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THE JACKSON ECONOMIST.
VOL. VH.
FAKK’S CAILTO ACTIOS
The Populist National
Chairman Issues an
Address.
Headquarters of the Peoples par’
tv national committee, Milton
Park chairman. Dallas. Texas.,
March 17. 1899: To the Populists
of the United States —The Peoples
Party national convention which
met at. Cincinnati. September sth
and 6th of last year, resolved to
make a straight fight for refoim
on the lines laid out at Omaha in
1892, and adhered to ever since by
all straight Populists, An address
was issued to the people of the
Uuited States giving the reason
why this should be done.
A declaration of principles was
adopted and given to the people of
the country. Wharton Barker was
nominated for president and Igna
tius Donnelly for vice president
subject to the approval of the rank
and file of the party, voting
through precint clubs to be estab
lished in accordance with rules
there adopted for the government
of the party. This address and
platform should be read and well
considered by all those who pro
pose to vote and wcrk for straight
populism, To the end that victo
ry may crown our efforts in the
near future, I invite the hearty
co-operation of all citizens w'ho
are dissatisfied with the course of
the Democratic and Republican
parties. The small vote cast at
the State elections in 1898 proves
the great dissatisfaction that ex
ists among the people and their
unwillingness to support either of
the old parties.
There is urgent need for a party
standing for equality of opportu
nity and againet special privileges.
The Populist party supplies this
need, The great mass of the peo
ple of the Uuited States are Popu
lists at heart though they do not
acknowledge it. They recognize
the injustice and inequality of
the laws on our statute books and
the indisposition of either of the
old parties to remedy these condi
tions. They realize the futility of
waiting for reform under the man
agement and methods of either ot
the old parties. They have been
dissatisfied for years. In 1884 the
Democratic pjfcsidential candi
dates were elected; in 1888 the
Republican candidates; in 1892
the Democratic candidates; in
1896 the Republican candidates.
An opportunity opens before the
Peoples party such as has seldom
been offered to any party which
■ properly uttized.will lead to suc-
Icess; will overthrow the rule of
■plutocracy that now cramps our
■energies, hinders our growth, de*
pbes the comforts of life and the
■pursuit of happiness to the many,
Pud debauches with its corruption
■the few.
lo insure’the succoss of the Peo
■*!es party there is nothing needed
Put effective organization ; and in
P* r| ler to press this work vigorously,
Persistently aud successfully, as
■ of the national commit
-1 have selected to assist me the
■flowing well known and reliable
F°puiists, to each of whom I have
P s ßigued a group of States to organ
by counties and precincts; as
Bellows:
■ To lion. Frank Burkitt of Ok
■‘°ua, Miss., Mississippi, Alabama
WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1899.
and Tennessee.
To Hon. Wm. Phillips of Mari
etta, Ga., Georgia, South Carolina
and Florida.
To Hon. Jno. A. Parker of Louis
ville, Ky., Kentucky, West Virgin
ia, Virginia, North Carolina and
Maryland.
To Hon. Jno. 0. Zabel of Peters
burg, Mich.. Michigan, Ohio, In
diaua. Illinois, Wisconsin,{Califor
nia, Oregon and Washington.
To Hon. L. C. Bateman of Au
burn, Me., New England and Mid
dle States.
To Hon. Henry B. Fay of Min
neapolis, Minn., Minnesota, lowa,
North and South Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho,
To Hon. Paul J. Dixon of Chil
licothe, Mo.. Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska. Colorado, Utah and Nevada
To Hon. Clarence Nugent of
Stephenville, Tex., Texas, Arkansas
and Louisiana.
I trust that these gentlemen will
use all diligence in co-operating
with the state congressional com
mitteemen in their respective ter
ritories, in the work of organization
as provided fer in the plan suggest
ed at Cincinnati, and from time to
time make such suggestions lo this
office as they may deem aduisable.
The Populist party can be made
stronger and more effective than
ever if all straight Populists will
bend their efforts to thrt end
Respectfully,
Milton Park,
National Chairman.
Illusive Hopes.
Duu’s Review says that “in bus
iness, this year cannot be compar
ed with any other.” Payments
though the clearing bouses last
week were 57.4 per cent, greater
than the same week in 1892, and
45 9 per cent, greater than the same
week in 1898. All records were
broken.
Commenting on this the Macon
Telegraph says:
“Au unprecedented era of busi
ness prosperity has been sweeping
over the country, and reached its
maximum last month. So tar os
can be seen, it is marching
ou.
‘ But the cotton states are not
sharing fully in the good times.
Why? Overproduction it cotton.
Then follows the usual sermon
on planting less cotton and the
great wave of prosperity will sweep
over the South as it now does over
the clearing houses and broker’s
offices in Walls street.
In this view correct?
The business of the New York
clearinghouse is abnormally large.
Augusta, Atlanta and other clear
ing houses depending upon legiti
mate business last yearjphowed a
big decrease. The reason why the
New York clearing house makes
such a favorable showing is because
it records not only the volume of
legitimate business, but also of
gambling. A wild craze of specu
lation has seized the people, and
thousands are risking their money
ou futures and stocks in hopes of
suddenly growing rich. The
majority will be fleeced by the
sharpers as those who invested in
cotton futures at inflated prices
are being shown now, but in the
meantime it swells the bank clear
ings. In those clearing houses
which only represent legitmate bus
iness ro such improvement is
shown as in the money ceu-^
tree.
There has been some improve
ment in business caused by the
money expended on account of the
wars Large army contracts have
been filled, the railroads have had
mcraased business and the soldiers
have put some money in circula
tion. The South has got very little
of this. In addition the regular an
nual tribute of $50,000,000 a year
on accountof the pension fund con
tinues to be exacted of the South,
and nearly all of it is distributed in
the other sections. How can re
ducing the cottou crop change
these conditions?
Suppose the cotton acreage were
reduced one half, and that a half
crop would be raised which in con
sequence wuuld bring a double
price. The South would then re
ceive exactly the same ammount of
monev she does now. It would
take less labor to make a half crop,
but the problem is not how to save
labor, but to find profitable em
ployment for more labor, since we
cannot now employ all the labor
we have. Starting new industrial
enterprises would open new avenues
for theemploymeutof labor, but the
South, though in possession of nat
ural resources and enterprises, has
not the money and cannot get it ex
cept upon terms which would
absorb all their profits.
We need a financial system un
der which every section can obtain
sufficient money to employ all its
labor profitably. Until we get
such a financial Bystem it is idle to
expect prosperity to come to the
South.
Under the present financial sys
tem, no matter how great the banfc
clearings of New York or how much
money piled up iu Northern bank
vaults, the South will remain
the poor slaves of the taskmas
ter. —Augusta Tribune.
Money—What It Is And
What It will Do.
w •'• ,:r 1; ™ ’• r - f
Money is the medium of ex
change, and by it the business of the
world is carried on. Without it all
would be confusion, and barter and
trade would be the rule, and the
misfortune to the general commu
nity would be great indeed. In
dustrial pursuits would be para
lyzed, Its power for good is un
limited; its power Tor evil great
when misdirected in the hands of
capitalists when diverted from the
marts of trade. We all know from
the lessons taught by the several
panics what the scarcity of money
means, Every one knows that the
moneyed man of a town or commu
nity is the person who can and
does exercise a good or baneful in
fluence upon those around and
about him.
We hear much about Shylocks
and the hardship such individuals
wreck, but we seldom hear that the
person who borrows money has
been largely to blame in many
instances for not meetiug his just
obligations, and the prospects of
the money lender getting what is
really his due, is small, indeed,
without resorting to drastic meas
ure, resuiting in one being held up
as a living, breathing personificat
ion of Shakspere’s infamous char
acter, and the other a bankrupt
man. Both know the powor of
money—oue,to his gain, the other
to his sorrow.
All men who lend money are not
evil disposed persons, and in lend-
ing money, which is nothing more
or less than a business conducted
for profit, are using their capital
for the purpose of increasing thoir
wealth, just as a men who puts his
capital into merchandise for the
purpose of gain ; neither of whom
would invest money in their par
ticular calling did they expect to
lose.
Were it not lor pernicious legisla
tion neither bankers or merchants
would be able to distress a people,
the first by manipulating the cir
culation medium through con
traction and expansion, the latter
in some statoc being permitted by
law to take a mortgage on a farm
er’s crop before there is even a seed
sown or planted. The borrower
from the money man and the
debtor to the merchants are often
‘•cleaned out” because the creditors
are in ckmger of being forced to
the wall by others stronger than
they, when in truth an expansion
of time to the poorer man would
be given were it possible.
Thus it is that the power for good
or evil that money exerts is trem
endous and far-reaching. It is the
power placed in the hands of na
tional kanks to control the circul
ation medium is where the danger
lies, for by contracting the money
volume price ot commodities
and labor are lowered —the pro
ducer gets less for his goods or
wares and the laborer less for his
Hire —the ability of the debtor
class to pay is curtailed and panics
are the result.
Money is the great civilizer and
the hendmaid of industry, the
great incentive to labor. Were
the government to take charge of
the issuing of money instead of in
vesting individuals with that power
there would be fewer monopolies,
panics less frequent, not so many
enormously rich men, fewer bank
rupt and, paupers.
; Poultry on the Farm.
Farming is made up of many
home industries and to neglect
poultry as one of the sources of
income is poor economy. At cer
tain seasons when most of th#oth
er products are disposed- of, eggs
and early broilers in the spring and
summer, and roosters in the fall,
are iu the aggregate quite an item,
and may furnish all the store sup
plies needed. We have always
maintained that the farming class
have facilities and advantages over
the ordinary village poulterer m
the way of range and keeping them
cheaply at all seasDns of the year.
It costs very little to keep a flock
of fowls on the farm. Thtey usual
ly provide the greater share of their
own living from the stable, the or
chard, the stubble field and straw
stack. The grain and seed which
they pick up, if left untouched,
would be of no earthly use to the
farmer, and the worms, grubs and
insects they destroy would injure
his growing crops, vines, fruit
trees, etc. —The Poultry Chum.
Disintegration at Work
Nonconformist, Omaha Neb.
The republican party of the
west is disintegrating. It is begin
ning to think and the more it
thinks the more it is ashamed of
itself. Plutocracy and imperalism
is too big a load for it to cary, It
don’t like to see its chbsen presi
dent mowing down helpless sav-
ages by the thousand. It doesn’t
take kindly to the abrogation of
the tjeclaration of independence;
it doesn’t like to read the long
lists of dead and wounded men
that are published in the papers
every day. It doesn’t like the im
mense increase in the government
expenses, and it doesn’t like the
manner in which it was treated in
the final disposition of the ques
tion of international bimetalism.
It is getting ugly and vicious and
threatens to jump clear over the
fence of the political pasture.
Here are a couple of straws to
show which wav the wind is blow
ing: The republicans in the Ne
braska iegislature voted in favor
of the electioh of United States
senators by the people. That is
rank populism. The South Dako
ta legislature memorialized con
gress to place all the railroads of
the country directly under the
control of the interstate commerce
commission, also to establish
postal savings banks aud to make
Indian reservations pay taxes.
These are all populistic or social
istic measures. Some of the re
publican papors are getting shaky.
The Omaha Bee opposes the retire
ment of the greenbacks, and also
the doctrine of imperalism. It is
in favor of a postal telegraph, and
its able editor, on his honest days,
is more of a pop than a republi
can. ’
Elaction Frauds, intimi
dation And Murder.
“The most painful vote I ever
gave in my life was for the consti
tutional amendment. I did not
give that vote as a democrat, nor
for the success of the democratic
party; because I verily believe that
it would be better for the demo
cratic party for the negro to con
tinue an isau3 in politics. But 1
gave the vote, because I felt it
would be better for the poor negro
we have learned to love for his
faithfulness. I vote it to put au
and to election frauds, to intimid
ations and murder. I Gave that
vote tor the good of my popu
list aud white republican friends
who could, if the negro was elimin
ated from pulitics, discuss the great
state aud national issue without
being called “black-hearted.’’-sen
ator osborne, in the legislature of
1899. Caucasian,
Jefferson’s Ten Rules.
Take things always by the smooth
handle.
Pride costs more thau hunger,
thirst and cold.
We seldom repent of having eat
en too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
Never spend your money before
you have earned it.
Never buy what you don’t want
because it is cheap.
Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
Never put off until to-morrow
what you can do to-day.
How mujh pain the evils- have
cost us that have never happened.
When angry, count ten before
yeu speak; if very angry count a
hundred.
CUBAN OIL cures
■ IWlUvl vCuts, Boras, Bruises, Rheu
matism and Sores. Price, 25 cents.
G. W. DeLaPerriere, Winder, Ga.
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