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IMijg Official Organ Ordinary. OFFICIAL OKU AN OF WINDER. PUBLISHED KVKKY THUKBPAY EVENIN'* 'JEFFEKSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court House P, W. Quattlobaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription Rates* (Kvk Yeah, - - *IOO A. G. LAMAR, Editor and Publisher. 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