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THE CRAWFOEDVILLE ADVOCATE.
CRAWFORDVILLE Consolidated with I
DEMOCRAT, Oct. 6,1893. i
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Listen to the man.
’ Hurrah for Mayor Sutro.
Democracy is still dead.
| Tell nothing but the truth.
i Sold a t auction—American l iberty.
Don’t vote the old “scab” tickets any
longer.
Circulate reform books among your
neighbors.___
Workingmen should vote only for
workingmen.
Organized labor should not “scab” at
the ballot box.
Mayor Sutro of San Francisco is stir¬
ring up the animals and the railroads.
Stick to theOmaha platform and the
middle of the road.
Rapidly the old parties are fusing
against the advocates of good govern¬
ment.
Who wasTt said the Populist confer¬
ence would confine itself to the discus¬
sion of silver?
While there is a single acre of Amer¬
ican land held by aliens the land ques¬
tion will never be settled.
j The labor unions are learning that
they can’t succeed by voting either of
the old party “scab” tickets.
The national pawnbrokers who call
themselves bankers, should be forced
to earn, their living or starve.
1 Mayor Sutro of San Francisco
seems to he loaded with an earth¬
quake pointed at C. P. Huntington.
There are enough lands unjustly held
by corporations in this country to fur¬
nish homes for ten million people.
The best made currency plans ot
bankers and gold bugs have to be
stuffed with government fiat, before
they can make a shadow.
I When c7p. Huntington violates the
law, the officers refuse to issue a writ
for his arrest—but the poor man may
be arrested without a writ.
l If the check of the bankers could be
converted into confidence, the country
would experience an over-production of
this ethereal commodity.
Lawyers thrive only on the strife of
the people. Think of that, and then
of how many lawyers we have in con¬
gress—about three hundred.
i Every interest-bearing bond issued
by the government is an endless chain
on a force pump revolved by the wheels
of oppression to pump the products of
labor into the tub of monopoly.
1 The corporationfTand “trusts arc wip¬
ing out the individual business men all
over the country—and yet the little fel¬
lows continue to vote for cut-throat
competition and monopoly.
. : Did you notice how quickly the pluto
press dropped Taylor, the defaulting
treasurer of South Dakota? If he had
been a Populist, instead of a republi¬
can, the associated mouthpiece of An¬
anias and plutocracy would have
howied fo r two years.
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The amount of land granted by the
United States to railroad corporations
amounts to more than the area of the
original thirteen states. Don’t you
think it about time to consider the
land question?
The idea of “redeeming” bank notes
and silver certificates with gold, in a
country that owes more gold than the
nation possesses and pays more gold
interest to Europe every year than all
the gold produced. Absurd, isn’t it?
' It is not claimed that equal rigiits to
all and special privileges to none will
transform men into angels at once—
but it would give every man an oppor¬
tunity to better himself—which many
can’t do now, even if they already pos¬
sessed the disposition of angels.
Senator Hill is in favor of the elec
tion of senators by popular vote. The
people have been in favor of that for
many years. Reforms always originate
down among the people, and then when
some great leader finds out what the
people are thinking about he is hailed
as a man of original ideas.
The Chicago Tribune recently devot
ed a full page to describing the silks,
satins and diamonds worn at a great
“charity” ball in that city. It must
make the poor recipients of plutocratic
bounty feel happy to know that the
benevolent dancers had to sacrifice
The moneyed men of . the .. country ,
having secured during the depression
a great deal of cheap property by
ture and otherwise, now desire a
temporary expansion of currency so
ings. But They want bank notes
can be contracted when they get ready
to make another haul. They are op
posed to government issues which
would make the expansion permanent,
It is generally remarked in v Kansas
that the reason J. Ralph Burton was
defeated for the senatorship was be
cause he had not yet reopened his as
signation house for the season, and the
republicans had consequently coo ed
in the ardor of their convivial love for
him. was Breck.nr BSkTnHdge g- ef t e Ke a ntu C ;^an . a d
doubtless for the reason that he was
getting too good.
Th itv bank notes Dro
nand the government might issue
enough legal tender greenbacks to in
crease the present currency to $50 per
capita, and ail the wealth of all the
people or tho nation would be behind
it. insuring security by a backing ot
over three thousand per cent for each
all and a vary government npta.
IS ANOTHEB SELL.
BLAND AND BRYAN ISSUE
MANIFESTO.
Stick to the Old Party and Put a Free
Silver Plank in the Platform
Blatherskites Endeavoring to Dupe the
People.
Messrs. Bland and Bryan have re¬
cently started one of the cheekiest
political moves that has been fathered
by any set of political nondescripts
since the birth of the devil. It is for
the democrats to stay in the old party
and try to select delegates to the next
National Democratic convention that
will force the adoption of a free silver
plank in the platform. Then what?
They had an expression on silver in
their last platform which Messrs.
Bland and Bryan and nearly every
other speaker in the political cam¬
paign of 1892, said meant free silver.
Mr. Bland, in a speech in the house
August 11, 1893 (Congressional Rec¬
ord, special session, page 252), said:
“We voted the ticket in good faith;
we expected that the platform would
be carried out as was promised—that
we would have tariff revision, and that
when we came to the money question
it would be regulated according to the
Chicago platform, that we should have
free coinage of silver, which in itself
would destroy this makeshift. But lo
and behold, we find that we were
tricked, that we were deceived. And
I use that language advisedly.”
Mr. Bryan, in a speech in tho house,
August 16, 1893 (Congressional Record,
special session, page 410), said;
“The last platform pledges us to the
use of both metals as standard mbney
and to the free coinage of both metals
at a fixed ratio. Does any one believe
that Mr. Cleveland could have been
elected president upon a platform de¬
claring in favor of the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman law? Can we
go back to our people and tell them
that, after denouncing for twenty years
the crime of 1873, we have at last ac¬
cepted it as a blessing? Shall bimet¬
allism receive its death blow in the
house of its friends, and in the very
hall where innumerable vows have
been registered in its defense? What
faith can be placed in platforms if their
pledges can be violated with impu¬
nity?”
This is what Messrs. Bland and
Bryan said with regard to the demo¬
cratic platform adopted at Chicago in
1892. They said that that platform
meant free silver. They insisted that
no other construction could be placed
upon it. On that platform, declaring
as they said, for free silver, they both
went into the campaign and worked
for the democratic party. They led the
people “as sheep to the slaughter” and
their party “through a slaughter¬
house to an open grave.”
Mr. Bland, in the same speech from
which we quote above, said:
“My God, shall we do such a thing as
that? (demonetize silver.) 'Willi you
crush the people of your own land and
send them abroad as tramps? Will you
kill and destroy your own industries,
and especially the production of your
precious metals that ought to be sent
abroad everywhere? Will you do this
simply to satisfy the greed of Wall
street—a mere agent of Lombard
street? * * * Any political party
that undertakes it will, in God’s name,
be trampled, as it ought to be trampled,
into the dust of condemnation, now
and in the future. Speaking a3 a dem¬
ocrat, all of my life battling for what
I conceived to be democracy and what
I conceived to be right, I am yet an
American above democracy. 1 do not
intend, we do not intend, that any
party shall survive, if we can help it,
that will lay the confiscating hand up¬
on America in the interest of England
or of Europe. Now, mark it, this may
be strong language, but heed it. The
people mean it, and, my friends of
eastern democracy, we bid you farewell
when you do that thing. Now, you can
take your own choice of sustaining
America against England, American
interests and American laborers and
producers, or you can go out of power.
We have come to the parting of the
ways. I do not pretend to speak for
anybody but myself and my constit¬
uents, but I believe 1 do speak for the
great masses of the great Mississippi
valley when I say that we will not sub¬
mit to the domination of any political
party, however much we may love it,
that lays the sacrificing hand upon sil
ver and will demonetize it in this coun-
“Gentlemen, you cannot hold the
democratic party together on that line,
Yon cannot nledge vourselves to bi
and ignore
U in >our legislation lwslatlom We \Ve pledge pledge our our
Behes in the «« ^t
and the people had a^right^to^expect to expe^
of the country we were told to let ail
ver alone; that we already had a law
on that subject. They said to us: Do
not disturb that question, but take up
the tariff; we are united on the tariff;
let us take up the tariff and reform and
reduce it; tbe tariff is doing us great
, n , ury . let us attend t o that first.’ We
th0U g ht th at declaration was sincere
and w@ thoU gh t the first thing to be
{a){en wag the repeal of the
* L m , • » i beleive it was
"bat in nded by 0 ur eastern rXm Democratic
considered first, but their main, if not
their sole, object was to put their
hands upon silver and demonetize it
and let tariff reform take care of itself
«a„. And b„. w« .r. 1„„ in
that situation Reduce the tariff 2a
per cent, yet make money in go,d 2a per
cent more valuable, the tariff remains
as great a burden as ever. It takes the
game quantity of wheat, corn, pork and
cotton to pay it as before. Now I tell
yo u I ar not going to submit to it.
You may asa your bill and do these
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A VAIN EFFORT.
This Country Will Never Be Prosperous Aculn Until SUver Is Restored t° Full and Unlimited U oluugo
things; but if you do we are going to
cut loose from you. You may go ahead,
but you will never trick us again.
Do not charge me with being a radical
or a fanatic,or with indulging in threats.
I speak the sentiment of the masses
I would not say it if it were not true.
You propose to remit us to the demon¬
etizing act of 1873, which in all my
section of the country the democratic
party on every stump has denounced
as the monumental fraud of the nine¬
teenth century Here is a democratic
.house proposing to go right back to
that act. When you do so you will be
guilty of a greater fraud than that act
itself. I speak advisedly when I say
that If the democratic party, after all
the pledges it has made in regard to
silver in its platforms, national and
state, should take the country back to
its condition under the act of 1873, you
will have consummated the monumen¬
tal fraud of the nineteenth century,
because we never expected much from
Mr. Sherman or his party; they never
made many promises, as we have.”
Now these two men, and others of
their gild, are Issuing manifestos and
making speeches to prevent the peo¬
ple from doing what they threatened
to do themselves and bad not the cour¬
age to do. In the language of Mr.
Bryan, “What faith can be placed in
platforms if their pledges can be vio¬
lated with impunity.”
Why should the democratic party
be trusted again? Suppose there are
enough delegates in the convention to
force the adoption of a free silver
plank in the platform? What better
guarantee have we got that they will
carry out the pledges they make than
we had the pledges made in 1892?
Messrs. Bland and Bryan are a pair of
political blatherskites, condemned by
the words of their own mouths, and
they should not be trusted any fur
ther. They are no more honorable
than the party they represent. They
are demagogues of a dangerous kind
their avowed object is to lead honest
voters Into another trap.
Bars open on Sunday.
*d No matter if it was Sunday night,
an the laws of the District of Colum
bia forbid the sale of liquor on Sun
day, the bars of the house and senate
were Towing running in full blast, with the fol
as a sample. About 9 o’clock
that that night mg Mr. De Armond called up a
“Bzhect” , said Mr. Scranton, feebly,
^ ])f Armon(J
turning toward the Pennsylvanian.
Then he continued:
Mr. Speaker, s on < >
if a member as drunk as that has any
rightobject? demanded
“What did you say? Mr.
Scranton.
"I said the gentleman was too drunk
to engage In legislation,” said Mr. De
Armond.
“I call ze gentleman to order,” said
the tipsy objector.
Mr De Armond proceeded, and Mr.
Stanton was shown the door. He pres
ently returned and sidling down the
aisle to the Missourian’s seat, began to
abuse him.
Members gathered around to prevent
. and fi “ a ^’j y-a-;
arms to p . d8 lhe unrulv ’ member '
Scran P ,
Mr. o dga - -
ter the chamber of the house .... lobby,
but.was caught in the arms of the
keeper. He was finally taken to a < jri
vate room and put to bed.-National
Watchman.
A STARTLING BOAST.
BOND ISSUE CA BETTER
THE SITU
Government Official* lecu Like
Clny In the Ilandf. tbe Morgim
Rothschild Syndicate VVe Are the
Slaves of This “Rush.”
The following from Matthew Mar¬
shall, the Wall street financier, con¬
firms the truth that the arch-conspir¬
ators of two continents*have been at
work to rob and enslave the people of
the United States. ) *
“Not the least gratifying circum
stances attending the success of the
new loan, is to me, its confirmation of
my often expressed favorable estimate
of J. Pierpont Morgan’s financial abil
ity. In the hands of the experienced
and skillful negotiator our govern
ment officials seemed to have been like
clay in the hands of the potter and it
is a question whether it would not be
worth while to employ them at any
salary they asked to manage the na
tional finances, instead of the politi
cians now charged with the duty.
Naturally the immense profits upon
the loan which, at the present quota
tions are assured to Messrs. Morgan,
Belmont and their associates, have
excited much hostile comment, both
upon them and upon the government,
That bonds which were purchased at
104% should within a week eagerly
demand in the neighborhood ot 120,
does indeed show that the terms of the
transaction were highly favorable to
the purchasers; but to this it may be
announced, first, that as I have said,
government, being in dire straits, had
to take whatever price was offered it,
and second, that congress, if it had so
chosen, might, have authorized a 6 per
cent gold bond upon which no such
premium could have accrued as has
accrued upon the coin fours. When,
too, it Is -considered that only sixteen
years ago these same 4 per cents were
sold by the Y mdreds of millions of dol
Iars at 99% to a favored syndicate of
New York hankers, in which the secre
tray of fhe treasury was accused of
being interested, and that, ten years
thereafter the government itself was
buying them back at 130 or thereabouts
the profits on this recent purchase of
$62,400,000 at 104% shrink into insig
nifieance. That, with shrewder men to
man age the transaction on its behalf,
and with legislation to support it. the
government raight , under every die
\t did ^j^^Tu^not blunder enm"
a heavier accusation “hen awaits the ad
as is P nrobablc
even this shall have emonstru ea d not
<> nl >' that it has made a dtsadvanta
geous contract with the buyets of th -
bonds, but that tlm transaction has
t averting the
merely postponed without
catastrophe of a suspension of go, 1
payments which it war intended to pre
vent. At present everybody aimost
takes it for .anted that this recent
quired, loan is and h^ that b ^eforth . .. , con ;
tinuance of go r *rap on a Mmre<
beyond question. ;
JJTJKSfZt,* , .
premature as was the exultation in
j , M? „ v( . r tbP gun nosed final settlement
j oT . , t h Kilv eontroversv ' ,' ‘„
' b h all
tional tenders're- exnetrl
irurcs so that * a t I h, legal K
deemed told can be held in tne
.
WANTS TO KNOW.
RISES TO A QUESTION OF
PRIVILEGE.
After the FIglit Is Over—Theti What?
Asks That Oreat Fopnlist Paper, the
American Nonconformist—Some Timely
I nterrogat ions.
Suppose the money question was set¬
tled in exact accordance with the pro¬
gram laid down in the address of the
bimetallic league? Does any one con¬
tend that this would end the. agitation
and satisfy the demand for reform?
Would that satisfactorily dispose of the
trust evil? Would Havemeyer cease to
buy the taxing power lo be used for
his exclusive benefit? Would Hunting
ton stop his Pacific railroad lobby and
quit buying congressmen to do his
bidding? Would the courts suddenly
become honest and quit making law
that is not on the statute books? Would
the problem between labor and capital
be solved? Would the whisky trust
discharge Dan Voorhees and cease from
troubling? Would the land question
find itself suddenly settled? Would the
oppressions growing out of our trans¬
portation system no longer vex shippers
and producers? Would all the evils of
the competitive system vanish immedi¬
ately and Ihe necessity for demanding
municipal control of public utilities no
longer press for consideration? Would
“the armed camp of commerce" dis¬
solve and the thousand and one com¬
bines no longer concoct schemes to cor¬
ner tlie markets? Woul<* the Judge
Woodses quit rendering decisions that
put workingmen in jail for organizing
for self-protection and tho railroad
magnates into big offices for doing the
treasury and thus effect a contraction
of the currency, the same peril of «
suspension of gold payments from
which we have threo times in a little
stile more, thtln bonds", a year wTil been ‘eventually rescued by a
of recur
for a fourth time and then no fourth
bond sale may be possible. If, too, the
agitation in this country In favor ol
silver should conynue, not only will
foreign investors continue to sell their
other American securities, but they
will return-- those same new govern¬
ment bonds which they have just pur¬
chased to so large an amount in the
London market. I regret to see a dis
position evinced in many quarters to
treat the abandonment last week by
the silver senators of Senator Jones’
free coinage bill and of Senator Wol
cott’s free silver resolution as a proof
of the weakness of the cause of silver
in congress. On the contrary, the pre
lirninary votes taken on Senator Jones’
bill very clearly showed that, a majoi •
ity of the senate were favorable to it.
That they refrained from forcing it
through at once demonstrates no more
than that they were not willing to risk
the delay of the appropriation hills and
a consequent extra session. After the
4th of March they will he still stronger
in numbers and nobody can say with
certainty that a majority of the new
house of representatives will not Join
with them in legislating for free silver.
If so, there will stand between the conn
try and a free silver coinage act, noth
ing but President Cleveland s veto.
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•« 11 K»'»u.v '•’rue?
“How much did Grover Cleveland
make in the last bond deal? is a ques
tion being openly asked all around the
country, and with an emphasis that
will admit of no doubt in the minds of
those asking the question as to their
belief that the president of the Lnited
states actually shared in the profits j
°f ttio syndicate who took the bonds J
and in a tew days resold them again
at a gain of over igMy millions o
dollars. Whether (trover Cleveland
had any share in this deal or not may
never be known, but the circumstances
attending the negotiations of the sale,
the secrecy attending H the parties at
the ,'iesl munld
PreraNm °'^ ned, ^ f than
pai bonds often command, ogeth r with
their tamed late sale at a very much
higher premium, can have no other
effect than to leave the suspicion In
the minds of many people hat even
Grover Cleveland was unable to resist
Tus noTenough to say that partisan
l«« or political prejudice prompts this
suspicion. The president of the United
States should be above suspicion, but
Grover Cieveland-unfortunately-ls
^ ^ characteristics of the man
" ainti , him „ame Rumor has
herself more about this man’s
' ' character ’ his social life his
habjtfi arK) , nnPr , jfp j than any man
he Mk] ,, ,
cbair r , an(1 a " if ” one-half ’ ae the T.c stories hLT afloat f f
of tfiat raal bond °° D deal.
Vrom 1493 to 1020 “ an STZZXS ounce of cold
silver. From 1521 to 1544 silver held
Its highest value since the discovery of
' America. Between the years Iasi
named, 11.2 ounces of silver brought 1
ounce of gold. Now it requires 19.60
1 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of
, go
NOTES AND COMMENT,
As a wedding present George Gould
gave his sister Anna, who married the
French count, a coronet set with dia¬
monds, that cost $40,000. On the day
of Anna's brilliant wedding four
deaths were reported In the city ot
New York caused by starvation. Is
this a Christian land? What are the
preachers and Christian people think¬
ing about anyway?
The school children in many of the
large cities are being taught the uso
of arms and the armories are being
turned over to them in the afternoons
for military drill. Many church organ¬
izations have companies of cadets.
Why all this? Bo you see anything
in the signs of the times? Will you
longer vote for systems that recognize
the necessity of educating boys in
knickerbockers to shoot down their
fellow men?
Bank officials stole over $25,000,000
last year. If we. had postal savings
or government hanks not a dollar, per¬
haps, would have been stolen and cer¬
tainly not a dollar lost, to the deposit¬
ors, Why have we not government
hanks? Because we have too many
foolish people who would rather be
robbed by bankers than to give up
their old parties.
They have a way of disposing of
Populist officials out in Oregon that is
unique. King county elected a Popu¬
list county treasurer. Before the time
for him to take the office the county
board raised the bond to $800,000. As
he was honest and would not be. used
by the bankers, they would not go cn
his bond, and. being unable to give the
bond otherwise, his republican prede¬
cessor and the banks are holding on
to the office and the funds.
same? Would alien ownership of our
lands by foreign lords and ladles, and
the reduction of our farmers to peasant
tenantry, need no further discussion?
Would the corruption of our polities by
partisan committees, suppression of
suffrage by force and fraud, counting
in of those not elected and counting
out of those elected, become merely un¬
pleasant remembrances and not present
freight and charge all equally for the
samo kind of service? Would they quit
defying the laws? Will rascally aider
men in the cities abstain from selling
public franchises to private corpora
tions and putting the money into their
pockets instead of into the treasury?
Will the free pass nuisance by which
congressmen and legislators are bi ought
to disregard the welfare of the people
and enact legislation in the. interest of
corporations, no longer he n\i;yfng evil
the) ni*#*s on-e“m jJuppressiing? ill* <,ontaei\ice,be-, wsttl Wall
street for its
having and no more attempt to rulfi Ad
ministrations lo In 1st cat ions and and conaresses’' congiesses. Will win
Rothschild retire from bus I nags on this
continent and the hooked nose and
"three balls” no longer be our national
trademark ? Will Pierpont Morgan
and “my law partner" make no more
secret contracts with the secretary of
the treasury? Will Ickelhelmer & Co.
take down their sign? Wilt the Pacific
railroad let go their grip on California
and surrounding states? Will tho Stand¬
ard Oil company and other monied
kings quit buying legislatures? Will
Gorman Brice and Elkins dissolve
partnership with the trusts and com¬
mence legislating for the people? Will
the Nicaragua deal he dropped, con¬
gress quit voting bounties to sugar
planters, and grabs be kept out of ap¬
propriation bHls? Will favoritism stop
and ail accept and act on the fundamen¬
tal principle of Populism, "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none?”
In short, will the millennium he here
and nothing remain but to put on our
wings and sail off to the New Jerusa
lem? As Mr. Toots would say, we
»* 'or Information? Non-Con
fovmist.
n. nm. ™. y.
“The question whether one generation
,,f men j,as a right to bind another
seems never to have been started, yet
jt - m a question of such consequence
aB no ^ on ]y to merit decision, but
pj a( . e among the fundamental prin
,.jpi e8 (J f every government. That no
BUch obligation can be transmitted I
(hink ( . ttpa „ k . of proof . , Be t out on
this ground, that earth belongs in usu
io , k( . living; that the dead have
r ,thr-r powers nor rights over it. No
man ( . an b y natural right oblige the
jalKls t)( , occupied to the payment of
contracted by him, for if he
( , oul(1 might eat up the usufruct of
, j 1(; (; aHh for several generations to
am ] ,b ( , n the earth would belong
the , 1(sad . Thfl conclusion, then, is
th!lt nelther the representatives of a
nation, nor the whole nation Itself as
gem bled, can validly engage debts he
yon<) what ltiey may „ ay in their own
llmp .. ,) e ff eraon ’s works, vol. 3. page
m f|) wrI , ln(C t0 Madison, same vol
, he closes a long and in
t( ,, e8ting „. Uer on thU subject in the
following language;
in mind .
“Tur» this subject your my
,iear Kir> an<1 par /' llMI ’ ,7 P We [
as 10 contracting debts. At first t blush K ,
u ma v be lalI * he ' 1 ttt aB thn d f? am of
-
* theorist, but examination will prove
11 to be soli<1 dwl salutary. It would
a fine Preamble to our first
,aw for appropriating our public rev
f ’ nue - and it would exclude at the
threshold of our new government the
ruinous and conts^ious error* of this
quarter Spot's of the globe, which have armed
with i .-ntu which nature does
» ot sanction for binding his fellow
Compare these utterances with the
act of Grover Cleveland hob-nobbing
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nation to pay a debt thirty years hence
without wariant of law, and a Demo
b i;([ o» a’ipjbmoj oot ssajSuoo ojjeJ )
hand lo prevent it. Think of it, you
old-time Democrats, and then exclaim
from the bottom of your hear . “0, my
party, how ‘hou art fallen!
VOL. II. NO. 20.
The Gould ladies wear veils that
coat $6,000 each. You would never be
fool enough to buy your wife a $5,000
veil, but, brother, haven't you been
helping by your vote to pay for those
$5,000 veils for the Gould family? if
so, how much longer will you keep it
up?
♦ * *
Why are the labor strikes as a rule
failures? Because capitalists well
know that, behind each laborer stands
a hungry man or woman ready to take
the place of the striker, as has been
proven by every strike in the past ten
years. It, would seem that in time la
boring men would learn the futility of
labor strikes und try tho ballot as a
remedy. j
_ * * * - f
Qno 6{ the mfian(wl and mo9 arM .
trflry monopoMe , n thlB country and
nfjpi , t wWch there Is the least said is
the telegraph monopoly. What, a bless
i n g it would he and how many people
would 'be benefited the telegraph
lines were owned by tjie government.
Thousands of printers and report,era
now 0,,t of ewP |o 5'meht. would soon
fl , employment. Every town of 2 000
or more population could have one or
mo> e (’ally papers, with the latest dis¬
patches, which would create a demar tl
for more printers, reporters, and edi¬
torial writers, besides creating a de¬
mand for more paper and printing ma¬
terial. Best of all, it would destroy a
m.iuopoly that does more to foster anti
sustain all other monopolies than any
other element in this country. We
can have government ownership of tel¬
egraphs just as Hoon as the people got
sense enough to vote for it.
Good horse are selling in Kansas,
Nebraska, and portions of Missouri for
$J(), some fair animals bringing no
more than 1.U. Well, unless men learn
to vo*a right these conditions will con¬
tinue.
Reports from San Francisco say that
not only lime errors and had wo-k
manship from repairs to the cruiser
Boston and the gunboat Bennington
been laid hare, but that rumors are
nlioat to show that the warships P’m
adelpbla, Yorktown, and Olympia aro
can __ things be considered different in a
government reeking with rottenness
from center to circumference?
j, M. Ashton, chief attorney for the
Northern Pacific railway in the state
of Washington, has been elected a
brigadier general of militia, This is
according to the eternal fitness of
things. In filling the United States
senate with railway attorneys and
^ evident that
looked for and hence they
mH king tin soldiers of some of
t p em to serve them in that capacity,
h av e wageg 0 f the coal miner
f th0 Hocking Valley (Ohio) district
j 8 27 cents a day! The cotton and
WO olen mills at Galveston. Tex., pay
from 60 to 90 cents a day and the com
panies are asking that the hours of ia
^ bor.be ^ ^
J ]ow a raonth . the best
h ( , H not gett ing more than $13 a
^“.ate onth .Jefferson said: “A nation can
itself into prosperity or ad
verslty." Legislation has brought U3
as a people where we are and legisla¬
-ion will bring us out if the great corn
mon people will only vote right.
^.^.^'^ntTand <vt Williamsport Ind an election
out of 292 votes
polled the Populists had a majority
f .| e< , le d their entire ticket. Straws
of this kind show which way the po
mk:al win(]s are blowing down east.
According to the. inter-state com
merce commission report for the year
en( ij n gjune 30,1893,therailwayearn
j n gs over operafing expenses for that
year were *392.830,5ia, and the income
from corporate investments was $149,
' ownership of rail
Tays h l goverame nt
this more than a half billion dol
iars would have been a clear profit, but
of this vast sum $431,422,156 was paid
££»£*&£*
however | llx ,058,034 as a net income,
, nd<ir government ownership the op
Pia ting expenses would be largely cut
, )own and by , h u8 saving the income
VlOU |d be increased to $700,000,000 or
$800,000,000. as can be easily demon
striped by figures.
