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V 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, 32 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. _____ 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' r*t>’ jMtg