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Morgan’s Buzz Saw One Year /Ji « fa Free and The People’s Party (•) Paper to Jan. 1, 1899, All for QJ | (5) ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. VOL. Vll. NUMBER 7. HERE T N OLD GEORGIA. _ 1 "'/er,. Doings of a jred in Brief ParagVZf?* < i. i i SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE. . < 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. GREATEST OFFER YET. People’s Party Paper Free for two Months and Morgan’s Buzz Saw We propose to put the People’s Party Paper into 50,00 c homes of Populists, eveiy state from Maine to Cali fornia. Every week that rolls by means one week less in which to close up our ranks and prepare for the great battle of 1900. Are you going to be behind? Are you going to keep posted on all that goes on or will you drop out of the line? ANSWER RIGHT NOW._ We want to enlist for 1898 and 1899 the best workers in the Union—men who are Pops and are not afraid of the name. Will you be one to help spread the good work ;nd carry the banner? Do you really want to stamp out fusion? Now, here is your chance 1 Go to your.neighbor and tell him that FOR OISEE DOI.LAR ONLY. We will send the People’s Party Paper 14 Months or to January 1, 1899, and if he subscribes NOW, we will send him for one year FREE, Morgan’s Buzz Saw, the chain lightning journal of pure Populism. If your time will soon be out RENEW NOW and get advantage of this liberal offer. Don’t put it off—every week you wait you get one less paper and you need not do that. Whb name will go at the top of our yearly honor roll? Raise a club today. You can do it. This makes the P. P. P. two months Free. NATIONAL PAPER CLUB, -A.tlan.ta, Gra. 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 i 1 Or Revolutionary Populism vs. 5 Revolutionary Socialism. ‘ i WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES. ’ j A Paper Read Before the Social Science • Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, by 1 Miss Ida B. Woodworth With 1 Valuable New Ideas. 1 < ■ 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 i . . 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. s 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? 1 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 !