Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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. NO. 12.