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THURSDAZ. MAY 4. 1899.
Organize district clubs.
Stick to the truth and fijht for prin
ciples.
The people need a lot of education
yet on reform lines. £_ ti
If you are not taking a reform paper
you know very little on reform lines.
Give year neighbor a copy of The
Economist and ask him to read it.
It is hard to got some men to realize j
that the democratic pirty is a party of
the past and that it can never again
benefit the masses.
The Government can make money
out of paper as well as out of gold. If
the people would recognize this fact
their understandings on the money
question would bo greatly enlighten
ed.
There is no doubt about the final tri -
umph, of reform if reformers will keep
thoroughly organiz *d. The people will
not always bs deceived by the old par
ties.
Redeeming one kind of money with
another indicates superior monoy sense
seems to bo the opinion of some men,
who for the want of much sense, advo
cate such theories.
Mr. Bryan is a groat man but his
patriotism has not yet developed to
that extent that will euablo him to
rise above party. That is the difference
between Mr. Bryan and Mr. Barker.
K?ery precinct should form a club as
soon as possible and thereby get thor
oughly organized for-the great work of
190*. Is there a true reformer who
will faulter and fall by the wayside?
We do not believe there is, but that
hundreds of recruits are ready to join
us.
Where do the big trusts go when they
want permission to organize and rob the
peop! ■. To the Deni icratic state of New
Jersey. There’s wl ere they get all their
charters. No wonder it almost tickles
ona of these big trusts to death when
they hear a good old honest Democrat
claiming his party is against trusts.
How fuuny.
Get your neighbor, who is honest and
willing to investigate to read your re.
form papers. If he will not take any
of them lend him yours. It requires a
great deal of work and sacrifice in a
movement that is working for the mass
es against the classes. Be ready always
to do your duty for what you believe is
right.
The man who has reached the point
he is willing to submit to the rule of the
few over the many and never opeu his
mouth agaiust oppression, wrong and
ooruption is a specimen of manhood
that God has little respect for. Did you
ever thiuk about this kind of a man and
what little service lie is to the
world?
Neither old party has any thing tau
gible to offer you and your intelligence
ought to dictate to you your duty. The
trouble with so many is their intelli
gence is smothered out by party prejud
ice.
The bankers think bank paper money
the best currency in the world. The
bankers are looking after their own
skillet When the business man and
farmer thinks the government paper
money is not best money in the world
don t you reckon the bankers chuckle
at their iguorauce and inability to look
after their own skillet? We should'
*ni!e (?)
Cotton Factories.
There are no manufacturing enter
prises that are safer and pay larger div
idens than cotton foctories. There is
no danger of having too many o£ them
iu the South and the town or section
that overlooks this fact and fails to have
one or more cotton mills is missing a
great opportunity for devlopment and
growth. Many counties in North Car
olina realized the advantages that would
accrue from mills several years ago and
now iu some of those counties they have
from ten to twenty iu opperation, all rf
which are running on full time and pay
ing handsome dividends to the stock
holders. There are other things that are
equally as important as the dividend
feature to enlist every mm who possi
bly can to help build cotton factories in
the South. They give imploymaut at
lair wages to hundreds of people which
enables them to help make ab ttermur
kit for produce of all kind* in the snr
rounding country. There opperatives
beep the merchants and the farmers
from the fact of having to patronize
both. Winder has many advantages
over other places for a great manufact
uring center anil if our people would
only become aroused to a couciousness
of this (act and pull together-show some
liberity and a determination to forge to
the front, we could iu a few years have
severel largo mills in opperation. We
can’t expect for outside capital to come
lin and build these things without aud
eifort on our part. Other towns are get
ting these enterprises and reaping the
benefit from them, that were not near
so favored nor so able as Winder. We
have men here who could do a grand
work on this line for the development of
our city and section if they would just
determine to do so
Greensb 'ro, Georgia has opened books
for subscription to a cotton mill so
wo see from the Herald Journal of that
city. One of its leading citizens head
ed the list with $2'),000,00 and further
agreed to serve as President oi the com
pany without compensation. Another
good citizen of that city subscribed $15.-
000,00. Now this is the way to do
things. Let the men who are able go to
work and be liberal aud the little fel
lows will do their part,
There would be no trouble iu getting
a cottou factory in Wiuder if our lead
iug moneyed men would go to work and
inspire confidence.
In Bad Shape.
The democratic party is in rather bad
shape. The secretary of the National
committee is in Alaska and will not re
turn until next yesr and James K Jones,
national chairman, has left for Europe
to be gone indefinitely.
A fellow up in Kansas, a state that
only has about 30,000 democrats in it,
has been placed in charge of affairs by
chairman Jones.
The little crowd over at Jefferson
that have been subsisting on the rev
enues of the county treasury for the
past ten or twelve years are very much
troubled in spirit because the ordinary
had the backbone to exercise his prerog
ative iu the matter and give the con
tract for transcribing a lot of books in
the clerk’s office to a populist instead
of giving it to them. If the ordinary
had given the work to one of them
at twice the airouut he contracted with
Mr. Chandler, there would not have
been a word of criticism from these
same fellows but they would all now be
performing the holy dance and smoking
the pipe of peace. Every intelligent
man iu the county is aware of the fact
that if there had been a democratic
ordinary these same fellows would have
gotten the pie and gotten a great deal
more of it thau Mr. Chandler will get
because ordinary Bradbury tries to
economize iu all things that are to the
interest of the county.
The black slave was much better off
than the man of the present day who
rents land and buys goods on credit and
has to couteud with tiusts and corpora
tions. Really, my brother, can you
think of a condition worse?
Ihe national Refom Press Associa
tion meets at Kansas city oa May 16th.
Ihere is no better authority on all
great national questions thau Mr. Bark
er, the Peoples party candidate for
president. He what the country
needs, and if elected president would
have the moral courage and nerve to see
that we got it. That Is the kind of
man that is needed now more than ever
in the history of this government to be
at the head of national affairs.
Buzzes From Morgan’s
Buzz-Saw.
Harmonv in the Democratic party
nieaus that William Jennings Bryan
will be side tracked as a leader, there
fore there will be no harmony aud no
Democratic success.
Col. Mary Ellen Lease helped to car
ry the St Louis Populist convention for
Bryan in 18%, and now Mary is yellin’
for Senator Gorman for president iu
1900! “Wmmiiu is fumfV things.”
Gov. Piugree makes a fine plea for
the R -publican party to be good, but he
might as well plead with the devil.
The Republican party thinks it is good
now, aud it is—to the corporations and
trusts.
The Japanese language does not con
tain a single cuss won. That is pretty
good evidence that they have never vot
ed fer a man like Cleveland, nor eaten
canned army beef of American Manu
facture.
In The December, 1897 issue, Morg
an’s Buzz-Saw said: “Fusion will go
down in Ntbraska and Kansas next
year. Just stick a pin here, aud don’t
ferget it. ” You can take the pin up
now.
When you think of jiniu’ the Demo
crats just think for a moment. It was
they that gave us Grover Cleveland,
and Grove gave us the panic, and the
panic—well, it gives even the Democrats
the bellyache every time they think of
it.
In Three, states—Califonia, Utah and
Delaware, the legislatures w r ere unable
to elect Uuitd States seuators. If there
is auy reason wauling why the people
should elect United States seuators by
popular vote these states have furnished
it.
The Democratic party has been trj iug
to commit sniside fot thirty years, but
the money power won’t let it die. It is
the prop that keeps the Republican par
ty from falling to pieces. The pieces
don’t want the Democratic paty to come
into power.
The R publican party is not a fraud.
It wears the badge of its meanness on
the outside. It is simply keeping up
with the devil’s procession, and it does
not deny it, while the Democratic party
is trying to get ahead of the pro
cession and all the time denying
it.
Some people are making a mighty big
fuss about wanting the Filopinos to
have all the rights of free citizms, and
these same people would steeA a “nig
ger’s vote here at home and thank the
Lord for the opportunity. Some peo
ple are built on a peculiar plan.
It was the Democrats who put us up
on the present gold standard system
That was when they had a chance. Now
they want another chance. They are
makiug some more promises, and some
people just chumps enough to believe
that they will carry them out.
William Jennings Bryan is no fool.
He knows the record of the Democratic
party. He knows that that party put
us ou the present gold standard while it
was iu full control. He knows that the
money power controls‘it when it wants
to. If he is sincere iu his professions
for reform why don’t he get out of the
old hulk?
The poor dupes who go from one old
party to another in the hope of better
ing their condition are a- much to be
pitied as the fellows who havu’t sense
enough to let go. The politicians make
monkeys of all them, and I feel like
apologizing to the monkeys, for I don’t
think you could fool a monkey so often
with the same thing.
Every trust corporated in New Jersey
is equipped under laws passed by a
Democratic legislature, and during the
month of March there were more trusts
incorporated iu that state thau iu any
one month of its history. Tae aggre
gate capital of these trusts amounted to
11,500,000,000. And the Democratic
party is howling agaiust trusts.
v
The result of the election in Chicago
is a very large straw. Mayor Harrison
was Croker’s candidate. He had aided
in the defeat of the free silver ticket in
New York city. Altgeld was the candi
date of the Bryan-free silver wing of
the party, and received 46,000 votes to
Harrison’s 146,000 . If this means any
thing it is that Bryanism is waning in
the Democratic party.
Don’t Forget to Read It.
The artice iu this issue from Prof. Orr
on the Colorado Beetle will be read with
much interest. The people of the South
are just beginning to experience for the
last year or two the terrible ravages of
this bug. The Irish potatoes in
this section are already being ruined by
them and if something is not used at
once to destroy them the potato crop
will be a complete failure. Prof. Orr
gives the remedy aud evory cne should
go to work at once to exterminate
them.
THE
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Practically a Daily at the price of a
Weekly.
Tho striking and important events of
the last year have established the over
whelming value of The Thrice-a Week
World to every reader. For an almost
nominal sum it has kept its subscribers
informed of the progress of all our wars
and, moreover, has reported them as
promptly and fully as if it were a daily.
With our interests still extending
throughout the world, with our troops
operating in the Philippines, aud the
great Presidential campaign, too, at
hand, its value is further increased.
Tdo motto of The Thrice-a Week
World is improvement. It strives each
year to be better than it was the year
before, and public confidence in it is
shown by the fact that it now circulates
more than twice as many papers every
week as auy other newspaper, not a
daily, published in America.
We offer this unequaled newspaper
aud The Economist together one year
for $1.50
The regular subscription price of the
two papers is $2.00
THE COLONEL’S TWO IDEAS.
Snsgreatioiis Anent tlie Gift of tlie
Government to Cnbnn Soldiers.
The government has appropriated
SIOO each to the Cuban soldiers.
It js done in order to give them a
start in life.
It is a good idea. We approve it.
We approve it notwithstanding the
fact that not one of these 30,000 benefi
ciaries ever did anything for the gov
ernment of the United States; never
paid a cent of taxes; never even avowed
allegiance to the Utiited States.
The government not only helped them
to their indpendence, but it gives them
something to start with.
We repeat, it is a capital idea —not
a capitalistic idea, hut a capital idea.
Why not appropriate $300,000,000,
good honest government greenbacks,
full legal tender, and distribute them
among 3,000,000 bard up, honest, desti
tute, deserving, men in the United
States and give them a start?
They are at least just as deserving as
the Cubans.
They are at least American citizens.
They are just as destitute and needy.
They will make just as good use of
the money.
It will bo just as much of a help to
them.
It will enable them not only to take
care of themselves, but it will enable
them to add twice that much to the
material wealth of the country.
And they will certainly appreciate it 1
It will give most of them a good start
toward getting a borne of their own.
Why not do it ?
Another good idea is that suggested
by General Lee for the government to
loan money to the Cubans to give them
a start
Not to the Cubans as a government,
but to Cubans as individuals.
Tlie only fault we Lave to find with
the idea is that it is not extended to
Americans.
Can Mr. McKinley or General Lee
give any good reason why this charity
ehall not begin at home ? Rather, why
it should not be extended to the Amer
ican citizen, if begun in Cuba ?—Nor
ton’s Monthly.
The Street Railway Monopoly.
The street car companies have joined
in q national organization. They claim
the right not only to form corporations,
which are combinations of capital, but
also to form a national combination of
such corporations; yet they, or many
of them, refuse their employees permis
sion to form a union or any combination
whatever, under penalty of dismissal
During the autumn of 1897 the Chi
cago City Railway company refused to
allow its employees to join a union and
discharged those who did join. A rail
way vice president in discussing these
questions, recently said to the writer
“The people who own this country pro
pose to run it. ” Asked if by “owners’
he meant the corporations and the
wealthy class, he replied: “I mean those
who oNVn the property. "—William J
Strong In Arena.
Say* the “Golden HnTe” Mayor
The scientific fact that stands in the
way of the theory that great good can
be done with private fortunes is the
fact that the money has been got
through a dishonest system, and, "no
matter how honest or hew good the in
dividual may be into whose hands the
money has come, as was said of the 30
pieces of silver for which Judas be
trayed his Lord, “it is the price of
blood,” so may it with equal truth be
said of our private fortunes today—the
possessors are in the main honest, but
tbe private fortunes have been accumu
lated in a dishonest social system that
has made an army of tramps and mil
lions of paupers and criminals of every
degree
This is the price that we have paid
for our private fortunes. These wrecked
and ruined lives are the result of social
injustice, and from social injustice pro
ceed the causes that produce and per
petuate vice and crime. I claim that
our private fortunes cost too much; the
ruin and destruction of so many lives
is too high a price. “It is the price of
blood. ’
Let us have a system in which every
man will have just what he earns and
nothing more, a fair play, golden rule
system, and 25 years of that sort of a
system would relegate all of our prisons,
jails and almshouses to the domain of
relics of a hideous past.—Mayor Jones
of Toledo.
Old Principle** and New Lawn.
A great republic was one day founded
on a continent far removed from the
wrangles and jangles of the discordant
family of covetous nations, and it was
grounded on the undying principles
which underlie all truth and justice.
The right of men to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness was guaran
teed. And the great republic flourished
as no other.
Changes came in due time. Men who
have known only liberty fail to realize
the inestimable benefits of liberty. They
yield to changes without knowing their
meaning. Whereas there were for cen
turies a few simple and direct laws for
the protection of the rights of men and
a few others to safeguard property,
there have been placed on tho statute
books of the great free republic and of
the half a hundred several states, innu
merable laws relating to property, pro
tecting property as though it were
something wholly helpless, magnifying
the importance of wealth, providing
against encroachments upon the as
sumed inviolable rights of artificial per
sonages and clothing these new crea
tions of law with powers hitherto with
held from individuals, bestowing upon
fictitious persons portions of the origi
nal sovereignty of tbe whole people,
and in this manner, and in many ways,
minimizing the importance and stand
ing of men in the state.
Do the old laws prevail or have they
been repealed I —Sionx Falls (S. D.)
Press.
PERSONALITIES.
Representative David F. Wilbur of
New York is one of the largest hop
growers in this country.
Addison C. Harris, the new minister
to Austria, is said' to be one of the best
classical scholars: ever graduated from
the Northwestern) University.
Secretary wfo State Hay was brought,
up a Presbyterian, and as a boy was a '
regular attendant at the Uresbyterian
Sunday school at Warsaw, Ills. I
Mr. Jamsetsji Tata has offered tlie
Indian government $1,250,000 for the J
establishment in India of a university
for research on the model of Johns Hop
kins.
Unlike many public men, Governor
Tanner of Illinois does not object to be
ing caricatured, and even goes so far
as to keep a large scrapbook of such
drawings of himself.
Since a recent statement that John
P. Jones of Nevada was the wealthiest
man in the senate ho has been over
whelmed with begging letters asking
in all something over $1,000,000.
The emperor of Austria, the czar of
Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm and President
Faure are averse to indiscriminate
handshaking. Ring Humbert is arrayed
on the other side of the question. {
It is said that when Cornelius Bliss
was a small schoolboy, his teacher asked ,
him if Jerusalem was a common or
proper Doun. “Neither,” replied the
little pupil; “it’s an ejaculation.” |
Barnetrt Walker of Chicago, a nephew (
of President Polk, is the only man
born in the White House. His
was Polk’s private secretary and the .
family lived in the executive mansion j
Charlemagne Tower, embassador toj
Russia, is the son of one of Charles
Sumner’s college classmates and early
friends. In Pierce’s “Life of Sumner’
are many intimate letters addressed to
the elder Tower.
Mile. Lucie Faure, daughter of the
French president, is of a tall and com
manding presence, knows Latin, Greek
and English, has written a few books
of travel and is a kind of unofficial sec
retary to her father.
Tom Watson, the Georgia Populist,
ex-congressman and a candidate for the
vice presidency in the last presidential
election, has written a two volume his
tory of France, which so competent an
authority as George Cary Eggleston
pronounces serious and scholarly thougl
full of fault as well as attractions.