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03E" —
fHANKLIN COUNTY.
VOl. ill NO. 14,
ISllfH
fi’S ADDRESS
TO THE PEOPLE
OF GEORGIA
The Questions of Uie Hour
anil (He Xoods of tlu*
ronntry Fully
Mscussed.
Tc .1 [;/ Fellow Cit kem of Giorgio:
Ti,.'; ii.: ml quest ions now under dis-
cussi;,.: in, mig you are so important,
and the results of your action upon
them will be ,so serious and permanent,
thiit I beg leave to submit to you the
following views upon those grave mat¬
ters:
a i- a time when we should reason
together in a spirit of frankness. Upon
lb u!,'. v>> take rhD year will depend
our welfare for many years to come.
Before we discuss the future, let us
glance at the past.
The comparison is always prudent.
and sometimes indispensable.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
What was your political condition
ten or fifteen years ago ?
What voice did you have in national
affairs ?
Who consulted you in the framing
of platforms ?
MACHINE METHODS. *
■
ask these questions is to ifritwe: 1
. To
them.
You had your votes and other eo-
pie disposed of them.
You made no platforms. You voiced
no policy.
You shared no beneu.s.
Your leaders chose themselves at a
Court House gathering where a dozen
spoke for a thousand.
To question the authority was treas¬
on. To demand a hearing was disor¬
ganization. To revolt was political
death.
When you complained, you were
laughed at. When you criticised, you
were denounced. •
When you loyally -".iff toe voting am*
won the victory, you the I.azarus
privilege of standing ae gate while
.
the feast went ou wit :
For twenty years efforts and
your successes brou.-fit >; blessings to
you, They only made political mer¬
chandise which few politicians ' red- , 1
a
off to Tammany Ha!i,
COURT no
'lie select few ’■> •
wore directed by .
next city; the s-ueet
were directed by •! : v
Atlanta: U y.-.eci \ •«‘: t
directed frou: New ».
How sweetly if Hi - . r>V
perfect machine. Y ou.
the button, and un¬
rest.
Offices were gt \j u 01
,
course fell to the sfci. Tu¬
ple might wonder, but ■
was strictly orthodo-v, man
dared question its open: ion.
Brave,men have stornud castle walls
,& nd borne battle-dags through the
wild carnival of death, but the man
who can denounce the wrongs of his
own party, and lead a revolt against
its abuses, has to nerve ins soui to a
sterner fight and a crueller test 1 ban
ever yet was fixed upon castled steep
or battle field!
In this supreme hour of Georgia’s
need, may God giv*> us such men !
Give us but one su l man in every
county, and the cause is won! Men
who dare speak the truth; who quail
at no peril! Who will take their lives
in their hands and go on, and ever on,
until the triumph is ours!
The time is past, forever past, when
men can be driven from a principle by
the empty terror of a name.
STULTIFYING TIIE 1’EOFLE.
Who claims that th* people have
been consulted ?
Who denies that platforms have been
foisted upon us in utter disregard of
our wishes and our welfare ?
Who denies that candidates have
been forced upon us, who were utterly
out of touch with the masses ?
Yet these very men who made the
-South support a platform, which de¬
clared that she “adored” the 14th and
loth amendments to the constitution,
an ‘tie loudest in their denunciation ot
what was done at St. Louis!
W’hat bypocris!
These very men are those who ad
uised us, and caused ns to elevate to
the Senatorship, 3 politician who Jiad
u!;v M* s— \ ENTERPRIS H
tiinel! office ■ i.u«r Bullock, and had
gone t. i" • n:i'i ll' 1 !•“■ ‘ iKMiiiii'.te
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wtie's. 4 ■ i Hemrierais eeine.i io agree
and v.s.- formulated into a l.,d->o mat
it might become a ne. and help tiie peo¬
ple, you “aw Democrats divide an¬
grily and iiopics-iy divide
ISo it was. that after winning stiungth
among voters upon the ground that
Tariff A axes .<-;•• to >e lessened, you
s iw the Miii. nil, In-..egiit forward io
put the promise., iuiolaw
Then yon sa.v. hope/, -s divisions
arise, ltemocr.it n uc.it Democrat.
Sa-tern Democrat gut Western
Democrat, Doiuocrat it newspapers
boldly SI,: yrsisteiitly advocated thn
Repnifji • a i douiriuc of proleciiou.
t hese bitter dis.-enUous upon :* great.
subject where tiie democratic platform
ca.ied for barniuiiious support of the
policy of Tariff lb. rm, convinced you
that the Democratic Party was so ham¬
pered by its contending factions, that
its campaign pledges could not be
redeemed.
I ts promissory note given to the peo¬
ple, was dishonored by the very men
who had signed it.
DEMOCRACY POWERLESS.
Not only was this the case with the
question of taxation, but it was so with
the question of Free Silver.
The platform might declare for it
ever so loudly, but the Democratic
leaders repudiated the obligation with¬
out a moment’s hesitation.
This very day iri the House of Itepre-
sentatives, where we who l'avor Free
Silver have been striving to fix the day
for a vote on the Bland Bill, no less
than seventy Democratic members
have fought us at every step
Xow, that we have triumphed over
them, the end is not yet When the
Bill shall have passed t he House, Dem¬
ocratic Senators at the other end of
the Capitol, stand ready to aid the Re¬
publicans, as has been clone before, in
killing it.
Yet those Senators are the recog¬
nized chiefs of the National Demo-
craey.
IIIT.L A: D TAM MANY AGAINST US,
In the House to-day, the closest" poi-
itieal allies of David B. Hill, are those
who fought us hardest. The Tamma¬
ny Men were conspicuous for their out¬
spoken opposition to Free Silver.
Yet you are being told in Georgia,
that Air.Hill favors Free Coinage!
DISGUST AND DISCOURAGEMENT.
These, and things like these, you
have become familiar with. They have
brought weariness and discouragement
to every citizen who wants reform,
and who has been waiting for it to
come through the Democratic Party.
The citizen, be ever so true to the
name Democrat, must yet claim to ex¬
ercise bis common-sense, and he there¬
fore asks himself “why.shouid I always
support ;> party which is so rent into
contend ,ig camps that its forces par¬
alyze each other ? ' “Why should I
support a party wbu-h does not siand
IV its own plat Ti m, and whose plat¬
form, if put inti, la a , does not give me
relic.' ?’’
A vve you a «mt it ?
IIIE AY. .vENlNG,
Y ■ • neatly and care-
illii, vi ’on. You be-
An; - • <• first time in
v vt ii •nr federal af-
A ‘ red, the Jess
v
ml.
saryo • been ignored,
-.-uijcecbburde:, .outraged. Your
Irish rose. You c i across the big
road to your ne-g • He had been
reading also, and hi Irish was up.
You got news from loo west; tile far-
mer out there was even madder than
you were. You soi l tr.-nitn. “We are
both in the same ' • ........ i( ' r us help
each other out."
•Simple as this p .:n its results
have made tin's old -ntinent rock from
end to end, and i adhered to. will
sweep ail abuses from the statute book
and write equality there again.
UNHORSING THE BOSSES.
What did you first do? You threw
out of employment all the little Town
Politicians, (Chip-toters for the Atlan¬
ta ring) and took into your own con-
trot the naming of Candidates, and tiie
framing of your Platforms.
Notice it, men I N early every croak¬
er and critic o/fouay, was a part of
the ring machinery which you smashed
yesterday. assailing
Nearly every newspaper
you today, is a part of the Journalistic
combine which ruled and misruled tbe
State before you took charge,
THE PRESENT.
So much by way of general review.
New, where do we stand today ?
We have, iu one of the greatest gath¬
erings ever known in this Oqun(ry, re¬
affirmed the declaratlijui of Principles
made at.St. Louis in Jho:h
The same Platform which was adop¬
ted at Ocal::.
The same which met approval at In-
d, essential principle has been
Not aw
changed. feature ha_- been iui.ro-
Not a new
1 duced.
F:^uai Rights tc ail, Privileges to None.
CARNESVILU FRANK LIN CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL s. 180?.
KAURI l M>t;s IVU.-i-.c,
1 i,e Kali .,d 1’ ...ih i- (•: t ,•v wiijit
It was ut >i 1 .ulus in i- ,i
[ pun tie. > ilium r e curried the
iky in IWg).
Iris , rue ', i i a Her .tie elect ions
were over u civ ire was made at Ocala,
i regretted the clmii! . ,• ut hnwo lu
the w ill ■ i iV * major; 14 ,
Xow, i hat l majors: y has seen lit
... res,ore u Pinnsc io iis original
-lie ne, 1 In, I inti, ot be. s W ill bow.
It is uni • • Mu' j eln.ngof personal
likes and u imI in-s e'liing derails, that
tttiv ;en. u oeun.ui e;uY .iMiieve sue-
t.'\ ; . 1.1 ' l’.l <i , i l.Xvl e,n lo
U- T* fa'.v.MOi 1 '
Let ;.s -.ii be ■i ■ ons enough -c
sink mo. ■. Jdi. i n t.ui in the absolute
necessity.ioi m,>. : ..Mis I.
Comrades' 'Vo ■ it ■ vrei
well quit!
IS THU CI.A^ • • l.'i
It is scarcely neeess.v-y
day to n.gue the justice t«l *“
form. 'Ye arc commit id to ff. /,
Kdttg v. .M»vV»r f^Ktf H 1 > uj’*su .",i
.
:rc iightiug for hoi ' • h etui teHncJiatwe L.es.ue: tor
liberty and happir
It is sacred to because u d>vcs
aopc to our despa iMg.vi-s expression to
our troubles; gives xm-vui our wants.
Our wives have i.oed uuu ; mye. for
it. Our children- :ivc learned ;o love
it. Not a' church in .1 the laud, where
God’s blessing In not been invoked
upon it.
Surety it needs argument with us.
But there aim i,o :-.Liiiy of our best
men who misui und us, ho view
us only from t! i uupohn of tiiose
who scorn us and , .i,represent ns, that
it may be worth \vh ' • uiii to coll
them to see if they v. di come: to rea¬
son with them, to see ii they will lie
convinced.
LET ITS GET TOGETHER.
The battle will he fierce and long,
and the divisions will be permanent
and bitter.
Let it never be said hereafter that we
did not strive for Peace.
Let it never be said that we did not
appeal to reason before passion threw
down her defiance.
Let it never be said that wc avoided
discussion, argument, reason—every
peaceful plea that patience and patriot-
ism could suggest.
WK SEEK HIE COMMON GOOD.
What is our Platform? What abuses
does it assail?
What remedies does it apply?
Before the great issues shail be
joined, neighborhoods divided, families
rent, let us once more look honestly
and fairly at the questions involved
and see whether the people of our dear
old State cannot get together upon a
common Declaration and go forward
with a common purpose.
We war ou no ciass. We war on
Privilege.
We fight no man’s business.
We fight favoritism in all business.
We drive no man away.
We ask all t o coin--.
xo )■;..... dek!
But while we do ; ins,let no man sup¬
pose that his absence will break our
ranks.
No. By the Spu.-oiior of God, No!
Unto tins cause is pledged our faith,
our lives, our sa • • • . honor, No eru-
sader ever long v, itti a zeal that
burnt more brigni • e.m does ours.
No “Old Guard” ever rooted itself to
the ground with a verner determina¬
tion to hold it, than have we.
ANALYSIS OF i.fR PLATFORM.
Having said this much and meaning
every word of it, us now examine
this Platform whim- we are so sure is
right and which our enemies say is
wrong.
Upon ail sides, . c ession and dis-
tress is admitted. Tbat we have a
claim to relief no a denies.
This much bei conceded what:
,
follows?
Wc must search r muses an 1 re-
mo. e t hern.
THE CAUSES.
Our burdens are the result mainly ol
three bad systems
1st. Unjust Financial Laws.
find. Unjust Tax Laws.
3rd. I njust Transportation Laws.
The evil of each of these systems is
the favoritism which the few enjoy
the expense of the many.
“Special Privilege' is the curse of
them all.
“Equality” is tbe remedy for them
all.
CURRENCY.
As to the Financial question there is
no difference of opinion among us. gold
We all *ee the evils of tiie
standard.
We aii see the dangers of allowing
either one of tiie two precious metals
or both of them to put the value upon
every other product under the sun.
We all see that Labor and usefulness
are the natural standards try which the
’alues of all commodities should be
measured: that when free interchange
of commodities between man and man
is possible all things seek this natural
level: that free interchange is never
possible till we have as much money in
circulation as the business of tbe coun¬
try requires; that the business volume
is itself tiie best regulator of the
money volume; that the great law of
supply and demand should regulate it.
Gold alone should uot be the only
standard of value; for then Gold b.
Master iii all other, products, (.i.i.l
and Silver l. g.ther «U » slB ,„tar« of
value relieve, the snnai. m to the ex-
tent that the Ivm exercise a mastery
whifh 1 b*» oju» }j3i}
But injustice .till leiiuium. No t w o
j commodities shouldpiieas ire tiie valtijj
of all other commodities, So l hivo
commodities should do ii. No four
should do it.
Then how should it be done?
That thing which' produces all e.nn-
Hindu ies ,- neiiUI b ip■'niotwtwe of tile
value of t Ik'iii all.
" hat is 11P
LABOR,
ITie natural value ut every product
is tb amount of tj.hor which produced
i and the use to which it ei it lie put
i !!■: ie re eiioiit money, products
would Iw exciiiniged for other products
at their naiural value. One product
would measure ail the otoers ami he
j measured by all the others. Prices
; would vary as they do under any and
ait systems, but the c^istant tendency
of every product would l.e toward its
natural prioe: viz: the I.abor cost.
Vioney was merely created to save
the incouvenienco If making a direct
. fckVap ot 0l „. prcdl|ct t )r anotller .
, N ovv when you give to either Gold
j , r or ^ , M(ll , r , () M . t
pp|ce 0 „ e oth gr product you put
every ]aborer and his produce under
thp Yok(? ofthh man w|l „ has the 0o)(J
iUll { silver
But the moment you nay that Gold
and Silver and Paper Money shall all
lie issued arid in suilicieiu quantities to
do the hoshie-s of tiie Country and
supplied direr, ly to the People, what
hr vo you done'’
You have put every commodity upon
an equal footing. You have given
Gold and Silver nc advantage over
Colton or Wheat. You have put it into
my power to get Lite natural price for
iny cotton and to give the nat oral price
for your wheat., <
Coniine our Currency to Gold aud
’■'liver and you measure the product of
every Farm end Factory and Shop hy
the supply of those two metals. Hoard¬
ing becomes inevitable. Shrinkage of
valuos unavoidable. 1'be Millionaire
rules the roost. The Laborer hews
'.t od, draws water and wonders why
; human being, doing the work of.a
J noise, is not treated »o well as
: i.;t’se.
r x r a s i • ;t k" 4 Cin: g kn l y
.
Liberalize the medium of Exchange,
use Legal Tender Paper as well as the
two metals, put enough out to answer
the wants of the people in making their
exchanges, and you have, what?
You have the Law of Trade where
God left it before the l/surer laid his
unholy hand upon it. I exchange my
commodity on the basis of its labor
cost and its usefulness; you do the
same; and thus every product regu¬
lates, and is regulated by all the other;
on true principles.
GOVERNMENT MAKES MONEY.
We nil see that the creation of money
is a sovereign right, belonging to the
People in their collective capacity;
that the Government with which the
people have clothed this Power should
exercise it direct]y and not farm it out
to Banks nor confine the limits to two
metals.
That t he Government is acting with
favoritism when it; delegates to Bank¬
ers the right to issue money to the
people at Bankers’ profits when the
people under the law have equal rights
with those Bankers.
That; the moment the Government
gives over this enormous power ot
making or distributing money to any
special class of the people then the
masses of the people are put at a dis¬
advantage; are deprived of sharing
upon equality a benefit which belonged
to the Mass and not to the Class: are
made subservient to that class; are
financially victimize:): by that class;
and in the end arc bound to be ruined
by that class.
Give to any class the privilege -of
getting the people’s money at one pe
. erit and of lending it to those people
at eight per eont. and of contracting
and expanding it at their pleasure, and
you have a financial despotism which
would in (lie iong r;.u turn the Niie
Valley into a den of Paupers and
would blast the prosperity of the most
industrious people that; ever brought
to tiie culture of the brown uplands of
our best f avored states the intelligence,
the system and the machinery of the
Nineteenth Century.
OLD l-ARTY REMEDIES.
What are the Democratic or Repub¬
lican parties doing to check this terri¬
ble Classism of National Banks?
Nothing.
What does the Platform of either
party promise to do about it?
Nothing.
Why is there no warfare upon the
abuse from the one party or the other?
Because National Bankers control
them both.
Yet men who think they are dealing
with the question fairly say “Give the
Democrats a chance.’’
Very well; let us give themachauce.
Let us suppose that the Democrats
capture all the branches of the
inent and enact into law every I’iank |
in their Platform. j
This is granting more than reason
and experience tells us He should.
But let us do it! Then what have
we got?
Wo still have the Nations) Banking
system In all its favoritism, anaed
1 with all It* power, threatening nil its
tlangew, for tin I lenmoratlo 1‘lailorm
contains no Viank which calls lor the
1 repeal of tbelr Special T.-imleges.
concikstl.n and ruin.
Under tills terrible system natureV
blessings turn to curses.
A magnificent yield .if einton leaves
people scantily clothed.
A magniilee.it yield of corn leaves
them scant ily fed.
Strange state of things when abun¬
dance brings w ant and success means
failure.
WHAT Is OVER lUplplOTIOS?
Over production is lid explanation.
Over production means that we have
made more than necessity calls for and
Unit, all wants being satistied, the
surplus is cheap because no man need -
it.
W ould that it were so! Would that,
aur people had all the food they wished,
all tin* clothing they needed, all the
necessities which make home a comfort
and a haven? Then indeed we would
care little about the surplus of cotton
or corn or wheat.
NOTHING TO Bl T V WITH.
No Gentlemen! Tli« explanation
won’t do.
it Is uol that the people do not wish
to buy. Oh no. It is because they
have not the means to pay with.
Georgians want more heat. They
haven't the means to buy with.
Kansans want more cotton. They
have not the means to buy with.
Yet each overproduced ! Each bad
too much abundance. Each had too
inuob prosperity!
Infinite absurdity! What it, the true
cause of distress where industry did so
much to supply its needs?
The Medium of Exchange had been
so contracted that a Special Class en¬
joying Special Privileges had the power
to keep labor’s products from exchang¬
_ ed th each other at their true
,
^ ^ can 6xpla i n wty abun¬
dance brings scarcity.
KfiKE SIT.Vta.
Wljat does the Democratic Policy
offer as a reinedy for this awful state
of things^
Ttior nffor ns the - a inereaHM of Tffit-t v
eehfs*piece i'n currency under the
Bland Silver Hill!
With that princely addition to the
circulating medium they say that we
must rest satisfied: diShafid our Reform
Army; cet.:-“ to agitate and educate;
cease to ass for *60 per capita; and go
back to our drowsy indifference till
such time as the Rankers demonetize
Silver again as they did ip 1873,
NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.
Mr. Bland in his Report on the. Free
Silver Rill claims that if would increase
the volume of Currency *22,000,000
annually.
About Thirty cents per capita! Read
the Report and see for yourselves.
Yet Northern aud Eastern Democrats
(of the Ranker sort) are kicking like
mules against this slight increase.
Hill’s lieutenants are fighting it—fear¬
ing with ehe best ot reasons that the
New York Democracy will repudiate
him promptly if he favors any change
in our finances.
A VERY SMALL TED TO THE WIIA/.E.
This is bad enough but the worst is
to come.
The Democrats who favor this in¬
crease of thirty coma in our currency
arc coolly claiming that if (hey pass
the measure through the House, the
people must rest satisfied aud quit tins
agitation for more money!
CLEVELAND AND HIM. LV T HE SAME
BOAT.
If the money power of the .N-;rili
and tiie Fast could so completely con¬
trol, both Cleveland and Hill that
neither one of them dares to say be
favors such a mild piece of expansion
to the Currency as Free Silver would
give us, then liow on earth can we ex¬
pect them to declare against National
Banks and in favor of taxing the
iniiiionaires and issuing $60 per capita
of Greenbacks to the people?
We need not expect; it. it will not,
Le done.
THE sun TREASURY.
In order that the volume of currency
might increase or diminish ns the peo¬
ple needed it; or did not need it to per¬
fect; their exchanges the Sub-Treasui y
Plan was offered.
No better plan (ms yet been offered.
Its principles are sound, practical
anti conservative.
Its main purpose is to supply a suf¬
ficiency of the medium of exchange
tmoney) when It is most needed so that
Labor’s Products may be exchanged
the one for the other at their true
value.
FEDERAL TAXATION.
2nd. We ail are agreed on the Tax
Question.
The evil of which we complain is that
the Federal Taxes are now levied on
the necessities of man and not his
Wealth.
The Millionaire pays no more tax
than a one-horse tenant.
Very frequently noitso much. When
a system of Taxation is based upon an
increase of price in the 2,500 articles
which e.nter into the needs, comforts or
luxuries of a great people you have
enthroned a Tyrant which can tax you
out of a y j Ugt proportion to the way it
taxes me; which r an tax me out of all
j US £ proportion to the way it taxes
some one else.
The burden Is uot kid with reference
t 0 the strength of him who is to bear it.
I pon the other Imiul, the richer the
citizen, the less his t:i\ ns compared
to I lie poor.
Not only ts tills so toil when tile rl.'li
citizen Is engaged in iii.iiinliii turlng,
making tinware. bssunre, iron ware,
or tiny other ot tin many industries
which are protected under our Tariff
System, he actually makes a splendid
profit out of me Taxes of Ids fellow
citizens. •
1 lew is this done?
The Increased price ou the good* ho
makes (owing to the Tariff’ comes
out .if the pockets of all of us w ho buy
his goods. Ti.ey go into Ids. There¬
fore tiis profits mainly come from our
taxes.
The Ooverinneut never gels a cent;
from him. The Government gets no
money except from the Foreign pro¬
ducer who brings the same article here
to sell to us and who under the Tariff -
M.-oen must pay a t/'nsium House duly
for tho privilege.
" hen we buy from a foreigner he
adds tho duty to tiis original price ami
vve pay It. ll goes therefore totno
Government through the < uaioiu
Houses.
lint out of all the enormous increase
of prices which the Tariff' causes on
home-made good, .tie Government
gets nothing.
The protected industries i it all.
Tims ihe few fatten on ti.e many.
Tiie classes grow rich ou file luxes of
the masses.
Did the u’or. ' ever s« ■ n greater
w r.nigV
i> kmoo it a tic dodging.
" hat does the Democratic Platform
promise on I hat line?
It promises “Tariff Keform.” What
does Tariff Kidorm : • an in j>resent
politics?
The Lord only knows, With one
politician it means one thing; with
another, it doesn't mean that at, all.
With one section it means one thing;
with another, it means just the op¬
posite.
Tariff Reform in Politics lias more
stripes than a Zebra; more tastes than
a Turtlw; more smells that a bark-
alley; more colors than a crazy-quilt;
more ingredients than hoarding house
hash; more surprises than a trick
smile; more lives than a town cat.
If a citizen has been disappointed In
love or annihilated in a horse trade and
feels suicidaiJy inclined I know of
not hing more nkeiy to lu iug uu a,calm
and decorous end through the easy
approaches or' softening of the brain,
than a continuous and unrelieved
search after the true political meaning
of Tariff Reform.
May the mercy of Providence be
ready and ample for a People who will
always be soothed into quiet by the
periodical sham light over the same
old Imaginary Field of 'Tariff Reform.
Among the people it had « meaning.
Among the politicians we have found
that it; tuiH none.
OVIt REMEDY.
Wiiat is the remedy- we propiuc for
rliis terribly unequal system of Tax¬
ation !
The Income Tax.
Lay tlio- tin lie i uu ii; - wrung man
in proportion to i c- stn-ugth.
Make flic millionaires pay tribute.
Compel I hem in help pay t tic expenses
of the Government in proportion in
their means.
Tsu’t ii, just?
Then why does > in- Democratic
Platform contain no such (femumi?
Because the millionaires are at the
bead of It.
The Republican Party is in (lie same
control.
'I he People’s Party alone has had lit
con ram* i say to the Piutoenits "Pay
your taxes,”
. Ai'-i’-'K UI.KOHM.
Judging from the amount which
the Income Tuv yielded during the
War Period wo Believe that it would
now yield a sufficiency to pay the ex¬
penses of this Government economi¬
cally administered.
Tim Tariff tax would tints go down
before the Income Tax. The one
system would replace the other.
This is practical iy Tariff Reform - a
Reform which puts tax upon accum¬
ulations of wealth and not upon the
necessaries of life ; a Reform which
does not content itself with endless
wrangles over a difference of four or
live per cent in the Tariff schedules.
TEA NS PORT AT t ON QUESTION.
fird, Upon the Rail Road Plank
there is some division among us. I
can but urge that every citizen study
the situation.
The Rail Roads now are the Public
Highways. Corporation
No Private should
have the arbitrary power to levy
tolls upon the traveler, his express,
his freight or his communications
with his fellow man through vole
gi.qi i.^ <,, tv epnonex.
The Public Highways should he
open to all the people alike.
Give to Corporations the power to
levy tolls at will, and they acquire a
mastery over your business which
you can never shake off. Every in-
vestment you make is at their mercy.
Legislatures cannot control them.
On the other hand they easily eon-
trol legislatures.
lhev have ahwolute power over
labor/ They can destroy or create
cities. They car. close Harbors as
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Guild’s Signal.
Two tow whiitles, .plaint and dear,
'(tint, wan the signal the engineer—
l list was the sikual that Guild, 'Liu laid,
have so liis wife at i’rovidenea,
a. through the sleeping town, and th«no»
Out in (lie night,
Un to the fight,,
l)o,vn past the farms, lying while heaped.
«
As a husband's greeting, scant, no doubt,
Yet to the woman looking out,
i twitching and waiting, no serenade,
hovt-song or midnight roundelay
Snid wbat that whistle seemed to say :
“To my trust true,
Bo Jove toyou!
Working or waiting, good night!” it said.
Brisk young bagmen, tourists Do,
Old commuters alone the lln ,
ruaxemen and porters glanced ahead,
Snu.eJ , < the sigual. snarp, Intense,
Pic. cue through the shadows of Providence
“Nothing amiss—
Nothing!—it is
Only Guild calling ’its wife, y said.
tiutnmei' und winter urn old refrain
Kang o’er t; Knows of ripening grain,
Pierced through the bedding boughs o'er
head,
I'lcw down tho tracK when the red sheaves
burned
Like living coals from tho engine spurned;
• Bang as It flew:
“To our trust true.
First of all, duty I Good night 1 It said.
And then, one night, it was heard no more
From Stonington over lib ode Island shore;
And tho folk in Providence smiled and
salt],
As they turned in their beds: “The engineer
lias once forgotten his midnight cheer.’’
One on.y knew
To his trust true,
Guild lay under bis engine, dead.
—[Dret Harte.
HUMOROUS.
Bctier late than novor -Going tc
bed.
Tho benediction arouses awakened
Jnterost.
A man's deeds live after him. So
do his mortgages.
Coasting is dolightful sport for boys
but it lias Us drawbacks.
Jealousy will create heart burn and
so will too many buckwheat cakes.
When the ambitious young man goes
forth to seek his level ho begins right
off to look for a ladder.
“Real clovaw l’ellaw, Baggs is, real
cldvaw follow.” ’'Out what" Is he'
clever at?” “Why, at being so dooeed
clovaw, don’t chew knave.”
Greenland hits no eats. How thank¬
ful the Greenlanders should be. Im¬
agine cats in a country where the
nights are six months long!
Doctor—Did you have much of a
chill? Fair Patient—It seemed so.
Doctor—Did your temti chattor. Fair
Patient—No; they were in my dress¬
ing-case.
Schoolmaster—Scientists toll us the
moon is inhabited. George {from
the bottom of thj cias»)—Thoti where
do tho people go when there's only
half a mo ou?
Foreigner—1 was in your Congress
once when tho scene was noisier than
that in a stablo. American—That
must have boon wlion the “neighs”
were being ooiintcdl
A piofossor in the medical depart¬
ment of Columbia College asked one
of tho more advanced students:
“What is the imme of the tot-Gi that a
human being gets last?” “Fuiso teeth,
of course.”
Miss Molly McGinnis—Yes, tobog.
gauing is all very well, but you don’t
know whether you will come back
alive or dead. Qua do Smith— Er—
you’ve always come back alive, I
suppose, Miss Moliie?
Brown—Hay, -lone-, . nun yon come
in late at night won't you iff way*
woke your wife? Jones (promptly)
--Never. Brown (surprised)—Jee-
hosaphat! Row no you manage it?
Jones (will) a sigh)—I don’t have to.
Character in Mustaches.
Tiiero is a great deal of cliaraoler in
(lie mustache, i • lie form of the
upper lip and tho regions about It ha*
largely to do with the feelings, pride,
self-reliance, manliness, vanity and
oilier qualities that give self-control,
tho mustache is connected with tho
expression o\ those qualities or the re¬
verse. When the mustache is ragged
and, as it, were, firing hither and
thither, there is a lack of proper self-
control. When it is straight and
orderly the reverse is the case, other
tilings, of course, taken into account,
Jf there jg a tendency to curl at tho
outer ends of the mustache there is a
tendency , to ambition, vanity and di»-
P 3a y* When tho curl tin*us upward
there is a geniality combined with a
love of approbation; when the incii-
nation is downward there is a more
6 edatc turn of mind, not accompanied
w ;n, gi 0o m. It is worthy of remark
, b at good-natured men will, iu play
j tl(0 lnU8 tachc, invariably give
. naUon .
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cross-grained or morose men will pn /
it obliquely downward. — [National
Barber. ...