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THURSDAY. AUGUST 2*. 1899.
The Kentucky Populist in state con
volition have approved the Cincinnati
Convention work, indorsed Barker and
D innclly for proidout and v ; ce presideu t
and put a full state ticket inthefidd.
Populism is on a boom everywhere and
things are getting hotter and hotter for
the two old parties.
Mr. Wharton Barker, president can
i<late of the populist party, and Mr, Joe
Parker, secretary of the national Re
form Press Association, were in Atlan
ta last Tuesday. With a thoronglit organ
ization of our forcos, the electoral vote
next year of Georgia will go by a largo
majority for Mr. Birkor. lie vriil be
tbs brainest and best man in the field
and if the people will get to thinking
for thomselves an 1 studying the situa
tion as true men should, he will "be the
next president of the United States. His
election will mean liberty and prospori
tv for the country at large and liis de
feat the opposite,
Daniel Webster a Populist
In 1838 Daniel Webster in the United
States Senate, advocated the very same
propositions on the money question as
now advocated by the Populist party.
Wo submit, therefore, tl at Mr. Web
ster, who was ouo of the greatest states
men this country lias ever produced,
and a recoguizod patriot by all intelli
gent men of today, was a populDt cr
the populist party is the only party now
in oxistanco advocating and endorsing
the principles of Webster and Calhoun.
It is a leading principle of populism
that all the money of the country be
issued by the government direct to the
people as oppossed to individuals regu
lating it. Mr. Webster, it will be ob
served, fully agreed with pepulist on
this important question. If he were
liviug at the present time he would
undoubtedly not he in accord with the
democratic party of to day, but on this
issue, at least, Webster would be a con
sistent Populist. But we quote his
own lauguage so that the wayfaring
man, though a fool, need not be at a
loss to know how ho stood on the mon
ey question:
•But, air, I have insisted that govern
rnout is bound to protect and regulate
the means of commerce, to see that
there is a sound ourrency for the use of
the people. The honorable gentleman
asks, what, then, is the limit? Must
Congress also furnish all means of com
merce? Must it furnish weights, scales
and steelyards? Most undoubtedly sir, it
must regulate weights and measures,
and it does so. But the answer to the
general question is very obvious. Gov
ernment must furnish all that which
none bat government can furnish Gov
ernment must do that for individuals
they cannot do for themselves. That is
the very endof government. Why else
have government? Can individuals
regulate money? The distinction is as
broad and plain as the Pennsylvania
avenne.
“They oannot make a ourrency, they
cannot individually decide what shall
be the money of the country. That
everybody knows is one of the preroga
tives, and one of the dnties of govern
ment; and a duty whioh, I think, we
are most unwisely and improperly neg
lecting. We may as well leave the peo
ple to make war and to make peace,
each one for himself, as to leave to indi
viduals the regulation of commerce and
ourrency.”
Every woman has an idea that she
saves her husband a lot of money be
ause she is such a good manager.
The Walton News and
Rambler Reviewed
Mh. Editor: la the last issue of the
Walton News we notice an editorial on
oue of your correspondents —‘ Rimb
ler,” which is indeed amusing to emi
nafce from oue grounded in the faith of
“whatis to be will be.” The News
says all the populist (except Chancellor
Hill) have gone back to the democracy
and yet like that old mother of liars,
the Constitution it keepson whining and
growling about the few “disappointed
office seekers,” still out of the old
democratic liu’k. If the populist party
is dead why in the name of common
deceusy don’t these little 2x4 democrat
ic, editors let it rest in peace. The
populist parry is “not a factor” and yet
every issue of these deraocra'ic sheets
tell us that if the democratic national
o invention don’t adopt the Chicago
platform and u minute the immacu
late(?j Bryan that the populist will
gain thousands of votes in the south
and west —Bryan says this himself, aud
yet we are dead, too dead to be a factor
in politics.
Now, it is real funny to hear this ed
itor, who “knows that all things must
come as they are ordaiued” talking
abour calamity howolers, and in the
next column declaring the perfection of
Bryan who is to relieve the “suffering,
struggling, down-trodden American
men and women. ” Whole kicking in
this “land o’ the free” about being
“down trodden?” Who could couceive
of a “suffering” humanity undir our
blessed democratic rule? Surely, no
one save he whose soul is embittered
by partisan hatred to such an extent
that he refuses to look out over the
country and see happiness and prosper
ity on every brerzs and contentment
and ease in every home.
Listen again at his grumblings. In
speaking of “Rambler” we quote his
words:
“Ho grossly insinuates that our mo
tives for encouraging the movement to
set on foot “Farmers Institutes” are
selfi-h, and designed to bull doze the
farmer. This part of his article is es
pecially in keeping with th> teachings
of Populist- leaders. When the farmers
of a country come together in a critical
time like this to discuss affairs pertain
ing to their welfare, the man who de
ter them is Bn enemy to the farmer ’ ’
Hew soon, how soon we forget Oul y
a few years ago and the farmers were
closely organ : z>d for their mutual ben
efifc and protection and then whose
voice was it raised to destroy that or
ganization? These same little fellows
w'ho see so much hope in the Institutes
in “this crisis ” “O. wad some Pow’r
the giftie gie us, to oursd’s as others
see us.”
Then again, for one who stands as
the mouth piece of that party of prom
ise and prosperity, to be proclaiming
this a “crisis” with the farmer is indeed
laughable to one who is no longer bound
by the chains of the party collar. This
a "crisis” indeel! He must miscalcu
late the tillers of the soil whose cribs
are bursting with the harvest and
whose larders are overflowing with fat.
Surely these be the good times spoken of
by the old party prophets four and six
years ago, when "prosperity should be
damped down at every man’s door, and
the hard times howlers should be heard
no more.”
The News must indeed mistake the
ohj >ct of these Institutes. They must
be organized for the purpose of giving
the farmer an opportunity to spend
his surplus earuings and enjoy for a
siasou the "fat of the land.’’
No, no, we wouldn’t for an instant
tbiuk that the Institute was organized
for the pnrpose of foroing the farmer
to accept the round bale. It is true
Mr. Jordan, the head of the Institutes
advocates it in his speeches, and the
Walton News publishes every week
long articles advocating the American
tonnd bale system, but of this we
thought nothing nuless perhaps Mr.
Jordan had his expense paid by the
round bale people and the News like
many of its other opinions received so
much per line. Of course, these Insti
tutes will stay out of politics. They
are only studying how to dispose of the
farmer’s surplus and have a good time
and if their president should happen to
want to ooonpy the governor’s chair a
few years henoe it would not, of course,
be running the institute into politics.
lufaot, there aiut no politics, nothing
but the democratic party and they are
all offioe-tios. Of course, the News is
au “appendage” to this party and the
public arc use to it with its opinions
coming from the various sources which
find expression in its colamas fro n the
American round-lap company down to
the little editor himself.
One Who Is Not.
And Still We Are Dead.
The New Leader, of Weatherford,
Texas, has the following:
Bryan lately declared in Indianapo
lis, while in consultation with demo
cratic leaders, that, the abandonment
of free silver by his party would cost it
thousands of votes which would go to
the populists in Ohio, Kentucky, Illi
nois. Wisconsin aud many of the south
era states, aud that it would make
doubtful many states that he regards
as surely democratic with silver the
paramount issue. It would seem from
that, that free silver is more important
to keep populism from coming to the
front than as a measure of government
al policy. Weil informed populists are
not surprised at this as they have al
ways known that the democrats took up
free silver in or lor to save the south
and west from the people’s party. Now
if they hold to it at all, it wi 1 be for the
same purpose.
And still the lictle Democratic editors
and politicians say the Populist party ia
dead!
In a recent ad Iress to the people, the
New York democrats declare themselves
in favor of governmental ownership of
all municipal and public tranchies.
This does not look much like populism
was dead does it?
Favoritism.
During the year 1899, says the Non
conformist, eleven railroads went into
the hands of receivers and forty-five
were returned to their owners. Some
years ago all these forty five roads
through missmanagement and extrava
gance became bankrupt an and was turned
over to the united States Government.
That government managed the roads
economically, improved them, paid the
debts and handed back the property in
first class conditions to its stockholders.
And there are people who say it
wouldn’t do at all to allow the govern
ment to own and run the railroads.
While the government was kindly nurs
ing the sick property of the corporations
and bringing it back to ragged health,
ten thousand farmers in Nebrrska be
came bankrupt, their property was sold
by the sheriff and their wives and child
ren were left homeless and desolate.
No kindly government took possession
of their property, ran it for their benefit
and when good times came gaveit back
to them improved au l out o' debt. To
the rich corporations, this government
of ours is a loving father, but to the
common people it ir the most savage of
stepmothers.
Government Lai I roads.
Here is what a railroad man says
about the future of railroading in this
country. Paul Mortou, V.ce president
of the Santa Fe and one of the most
prominent of railway officials in the
country says;
"One of three things, it seems to me,
is bouu I to come in the transportation
business of the country. L°galized
pooling, concentration of ownership or
government control.
"Oue fifth of the wealth of thiscoun
try is invested in railroad securities,
and people owning them should be pro
tected. Unrestrained competition
would in time destroy the value of these
securities, and disaster in all other lines
of industry would certainly follow,”
"There are a great many people in
this country who are violently opposed
to trusts or monopolies of any kind, and
yet they favor unrestricted competition
without realizing that the natural re
sult of such competition is concentra
tion.
“lf the railroads of the country are to
fight each other to a finish the natural
outcome will be, in time one ownership
of all the railroads by a few people.
Personally I do not think that this
would be a great calamity, but 75 per
oent of the people of the country would
most vigorously protest anything of the
kind.
•‘Governmental control or ownership
of railroads will probably not be at
tempted nor advocated until the public
realizes that unrestricted competition
has forced the railroads of the country
into a few hands, and then there will be
a great demand to achieve it-, notwith
standing the fact the people themselves
will be to blame for the concentration
of power and proprietorship in the
transportation facilities of the country. ”
Nearly all the great railroad men of
thd country see and admit that govern
ment ownership is coming. President
Smith, of the L. & N., takes very much
the same position as Mr, Morton, and
declares that between the policies of
res'rictive legislation, commission hum
bugs and demagogery, and government
owenship outright, that he prefers the
latter. “The government” he says,
"has a right to run and operate a rail
road, and if it see fit, at cost or less than
cost; bat it has no right to compel my
road to run trains and carry freight at
less than cost.” Every clear thinker
and studeDt of public affairs must ad
mit that President Smith’s position is
correct.—Georgia Tribune.
Old Party Deceptions.
Anti-trust legislation on thelines here
tofore pursued by congress and by our
state legislature and as advocated by
the leaders of both the democratic and
republican parties, has in every instance
proved a first class fraud, and has tended
more to augment the number and power
of trusts than to destroy them
Trusts and capitalistic combines are
simp y the substitution of co-operation
among the organized to escipe the evils
of cutthroat competition, and they are
destined to grow in numbers and in pow
er, till competition is completely destroy
ed in every department of human in
dustry that is capable of being monopo
lized. As well undertake to abate
drouths and destroy cyclones by de
claiming against them as to destroy
trusts capitalistic combines by repres
sive legislation. It does appear to the
Mercury that the ordeal the people have
passed through since 1870 ought to rivet
this conviction in the minds of the skep
tical .
Ten years ago when the peoples’ par
ty advocates warned the people that pres
ent conditions would soon be upon them,
and suggested that government owner
ship —national, state or municipal—of
all industries capable of being monopo
liz >d by the few, as the only escape from
destructive monied combines, they were
denounced by every influential leader of
both old parties and tour fifths of their
followers’ as wild dreamers, stirrers up
of strife, public enemies, flannel mouth
ed anarchists etc.
A few years ago the universal hui
andciy of those old party leaiers and
their followers was “competition will
cure all the ills the people now endure
or will endure.” Now no one can be
found who openly advocates such rot,
because the acts of capitalistic organi
zitions, exploded the fallacy and their
henchmen dire not antagonize them.
i
The populists never did advocate
"competition” as a remedy but they are
going right along advocating the remedy
against trusts —government ownership
—a proposition no intelligent man dare
openly oppose.
Populists have therefore accomplished
more in tan years than was ever accom
plished by any other reform political
party in half a century, and if they will
continue to push the discussion of their
principles among the poople, they will
soon see the reforms they advocate
crystal!zed into law. Now is the time
to pnsh populist principles to the front.
The masses are thirsting for knowledge
of remedy for these ills.—Mercury.
The Court.
The New York Journal gives the fol
lowing editorial view of such decisions:
A "Judge” Robinson, of the Connect
icut superior coart, decides that a labor
er’s life has merely a purely nominal
value —3ay TEN DOLLARS.
The man who hands down this deci
sion is neither insane nor wilfully vi
cious. He is merely one of those "jud
ges” who are so rapidly bringing the
courts into disrepute.
Their coudnct is the greatest menance
to the peace aud welfare of the country.
Public security and tranquility are based
on public confidence in public justice.
Faith in the courts has been a feature
of American life since the nation’s life
began.
How long will that faith last in the
face of snch ‘ judges?’ ’
One declares that a child’s life is
worth one dollar because the child’s
death frees the parents from expense.
Shall we have another "judge” to say
that a rai’road which kills a child is en
titled to sue the parents and recover
half the money saved through the child’s
daeth?
This Robinson judge declares that a
laborer killed instantly felt uo pain, and
therefore only TEN DOLLARS is
enough damages for the railroad to pay
his relatives.
Will he decide how much torture the
road may inflict ou a man iu killing him
—say for S2O?
The judges who favor grvernment by
injnnction, who give cowards power to
hire Puikerton men; the judges who as-
Isess the value of a man’s lire according
to that man’s fortune, are publio dan
gers and public enemies
John D. Kelley, a "tramp "
a young woman from death W )
was caught in a guard rail at \ f ° ? " f °°*
Ky. He got the woman clear
track but the locomotive caught V
drew him under and ground
pieces. In the pocket of his raM !? -
was found a "hand-out” l ur , ch taco l
in a paper. He was given hn?
burial. Money does not make th
as so many seem to beli-ve n maB >
Nation. '°ming
To The “Pops” of J ackson
County.
Stand by the helm and shout w
tie cry; ttl9 bat.
Hold high the colors the t our father?
And every vandalistic schema defv
Get ready brother shoulder up your
Bow to monopoly and greed no more
Cast off t>e manacles that hold theefut
And get on board tho’ bill OWs ro JJ
thee roar; u
Stand by the helm tho’shattered bythi
t) 1 *aS t.
No longer be confounded by the work
Of single standard sauce and tariff Uo J
Arise, assert thyself the common herds’
The masters of thy country and tu
home.
Go wash thyself of all thy selfishness'
Confess thy faults before the God on
high,
Then bow before a throne of peace and
bless
The day when eccentricity shall db.
Let only democrats, knaves and fools
The laws of truth and equal rights dls
ride,
Let them not make of you the willini
tools
To crush the cause for which our fathers
died.
Let only gluttony propose to buy
The liberty for which our fathers bled;
Stand by an honest conscience, by it die,
Tho’ scarce your foo l aud clothes and
straw your bed.
Let only filthy hounds return and drink
The slop made stale by democratic puke,
And wallow in the mud upon the brink
Of hell, and gu'p their Jacksonistic
duke.
Let only whelps of low degree sneak
round
And wag their tails aud liok their mas
ters’ hanks,
So strong our patriotic ranks are bound.
That Hercules could neverbreak the
bands.
As long as atheists, and infidels and
skunks
Control the state ’twill ever burn and
stink;
And let the people down below the
Monks,
Without the right to cast a vote or think.
As long as Satan, Moloch, Beelzebub,
Belial,
Are ruling factors in this government,
The bottomless pit will yawn the fiends
will smile
And shout democracy till hell is rent.
Go back to Buuker Hill, ye men of God,
Behold your fathers as they bled audd'.ed
Put on their shield* take up the sword
and rod,
Strike boldly for the rights you are de
nied.
The fight is on and Satan’s blustering
force .
Is scourging all the land with deeds ot
hell—
With piercing shrieks that would make
chaos hoarse,
With pulls that sound afar our country s
knell.
Rise, brother, rise, in holy horror rise!
Unfurl thy sail for thou must stem the
flood;
The tears of strong aversion dim my eyes
When perjury tramples on my fathers
blood.
Tear down, lay waste anarchy’s
dome.
And on the ruins rear pleasant cotta o
spires;
For liberty, posterity and home,
Stoop down and raise thy country from
the mires.
How canst thou stand aloof when in
thy face,
Is flung defiance from behind the throne,
Stand up, resent it or deny thy rie,
And quit thy country an ignoble dron
There would not be a wolf in all the
laud.
Were there no sheep to satisfy then rag >
Arise, and take thy brother by the ha a,
Stop haunting varmits round thy he
age.
Shear off thy wool, deny thyself a c *
Stop hanging blooiy skins around J
camp f - *n
When confidence ’tween man ana
is broke, . inl
Ye’ll see the spectre of some W KIBB
scamp,
A spectre gaunt, with demon ey OS aQ^
ci aWß
A sight most melancholy to
On brazen pinions over ride the law
To satisfy his appetite for gold.
Stand by the cause of right, tho' bearii*
fall, . ,
Be not intemidated by the m
But let them know the democratic f
Is loosed from those repented of t
sins. Fuzzy Peacbebt°- •
The way some husbands talk to th#F
wives is positively awful and the w
some wives talk to their has bauds
awfully positive. _.. .. ... --