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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST. VOL. VII. As They Do In Switzer land. I How much better it would be for us to vote directly upou meas ures instead of groping in the dark- Xu Switzerland the people vote directly upon measures, and as a consequence it is the best governd country in the world. After an election there they know what it means without guessing. By means of the initiative and referendum they have spoiled all the pretty little games of the politcians. The people there have demonstrated their ability to deal directly with their problems without the aid of the politicians, who, finding their occupation gone, have gone into useful occupations. Why can’t we do as well as the little republic among the Alps? We should make a beginning by workiug of this system, which is called direct legislation, first in our local affairs, then in state affairs, and after thus becoming accustomed to its use w© can hope to mako national use of it. The one definite result of the recent elections which we can all rejoice over is the adoption by direct vote of the people of South Dakota of a constitutional amendment establishing direct legislation in that state • Let us all work for this system iu our re spective states. The legislatures of nearly all the states meet this win ter. So now is the time to strike. —Medical World. Did you ever hear of a man try ing to lift up unfortunrte woman when she falls from the path of honor and virture? I thiuk not. When she once trips and falls from high, honorable position, she lands into nell, from which no human will stoop to lift het out. Hus band and father, brother and son alike are death to her agonizing cries of mercy, and thrust hbr from their sight. But on the other haLd I have seen men fall as low as is possible for man to fall; I have seen tho wife lift the husband from the gutter and press him to her heart as though he were a god; I have seen the wife follow the husband through this life in one constant whirl of misery, add when by the gates of hell they are seporated, weep because she can go no furth er: I have seen mother follow son, and sister the brother, through paths which man has never been known to follow woman. Yet man. that great and glorious being, calls himself the champion and pro tector of defenseless woman, wild is to blame for the downfall of woman? Lot the angle in heaven be the judge. —Indicator. Pulling Down The Beacon Light. The republic had been the bea con light of the world for more than a century. It has not only lifted the hopes of all men, but by its example it has turned the face of nearly all nations tow'ard liber ty Since the first reading of the heclaratisn of Independence over -oO constitution that were Repub lican in form has been adopted. Must of them perished, but they Hi rise again. Now the founda tion are being pulled from under our own institutions. The very idtars of liberty are being betrayed ty the men set to guard them— John P, Altgeld. WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. The Croesus of the Senate. By the votes of eleven Republi cans, and in the teeth of bribery proof on a great scale. Win. A. Clark was elected United States Senator from Montana. As the strife of factions become overheat ed and the bonds of party organi zation grow weak, contest over the senatorial prizes increases in iten sity and legislative demoralization. In this Montana battle the excite ment and the rivalry has tran scended all past bounds —scruples of honesty and decency have been openly over-ridden. The defeated faction charged that a million had been expended in corruptly secur ing the election of Clark. And his enemy, Daly, was only less lavish in buying members of the legislature. The and the profligacy of the election may be judged in the following : “Helena, Mont., Jan, 26. —The proceedings in the Montana leg islature today in connection with the fight for Senatorship were of a sensational character. “Senator Whiteside, who at the first ballot charged the Clark men had given him 30,000 of the bribe money, renewed this charge in explanation of his vote. He said that every man who had voted for Clark since the first day had been bought to do so. “When they explain their votes ’ be said, dramatically, ‘why don’t they merely get up and tell the price and sit down? A man who would vote for Clark would sell the honor of his wife. Represen tative Garr said he went home to consult his constituents. Why did not he tell you that he went alter a package of money that had been deposited with D. R. Peelea?’ “You are an infamous liar, cried Garr from the rear of the hall. “Whiteside reached for his hip pccket. “The sergant-at-arms collared Garr, who is an old man, and the session, which was at the threshold of a riot, suddenly calmed down. “Whiteside spoke at length m general terms. Once he said that ho had been told that $2,000 had been sent to Hong Kong for State Senator Hannah, who was a pri vate soldier in tho Montana volun teers at Manila. “Hannahdid not being to re ply- “ While the ballot was began tak en, the grand jury, called to inves tigate the charges of bribery, was making its report. It said that it had examined forty-four witnesses, had found that both Democratic factions had used money, but the evidence would not warrant an in dictment.” It is now threatened that the fight will be ctrried te the United States Senate. But, as openly as the bribery was practiced, the Sen ate precedents are against going behind the state’s returns on such aground. It is an offence against the laws of the state, and the Sen ate theory is that the courts are the proper place for trial and pun ishment. Clark is probably the richest man who ever sat in the Senate —his income being estima ted at ten million a year. Thirty years ago he drove an ox team to Montana, with the advance guard of the gold seekers. —The Daily Herald. He Died Without It. The Tuskaloosa Times says that in one of Birmingham’s hospitals lastweek there died a man with out a loved one, a friend or even an acquaintance to speak a word ot sympathy or of cheer to his hungered soul. In his buckets, after his death, all that was found was a card on which were the fol lowinw lines: “Do not keep the alabaster box es of your love and tenderness seal ed up until your friends ar dead. Speak approving, cheering words while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them ; the kind th.ngs you mean to say when they ate going., say before they go. The flowers you mean to send for their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes befoie they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and trouble hours and open them that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without au eulogy, than life without the sweet uees and love of sympathy. Let us learn to aunoint of friends be forehand for their burial, Post mortem kindness does not cheer the burdened spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast on fragrance back ward over the weary way.” The Test of Love. Loving as we are loved delight fully human. Loving whether we are loved or not is not easy, but is godlike. In the full-heart edness of youth our love goes out in return for kindness and love re ceived. Loving those who love us seem as natural as breathing; and so, indeed, it is. But as we advace in life the Master sets us harder lessons and puts our loving power to the test. It seems a hard do ctrine that loving fallible and un lovely men shou'd be as the test of love for a pure and holy and all loving God. Yet any loveworthy of the name, or the only one w hich will bear testing, is God derived. Only when we look to Him for power to love men do we gain that affection for and sympathy with our fellow's which enable us to love others w'ith no thought of their at titude towmrd us.—Evangel. Combinations And Trusts If you inquire carefully you will discover that you can scarcely make a purchase in which the merchant you deal with has no control. Nor does the process stop here. The every newspapers, upon whose independence and honest the people depend for their instruc tion on public affairs, have com bined, primarily to cheapen the cost of collecting the news, into a gigantic news trust, called the Associated Press, which controlled by a few men at Chicago, has been able to distort the truth iu mauy prominent instances and to poison with such distortion the very foun tain of popular information. —Gov- ernor Pingree. . ... . From Dr. Nance. Gainesville, Ga , Jan. 27, 1899. E litor Constitution:--1 have read with care Col. Peek’s two recent com munications as well as yonr two edito rials in rt-ply to them, and well nigh all of the articles which yon have crowd ed into your columns since that- time from you" subsidized agents. You and most of you have evaded the real ques tion aud endeavored to suppress the truth. You have not stated facts as they really wet and published the whole history; and judging the future by the past, the Constitution never Will. 1. K' Why the old trite mocking of the farmers and the people which you as so called Democrats have been practic ing upon them for the last thirty five years in order to carry out your iniqui tous ends? Do you dread or fear the resentment of a robbed and enslaved people? Can you as a party point with pride to your past? Can you place y*>ur finger upou or tell of a single promise or pledge which yon made to the people that yon have ever fulfilled? Would you consider it good business principles in your corporate banking if an individual failed from dishonesty to mbet a single obligation in that length of time to still trust and do business with him? That is exactly what the De mocratic party has done with the I dare you disprove the terrible indict ment. When you attempt it I will meet you with your blackened record of the past. When the 'Alliance, with its grand schools, was endeavoring to promulgate and teach the farmers as well as all other true patriots those grand Bible truths of the forefathers, you then in order to disrupt and thwart their teach ings—satan like —told them the trouble was laziness, that they did not work enough, that they had ho time to dal ble in politics, but to go home aud work more and all would be welll. Now you aoe trying to make the poor fools be lieve they have made two much—for your logic is the same to the cotton, wheat, corn and hog raiser, all of them being in the same deplorable condition. How well Carlyle, over sixty ye:.rs agu described such characters as the Con stitution: “The republic west of us (United States) will have its trial periods, its darkest of all hours. It is traveling the the high road to that direful day and this scourge will not come amid fam ilies horrid strides, nor will it come by ordinary primitive judgement, but it will come as history in state craft, a bungle in policy. It will be when health is intact, crops abundant aud the munificent hand opeu. Then so called statesmen will cry over production, the people will go to the ballot box amid hunger and destitution, but surrounded by the glitter of self-rule, and will rati fy. by their ballots, the monstrous (over production) uttered by mis states men aud vindicate by the same ballot the infamous lie (over production) will be thrown upon the breeze by servile editors, through a cor lupt press, and thus bring ruin upou their country, serfdom upon themselves, and oppress ion upon their children.” Never will the American people es cape from the serfdom and slavery which has been saddled upon them by this damnable, thieving system of cor porate money, which the Constitution has aided all in its power to fix upon us, and is now working with all its might i to perpetuate upon us only by its abol | ishmeno and the adoption of a non-cor porate system. Issue billions more of j the corporate money which the Consti tution supports and advocates, and cor porate bankers will continue to despoil the people. How cheeky it was iu the Constitu tion to taunt Col Peek with its decept ive Chicago platform, and that fraud Bill Bryan who cares not if the repub lic and people are damned if he can get to be president. Know you not that your Chciago platform with its coin clause for all legal tender paper money is as perfidious and dishonest as the republican gold-staudard of St. Louis? Thomas Jefferson denounced your coin clause as a fraud, cheat and swindle; then thißk of your cheekiness and au dacity in trying to borrow caste and character in establishing your iniquity! Establish bi metalism and theu with your specie redemption clause knock out what little benefits might accrue from it and more besides Trying to reverse the mathematical axcun, “that a part can never be equal to the whole.” Virtually saying by your coin clause that a part is greatei than the whole. Creating a primary and a sec ondary money. The people to the secondary, shylook the primary and thereby clean up the poor devils. When pressed to the wall all of your support ers and advocates are obliged to admit that it is strictly impracticable and could nt vor be carried out in Striot hon esty without either obliterating paper or metalio money from the channels of circulation. Hence the great Jeff arson was right in denouncing it as a fraud for it is only issued in that way for the purpose of the tew despoiling the many. No true intelligent, patriotic, lioerty loving American could have kept from abhoring let alone following Bryan and Goldbug Sewall with their Chicago platform fraud, blacker than your silver straddle iu 1892, without voting and bargaining for three and four cent cot ron, exactly what you gave them and will continue to give them iu the fut ure. When we had fifty dollars per capita, of the non-corporate currency in circu lation, which populists are contending for its restoration, and Democracy so called (With the exception of one man) destroyed by burning it up and at this time by your commitments are de termined that it shall never be restored to the peoole, the productive power of the nation was strained to its uttermoft; every wheel was in motion, there was employment for every kind and descrip tion of labor. For every meohanic there was a constantly rising market; every body worked for everybody: everybody wanted to employ somebody else; on !very hand, fortunes were made. A /ave of wealth swept over the United States. Huts beecamo houses, houses beoame palaces, tatters became gar ments, gaments beoame robes. Walls were covered with pictures, floors with carpets, and for the first time in the history of the world, the poor tasted the luxuries of wealth, Why might not those conditions have continued? Because under such condi tions it would have been impossible to establish an aristocarcy of wealth. Try to delude the psople with your false plea of the“money congesting in ai| of the large centers.” know you not that by the system for which the Con stitution is contending and advocating, that money is born and created conges ted. By your paternalistic corporate process it can never have any other ex istence. It has created every monied panic, arul will continue to produce them, which has occurred in the histo ry of the world. It has produced all de pression in business, blocking both pro duction and consumption. The govern ment as the agent of tho people has no right to betray this trust, and give it away to a few privileged individuals, investing them with supreme dictato rial power, thereby enabling them to place the price upou every article before it ; s created, making the question of suppplj and demand a mockery. It is a system which renders it impossible to transact- t'-e business of the couutry upon a cash busD, compelling the ma jority of tho people to do all business upon a credit system or eisa starve and tramp iu ordor that shylook can get iu his deadly work upon the question of usury. fcjometimcß under this deadly inconsistent system a large cotton crop brings the largest price, and a small one the smallest price, when it suits the whims and caprices of the robbers. This deadly system which the Consti tution is pleading for, has corrupted our churches, converted the ministry into a base set of hypocrites, produced all the crime ot daily occurrence, and ali the biinkrupt failures that are occurring and have occurred in the Lnited States. The people could in some measure pro tect themselves by living as a barter people had you not have invested this corporate system with the only power of paying debts. Let me in conclusion, as you look up on the ruins of a well nigh wrecked- Republic, the work of this damnable system which yon are advocating, and would if you could divert their atten tion from the robbery, until you shackle them hand and foot, with your false pleas of laziness and overproduction, beseech you if not possessed of hard and cillous hearts, to desist and do not mock the people any longer in their ruin and misery, the work of your own hands, A. L Nance, M. D. NO. 7