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WEAVER SPEAKS
TO EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
Tbonsanis Unable to Gain Admission to
tin Great Pavilion.
He it Received lVifli Storms of Cheers,
and Responds Nobly to ihc Mag¬
nificent Greeting.
SPEAKING FOR LABOR!
THE QUESTION THAT SHAKES THE
REPUBLIC TO-DAY.
Read His Earnest, Truthful, Prophetic
Words.
Gen. Weaver has complo'ed his trium¬
phal journey through tho Western Stntes.
In Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Califor¬
nia—everywhere he went—the General
was received with nn enthusiasm unpre¬
cedented in the West. It is significant
evidence of (he interest which tho peo¬
ple have in the great caus- which Gen.
Weaver so earnestly pleads. From the
old par y dailies one would not learn
much about these magnificent receptions,
an 1 not a word about the general’s
speeches. The associated press gave just
four lines t> the great 8 m Francisco
meeting—an event not witnessed in that
city for many years. From the San
Francisco papers we get tho following
liberal report of the speech, which they
acknowledge was a “splendid effort”:
Mr. CnAiuM an, Ladies and Gentle
men:— If these meetings continue to in¬
crease in numbers and enthusiasm', we
will have to move to make it unanimous
and abandon the campaign. This cam¬
paign began at Vincennes, Ind., on the
21st day of July, and now hire we aro at
the Golden Gate, and all along the route
clear across the continent crowds of this
character and magnitude have assembled
to greet us and briug us assurance of vie
tory in’the Ides of November. My friends,
we are in the midst of the most tremen¬
dous political auything upheaval that the world
has known about. When I was
a boy I renumber the great break-up that
took place between 1858 and 1860, when
the Free S ail Democracy and the Free
Soi! Whigs, despairing of doing any¬
thing with the pio slavery parties came
out and met in the middle of tho road
and saved this Union, and saved the spirit
of liberty uud< r the constitution and the
Declaration of Independence. Here we
are in the same phase of tho same battle.
What was the underlying philosophy
which culmiuatod in the nomination of
Abraham L neoln in 1800?
FOR THE FREEDOM OF LABOR.
Wendell Phillipi said to me in his own
tesidenco in Boston: “Mr. Weaver, then
nre but few people who understand the
movement that culminnt.d in the war.
That movement was the great b title for the
freedom of labor, but it is yet to be fought
out on the continent, because the result
of the war was simply the extension of
the battle, the not to conclude with the free
dom of black man, but to contiuue
with tho moneyed power which began
where the slave power los', and which
great battle of labor has yet to be fought
out on the American continent. You
may live to see it, and probably will, but
I will be called home long before that
contest will take place.” I thank God
to-night that the great prophecy ballot of a
great man will be fulfilled ut the
box in November, Now I want the
careful attention of tbe people tonight
while I interpret this question which is
now shaking the Republic from center to
sea. What does it mean? Is there no
justification to it? My friends, shores" have you
ever taken jour seat upon the of
the Pacific here and watched the great
wares os they chased each other like
things other? of Just life and push thus one t 1 e
so it goes, and one follows
another in this movement of tho people,
which I wish to interpret before you to¬
night. Now, 1 am talking to you, and
shall address you as laboring people.
THE STATUS OF LABOR.
Labor produces all the wealth of this
world. You clothe the naked back of the
world and you feed its hungry mouth.
The world waits for your iudustry. I
assert, without fear of contradiction,
that you enjoy less of it in your bom s
than any other class of people living un¬
der our iltg. facts Let us call attention now
to a few that are indisputable. A
statistician ofjfnown reputation that no
one will question savs that in 1839 30
000 men, heads of families in this coun-
try—men who have never earned a dol¬
lar of weal-.h, os laboring men do, in
their lives, and ho says, after mature de¬
liberation, he can reduce it to 25,000
men—own one-half of the wealth of this
entire country, or $31,000,000,000. I
have no way of properly conveying to
your nriod how much $31,000,000,000
are. Tho war for the suppression of the
rebellion cost $^,000,000 p r day to the
federal government. L t us say that the
cost will was equal to the confederates. That
make a total of $4,000,000 per day.
The war lasted 1,400 days, which makes
a total cost of Qe-war of about $3,000,-
000,000, yet these 25,000 men have accu¬
mulated in thirty years $31,000,000,000.
They have accumulated euough to carrv
on a war for Tour years,nnd carry out the
work with nn expenditure of less than
one-third of the wealth they h ivc accu-
mutated. I put the question to the critic,
to tho editor, the lawyer, tho banker
I want to ask you in tho face of these
facts, dare you say before God and in
this presence that the republic is iu a
healthy condition when such thing* "mine? can
take placj in your lifetime nnd in
Ah, my brother, why do you criticise
these laboring men? How can you find
it these in your heart to say that these"farmers,
wageworkers, should be quiet and
subservient when they have been having
this treatment for years? You might
stop to inqirre info tho causes cf this
enormous accumulation of wealth without
toil. Oh,my brother,that you shou’d have
been going acid casting your vote with
the corporations of this country, with
the trusts, and thus strengthening their
hands to crush out these laboring men
and reduce them to serfdom.
THE BIGHTS OF LABOR.
How dare you Stand up before these
men and say they have no right to or¬
ganize to protect their own families?
Now let rue give you another illustration.
A man died m this country a few years
ago very rich. His name was Vander¬
bilt, and let me s iy right here that I have
nothing I to say ag.dnst the man • God for¬
bid; only speak against his wealth
This movement Is like the Dutch-
man’s hesrf, who said, “I wish
nil men were rich; it would bo better
for the poor.” I want all men to
be rich, if they get rich honestly. lie
should eat his bread in tho sweat of his
own face. I do not like nny man who in¬
sists that it is righ’ to eat nis broad in
the s * eat of some other man’s face. This
movement is too big to fight one man.
1 here is no use shooting a twenty-four
pounder at a tomtit. A friend of Mr.
Vanderbilt came to his rescue, and he
was a rich man, and he said Vanderbilt
was not worth $275,000,000, but only
$220,000,000, by a conservative estinm'c,
and said furthermore that it took him
nnd his futher thirty years to accumulate
it. Now, I want to illustrato that; I
want to contrast that fortune with the
accumulations of labor. You laboring
meti here now, can you on an average
support your families out of your wages
aud lay up $1 per day? [Cries of
“No.”]
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.
Now, let me suppose that the first la¬
borer was Adam, and we will suppose he
never dies and accumulated $1 a day over
his family expenses for the whole period
of G,000 years, down to the day before
Vanderbilt died; he would have accu¬
mulated $2,190,000, nnd yet Vanderbilt
accumulated $220,000,000 in thirty years,
sod would not have hired Adam for a
hostler. Now, I will give you another
illustratiou: There is a class of men in
this country for whom I have a great deal
of respect, for they are doing a great deal
for the human race. They are called
scientists, and they have been very skep¬
tical, and thought a few years ago they
were going to pry up the Rock of Ages.
They thought they had discovered a
prehistoric man who lived before Adam.
Suppose they were right. Suppose they
discovered a man 60,000 years before
Vanderbilt. Suppose that man worked
hard enough, was never sick, never had a
doctor bill nor rent, and suppose he lsid
up a dollar a day, how many dollars
would he have accumulated? It depends
upon how many days there arc. There
are just 219,000,000 days, so you the sec
Vanderbilt could have bought out
prehistoric with gentleman which and had the a Califor¬ million
dollars to buy up
nia legislature. Now, I am mentioning
Vanderbilt’s name with respect. I «m
only talking about his fortune. I pre
sumo there is no man here tonight, un¬
less he has been converted by the Peo¬
ple’s party, who would not hive done as
Vanderbilt. Now, I put this question
again to those who have been standing
aloof and wondering if this movement
was going to accomplish anything. Do
you think this republic is in a healthy
condition when such results can take
place within a lifetime? [Cries of
“No.”] Well, that is what the trade
uuions think about it and the Farmers’
Alliance and the wage workers. Do you
think you can stop this movement.
[Cries of “No.”] Get out of its way or
it will run over you as sure as you are
living. of the have
These sre some facts that
caused the people to organize. Our fa¬
thers state in tho Declaration of Inde¬
pendence, and this movement is to vital¬
ize that declaration, to protect the rights
of laborers ia this country. Our fathers
sta*e. “We hold this truth to be self-
evident.” SVhat is a self evident truth?
It is one that is as evident as the sun in
heaven. VVe feel it. How broad that is,
how like the heart of God. How “all
men are created equal,” one man before
another. I stand here deriving my rights
from no government but from my Crea¬
tor. What is an inalienable right, a
right that can neither be bought nor
sold; no man can buy r, nor c.au he sell,
either for himself or his children. There
are certain inalienable rights.—his life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To
these good governm :nt* from are the so governed. many men
deriving their power
When these governments do not do right
it is a duty to abolish those govern¬
ments.
'Now, if that is reason, make the most
of it. I propose to live up to it and
teach it as long as I live on this earth.
It is the great palladium of the world, If
you h ive the right to abolish a govern
tucn‘, you can blow into flinders these
parties which destroy your end. rights. Well, A
party is only a means to an
now I am coming right home at you. You
nre either democrats, republicam or peo¬
ple's party men, and I would not be sur¬
prised if up to a month ago the mijoricy
of you had been dcmocra s or republi¬
cans. Now tell me what there is to hope
for from either the democratic or repub¬
lican parties. [Cries of “nothing, noth¬
ing!”] Why did you not get tired of the
republic in party and put it out of power
nnd put in tho democratic party with its
own legislature? Then the democrats
shouted themselves hoarse aud said, look
out for a real old Jacksonian party. Was
there any change'? [Cries of “No!
Nor
Oh yes, in the 8au Francisco post-
office. Weil, the people got tired and
put the republican patty back iu power
—the whole government back in the
hinds of the republican pirty. Then the
republicans said, now let us show what
w • cm do. They have hai it for three
years or over, and what have they done?
[Cries of “nothing, nothing!”] Oh, yes;
changed the postoffi -e, the same us tbe
other fellows. Now, suppose my friend
here has an old buggy with axles sprung
and spokes loose, and'the boards iu the
bottom of the bed broken and tho torn
flips flying in the breeze. Suppose he
should change his driver, would it help
the buggy any. [Laughter.] And that
is what they have been doing, my friends.
You have said the buggy is all right, but
she won’t track. It is not a change of
drivers wanted but a new vehicle.
TICK DUTIES OF CONG HESS.
Well, what does this uew pirty prom-
isethit tho old parties don't? Let me
give you au illustration in constitutional
1 iw. I iuvite tho attention of the legal
profession. I will mike an illustration.
Plain, because all laws should be plain,
and I believe before God that if ever p
class of msn‘ were inspired, excepting
those who compiled the gospel, I believe
those are the men who made tho constitu¬
tion of the United States. Tint consti¬
tution says this: “CoDgreos.” What ia
congress? Why it is tho power of the
people, which takes iu the entire coun¬
try. “Congress shill have power to
regulate commerce among the states,
with foreign nations and with the Indian
tribes.” Now. whatever p >wer is c m-
ferrol there, the legal miud will see the
framers thought it too important to leave
to the states und so took it away. If the
states were to exercise this power, they
wou d get into war and exercise it to
local advantage. If left to individuals,
they will use it for individual gaiu, and
so they took it away from all and gave it
to congress to reg ulate coumorce.
COMMERCE AND CONGRESS.
If you aro auythiug here, you are a
commercial people. What is commerce?
It is the buying, selling an l shipping of
the things bought and sold among tlv
states. Now, what can congress do?
Can it fix the price of wheat shipped
from here to New York? Can it fix the
the prioe constitution of goods here? mean? No, Daniel What Webster does
said that the constitution could only
mean one thiug, and that was to regulate
the instruments through which commerce
was carried on.
What are they? They arc three. It is
wonderful how the figure three and the
number reven run through human forces.
What are they? The producer, the man¬
ufacturer and the distributer. They are
the great divisions of human endeavor.
What can congre-ss regulate? Well, God can
congress regulate money? No,
bless you, they farm out that power to
a few aristocrats called national bankers.
Docs congress regulate money here?
No; they have given that out to the
national bank. Well, some one may say,
if he is opposed to the national bank, he
must favor the sub-treasury. I don’t. I
am opposed to the sub-treasury that you
have now. I ain opposed to the national
bank sub treasury scheme. How do you
start a national bank? Five persons go
and deposit bonds with the national treas
ury. Is the bond au evidence of wealth?
No, it is an evidence of your poverty, of
the debt you cannot pay. That is what
a government bond is, and these men go
and deposit them with the secretary of
the treasury,and the lawsayathat the con¬
troller can issue $90 on each $100 in na¬
tional bank notes. What is a national
bank note? The greatest mistake you
ever made, my brother, was when you
supposed that the government resides at
Washington. It only does business there.
You men and women are the government.
THE UNCROWNED KINGS AND QUEESS.
You women are the uncrowned queens
nnd you men the uncrowned kings, and
I salute you. The law says that the
treasurer may give these bankers 90 per
cent in notes and then continue to pay
them on the whole 100 per cent every
year, nnd in advanco if they so wish, and
they let them have this money at 1 per
cent interest.
THE STORY OF ABE AND RUTH.
Let me illustrate this. I have a boy
whose name is Abe and a daughter whose
name is Ruth. When my father lived on
the frontier he kept what little money he
had in a bureau drawer. We did not
fear any thieves, either.
Now, suppose Abe should come in and
says: have
“Papa, I see you some money.
Cai you loan mo $1,000?”
Isay: “Yes, my sod, you can have it
at 1 per cent interest, if you will give me
securities of the right sort.”
“What securities do you want?”
“Well, I’ll take preferred stock in the
Southern Pacific railroad.”
Then my daughter comes to me, and
she says:
“Papa, you have loaned Abe money;
can’t you let me have some?”
And I say: “Yes, my daughter, if you
can give securities of the right sort.”
“What do you want?”
“I will take preferred stock of the
Southern Pacific railroad.”
“But,” says she, “I have not got it, but
I will give you a mortgage on fine lands
and full graneries. ”
I say: “I cannot take it.”
And she says: “But lam paying Abe
10 per cent interest in advanco on the
money you loan him at 1 per cent.”
Now, put it to the mothers here, and
the fathers, who love their children and
have no right to deal unfairly with them.
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE ROBBED.
I ask them what kind of man would
you think me to be if I treated my chil¬
dren th it way, nnd sister? preferred You Abe, the
brawny son, to his would
say I was an old wretch and unfit for as¬
sociation .
Yet you have been doing this for years.
You have been letting the rich banker
have your money for 1 per cent, aud you
have compelled the rest of Uncle Sam’s
family to pay 10 per cent for the use of
their own money. That is the kind of a
sub crowd, treasury I am opposed bond?”] to. [Voice in it
the “Where is tho Oh,
is there drawing interest. The interest
on that bond eats like a cancer on the
vitals of labor. And if we get into pow¬
er, we will abolish that; nnd I want to
tell you now what the laboring men of
this couutry have concluded. They have
found out that the supreme court has de¬
cided that this national banking system
is constitutional, and I say there arc not
lawyers enough to overthrow it. They
siy that if congress has this power, Uncle
Sam’s arms are long enough to reach
over the shoulders of the b inker and
usurer and hand it to the man who made
the money. Thank God, this great
movement has for its motto the golden
rule, “Equal and exact justice an 1 speci¬
al privileges to none.” These bankers
have had these privileges long enough.
FAIR AND PROPER DISTRIBUTION.
In distributing money we should con¬
sider the men who fight the battles and
maks the wealth cf the republic. Can
you answer that argument, my brother?
But the Chicago Tribune attempted it.
They said tho money would not be of nny
account. How can the manner of put¬
ting money into circulation affect its
value? I have a dollar in my pocket.
Suppose I throw it out there and a poor
boy picks him it up, would is me? it not Suppose bo as valu¬ tbe
able ta as it to
specie should be scattered all through
the country, would it not be as valuable
us if locked up in the sub-treasury?
[Voice—“More.”] found
Yes, more, I have sixty-four
boys in the country named ufter mo. To
each one I have given a dollar. Are not
those dollars as valuable to them as to
me? The Chicago Tribune said: “Well,
but the security would be no account.”
What security do these people give?
Why, the earth aud the fullness thereof,
and if you know of anything else, they
will give that, and you say it would not
be good.
MORE MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
It is saying that the sinner is greater
than his Redeemer. Now, that is all
these farmers and laborers propose. They
just propose this, that inasmuch as it is
tho farmers and laborers who are pro¬
ducing the going wealth of this country’, they
are not to be overlooked in its dis¬
tribution.. I will tell you what this la¬
bor movement means. When we get
into power there will ho more money in
circulation than there is now. I wish
that I had the power to open the eyes of
this tremendous audience, that within
the lifetime of the men and women lis¬
tening to mo we will have in this country
oue hundred millions of human beings
living under our flag, bone of our bone
and flesh of our flesh, who will light ou
this continent to stay with us. And yet,
what preparation are wo making for the
coming of our young? The laboring man,
business man, critic, listen to this: What
preparations aro you making for the com¬
ing of our posterity? We are coming to a
day of canibalistn, where every man will
sharpen his wits to live upon the other
man. ,
Ho.v many people have we to-day?
Sixty-four circulation. million, using the money we
have in How many people
were in this country at the close of the
civil war! Twenty-flva million, 89,000,-
000 less than now. Do you realize here
tonight that those 89,000 000 more peo¬
ple have less money than had the 25,000,-
000 when the w«r closed? The best au¬
thority says we had over |2,000,000,000
in circulation when the war closed, or
$80 per capita. I am right, and I defy
anybody in the world to dispute any
proposition I make here tonight. Now
we navo 04,000,000 people and only $1,
000,000,588 in circulation, lhat is a
decrease of 20 per cent in your money
and an increase in your people, and yet
you send clear to Iowa to have me tell
you what is the matter, when, if you put
your hand in your pocket, you will fee 1
what is the matter. It’s an empty
pocket. what’s the and yet there
That’s matter,
are people saying to you, why, there is
plenty of money in this country; but
those men are not laboring men or farm¬
ers or trades-union men. Now we are
going to have more money, and the first
step wo nre going to take conservative when we come
into power is a very one.
We are not going to flood this country
with too much money. Don’t get scar¬
ed. We are going to give you monev
just like we would give a starving man
something to eat. We are not going to
give it all to you at once; we will give it
to you in broken doses; we will give you
sound metal money.
SILVER IS GOOD MONET.
We have gone back into the history of
this world from the dawn of the world
to the times of Abraham Lincoln, and
we have found that silver has been good
money through all time. We have con¬
sulted the messages of Washington,
Madison, Monroe, the Adamses and An¬
drew Jackson, and the testimony of the
present time, that silver has been the
handmaiden of gold, and we say that as
soon as we come into power we will give
you a bill authorizing the free coinage of
silver in the preseut ratio of 16 to 1.
Who is going to be hurt?
Nobody but the man who has got a
cinch on the laborer—the men who own
the gold—a few bankers. Now come,
brothers, who is hurt? Who is hurt if
you have silver in place of gold? No-,
body is hurt. I heard a man siy the
other day that he would be. lie was a
fine specimen, too. He had no coat,
wore a check shirt, and had only one
suspender. He said: * ‘If they give us
free coinage of silver, what are we going
to do when we get abroad?” That poor
soul wanted us to legislate for him when
he went abroad. He never thought he
needed any money when he stayed at
home. How many people go abroad in
proportion to our great population?
A GOOD ENOUGH DOLLAR FOR HIM.
What does foreign trade amount to?
How does it compare with the daily,
hourly business which takes place be¬
tween our people in their home trade and
business? What we want is the domes¬
ticated system of finance suited to our
broad national life. What will we do
when we go abroad? Why, I saw a gen¬
tleman recently who had just been
abroad. He had diamonds and wore
broadcloth, and as he came into a car
where I was, a lady recognized him and
said: “Where do you expect to spend
the summer?” I shall go to Sawtoga
and then to Lake Gore, I do adoah Like
Gore, and then Yurup,” and
people want us to legislate
for people who go to “Yurup.”
We will legislate for people who stay at
home. The kind of silver dollar we
want in this country is the dollar of An¬
drew Jackson. John Sherman says that
dollar is defective. “If you pay it out,
it will come back.” That’s the kind of
a dollar for me. They say: “Just give
us a gold dollar’s worth of silver bullion
in a silver dollar and we will give you
free coinage ” and they don’t even put
that in their platform.
TnE RAILROAD BARONS.
We tried for more than ten years to
have the Began bill pass through Con¬
gress. It is a very plain bill. It just
states this, that a railroad sha’l not
charge more for a short haul than for a
long one. Then they passed the Cullom
bill. The intention was to put it into
language that nobody could understand,
and to give the railroad the first guess,
and if you do not like the guess you
could appeal to the courts at Washington
or to the federal courts. They knew you
people would say, “I cannot afford to go
into court,” and so let it go. Congress
should exercise the powers of the con¬
stitution, but they are given over to the
barons of the rail, who hold the destinies
of this Union in their relentless hands.
It is the same with the telegraph and
with everything else in this country.
Everything is in the hands of the corpo¬
rations. I want here and now to plead
with you. God bless you, it will not
cost you your life to vote the People’s
Party ticket. The fathers laid down
their lives to give you this republic, and
your own brothers in the late war sacri¬
ficed their lives to preserve it. Can you
fear to go to the polls and cast one poor
vote that costs you nothing? Cist it for
your families, your fellows and your flag.
My brothers, the most solemn thing a
man ever did in the world, when wo
consider that all government comes from
the people, the most solemn thing a man
ever did in this republic, box. You is to ought cast his
ballot in the ballot to
be as solemn as when you go forward to
the altar to take a sacrament, because you
hazard the lives, fortunes and welfare of
64,000,000 people and their property.
Now I want you to take courage, too,
for everywhere in the republic, from the
valley of the Mississippi, fifty-seven whose feitile
soil is watered by navigable
streams, to the gorges dud canons of the
R ickies bored by the hand of God to
make way for the restless tale of our
civilization, everywhere throughout in every county
in the republic represented here the whole,
this movement to-night
is present.
FREDICTS PEOPLE'S PARTY SUCCESS.
This movement will is going to bo success¬
ful. Its power sweep every party
out of its way in November. The cam¬
paign is only two weeks old, ’ yet even
now one of the great parties has been
eliminated from the struggle. The Re¬
publican party is not in the fight nation¬
ally. Why do I say that? Because it is
evident. It is a sectional party. It is
confined to the northern States for its
votes. In 1890 it lost nine states which
it carried in 1888, and it will have to
regain them ail and carry all the silver
states in addition to be successful. It is
morally certain that the nominees of the
of the People’s party will take a number
of these states. How can the Republi¬
can party bo successful? Howisitabout
this party represented South and here tonight?
We will go contest the elec¬
tions with a greater prospect of carrying
them than the Democratic party has.
We elected over half of the legislators in
squoezed Alabama, in their and governor the fjemocruts by majority only
a
of 7,000 received in the colored belt. It
is as certain that Alabama will cast her
vote for the Omaha nominees as that I
am standing here tonight. Thank God,
we represent a party that is not sectional,
and which combine* the Blue and Gray.
Now whore i* the tight? It is between
the People’s party and (he Democratic
party. Now I want to lcavo with you
this injunction—stand to Idea your of guns, Novem¬ vote
for this ticket, and the
ber will see the grandest victory ever
gained on this eirth; but if any of you
busine-s men think you ought to c ist
your vote with Caruegie and others like
him, go and voters they vote, but if nny
of you think yon should make common
cause with the producers of wealth, align
yourselves under our banner. I quit the
stand in the hope that I have said some¬
thing that will at least make you under¬
stand that I am ia touch and in sympa¬
thy with the great and wealth producers of
this country, if I have I am content.
Our Rulers’ Occupations.
The following list specifying the pro¬
fessions and occupations of members of
Congress and the Senate, is very signifi¬
cant, and at th s time should have the
most careful study of all who have not
lost faith in popular government. To
the laboring m in it is of the utmost im¬
portance, for, after all, his toiling and
shouting for Democratic institutions, he
may possibly feel not a little surprised,
not to say alarmed, to find that he is en¬
tirely left out iu the cold, as far as rep¬
resentation is concerned.
Lawyers who live upon the ill blood of
the community, and whose interests lie
in mystifying rather than elucidating the
law—the paid hirelings in the majority. of trusts Bankers and
corporations are changers in suf¬
and the money show up
ficient numbers to make our fathers’
house anything but a house
of prayer, much less a cham¬
ber of justice hope and National impartiality.
Can the masses for legis¬
lation from bodies of men, whose private
interests are in opposition to tho public
welfare ? Experience and common sense
reply with a direct negative. We look
painfully down light, this suggestive will column
for one ray of that encourage
us to think that the producers and toilers
of the land are remembered. • The masses
—the majority of the ballot-box, the nu¬
merical strength and unrepresented backbone of the
nation are wofully in a
legislative council, which enacts
laws in the name of the people.
Let us not blame the lawyers, the bank¬
ers or tbe agents of monopoly, for this
unnatural state of things, and but ourselves
in neglecting our duties ignoring
priceless privileges. In the future let us
be up and doing and attend to our own
public business. Choose good men from
our own ranks, pledged heart and soul
to the People’s platform ; and at the polls
fill every office with our own representa¬
tives.
Representatives tried and true, pro¬
gressive, patriotic and broad in princi¬
ple. When the man is wanted he is al¬
ways at hand, and among the plain peo¬
ple, in the commoner walks of life, will
be found men fitting to the full these
qualifications. It is simply suicide to
elect men to public office who by their
atfilliations, training and lack of outside princi¬
ple can have no sympathies a
ring or a corporation. in the United
Our eighty-four rulers (?)
States Senate have the following avoca¬
tions, by which to make a living.
Sixty-four lawyers.
Four Capitalists. Journalists (Peffer).
Three
Two Lumbermen.
Two railroad officials.
Two manufacturers.
Two merchants.
Two public officials.
One miner (Jones). raiser (Shoup).
One miner and stock
One car builder (McMillan).
Ono physician. (Kyle).
One clergyman
One real estate dealer.
One banker.
One planter.
One marble quarryman.
No farmer and wage workers, yet
these same are eighty represented per cent of the
nation. Are we or misrep
resented? We are to blame.
Our rulers (?) in the United States
House of Representatives, have the fol¬
lowing way of getting their living when
out of office:
Two hundred lawyers.
Forty-three farmers aud planters.
Fifteen journalists.
1 liirtecn manufacturers.
Thirteen merchants.
Three lawyers and farmers.
Three bankers.
Three teachers.
Two farmers and stock raisers,
Two bankers and farmers.
Two publishers. officials.
Two public
Two clergymen.
Two real estate dealers.
One lawyer and insurance agent.
One lawyer and fruit grower.
One farmer and speculator.
One manufacturer and farmer.
One manufacturer and merchant.
One merchant and banker.
One banker and coal operator (Huff.)
One wood merchant.
One canner.
One tanner.
One physician. printer.
One
One literary man.
One hotel man.
One dairy man.
One railroad manager.
One warehouse man.
One lumberman.
One miner.
Thirteen without occupations, who if
they were laborers, would be called
tramps, but now M. C.’s. labor ought to
have two hundred and seventy out ofthe
above number, but instead, it is a pluto.
house. The most that can be said is,
that the Alliance has eight members, and
tho farmers have, all told, forty-five mem
bers. Tbe lawyers and most of the bal¬
ance, are as a class, the fuglemen and re¬
tainers of the joint stock companies in of ths
nation. What chance has labor such
a gang personally considered? None.
Yet it is its own fault, if labor allows
this to continue. The present congress
will work faithfully for their clients—
Wall street—even by doing nothing.
Labor is already robbed, squeezed dry,
under the wage system, nnd therefore
has nothing to fee the scamps. And,
next time?
Disappointed.
A party road were when driving one eventing or
a country they became aware,
on approaching a house, They that a stopped cornet
player wa9 and practicing. time listened,
tne horses, for some
in hope of hearing single something more evidently musi
cal than the stray notes,
given with great vigor, which reached
them. When, after a time, they decid¬
ed to proceed, one of tho party said re¬
gretfully, “I expected any moment tc
hear him burst into a beautiful piece,’
which brought the r< j finder from anoth
er, “Or to burst iuto beautiful pieces.”
—Harper’s Bazar.
Carrying a Mortgage.
Bilkins—“Jimson must have built that
fine housa of his under a mortgage, didn’t
Wilkins—“Yes. How did you know?"
Bitkins—“I notice his shoulders are
boginning to look like a Mansard roof."
Twenty Jumping Tootlinclic. Moiled Into
One
Fall far short of inflammatory rheumatism
into which its Incipient form, unchecked, is
prono relieved to ia devolop. Besides, liable, rheumatism If un¬
leaps, always heart in one of its erratic
life. Checkmate to light on it the the and terminate
at start with Hostet¬
ler's Stomach Bittors, which is also an infalli-
ble remedy for mala i 1 and liver complaints,
inactivity tion, of the kidneys, dyspepsia, constipa¬
nervousness.
There are 7,470,040 negroes in the
United States.
Sninulo Package Mailed Free.
Address Small Bile Beans, New Yo rk.
Platform scales were tho invention of
Thaddeus Fairbanks, in 1831.
Win dojjond in almost every case of sickness
President Harrison receives his salary
in monthly installments.
J. F. Smith & Oo., New York City : Gentle¬
men—I find Bile Beans Smalt to he perfection,
and cannot get along without them in tho
house. Please lind enclosed 50c., for which
kindly send 2 bottles. Mils. A. A. Tobias,
__Caverdale, Cal.
There are over 15,000 Masonic lodges
in existence.
Complexion cleared with Small Bile Beans.
Suspension bridges were first made iu
China 2,000 years ago.
Bnown’s Iron Bilters cures Dyspepsia, Mala¬
ria. Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves—
creates Mothers, appetite. weak The and best children. tonic for Nursing
women
A matter of some weight—proposing to a
two-hundred pound widow.
Tbe True Laxative Principle
Of the plants us cl in manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs, has a perma¬
nently beneficial effect on the human system,
while the cheap vegetable extracts and min¬
eral solutions, usually sold as medicines, are
permanently injurious. Being well informed,
you will use the true remedy only. Manufac¬
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co,
What is the most desirablo 1 <a’ e-knot ? The
marriage ceremony.
A Matter of Life or Dearth.
Do you know that the state of the blood run-
mng ’ m your veins is tbe cause of sickness
health ? This is import year
or your a most ant mat¬
ter, although deal of overlooked good by people w ho show
a blood great has kept sense otherwist. Your
to be pure, or your whole,system
gradually check becomes and a wreck, it costs very- little
to diseaso correct tlie state of the
blood if the matter is taken up in time; but it
costs taken a great deal, disease and is often impossible, if
up after lias gained a foothold.
If yon are troubled with Syphilis, Itch, Hu¬
mors, Swellings, Skin Disease, Rheumatism,
Pimples, Liver Scrofula, Kidney Malaria, Catarrh, Fevers,
and diseases, Old Sores, Erup¬
tions, blood, or any other disorders resulting from im¬
pure write at once to Dr. S. C. Parsons,
derful Savannah, Ga. and His Blood only Purifier Is a won¬
bottle. remedy, Send costs one dollar per
lot of private 2c and stamp valuable for pamphlet information. containing Dr.
a ■
Parsons Female Regulating Pills are very effi¬
cacious. Write to him without delay.
The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN YOU FIND THE WORD?
There is a 3-inch display advertisement in
this paper, this week, which has no two words
alike except one word. The same is true ol
each new one appearing each week, from The
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a
"Crescent” on everything they make and
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BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS or SAMPLES FREE.
Can a defeated candidate who has been
“scratched” be said to be tickled.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
riches system by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which en¬
the blood, lilie charm tones the nerves, aids diges¬
tion. Acts a on persons in general
ill health, giving new energy and strength.
A man in Trenton has a stamp worth 81000,
for which he paid 9 cents.
A. M. PRIEST, Druggist, Shelhyville, Ind.,
says: “Hall’sCatarrh Cure gives the best of
satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials,
it cures every one who lakes it.” Druggists sell
it, 75c.
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Our old reliable eye-water cures weak or in¬
Price flamed eyes or granulated Dickey Drug lids Co., without Bristol, pain. Va
25c. John R.
Scurvy and scorbutic affections, pimples,
and blotches on the skin are caused by impure
blood which Beocham’s Pills cure.
Simply Awful
“ 1 had what the doc¬
tors called the worst
case o f Scrofula
they ever saw. It
was on my arms,face and
neck and was simply aw-
full Fivo years ago I be¬
r: ■ gan to take Hood’s
j Sarsaparilla and
r Ueo. .„„ w at. ,p„ I urner, ri ,,, r found the sores gradual-
b( , gaIl tQ heal j took
A 10 bottles I and have was had perfectly good health cured.For and the past no
years N.
sores.’ ’ G.W. Turner, larmer, Galway, Y.
Hood’s Pills enro liver ills,constipation, bil¬
iousness, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion
Voung Wives
Who are for the first time to
undergo woman’s severest trial
we offer
“Mothers Friend”
A remedy which, if used as directed a few
weeks before confinement, robs it of its
PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFE
of both mother and child, , , thousands , who
as
marvelous results, and wish every woman
Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Montgomery City,Mo.
Sent by express, charges pre-aid, on receipt of
price, fl.59 perhottle Sold by all druggists. Book
To Mothers mailed free. Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Bradfield Regulator '
Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is the
Rest, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
CATAR R HI
50c. Sold E. by T. druggists Hazeltlne, or Warren, sent by Pa. mail, v
iilillill w. L. DOUGLAS FOR
^ der^lalse^irete'ncesL 90%#£i
A sowed GENTLEMEN. fine Calf,
ernuino shoo that will comfortable, not rip s
seamless, smooth inside, flexible, more stylish
and quals durable than any shoes other shoo ever sold at tho price,
custom-made costing from $4 to $5. complete
I I* The only $3.00 Shoo made with two
eolcs, which gives securely sewed at tho of outside cheap edge (as shoes shown sold In at cut), tho
double the wear w#lt
same to a narrow price, for strip such of easily leather rip, having the edge, only and one when sole sewed once
on
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il k when -worn through can be repaired as many times as
necessary, as they will never rip or loosen from the upper.
^ Purchasers of footwear desiring to eeono-
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m of these cheap shoes, welt and shoes not sold $3.00.
\ to buy only commend at
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Pimples
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A RBEVIDENCR That the blood i,
■wrong, and that nature is endeav¬
oring to throw off the impurities.
Nothing is Swift's so beneficial in assisting sS
nature as Specific (S. S.
It is a simple vegetable compound. Is
harmless to the most delicate child, yet
tt forces the poison to the surface and
eliminates it from the blood.
MS.S.S
Fulton, Arkansas.
‘August Flower”
“lam ready to testify under oath
that if it had not been for August
Flower I should have died before
this. Eight years ago I was taken
sick, and suffered as no one but
a dyspeptic can. I employed three
of our best doctors and received
no benefit. They told me that I had
heart, kidney, and liver trouble.
Everything I throw ate distressed August me so
that I had to it up.
Flower cured me. There is no med¬
icine equal to it.” Eorenzo F.
Sleeper, Appleton, Maine.
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