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CRAWFORDVILLE ADV( (GATE.
VOL. II.
SIDNEY’S TEMPTATION.
A TERRIBLE MOMENT IN THE
LIFE OF A SCHOOLBOY.
An Interesting Story for Boys
Who Expect to Go to Board¬
ing School.
BY AEBBEKT X). WAS©.
“But. mother, how ridiculous ! I’m
no longer a little boy.” Sidney straight¬
ened himself up to his full height of
five feet five, and looked at his mother
with an insulted air. “Besides, I’ve
never been in Boston in my life, and I
want to go.” The boy pursed his lips
out petulantly. looked her .only child
Mrs. Dorris at
with a conflicting expression. Was it
anger or was it embarrassment that
made her sunburned face flush ? She
east a quick, appealing glance at her
sister, which Sidney did notice. He
had moodily stooped to pick up the lit¬
tle King Charles spaniel, and was twist¬
ing its silken ear on his Anger.
“I will not send you to boarding
school Sidney,” said his mother, slowly
and sternly, “unless you promise give me
not to go to Boston except when 1
you permission. Resides I think the
rules of the school do not allow you
to go.” think it
“Now, Aunt Lou, don’t you
is rough on a fellow who has never
been out of his own town ? I’ll bet
you I’m the only boy in the city who
has never been to Boston, and only
forty miles away. I’m tired ol it”
Sidney turned pathetically to liis mid¬
dle aged aunt, who stood looking from
one to the other. She alternately wiped
her eyes and her spectacles with her
brown gingham apron. mother will let you\
“Perhaps your tl
through Boston on your way expensii to
school, but it will be more Junction!
than changing at Lowell
The last clause was added as a sort o',
apology to the daring suggestion of
the first. Aunt Lou loved her nephew
devotedly. All the long week they
liyed together in a little brick house on
a side street in tlie busv city of Hills.
For Mrs. Dorris and the beautiful white
spaniel took the train every Monday
morning for Roston, and there they
stayed until the last train on Saturday
night. Mrs. Dorris’s husband had died
when Sidney was a baby, and tlie
seventeen-year-old lad could not re¬
member the time when his mother had
not spent the six days of the week in
Roston, attending, as he supposed, busi¬ to
his father’s business. What that
ness was, he never knew. It lias been
long accepted in the house as a subject
which should never be mentioned.
Sidney had passed through the gram¬
mar school and was about' to spend a
year in a famous hoarding school. Sid¬
ney and his mother loved each other
devotedly She could hardly bear to be
separated from him on Sunday. It was
a great concession, but the hoy’s new
clothes had to be tried on and folded,
and his new trunk was to he packed and on
that mild September afternoon,
what mother would not give up the
most engaging business one day in the
year to see her only boy off in spick
and span condition ?
“Sidney will change at Lowell Junc¬
tion and lie a good boy,” said Mrs. Dor¬
ris, after a long pause. "I will see him
that far on the train myself, and then
go on to the city. He will find liis own
way from there. He is old enough enough to
look after himself, but not old
to be disobedient,” she added, signific¬
antly. Ermine's tail pull.
The Sidney gave yelp muttied liis a
dog's little own
sigh.t said, philosophically.
“All right,” he
“I’ll be a man soon and then I'll go
where I please.”
“When you get through college.” an¬
swered Mrs. Dorris, snapping yourself, her eyes,
“and earn enough to support
then you can do as you please. My
work will be done then.”
“At least, I can go into father’s busi¬
ness and help you.” Sidney looked up
at his mother lovingly. All opposition
to her wish had faded from his face.
The little dog barked gleefully, table but
Aunt Lou held her hand on the to
Steady herself.
Mrs. Dorris stared at her son as if
she had not understood his words.
The color abruptly left her sunburned,
parchedjskin. She looked twenty years
older in that instant. Sidney was
frightened at the change. Mrs. Dorris
“You shall never-”
did not finish.
“Mother !” cried Sidney, “you are ill!
Dear mother !”
But she straightened herself up from
her habitual stoop, pushed him aside,
and left the room and shut the door
behind her. Sidney stared after her
aghast, but made no effort to follow.
Sidney Dorris entered the senior class
of the great fitting school with no con¬
ditions. There were seventy more
boys in the same class, yet Sidney felt
as if he had been cast upon a desert
coast Although he had been used to
associating with boys all his life, yet.
as this was the first time that he had
ever been away from home by as much
as single night, the feeling of home¬ it
sickness overpowered him. and
seemed to him at that time impossible friends.
ever to form acquaintance and
Sidney was a handsome hoy. His
hair was dark and curly, his eyes were
straightforward and clear hazel. Be¬
cause of his fearless expression Sidney
was a boy’s boy, and so it was most
natural that one of the richest fellows
in the class, a member of the most ex¬
clusive of the many secret societies in
the school, should approach him on the
third day. It is a good thing that in
our American schools there is no rank
in school but that of good fellowship.
So the recognition of Tom Devenant
was enough to give Sidney a social
position for the rest of his course.
“You’ve just come into onr class, and
I’m Pevenant—Tom. for short I hope
that we mav see more of each other.
He held out his hand cordially. It was
a fat hand exquisitely kept for a school¬
boy's. A gold snaked ring with two
good sized rubies for eyes, glistened tennis on
his third finger, lie wore a fine
suit.
“Have a cigarette.” Tom took fro
his pocket a silver cigarette holder and
handed it over to his new classmate.
Sidney hesitated, blushed, and then
took the proffered narcotic. Lie had
never smoked in his life before ; but it
seemed to him that he should lose caste
before the eyes of his classmates if he
refused. If a poor boy had asked him
to do the same thing, he would have
said “No” quick enough. fashion, which has
It was this fear of
stupefied the honor of many a noble
but weak fellow, that made Sidney
yeild. And to give way in one thing
like that is to yield "became in many. fast friends, and
Tom and he
Sidney was elected : nto the Reetle So¬
ciety, of which Tor Devenant was the
patriarch, and who badge of member¬
ship consisted of a| vory beetle, which
was exhibited between members on va¬
rious occasions in mysterious said Tom ways. No¬
“Look here, Sid,” one
vember morning after Greek composi¬
tion, “all of us, you know” (in gutteral beetle
whisper, exhibiting his ivory in
after easting oblique glances every tlie
direction) “are going to Roston on train
12:42. We’re going to cath the
on the siding. The engineer always
slows down for a good cigar. Crumpy
(referring to the principal) won’t matter?” be
onto that, llay? What’s the
Sidney stammered and colored.
“1 don’t think I ought to go ; I can’t
get permission.” don’t
“Now Sid, look here; be a
gilly.”. That was the worst reproach
a boy could fling at another in that d ay.
No dictionary has been able to define
the meaning of tlie term as used by
schoolboys in this satiric sense.
“But I can’t afford—you know,”
stammered tlie poor boy.
“Rah ! Nonesense ! This is my treat.
As a member you have got to come.”
And Sid went.
A few hours later a group of seven
boys emerged from an ice cream saloon
r ■ m Tremont street. They crossed
* to the Common. They were in
1 spirits, and policemen and citizens
d upon them indulgently. Tom. After
was ahead with
ised Beacon street Sidney lag
.ind in order to steal a glance
le famous highway that repre- th
■die culture and wealth of e
•nnmofiwealth. In the mean-
4 Boys had stopped at tlie iron
gate ,aat leads to the stone steps and
the Capitol. They were laughing and
chaffing, jingling pennies, surronding
an old woman.
“Here, .Sid, hurry up ! You’ve got to
chip in. Can’t let you off, old man.”
It was one of these hurdy-burdy play¬
ers whom tlie boys had stopped to tease
with generous and careless nonchal
ance. She was bent, and evidently
old. She was sitting on the sidewalk
huddled up against tlie gate, droning
her lugubrious instrument slowly and
pathetically. The perforated slip that
inspired the wheezy strains seemed to
catch, and then jump ahead. The ef¬
fect on the asthmatic music was ludic¬
rous enough to draw pennies from a
bootblack. The grinder’s head and
shoulders were enveloped in two the
shawls ; her eyes kept watch upon
little tin cup whose bottom was already
hidden by the pennies that the thought¬
less boys had dropped in. the knuckles,
One hand purple and 'thin, at ground out
weather-beaten
the hoarse tones, while the other fon¬
dled a beautiful white King Charles
spaniel. bark? I’ll give cent to
“Can he a
hear him bark,” cried Tom with a jin¬
gle of his right hand. “Here, Sid—
give your superfluous cents to the poor
—not that he has any sense to give,”
he added at his attempt to be funny.
The boys all laughed loudly. Before
he knew it. Sidney found himself
thrust almost at the beggar. He had
to put out his hands on the railing
above her to keep from falling against the
her. He laughed joyously fellows, witii can’t
restand said: "Oh, letup, the
you ?” Then heilooked down, and
color died from his face, as the cloud
hides the sun.
He beheld Ermine, his own little dog,
to whom he had sent messages of love
in letters home, in the arm of that/wo
man below him. In that instant shock
the command of his mother flashed be¬
fore his mind, and now he knew too
well what that order meant.
“Shell out, Sid!” The inexorable
Tom gave him another shove.
“I can’t stammered the unhappy lad.
He stood trembling in every limb, the
picture of horror and confusion.
“Can’t ? You’ve got to give to the
poor. Haven’t you read your Bible?
We’ve all done our duty. Come—shell
out! Why ; what’s the matter, Sid ?
Are you sick? By Jove. I believe he
has recognized the Dutchess of York.
With another loud laugh the boys
turned from the beggar looking upon Sidney.
Ermine had been on, as small
dogs are apt to do, with quick intelli¬
gence. He had recognized wriggle the young had
master, and with one
leaped out of Mrs. Dorris’s arms and
was ' jumping up Sidney’s legs, barking
at the top his lungs. Sidney’s class¬
mates staved at him in amazement.
“Give it to us, Sid ?” asked one of
the fellows with a rough sneer, “Who
is she ? Out with the mystery of the
beggar dog.” In that moment Sidney
saw his position in the great school
ruined beyond retrieve. He gave Er¬
mine a brutal jkick and took from liis
pocket a few coppers and threw them
into the cup with a defiant gesture.
“How the dickens do I know?” He
said this with an oath. It was his first.
“Come on, won’t you Even now he
might escape, although the boys were
only half satisfied ; but the spaniel fol¬
lowed faithfully. follow¬
“Here, Sid, here’s your dog mockingly.
ing,” cried his schoolmates
“He seems to know shouted, you.” with mad¬
“Go back !” he a
dened. gutteral voice. stopped abashed
The beautiful dog
and turned in piteous doubt toward its
mistress. At that moment the stolid
figure, which had not moved from its
granite position when the lad denied
his mother, now lifted up its head and
looked at him for the first time, when
he rebuffed the dog. and oh, what
shame and disappointment and pride
were in perforated that glance slip ! changed, and her
The
right hand now mechanically ground
CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 9, 1895.
out the last popular melody. ‘‘Ok.
Promise Me ! Oh, Promise .me !” Sid
ney had often sung this in chorus with
the boys at school. The sound of the
tune and its meaning brought his heart
back to his mother. Oh, her sorrowful
face! Of what value to him was his 1
position in school ? What was the
petty opinion of his new mates ? Here
was liis mother. With a bound he was
by her side, and he bent and put hip
strong arms around her, as if to pro¬
tect her from any further insult from
his classmates. For five terrible min¬
utes he had denied her. Rut now he
saw things in a new light His mother,
no matter what she did, was more than
Tom. Home was more than school.
“Well, Sid, who is your friend, any¬
how? She’s a daisy.” Tom Devenant
spoke with his pertest air of sarcasm.
Sidney raised himself to his height.
His hand rested lovingly on his moth¬
er’s shoulder. His classmates stood in
a jeering “I crowd around leave him. alone.”
must beg you his to classmates us straight
Sidney looked spoke his grand¬
in the eyes, and with
est air. “That lady is my mother.” the
Tlie tension was too great for
sensitive lad. He swayed and swooned.
Tom caught him, and the boys, so
easily turned from sarcasm to pity by
the instinct of their youth, classmate’s now seemed anguish to
understand
and tried to minister to him.
“lie never knew I did this,” said
Mrs. Dorris in a low tone to Tom as
they both tried to revive her son. “I
told him not to come to Roston. I took
to it when my husband died, sixteen
years ago, because there’s so much
money in it. I’ve been an honest wo¬
man and worked hard, God knows for
my boy. I wanted to give him a good
education--” Here she sobbed “All.
young, sir, lie’s the same boy he was
before he sawjme. Don’t blame Sidney !
Don’t give him up! I’ll give u up.”
Tom’s mouth twitched as lie listend.
.lust as Sid opened his eyes his own soft
hand stole around the knotted knuckles
of the organ woman, and lie gave them
a warm “You pressure. me,” he said. “I'll
may trust
be his friend.” Then ho looked seri¬
ously at tlie mother and son with the
experienced air of a man of tlie world.
“1 think you had better give it up now
for his sake,” lie whispered as he helped
Sidney to his feet.
The great street player nodded
silently. When Sidney had struggled
to his feet and began to look for her in
a dazed way, his mother had disap¬
peared in the crowd.
That night there was a meeting of
the Reetle Society. Sidney alone was
not there.
“It isn’t his fault,” said tlie Patri¬
arch. “What’s the use of belonging to
a society unless you stick to eacli
other?” Re stopped appealingly. and looked from
one to another
“I move you,” said a member, ad¬
dressing Tom, “that any man who gives
Sid away in this school or even after,
and who doesn’t stand up for him like
a "brother is a—a gilly, and shall be
eternally disgraced, enough,” End—and--” said Tom, with
"That’s
swimming eyes. “All in favor, hands
up. Contrary minded—— lb is a unani¬
mous vote. The meeting is adjourned.
Let’s all go and see Sid.”
And to the honor of the boys and of
tlie school the vote was scrupulously
carried out.—New York Press.
A Millionaire from the South.
One of the hardest faces one could
wish to see is that of John II. Inman.
It is a granite face, cut with a cold
chisel. A couple of years ago I Inman
was worth $7,000,000. I don't know
how lie stands financially now. He New be¬
gan life as a banker, then came to
York and went into' the cotton busi¬
ness, drifted from that into railroading
and is to-day dealing in coffee. A wo¬
man in this city has the finest, most
complete collection of Confederate
money in existence, and in looking
over the great volume in which all the
different notes are pasted, the other
day, I came across one bearing the sig¬
nature of -‘Inman.” It carried me back
over thirty years to the failure of the
Rank of Ringgold, Ga., the bank of the
Inmans, which left the surrounding
country in a vale of tears and desola¬
tion. If 1 were the possessor of $7,000,
000 I should hate to have those notes
hanging over me, though in law they
are worthless. I know one man who
has had $15,000 of them in hissafe these
thirty years, along with $1,000,000 of
Confederate notes, waiting and pray¬
ing that some day they may beredeem
ed. Inman’s hank was no less dismal
a failure than his Richmond terminal
scheme.—N. Y. Press.
Farm News was mistaken. When an
accident of that kind occurs we always off
own up at once and get the matter
our minds. Our readers will remember
that two or three months ago we pre¬
dicted that the Baltimore plan for im¬
proving the currency of the country
by giving the finances of the nation
over into the hands of the bankers,
would be carried out, inasmuch as the
bankers had the sole control of the
matters for a good many years. We
underestimated the power of the farm
press when we made that prediction,
There was a storm of ridicule directed
against the speech of the man who
said the bankers knew what they
wanted and the people were fools,
This storm reached the doors of the
capitol, and even made its effects felt
in the very council chambers of tlie
nation, and the plan is dead—died be- j
fore it was fairly born—and the people !
are jubilant, thougli they have condi- no ! j
promise of relief from present
tions. They merely feel good that
things are not goiDg to be made worse.
The death of this plan shows that the
leaven is working, and that we. the
people, nave cause to look forward
with some degree of hope.—Farm
News.
We would like to impress on all.'that
while the price of everything else drops,
the mortgage on the farmer’s farm re¬
mains the same—increasing, in fact.
While he signed that mortgage with
wheat at one dollar a bushel, and could
have paid it with five hundred bushels,
it takes 1,000 bushels for the interest.
Do you wonder the farmer does not
prosper? And the same is true of the
laboring man trying to buy himself a
home.—The People s Tribune, Saginaw,
SILVER THE CRY.
THE ADVOCATES OF SILVER
TO MAKE IT AN ISSUE.
Congress Adjourned and the
President Arranging a Fish¬
ing Trip.
Congress has adjourned at last.
The last days of the session were
characterized by a rush and scramble
never before witnessed at the capital,
jit was by the bearest possible margin
that the appropriation bills were rushed
Through These in appropriation time for adjournment. bills contain
tome of the most extravagant and use
- ess expenditures ever inflicted on the
tax-payers Every by Congress. designs
the lobbyist that had have on
Treasury seems to gotten
what lie wanted and the representa¬
tives of the “dear people” in both
themselves wings of the Capitol also looked out for
in a liberal way.
It may therefore he said that this
Congress billion out billioned which tlie Republicans the scandal
Congress was
of. the nation during Harrison’s ad¬
ministration.
President Cleveland has stated that
there will be no extra session called,
as threatened, lie will let the govern¬
ment' rock along the best it can and
issue bonds whenever it suits the pleas¬
ure of himself and his friends, the
money lenders.
Yhe failure of Congress to give recog¬
nition to silver lias aroused tlie friends
of tlie white metal issued to aggressive declaration war
fun. They have a
in favor of unlimited coinage and advo¬
cate that it be made tlie sole feature of
the next campaign. The signers of the
pronuneiamento do not' advocate the
formation of a new party.
The call is addressed "To the Demo¬
crats of the United States,” and reads
as fallows :
“We the undersigned Democrats,
present for your consideration the fol¬
lowing "We statement: the establishment
believe that
of gold as the only monetary standard
and the elimination of silver as a full
legal tender money will increase dollar add the
purchasing power of each
to the burden of all debts, decrease the
market value of all other forms of
property, continue and intensify busi¬
ness depression, and, finally, reduce the
majority of the people to financial
bondage. “We believe that party hope
no can
for enduring success in the United
States so long as it advocates a single
gold iAndard, and that the advocacy
of espeeffcliy Mill a financial policy would be
JalaiUi a party (which, like
the Democratic party, derives its voting
strength from those who may without
reproach and point be called to the tlie overwhelming common people, de¬
we
feat of the party in IHD4, to the opposi¬
tion aroused by the veto of the seigni¬
orage bill, and still more the protest
against the Democratic issue of gold bonds as proof
that the party cannot lie
brought to the support of the gold stand¬
ard policy.
Tlie Majority Sliolil Control.
“We believe that the money question
will be the paramount issue,in 1800, and
and will so remain until it is settled by
the intelligence and patriotism of Un
American voters.
“We believe that a large United majority of
tlie Democrats of the States
favor bimetallism, and realize that it
can only lie secured by the restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver at the present ratio,
and we assert that the majority have,
and should exercise the right to con¬
trol the policy of tlie party and retain
the party name.
“We believe that it is the duty of the
majority, and within their power, to
take charge of tlie party organization
and make the Democratic party an
effective instrument in tlie accomplish¬
ment of needed reforms. It is not nec¬
essary that the Democrats should sur¬
render their convictions on other ques¬
tions in order to take an active part in
the settlement of the question which
at this time surpasses all others in
importance.
Make a Stralghtout I'iyht.
“We believe that the rank and file of
the Democratic party should at once
assert themselves in the Democratic
party and place that party on record
as in favor of the immediate restora¬
tion of free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver at the present ratio of
ltt to 1, as such coinage existed prior to
1873, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation, such gold
and silver coin to be a full legal tender
for all debts, public and private.
“We urge all democrats who favor
the financial policy above and impress set fortli their to
associate themselves
views upon the party organization; with we
urge all newspapers in harmony
the above financial policy to place it at
the head of the editorial column and
assist on the immediate restoration of
bimetallism.”
The signatures to the call were not
ma de public, but it can be stated that
Evan P. llowell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, while in the city tonight,
signed the document and said tlie Con
stitution would take up the fight on
the lines laid down in the call,
The Omaha World-Herald, of which
Congressman Bryan is editor, will also
endorse it.
No member of the Georgia delegation
has yet signed the silver pronuneia¬
mento. Mr. Bryan asked Colonel Liv¬
ingston to do so to-day, but the At¬
lanta congressman said he first desired
to consult with the old members of the
delegation. The delegation may meet
tomorrow and discuss tlie matter.
That temporizing old canard, “an
international monetary conference,”
has again been resurrected standard. to pacify
the opponents of the gold
This is sprung to lull the gathering
storm. The fact that President Cleve¬
land has announced himself a u a warm
advocate of the conference is sufficient
evidence to show that there is no sin¬
cerity in the movement.
Should a conference be held it will
amount to no more than the previous
one did. It would be an international
debate covering a long period and then
an adjournment without action. This
government is big enough to regulate
her own monetary system, and as soon
as we can get men ( .o represent us who
have the interest of the nation at heart
she will do it, independent of European
powers. President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle at last accounts were prepar¬
ing for their monthly fishing North trip to
the mountain streams of Caro¬
lina.
lloth are said to be in need of rest.
That secret houd deal was enough to
enervate them. It certainly made the
tax-payers tired.
One of the leading events of the
closing days of congress was the resig¬
nation of Postmaster-General llissell
and the appointment of Congressman
W. L. Wilson to the seat made vacant
in the cabinet. As a cuckoo of the
first water Wilson deserved the recog¬
nition he lias received at the hands of
his dictator, lie stood by Cleveland
when defenders were scarce, and his
appointment to the cabinet was a
graceful way to take care of him after
the congressman's constituents had re¬
pudiated him.
We have never been what is known
as a “calamity howler'” for we have
always had faith to believe that the
people of this country would see to it
that it was not driven to ruin by design¬
ing men and corrupt politicians. We
have believed that while Americans
wore the most patient bearing people abuse in from the
face of the earth in
their law makers, t hey would find a
limit a long way this side of disaster,
where they would call a halt. The
American people know their power,
though it seems sometimes they are
slow to use it soon enough. Now it
looks as if there was to be a general
awakening in all parts of the country who
and those of the public servants to.lie
have betrayed their trust are
called to account, A wave of reform
is sweeping over the land and when it
lias finished its course wo have no doubt
but thqjre will be a purer condition of
politics than we have seen for a good
many years. Party ties are being
broken and party fidelity is weakening, begin¬
and the voters of the land are
ning to think for themselves and vote
as they please, The sudden reversals of
the verdicts of the polls are as hopeful
as they independent are surprising. and When be men whip¬ be¬
come cannot
ped into the party traces by blatant
stump speakers then we have come to
the time when oibce holders will look
to it that they perform their tasks ac¬
ceptably because they know any fail¬
ure to do this will result in their own
downfall. Public servants are seldom
any more faithful than 'their constitu
/Lab. compel tl: ".eP■' }><>. nod evjlji iqviw
up anil become great aiyyst before the
mass of the people know'of their pres¬
ence. When they affairs do begin they to realize
the true state of are not
slow to take the proper means to bring
relief. Farm News does not care for
party, nor what party is in power as
long as the affairs of the country are
administered properly and to the best
advantage of all the people.—Farm
Nows.
II. W. Holloday sends this rather
pathetic but courageous note from
Oberlin, Kansas: “I’lease find 50 cents
on subscription and extend same. Can’t
send bu> '•cuts at present, don’t
know \ ' lee another lial f
dollar. fin ing here in
our county \i leeatiir), but the boys
keeps a stiff upper lip and are striving
to win votes. And you bet we are win¬
ning them, too. I have to quit raising
tobacco to pay for my papers and guess
I’ll have to quit my coffee, and take
to mush. Rut send the old Noncon¬
formist. Can’t convert old plutocrats
without it.”
“The Foremost Russian.” “I ilC
long,” says Count Tolstoi, “to that
class of people who by divers tricks
takes from the toiling masses tin; neces¬
saries of life. . . . and I imagine that
1 pity people and I wish to assist them.
I sit on a man’s neck and weigh him
down, and 1 demand that lie shall
carry me; and without descending
from his shoulders I assure myself and
others that I am very sorry for him
and that 1 desire to ameliorate his con¬
dition by all possible him.” means, only not
by getting off of
Less than five hundred men in con¬
gress make laws for seventy million
people. Nine-tenths of these misrepre
sentatives are attorneys for - the ______ eor- ___
porations and trusts. The fools and
rascals call this a republican form ol
government. One man exercises the
veto power. Official patronage warps
and controls a majority. If we would
have a people’s legislation.—Iowa government ve Referen¬ must
have direct
dum.
The Ness county People’s printing party com¬
missioners let the county to
the Ness City News, a Republican pa¬
per of that city, because the work. they Whoever put in
the lowest bid for
heard of a set of Republican commis¬
sioners letting the printing to a Popu¬
list paper for any such reason? In
Sedgwick county they let it to the
Wichita Eagle, the highest bidder, at a
grossly exhorbitant price,—Ka-sas
Commoner.
Cleveland in his last message 1 i Con¬
gress says in substance, “I am going
to give to foreign money lenders an¬
other issue of <<12,000,000in bonds if you
want to save the government <10,174,-
770 in the interest on these bonds you
can do it.” If all the government’s
obligations are redeemable in gold un¬
der Mr. Cleveland's construction of the
law, we fail to see where the saving
in.— r i he .North Texas
power comes
Review.
The greenback America’s is sprinkled with the
benediction of most loyal
heart blood. Shall it lie destroyed by
bushwhacking bankers?—The New
Era, Jonesville, Mich.
NO. 9.
SHORT TALKS.
WHAT EXCHANGES SAY ON
LIVE TOPICS.
Comment That is Weighty With
Interesting and Important
Matters.
Gold is not money, but money can be
made out of gold, by law only.—Ex¬
change.
Yes the Populists teach Socialism—
the same kind of Socialism that Christ
taught.—Kansas Agitator.
Silver is an issue; silver is at present
a great issue; but silver is not the sole
issue.—The Watchman.
Populism is on the top shelf in this
state and reform is greatly encouraged.
—Osborne county, Kan. News,
Every strike is but a revolt of Amer¬
ican white slaves against their task
masters.—The People’s Advocate.
Ronds for the bankers? Soup for tlie
suckers that do the voting ! Let the ea¬
gle scream !-Voice of the People, J.a
Crosse.
The simplest, question of the hour
a nd tlie one most pregnant with results
is : ( an the people be induced to think?
Times.
If the government perishes, to the
anarchy of the rich and not to the an¬
archy u f the poor, will its dovvfall be
due.- -The Star and Kansan.
Tlie merchant, the farmer and the la¬
borer are in the same political boat.
1 lie prosperity of one is bound up in
tlie prosperity of the other. The Cur¬
rent Voice, Nashville, Tenn.
lias it ever occurred to you that if the
government has tlie power to make na
tional bunk money good bp putting its
fiat” on it, it can make its own money
good in the same way?- New Charter.
1 on landless toilor, paying rent for
the privilege of living im the earth,
where is your country? A “sweet land
of liberty,” isn’t it, in which three
fourths of the people haven’t a loot of
soil they can call their own.—Star.
1 lie utter idiocy of the present sys¬
tem is only too well illustrated when
its continuance can only be preserved
by teaching the children tlie art of
warfare and drilling them up to the
quickest way of taking human life.—
Justice, Providence, li. I.
The subsidized press regales us with
interviews of eastern men who talk of
free silver and lien Harrison in the
same breath. You might as well try
to harmonize the devil and holy water.
-Cloud City News.
to Th® continue, greed of capitalists, if permitted i
must result in absolute
servitude, Classes, not only of the laboring
hut all who are not million¬
aires, or a revolution that will shake
this nation like a volcano, -Glastcock
Banner.
changed Monarchy for and plutocracy have not
opposition centuries; their methods of
have changed. They used
to use the king, the sword and guillo
tine. Now they use a subsidized press,
court Referendum. injunctions an l bayonets. Iowa
Mr. Fred Anderson writes from South
* orner as follows : “Accept thanks for
tlie noble stand you took in issue of
the 7th on ‘The New Silver Party.’
No Washington silver plutocracy
should dictate what shall he in our
platform.”
'I he strongest weapon on earth is an
bleu. Every forward step in the world’s
of history is the result of an idea. Men
ideas often weary and fall by the
wayside idea in tlie long battle, but the
itself, like John Brown’s soul,, goes
marching on. Hartford City Arena.
Nome of the old party papers are ma
king Simpson capita) out of the fact that Jerry
lias said he would retire from
congress a poor man. This simply
shows that Jerry has not been selling
bis votes to the corporations.— West
Plains Quill.
The produce which God lias given for
the sustenance of his creatuoes cannot
be warehoused by the government; but
when that produce is turned into whis¬
ky by the devil for the damnation of
all creation, then it can bo warehous¬
ed. —G overnor Waite.
You are invited to better your condi¬
tion by voting for the party that offers
in its platform tin; necessary relief.
bine Bury forever the demo-republican com
that lias sold not only ourselves .
but our future posterity to British
bondholders. Let us do it at onee.
and not wait until we are compelled
to figiit for it.—The Michigan People.
Cleveland’s message had the effect
to advance gold from one-eighth to
one-tenth of one per cent on gold bars
and the price of wheat went down to
the lowest point on record. If an in¬
dustrial panic will learn the people
anything, Cleveland will be the great¬
est educator of the age.—Oklahoma
Representative.
The Pops are a wild and woolly set
of anarchists no doubt, but where is
the governor of any state who lias dis¬
played more quiet, gentlemanly digni¬
ty, coupled with calm, conservative de¬
cision, than have been shown by Ne¬
braska’s Populist governor during his
first six weeks of executive responsi¬
bility? Nebraska Governor Holcomb is acreditto
as well as to the Populists
who elected him.—Wealth Makers.
Think of a few thousand who seat
themselves three times a day to $2 to
$5 plates, and of the millions who are
seated to two and three cent plates,
and not three times a day, either.
Where is your law of distribution?
Ask the glorious g. o. p. and demo-rep.
parties which have administered vour
government. Ask them for a system
of laws that will place equal opportu¬
nities within the reach of all. and their
reply after elected will be you be d—d.
—Knights of Labor Advocate.