gogues and robbers. He has seen the Democratic party driven out of power by an outraged people. Has seen the Republican party driven out by an outraged people. Has seen the Democratic party driven out again and the Republican party again come into power, and . yet not one measure of financial re lief for a terribly outraged and under-valued people. Now that a third party is born, we are with and for that party. We wish to help in all good reforms. To help inform the people wherein they have been robbed and how they can apply the remedies that are in their hands— their votes. To go with the third party is to progress toward the front. To keep out of it is to go back to the hog wallows that have been dug. From this time on it is not which of the old parties is the least rotten and corrupt, but what can be done to help the honest men who have al ready come and who are coming out from the old parties to help humani ty and to improve our country. Therefore, so far as we .are con cerned, both of the old parties are things of the past. Now for the party of the future. Only a Million. A most decided sensation was caused iu Berlin, Germany, Wednes day, by a report that Herr Jaeder, chief cashier for the great banking house of Rothschilds at Frankford was a defaulter. According to this report Jaeder . had succeeded in de frauding his employers of over one million marks. Inquiries developed the fact that Jaeder had held the position of chief cashier for years. He was implicit ly trusted and there has never been a breath of suspicion concerning him. Some time ago he was missing from his post and, as time elapsed and he did not appear, a partial examination of his books was made and this re suited iii the declaration that he is an absconder. The examination of the books has not yet been concluded and the exact amount of the defalca tion therefore is not known. The two old parties have been settling the tariff question ever since their existence, and it is no nearer settled to-day than it was fifty years ago. Now the proper thing to do is to settle the two old prrties.—Cin cinnati (Ohio) Herald. THE ST. LOHS PLATFORM. It’s Strength grows more and more Ap parent aS the Weeks pass by. The News and Allianceman. As the weeks pass by, the strength of the platform adopted at St. Louis becomes more and more apparent. Being confined to finance, land and transportation, it is necessarily short and comprehensive. Its position upon these propositions is absolutely impregnable and will stand the test of discussion and the attacks of the opposition. Its brevity, conciseness and clearness is not only a surprise to its enemies, but a growing wonder to its framers, and seems to point di rectly to an over-ruling influence which many will consider as a sure in dication of ultimate success. As a political platform it will stand unrivalled during the coming cam paign for directness, clean-cut decla rations, and an effort to make plain and distinct the principles and de mands involved. No one can read it ever so carelessly and fail to discover its real aims and purposes. It was written to define, and not to deceive. When the platforms of the two old parties are prepared, if the usual methods are followed, it will be with a single purpose to mislead as to real intentions, confuse as to ultimate methods, and to straddle every na tional proposition of interest to the people. A fair sample of this jugglery is seen in the Democratic platform late ly adopted in ths State of New York. No person has as yet been able to interpret its real meaning or give an intelligent synopsis of its aims and purposes. The people have learned to look upon party platforms as ex amples of partisan cunning and trick ery, constructed for the one purpose of obtaining support under false pre tense. For this reason the St. Louis plat form is a refreshing reminder of those by-gone days when political declarations of this character meant something, when the contest of a campaign was fought out on clearly defined lines and the humblest citi zen knew the object of his vote. It is but fair to presume that this plat form will receive the support of thou sands who have been deceived in the past by the concealed purpose, or un fair construction, that, as a rule, is applied to a party platform when its provisions are met with the test of application. FLORIDA AS IT WAS. A Land of Ants and Scorpions, Heat and Mosquitoes. The Ranch. It is reported of John Randolph of Roanoake that when the purchase of Florida from the Spanish govern ment was under discussion in the House he cried out from the floor of Congress, in his high, harsh voice : “Mr. Speaker, I am opposed to this measure. Flomla worth buy ing. It is a land of swamps, of quag mires, of frogs, and alligators and mosquitoes! A man, sir, would not immigrate into Florida. No, sir! No man would immigrate into Florida— no, not from hell itself!” This frank opinion seems to have been, in a measure, shared by those officers of the army and navy who were sent into Florida during the Seminole troubles, for they certainly found there but little of the charm and glamor which makes it now such a paradise to the thousands who rush there every year in search of all the lavish shine and glitter of summer in the depth of winter. “Ordered to Florida” meant —what did it not mean in the way of discomfort, of privations innumerable. It meant vermin of every sort and kind every where—black ants in the sugar, red ants and running riot over everything, chigres in one’s feet, scorpions under the pillow at night when one turned it over to get the cool side, and hanging by their queer, pointed tails around the ceilings and walls; no decent drinking water, no ice to make rain water palatable ; mosquitoes and heat everywhere and always, except when a “norther” blew up suddenly, and then one was half frozen to death ! Within the past half century the Democratic party has declared in favor of free trade, protection and . “tariff for revenue only.” Which of these is Democratic “tariff reform” in 1892? Which is “Jeffersonian Democracy ?” Cuthbert Liberal Enterprise. Money a Thing of Law. Carthage Press. Referring to the fact that a move was on foot to hold an international silver congress with a view of re-in stating silver as legal money in Great Britain and Germany, the Kansas City Journal [Rep.] says : The disuse of silver as a money was, and.is, a banker’s policy, and Is directly at variance with the inter ests of the masses. Finance for ages has been the science of the usurer, and there has been a sort of occult power supposed to reside in money—gold—that the people could not know, or that ob tained from some other power than human laws. It has only been since 1860-65 —or since our civil wdr— that the popular mind has known that money was a thing of law. The education of the world in that short time has been marvelous, and anoth er generation will not pbnnit a few owners of money metal to fatten off the ignorance of mankind ahy longer. Threadneedle street will be a retail street and the Bank cf England a warehouse just as soon as the public mind understands what mdney really is. In the meantime silver will come back into use and thus pave the way for the reign of money by the people, which is to be before man can really own himself. As long as a few rock quarries—or quartz lodes —owned by a few men, supply the world with its measure of values, just so long will men who create values be subject to tb’e “men who get the standard out of the rocks. That the intelligent world has not seen this long ago is one of the wonders of human blindness—but the eyes are opening, and it will not be fifty years more till man will be money free as well as free in other respects. And so it is that the world is moving to a common point by so many ways—not the leasf? of which is in the direction of money freedom, and thus industrial liberty. It is simply the money system that holds the labor of mankind in bond age. L COAL TRUST SCORED. —— . • Sixty Thousand Men Made Idle to Add to Reading Dividends. Racine Advance. ; New York.—The Herald devotes a page to-day to the Reading combi nation. This is its double-leaded summary of the matter : ’“The com bination has been in active existence .three weeks. In the great Lehigh Valley * coal region it • has thrown 60,000 men out of employment half of the time. In the flourishing cities of the lower valley it has deprived 2,000 workingmen of half of their employment and saved from their wages $75,000. Its restriction of the coal product is a sure forerunner of the coming advance of coal prices, which is to increase the cost of manufacturing in all the Eastern stites, the price of manufactures for the whole country, and the cost of living for the people of New York. The only cause for all this distur bance of business and misfortune to the people is an attempt' to make an unprofitable railroad pay excessive dividends for two other railroads which it has no right to possess.” THE SUB-TREASJJRY. In Operation, in France—Official Let ter by Our Consul in France. Bordeaux, France, Oct. 13, ’9l. Mr. H. L. Loucks: Dear Sir :—ln reply to your let ter of inquiry, will say the Bank of France has almost since its establish ment, early in the present century, loaned money on non-perishable pro ducts, such as wheat, .corn, wine, spirits, metals, etc., provided such se curities were deposited in reliable warehouses, or warehouses desig nated by the directors of the Bank of France. Receipts were of course taken for the same, and these become negotiable just as are warehouse re ceipts in America. The amounts loaned upon products of this descrip-* tion was usually equal to about two thirds of its appraised value and the rate of interest charged for the loan was 3 per cent. The same rate is applicable at the present time. Horace G. Knowles, Consul. 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