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SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE. .
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Happenings of General Interest From
Many Counties —Crimes and Crimi
nals—What the Other Fellow
Saw And Tells Yon About.
The Confederate Soldi°rs’ Home is to
be sold on November 10th.
Madison wants a cotton factory and .
a society for prevention of cruelty to
animals.
Electric lights and water works are
possibilities in . the near future for ,
Waynesboro.
Gen. James Longstreet has been ap
pointed commissioner of railroads to i
succeed Gen. Wade Hampton.
The legislature has passed a bill to
prevent the hunting or catching of 1
opossums in this state between March
1 and Oct. 1 of each year.
J. W. Sykes, a colored man. exhibited
at the Thomasville fair a mantel p’eee
made with a saw, pew knife and chisel
out of curly pine. It is a rare and fin
ished piece of work.
After being out twenty-four hours ,
a mistrial was declared in the case of ,
James Williams, the negro indicted for
murdering policem -n Albert in Atlanta
some months ago. The jury stood six
for acquittal and six for conviction.
Miss Susie Jewett, of Columbus, has
been appointed to succeed Mrs. Gen. (
Longstreet as assistant state librarian.
Miss Jewett was formerly stenographer
in the office of the state school commis
sioner.
Wash Blocker and Alfred Benton,
colored, living on J. A, McGregor’s
place, near Newton, got into a row
Thursday night and Wash knocked
Alfred in the head with an ax-helve
The blow will prove fatal.
There was a disastrous collision be
tween two trolley cars on the Atlanta
Railway Company line, Saturday after
noon, in which one man was killed
outright, one probably fatally hurt
and several severely injured.
The main buildings of the Elbert
county pauper farm, together with the
sto eroom and several outhouses, have
been totally destroyed by fire. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The
county had no insurance on the build
ings.
In Augusta, while several children
were playing on a pile of cord wood,
several of the logs on top of the pile
were dislodged and rolled down, crush
ing one of the children to the ground,
breaking her neck, killing her instant
ly-
Macon last Thursday, wh’le sit
ting over the body of a dead friend
two negroes, Mose Goode and Jerry
Lewis quarrelled, and Lewis fired
point blank at Goode with a double
barreled shotgun. The load of shot
tore away nearly one half of Goode’s
face. He was taken to the hospital,
where he died. Lewis was arrested.
At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Masons at Macon, a committee was ap
pointed to go before the Georgia legis
lature and if necessary have a bill pas
sed exempting the property of Masonic
lodges from taxation on the ground
that they are charitable institutions
and should be classed with churches
and others of a like nature.
Mr. Cornelius Burns, eighty-six years
old, one of the pioneers of Floyd coun
ty and one of the most highly respect
ed men in that section, was found dead
in his cotton patch last Saturday, his
head having the appearance of having
ing be n struck with some blunt in
strument, probably an ax handle.
A negro workman, while attempting
to fit a piece of iron casting in the dome
of the elevator shaft of Atlanta’s new
jail, lost his balance and fell eighty
five feet, several bones were broken
and his whole body was shattered bv
the concussion. He lived only a short
while.
A negro named David Carter was ar
rested by Mr- Fripp at the Satilla Man
ufacturing Company's works at Way
cross Monday night and put in jail for
forgery. Carter forged orders on the
office signing the names of the employ
es. The proof against Carter is posi
tivl.
tn Augusta, Saturday morning,
while a number of hands were at work
on a big ditch dug for the laying of
water pipes, the banks caved in with
out a moments warning, burying five
men, their fellow workmen hastily
dug them out but three of the men
were dead while the other two were
fearfully and perhaps fatally crushed.
Ed Pearson, a white tramp from
Pennsylvania, fell between the cars of
a Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road freight train Thursday at mid
night and was killed. Pearson and
another tramp were on top the cars
ride'when from some cause
both fell between the cars. The other
man, whose name was not learned,
was not seriously injured, but Pearson
was instantly killed.
A four-year-old negro boy was burn
ed to death last week in a house
in East Macon. The dwelling
was occupied by Leroy Thornton
Thornton’s wife and child were the
only inmates. The house caught on
fire and the woman, becoming fright
ened, forgot about her child until the
house was consumed. Negroes are
excited and suspect foul play. The
charred remains are still in the burning
embers.
William Jones, a negro of Macon,
drank a quart of whisky and died
'shortly afterwards. Jones was in
Mitchell’s alley with two or three
other negroes. The crowd had a quart
of whisky and one of those present
made a wager with Jones that he could
not drink the whole quart. Jones soon
swallowed the contents of the bottle
■End in thirty minutes he was dead.
THE PEOPLE S PARTY PAPER
A mad dog on the streets caused
great excitement in Hawkinsville Sun
day, he bit two little boys, but was
finally killed about a mile from town.
There was an extensive case of horse
Stealing in Sparta, recently. There
was a good crowd of people in town,
and manv horses and mules were hitch
ed to the racks oh the public square
Early in the night it was discovered
that a party of thieves had gone
among the horses and mules and stolen
five. The thieves took the road toward
Sandersville. They rode off m a body
in that direction.
A young son of Mr. Daniel Bonie,
who lives in Bulloch county went into
bis father’s barn one night last week
for some fodder, while gathering up
the fodder he received a blow in the
face and at the same time heard the
singing of a snake’s rattles, he left the
barn, procured a light and returned to
find a monster rattlesnake, which was
at once killed. Had it not been for a
large rat which the snake had about
half swallowed, young Bonie would no
doubt have been bitten and killed.
In the game which was played in
Atlanta Saturday between the footbal
teams of the Universities of Georgia &
Virginia, Richard Von Gammon one of
the best players in the Georgia team
was so severely injured that he died a
few hours later, never having regained
consciousness Von Gammon was the
second son of Hon. and Mrs. J. A.
Gammon of Rome, was universally
popular and the leading spirit in ath
letic sports. He entered the Universi
ty last year and was a member of the
sophomore class.
Joseph Busby of the lunatic asylum
died on Oct 2(5. Every one who has
ever visited that institution was ac
quainted with Joe, and his fame ex
tends throughout the whole United
States. Busby, as he was familiarly
known, was a harmless idiot, and had
been an inmate of the asylum since
1853. He was 58 years old when he
died and consequently had been there
since 14 years of age. He was one of
four children, all idiots, and all dwarfs.
The other three died some time ago.
S. B. Sluter, a guard at the Chatta
hoochee river convict camp, has been
sent to jail by United States Commis
sioner Broyles in default of a $3,000
bond for circulating counterfeit money.
The bad coin, which was a 5 cent
piece, was made at the camp by “Little
Charley” Chisholm, who is serving a
ten years’ sentence for burglary.
Chisholm has served a sentence for
counterfeiting which was his hobby,
and he set up a plant in the Chatta
hoochee camp, with Sluter as his out
side agent.
Lewis Redwine has bren pardoned
out of the Ohio penitentiary by Presi
dent McKinley. ,The pardon was gran
ted at the urgent request of Senator
Bacon, the persistent effort of Red
wine’s counsel, Colonel N. J. Hiusaad,
and after several of the most promi
nent judicials of the scuth had attach
ed their indorsement to the petition.
Among those who signed the paper is
Judge Pardee, who presided over the
famous trial which resulted in the
conviction of Redwine. Lewis Red
wine was arrested in Atlanta four
years ago charged with wrecking the
Gate City bank, of which he was the
assistant cashier
Thomas J. McClain, the white man
who was indicted for shooting his little
son in Atlanta, charged with assault
to murder, has been tried and acquitted
When McClain was first arrested his
wife said he wanted to kill the child to
get rid of it, but accidental shooting
was all that was proven to the jury.
The child furnished a peculiar case
for the doctors at the Grady hospital,
because of the fact that the wound in
the head took away the power of
speech, which is being gradually res
tored, however, by the removal of part
of the skull.
Early Sunday morning the mills of
the Georgia Cotton Oil Mill Company,
located at Edgewood, were completely
destroyed by fire causing a loss to the
campany of about sll3 000. The origin
of the fire is unknown, when discover
ed by the night watchman it had
gained such headway that it was com
pletely beyond control. An immense
tank of oil, bolding a thousand barrels
and about one-half filled with the
fluid, caught soon after the buildings
were in flames. The heat had twisted
the sides and the oil on the inside was
almost at the boiling point when an
explosion occurred. The oil was
thrown for over a quarter of a mile, a
perfect shower of it fell for some time
after the explosion had occurred.
Henry George Dead.
Henry George, author of “Progress
and Poverty” and candidate of the
Thomas Jefferson Democracy for May
or of Greater New York, died suddenly
Friday morning of cerebral apoplexy.
In his great Cooper Union speech ac
cepting the nomination for mayor, less
than a month ago, he said :
“I’ll make this race if it costs me my
life. This is a call to duty, and as a
good citizen I have no right to disre
gard it on account of mere personal
considerations.” True to his word he
died as he wished to die —in harness.
The Thomas Jefferson Democracy
has substituted the name of Henry
George, Jr., for the name of his father,
Henry George, as a candidate for may
or of Greater N ew York.
The Populist party is gaining strength
in every State in the Union. From
Maine to California the good tidings
are heralded. The people are becom
ing tired of the old parties, their eyes
are becoming opened to the fact that
through the old parties there is no re
dress for the people in common. In
the platform of each of the old parties
is the hidden plank, “Plutocracy must
rule.” On this they stand, and today
to Wall street and the moneyed kings
Its only a matter of time, and that
time is fast approaching, when the
Populist party will be in the ascenden
cy, and then, and then only, will this
plutocratic rule be relegated to the
rear and a government of the people,
by the people ana for the people, be
furmulated. —Douglas Leader.
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ELECTION FLASHES.
Brief Summary of Tuesday’s
Returns From Many States.
BOTH SIDES CLAIMING OHIO.
Democracy Pulls Ahead in Greater New
York and Surprises Republicans in
Other States—A General Mud
dle all Around.
The political struggle of 1897 in
many of the states ended Tuesday
night and as the People’s Party Paper
goes to press, returns are coming in
slowly giving only the un-official count.
Latest reports show that New York
state may go democratic by upwards of
125 000. Parker, democratic candidate
for chief judge court of appeal defeat
ing Wallace, republican candidate.
In New York city now Greater New
York since the addition of several ad
joining towns and counties. Van Wyck,
democrat, polled about 225,000 votes
against Low, citizen’s ticket 150,000 and
Tracy, republican, 101,000. The death
of Henry George cut the vote of his
son to a small one. By Van Wyek’s
Aleitipn, Tammany secures absol”te .
control of New York for four years.
The republicans will probably control
the legislature and will deprive Tam
many officials some of their power.
In Nebraska, five tickets were in the
field. Democrats and populists fused
and now claim to have carried the
state by a majority of ten to twenty
thousand.
In Ohio, six tickets were in the field.
Republicans have elected as governor
Asa S. Bushnell, by a reduced majority.
Both sides claim the legislature and
early reports show that Hanna may be
re-elected for the senate and McLean
defeated.
In Kentucky, where Jo. A Parker,
the populist nominee for clerk of court
of appeals, has made a grand fight, the
democrats claim a majority of 15,000
Gold bug democrats and republicans
conceded defeat Parker ran a close
race in many of the counties distancing
the national democratic candidate,
Hindman.
In lowa, republicans carry the state
by less than 20.000, against 67,000 for
McKinley Democrats, silver republi
cans and populists fused and polled a
fair vote. The middle of the road pop
ulists ran Lloyd and polled a small vote
Republi ans have the legislature by a
good majority.
In Pennsylvania, republicans carried
the state by 100,000 plurality.
Silver republicans carried Colorado
by 5,000 majority.
Republicans claim Maryland, but the
democratic committee insist that Gor
man’s re-election is assured.
Democrats carried Detroit, Mich., and
made some gain in Boston.
Republicans carry South Dakota by
an increased majority, populists carry
ing one or two districts and democrats
running third.
Democrats carry Virginia by 50,000,
an increase over 1896, the legislature
being solidly democratic.
San Francisco, which was democratic
was literally cleaned up by republican
majorities.
Democrats elected a majority in Pro
vidence, R. I.
Latest returns show Ohio to have
gone republican in the legislature to
insure Hanna’s return. The fusion of
democrats and populists polled a good
vote in the large cities but ran way
behind in the country.
General A. S. Weissert, of Milwau
kee, Wis., and General Paul Vander
vort, of Omaha, Neb., each an ex
grand commander Grand Army of the
Republic, and General R. N. Adams, of
Minneapolis, have just secured twenty
two thousand acres in the coast region
of Texas. This purchase is made for
locating in the union veterans of the
late war, eight hundred families of
whom are said to be en route for set
tlement on the land. The location
selected is an ideal one—Matagorada
county.
The congressional elections are only
little more than 12 months distant, and
the Populists should make a vigorous
campaign for all of our principles dur
ing the coming winter months. —Mis-
souri World.
A party that would steal political
thunder, after denouncing said thunder
for years, would steal the Goddess of
Liberty and trade her off to John Bull
for a stack of poker chips—Advance
(Ohio) Guard.
“EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1897.
ALL OVER THE NATION.
The People of Sister Statesand
Their Movements.
ITEMS THAT ARE FRESH FROM WIRES
A South Carolina Preacher Kills his Wife.
A Son Born to'Grover Cleveland.
Kansas Woman Trying to
Reform Preachers.
An lowa husband and wife were ad
mitted to an insane asylum at Mount
Pleasant at the same time recently.
On an Indiana railroad there is a
section hand who is a graduate of a
college in Paris, and also of the Uni
versity of Madrid.
A son was born to the household of
Grover Cleveland, the former President
of the United States, at noon last
Thursday.
A chain bridge over the Merrimac
river at Amesburg is said to be the
oldest suspension bridge in the United
States. It was built in 1792.
President McKinley has issued his
Jprct Tharkept-ripg
ting aside Thursdav. November 25th, as I
a day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
Mrs Sally Betsey Jennings of Fair
field, Conn., who has just celebrated
her one hundredth birthday, is a grand
daughter of Orpha Hamilton, who was
a sister of Alexander Hamilton.
A post office clock in Sidney, N. S.
W., emits an electric flashlight, lasting
five seconds, every hour during the
night, thus enabling those living miles
away to ascertain the exact time.
Two anarchists under arrest at Port
land, Ore., so annoyed their cell mates
by efforts to propagate their doctrines
among them that the other prisoners
petitioned the jailer for relief.
Miss Harriet S. Huntingdon, daugh
ter of Bishop Huntingdon of Central
New York, has been nominated for the
school board of Syracuse, and is sup
ported by the progressive women of
the set in which she moves.
Five men were caught in the Van
Storch slope by fire in that shaft and
perished. When the firemen succeed
ed in getting the fire under control a
rescuing party entered the mine and
found the five men dead from suffoca
tion.
Dr. Otto Nordenskiold, the well
known Antaric explorer, will superin
tend an expedition to be fitted out at
the joint expense of Norway and Swe
den, to ascertain whether any trace of
Prof. Andree's balloon can be found
near Prince Charles’ promontory.
Rev. J. L. Burdine, a Baptist preach
er living near Columbia, S. C., while on
a protracted spree, killed his wife by
shooting her through the bead with a
revolver, he then fired a 38 caliber bul
let into his brain, is living though un
conscious.
The Rev. Charles L. Berry, a Presby
terian minister, has been convicted at
Pawnee. O T., of looting the defunct
Peop e’s bank and given 20 years in the
penitentiary. Berry is 60 years old
and was formerly a minister in Toledo,
O. He spent several years in Kansas
City, where he owned and edited a re
ligious journal and was the pastor of
one of the most fashionable churches.
The new Mills hotel which has been
designated the “Waldorf of the Slums,”
located in New York, has been formal
ly opened. The hotel, which is a nine
story brick building, trimmed with
light sandstone, is provided with baths,
elevators, electric light and steam
heating apparatus. The main corri
dor, which is as elegant as any of the
expensive hotels up town, has a marble
tiled floor. The rates will be 20 cents
per night, including bath.
Ella Barms and Bessie Thomas, two
sixteen year old cotton factory opera
tives, at Anniston Alabama,
quarreled over their mutual re
gard for the same youth. The Thomas
girl advanced on the Barnes girl with
a pair of scissors. Miss Barnes threw
a lighted lamp at her adversary, the
1 lamp exploded and the burning oil
enveloped Miss Thomas and she was
burned to a crisp before succor came
Her murderess is in hiding.
A Kansas woman has reached the
conclusion that the preachers of her
! state need reforming, and she has
L taken upon herself the task of bring
ing about a reformation in them. She
1 is preaching to them against the great
sin of using tobacco.
Barker and Bryan.
F>-r many months past I have follow
ed in the reform press a number of
controversies and political prognosti
nat ons. I have closely studied the
Nashville, as well as the 8t Louis and
Chi ;ago conferences. I have read with
the orofouudest interest the proposi
ti; < of men like Barker, Watson,
Bat -man, Boggs, Vandervoort, Bryan,
Del; and others. Much has been said
abort the Judases of St Louis and
Chicago conventions, much also has
beec said about the lecturing by Bryan
for i speculating concern and the pub
lish ng of a book for $1.75 that could
be sold by any one else for SI.OO. I
was at St. Louis and I know that either
Chr irman Jones did not keep tab on
wh transpired behind the curtains,
or else Mr. Bryan suppressed the most
val; iblc information from publication.
One fact however has so far escaped
pub) ic notice, and I may say it right
her, it is this fact that compelled me
five months ago to at once to discon
tinue the sale of Bryans book, although
I si'll have eight volumes on hand.
E ery delegate to St. Louis knows
full well that the situation was such
thr. Bryan could at no time get the
-J-.r*. ukxletss a mid-'
I die of the roader received the Vice
Presidency. This they promised, but
for obvious reasons democratic prom
ises would not be swallowed by the
Pops and therefore the Vice President
had to be nominated first. Now, I
want the fusionists in future cam
paigns to take the following from page
270 of Bryans “First Battle” and when
at leisure, smoke it in their pipes: “In
view of the contest over the second po
sition, it was decided to nominate the
cand date for Vice-President first, In
spite as all due respect for Mr. Bryan.
I call this a willful and deliberate mis
representation of facts, worthy of a
politician, but not of a statesman. Mr.
Bryan from now on will be anything
tha« political expediency wHI teach
him to be and he will go anywhere,
whe-e political expediency will teach
him to go and you see. just now he will
not go in the enemy’s country (New
York).
As to the future of this great reform
movement, allow me a few remarks. I
see too frequently, where one man
makes good suggestions, another man,
without deliberate and thorough inves
t’gation, will jump at conclusions.
Thus Mr. Boggs calls Mr. Barker a bi
metalist and Mr. Bateman denies that
the Populists are fiat’sts. Both are
wrong' Mr. Barker as well as Popu
lists are fiatists. Mr. Barker stands
squarely on the first article of the St.
Louis platform and I presume so does
Mr. Bateman and the Populists. A
national money, safe and sound, issued
bv the government, full legal tender.
Mr. '.iateman, if this don’t mean a pa
per money then it does not mean gold
or sliver money, but whatever it means
it means fiatism.
Bateman ought to know that if.
we ystore silver to its old place, we
can only do it by fiat. On this line M
Barker has been sound for years. I
had a lengthy correspondence with the
honorable gentleman years ago and he
has not changed any of his principles,
except perhaps that he is today more
convinced of a broader conception of
government ownership), only he
thought in former years that the re
forms could be brought about, but by
the Republican party. I told him that
he would find that he will utterly fail
to reform the Republican party. Under
date of April 2, he wrote in part: ‘lt
has been necessary to spend time in an
effort to get the Republican party into
line as the party of the people and out
of control of the money cliques. It was
also necessary to wait for the Demo-
party to again show that the
1-aders were also under the control of
the money cliques. The time has been
well spent, a new party can now be
formed with a hope of victory. This
later demand he has since modified, as
he has apparently more faith in the
People’s Party than I have. I think
: Mr. Bateman views the situation right,
the fusionists hold the party machinery
and wi'l wreck it. As a conference of
repn setatives of labor and from every
congressional district has been called
for St. Louis for May 2nd, next. I
think the Populists ought to compel
Butler to call a national conference
prior to that date and if he will not
heed the wish of the rank and file of
his party, then let them attend the St
Louis conference and organize in con
junction with all reformers for politi
cal action and a battle royal next fall.
Every patriot ought to take time by
the forelock, this is a critical period
and so sure as things are allowed to
drift by themselves, the People’s Party
is doomed and peaceable reconstruction
will give way to the most destructive
revolution of the ages. Around here
socialism is spreading like wildfire, but
they are unorganized and have no
chance yet for political action. Let us
go to St. Louis, let us rally around a
leader, let Mr. Barker be there and
g’ve us his brotherly counsel, put the
Initiative and Referendum and Imper
ative Mandate on the top mast, and we
will develop a strength and rally to our
banner such a support that the new
movement will sweep the country like
a tidal wave. Thus our wives will ad
mire us and our mothers pray for us,
for hundreds of thousands of yet un
born children will be saved from per
dition. Mr. Barker’s platform we know,
but his earnestness many do not yot
understand.
Wm. S. Tuescheb.
PRESS CLIPPINGS.
□ls you call this prosperity give us
something else, please.—Ennis (Tex )
Populist.
Peace, prosperity and plenty are the
only things that can kill the People’s
Party.—Advance lOhio) Guard.
A few years ago Democracy was
throwing rotten eggs at Gen. Weaver
and Col. Mary Yellin Lease. Now they
are all voting the same ticket—except
the Colonel, and she would if she could.
—Buzz Saw.
If the People’s Party will unite and
nresent a solid front, it can be in posi
tion by the next presidential election
to take the lead. No other party can
gain the confidence of people.—Peo
p'e’s (N. C.) Paper.
Let the gold redemptionists and the
silver redemptionists fuse if they want
to, but let the Populists continue to
teach the great truth that it is the law
which makes money and expose the
falsity of the theory that it is necessa
ry to redeem one dollar with another
—Missouri World.
The slate makers are now engaged in
arranging who shall be the next Gov
ernor of Georgia. A campaign will be
on, of course, later, and the Democrat
ic farmer * and “me too” yelpers will
go through the farce of making a se
lection, but “leading men” will so ar
range that they endorse the maneuver
ings of the slate makers, who are now
doing their work.—Glasscock Banner.
Butler, our national chairman, is
venting his sple*n on Morgan and
Steinberger for going to Ohio and
helping the party to hold to its princi
ples and downing the fusion gang. He
is only making more certain his own
downfall from his position in the party
by doing so, and no one can be found
who would believe anything he says.—
Poplar Bluff (Mo) Enterprise.
“Now, Mr. President, the proposition
to retire the greenbacks is one that a
good many persons seem to have some
hesitancy about. The reason given is
that greenbacks are the money of the
people ; that it is a popular currency.
Twenty years ago that was a fact; it
was true ten years ago, but it is not so
now.”
Who said that ?
Senator James K. Jones, in the sen
ate, Jan. 23, 1895, page 1248, Congres
sional Record.
I Who is he ? t
Chairman of the national democratic
committee.
No comment necessary. —Buzz Saw.
Are you doing anything, my brother,
in the way of assisting your friends
and neighbors to understand correct
principles of reform ? A true reformer
should never be idle ; should never give
up the fight. He may sometimes be
come a little discouraged when he sees
men who need reform; who need a
change for the better, who will contin
ue to vote against their own interest
and the interest of their country at
large, but this should not keep you
from doing your duty and all in your
power for the right and for the final
triumph of our principles.—Jackson
Economist.
Attention Populists*
The Peoples Party Paper wants the
names of 5 Populists in each township
with their addresses in lowa, Ohio, Illi
nois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska and Minnescta. Send them in
on a postal card at once. Do not delay.
IS POPULISM SOCIALISM 1
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Or Revolutionary Populism vs. 5
Revolutionary Socialism. ‘
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WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES. ’
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A Paper Read Before the Social Science •
Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, by 1
Miss Ida B. Woodworth With 1
Valuable New Ideas. 1
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Anything is practical which is fit for ’
performing, as opposed to what is she- ;
oretical. Practicable is a synonym for
what is possible- Socialism is the re- i
construction of society on the principle
of co-operation, and advances the com- ;
mon ownership of the instruments of
production and the gifts of nature.
Populism is equal rights to all, and
special privileges to none. It aims at
this not. by a revolution, but by evolu
tion. and a 1 so by taking possession of ,
rights that have been usurped To this
end the Peonie’s Party would reform,
our financial laws. The people should
issue their own medium of exchange, a
right now appropriated by the banks.
The public should control all means of
transportation and intelligence, and
such other municipal rights as street
railway, electric light plant, etc. It is
apposed to all special privileges or class
laws It favors graduated income tax
and improvement in the election laws
The People’s Party does not believe
that state interference should at pres
ent at least, go to the extent th » social
ist desires In a general way the Peo
pie’s Party eonsiders th*t the s’ate’s
functions should be limited to protec
tion of life, property and liberty, and
promotion of industry, intelligence,
science, morality and art, and promo
tion of factory and sanitary laws It
believes in doing only that which, un
der the present genersl sentiment, it is
imperative for the state to da In de
ciding such the People’s party asks at
every step three question': First, is the
object good? Second, will the means
obtain it? Third, at too great a sacri
fice. Having defined the terms of our
thesis we claim that Populism ia a fit
system for reconstructing society in
such away as to level great inequali
ties existing,- and to bring about com
mon ownership, and the principle of
co-operation, but that Socialism is im
practicable. Socialism claims to be the
party of evolution, but is really revo
lutionary. Evolution moves almost
imperceptibly step by step. Revolution
comes with a crash Evolution is the
gradual heating of water up to the
boiling point until it turns into steam,
but the Socialist is impatiently at
tempting to put into the water the hot
iron of Socialism without waiting for
natural processes. I would not vote
fre -• good ‘as ill-
nationalization of any industry if ad
vanced by another party than mine,
said one of the Socialistic leaders,
plainly indicating his revolutionary
rather than evolutionary spirit. While
these men are members of a party
which aims at good things we all de
sire, it seems to me, for the present at
least, they are impracticable agitators
of an impracticable theory. From a
woman's standpoint it seems to me
that the single-taxer, Socialist, Popu
list, Prohibitionist, Nationalist, and
all other reformers, are living in the
same house called “Equal Rights to
All,” and yet they quarrel because the
Socialist wants to occupy a I the rooms
in the house at once, while the rest of
the reformers consider it more prudent
to furnish one room at a t’me, as their
means allow, and as their experience
proves is wise The Socia ist never
having built a house will find, if he
ever gets it built, that it would have
been much better to have relied more
o- practical experience, and less on
visions, theories, or a priori deductions.
■ But have they even a theory? They
have been given three evenings of
this summer course and have ail’d to
cive us an idea < f what Socialism real
ly is. It is impracticable to expect the
American public to accept, they know
not what. It is easy to find fault and
criticise, but difficult to construct, and
hard to disprove a negative. Socialism
is a negative so far as we have learned.
’ What else have they represented. They
I tell about the “two classes,” but every
one knows that. The only positive or
constructive statement they make is
the definition of “value ” It is imprac
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ticable to expect the pub ic to give up
I the present system for a system of
which it knows nothing, except the de
finition of “values.” Even that is no’,
proved. Why do they not tell us how
to determine the “average labor time,’
1 or how many times more “skilled la
3 bor” is than “unskilled,” or how their
9 standard of measurement would re-
• main unchangeable, or how to dete m-
• ine that most difficult question, as to
t how many "labor units” there might
5 be in such a complex product as cotton
cloth, what to do with the idlers and
incompetent, or men that will not do
■ honest work, and how they should be
• paid? I will tell you why, because in
their own words “Socialism is an anal
ysis of social forces.” It is no scheme
2 It gives no methods whatever. It has
no plans and therefore is impracticable,
• something we cannot argue against,
and something whose adoption must
3 come by revolution, unless the Social
ly ists are prepared in the dim future to
r state definitely what their methods are
, concerning their “co-operative com
monwealth.” They desire this common-
3 wealth immediately. The Populists
j step by step, as the public becomes fit
ted for it. The Populist wishes to
t avail himself of every opportunity to
t help the people, while the Socialist
, promising great things neglects his
r present opportunities while waiting
I for his fellow men to rally round his
j standard.
What will be the result? That the
very people whose interests he proses
ses to have at heart are all the time in
5 creasing in numbers, growing more
3 ignorant, miserable, degraded and
’ starved, less skillful and constantly
‘ less able to assume governmental con
-1 trol. The Peonie’s Party is accused of
. standing as the champion of the mid-
Morgan’s Buzz Saw One Year /Ji 4
Free and The People’s Party Ma I
Paper to Jan. 1, 1899, AU for |
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
WHOLE NUMBER 372.
die classes. It does, but only for the
purpose of pulling down from his un
fair advantage ground the plutocrat,
while with the other hand it is pulling
up the fallen brother. Truth is gener
ally found, not in either extreme.
What party will help the whole people
if not the party which represents the
golden mean ? Your poor overworked
laborers, Mr. Socialist, are not able to
conduct this country to success and se
cure equal rights of the whole people,
and the plutocrat will not. Therefore
the party that represents tha middle
class must do it. Socialism is imprac
ticable in that it anticipates that those
who have been failures under our
present system can make a success of
what it is charged the ablest have fail
ed to perfect. When Socialists all agree
upon a definite program that wilhbe
acceptable to the majority of our peo
ple to say nothing of their own party
let them present it. But they dare not
now. knowing that it wiU open too
much disaffection and dissatisfaction.
Nor has the t’me come for such a radi
cal change as thev desire in all the de
partments of industry, at least in this
••nuntry, which is a fact that the ma
jority of Socialistic emigrants fail to
realize. The Socialistic program ig
impracticable also because many of the
▼ery working men, on whom they must
depend, are fairly satisfied with the
capitalistic system These self-sstisfl
ed hirelintrc of cnnitalistg. either from
f»ar of losing their positions, bribery
or intimidation or else because of
4 he ! r personal contentment, so long as
they are -nrovidod for, no matter how
their brothers ruffer, cannot possibly
be trot to come to the polls and expro
orjete c"pitalis‘s. On the other hand
while such selfish laborers, who prefer
“a bi’d in the hand to two in the
bush ” cannot be got to go with the
Socialist “the whole hog or none,”
they will be and are induced to vote
for moderate, reasonable and practica
ble measures, advanced by the Populist.
They would vote for instance, when
the Populist party believes the time
has came for advancinf them, for such
measures as. settling disputes between
working men and employes by arbitra
tion. measures to give legal sunport
and increased powers to trades unions,
taxing of inheritance, labor insurances,
and above ell. the best for the present
material benefit of the laborer, the
compulsory gradual decrease of his
working hours. The Socialists desires
to force the sentiment of the country.
The Populist is educating the people to
a higher sentiment. They declare that
their party does not believe in reforms.
The Populist wishes the reforms be
cause, before a
ment can be successful
themselves must be e- ft ‘
starda-d which will makgSM
peten* for 'ueh a vast --
other words the
ing self-relient. prudent persrLeriiJg
men tamer, man grown chilaren. The
Socialist, like the Jesuit fathers in
Peru years ago, would vainly expect to
make a self-governing public out of
barbarous, savage Indians. Sociologi
cal ques’ions are not yet settled be
yond a doubt, and therefore what folly,
and how impracticable to expect to
put them en masse into practice. So
cialism has emphasized in a righteous
manner the need of justice, but some of
the rabid and materialistic Socialists
fail at the same time of applying jus
tice to the upper classes which they
demand for the laboring people.
Finally while I appreciate the object
for which Socialists strive, but, as a
Populist, materially differ from them
in their methods, I must conclude thia
paner by the statement of how I abso
lutely and wholly differ from them.
And it is where the admitted logical
conclusion of Marx’s Socialism ends in
■ a black and h 'peless denial of the spir
i itual or religious world. On that
' noint. in the face of nineteen centuries
i of intellectual judgment, and the
great miracle of Christ’s miral life on
earth, I know there is no need to
' argue. Call it a supposition if you
' pka-e. It is a far more reasonable
supposition than that matter always
■ existed without b'g'nning or end.
' Vol'aireand his influence have long
I since died. Da-win’s missing link will
I never be found. Environment does
i much in moulding the brain, but soul
and mind can never be evolved from
• dust Impracticable as Socialism is in
f its economic features it is absurdly im
' pract cable in expecting to answer all
s questions of meekness.purity, patience,
- hungering for knowledge and righte-
> ousn ss by answering “a question of
f the stomach ” A merely earthly para-
- d'se would be only a fool’s paradise.
. Wealth can never buy a pure heart, a
r clear conscience, a cultivated intellect,
or the power to enjoy the sublime and
beautiful. The worst immorality is
' often found among the rich. Socialism
is impracticable. Populism is practi-
- cal, a party for the whole people, for
> home, and in the name of God. —The
t Representative.
’ Popnliat Meeting Meeting Postponed.
5 Owing to the busy crop gathering
. season in this section it was decided
j by a number of active Populists
assembled at the court house on
October 23d, to postpone our county
5 mass-meeting to the fourth Saturday,
27th day of November, 1897; when
every genuine reformer is expected to
i be on hand at the court house at 11
. o’clock, a. m , sharp.
3 P. H. Labey.
Sect’y Ex, Com., Bartow Co.
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Attention Populists.
The People’s Party Paper wants the
5 names of 5 Populists in each township
with their addresses in Ohio, Illi
-5 nois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
t braska and Minnesota. Send them in
on a postal card at once. Do not delay.
’ And in Nebraska, too, the Populists
3 are to vote a Democratic ticket. Ris
ing above Party you know!
Jim Weaver, Jim Davis and Jim Sov
ereign—the three Jims —how is that
for the jim-jams?
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7 The Democratic candidate for lient.
. governor in lowa is a national banker,
f and another one of the candidates is a
- gold bug. Great free silver campaign !