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THE .11 SI P SENTINEL m
Established 1866.
VOL XXXI.
KMTOKl.iL NOTTS.
Sixteen (o one beats "nothing to ate.”
Lyman Gage Is “feminst” the green¬
backs.
There’s' a "run” on Urn White
House.
The White House- Is surrounded by
"patriots.”
A billion dollar,j don’t pay Hie bills
of Congress now-a-dayfl.
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Money const-1 in the stamp and not
in the material of which it Is made;
The refer.- ndum means the people
shail rule; explain it to your neighbors.
When money is plentiful we have
good times; when i! is scarce we bavo
the reveis*
it is In order for the “advance agent
to open up his eatee and show his pros
purity samples.
Hanna is not an issue, hut he la
"cussed” artd discuoied; about as much
as if he was one.
The people are anxious for informa¬
tion on the money question. Now ia a
great time to educate,
When a court has no consideration
for either law or justice it should be
abolished for contempt.
Grover Cleveland threatens to write
his “Presidtjftiial reminiscences” for a
magazine. Don't do it, Grover!
If pi perity don't come pretty soon
the people Will begin to think they
hav been, flim-flammed by Republican
promises.
The bankers want to loan their notes
to people the same as money and draw
Interest on them. Will the fool peo¬
ple do it?
The first thing Cleveland did when
be went out of office was to go “down
the river.” llo always goes there when
he ge tired.
The edneerit of the Republicans is
evidenced hi the fact that the plaeo
burp'’. in tihat party are still trying
t,r ve the country.
We don't want to hear anything more
paid about Populist a being given io
whiskers; every member of McKin¬
ley’s cabinet has ’em.
The result of a study of the modern
im piemen of destruction loads one to
the conclusion that war is too dan
gc-rous to think about.
McKinley proposes to close up tho
gap between the government'* Income
And its outgo by increasing the taxes
Instead of reducing the expenses.
All the eori rations, trusts ami com
bines that fat n off of special legisla
ttun oppose the referendum, and that
is one of the host arguments in Its
favor.
The peopn he government) furnish
the bank money at one per cent and
then borrow i bade from them at 8
to 20 per cent Its a great scheme—
for the banks.
When. Cleveland was elected presi¬
dent. in TR92 the Democrats held rati¬
fication meetings all over the land.
Now most of thorn would be willing to
ratify tho close of his reign.
Organize Populist reading clubs. Es
taidi.-h a library and invite your neigh¬
bors to attend. This is the nest method
to reach those whom you cannot in¬
fluence in the beat of a campaign.
The Republicans now have a chance
to redeem their campign promises. The
people wifi bold them responsible. The
Democrats have had their chance and
fail.-1 and it u not their “put in."
The Republicans claimed that the
Democrats had not brains enough to
prepare an income tax law that would
run the gauntlet of the constitution.
Suppose they try their hand at it now.
In McKinley's inaugural observa¬
tions on the civil service there is a
loophole large enough for the whole
thing to crawl out. It Is'evidently the
intention of the Republicans to cross
Uievtfljuid's e vil service t roc ha.
A paper dollar with the simple prom¬
ise to receive it, by the government
for all dues, taxes, etc., would be tho
most perfect kind of money. This is
no new idea, Jefferson, Clay and Cal¬
houn arc all on record as in favor of
such a money.
A <*«>«*<{ Thing for flunk#.
The toll! which passed the House
February 25, to loan the rich national
banks over twenty-three million dol¬
lars. at a tax of 1 per cent per annum,
Is a. good thing.....for the banks. They
would have to pay two hundred and
thirty thousand dollars interest'on the
loan. Of course they would reloan it,
and say they secured 6 per cent per
annum Sa very low estimate), what
would the profit be to the banks? a:
this rate the 'V niy-thrcc million
would bring them ..one million, three
hundred and. eighty thousand dollar:*
in interest, leaving a gross profit of
?■! JWMdW. And yet, wt* are told by the
political i<«: U that “you cannot leg
tKlUte Wt r.Hb into the pockets of the
people!'’
“WE APPLAUD THE 1UG1IT AND CONDEMN THE WRONG.”
CAUSES A SURPRISE.
LONDON PAPER COMMENTS ON
WASHBURN LETTER.
to U far Tit at i he Pop;? list Party
Will iu> It Alono aii(l Change the
< mirge of American I'oiHRui Teii:s
Some Plain Truth#.
A recent issue of the London (Eng¬
land) Chronicle contains the following
editorial comment on the Washburn
letter:
] ; "An event has happened which Of has
oace mcre chmiged the co irse Arner
'
ivan polit It The alliance between
the Democrats, and I’epulibis has been
diasoluU and the latter will lienee
! , fort!* march alone. Such is the' decla
ration made bv Mr. Washburn, a me»
. her of the executive committee of the
p CO pj e > s Plir ty . It is. of course, well
known Fiat Mr. Bryan’s candidature
last year received the support of both
I the Democratic and Populist parties,
, ; that it was through this joint sup
he made so good a running. But
thfa alliance did not become a complete
fusion, or anything at all like it. The
Populists would not support the Dem¬
ocratic candidate for vice-president,
but ran a candidate of their own. They
bitterly complained, moreover, of the
tactics of the Democrats,, and accused
that party of using Populist votes for
their own purposes. There is good rea¬
son io believe that not a few Populist
voters stayed at home on election day,
or at most voted only for their own
state and congressional candidates, and
that this fact accounted for the ma¬
jorities for Mr. Bryan in some of the
southern states being, smaller than they
expected. There v, never much love
lost between Democrats and Populists,
for their fundamental ideas, up to the
time of last year's campaign, were ab¬
solutely different, and in the south es¬
pecially, the Populists have been on
gaged, ever since they were first or¬
ganized, in fighting the Democratic
politician:-:. We need not wonder,
therefore, that the alliance is at an
end.
“in his manifesto announcing the fu~
in re iiKb-pender.ee. of the Populist
movement, Mr. Washburn expressly
attacks the program of free silver coin¬
age on which Mr. Bryan appealed to
the people. Popuilsts, says this docu¬
ment, never believed in free silver as
a genuine remedy for economic evils,
either industrial or purely financial.
They accepted it ns a means of break
tag down the financial monopoly, but
cured nothing for it beyond that. Their
idea-, according to Mr. Washburn, is
that the United States should
abandon both gold and silver and issue
a paper currency based on average
commodity values—aa idea which has
been advocated by several advanced
economists In America. Besides this,
they are not going to permit the
Aaron's rod of free stiver to swallow
up all the other rods—-taxation reform,
state ownership of monopolies, legis¬
lation as to “mists” and “combines,"
the ending of the power of "injunc¬
tion" claimed and exercised by the fed¬
eral courts. They take a far broader
view of the situation than do the Dem¬
ocrats, and they evidently feel that, if
they do not assert arid maintain Pop
plist Independence, they will be lend¬
ing themselves to four years’ barren
agitation ending in another defeat.
"We have said that this decision of
the Populists changed necessarily the
course of American politics. Since the
Populist vote is admitted to be at least
two millions, since it is well represent
ed in congress, and holds the balance
in the senate, this Populist action is a
factor which cannot be ignored. The
one person especially and immediately
affected thereby ia Mr. Bryan. He bad
determined to head a four years' cam¬
paign for free silver, which he had al¬
ready begun. But now he is notified
by the more resolute and more honest,
though not more numerous, half of his
united following, that his course of
action cannot be accepted and that if
he is for a free silver fight he must
carry it on without any Populist aid.
Mr. Bryan is, therefore, no longer, on
this showing, the one leader of the
nationai forces of discontent. He is a
mere general of a division, not the
commander-in-chief; and the other di¬
vision cannot be counted on to co
operate with him on the lines he has
marked out for himself, Mr. Bryan’s
position is thus seriously affected and
his plans frustrated. If he decides to
plunge into Populism with the belief
(arid a very well founded belief) that it
is likely to carry all before it in the
trans-Mississippi states, he will have
to reckon with that section of the
Democratic party which clings to him
on the main ground of party loyalty,
he being the regular party nominee. It,
on the other hand, Mr. Bryan sticks to
(diver only and refuses to accept the
Populist, _ , position, ... while . , he could , not
hope to recover the eastern states, he
would then lose the west also. It ia
indeed a most difficult situation, and
we can see at once how vitally It. affects
the results as left by the electoral coa
test last year.
“But, as is pointed out in America,
the Republican party is also affected
as well as the Democratic. The as¬
sumption was that free silver was a
dangerous issue which was scotched
hut not killed by the elections, and that
consequently the Republicans must
bo orgnize l either to defeat It outright
ot* to make terms with it in some un
explained way. But if, after futi cou
side-ration, the Populists decide that
they are not Interested la free silver,
■he Republican party will find that the
purely monetary question ia no long .
■urgent, and will addrnss themselves w
that policy of protection pure and sire
pie -whichM l -McKinley made the ve
JESUP, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL I. 1807 .
tie cry during the lato campaign. Thus
the real issue in the politics of tha
United States will-steadily grow into
one of protected monopolies on the one
hand and the public ownership of mo¬
nopolies (or at least their control and
taxation) on the other, A more mo¬
mentous result, not only for the United
States, but for the civilized world gen¬
erally, can hardly he imagined; hm this
is what the decision of the- Populists .as
embodied in the new declaration of in¬
dependence leads us to expect.”
MrKiiitvv'n Cat (Me*.
The Influence that prompted the
nomination and election of President
McKinley is well known to have been
the money power. In no manner is ihi ;
shown more ■ deafly than in the selec¬
tion of the- member -• of his cabinet.
They are all more or less allied with
banks, bankers, corporations and con¬
centrated wealth m general.
The mere lory of shite ift a million¬
aire. John Sherman has been in pub¬
lic life forty years. His connection
with the Infamous “crime of ’73” is
well known to the public, Sherman
needs no introduction to the American
people. They know who he is ami they
know- what to expect from him.
Lyman J. Gage, the secretary .of the
treasury, is also a rich. man. For years
he has been in the banking business
in Chicago and he is one of the best
known financiers in the country.
General - Russell A. Alger, of Michi¬
gan, has achieved a war record since
the war. He has amassed several mil¬
lion dollars in the lumber business, and
he is reported to have made one of
the largest contributions to the Mc¬
Kinley campaign fund.
The secretary of the interior is Cor¬
nelius N. BlKs. He is one of the dry
goods magnates of New York, and Is
connected with various banks and cor¬
porations. He has millions of dollars,
but has never held office before.
Mr. Gary, o? Maryland, the postmas¬
ter general, is a millionaire. He has all
sorbs of moneyed interests in Balti¬
more.
Judge Long, of Massachusetts; Mr.
Wilson, of Iowa, and Judge McKenna,
of California, are all wealthy men.. The
McKinley cabinet is plutocratic. The
president's advisers are representative
of the sinister influences which- are
known to exist behind the chief exe¬
cutive’s chair.—Arkansas Gazette.
C ivillz'M Ion Should lit' i I vll ti.
The New York Journal, in speaking
of the army of unemployed in that city,
aptly says, by way of comment:
The savage may hunt and fish
w ** ere he will, take up and till the soli
at his pleasure. The victim of civili¬
zation is shut out bv laws of man's
making, and by privileges of men’s
conforming from access to the natural
sources of wealth, Imposing burdens
upon him, hampering him by artificial
limitations on every side, civilization
—except, in so far as it may ba relieved
by voluntary charity—leaves him to
freeze and starve. * * The peo¬
ple should approach the problem of in¬
creasing destitution from its right, end.
To relive poverty is indeed noble; to
cure it would he better. How much
monopoly of land, money and trans¬
portation baa had to.do with tight¬
ening the grip of penury upon tho
throat of the masses is a question
which should engage the gravest at¬
tention of every humane and patriotic
man.—New York Journal.
That'* What 1
If you favor more money you are
considered a crank.
If you contend for honest polities
your are pronounced a fooi.
If yon dare to suggest that the bond
grabbers should be paid In the same
money that the private debtor la
forced to receive you are a repudi
ator.
If you assert that the government
can “coin money and regulate the value
thereof,” as the constitution declares,
your are crazy,
if you intimate that government is
designed to promote, the public good
you are denounced as an empty-headed
crank.
If you dure to state, even in a low
whisper, that the thieves and scoun¬
drels who are plundering the people
and loading the masses with debt and
poverty ought to be driven from the
temples you are an anarchist.
Sea-Saw. Margery Daw.
Johnny shall. have a new master! -
The memories of the American peo¬
ple are very short,
In 1884 they put in power-the party
they rejected in 1880,
In 1888 they put in power the party
they rejected in 1884.
In 1892 they put ia power the party
they rejected in 1888.
L D'”? they put in power the party
they Vi j : ed in' 1892.
The “purified” Democracy now eon
j fldently counts, on their putting in
powr in t90 n the party tin v rejected
i in 1g(t g
j '
Row much longer are the Mei4urr people go
: , ng t0 bP southern
'
Wou) J Hush for Kinjvloyun'nt,
Suppose the government should an
noun.ee its intension to build a railroad
from New York to San Francisco, and
coll for laborers to do the work, at the
same time giving notice that ail help
would be paid-with -a new Issue of gov
eminent paper money What a rush
for employment would • follow 1* And
why shouldn’t this -be done? The pe-n
pie need cheaper fr*S»porfct*.iob every
body, except the money• lenders.. reeov
i -
nize the need of more money, and tin;
j thousands < ! unemployed* men. an.';
Ions to work, r.te * r*at<t ed all over Un
j <•< unity can in.; >*,<■ denied. Weal, i
* rreit blcsisng to the people of the
j Unite .Estate ;*• rue-h:ret: VOuM brio ■
.About*- •UDmuG World
r PH IT J POSTAL v ' * x n x x iVk:!
*
A CHICAGO POSTMASTER FA¬
VORS GOVERNMENT BANKS,
The Tidied Slate?* (:o\< rnmen! Should
Take c ontrol of the H inkiris- Httsincst
Jt VV;ts Adopted tiy fJrestt Britain
hi I •!!.
Whenever there is talk of the gov¬
ernment taking over the ieiographs,
itnr.ifdlately the ciaQuevs for the pres¬
ent monopolies everywhere about cry
"soMalit-in,” says the Chicago Farmers’
V< ’ ‘ Whenever there m talk of es
tub fishing portal savings banks, the
ciaqm r * of tho opposing banking in
Crests set n( i a howl intended to drown
,K,t lhe voii ’« of Hi * people. But the
? .K * * -s of the postal savings system
ir: other countri and th evident in
livened they have exerted in the tltrec
tk*n of thrift and economy, give prom
is- that a plan* so -full of advantage to
ah members of the community shall
not much longer be debarred.
There has never been a time when
there was greater need for a system in
this country than the present. The
reuse of insecurity felt in banks in
many cities and towns, and the terror¬
ism of tho burglar and highwayman,
combine to make the life of the
man a burden. He turns to the safety
deposit vaults; but it is expensive to
pay rent them.and so he is either corn
polled to spend a portion of his sav¬
ings or keep them about his home or
person, either of which he feels is un¬
safe.
How natural it is for the people to
turn to the government at such-times,
is suggested in a recent newspaper in¬
terview had with Postmaster Washing¬
ton l-Iesing of this city. .Mr. Hesing
emphatically favored the postal sav¬
ings system, and to Illustrate its needs
related tho following experience: “The
Panic, you kDov . was in 1S93. In 1894
f become postmaster, and I had an op¬
portunity to observe that numbers of
people had withdrawn their money
front the banks and other places of de
posit and had purchased money orders
with it payable to thomscdve-;. As soon
as the flurry was over arid a feeling; of
confidence was in some degree re¬
stored the orders began to come in.
Many hundreds of thousands of dollars
were thus banked, as it were, with the
department. Any one can see what an
advantage it would be to the public to
have been able to deposit small
amounts of money at any place by pro¬
ducing a hook, and to he able to with¬
draw it in the same manner at any
point, however remote.”
In ISfil Great Britain adopted the
postal savings hank system. In the
following year the deposits amounted
to more than $8,000,000. In 1890 they
exceeded $328,000,000. In .1867 Canada,
with a scattering population of 5,000,
000.put the system Into force. June
30, 1895, there were 120,628 depositories
With $27,000,000, to their credit. Other
countries make showings quite as fa¬
vorable.
Tin farmer Is especially interested in
the postal savings banks. How many
millions might to day ho in them to
the or- - ’it of American farmers had
they hc.-en established, as they ought,
years s.o, no cue may compute. But
all dd unite in securing the estab¬
lishment nt .the system now.
Instead of the government’e going
out of the bunking business, as is de¬
manded by the hankers, there is a
growing sentiment in favor of its tak¬
ing complete control of the financial
oad currency system of the nation.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Snap -Shot* Takfen at tho Passing: Pro
c'fe»i*ion.
If we are to judge from the wail that
e nnes up from tho gilded saloons of
plutocracy, the stupendous crime
Populism is its socialistic tendencies,
The fact seems to be overlooked that
government itself is socialism, and the
best instre'ions of the land are con
ducted on t socialistic plane.
There is socialism and socialism.
The animal man is in part a socialistic
creature and possesses at the same
time an individualism that incites him
to great personal effort. In all that
pertains to the home one’s individ¬
ualism predominates. Few people live
in boarding houses from choice, One
of the strongest desires of the human
family is to own a home.
To make hotne the one resting place
of our lives; to adorn and beautify it;
to plant flowers and shrubbery and
create shady bowers is the individual*
ism in the human heart. But many
filings there are that can be better
done collectively. The first step to¬
wards socialism is- government, in a
Republic, everything that government
(ihe people) does is socialistic.
Our school system is the perfection
ci socialism along that line. Our pub¬
lic road system is socialistic and the
post office system is a living monument
of the beauties of socialism. The great
trouble is that few people who use the
word socialism do so without a full
understanding of its meaning. Some
use it in connection with tho word
anarchism, when as. a matter of fact
they mean exactly the opposite of each
other. Anarchism means no -govern¬
ment at all, and is tbo extreme of in¬
dividualism, while socialism means
government by all and for nil without
favoritism.
There arc those who, in our opinion,
, n to the extreme in' socialism, as some
■ ■ go io the extreme* in everything
*.'.’. ■. i , n oi the People’s party Is
* extreme inif* It is rather In the d
of. '* foetal '4estoerp.c *•* 'Vie*
raost that any Popnhst claims is tho
public ownership of ail public utilities,
and this ia more than the platform de¬
mands. But whatever may be siaid the
logic of events is rapidly driving the
world to the acceptance of enough so
claiism to own and operate the more
! important of the public utilities.
* * *
A S-t. Louis chemist, claims he can
make gold out of clay. Another chem¬
ist claims ho can make gold out of sii*
ver. Suppose that such a thing could
be done, and gold would be sold on the
streets for seventeen cents a bushel.
Would the men who have drawn up
their contracts payable In gold want
to repudiate them? Would they want,
gold demonetized? And if they, did,
wouldn’t they be repudlators? If it
is dishonest to want to evade the pay
raent of a debt in dear dollars.-is it not
just us dishonest to want to refuse to
take payment in the “dollar of the
contract” as expressly stipulated by
the creditor himself, and put “in the
bond” in black and white?
* *
Such an occurrence would he a bless¬
ing to humanity. It would be, an ob¬
ject lesson that would open the eyes
of the people where generations of mis
cry, mountains of anguish and rivers
of tears have failed. Gold would have
as much real intrinsic value when its
commercial value was only seventeen
cents per bushel as it has now. A ring,
would look just as nice; it would d»
just as well to fill teeth, and more could
use it; and—well yes, it could he
used Just as well for money then as
now, but Us volume would have to be
limited by Jaw and common sense in¬
stead of as now, by chance.
We sometimes* compare the govern¬
ment of England unfavorably with out
own, but m a matter of fact the Eng¬
lish government is better in some re¬
speels. and not much worse in any than
that which now obtains in the United
states, Great Britain has a civil ser¬
vice system which should make us
blush when compared with our “to
the victor belong the spoils,” and tho
devil-take-the-hindrnost plan of rota¬
tion In office. Great Britain has pos¬
tal savings banks and government tel¬
egraphs that, protect her people from
robbery by criminal corporations. Her
postal system provides for carrying
parcels at reasonable prices and tha
express companies are compelled to
meet those prices.
And the queen has not as much
power a-s the president of the United
States, or the speaker of ihe house of
representatives. Parliament may be
prorogued or adjourned, but Use people
may re-elect the same or another. The
house of lords is hereditary, but even
in that respect, it has the advantage of
our senate. If a man is a born fool
or rascal ho is a lord nevertheless, hut
all lords are not t>orn that way and
they hold for life, where in ihe United
States senate, if an. honest man does
happen to break into it the combined
powers of darkness spare no effort to
get him out. The English house of
lords represents an autocracy of
blood; the United States senate repre
seats an autocracy of corporate wealth.
The English house of lords is perhaps
the worst feature in the British gov¬
ernment, save its financial system, and
in both of these respects our own gov¬
ernment, as now administered, is not
much better.
* *
It is surprising how wonderfully hon¬
est and economical some of our wise
solans become at times. One of the
reasons given for the passage of ihe
bill to permit the national bankers to
have the use of $23,000,000 more on the
bonds now deposited with the comp¬
troller was that it would increase the
revenues of the government. 230 thous
, and dollars. This would come from
the one per cent tax on the circuU
j [ tion. It was urged that this would be
j saved to the people. There was noth*
ing said about the, banks loaning this
j money out at 8 per cent, which would
bring thorn $1,840,000 per annum, and
it would be collected off the people.
That is to say the banks would make
a clear profit of $1,610,000. Or in other
words the people would spend $1,840,
000 in order to save $230,000. Isn’t that
brilliant statesmanship? Yet it is tho
kind we have been having for the past
thirty years.
* *
Now if this amount of money was
loaned the people at one per cent and
thereby enable them to save the $1,610.
000, there would be some sense in it.
But that would be "anarchy,” “social¬
ism,” or something else terrible, and
every notorious note shaver and usur¬
er in the broad land would have a fit.
Commenting on this subject the Mis¬
souri. World says:
“Now, if the government would es¬
tablish postal savings banks and loan
the same amount direct to the people
at a rate of, say 2 per cent per annum
the revenue to Uncle Saan would be
about 700 thousand dollars. After de¬
ducting sufficient to. pay all the ev
pensea the remainder could be turned
into the national treasury and taxes
reduced to the extent of the net profit.
If, as Van Voorhis and his associates
argue, it is a good thing for the gov¬
ernment to loan money at 1 per cent
to the national banks, would it not be
a much boiler thing for the people and
the government to loan it direct to the
borrower at 3 per cent? The govern¬
ment would derive more revenue and
tho people* would have less taxes to
! pay and be able to secure money at a
reasonable rate. Give us government
banks .and 'abolish the vicious national
. system.”
j bunking
j W. S. MORN AN:
I —- • —
' The best sp-eroh th.r McKinley ever
* made v t when hr told the office
huaHTJ to “go home and wilt.”
Subscription $1.00 Per Year,
THE CORSE OF GOLD.
EFFECT OF SINGLE STANDARD
UPON THE MASSES.
Tin- Overproduction Theory amt tli*
Absurdity or It; — Tho Independent
Farmer Hast Hero me a Hopeless Toiler
'MsmeUting Wrong.
Judge O. tV. Powers in Chicago Rec¬
ord: What is the matter? Poverty is in¬
creasing. With increasing poverty
there is more crime. Suicides are more
frequent and despair Is displacing hope,
1 he wealth of the world is drifting
under the control of the few. Depart¬
ment stores are ruining the small shop
keepers, Syndicates manipulate our
industries. The independent farmer
has become a hopeless toiler. The day
laborer sees nothing ahead but a hand
to-hand struggle.
Something is wrong.
The days arc just as long, the soil ia
just as productive, the sun shines just
c-s brightly and the rains are just as
refreshing. Our housewives are far
more economical and the opportunities
for bettering our condition should not
not be fewer.
8tiu. prices are falling. Real estate
is a poor investment. Business enter¬
prises etui oftener in receiverships than
profits. Mortgages are being fore¬
closed and deficiency judgments en
terod. Tho courts are busy running
bankrupt railroads at the Instance of
bond holders. Money at interest at
three per cent is more profitable than
in employing labor in industrial enter¬
prises. The nation is a constant bor¬
rower, and, although taxes are an ex¬
cessive burden from the national gov¬
ernment down to our municipalities,
the public revenue is Insufficient.
This sort of thing has been going on
for more than twenty years.
Unless things change there is no cer¬
tainty for the future but universal
bankruptcy.
The excuse given for the deplorable
s ' ; Ue of affairs by those who advocate
the gold standard is that there has
boon overproduction. In other words,
we have been made poor by reason of
having toc> much wealth, People are
starving because they have too much
to eat. Railroads are going into bank¬
ruptcy because they have too large
crops to move. Men are in rags be¬
cause the sheep have produced too
much wool.
The conditions ^that exist are these:
AH men would tike.to have on hand
plenty of flour. From the gold men’s
statistics the supply of wheat seems to
b'-‘ adequate. The men who own the
wheat would like to exchange It for
money, but the people who need the
wheat have no money to give iu ex¬
change*, Real estate has fallen In value
until no one can readily tell what it is
worth. There are numberless people
who would like to own homes, and
there are plenty of people who would
like io sell land. But the people who
want homes cannot raise the money to
exchange for the land, and tha result
is very unsatisfactory to both parties.
There are hundreds of thousands of
industrious men and women who
would like to make exchange of their
labor for money, In order to exchange
the money thus received for things
which they really need, but the owners
of money cannot find profitable invest¬
ments upon a falling market, and hence
hoard it, in banks or loan St at interest
and the working men and the working
women go without employment. Horses
are ridiculously cheap, aud many
people would prefer riding to walking.
Tho men who own the horses need
money and would like to seli, but tha
mass of the people keep on tramping,
for some could not afford a horse, even
if ho could be purchased for two bits.
We have, then, plenty of labor which
is seeking a market. We have mani¬
fold opportunities awaiting the touch
of money to spring into beneficent life.
We have an ample supply of the nec¬
essities of life, and yet, with bursting
granaries there are needed more pau¬
per houses. With ample wealth on
every hand there is a demand for more
policemen to club down critne born of
squalor and misery.
Gji the other hand, gigantic fortunes
have been accumulated in the hands of
a few people, While hundreds of
thousands suffer, it Is possible for a
Win* ney, through the magic of his
wealth, to transfer 7,000 acres of
wild land into a pleasure garden for
his children in less than twenty days.
Impecunious lords of the old world
have no difficulty in exchanging their
titles for the daughters of our million
r..« while many honest workingmen
cannot sell their labor at any price,
*< h.« beneficiaries of this vicious condi
Don insist that it shall continue upon
rhe false plea of “honest money.” The
peculiar advantages which they secure i
may be the real reason why they de- j
?! ounce their suffering feUow-countrjr
men as “anarchists,” and violently rail j
c, cry of distress sometimes
rings above the chink of their gold.
As other people suffer they gain. Tho
distress of tho government is their
source of profit.
He'd He Crazy.
What would you think of a business
man who would unnecessarily issuo
interest-bearing notes against himself,
and an interest, too, which would bo
greater than the entire profits of th*
business? And especially when the
people with whom he' dealt were per¬
fectly willing to take non-interest bear
ing notes as long.as said notes.were
redeemable in any goods or chattels tho
me,reliant might have in his store?
He'd he a crazy merchant, wouldn’t he?
ACcR, it's down just such a ruinous
and Idiotic path the bankers and gold
Migs want to keep this nation stumb¬
ling along.......Undo Sam,
NO. 14
sas
ruftnriai
Principal Keeper Turner, of the
penitentiary department, is engaged
on the list * of discharge* for April.
About forty convicts who have served
out their term?, will be discharged
next month.
The North German Fire Insurance
company has applied for license to do
business in this state under tho Ven¬
able law, which allow? foreign com¬
panies to write risks in Georgia
through ., , , brokers without
quired of deposit ro
companies which have local
agents.
Tho solicitor general of tho Rome
circuit, _ is getting up evidence with a
view to Ihe prosecution of Bridges,
ex-countv School commission: r of
h loyd, who is charged with forgery.
The county officials charge that he has
raised checks and changed vouchers,
it*. *. *
The Savannah lumbermen have been
called upon by the northern committee
for subscriptions its the fund to aid in
the passage of the Piugley tariff bill,
especially the lumber schedule, and
they have appointed a finance com¬
mittee and are getting ready, to come
up with their share.
The Laurens comity prohibition
contest came to an end last Wednes¬
day after one of the most unique cam?*
paigns of tho kind ever witnessed in
the state The county goes wet by
about 300 majority Tho Valdosta
precinct gave 208 of Hit majority.
About-1,500 votes were polled in the
county.
Tho submerged engine which lias
rested at. the bottom of Etowah river
at Home since the big wreck on the
Southern, wae raised hwt Wednesday
afternoon and found to be in fairly
good condition, A false track was
laid down to and into the river, the
engine placed on it and soon pulled
out on the Rome railroad track.
News has been received of tho de¬
cision of Judge 'Pardee, of New Or¬
leans. on the intervention of Eaton ton
Branch railroad running from Mii
ledgevilJe to Eaton ton, in which ha
decides that Messrs. Thomas ,v Ryan
must pay the Eaton ton Branch stock¬
holders *81,000 rental, with interest
from April, 18J3, making a total of
about $25,000.
* * f
Less than four weeks more and the
big Epworth League convention will
meet in- Atlanta. Few people realize
the immensity of the gathering of
Georgia young people which will occur
on April 23d. Letters mo now rap¬
idly pouring in upon the secretary
notifying him of tho names of dele¬
gates who expect to attend, and from
present prospects the number will
certainly reach 2,000.
Things are getting warm for Ordi¬
nary Matthews, of Crawford- county.
Governor Atkinson has taken no action
in this case, but may remove the ordi¬
nary. The mutter lias been forcibly
brought to the governor's attention by
the request of the bondsmen of Ordi¬
nary .Matthews to be relieved. The
governor has not yet acted on their
application, but something decisive is
expected. The matter is rapidly ap¬
proaching a climax.
Only four military companies out
of thirteen that started to the Albany
Chautauqua were able to get there on
account of washouts on different rail¬
roads, Governor's Pay, however, was
a success as the governor and mem¬
bers of his staff arrived before the
washout between Albany and Macon
stopped travel. After reviewing tho
military the governor delivered ad¬
dresses before large audiences tn chaff
iaviqmt tabernacle.
* * *
The South, Georgia railroad is a new
line which was quickly built across
Brooks and Berrien counties last fall
and during the winter. The whole
construe tion work was done in about
six months. The road extends .from
Heartpine on the South Georgia and
Florida railroad in Berrien county, to
Quitman, in Brooks county, a distance
of twenty-eight miles. The work of
construction was begun in the fall of
1896 and the road completed aud open¬
ed for traffic March 11, 181*7, when the
first regular passenger* train was run
over the road.
The comptroller, general has issued
an order svhich ia of interest to
professional men. He instructs the
tax collector that -itinerant dagnerro
type, amhrotype, phoiographandothcr
artists must pay the Sl» tax in every
county where there m a local artist.
A still more important ruling is that
lawyers, doctor-, denimt and other
professional men must pay their tax
2Mb ol December ot cw.-h year.
If they fail to do so- and endorsement an execution
is returned with the of
“nulla bona and the professional
men thereafter eontiintesfto practice, he
is guilty of a mhds'itienuo:, and sub¬
ject to a criminal prosecution.
At the called se-s-lou of the Georgia
State Agricultural society in Augusta,
a resolution was adopted .to appointa
committee to report at the August con¬
vention the plan of 1 a campaign of edu¬
cation for the Ix-tior farming: and
by a vote of the society. Presi¬
dent Brown has appointed the following
as the* committee: Colonel J. O.
Waddell, e.\-presides:*; U *. R, T
Nesbitt commissioner of agriculture;
Colonel Cm*. W. H-ii'i-tm. executive
commit teem ft 1 >. and. Major W. < i
Whidby. Th. eommiiteo will met ! at
an carta day to map out a program,
which, will sock to unity aud- enlarge
the work of all urgmiDais-ms in the
state interested in agriculture.