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TBIJf IST Official Organ Ordinary. OFF H: IA L PRO AN OF WINDER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING JEFFERSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court House F. W. guattiebamn will represent the paper and take subscriptions. SubscriDtion Rates. One Yeah, - - - *l-00 aTG. LAMAR, Editor and Publisher. 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