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Clay County Reformer.
8. It. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME I.
SUMMA11V OF NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF INTEREST
INCi OCCURRENCES
""rlZZJ wortd.””
Tho Baltimore und Ohio railroad
Woke the record Sunday in running
fiJl miles in fifteen hours and twenty
Six minutes. ‘ /
Advices . . from
fdate Hong Kong, China,
that up to Friday moro than
|.m« 11 is perHnilH estimated taJ that dlrf 80,000 of the persons plague.
have fled from the city.
A i>;ai Ittst urg, ,, I a., special . , says: mt The
settlement of the great soft coal mi tiers’
strike and tho return to work Monday
of . 15 I.»,ooooi ooo of till- UK.- ‘20 0,000 000 miners minors in in ♦hi- this
district, has given an impetus to all
kinds of business, and tho situation is
more hopeful than at anytime 4 for
many months. , .1
The attitude of tho United Mine
Workers in the sixth district «V/wU of Ohio,
i encouraging. . xr Nearly i 2,500 pcoplo
found work in the mines in different
parts of Ohio valley Monday. Others,
«l«mt l-ll of tho miner, in tho ,ti„.
trie i, Mill iiMait the result of tho sec
ond conference at Columbus.
*
n: District , • i 1 I . resident ■ , , Thomas McGro- ,,
gor, of tho United Mine Workers’ As
sociation, held a conference with tho
tmmmitteo of min™ „t Biel, Hill, M„
1 fie operators hold out but little iu
duccment toward a settlement of the
strike. A large number of miners, 1
1 houever, , ... ........ are ready i * to resume work , at
old prices.
One thousand men Mere thrown out
of work through the cloning down of
Ihu Mount Clare repair shops of tlie
Baltimore and Ohio railroad Monday
morning. No previous notice had been
given to the men. Tho action is said
to be general business depression sup¬
plemented by the coal strike. The
dose down will ho for two weeks or
more.
A special from Springfield, Ill., Hays;
Adjutant General OrendorlY has order¬
ed Colonel Colby, of the Seventh regi¬
ment at Chicago, to assemble bis com¬
mand at once ond proceed to Mouut
Olive by special train on the Wabash.
It is understood that no rioting has
occurred, but these precautions are be¬
ing taken because of tho wholesale ar
rests that are to be made of the striking
miners.
The consolidation of three national
banks of Deodwood, B. ])., 1 ms been
made, tin* Merchants’ National and tho
Dead wood National turned, their assets
and deposits over to the First National
nnd closed their doors. Failure to
make money and the possession of con¬
siderable and almost worthless security
are assigned as the causes of tho clos¬
ing of the two institutions.
A special from Perry, O. T., says
that one Sanders, a member of tiio
Dalton gang, won convicted there of
horse stealing and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary. He says ho
was with the Dalton gang for five years,
killed nnd that Bill Dalton, Ardmore, who mhs reported
alive. near I. T., is still
He declares the report that ho
mhs killed mhs sent by a deputy mar
sbal to get the $25,000 reward.
A cable dispatch from Homo, Italy,
says; Tho pope’s jubilee encyclical
letter is completed and is now in the
hands of the printer. It is a vastly
important document from the point of
view of a political testament. Every
phrase of it 1 ms been carefully consid¬
ered. In consequence of the receipt of
variable news from eastern countries,
tho pope is about to call a convention
in Homo of representatives of dissident
eastern churches.
A New York special says: The
reorganization of the Central rail¬
road has been agreed upon. The
details are being drawn and the plan
will be given to tho public by Messrs.
Comer nnd Hayes in a few days. The
plan covers the whole system, and it
will be complete and will restore con¬
fidence in the Central nil over the
country, if accepted bv the parties in¬
terested in the stock and junior securi¬
ties at home.
Tho effects of the coal strike has
reached Noblesville, 1 ml. The Luke
F.ric and Western 1ms discontinued its
local freight trains. The shipment of
large quantities of small fruits and
vegetables to tlmt point is stopped and
grocers are in a quandary how to sup
jdy the demand. The American straw
board plant stopped its .ponderous ma¬
chinery large and enforced idleness of a
force of hands is the result.
The miners on Gogebic range, Mich¬
igan, have decided to strike. The com¬
panies refused to negotiate with com¬
mittees from the unions, but ure will¬
ing to bear the workmen individually
as to their grievances. Should all tho
miners strike 3,000 men will be affect¬
ed. The mine owners threaten in
case of a general walkout to close
down their properties indefinitely.
The workmen demand an increase in
pay.
Ten United States deputy marshals
from Springfield, III., went to Mount
Olive on a special traiu to arrest the
ringleaders of tho strikers M-ho have
for several days held up trains and
confiscated coal in transit over tho
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis rood.
They succeeded in arresting four of
the strikers for whom they hail war¬
rants; but a uiob of 400 strikers took
possession of tho ear, overwhelmed the
deputy marshals and took the prison¬
ers away from them.
For tho first time there will be a so¬
cialist state ticket in the field iu Ohio
this year. The socialist labor party in
tion at Columbus, Saturday,
tj;-- —Red Daniel W, Wallace, of
Gloustcr, a coal miner for secretary of
State. William Watkins, of Dayton,
A m school teacher* for school com
«u * lwi«r end W, C; PottMoy, ef
Z'.tViL 5LS&
committee was authorized to nominate
a lawyer who would declare himself to
be a socialist, for supreme judge.
RELIGIOUS HEADING.
BFF.AR TO THAT YOU SO MAS.
He is In no special fortified danger. At most points
ho is strongly against the seductive
influences that ruin so many of our young
men. Ho abhors thoir evil courses; he shuns
their pestiferous society; ho keeps far remote
from the places where they congregate, llow
only to the H-archer of hearts; but it is very
obvious that a peculiar selfishness Is in part
at least his protection. The plan of lif«-which
lie pas marked out for himself forbids dho
gratification of expensive appetites, lie can
not afford to be immoral. .
The simple truth is, that ho is determined
t0 How this passion necame excited
we need not now inquire. It is far more im
portant that it should be restrained and held
within proper limits. He hardly knows why
he wishes to accumulate, unless it is that ho
may be able to say “I am rich.”
If now asked to name the amount that
T ’" 1 ,' 1 ??V, sfy hi L n { !)’' r/oiovidy Ruv, “a
hundred thousand. This he intends to have
within a given number of years, and towards
this one point ho is now bending all his one
S l ?\ F “ r 1,1,8 ho thinks, contrives, eats,
SS*Sffi.’SSliKKMSS
tors into company or avoids society, for this
ho marries or lives single ; for this he boards
or of keeps a house; forthis he selects his place
has worship or has none. In everything he
I)ohl,!8tic respect to the increase of his gains,
relations, friendship, literature,
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convince him that it will promote his tempo
rul interest.
Bismind is set so strongly
In one direction, and has already dug for it
se'f sodeepa clmnnel, that it may bo dim¬
cult either to check or divert the current.
But he has not become hardened in avaricious
habits. Ho has yet some susceptibility of
impression from tho lessons of wisdom and
experience. history. Give him a sketch of your own
Toll him what an old citizen said a
few “well days since. “I have been,” said he,
city acquainted with business men in this
for sixty years, and I have found out
that out of every hundred merchants, ninety
seven have failed once, and seventy-five a
second time.” Reason with him. Show him
tho uncertainty of riches, and how inade¬
all, quate show they him are to satisfy tho mind. Above
how fearfully the effort to ac¬
quire them interferes with duty to God and
man, and how the possession of them in¬
creases tho difficulty of the soul’s salvation.
Quote to him the language of the Son of
Godin Matt. C; 24; and Mark 10:25—also
the language of the Apostle Paul in 1 Tim.
C : 9, 10.—Christian Watchman.
“come ye blessed of my fathf.b.”
There is one word in the invitation, w r hieh
gives that new sweetness “Come.” to nil tho rest. It is tha
word begins it, Were our bles¬
sed Muster, when he calls us to heaven,about
to take his own departure to some other world,
who would not say. ‘O let me follow him! I
will all joyfully brethren give up that splendid inheritance,
ami my and companions there, so
that 1 may go and bo with liim.” Happy to
some of us are the moments we spend now in
his presence. Tlie wandering Jacob could talk
at Bethel of “tho house of God and the gate of
heaven,’’and canuot we do tho same, brethren,
wherever we are, when we feel that Christ is
near us? If we really love him, our heart’s first
desire is to see and be with him. And this he
knows. The lirst word we shall hear from him
on his throne, will tell ns that he knows it. He
will say to us. “Come.” And it will be from
the fullness of his own heart, that he will say
it. No one in that multitude M ill so long to
draw near to Chr st, as Christ will long to
have him near. He will lead His redeemed
to their glory with a greater joy than they
will follow Him there. Ho go to one world
and send them to another? No; He would
mar His own happiness os well as theirs, if
He did. He will go with them to the king¬
dom prepared for them, and there as He sits
down on His throne, He will say, “I will
never leave you again. I told that I would
come again and receive you unto myself; and
now farewell to all distance and separation
between us. Where I am. there ye shall be
also. We suffered together iu that world
which is perished: we M ill be glorified in
this. You know how that world treated Me.
I still bear in My body the marks of that
treatment, and I rejoiee to bear them, for
they will serve to remind you forever how I
loved you. And I know how it treated you.
It was not worthy of you, but it east you
aside as tho off-scouring of all things. Here
at last we are where we are known. Here
we shall shine forth as the sun iu the king¬
dom of our Father. We will inherit together
this splendid world.”
A LIFE MEMBER OF HEAVEN.
Tho folloM-ing circumstance took place at a
missionary meeting at Pittsburgh, at which
the beloved missionary Dean, and Ko-a-Bak,
the converted Chinese,his travelling compan¬
ion, were present by At this meeting, it was
suggested the Rev. Mr. Miles, agent of the
Pennsylvania Baptist State Convention, that
Mr. Deau and the Chinese should be made
life members of that body. "When the pledges
had been given for the amount necessary,
and the fact had been communicated to Ko
a-Bak, he arose, and with much feeling re¬
marked that he had evervM’here been
treated with great kindness in his
travels since he came to this country,
he did not know why these friends
should give money fo make’ him a life member
of their society—“but,” said he.as soon as his
strong emotion would allow him to give ut¬
terance to the thought—“but, Jesus Christ
paid a much greater price than that to make
me a life member of heaven!” Beautiful
thought, and beautiful expression! May
God grunt that soon through his blessing up¬
on tho labors of our beloved missionaries,
hundreds, and thousands, and millions of
the interesting natives of the “land of Sinim,”
may be made, by the application of the pre¬
cious blood of atonement, life members of
heaven'.— [Washington Cor. of the Christian
Watchman.
INSTHUCTIVE INCIDENT.
Sav not that your powers are feeble, ana
your opportunities small. A young woman
who was au operative in a factory, became a
subject of divine grace and united with the
Christian church. From early morn till
night, she was through the week engaged in
labor. She bnd never enjoyed the Advan¬
tage of school, excepting barely enough to
have learned to read and write. But her
heart kindled with the lire of sacred love,
intensely desired to promote the Redeemers
kingdQW- To this end, she set herself dili
gentJv to the cultivation of her mind. She
91____half devoted an hour every available evening to
study, and used all other means to
prepare herself for usefulness. She used
often to and place a leaf of tba digest Bible upon her
loom, to oommit and its contents
while her bands wrought. W<th in a single
year, she !>eeame one of the beak ins! teachers in
the Sabbath school, and was kumentol vlW in
bringing four of her pupils to a sa knowl
edge of Christ. Go thou and do ewise.
Who l« there, whose abilities and o : uni
ties are not equal to here.—Winslow’s
tuns to 8. 8. Teachers.
Coal Company Resumes.
The Corona Coal Company resumed
operations at the Corona coal mines,
Ala., Tncaday. The company has se¬
cured au efficient force of miners and
will push forward the work so long
dslayad by th« strike.
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FORT GAINES, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 22. 1894.
COME INTO COURT.
Stand t T p and Answer “Hnrrykain’s” In¬
dictment of Both Old Tartles.
Ilurrykain, Chicago: The defen
Hants have destroyed two billion dol¬
lars of the people’s money to accom¬
modate the few who control the gold
of the world.
They have builded the great high¬
ways of the nation at the expense of
the people, and then give them to a
favored few, together with 212 , 000,000
acres of the public domain.
They have caused 13,000 annual
bankruptcies, made 2 , 000,000 paupers,
3,000,000 tramps and 60,000,000 slaves.
They have subsidized the press, the
pulpit, the courts and the executive
and legislative branches of govern¬
ment, state and nation.
They have united church and state
under the Indian policy laws by ped¬
dling out the agencies to the priest¬
hood, who by their robbery of the In¬
dians have brought the vengeance of
the redman upon the frontier settler.
By class laws they have made labor
dishonorable, and have driven 4,000,
000 into secret political organizations
all over the land.
They have sent armies to over-awe
the people of state and nave de¬
fied the courts to punish cattle baron
murderers by using the federal court
at Omaha to spirit away witnesses.
They have deceived the people in
every platform since 1864, and after
promising better laws to protect the
ballot, have shamefully bought and
sold office.
They have brought pauper labor
from Europe to c crowd out starving
workmen and hired Pinkerton thugs
to shoot down those who clamor for
bread, while Whitelaw Reid’s Tribune
recommended “grape and canister” as
food for the hungry.
They draw large salaries from the
people while wasting their time at
partisan conventions and in drunken
brawls.
They have fraudulently naturalized
250,000 men who bad not been fifteen
days in the United States, in order to
elect Cleveland in 1884, Harrison in
1888 and to carry the election in 1892
in the interest of the Shylocks.
They have created trusts on every
article from that first used by the mid¬
wife, to the marble column in the
cemetery, and are collectingtheir tolls
from the cradle to the grave.
They have used our navy in distant
sras to protect that thieving Califor¬
nia corporation, having the exclusive
right to take seal under an act of con¬
gress secured by fraud and bribery;
and that same navy has destroyed
twenty-five small American vessels
that were fishing on the high seas,
and all done to enable a millionaire
corporation to control the seal fish¬
eries.
They have displaced the old soldier
to make room for those - who laughed
at his dying cry for food, and robbed
him by depreciating his money.
By threats of discharge, they have
forced labor to vote for its own pov¬
erty; and they are now arming and
drilling their hirelings in all the large
cities, and are taxing the peop’e to
support a militia whom they expect
to use to overawe labor.
In 1889 they withheld $17,000,000,000
worth of property from the assessor,
leaving labor to make up the defi
ciency; while, in order to secure the
aid of the pulpit, they have exempted
$16,000,000,000 worth of church prop
erty from taxation and have filled the
land with infidels by exacting large
tolls from all who enter the carpeted
aisles and cushioned pews of the so
called houses of God.
They have fixed the prices on air,
light and water, while their trusts
control the infant’s milk and the dead
man’s coffin.
They have driven commerce away
from our ships, and so arranged the
laws that debts contracted on an in¬
flated basis must now be paid in a
contracted currency with money com
manding a premium, while the power
to make money under the constitution
has been farmed out to 3,152 national
banks.
They have induced foreigners to
buy up our mills, factories and lands,
and to establish a landlordism like
Ireland and a slavery little better than
that of i860.
They have nominated for office the
agents of Wall street and the Roths
childs.
.Out of the mouths of Blaine and
Sherman, Voorhees and Holman, they
admit the fraudulent demonetization
of silver and then refuse to right the
wrong.
They have allowed our flag to be in¬
sulted by every nation, except a little
precinct in South America, and are
lew kUstaft the great toeof John Bull
on the silver and Behring sea qnes
lions for f*r of offending Shylock.
Under the an \ct of congress of June
23, timber 1878, CahJprma, lumber trust Oregon, stea’s all \\ ash- the
in
ington, Idaho, U tah, Arizona. And
under its terms, Ihe settler on the
public domain paye trjbnte.
They have given tWthirds of all
coal lands in the wesV to the rail
way^ and these corporations no^
claim the mineral lands of Montana,
Idaho and Washington.
While pretending to exclude the
leprous Chinese they have legislated
for the sis cenpanisti and while
,
prosecuting Mormons iu Utah, they
have kept mistresses at the expense of
the people.
They have extended Mexican grants
in California by false surveys, to ena¬
ble politisians to secure farms of 200 ,
000 acres each.
They have lied and deceived the
voter by a sham battle over the tariff,
and then imported cheap labor from
the old world.
They passed the inter-state com¬
merce law in order to deceive the
farmers and then appointed corpora¬
tion tools to construe it.
Between 1865 and 1875 they sold
government gold to the amount of
$565,000,000 instead of paying off our
national debt, and then by the act of
July, 1876, sold bonds for $100,000,000
of gold on which they tax the people
to pay interest.
They lie to the people daily about
the gold reserve, when they know
that there is not now and never was
any law requiring a gold reserve to
be kept in the treasury.
Their masters, the bankers, forced
the panic of 1893 as a means of secur¬
ing the issue of bonds to prolong the
life of said banka
They are now carrying on a sham
battle about the Carlisle bonds, well
knowing that the Harrison adminis¬
tration prepared for the issue and se¬
cured the plates, etc., and all Mr.
Carlisle had to do was the printing.
They are in partnership and have
been for years each aiding the other to
deceive the voter.
Such d — d frauds as the Inter Ocean
Chicago and New York Tribunes, as
well as great democratic dailies, are
owned, or subsidized, by these party
leaders, and used to hoodwink the
sucker voter, by first telling him that
his woes are due to overproduction
second, to the Sherman law; third, to
the threat against the tariff; and
lastly, they ask the voter to believe
that the 360 pounds of drunken hog
meat in the white house causes pov¬
erty, crime, starvation, death and
hell; and that if granddad’s hat was
warming the chair of state all would
be serene.
They are now preparing a sham bat¬
tle for 1894, in which they will lie to
the voter to induce him to consent to
a further rule by the same political
highwaymen in order that they may,
under the forms of law, rob labor of
what little it has left.
They are. anarchists and revolu¬
tionists, unworthy the support of -a
free people.
THESE ARE FACTS, NOT A THEORY.
In these days of trusts and consoli¬
dations. strikes and cut-downs be¬
tween labor and railroads, it may be
interesting to note what has been and
can be done to remedy these evils.
We never hear of any strikes or labor
troubles on the railroads of Australia,
and why? llecause the government
owns and operates them in the inter¬
est of the people.
In Australia yon can ride a distance
of J,000 miles across the country for
$6.50, first-class, too, while working¬
men can ride six miles for 2 cents,
twelve miles for 4 cents, thirty miles
for 10 cents, etc., and railroad men re¬
ceive 25 to 30 per cent more wages for
eight hours'of labor than they are
paid in this country for ten hours of
toil.
In Victoria, where the above rates
prevail, the net income from
the roads last year was sufficient
to pay all the federal taxes,
In Hungary where the roads are
state owned, you can ride six miles
for 1 cent and since the government
bought the roads wages have doubled,
Belgium tells the same story—fares
and freight rates cut down one-half
and wages doubled.
Yet the roads pay a yearly revenue
to the government oi $4,000,000.
In Germany you can ride four miles
for 1 cent on the government owned
lines. Yet wages are over 120 per
cent higher than they were when the
private corporations owned them, and
during the last ten years the net prof
its have increased 41 per cent. Last
year the roads paid the German gov
ernment a net profit of $25,000,000.
Workingmen and farmers, if you like
such rates as these, vote the People’s
party ticket
If our government owned the rail
roads we could go to San Francisco
from Boston for $ 10 . Look at the
proof:
Uncle Sam pays the railroads not
finite S275 to transport a loaded postal
car * rom Boston to San Francisco. A
passenger car will carry fifty pas
sengers, which, at $10 each, would be
S5°°. or a clear profit of $225 a car, and
this, too, after paying 5^ per cent on
watered stock which is fully 100 per
cent on the cost m of the roads.
_ io , hour
.^o<r ‘ he ‘ r oy ' mJroade 7 ' 7”“' hare
when ^ VanderbUu
obtained conlrol in i* 69> was capital
ized at $49 ,000,000. They at once
wa tered it np to 400,000,000. more
watCr ^ ^.ddeduntil the present
stock u ?i4 6 t ooo,000-all but
**5,00J 000 being water.
Government ownership would save
4h e people the gigantic sum of $1,000,:
OOo.OOO a year and bring shorter hours
and better pay to the 700,000 railroad
employes.—The Ulturian.
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Thirty ysars of republican rule: #V
ow millionaires and ttftasps.
.
HONEST MONEY
IS GOOD MONEY.
The People’s Party Plan, or JOO Cents
l to the Dollar, Restores Prosperity,
K Destroys Usury—It Also Destroys
Money Panics.
In Colorado the average cost to the
mine owners is 22 cents for a dollar’s
worth of gold and about 40 cents for
the amount of silver there is in a silver
dollar, hence, if intrinsic value is to
govern, neither gold nor silver is
honest money, because it does not cost
ICO cents to mine the metal they con¬
tain. On the other hand the govern¬
ment's greenback paper dollar is an
honest dollar, because it takes
100 cents in service, supplies or prop¬
erty to get a greenback dollar, i 3
The People’s party plan is to have
money that costs 100 cents to get it,
and that always has 100 cents value to
it and is backed by the entire wealth
of the nation; treating all classes alike;
“Equal rights to all and special priv
iledges to none.”
It is astonishing how little ma¬
chinery is necessary to put into opera¬
tion the Populist money plan. Con¬
gress to authorize the issue of $ 4 , 000 ,
000,000 for the purpose of establishing
a monetary system for the use of the
people, authorizing loans, discounts
and exchanges to be made through
the money order system, or any prop¬
erty that is good security at the rate
of 4 per cent for loans of less time
than one year and 3 per cent rate for
one year and over. Appoint three
citizens at each money order office as
a credit discount and loan board, to
meet at country offices monthly and
under proper rules pass upon all ap¬
plications for loans and discount. In
larger towns it might be necessary to
meet every two weeks, and in the
large cities it might take several
boards and daily meetings. But the
boards would not have any personal
interest in the loans, all element of
personal profit being eliminated. The
postmaster would be cashier or * pay¬
master of the government, and when
he did not have the money on hand,
would check on some designated sub¬
treasury or postoffice, as the pension
agents do now, making a record of
all transactions, as he does of money
orders now; and also abstracting the
property pledged in books for that
purpose. The result of these arrange¬
ments would bo the utter destruction
of usury and the impossibility of
money panics, because the government
that can not fail or suspend, and
would always be ready to assist the
people, by supplying them with money
upon their property at any time they
need it.
For instance, A desires to borrow
$100 for over one year and to secure it
on forty acres of land. He makes his
application to the board, furnishing
abstract of title. He then makes
trust deed and note to the United
States, drawing interest at the rate of
3 per cent per annum, the P. M. act¬
ing as trustee.
B wants $100 for six months on per¬
sonal property and offers his note with
indorsers as additional security. The
board approves the loan. He makes
trust deed to P. M. and receives the
money.
C wants to discount a note he holds
for $50, which is well secured. The
board examines and approves of the
discount, and he receives $48.
D wants exchange on Boston for
$500. He pays P. M. $500 and $1.25
for exchange, and receives money
order on P. M. at Boston for $500. '
E wants exchange on London for
$ 1 , 000 . He pays the P. M. $I,(i 00 and
$5 for exchange, and leceives money
order on London P. O. as is the case
with smaller orders now.
F wants $25 on cotton, corn or
wheat. He brings warehouse receipt
an< * endorses it to P. M. as trustee for
United States and receives the money,
D deposits $ 1,000 and receives check
book with stub checks for that
amount *
examing the report of the comp
troller of currency for United States
Tor 1893 I find there were 3,758 na
tional and 5,685 private banks, with
capital stock of Sl,087,816,913. The
record does not show how much was
paid up- They had $515,708,294 profits
passed to the surplus fund and the
private banks had $78,620,451 un
divided profits. Their business
through the clearing-house amounted
$58,880,682,455.
It is safe to estimate business for the
first year:
RECEIPTS.
Loans on real estate, *2,000.000,000 at
3per cent........................ *60.000,000
Loans on personal property and dis
— counts. *1.500,000,000 at 4 per cent. 00 , 000 , 00 )
Exchange on *4,000,000,010 at an av¬
erage of '4 of 1 per cent 10 , 000,000
Total revenue........ *130,000 00)
EXPENSES.
For the service of 30,000 men at 10.
000 county and town postoffices as
members of -boards at *125 per
annum .......................... 13,750,000
For the services of 3,600 men as
members of boards in cities at
11,300 per annum.................. 4,330,003
100 men, beads of departments, at
13,000 each......................... 300,000
5,000clerks at II,290 each....*....... 6,0)0,000
400 examiners at 12,000 each......... 890,000
Increase in salaries of 8,300 post¬
masters of 13)0 each.. 2,400,030
Books and stationery ... • • • 5.000,000
Incidental .............. 2,530,003
Total expenses........ ...... *25,000,000
Profit to tbe government. .. a . . ft 01,000,wo
Val%* ttal* syitftm »e atftaey pant
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
could ever occur, because the people
could always get money in reasonable
amounts upon their property. There
would be no suspensions, no breaking,
no lock ups, as there is now when
money is wanted worse. Thousands
of humble homes would be saved to
their owners who by our present bar¬
barous system will go into the hands
of usurers.
It would be the best money the
world ever saw. Absolute money
created by law. Our courts have de¬
cided that the money is in the law and
not in the material the law is stamped
on, and that congress has the power
to create money.
The profits of national banks from
Sept. 1 , 1892, to Sept. 1 , 1893, was
$151,694,671. Of the private banks we
have no record, but an estimate of
5200,000,000 would be low. Here we
have not less than $351,000,000 as
profits on banking alone. National
banks do not loan money on real es¬
tate, and private banks and trust com¬
panies only report $ 201 , 000,000 as
loans secured by realtj', showing that
the vast mortgage indebtedness of
farm property is held in individual
names, coming through firms or
agencies. Excessive interest con¬
sumes nations. The great life insur¬
ance companies calculate 4 per cent
as a rate of interest large enough to
meet their lapses and pay their ex¬
penses. The immediate result of the
adoption of the People's party plan
would be the reduction of interest by
all money loaners to the government
maximum rate of 4 per cent. Mort¬
gages would be paid oft' or re¬
newed at the 4 per cent
rate, holders would gladly take
1 per cent above the government rate
rather than be paid off and have idle
money on their hands. The reduc¬
tion of interest on the $30,000,000,000
of debt in this country now averaging
8 per cent would save to the people
who work and create wealth the im¬
mense sum of $ 1 , 200 , 000,000 annually.
Our government was made for the
greatest good to the greatest number.
The old parties have made it a money
machine for the 30,000 bankers and
money loaners. Neither proposes to
stop their plundering of the laborers,
farmers, mechanics and producers of
wealth, and resist every effort made
for the relief of the people.
By this plan the profits would in¬
crease yearly and in a few years the
government would be the banker of
tlie people, thus fulfilling the desire
ot Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun.
Is there any man who can give a
good reason why this should not be
done?
This would carry out the doctrine
of equal rights to all and exclusive
privileges to none, and those that
oppose it are not in favor of equal
rights to all men.
The government as now adminis¬
tered acts the part of a cruel step¬
father to the masses, and of a kind,
indulgent, affectionate parent to the
bankers and corporations and trusts
that plunder the people at will, and
they are assisted to do so by the gov¬
ernment. Shame.
Americans, all of you who by your
daily toil create wealth, sowing for
others to gather, can you in justice to
your families, many of you in want
of the necessaries that family should
have and that you are deprived of.
can you longer support political
parties whom all acknowledge are
corrupt, and who administer the gov
eminent as a machine to gather riches
for the already rich? Will you longer
be party slaves and wear the yoke of
oppression and degradation? If so,
liberty is lost and you are only fit for
slavery. I do not believe you a e..
Join the People's party, the only
party that is truly democratic, the
only party that is really republican,
and assist it in its- efforts to redeem
our common country from the rule of
plutocracy and t**e power of money to
oppress. Help us make the govern¬
ment the servant of the people, instead
of their master.
It. B. Carl, Secretary.
It is not the violation of any law
which has put Coxey and his friends
behind prison bars, but the fact that
they represent a movement which, if
successful, means death to interest
bearing bonds.— New Republic, Akron,
Ohio.
Cats are reputed to get their eyes
open nine days after birth. We know
men right here in this county who
were born as much as 40 years ago and
they haven’t got their eyes open yet.
—Poniard, Sidney, Neb.
A man that boasts that he keeps
ont of politics should go to Russia and
live, where the combined church and
state do all the thinking for the
masses.—Omaha Commonwealth.
The democratic party has been
Clevelandized and Cleveland has been
Shermanized and the people are be¬
coming populistwise. — Young Popu¬
list, Paris, Texas.
Of all the downright, deceptive,
scheming tricksters in Kansas, the
so-called republican free silver organs
are the most inconsistent.—Journal.
Lebanon, Kan. .
Once again we desire to say: “Gold
.
costs less than 2-i cents on the dollar
to produce.” Keep this ringing in
the aar* of the “iatrin/ie value'’ idiot.
—Read-
NUMBER 5
POLITICAL HASH.
Served Hot and Cold to .Suit Our
Header*.
Our hired men at Washington will
not be able to escapo tlie responsibil¬
ity of the outrage committed against
Coxey, Browne and Jones,and through
them against every liberty loving
American citizen. Under a foolish
law, which of itself is unconstitu¬
tional, these men have been placed in
jail. It is worthy of notice that this
is the first instance where anybody
has been placed iu jail under that
law. Other men and bodies of men
have violated it, but have not been
-molested. The sentence agaiust
Coxey and his associates is to Ameri¬
can liberty now what the D eJ Scott
decsiun was be I ore the war. It is an
outrage against every American citi¬
zen. As the national congress is re¬
sponsible for the government of the
District of Columbia, it is guilty of
this infamous outrage. Let the peo¬
ple place the responsibility where it
belongs.
Congressman Bryan of Nebraska
has declined to accept the nomination
for re-election to congress. Mr. Bryan
evidently begins to realize that there
is not much hope for reform through
the d mocratic party s lice it has
ceased to be democratic. In his letier
to the congressional committee of his
district he says:
“Ii the President's financial policy
becomes the policy of the party, I do
not see any reason for the continued
existence of the party, because the re¬
publicans, having followed that policy
longer, and are better prepared than
we to support it. On the other hand,
if the party repudiates Mr. (leveland’s
financial policy and renews its de¬
votion to the common people, it may
yet become an effective instrument in
the securing of good government.”
Mr. Bryan is one of the brightest
young men in the natiou, and wo
should regret to see him throw away
his life in a fruitless effort to reform
a party that seems to be hopelessly
lost in the quagmire of corruption.
There is one phase of the Coxey mat¬
ter that the old party papers don’t
harp on much, that is the fact that he
was uselessly li-mdcuffed and sent to
jail as though he had committed t .
great crime. Whatever position may
be assumed in the matter, it can not
be denied that he has been uselessly
and shamefully treated* in being re¬
garded as a common culprit In a
lelter to a friend written in prison he
says:
“I am now considered by the
money power a criminal, Have felt
the cold steel on my wrists, a ride in
the prison van and heard the iron door
clang back,shutting me from freedom.
Of wliat? That word seems dead. A
petition with boots on from the com¬
mon people will not be heard. It
must come in palace cars and have
money to be used as boodle, then an
interview w 11 be granted and acted
upon quickly. I have not broken any
law. I am only persecuted for my
convictions and for trying to obtain
werk for millions of my countrymen
who are suffering the pangs of hunger.
I am content to suffer my sentence
believing that it will hasten the
needed relief.” (Signed:) J. S. Coxey,
Washington jail, May 21 .
It is said “whom the gods wou d de¬
stroy they first make mad,” and it
would seem from this incident that
plutocracy had gone stark mad and
courted its own destruction.
The tariff discussion in the senate is
growing very interesting. The Wil¬
son bill has been managed so that
scarcely anything is left but the name.
Senator Mills says he is “between the
devil and the deep sea” with the “sea
room” growing less every day. In a
recent speech he says:
“I find that the bill pending before
us is not the Wilson bi 1, but a bill
which, perhaps, ought to bear the
honored name of the senior senator
from Maryland (Mr. Gorman) or the
name of the senator from Ohio
Brice). No man can torture me into
the admission that the bill pending
before this body is in any respect a
response to the pledges made by the
democratic convention to the demo¬
cratic people of the United States. *
* * I am humiliated enough, sir, to
have'to be drawn nearer and nearer to
the McKinley* law in the rates of duty
and the amounts of robbery inflict¬
ed on the p- or working people of this
country, who are being starved to
death under this system of taxation,
without being compelled to bow down
in humiliation and take even the
badges of protection. Running along
through the bill we have had to sur¬
render at discretion at every point
until it is a question now between the
McKinley protective tariff law and the
present tariff bill, with a very little
margin of difference between the
two.”
We could not state the situation any
plainer ourselves. r J he Wilson bill has
become a measure of protection, and
that in a democratic senate. As Mr.
Mi ls emphatically declares, there is
but little difference between that and
the McKinley tariff law. Thus the
only remaining difference between the
republican policy and the democratic
policy is broken down. The two parties
are almost identically the same, and
as Mr. Bryan of Nebraska truthfully
says, there is **no reason for the con¬
tinued existence p* the deiueeret'
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