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THURSDA Z. MAY 11. 1899.
All the states are beginning to organ
ize district clubs,
Barker will be the next president if we
will get our forces all in line and thor
oughly organized.
The man who wants to fuse with
either of the old parties ought to join
one of them He certainly does not be
long to the Populist party. Reform
does not need such a man.
Get rid of the men who love office
more than principles. They do more to
retard the growth of reform than open
enemies. There are such men in every
state and they should not be recognized
in our ranks.
There are some men whose only mo
tive in enlistihg in the ranks of any re
form movement is to get office. They,
can talk big and long for reform until j
they fail to get an offioe, then they be-j
gin to kick and pick flaws to get an ex - ;
cose for flopping back into the lines of
the enemy.
If there is a true populist, one who
believes the principles of populism are
right aa3 just and went into the move
ment from honest motives, who is not
stronger in the faith today than ever be
fore, we would like to see him. There
has been nothing done by the old parties
that wouia make such an one think for
a moment of foraaking Populism and
joining either of the old parties. No
one need have any fears of a genuine
and well posted populist for asking
his colors. They are not made of such
stuff.
Fires are getting to be epidemic.
Yesterday morning there was a big one
at Elberton and this morning early one
at Gainesville and at Jefferson.
The burning of the ginnery at Jeffer
son last night brings about a loss to the
Oil Mill Cos. of that town of |4,000 or
more. We have not learned whether
this was covered by insurance or not.
It is thought to have been set ou fire.
We received a communication this week
that was too personal and too much of
a family affair for publication. The
Economist delights to publish any
thing of a local or general nature that
is of interest to the general public, but
a newspaper is not the place to air fami
ly troubles; these things do not interest
the readers of a paper and generally do
more harm than good. On this ac
count we trust the writer will kindly
excuse us for failing to give his commun
ication to our readers.
“If A Man Dies Rich” He
Dies Disgraced.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie who has made
his Millions has decided to retire from
business and during his lifetime to
spend his immense fortune for philan-
purposes. There are some
criticisms as to the means by which Mr.
Carnegie built up his fortune, bat this
can be somewhat atoned for if the great
inillionair carries out his avowed pur
poses. To say the least of it, he is set
ting au example that will help the
world very materially if it shall have
the ettuct of causing others with large
means to adopt the same policy.
Rich men can do a great deal to bet
ter the condition of humanity and to al
leviate suffering if they will, and unless
they do this they are a curse instead of
a blessing to the world. We are rather
inclined to believe with Mr. Carnnegie,
that "if a xuau dies rich he dies dis
graced.”
National Reform
Press Meeting.
The meeting of the Reform Press As
sociation at Kansas city next week will
be a very important one for the populist
party nationally. If they will all get
together on one line and sdopt a course
to pursue on which all reform papers can
unite, and all rfesolveto bo eternall op
posed to fusion, the association will have
accomplished a great work and ane that
will result in much good for the suc
cess of reform principles.
Adopt a firm and conservative course
of action for the future and then let
every paper come home with the deter
mination to stand by that policy.
Don’t let the association be controled
by afew designing politicans and heuch
men of the two old parties. Much de
pends on the action of this association,
which meet* on mav 16th, as to the
future of Populism.
Poor Authority.
The Atlanta Constitution of recent
j date has the following:
“It is not realized in newspaper cir
cles in Washington that the popn’ists
in Georgia and Alabama have, with
few exceptions, returned to the demo
cratic party.”
The Constitution need never expect
| that it.will ever be realized in newspa
per circles in Washington or any where
1 else as long as the Constitution is the
i odlv authority for the statement.
The Constitution's reputation for ve
racity and stability on matters of a po
iitical nature is so little respected in
newspaper circles and by the people at
large that the reverse of what it states
is always considered the truth. It is
very unfortunate that a paper published
at .the capitol city of the great state of
Georgia should have established such
an unenviable reputation, and it is a
reflection on the moral and intelligent
citizens of the South; but nevertheless,
it is true.
When one reads an editorial in the
Atlanta Constitution he knows he can
not vouch for its truthfulness and sin-
I cerity for these are two virtues that
seem to have been long years ago dis-
J carded by that paper. On account of
| the strength of populism in Georgia and
Alabama, grave fears have been inter*
tained by many that the Constitution
would embrace its tenets, as it is noted
for always wanting to be on the big
side.
If the Constitution were to do this
then the populists, with few exceptions,
would forsake the party. This is the
only thing known to the human mind
that will stop or impede our growth in
tho South.
The Cincinnati Enquirer comes pret
ty near being a Populist paper when it
says.
“If the government can print money
for a bank that is good money, why
can’t it print money for its own use that
would be good money? If the govern
ment prints money for its own use and
there is any profit derived from its use,
the whole people share in the profit.
If it prints money for a corporation the
incorporators only enjoy the benefits
If printed for a bank the endorsement
of the government is necessary to make
it good.”
The national bankers do not add one
iota to the security of the money they
issue. Its value depends absolutely up
on the government endorsement, and
the bankers alone are the beneficiaries.
They not only draw regularly the in
terest on their bonds deposited in the
treasury, in lieu of the bauk currency
they carry home, but they lend the
same bank currency to the people, whose
endorsement makes it good and co Lot
interest on that also. Thus they re
oeive double interest, one on their bonds
and another on the currency. If the
government should make legal tender
treasury notes instead of national bauk
notes and pay them out as salaries or
for any other services performed, the
interest paid the bankers for the use of
their national currency would be saved
to the people. But the old parties,
won’t agree to this, and the people
must suffer the extortion until they de
termine to place a party in power that
will remedy this great wrong Whan
they do this one of the giaut trusts that
is now sucking the life blood of the na
tion will have been destroyed. —Okoloua
Messenger.
Men of Nerve.
It takes men of nerve and moral cour
age to attack the evevils that now af
feet so seriously the political destinies
of this government. It takes men of
great firmness to antogonize old parties,
which from their long existance and
domination by politicians, have become
so corrupt they have lost all feeling and
respect for humanity. Little minds an<3
men who desire preferment above the
welfare of the masses cannot resist such
iuflueuces.
This is a sad state of affairs, and on
account of this, the future of our
republican form of government is not as
bright and encouraging as true patriots
would have it be. There are so many
political cowards and bootlicks in the
world and so many men who do not
read.study and think for theuselvrs.
This class, too, is notcoufiued to what is
termed the most ignorant and illiterate
but composes a maj arity of those .vho
claim to be the iutiiiigence of every com
munity.
It is encouraging, however, to have a
man of learning, a Professor of Politi
cal Economy have the courage to come
out openly in defiance of such powerful
influences and attack trusts and show
up corporate greed. Such men general
ly lost their positions but what of that.
A mau who conscientiously believes a
thing is wrong should denounce it at
any cost to himself, and the man who
fails to do this is a coward and not de
serving of respect. Pr if, John R. Com
mons has lost his position as Professor
of political economy at Syracuse Univer
sity because he had the nerve to attack
the evils above referred to.
Prof. Small who fills the chair of Pol
itical Economy in Chicago University
has not yet shared the fats of Prof.
Commons, but the following strong lan
guage from him will not stick on the
stomach of Mr. Rockfeller. Read what
he says:
“In this age of so called democracy
we are getting into the thralls of the
most relentless system of economic oli
garchy that history has thus far record
ed. That capiral from which most ot us,
directly or indirectly, get our bread and
butter is become the most undemocratic,
inhuman and atheistic of all the heath
en divinities. It breeds children but to
devonr the bodies of some, the souls of
others and to put out the spiritual eye
sight of the rest. The socialistic indict
ments ef our civilization are essentially
sound. Mind, Ido not say the remedies
are souud, but the indictments are
true.
“There are clouds ou the social hor
izon already bigger than a man’s hand,
foretelling changes of which no one is
wise enough to predict the end. If
present tendencies continue it will not
be long before the men whose business
it is to communicate ideas will be gagg
ed by those who publish ideas, and the
publishers will be shackled by makers
of paper, and the paper manufacturers
will be held up by the transportation
lines, and the transportation corpora
tions by the producers of steel, and the
steel industries by the coal operators,
tyid the coal miners by the oil produc
ers, and the oil magnates by the stove
makers, an i the cook stove men by the
sugar trust, and the sugar interests by
Wall street, aud the stock brokers by
the labor unions, and they by
the farmers, and the farmers,
God help them, by everybody. I
am not throwing the dust of my library
in your faces, but if you heed the symp
toms from bank and office, factory and
railroad headquarters and daily press,
you have discovered that the very men
who made these combinations are be
ginning to be frightened at their shad
ows These very business men who
claim to have a monopoly of practical
‘horse sense’ have involved themselves
and all of us in a grim tragedy, They
an asked in a quiet way how it is all
going to end. Whether they realize it
or not, our vision of freedom is passing
into the eclipse of universal corporation
in the interest of capital. The march
of human progress is getting reduced to
marking time in the lock step of capi
tal’s chain gang. It would make indef
initely more for human weal if every
dollar of wealth was cleared off the
earth, if we could have instead of it in
dustry and homes and justice and love
and faith, than to be led much further
into the devil'■ dance of oapitalism. ”
THE MORTGAGE
BEATS THE CYCLONE
A Permanency That Withstands
Drouth, Tornado and all
the Vicissitudes of Time.
The mortgage is a self supporting in
stitution.
It always holds its own.
It calls for just as many dollars
when grain is cheap as when it is
dear.
It is not affected by the drought.
It is not drowned out by the heavy
rains.
It never winter kills.
Late springs and early frosts never
trouble it.
Potato bugs do not disturb it.
Moth and rust do not destroy it.
It g ro ws night, Sundays, rainy days
and even holidays.
It brings a sure crop every year, and
sometimes twice a year.
It produces cash every time.
It does not have to wait for the mar
ket to advance.
It is not subject to speculations of
the bulls and bears on the board of
trade.
It is a load that galls and frets and
chafes.
It is a burden that the farmer cannot
shake off.
It is with him morning, neon and
night.
It eats with him at the table.
It gets under his pillow when he
sleeps.
It rides upon his shoulders during the
day.
It consumes his grain crop.
It devours his cattle.
It selects the finest horses and the fat
test steers.
It lives upon the first fruit of the sea
son.
It stalks into the dairy where the busy
housewife toils day after day and month
after month and takes the nicest cheese
and the choicest butter.
It shares the children’s bread and robs
them of half their clothes.
It stoops the toiler’s back with its re
morseless burden of care. It hardens
his hands, benumbs his intellect prema
turely whitens his locks, and oftentimes
sends him and his aged wife over the
hill to the poorhouse.
It is the inexorable and exacting task
maker.
Its whip is as merciless and cruel as
the lash of the slave driver.
It is a menace to liberty, a hindrance
to progress, a curse to the world —S. F.
Norton,
The Missouri World.
The Missouri World is one of our best
Western reform papers, and should be
in the home of all reformers. You can
get The Economist and the World one
year for $1 25. The World is published
at Chillicothe. Mo. Send us $1.25 aud
take both papers
The American.
If you want the ablest edited reform
paper in the union get The American,
Wharton Barker’s paper. We will
send you The Economist and The
American one year for $1.50. You can’t
well afford to miss The American.
The military court that has been iu
session for months has decided there
was no “embalmed beef.” The beef
packers came out winners and Gen
Miles was censured for his conduct in
the premises. The beef packers had
more influence (money) than Gen.
Miles.
It is said that Ex-Governor Atkinson
faired rather badly at the hands of the
Newnan Mob, and some editor rises to
remark why some of the infuriated rab
ble did not ask him about that ‘ ‘rape
circular” issued m his behalf when he
was a candidate for the second term.
This infamous document it will be re
membered, was an incendiary appeal for
the nego vote, and one of the reasons giv
en why the negroes of Ga. should vote
for Atkinsou against his Populist oppon
ent was that he (Atkinsou) had pardoned
a negro who had twice been convicted
by the court, upon the charge of crim
inal assault upou a white woman.
It Is no wonder that a man who had
profited by such despicable means as was
resorted to by Akinson and his friends
in 18S6 could have no influence with a
crazed mob.
National Plan
Of Organization;
Your committee appointed to f orm
late a plan for the future
and government of the paople’g
realizing the necessity 0 f preservin’
party independence and wishing *
prove that our party alone stands fl
direct legislation through the initiative
and referendum system applied to party
government as well as to the maku
of laws, reports the following rules on
organization:
1. All delegate conventions of the
People’s Party fbr making nominations
and platforms are hereby abolisnad
and instead thereof, nominations for
office, platforms and amendments there,
to shall be made by direct vote at the
People’s Partb primaries of the politi.
cal subdivision affected there,
by.
2. The People’s Party organization
shall consist of: H national committee
of three member from each state to be
chosen by the state central com
mittee on each presidential
year.
3. A state central committee of three
members from ei ch congressional
district to be elected
by direct vote at the party primaries on
each election year,
4. A congressional committee of
three members from each county in the
congressional district, to be elected
by direct vote at the party
primaries on eash election
year.
5. A county committee of three
members from each township or ward,
to be elecsed by direct vote at the
party primaries on each election
year.
6. National, state, congressional and
county committees shall perform the
same duties as heretofore,not inconsist
ent harewith, provide blank hallots for
the referendum votes herein contemplat
ed, and canvas and certify the votes cast
in their respective territories.
7. The unit of organization shall be,
the precinct club.
8. Any voter may become a member
of the precent club of any precinct bj
subscribing to our national declaration!
of principles aud onr rules pn organiza
tion.
9. Any member of any precinct club
who shall propose fusion or co operation
with either the Republican or Demo
cratic organizations in the make-up of*
ticket through conference committee
or otherwise, shall, upon conviction
thereof, by a majority vote of his club
be ueemed outside the party.
10. No person not a member of a pre
cinct club, and in good standing shall
be eligible to membership on auy Pee
pie’s party committee or a People’s party
nomination for auy office.
11. Each committee shll make prompt
report to the committee next higher ol
all referendum votes and other matter!
within the jurisdiction of such higher
committee, and the chairman of each
committee shall be deemed responsible
for the prompt and faithful performance
of the duties of his committee.
12. State platforms can be changed
only upon demand of a majority vote of
the precinct club membership of any
county, ratfied by a rote of the precinct
club membership of the State; and tin
national platform can b 6 changed ontf
upon demand of a majority vote of
precinct club membership of any Sta*B
ratified by a majority vote of the P r(, B
ciuct club membership of the nation■
13. No salaried official shall be
a member of any committee of the
pie’s party organization, and any
ber of such committee elected to a
aried office shall be deemed to ha ■
vacated his position on such commit^*
14. All People’s party condidatesf®
office and members of People’s
committees shall at all times be subrß
to the principles of the imperative
date and may be recalled by a majcf-B
vote of the league membership of B
constituency. 1
Respectfully submitted, K
John O’ZABEL, Chairffl* 1 1
11. B. FAY, M. D., I
Adopted in national convention, K
cinnati, 0., Sept. 6th, 1898. I
B a|l§i|ll
If woman were as particular as 111 R
about the company, they k® e P I
would be less marriages. I
A single fact outweighs a tho *"■
claims.
Now is the time to do and not to I
row. B
Be true to your friends and i O3 ■
your enemies. B
Where a man knows he U J
knows more than some peoP‘ e p
credit for. I