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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.