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Editor and Publisher.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 17. 1899.
The people con'd be free if they would
only determine to be. ■**
Some towns die for the want of pro
gressive and enterprising men.
Fusion is becoming obnoxious to all
classes of people but the office seek
er.
The Democratic party never origi
nates new issues for the good of the peo
ple.
Both old parties protend to oppose
trusts, but did you ever know of either
of them doing anything to* prevent
them?
It doesn't look much like Populism is
dead with two thousand reform papers
being published at the present time in
the United States.
From the present outlook it doesn’t
seem that the democratic party was
very sincere in its protestations of reform
in the last campaign.
Now is the time to organiza clubs.
Oat your district together and organize
and don’t wait for someone to coma in
and organize it for yon.
The peoples party platform appeals
to the common sense of business men
who have the sense and patriotism to
study and comprehend its intent.
So many men are vain enough to
think that others cannot see them as
they really are. There are more per
sons who can peer through the veil and
see yonr real image than you imagine.
An exchange truthfully says; “The
business man who does not constantly
use every legitimate means to attract
the people to his place to trade, seldom
retires to spend his old age in luxury.”
The business man must keep his busi
ness continually before the people by
advertising it.
The Mouroe News and Messenger
Editor bad anotner severe attack of
colic of the brain this week, and to aid
his digestion and remove the corns be
tween his toes wrote down to Macon for
a soothing prescription. We are glad
to know it partially restored his equili
brium. It is a great pity editor Up-
Shaw can’t attend the University of
Georgia five or six yeais more.
Good Luck.
J. J. Streeter, editor and publisher
of The Vineland Independent, New
Jersey, a poor man, has been made
wealthy by the will of Mrs. Caroline F.
Dexter. All of her large foitone of sev
eral hundred thousand dollars is left to
•
Mr. Streeter witn the exosption of
$1,400. Mr. Streeter is a state populist
organizer and his paper is the offioial
organ of the populists in New Jersey.
We would not objeot to running up on
the same good luck, and The Econo*
msT congratulates Editor Streeter and
trusts he will use this fortune to pro •
mulgate populist doctrine and thereby
be of great servioe to humanity.
The right to possess flows from the
right to live. All therefore that is in
dispensable to one’s existence belongs
to all, and nothing in superfluity be •
longs legitimately to anyone individual
while others are in need of necessities.”
*—Marat of the French Revolution.
Destruction of Tember.
President Cleveland and his “forestry
commission” were abated for iustitut
ing the polioy of forest reservations,
but the importance of this action is now
admitted and recogniz id by every one
who Is opposed to the wanton destruc
tion of our great forest areas. It is very
unfortunate for the south that laws
have not been enacted to check the reck
less catting down and destroying of the
original forest. There is no doubt bat
that this destruction has had a groat
deal to do with the visitation of the se
vere droughts now so cmmon. Ihts
a question that ought to be agitated and
seriously considered by Statesmen.
The Winder Democrat.
The first issue of the Winder Demo
crat has been received, with Mr. E. S.
Whitehead as editor. It is a four-page
seven-column paper, and we trust Broth
er Whitehead may succeed in the news
papers field.
Winder is largo enough and big
enough to support two papers and per
haps three, il there should be another
who would like te locate here and The
Economist welcomes Mr. Whitehead
and the Winder Democrat to our grow
ing little city.
A Plutocratic Fraud.
Some people say that a newspaper
ought never to discuss politics but de
vote its columns to news items and the
development of the section iu which it
is located. Especially is this true of
persons who differ with you politically.
They are opposed to any education or
agitation on political lines, when any
man of common sense ought to know
their can be no permanent development
of the towns and country at large until
the people are educated up to that poli
tical standard which makes men see the
necessity of standing by great principles
rather than by party, and voting for
men who will enact just laws. The
Southern Mercury has the following
sensible paragraph on this same line;
The sorriest thing iu existance is the
so-called newspaper that avoids the dis
cussion of politics and devotes its col
umns to what it is pleased to call the
develonement of its ‘ ‘town and county.”
How in the name of common sense can
any town or county be developed with
out securing a better industrial system?
How can industry and economy be pro
moted without just laws? How can
just laws be secured without educating
the people to the necessity of them—
the importance of voting for the men
who will secure their enactment? De
velopment without politics is a plutoc
ratic fraud.
Random Shots From
Rambler.
Rambling around down in cut Off
and other districts in Walton county I
decided to enquire into the truthfulness
of the statement recently made by the
editor of the News ada Messenger to
the effect that all the reprutable reli
able men in the popnlist party had
gone back and were now good demo
crats. I have talked with Uncle Tru
man Smith, Samuel H. Harrison, Judge
H.G. Perkins, Jonn W. Bell, Chas.
T. Mathews, Juo A. C. Thompsson,
M. V. Treadwell, R L. Manning,
Dr* J. J. Bridges, J. 6. Smith, C L.
Sims, A. T. Harrison, W. J. Ross, Geo.
N, Perkins, and a number of other citi
aens who assue me that there is no truth
iu Upshaw’s statement so far as they
are concerned and they fnrther state
that there is not a man in this entire
section who has any notion going baok.
If the editor of the Messenger oau get
any comfort from abusing these good
men and calling them erratio cranks, he
is welcome to it. He can just ap
ply one of Aesops fables to himself
again
Speaking of the News-Messenger edi
tor reminds me of the little coloqay be.
tween him and Lamar of The Econo
mist.
Upshaws attack wa9 full of bitter
spleen and unwarranted abase of many
of the best men in the country while
Lamar’s rejoinder was as mild as the
zephyrs of a may morning, true as gos
pel—in fact, a complete wiping oat of
his precocious antagonist without tear
ing even a greasy spot.
Had Upshaw bjen a Journalist wor
thy his calling, he would have given the
facts to his readers by given Mr. Hill’s
own words in the convention of 1896
and again his own language in his letter
declining the nomination for supreme
courts in 1898. But like all others of
the old party press, the truth is what he
don’t want his people to have.
One of the most amnsing humbugs of
modern times is the horde of profession
al theoretical farmers now infesting
the state, organising Farmers “Insti
toots ”
The papers are whooping up the said
“institooters” and giving glowing ac
counts of “tremendous crowds of farm
ers” where only a small number at
tend.
These “institooters" are emissarises
of the dear old party who have as their
sole object the division of the farmers
minds from the shamefull record of the
democratic party dosing them on the an
ti trust soup of the bosses.
Some of the most powerful trusts on
earth were formed under democratic ad
ministrations and Chairman Jones of
the National democratic Ex. Com. is
“one of the boys” in the American Cot
ton Cos. trust i hat heinous fraud now try
ing to force the South into the use of the
round lap baling system.
Mark my prediction. Just as long as
the town and city farmers, who farm
not, can use the “institoots” for their
own selfish ends, it will flourish like a
green bay tree but when they fail to
exercise that control, the “inatitoot” will
“toot” no more.
The Fool Hopes.
Southern Mfrcury.
A prominent Democratic pie eater said
to us this week: “Talk about the peo
ple going to be enslaved! They are ab
ject slaves already, bnt they haven’t
sense enough to know it. They never
will find it out until their children cry
for bread six months in the year. You
Pops can go on preaching solid facts to
them till doomsday and we will destroy
the efforts of your facts by simply de
claring the Populist leaders are play
ing into the hands of the Republi
cans.
"Yon Pops only amuse ns by your
continual exposure of onrfiaudsaud pe
culations. You are casting yonr pearls
before swine. We alone estimate them
at their true value. We have ceased to
even deny that we rob the people. Af
ter yon have exposed our hypocrisy and
robberies, we whip onr fellows into line
by asserting that you Pops are socialists
(of course they don’t know what that
means) and flannel mouthed calamity
howlers; that you are trying to destroy
the grand old Democratic party, the
only friend the Southern people ever
had.
“A few years age we condescended to
hold joint debates with the Pop 9. We
found it to be a losing game . Onr fol
lowers could not stand the elevation!
Some of them have become too big for
their breeches. We changed our tactics
and we find it much easier to whip our
followers into line than to argue with
them. Experience has taught us that a
little whisky, cash and promises, accom
panied by an occasional application of
the party lash, is more effective than
any argument.
“What astonishes us most is that you
Pop leaders haven’t learned that yon
can’t elevate such cattle by education;
that you haven’t learned that a major
ity of the farmers and wagearners pre.
fer slavery with U 9 to liberty and pros
perity with yon; that even if they desir
ed to be free they haven’t manhood
enough to rebel agaiust us. We esti
mate such chattels at their true valae;
they are legitimate victims, born on par
pose to sweat and toil, that we may en
joy the fruits thereof, and we are doing
it to the queen’s taste.
' Fight trust? Not much! Yon don’t
sorely believe that we are going to kill
the goose that lays sach golden eggs, do
you? Of coarse we permit them to tax ten
dollars oat of the people for every dollar
they furnish us for campaign purposes,
Trusts have seuse; they are not in busi
ness for their health; they demand a
quid pro quo for every dollar, and why
should we refuse their demands, since
their money bays as fat offloes and the
people are willing to make their child
ren and wire's dig it oat of four cent cot
ton. We are not foolish enough to re
fuse to ride when people are willing and
ready saddled and we booted and sad •
died.
“Fight trusts, indeed! No, sir! They
are our most useful allies. They not on
ly furnish os liberal campaign funds,
bat they give our leading lawyers prince
ly salaries. They employ one or more
lawyers in every town, and these law
yers always see to it that we are kept in
offloe and yon Pops are kept oat. Y es,
trusts know which side of their bread is
buttered, and so do we; but the fool peo
ple dont, and why should we care as long
as they are willing to reduce themselves
and families to an equality with ne
groes and elevate us to that of prin
ces?”
Then he pulled down the corner of
his eye at ns and went his way rejoic
ing.
Abandons The Democra
tic Party.
I am 55 years old, born and raised in
the South, was a confederate sodier the
last fourteen months of the war. I
have been driven by the following rea
sons to quit the Democratic party and
to join the People’s Party.
From careful investigation I have
learned that the financial and social con
dition of every country is the result of
the laws of the country, and that the
only way to change the laws that pro
duced them.
When I began voting the Democratic
ticket cotton was worth 20 cents per
pound, land was worth $5 per acre, tax
es 45 cents on the $lOO. At that time
my wife stayed in the house doing
house work and sewing for the family,
our children were in school eight months
in the year.
I harvested seven bales of cotton, had
money in my pccket after my debts and
taxes were paid, I bought and paid for
200 acres of land and improved it from
1876 to 1883; there were then no tramps
in the country. Everybody was
properous and independent and any
farmer could borrow all the money
he needed from his neighbor farm
er.
Oar Democratic government wa9 then
the pride of every citizen because it was
honestly and economically administer
ed. Every good man in my section was
then a Democrat and proud of it. Now,
howtver, things have wonderfully
changed. Cotton is worth from 3to 5
cents per pound, land is worth S2O per
acre, taxes are SI.OO on the SIOOO. My
wife i3 compelled to lobor in the fields,
eight months out of every year, our
children are not iu school beoause we
are too poor to nay their way, or spare
them from the field. They are forced to
work (girls and boys) ten months in
the year to procure the commonest food
and clothing.
Free schools no longer do U3 or onr
children any good. Though 1 make now
twenty-one bales of cotton each year I
can’t pay my debts and taxes, let alone
have money in my pocket. My 200 acres
of land is rapidly wearing out, the im
provements are becomming dilapidated,
and lam uuable to rebuild them; the
country is full of tramps begging bread.
None of my farmer neighbors are pros
perous; three fourths of those who till
the earth are tenants or hired men, and
I see no hopes for better times. I am
therefore very unhappy, and my love
for my wife and children drives me to
leave the party that has b r ought each
calamities on my family and coun
try.
Several of my Democratic neighbors,
especially the office-holders and their
kinfolks, say lam mistaken, that the
government does not fix the financial
condition of the people. I have conclud
ed to make a clean breast of the whole
business and ask you to publish this
and your opinion as to the correctness
or falsity of my position. &od knows
that I would not intentionally wrong
those in office or these that have run
the government so long in Texas. I did
not quit because I loved the grand old
party less, but because I loved my fam
ily more. Send me a few copies of the
Mercury and I will try to get np a
club.
John Y. Schmidt
Sohiller, Texas.
Our friend is right as to the laws of
a country fixing the social and financial
condition of its people. Were it not so,
it would make no difference what kind
of a government people lived under. If
our friend’s position is not correct our
forefathers made a great mistake in re
belling against the tyranny of the
English government In short our friend
Schmidt’s position is oorreot or the great
est and wisest men of all ages were
fools.
We commend Mr schmldt for his
oonrse. He could not have done other
wise and retained his self-respect. Just
as soon as a majority of Texas voters do
as Mr. Schmidt has done Texans will
again enjoy economical and just gov
ernment and not one hour before. The
writer has had pretty much the same
experience that Mr. Schmidt recites
and presumes thousands of other peo
ple have had the same..—The Southern
Mercury.
Overproduction?'''
There is an overproduction of „
An overproduction of corn C ° tton .
Too much of everythin' i*
To many people born gr ° Wn -
A surplus yield of wheai and k
Of potatoes, oats aim rye * breidl
Hog and hominy, ham and e gl > 9
And home-made pumpkin pf
Too much to eat, too much to Weir
And cattle on too munv hill. '
Too many agricultural tool* ’
Too many plows aud drill's-
There’s a surplus now of clothe
Of every grade and kind *
Too many books and paper’s
Too much of thought and mini
Too many men to do the work
100 many women to weep, ’
More daylight than the people
Too much night for sleep P 9ed '
Of Benedicts a surplus,
An oversupplv of wives
Too many buds aud blossoms
More bees than there are hiVets
More sunshine and more shadow
Thau is need for the dell-
An (verproduction of gravestone,
More coffins than will se'l- 8 '
An overproduction of ignorance
A sight too many schools
Too many poor, too many rich
And lots too many fools.
-Baltimore Americu|
Keep Your Water p urfi
About fifty thousand persons die at
nually in the United States from r.
phe id fever, and more than ten time*
this number are sick with this disease,
according to Dr. V. C. Vaughn, of MiJ
igau. It behooves the farmer, the coo.
munity, the city, to guard well its pat),
lie water supply and reservoirs, and
during warm weather to have the’same
frequently inspected.
To those who value their health ami
that of their family; to those who would
have strong and thrifty animals; to
those who desire pure milk and first
class butter, it is of primary important
that their water supply should be from
a source beyond suspicion, aud chat
this source should be carefully guarded
against pollution.
The statistics of boards of health de
monstrate that the maximum of sickness
and the minimum of water are coinci
dent in September and October. Usual
iv a low stage of water represents a co:.
centrated state of contamination, hence
typhoid fever out-breaks that are trace
able almost directly to the drinking
water and its source of supplj during
those months.
There is good reason to suspect the
water of a well whenever a vault is sit
uated within a hundred feet of it, par
ticularly if the soil is porous. In num
erous instances fluids from excreta haw
leached into wells from great distances.
Dangerously contaminated water may
be, and is often found to be, clear and
colorless and to have no bad taste. —Es
change.
I saw once, lying side by side in a
great workshop, two heads made onto!
metal. The one was perfect; all the
features of a noble, manly face came
out clear and distinct in their lines of
strength and beauty; iu the other scarc
ely a single feature could be recognized;
it was all marred and spoiled. "Tb ß
metal had been let grow a little too cold,
sir,’’ said the mm who was showing
to me. I could not help thinking ho*
true that was of many a form or ore prec
ious than metal. Many a young sou
that might be stamped with the i®*f*
and superscription of the King,
warm with the love and glow of ear ?
youth, is allowed to grow too cold, an
the writing is blnrred|and the im’? a !
marred.—Canon Teigmonth Shore.
Wins The Women.
The women are becoming deeply u
terested in the success of popol' 3 ®
They are attending our meetings, ®**
ing our barbecues a success and a* Bl * l
iug in our gleeclub9. This mow
means such for them. It means i Q P ai
trial emancipation for men and worn 8 ®
It means an opportunity for
and a chance to enjoy some of the c<>
foils and some of the luxuries o 1
Their motive co-operation will w
the bay when party suooess shall
cured. They generally make a BIO
of all their undertakings. The e
portion of creation can always e
pended on to do the right thing
right time. Have you ever noti
ohiokens when a hawk is
hovering over the barn-yard? T 0
ter is generally very good in disco*
the presents of the hawk, but the *'
usefulness ends. He usually
about two squawks and under t e
he goes. Not so with the b eU
faces the danger and protects her ‘
ones even with her life, if aeCti \g rt
The women are taking hold of tlal ' j,
] ment, and they will greatly ass
| making it a suooce sa. — Search ■ g