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THURSDA /. AUGUST 81. 1899.
Read aud think a little and your eyes
will be opened.
It is a difficult matter to convince one
of his wrong who lets prtjudice control
him.
Editor McLean, of Washington city,
will be nominated by the democrats this
rear for governor of Ohio.
Populist are organizing referendum
clubs all over the country. If your dis
trict has not already organized get to
gether and form a club at once. Get
m shape for the coming campaign.
Bvker and Donnelly, the Populist can
didates for President and vice president
are growing in strength and favor with
the people every day. This will be the
only ticket in the campaign that will
stand for manhood and honest govern
ment as against a money oligarchy, cor
cnption aud slaveiy of the people. Is it
not strange that any patriot would think
for a moment of opposing these men?
Populists should ever remember that
they arc advocating principles that will
live as long as there is any manhood
and love for liberty in the hearts of the
people. This should inspire you to
greater enthusiasm and stronger deter
mination to stand true to your convic
tions and fight on for the right. Never
sacrifice truth for error because error is
in the ascendency. None but cowards
would think cf doing this.
The democrats of Clarke county are
having a lively scrap in the election of
a member to the legislature to fill the
unexpired term caused bj’ the death of
Mr. Erwin. Dr. Carlton and Mr. Bur
nett are the candidates. If wo were a
democrat and lived in that eounty it
would not take us but a short while to
make our decision. The man who
could lcok at Mr. Burnett two seconds
and then vote for him in preference to
Dr. Carlton has abeautiful(?) conception
of things in general.
Populist Win.
At last the oontest in Coffee county
has been decided in favor of the Popu
list candidates. This contest has been
going on since the election in October.
nearly one year ago. The Popu
lists elected their ticket by a good ma
jority and the democrats, as usual, con
tested. Justice has at last been done
and all of the offices of that oounty will
be filled by Populists.
Populist Day at State
Fair.
The Populist of Georgia will hare a
special day during the State fair and a
large number of our party will attend
on that day aud take part in the special
exeroises arranged for that day. The
management of the fair has set aside
Oct. 27th as the day for the great Popu
list gathering. Hon. Iguatius Donnelly,
our candidate for vice president and one
of the finest orators on the American
oontinent, will be the leading speaker of
the day. Other prominent Populist
speakers will be present and it will be
one of the biggest days of the fair. Ev
ery one who can should go to Atlanta
on October 27th and hear the powerful
■peaches that will be delivered in behalf
of Populist principles.
The People to Blame.
The majority of the public men of to
day are corrupt and have very little re
gard for the welfare of the masses. Pol
itios are more corrupt and degrading
than ever known iu the history of our
country. Congressman and legislators
sellout and throw all their influence aud
give their vote to every class of legisla
tion that benefits and enriches the favor
ed few to tliedetriment and impoverish
ment of the many. This is a sad state
of affairs and one that should demand
more serious consideration from the peo
ple at large than it does. We do not
make the broad charge that all officials
are corrupt but that the large majority
of them are. The people, however, are
to blame for this state of affairs. If con
gressmen aud legislators have sold out,
it is because the plain people and the
people who claim to be Christians have
elected corrupt men to fill these positions
If they have enacted law's to oppress la-
bor, laws to enable trust and monopolists
to rob the masses of their just earnings,
it is because the masses of the people
have followed party rather than princi
ple and for the sake of party supremacy
have elected congressmen and legisla
tors who were not true to the interest
of the people. For the sake of party,
men who are regarded good and moral
men have voted and worked for candi
dates to fill these responsible positions
that they knew were corrupt and devoid
of all sense of honor and right. Good
men have refused to read unprejudiced
papers and to reason for themselves, and
through party prejudice and bigotry
have allowed party bosses to control
their votes aud do their thinking for
them.
We quote below some wholesome
truths ou this liue from Gov. Roosvelt,
of New York, iu his speech on “Practi
cal Politics and Decent Politics, deliv
ered before a large audience iu the Au
ditorium at Ocean Grove, N. J., a few
days since, If yon are a believer in
‘Decent Politics’ to that extent you will
vote to help get it, you will be benefited
by reading what Governor Roosvelt
says.
It is idle, Col. Roosevelt affirmed, for
the mass of good people to set them
selves apart as not responsible for our
political shortcomings. Iu the end, the
politicans must be exactly what the peo
ple allow them to be. They must rep
resent the people—perhaps the vice, per
haps the virtue, perhaps the indifference
of the people. This does not in the least
excuse politicians who are bad, as Mr.
Roosevelt made haste to say; but we
must keep in mind the fact that every
vicious, or every successful vicious poli
tician, tends to debauch public con
science, to render bad men bolder, and
deoeut men, who are not far sighted,
more cynically indifferent than ever.
If in blaming the politician, we forget
that we are ourselves to blame for permit
ting his existence, we should not fall
into the mistake of thinking that we
shall ever make politios better by hys
terics. “Wild denunciation of all poli
ticians, good or bad, is the very thing
most advantageous to the bad politician,
because sach denunciation, being one
half false, loses all pratical effect, as it
is impossible to separate the true from
the false.” “Remember that your high
est duty to the State is to see that you
do all that within you lies to elevate the
standard of public life, to demand hon
esty and efficiency in your public men ”
“Do not get into the habit of permit
ting things to drift from bad to worse,
with the belief that you can always ap
ply a revolutionary remedy. You
might just as as well expect to conduct
a private business safely on such princi
ples as to get a satisfactory government
by their application in public life. Rev
olutions are sometimes necessary, but
government by revolution is not a suc
cess.
“You have also got to possess courage,
and, finally, yon have got to possess
common sense. Courage, becauce, if
there is one individual who is not enti
tled to exist in a community like ours,
it is the timid good man. You, all of
yon remember how Wesley, when re
monstrated with because his hymn
tunes were considered too joyous, too
fall of fire for religious musio, answer
ed that he did not intend to allow the
devil to monopolize the good tunes.
Just so we should be oareful not to
let the devil’s agents monopolize the
oonrage and the common sense, while
the workers for righteousness confine
themselves strictly to high principles
and good intentions. If good people are
afraid to assert themselves, if they
shrink from the hurly-burly of politics,
if they won’t go to caucuses aud the
polls, and if they confine themselves to
lamenting amount of evil there is scat
tared through the world, they are not
going to make much progress, and the
politician who has neigher fears nor
scruples will always beat those who have
scruples, but who also have fears. To
beat him as he should be beaten, you
have got to marshal the men who are
scrupulous in their morals, who believe
in decency and right, and who, so far
from having any fear, are ready, if need
be, to smite with the sword of the Lord
and of Gideon.”
Random Shots from Ram
bler.
And now comes William Francis Up
shaw, the egotistic editor of the Walton
News and Messenger, the wise acre of
the democratic party, the newspaper
farmer who farms in the shade aud wLh
hia “nice ladies’ geld pens,” who runs
not a furrow save one across the cen er
of his soft sculled craneum to part his
glossy locks, aud pours out his rath be
cause I have shown that he did not tell
the truth when he said all the good men
iu the Populist party had gone back to
the democratio party. No doubt, too,
his temper was irritated by another at
tacK ot the brain colic which was giving
him some serions pain within the walls
of the abdominal cavity. I hardly
know just how to take the poor fel
low.
I repeat my “insinuat’on” that the
editor of the News and Messenger is act
uated by purely personal motives in his
advocacy of farmers’ institutes. He says
had farmer’s institutes been advocated
by populist papers, they would have been
heaven’s own selected mode of salvation
Right there he skins his ignorance
again. No man that is not actually en
gaged in farming, and who does not
learn the needs of the farm by daily ob
servation aud experence, can, with any
degree of consistency, take the respon
sibility of instructing and educating
farmers in the duties partaining to
tbeir own affairs. I would ridicule an
editor of one paper, buddie, just as quick
as I would another for setting himself
up as the councellor and teacher of a
class of men whose business he knows
nothing about. When the farmers of
this country organize farmer’s institutes
and do it strictly upon non partisan
plans, composed of farmers who farm in
the sunshine aud plow their furrows in
the ground instead of through their
hair, across the middle of their heads,
then they will accomplish a much need
ed result.
An editor who owns no farmland and
does no farm work has just about as
much business taking a leading part in
farmer’s institutes as a hay seed farmer
has at the head of a press association.
What would the editor of a uews paper
think of a farmer, who never wrote an
editorial or set a type trying to instruct
the Georgia Press Association as to what
rules and regulations for their August
body should, be adopted?
Let the farmers organize just as the
bankers, merchants, manufacturers, ed
itors, laborers doctors lawyers aud teach
ers are organized.
There has been bnt one year since this
individual was ten years of age that he
has not pulled the bell cord over a mule
or a horse and if the editors who are the
“ohiefest” promoters of the “institoot”
would follow me just one year, they
would learn that there is a difference in
plowing the ground from sun to sun and
plowing a furrow across the center of
their head three tlmesa day.
As to politics, I am not a leader and
never was, but I am a populist and have
just as much right to be a populist as
the editor of the News aud Messenger
has to be a baptist. He has a perfect
right to be a baptist, or a fool if he
grants to be. I have the same right to
be a populist, a methodist or a presby
terian or to entertain whatever religions
or political opinions I see fit to entertain.
I have, now and then, a gray hair to re
mind me that the years are passing rap*
pidly by, and there is not a man in
earth who knows me who can say that
theie is one grain of selfishness abont
me. No man can say that he was ever
denied a favor asked of me, or that I ever
made a pretense of friendship that 1 did
not make lasting and real. Some of my
neighbors are democrats and baptists
like the editor of the News and Messen
ger. I respect them and love them. In
cheerishing opinions contrary to mine,
they are exercising the God—given
right of every American citizen. Good
men of Mr. Upshaws own ohuroh and
party will and are disapproving his state
mente that the populists are all Miss
guided offioe seekers and calamity how
lers. Search the pages of history from
the darkest days of the Roman Inquisi
tion to this good month of August in
the year of Our Lord, 1899, and there is
not a man on record who does not pale
into insignificance as a calamity howler
when compared to William Jennings
Bryan, the only man in the democratic
party who is greater than William
Francis Upshaw.
Again, I repeat that Jame3 K. Jones,
National chairman of the democratic
Ex. Committee _is* “one,.of the boys”
in the American cotton Cos., aud add
that Mr Upshaw, fer a money consider
ation, is advertising, the said A. C. Co’s
busiuess, while he admits that the
Roundlap baling system is detrimental
to the farmers interest. But if the
News and Messenger editor and his
Walton county * Institoot” "toots”
against the said American cotton Cos.,
that settles it that the whole world is
doing like wise. Say, buddie, did you
know that the University of Ga. had a
chandlor “whose spirit is too lofty and
proud to be a democrat?”
Go home aud mb yourself just under
the watch pocket with Ramon’s Relief
and you will find it a most delightful
remedy for brain colic of the type you
have so often. Rambler.
Bonded Slavery
When the bonded debt and the bank
system was first being fastened upon the
Americen people, autocrats across the
ocean said that chattle slavery is abolish
ed in the United States; but, said they,
a system of slavery more preferable to
the slave holder is being established in
its stead.
This is bonded slavery.
It is deemed more preferable by the
money power, why?
Because chattle slavery demanded
that the slave holder care for the
slaves.
Bonded slavery makes no such de
mand.
The chattle slave was orovided a home
by his master; in sickness he had medi
cal attendance; food and clothing were
always supplied him; he worshiped in
the same church with his master, and,
wht u dead, the master laid the old g.ave
to rest.
How different is the bonded slav
ery.
Those who toil to pay the bonded debt
tribute, those who are under the curse
of the national banking money power
are slaving, and striving to meet the al
lotted day’s labor, and they have to
scramble in the meantime for shelter,
raiment and food. Whether or not they
get necessary food or raiment the tri
bute to a power wore than Caesar’s must
be paid, or else turned out of house and
home aud the bonded slave becomes a
tramp.
Bonded slavery? What a curse.
Look at the broad fields aud see the
people struggling for a bare existence
uuder the load of its wicked, burdeniug
system!
See mothers, bare-footed, shabbily
clothed, in the hot sun, hoeing plowing
because father and son have failed to
earn the tribute which is heaping on
them day by day. Taken out of home,
taken from little ones who need a ten
der mother’s care, and why? Simply
because curse of bonded slavery has kept
rolling up the tax and striking down the
products of the farmer, until the farmer
is unable to meet the demand or unable
to employ the idle men who seek work.
The wife must come to the resoue. The
wife must be brought into bonded slav
ery, too!
Did God make mother for the home or
for a bonded slave? My God! To what
have we come?
Many earnest, honest men are toiling,
helped by wife and daughter, all clad
worse and fed less than were the chattle
slaves.
What a shame! No wonder men stand
out from the old parties and demand lib.
erty!
No wonder that men will stamp their
vote of condemnation on the organized
democratic administration that issued
$50,000,000 bonds and increased the bur
den of bonded slavery. No wonder
men have aroused from their sleep of
indiffdrenoe and have seen that the
money power has clutched the old party
in its grasp and settled bonded slavery,
like a curse, on mothers and little child
ren.
Bonded slavery.
Men of onoe free America, remember
how your fore-fathers revolted against
Great Brittain. When Washiu’t’n led his
noble band of patriots, not a man was
starving, not a mother was dying from
over work. The patriots then conld
have escaped the taxation of King
George by fleeing from the colonies to
the western wilds. But they repudiat
ed the stamp act and increased taxation
ther! And why? Because they heard
the voice of posterity as it appealed pit
ifully for freedom. They left stains of
blood in their tracks in the snow as they
marched to Bunker
Forge that Liberty Ball m 1
freedom for coming generationf^
Today, fathers, you rest
bonded debt and you bear i,! * ‘
taxation, aud see bonded slaver
down on your backs until moth 7 ***
children are foroed to help Tnn V 401
bu-dens. A more wicked
put upon you, a more despotic v!!V
is saddled upon you than everth*
triots of colonial days ever tho J! *
world bear. 10Q ght
With no western wilds to
thousands of men with no
to some are now cringing at the £
of gold beg parties like does m
the feet of their masters. gei!
Are we doomed to be a race of si..
In bonded slavery! And the m „' i!
power seeking to take the lrj, v .
of liberty away. ' ■-
The right of franchise taken awa*
free man becomes a slave!
Oh, men! strike for freedom and
tiveland!!
If not, then blind the eyes of vo
little children with rods of heated
that they may never know how T
have let bonded slavery, like a demon!
curse, settle forever upon their Hui,
heads and dwarf their little minds and
hearts.
Work for liberty, fight slavery, staii
up for homo, and save the mother to
reign in the home where God intended
she should be its light and blessing -
Tribund Buchanon, Ga.
Paternalism.
It is yet well remembered how and
when this term first came into promi
nent use. Before 1892 it was rarely
heard. It was during the fight begat
by the Farmers Alliance against thea>
cumulation of wealth by special privi
leges in the hands of the few, that the
term was first used and Alliance nun
foresaw the evil results which would fol
low this concentration, and by judicious
reform at that time endeavored to avert
the conditon which is now upon ®,
which must continue its depressing ef
fect upon the masses of the people until
remedial legislation as proposed to
shall be put in operation. Among the
Alliance propositions’ formulated fa
were government control or ownership
of railroads, to prevent trust formation
by giving equal shipping rates to all, and
the establishment of subtreasures' The
latter was the crude and imperfect plan
to increase the money volume, and itt
imperfection was recognized by demand
ing the adoption of the subtreasury plan
*or something better.” It will be re
membered how the whole movement
was ridiculed and finally defeated by
deriding it as Paternalism.
But timeJwork3 curious changes. Just
as Alliancemon forsaw, the conditionsnf
the people have grown steadily worse.
Wages and earnings of producers are
constantly growing smaller while taxes
are steadily climbing higher. Whatwis
plain to the farmers then is now begin
ning to be realized by the people in the
cities, and government ownership, so far
from being derided as paternalism is 0°
the eve of being adopted by all progress
ive municipalities.
Nothing is heard now of paternalsu.
The Pennsylvania railroad may adopt*
rale to pension all of its employees after
they shall reach a certain age, andii .s
commended as something good.
A Chicago paper states that the firm
of Marshall Field &• Cos., discharge
young men and women in its emp ( J
who marry on small salaries. A rep .
sentative of the firm in qnestion is
to deny that marriage has ever beenu
cause of dismissal, "but sometto
young employes who are reported toi
tend getting married are called in
consultation in case their pay is smJl '
and cautioned against taking any ?nc '
step without careful consideration
whether they can meet expenses.
It has come to this, and yet not
whimper is heard about “paternalism
from the organs of plutocracy whic •
lustily howled in 1892. Federation
Trades has taken up this ma ’
which is paternalism of the kind w
daring the feudal ages establisbe
law of the “first night,” bnt
ratio press says not a word. .
Telegrph, the most pronounced n
toman paper In the state, seems to .]
exhausted itself on P atar s, a ! 8 ™ tinn oI
and nowhopes on the * o< J era HifiO J
Trades for antagonizing
corporations and their assn P J
prescribe the domes tio affairs o • j
668* I
The demand of the people J
government shall proteot them rl
conspirators and robbers by len * J
treasury notes on safe collateral v j
nalism. J
The dictation of a corpoJ
scribing rules as to when and .1
employees may marry is ina
ation and interest in their we I
So it goes, bnt the eyes of
are being opened.—Augusta - “j