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THE CRAWFOEDVILLE
CRAWFORDVILLE Consolidated with l
DEMOCRAT, Oct. 6,1893. \
Keep hammering.
, Banks are only pawnshops.
Now Is the time to educate.
Prosperity! Where art thou?
The way to win is to keep a-movin’.
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The old parties can’t dodge any
longer.
The gold maniacs must be sup¬
pressed.
A money despotism is worse than an
absolute monarchy.
No more gold monomaniacs should
be sent to congress forever.
You can’t make things better by vot¬
ing for the fellows that made them
worse.
Time is not to be considered, but the
truth, which is eternal, must triumph
in the end.
The republican party will split on
fthe same rock that shattered the demo¬
cratic party.
Straddling will no longer fool the
people. Radical reform alone will pre¬
vent revolution.
The gold lunacy can be cured only
by free exercise of the people’s right to
govern themselves.
The republicans laughed at the dem¬
ocrats, but they seem to be afraid to
tackle the job themselves.
Under the present system the United
States assumes the responsibility of
furnishing the world with gold.
The trouble with the democratic
party is it has the dry rot. The re¬
publican party has a bad case of the
itch.
New York has reached the hanging
garden period in the repetition of
Babylonian history, Its fall is ap
proaching.
There is no longer any doubt that
the leaders of the two old parties are
the same—and that both get their in
etructions from London.
The year 1896 will be the most crit¬
ical period in the life of the American
republic. The people must be pre
pared for the crisis Fo>?**.te them.
With the increase of population the
day is not far distant when the people
will discover that they have put off
the land question too long for :'neir
own good.
Secretary i.
Morton says:
has outlived its usefn.'rnesS^’ In that
U d> w from Mr. M/orton, who cannot
T _ ....id to Have ever reached a period
of usefulness.
The Illinois Supreme court has de¬
clared the eight-hour law unconstitu¬
tional. The next thing we look for is
a decision that it is unconstitutional
to eat more than twice a day.
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The postage stamp represents labor
—service is not based on gold or silver,
and the government will not redeem
them in either, yet postage stamps are
always worth their face value.
l Until dollar of foreign capi¬
every
tal is withdrawn and not a single acre
of American land is owned by aliens
mere will be neither freedom^ nor pros¬
perity of the whole people in America.
One of the silliest objections to gov¬
ernment loans is that it is not safe to
loan a farmer money on land at the
rate of 2 per cent, but a bank or loan
company will do it and charge him 10
per cent.
Bonds issued by the democrats
through republican law are just as
fraudulent as if they were issued by
republicans through democratic law.
Both parties are guilty.
The two old parties are the machines
through which the corporations, trusts,
and banks rule this country. The Peo¬
ple’s party is the only party in the
field that is being fought by the cor¬
porations, trusts, and banks.
It is the constitutional duty of con¬
gress “to coin (create) money and leg
ulate its value.” It is not doing it
when it delegates to the banks the
power to issue their own notes to be
used as money.
A bond is a debt; a greenback or
treasury note is a debt. The bond
draws interest and absorbs the profits
of productive labor. The greenback
draws no interest, gives labor employ¬
ment, develops the resources of the
country, and brings prosperity. Bonds
bled the country; the greenback saved
it. The bond is a robber; the green¬
back is a patriot and a blessing. The
two old parties represent bonds; the
young and growing People’s party rep
resents greenbacks.
We saw a cartoon recently represent
ing a congressman returning home to
his constituents after the adjournment
of congress which was significant. A
crowd was awaiting Mr. Congressman
just around a corner, armed with clubs
and baskets filled with eggs, anxiously
anticipating a “reception’ of the
tleman who had just alighted from
a palace car with grip in hand. There’s
more in a cartoon of that kind than the
mere poking fun at the average
gressman. It is significant of a
possibly when some of these fellows
will he received with a rope,
me w THE TRAITORS OF THIS
COUNTRY.
THE OLD PARTIES.
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FBOM MU, HACKNEY.
HE WRITES A LETTER AND IT IS
A HOT ONE.
He Scores the Republican Killtors and
vtllates the Coming Monetary Con¬
ference t*S a Fraud—Typing to Dodge
tin# Fopnligt Landslide of '96.
Torieka, Kan.—(Special,)—Ho?- Bill
l, amey. a prominent Republican , and
formerly a *rconfident, of Wi' A, this
state/ is now at ricvclaninaoi He
writers a letter to Capt. Pat Coney, of
(city, -“‘fcich ke says; world
A mere is anything in the
disgusting than another, it i3 to be
compelled to listen to the everlasting
twaddle of a cringing, cowardly
whelp who happens to be a Republican
editor, and who is afraid to say his life
is his own for fear it will reflect on
England. I wonder when these Re¬
publican ignoramuses will cease to
fatigue us with their everlasting crude
financialisms. The average Republic¬
an editor hasn't as much backbone and
brains as a last year’s bird's nest, and
they never pen a line that they do not
discover to a gaping world what in
fernal fools they are.
“I just received by today’s mail a
clipping of Joe Ady’s speech at the
Baker banquet. I wonder why in the
name of sense he did not make the
same speech for the past two years;
if he had talked all these years as he
talked at that banquet he would have
been elected United States senator and
not Baker.
“I am in the midst of a shoddy aris¬
tocracy and purse-proud mediocrity,
and my mentality is offended and
tramped on every day by their igno
rant assumption on this money ques
tion, but I suppose I will have to grin
and to bear it until common sense and
reason regain their sway. Surely that
influence must be overthrown in the
Republican party, or else you and I
have no further business in it. We
can not shut our eye3 to the fact that
the present condition is made possible
by Republican legislation, conceived
in the womb of iniquity and born
through legislative rascality, and the
masses blinded to such venality and
mendacity until they are in as de
plorable a condition as the paupers of
Europe. tariff
“The question of a tariff or no
had nothing to do with the cause that
made such results possible; it was the
appreciation of dollars, or what is the
same thing, the depreciation of every
thing else, by means -whereof enter
prise has been stopped, trade and com
_____strangled merce and labor pauperized.
The mistakes of the past are irremedi
able, and the voters of America are in
no way responsible therefor, because
the crime which made our degradation
possible had its inception in foreign
villainy and American cupidity.
“Tom Reed and John Sherman, Grov
er Cleveland and John G. Carlisle arc
all of a kind and they lead the hosts of
f Democracy ^ and Republicanism today,
f ey are Republicans and their con
duct means Republican principles,
then neither you nor I, nor men who
think as we do, have any business in
(be Repub ij can party; and where in the
lbunder are we t0 go? We believe in
tection and Democracy and Popu
jjsm dQ ^ not and the gold ies bllgs of Ix)li .
; dQD a d their em i ssar there, through
{he control of parties by such leader
ghip prevent tbe amalgamation thus
£af tbe O pp onen t.s of gold mono
meta ]] igm and as they, each in turn,
^ jftUe harder under the gold
Republicans howl for a higher
protection and their opponents for a
lower, and thus the friends of hi-met
: allism are kept apart, to the everlast-
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.I, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1895.
ing shame, disgrace and dishonor of
their country.
“It would be amusing, if it. was not
so everlastingly disgusting, to see Re¬
publican newspapers and politicians
jumping up and down and shouting
themselves hoarse over the recent ac¬
tion of the British house of commons
and a German chancellor in reference
to silver—a proposition, by the way,
that don’t mean anything, because
there is no such thing as international
money. Verily, the cringing, coward¬
ly, tuiiljinui u.iiioeu u.>
the conduct of modern Americanism,
and the avidity with which they poll
parrot like watch for and enunciate
foreign ideas, as a guide for our con¬
duct, is enough to make Washington
and Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln
rise from their graves as a protest.
What has become of that Americanism
that threw off the English yoke in ’76,
asserted nationalism in T2, and saved
us a nation in ’61? Verily, the leaders
of American politics today can be lik¬
ened only to hyenas, who tore the flesh,
and the thieves who robbed the dead
on our battle fields. Enervated by lux¬
ury, debauched 15V greed, and dominat¬
ed by English monarchia) and finan¬
cial influence, they are the fit repre¬
sentatives of a venal age, that follow
the heroism and sacrifice, that tramped
the continent end watered one-half of
our union with their blood in the late
war for self-preservation. It is enough
to make an old soldier who survived
that horrible ordeal, go out behind a
barn and coax a mule to kick him to
death for being such a fool as to make
such sacrifices for so contemptible a
people.”
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
The plute press gave one feeble little
squeak about the anarchism in the
Indiana legislature at its closing hours
and then shut up like a jack knife, if
Populists had been in the disgraceful
row the snake press would have hissed
for months over the affair.
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Mrs. George Gould and Miss Anna
Gould's wedding cake cut into 100 heart
shaped pieces, and each piece packed
in a solid silver box lined with pure
gold. Ah, ye weary toilers who make
the millions this worthless family have
robbed from you, and are still robbing
you, how do you fancy this profligate
waste of your money? They’ll con
tinue the waste as long as laboring
men continue to vote with such cattle,
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In Nebraska alone it is officially
stated that there are 100,000 persons
who have to be supported by public
charity until another crop is raised,
and also provided with grain for secd
ing purposes. The good people of Ne
braska can’t stand everything; they
might weather along with droughts and
chinch bugs, but gold bugs—the great
est enemy of all downs ’em.
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Taylor, the defaulting South Da
kota state treasurer, it seems, was not
caught in Mexico after all and the ring
in that state which shared in his pecu
lations is breathing easier. It is said
the Pinkertons caught Taylor, and if
they did, he had only to pay them lib
erally to iet him go again. His co
partners in crime—the Republican
politicians in South Dakota—are not
anxious to have Taylor returned—in
fact, they will see that he is kept out.
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God is making use of human instru
mentalities to declare His purposes, and
in His own good time wili He demon
strate the fact that “the earth is the
Lord’s and the fullness thereof,” and
He wiil give it to ail his people,
There is war to the knife among the
Republican “redeemers” in Kansas,
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The once “happy family” in the Sun-
flower state is divife;>Rn4-broken up
in factions. The leaders aroi indulging
in a Kilkenny matinee resflt gives prom¬
ise of annihilation >. to be de¬
voutly hoped for. Kansas Populists
are gleefully rubbingl palms r over the
"rumpus” in the ReTnijlit " an camp.
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Two new political pu' ties have been
organized recently, an mother one is
on the tapis—the / rlcan party,
under the auspices A. P. A. Do
•Ml the "YttfTtfte
unrest and c t . * people.
All do noi see alike, b j' 1 ' as I are think
ing, and many are sim ;Ply traveling on
parallel lines, which wilt finally con
verge and reach the sif me en< L
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It is better—a thou j 3a ® ( l times bet¬
ter—to make a failure li* e in honest
effort, in a faithful a< fheronce jns to duty
in answer to convictln of conscience
than to succeed in tii attainment of
honors and riches at j the expense of
honor and the sacrifice . of principles.
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The logic of events < loes not seem to
sustain the promises I uade by the Re¬
publican "redeemers” in Kansas, Ne
braska and Colorado is ltf t fall when tho
hungry hordes were ii iromising every
thing to regain power, In one portion
of Colorado 3,000 famines are in desti¬
tution. The “wither ing blight” of
Populism in these stat es seems to con
tinue despite the pro nlses of instant
relief if Republicanisn i was successful.
The “withering blight!’ in these states,
as well as all over tht ! country, Is due
to the infamous finan rdal policy inau
gurated by the Republicans a third of
a century ago, and which has boon
sanctioned and is being by carried the Democratic >ut to the party, letter
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by the present admir istration.
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Figure it as you mi iy, the People's
party holds that eve ry dollar taken
from labor without t he return of an
equivalent is simply th}' ‘robbery. Census
statistics show that average wealth
produced annually by each manual la
bor worker is $2,000, l md that of this
amount $346 showing is paid $1,6 ajs 34 wages appropriated to each
worker,
by the never-sweats. No sort of Jug
gling or dissembling can get around
this uneven and un; list distribution
of the fruits of toil.
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The past winter was a hard one on
Duke Pullman, He never before dis¬
tributed so many sle ?ping car passes
among members of tlx legislatures and
congressmen as during the last winter
when legislatures we,i in session, and
that fact that so little -was done to curb
the avarice and greed of the palace tar
prince prove that these favors were not
wasted,
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Oh, how very, very tiresome theso
people are who declare “We could not
have developed this country without
j | capital the aid has of foreign been and capital." is today Foreign an ac
tuai curse to the people of cur coun
try.
During President Pierce’s adrninis
(.ration the cost of national govern
ment was less than 40,000,000 bushels
of wheat per annum. For the fiscal
year 1865, the heaviest expenditure of
any year of the war. the cost was less
than 700,000,000 bushels of wheat. In
1894 the cost was ov<-r 800,000,000 bush
• els, and this year it will probably ex
teed 900,000,000 bushels. Here is food
j for calm, reflective, rm st thought.
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In the city of New York in three
j wards less than one miiv civilization in 100 own (?)
j a home. Think a
i that produces such udi'ions! What
| will the harvest t time?
Big nnit Little Thieve*.
The conviction of ex-Treasurer
Woodruff, of Arkansas, and his sen¬
tence for one year to the penitentiary
for stealing over $100,000, is another
brilliant example of the method of dol¬
ing out justice in this country. It is
useless to attempt to disguise the fact
that if this had been some poor labor¬
ing man, whose family was really in
need of something to eat, who had
stolen a hog, or anything to else to the
value of $15 or $20, he would have been
sentenced to not less than two years.
The case of Woodruff is not an isolated
case. Nolan, of Missouri, who stole
over $40,000 of the state’s money, re¬
ceived but two years’ sentence. Hem
mingway, of Mississippi, stole $210,000
and got live years in the pen; if it had
been some poor, friendless devil, he
would have got the full limit of the law.
Now why should Woodruff, Nolan
and Hemmingway be entitled to great¬
er leniency than a poor man who is
struggling with poverty and hunger?
The court records are full of cases
where men have been convicted and
sentenced to from five to twenty years
imprisonment for stealing less than
$100 in value. Such methods of dis¬
crimination in tho administration of
justice are breeding more anarchy in
this country than all the Herr Mosts
could do if they tried. It is a travesty of
justice to send a poor man up for five
years for stealing $50 and a wealthy
or influential (?) man up one year for
stealing $100,000. Tho official who
steals the public funds commits a
double crime. He is guilty of a breach
of trust and theft. In no instance can
he plead the palliating circumstances
that exist in the o.afee of the man who
is poor, and whose opportunities for
making a living are limited, as is the
case with thousands at. present. It. is
this discrimination in favor of the rich
and influential that is undermining
our free institutions. Government is
only useful so long ns it is adminis¬
tered “for tho greatest good for the
greatest number.” The stability of the
government rests upon (he respect
which the people have for the law and
the proper administration of Justice.
When the courts become engines of
oppression for the poor, and citadels
of refuge for tho rich and powerful,
as was the case in the Drod Beott de¬
cision, beforo the war, and in recent
railroad strikes since, the peoplo lose
respect for tho law and for government.
It is now generally conceded that John
Brown was right, although ho was a
law breaker, and as such was pun¬
ished. John Brown and his followers
had no respect for the Bred Scott de¬
cision. The majority of the people
W”tW»t Mason a line were
cisions in the world can not make a
wrong right. Chattel slavery was
wrong, and, although It was recognized
by the constitution, sustained by the
courts, and protected 1>y (lie laws, the'
people rose up and shot it to death.
Bo it will be with debt slavery. No
chains can bind an intelligent people
to slavery, whether they be of Iron or
gold. Such cases as are cited above
are not tho greatest that are filling up
the cup of inbiulty, that eventually
must be overturned either with the
ballot or the bullet. Just in proportion
as the people lose their respect for the
lav/ and its administrators, they are
approaching tho vortex of revolution.
When a government falls in its func¬
tions it is no good on earth, and if the
spirit of the Declaration of American
Independence still lives in the hearts
of the people, they will “alter or abol¬
ish if, and Institute a new government,
laying its foundations on such princi¬
ples, and organizing its powers in such
forms', as to them shall seem most like¬
ly to effect their safety and happiness.”
A Tl|> for Silver Mon.
We want to give the sllverltes a tip
right here and now that is worth their
while to consider. If they will unfurl
the banner of "Demonetization of Gold”
and fight for it tooth and toe nail, in
less than eighteen monthx --very gold
bug in Christendom will oe l ight down
on his knees begging for the restoration
of silver. Why? Because he will real¬
ize the danger in which 1.’•» fetich oi
metal money is placed and he will be
ready to join forces with the sllverltes
in order to save fits own idol from de¬
struction. It is the most vulnerable
point in the gold-bug fort today. If
the silverites had any sense or courage
they would bring the "honest money”
ihriekers to terms in short order.
A Skirt Ilftnrer'M down.
A costume for a skirt dancer costs
tom $250 to $400' it. has to l»e renewed
Irequently, for yards of thin lace arid
lengths of gauzy silk are not caten¬
ated to withstand constant and vigor
ills use. Slippers wear out rapidly, as
;heir soles must he of paper and the
treasure on them severe.
But to offset these extravagances
She salary of such a nightly perform
mce is very line. Women like Amelia
(Hover and Loie Fuller reap a perfect
jar vest of shekels by appearing thirty
ninutes during the evening, and even
in artistic young beginner, like Miss
Tel, commands a salary a woman
ivho haa served years in another pro
‘eseion would be glad to earn.
There is not a new idea in the whole
of the Omaha platform. The principles
embodied therein have been discussed
for ages and are now being successfully
carried out in other countries. The
man who thinks they are new and un
tr j B d ought to ride in an ox cart until
he ab i B to keep abreast with the
times,
The millions of Populist publication;!
circulated every week are doing their
work silently, powerfully, and per
petualiy. Every word of the truth
published affects somebody for good.
No effort Is lost.
That Republican “Wave.”
Tho wave of republican prosperity
that struck this country last fall, as a
result of the election, is still rolling.
Only a few weeks ago ai number of men
unable to obtain employment were ar
ristfd, serleno'd as vagrants, chained
together at the .Hides and forced to
work on the streets in Des Moines, in
republican Iowa, when the thermome¬
ter was 10 degrees below zero, and the
wind blowing a hurricane. On die day
the above incident occurred other men,
who were fortunate enough in finding
employment were shoveling sand from
the Dps Moines river bottom at 50 cents
a day. Still other men were working
upon the streets of Washington, the
capital city of the nation, at 50 cents
a day.
Investigation shows that the average
wages of the coal miners in (ho Hock¬
ing Valley, Ohio, district is 27 cents a
day! Farm hands all over tin country
are working for $8 and $10 a month
and some as low as $6 and $7.
Cotton goes from the producer at
less than 4 cents a pound In many in¬
stances, while wheal^has simply struck
bed rock.
Only a few weeks ago over 135,000
families applied for help in the city of
New York in a period of eight, days.
With an average of four persons to
each family there were more than a
half million people in that, great city
in a destitute condition! Every city,
town and hamlet in the country has a
proportional number of those who re¬
quire charitable aid, and yet in the
light of these astounding facts—with
distress and destitution on every hand
people suffering witli hunger and
cold, with millions half fed and half
clothed, those who proclaim this anom¬
alous condition of the country are de¬
nounced by the heartless classes who
have produced these conditions, and
their thoughtless and stupid followers,
as calamity howlers, and creating dis¬
content among the people.
In looking around for tho promised
wave of prosperity that was to follow
the “republican victory” of last fall,
even the optimist falls to And it. Tho
truth is it was only tho superficial and
very foolish people who expected any
improvement to follow as a result of
the election. There must be a change
of conditions, and this can only he
brought about by a chango of policy,
radically different from the present
financial policy of the government
foslerod and sustained by both of tho
old parties.
To keep on voting for either one of
D>e old parties at this time, coasider
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PREFERRED TO DIE.
8ad Story of One Olrl vtAditv
than Wed a Brutal Cripple.
A little girl in India went to the mis¬
sionary school. She was a pretty,
clever little thing, and so attracted thi
teacher that she ventured to visit hei
in her home. She found the child
overshadowed by the horror of her ap¬
proaching marriage. As a baby she
had been betrothed, but, according to
custom, she lived in her father’s house
till sho was 12; then she was taken
from her own people and given over to
her lilisband, a hideous little man, de¬
formed, his face scarred with dis¬
ease, of bad character, and notoriously
given to drink. The child was terri¬
fied of him and ho derived a ghoul
like pleasure from her terror—used to
Jump at her in tho durk, muke faces
at her, and told her that once really
married to him and in liis home he and
his old mother would make short work
of her beauty with a red-hot fork, so
that It would soon he difficult to choose
between their two faces. At last the
fatal day arrived. The missionary’s
heart ached for the little friend she
was unable to help, and as she went
about her work she prayed, says a
writer in Temple Bar, that God might
save Ills hapless creature. At noon
the child's mother burst into tho house.
“Nahoml is dead!” she cried. The
two women hurried to her home. She
had washed her little person and her
hair, had braided It imatiy, had put on
her bridal gown, had decorated heiself
with flowers and Jewelry, and then had
gone quietly into the yard behind the
hotfse, where a datura tree hung its
great white trumpets against the blue
sky, dug up and ate a little of its poi¬
sonous root, and then crept back into
her home, where she now lay, cold,
stark - free.
Give I * Government Bank**.
The issue is squarely drawn between
the people and the banks. As to money,
shall it he based upon hank credit, or
upon the credit of the nation—the peo¬
ple's wealth? As to the deposit and
security and loan distribution of the
people’s several surplus savings, or
token credit, money, shall its safe keep¬
ing and judicious, careful loan distri¬
bution be undertaken and guaranteed
by irresponsible banking corporations,
or by the people themselves, in their
sovereign capacity, as a co-operative
hanking corporation, through govern¬
mental agencies? Give us government
banks.
Talmage, Ram Jones, and no other
freacher of any note has uttered a
word of condemnation of the Sunday
session the day before the final ad¬
journment of the Fifty-third congress.
Congress was not only in session all
day, but a number of member took
the occasion to “wind up” by getting
uproariously drunk, several members
being so far gone that they had to be
removed from the floor of tne house.
This ending was characteristic of that
congress that will go clown in history
as the most infamous in the history oi
the country up to this time.
VOL. II. NO. 21.
GOLD VERSUS PAPER
UNION SOLDIER AND GREEN¬
BACK CURRENCY.
Fought Side by Side—National Supremacy
Sustained by Their United Efforts—
Gold Is a Coward and Retreats in
Time of War.
In 1862, when liberty was assailed by
grim-visaged war, gold, as ever a
coward, retreated to vaults and to
Europe. Then as Minerva sprung full
armed and ready for victorious combat
from the brain of her parent, so sprang
from the brains of wise statesmen the
millions of greenbacks ready to save
the menaced nationality. They shel¬
tered, fed, clothed and armed tiie sol¬
diers; built ironclads and manned them
not alone for the union, but for the con¬
federacy as well. With the aid of tho
hoys fn blue they conquered. Peace
once here, the coward, gold, whose em
isaries had traitorously crippled the
nation by crippling the greenback, re- -
turned, and lias been for thirty years
waging subtle and insidious war upon
the national life by seeking to destroy
the savior of ’65—the greenback. Now
the warfare is open and avowed. Tho
battle is on, it is Gold vs. Greenback.
Will tho American patriots stand firm?
Will the G. A. It. see its comrade de- -
feated? Will the son of the veteran see
tho power that saved, through his
father, liberty for him, destroyed?
Traitors they who cry out against the
greenback! It is as much a sign of
nationality and sovereignly as is the
flag. “Shoot him on the spot who hauls
down one” is tho cry. Of the two the
greenback has most power, and ho
who decrys that should lie exported
with gold to some country where liber¬
ty is not. Beware of any cry that does
not Include all the Omaha platform. Let
not our ranks he divided by the silver
issue. The whole includes air its parts.
The Peoplo’s party includes free silver
and more. Encourage the free silver
discussion in the o id par ties, but shoul¬
der to shoulder forward under the
banner on which is money, land and
transportation, To that banner all
shall yet rally, and the first battle¬
ground—the silver dollar—only pre¬
pares the way for the victory for the
legal tender paper, Let dissention
rage and disrupt tho old. AH frag¬
ments thrown off by schism will unite
with this large young party that has
no leveller and acknowledges no au¬
thority but truth and justice As well
curtail the declaration of 1776/ as that
at Omaha, Rejoice in ihm new parties
>'m, ou the platform now
i unto which they shall
step. After taking the first sliver stop
the Other two will be easy. dawn¬
‘iWn^grnUon ing light of victory is in these SIRKSjif
t n the old.
- That taffiRKi wisdom"^;’!? n * aUar Btono of time,
Eternal 'ways
To build a temple mor’e t ta°w n
—Chicago Expi^kl’
Oh, for Men With llackbones.
The railway managers are hastening
government ownership of railways as
rapidly as almost any other influence
by their cruel and heartless blacklist¬
ing system, and their arbitrary methods
of dealing with the public. Aaasamplo
of methods it is stated that the Great
Northern railway requires applicants
for positions on that line to fill out a
History of their past lives, stating
when and where they have worked for
several years previous, why they left
their positions, and giving their height,
weight, age, color of hair, eyes and
eyebrows, distinctive marks, etc. In
addition to this other roads require
proof that the applicant is not a mem¬
ber of any labor union. You would
not have thought a'system of this kind
possible a quarter of a century ago,
and it was not thus, hut it has gradu¬
ally developed crawled steadily upon
the people as Ihe snake crawls upon
its victim, until to-day labor seems
powerless to shake it off. Why are
yon, railroad employe and other labor¬
ing men, in such toils, arid why do you
submit to such tyranny? Are you
powerless? Certainly, unless you con¬
clude to be men and not cringing ser
vlles. You have permitted yourselves
to he voted inlo present conditions
and aided it by your votes, and now if
you will not rise to the dignity of in
dependent manhood, to the position of
freemen, and undo the wrongs you are
suffering by an intelligent use of tho
ballot you deserve to suffer, and you
will suffer more than you are now
undergoing, Oh, that men would
think as they never have before. As
you care for your wives and your ehii
dren, in God’s name, and in the name
of humanity, rise to the dignity of true
manhood and assert your rights and
cease to he slaves. Relief from galling
oppression is at hand if men will only
be men. Have we become a nation of
men without backbones? It would
seem so.
Q |l'leiity of Time.
We would suggest to ail Populists to
refrain from making presidential nom¬
inations in 1896. This is premature.
Ixits of things will happen before it is
time to make nominations, and the ad¬
vocacy of Individuals will prove a dis- *
turbing issue. The right men will be
found at the right time. Wait for
events. There is another congress to
come yet. and a long one at that. It
is sure to do many fool things that will
feed the reform flame. The thing to
do during the next twelve months is
to educate, especially to circulate our
papers and literature. Get the readers
for Populist papers and they wili do
the rest.—Non Conformist.
While the papers are howling about
the “$9,000,000 dollars lost” in the last
bond deal—why not state the whole
:ruth? The whole amount of the bonds
is a dead loss, that must be paid in the
abor and produce of the American peo¬
ple.
