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PEOPLE'S COUNTRY.
NEW ZEALAND AS DEPICTED
BY A REPRESENTATIVE MAN.
Popnll.t Idea, in Force — Government
Own. and operate, the Railroad, and
Frue Iaj»ml and No Mo*
no|>i>]l«‘fi of ( orriiplion.
The Call (Seattle.)
Hon. A. I). Willis of New Zealand, a
leading printer of that country and a
member of the New Zealand parlia
merit, Stopped over night in this city,
homeward hound from England. Mr.
Willis has been absent from home
some months, having been on a busi
ness trip to Germany, England and the
United States He has been Inspecting
the latest Improved printing and ruling
machinery roa nu factured wltbln the
three above named countries, It is
needless to say that he has made part
of his purchases from American firms,
From personal appearance one
would hardly select him as one of the
advisers of the best, "poor man’s coun
try” in the world. in size he is about
medium, very compactly built, about 45
years old, blue eyes, and wears mut¬
ton chop whiskers which with his hair
is slightly gray. Hut speak to him
about the latest work in the art of
priming, or, better still, about the gov
eminent of New Zealand: his eyes win
I mined lately light up and yon will find
that you are in contact with a man
Just chuck full of information and en
ergy. When seen at the Hotel llut
ier Saturday night by a representa¬
tive of the Call, he at first declined to
be interviewed, but when assured that
the government of New Zealand had
been much discussed of late in this part
of the world and the readers of the Call
would peruse every word he said with
interest, he finally consented. Said
he:
"In traveling through this country
and Canada 1 am greatly impressed
wlth your condition. The fabulous
wealth of some of your corporations
and citizens, while almost in the
shadows of their mansions live people
who have not the hare necessities of
llfe, are conditions made by legislation. ■
You made a grave mistake when you
gave so much of your land and other
natural resources to private corpora
tlons which have become private mono
polios and who will drain you worse
and worse every year until the end,
which no man fully knows. We made
the same mistake, but years ago
through the teachings of John Ilal- !
lance, discovered It, and now have that
mistake almost rectified. In our conn
try we have two parties, viz: the liber¬
als and flic conservatives. The liber¬
als are the class who believe in leglsla
lion for the benefit of the poor and let¬
ting the rich take care of themselves,
while the conservatives hang around
the van tt&S sh vvt ’No! no! You'll ruin
the country} > We have killed the mo
nopollos and therefore have no corrup
tlon In high places; a dishonest act by a
public olficer not having been heard of
for years. The government owus and
1 operates both tin railroads anu tele
'graph lines, which are run entirely In
the Interest of commerce without profit
to any London or New York aristocrat.
"The land, too. Is practically free
from the land monopolist, us we have ft
graduated land tax law which exempts
homesteads, to a certain number
acres, from taxation. Every acre, how
cver, above the homestead limit is
taxed and the larger tho holdings tho
higher becomes the rate of taxation,
All lands not In use are also taxed
and the government stands ready to
buy land of any character at its as
sensed valuation. It Is then cut Into
homesteads and sold for the same price
to any one who wants to buy, provided
they pay 6 per cent per annum, of
which 1 per cent applies to a sinking
fund and pays tho entire principal in
thirty-three years. The government
will always loan money on real estate
to individuals to the extent of three
fifths of the valuation of such real es¬
tate, at the rate of f> per cent per an
uum. We also collect a graduated In
come tax and have given the option to
cities to practice single tax. We have
no monopolies, and bettor still, we have
no paupers. This may seem strange to
you but nevertheless It is a fact; if a
man becomes destitute we set him to
work on five acres of land in one of the
threc ’villages’ reserved for that pur
pose. He builds a house, cultivates the
soil and otherwise improves the prop
erty, for which valuable service the
government pays him in money. After
the first year he becomes self support
ing and begins to reimburse the gov
ernment by making small payments
aunually, until after a number of years
the property becomes his.
■•Neither have we such a thing as pen
slons. When a man goes to work for
the government he is required to take
out a life insurance policy, which he
usually takes in the government com
panv because of the much lower rates,
If he is killed or disabled his family*
draws the face of the policy, hut if he
lives to a certain age it becomes an an
nutty and pays him a certain premium
yearly. the principal payable to his
heirs after death. The banks, too, are
under the supervision of the govern
ment. When the Australian panic oe
curred it frightened the depositors in
the bank of New Zealand, but the gov
ernment immediately took charge of it
and guaranteed It for 2,000.000 pounds.
which restored ihe confidence of the
public and we had no bank failures.
The government is still in possession
and whether it will remain so or not
will be determined at this session of
parliament.
"We have adopted what we call the
co-operative contract system on all
public works. That is. work to be done
by the government is divided by the
engineer into small contracts, which
are numbered and any one desiring to
■work is assigned to one of them. By
this means a first class workman makes
largo wages while a poor workman
makes less. Bight, hours constitutes a
day on ail public works. Our factories
and business houses are of course run
by private firms. Yes, we have strikes
occasionally and how to prevent them
is the most knotty proble.m we have yet
had to solve. We passed a compulsory
arbitration law at the last session but
whether that will solve the problem it
is too soon to decide. We have an
excellent public school system with
compulsory attendance for all children
under 15. They are exclusively secular,
no religion of whatsoever nature is al
lowed to he taught in them. All busl
ness houses are obliged to remain closed
during Sunday and alllabor must cease.
One Is, however, allowed to do whatever
else he pleases whether it be to attend
church, attend a place <)1 amusement,
or play games of any nature, Resides
this we have a law, which is strictly en
forced, compidling the city and town
governments to select one day out of
the six others on which all business Is
suspended at 1 p. m„ except that on
this day the saloons may remain open,
provided they sell nothing that inter¬
feres with the business of houses that
ar ® Closed.
“Strange to say, the liberals are the
protective tariff party in our country,
while the conservatives want free trade,
This is due to the fact that the con
servatlve party is largely made up of
the owners of sheep ranges, who export
the most of their products and conse
fluently want to buy abroad at lower
rates. Any one who desires to leave
his district before an election may de¬
posit his ballot, sealed in an envelope,
with the proper officer who shall turn it
over to the election officers on election
day, when shall be cast and counted
with the others. No ship is allowed to
leave port without a full crew as re
QUlrcd by law, and the berths must be
of sufficient width to be comfortable.
Wo also have a woman’s suffrage law
which went Into effect at the last elec
U ( >»- It proved very satisfactory. We
now have the most perfect criminal code
In the world, and justice as admlnls
tered by our courts is quick and cer
tain.
"At the next session I think that we
will adopt a system of consols, some
thing similar to the French system,
which will keep money homo, instead
of going to England for all our money,
Our surplus this year will be more than
380,000 pounds, which is remarkable,
considering that all other nations are
having such deficits,
"Like your country, we have but few
liberal papers, the larger papers find
more money In supporting the monopo
Untie party. The general tendency of
our legislation is toward single tax.”
Mr. Willis left Sunday for San Fran
c!bco, where he will take passage for
home.
THE BANKERS UNDERSTAND,
They See Ilia Point of Ilia Free Silvet
Idea.
The plutocrats of the east fully un
derstand the situation. They know
there are no picket lines kept up be¬
tween the sliver cr.mp ar.fl the old
greenback stamping ground. Listen
| 1° what William Cornwell, president
the New \ork state bankers asso
elation said the other day at a bank
ers’ club banquet in Chicago:
“If, In 1875-6-7-8, the hankers and
the sound money men had been organ
l*ed as they are organized now, and had
spoken out as they are speaking out
now; had started on a campaign of edtt
cation as they are starting out now;
(he greenback would long ago
have been wiped out, the silver lunacy,
before it had wrought incalculable
damage, would have been confined to
the asylums where it belongs, and Pop
u!ism would have been promptly swept
back into the holes of its native prairie
from which it originally emerged and
would have become a rare specimen of
this dangerous manifestation of bar
barism, which now mouths poisonous
ly against our possessions and our lib
ertles.”
This was President Cornwell’s open
ing sentence, and it contains 117 words,
by actual count Pleasant reading,
isn’t it
The gold bugs’ campaign of educa
tlon is expected to do the work which
should have been done nearly twenty
years ago: The greenback is to be
wiped out; and the silver lunacy con
fined to the asylums, “where it be
longs.”
That reminds us of what Benjamin
Harrison said when running for gov
ernor of Indiana in 1876. He recom
mended that the state lunatic asylums
be enlarged for the accommodation of
the members of the greenback party.
“And Populism swept back into the
holes of its native^ a^dangerous msurle”—to lie re
mentbered only as man
ifestation of barbarism.”
The plutocrats hate the Populists
worse than any other class of voters.
simply from the fact we have persist
ontly kept up the agitation. We added
immenselv to our total strength in
spite of the withering fire of last fall’s
“landslide" contest; we have put back
hone int0 t(u , weakening silverites; we
5iave made Yoters rea iize that the Peo
pU> . g " party is an organization, small
bu( well C Quippe«l for political fighting;
that thetv js one banner along the llnp
which js be ing carried toward the in
t r<? nchments of Wall street, steadily and
unflinch j np iy
Tq thp lhne servers who are alwaya
roady t0 flght ou the side of {he strong .
M batlaIians Banker Cornwell flings a
{ threat:
' u ^ P°-L man, ...^a or i
t °* da - v t « rns from tho stra l f ht cours !
of f ou " d money and the gold , standard
de ' ul oace {or aU hise\er> chance
for political success, especially if ne
"ants to be President.
All who oppose the gold standard are
to be treated alike as foes. The mouth
of the free silver advocate is just as
poisonous as that of the Populist, so it
would seem.—Nevada Director.
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PUT NONE BUT AMERICAN ON
GUARD.
DEAR READER: If you are nojlyet lthe
a Populist ponder for a while oi (
above picture. It was to fight such men
and such policies that the Populist
party was first organized.'These men,
through the influence of their papers,
actually dictate the financial policy of
the old parties—in the irtte, - t of‘Eu
rope. Miler, the owner of the New
York Times, is an Englishman Who
will not swear allegiance to the United
States. Godkin was born in Ireland,
A TIMELY WARNING.
RINGING LETTER FROM PAUL
VAN DERVOORT.
No Now Party Could He Organized for
the Campaign of 1800 — Populiata
Must Oct a Move on Them.
\
I desire to call the attention of lour
people to the fact that it will be ut¬
terly impossible for the so-called Amer¬
ican bimetallic party to gain a stand¬
ing before the country under the ballot
laws of many states suf
ficient to even give them
a place on the ticket In 1896. In
Mr. Sibley’s own state it would be im¬
possible. There is no election this year
that will enable them to poll the , ar
centage of votes ‘ jwe'-ed qnder ' e
. Sect hi
the Illinois state committee of our
party had to have petitions prepared in
over half the counties in Illinois.
The People’s party have! overcome
all these obstacles. It has taken them
five years to do so. They now are a
regular recognized national party under
the ballot laws in all our states.
Hence if a real honest 16 to 1 silver
man wants to vote for free silver he
must vote with the People’s party. A
republican president, senate and house
of representatives demonetized silver.
Republican senates and republican con¬
gresses refused to restore it. A demo¬
cratic president, senate and house of
representatives repealed the Sherman
act, atul a congress elected by 100 ma¬
jority for free coinage repealed the last
act in Its favor and refused to restore
free coinage at 16 to 1, 17 to 1, 18 to 1,
19 to 1 and 20 to 1.
Any man, woman or child that will
trust the two old parties after their
perfidious criminal record on the free
coinage of silver deserves to be enslaved
for all their lives.
It being conceded that the American
bimetallic party cannot get legally be¬
fore the people under our ballot laws
in time for the election of 1896. and it,
in my mind, being clear that its under¬
ground managers knows that, what was
it organized for?
Twelve men furnished a platform,
kindly named the candidate for presi
dent, and later have designated the
vice-president, and gravely invite all
the parties to disband and come into
their camp.
In my judgment the American bi
metallic party, the democratic silver
proclamation, and the St. Louis con
ferenee, which it was intended should
also declare in favor of the same plat
form, were and are all parts of a
scheme to disrupt and destroy the Peo
s party and deliver it bound hand
and foot to the democratic partj m
1S96 ’ wli0se convention will declare for
silxer and whose congressmen will sell
out silter as thej did in 1893 and 1891,
along the line since X8i3.
11 the People’s party at St. Louis had
a S reed t0 same Platform promui
^ ated the bimetallic party and silver
democratic congressmen, we would
have been out of a job as a party. All
thes<? democratic state conventions and
legislatures would have declared for
that platform, free silver and a little
of the ntonev question, and then the
howl would have gone up for the im
mediate dissolution of our party. The
whole thing is a trick. The effort i-to
revive and resurrect dead and damned J
and it behooves the People’s I •
partv everywhere to be on their guard,
t0 organize the Legion at onw , in every
prec j nct an( j sbow a j] these silver con- |
verts that the only sure way to win is
t0 come j nt0 tbe people’s party no !
vote j or tbe on ] y platform that dec): -es
in favor of the free and unlimited * n
age 0 { s ii ver a t bj to 1.
If you want to be destroyed, run over,
betrayed and sold just lie dormant and
ar. though he has lived thirty years
under the stars and stripes, he is a
subject of Queen Victoria. Pulitzer
was born in Hungary and has resided
in that country permanently since he
accumulated a fortune in America.
Bennett is the only one of the four
born in this country. His father was
a subject of Queen Victoria while ac
cumu ] a ting wealth from the New York
Herald So, after all, the junior Ben
nett is an American only by accident
0 f birth. He has lived in Paris all his
life and lives there to-day. Like
Thomas P. Bayard, the American am
bassador to England, he believes that
you will be delivered. If you are men
determined to be free and crush both
the old parties and knock out traitors
from your own ranks begin at once and
get ready for business.
PAUL VAN DERVOORT.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
The Globe-Democrat says: "If the
Populists stand their ground in Geor¬
gia, they will gain enough democratic
votes to carry the state; but if they
begin to waver, they will be beaten out
of sight.” The G.-D. need not be un¬
easy. The Populists will “stand their
ground,” not only in Georgia, hut every¬
where else; that is what they are here
tor.
* * *
The democratic party went into
power with a great flourish of trumpets
nd many pledges* to economize ex¬
penses and administer tlie fiuaucec ...
the government in a business-like way.
It now appears that there will^be $45,- a
deficit for this fiscal year of over
000,000. And this is the party that
asks for another “chance” to adminis¬
ter the affairs of government.
* *
The gold bugs are worried over the
fact that there is no campaign litera¬
ture to represent their side of the cur¬
rency proposition. The reason for this
is very plain. Up to the present time
they have never had the hardihood to
come out into the open and announce
their true purpose. As a natural re¬
sult they have no literature. Hereto¬
fore they have endeavored to accom¬
plish by stealth what the advocates of
a real honest money -were trying to do
by education. At last they are driven
by the intelligence of the people to
abandon their stealthy tactics and meet
the issue fairly.
* * *
A bill to tax bachelors is pending in
the Illinois legislature. The proceeds
are to be used in building and operat¬
ing a home for old maids. That is
right. Bachelors are no good anyway.
With this movement on foot and the
one to indorse free, unlimited and in¬
dependent coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, Illinois is looming up as
one of the most progressive states in
the Union.
* *
The Populists will make a great mis
take if they do not push the work of
organization and education now. While
we may look upon these democratic
free .silver conventions with favor,
from one standpoint, we must remem
her that their object is to hold the
forces of the democratic party together.
It is all very well to permit the demo
cratic bosses to teach the voters that
free silver is right, but it is the duty
of Populists to show by the records
that there is no hope for it through the
democratic party.
During the heat of a campaign is not
the best time to do campaign work,
At that time the place hunters and
demagogues are in the field and ap
peal more or less to the passions of the
people, and excite their prejudices.
The time to do effective work is when
there f no P^tical excitement to speak
of 7 when everybody is cool and tn
* ulnn 3 a «er the truth. Keep the rec
ord of the old P arties before the
People. See that your neighbors are
"ell supplied with Populist literature,
aad a ^ve all organize now for the
great battle of 1S96.
If we had the initiative and refer
endum the people would make short
work of this silver question. It is safe
to say that at least three-fourths of
the people are in favor of the free, un
limited and independent coinage of sil
ver. The two old parties are in power
but are both controlled by the bankers,
This is the situation. The politicians
A CORKER IN GOLD.
SYNDICATE TAKING NEARLY
ALL THE OUTPUT.
Are Taylng Big Premiums—Supposed to
Be Morgan-Bothschlld Agents—The
Mints Getting Very Little Gold—
Kamors of an Attempt.
America is a vulgar place and unfit for
a gentleman to reside in. Cleveland,
Gresham and Carlisle are mere tools
in the hands of these gentlemen and
must do their bidding. They will re¬
main in the saddle until March 4, 1897.
And if the Populist party should fail
of election in 1896 they will get right in¬
to the saddle again. No matter how
earnest the rank and file of the old
parties may be in the effort to obtain
honest government, the leaders are al¬
ways in the hands of the ultra Eu¬
ropean policy makers. The only Amer¬
ican party is the People’s party. Vote
to put none but Americans on guard.
are in the hands of the bankers and
the people are in the hands of the
politicians. The will of the people is
being thwarted by the manipulation of
party machinery. With the initiative
the people could order a vote on this
question without regard to party.
With the imperative mandate they
could vote men out of office as well as
in office. This is what we need and
what we will have.
* * *
We see no material reason now for
further parley as to the future policy
of the People’s party. The men who
started out to have the party make the
currency question the sole issue seem to
be satisfied now to make the fight with
that question as the main issue. This
has been the policy of the party ail the
time and will be, we presume, until
this question is settled. Three-fourths
of the space in Populist papers has
been, and is now, t*Wy « up hv
cussion of the currency question.
People s party has done more to edu
cate the masses on this issue than all
other forces combined. Even the Bi
metallic league have depended almost
wholly on the Populist press to publish
their propaganda. The Populists have
thus forced this question to the front,
There is no likelihood now of them
trying to evade it. But they are not
going to trim their platform to catch
votes or to please a few men who flatter
themselves that they are shaping the
policy of the party. At least not be¬
fore another convention is called and
the masses have an opportunity to ex¬
press themselves.
Bread and “Hell Juire.”
The sub-treasury plan of the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance has received the scorn and
ridicule of every politician and cross
road demagogue in the United States.
It provided that the farmers might
have the privilege of storing their
grain and farm produce in a govern¬
ment warehouse and borrow money on
the warehouse receipts; and thus be
enabled to hold their grain until a fair
price could be obtained for it. This
was “lunacy.” But hold. After it is
sold at less than cost of production, and
the farmer went home to freeze, and
lose his home under a mortgage fore¬
closure, his crops get into the hands of
the whisky trust. Ninety million bush
e j g annually are used in this way,
enoU g b to load 250,000 freight cars and
making one continuous railway train
over 1.583 miles long. And after this
crop is turned into hell-juice to poison
men with and turn the world int0 a
pandemonium of crime and woe, the
g 0ve rnment lets the whisky trust store
- tg sa j d be ll-juice in a warehouse and
there take care of it for the trust for
nine years, allowing the hell-juice to
un ^ axed that time until it
good and hellish!
And there are hundreds of demo
cratic newspapers in this and other
sta tes that would no more dare to at
this abomination than they would
anY ' otb er great infamy that is prac
tic ed by political rascals.—Vindicator,
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Frost Bells of France.
In xu some ijuui of the wine districts of u*
France frost bells are tolled when there
is likely to be a severe frost, and
mediately on hearing the "-arning the
Inhabitants hurry out of their houses
and place quantities of tar between the
rows of vines. Then a signal is given
to light the tar. and in a few minutes
a deuse cloud of smoke arises, and
thus the vines are said to be completely
protected from the severity of the
weather.
t»i on Cat*.
A new government tax of one mark
on each cat kept as a house pet has
been imposed in Dresden. Thousands of
the animals have been destroyed by
owners desirous of avoiding the “cat
tax.”
Chicago, Ill., May 21.—A special to the
Post from Washington says: The dis¬
covery that there is an actual basis for
the report that the Morgan-Rothschild
bond syndicate is conspiring to corner
the gold market has been regarded aa
a foolish canard. It is a fact, however,
that brokers representing this syndi¬
cate have been paying a premium for
the refined gold output of the private
refineries throughout the west during
the past two months, and that they are
accumulating fine gold at the rate of
12,500,000 to $3,000,000 per month, which
represents fully two-thirds of the en¬
tire gold output of the United States.
The attention of officials of the treas¬
ury department was first attracted to
peculiar business by the sharp falling
off in the deposits of gold at the mints,
and inquiry very soon developed that
private parties were buying the prod¬
uct of the refineries.
Further Inquiry revealed that the
metal was purchased and was drifting
to New York, where it is being put in
store to the credit of the Morgan-Roths¬
child syndicate. In order to divert the
stream from its usual channels leading
into the United States mints, the pri¬
vate purchasers have been obliged to
pay a premium of 1% to V-/% cents.
The premium paid for most of the
gold was 18 cents but so anxious have
been the buyers to increase their lines
and get everything in sight that they
have marked up their quotations during
the last few days.
At the present time they are getting
practically the entire output of the
United States excepting for the ex
treme western coast, Many long
headed men in Washington and Wall
street, who are familiar with the meth¬
ods of the parties composing the syndi¬
cate have jumped to the conclusion that
the foundation is being laid for another
bond deal before congress meets again.
The last bond deal of $62,000,000 has
been pretty well closed out, over $51,
000,000 in gold having been paid out of
the $62,500,000 and it is generally be¬
lieved that the entire deal will be
cleaned up before the first day of
August. Under the terms of contract
with the treasury department, the Mor
gan-Rothsehild syndicate has an option
on any new bonds that may be Issued
by the government Rrior to Oct. 1 next.
The treasury is absolutely in their
hands until that date. If from natural
causes or through chicanery and man¬
ipulation the administration is obliged
to issue another batch of bonds to
maintain the gold reserve, the sale
must be made to the syndicate that took
the last issue. There is no escape from
,such action. It was nominated speci
lion of the President. The clause in
which the syndicate agrees to main
tain the treasury reserve leaves the
syndicate to be the judge as to what it
can do in the premises or to what meth
ods it shall adopt. If, in the carrying
out of that moral obligation the syndi- ■
cate shall decide that the government
must issue another $100,000,000 or $50,
000,000 in bonds the administration will
have nothing to do but comply with the
terms.
If the President does' not want to
issue any more bonds at the dictation
of the syndicate the reserve can bo
practically wiped out in ten days, and
then if he should decide in self-prO
tection to put out more bonds he must
sell them to the Morgan-Rothschild
people and nobody else.
The new bonds are selling to-day in
open market at 1.21j4. They cost tho
syndicate 1.04j£, which would show a
profit of 17 per cent in the operation,
amounting in all to $10,504,000. It
would not be fair to say tho syndicate
made that much out of tho operation,
but it is very safe to estimate its profits
at $8,000,000. The syndicate is hurry¬
ing the completion of its present bond
deal with the government. It depos¬
ited over $1,000,000 to-day, which will
bring the reserve up to very nearly
$93,000,000. It will not have to com¬
plete these payments until the 1st of
August, but the operation may bo
closed up within a few weeks. That
will leave the syndicate a free field.
Australian Rabbits.
A writer says of the rabbits in Aus¬
tralia that for several years in succes¬
sion the animal becomes so scarce a3
to be quite difficult to obtain, increas
ing in the next few years to so extraor
dinary extent as to become the most
abundant animal in the country. After
the maximum of increase has been at
tained the rabbits commence to die off,
1 and before many weeks are over, their
dead bodies strew the woods in all di
rections, while a live rabbit is scarcely
to be met with,
-
Soon after the close of our Revolu
A t lonary . war England ^ *, tried . , . to make , its
West India colonies independent of the
supplies of flour and breadstuffs that
were procured from the United States.
For this purpose in 1874 it sent scien¬
tists to the South Sea Islands to bring
bread fruit trees to Jamaica and the
other sugar islands, that their fruit
might be a substitute for American
flour. The attempt was, of course, not
a success, but the attempt to exclude
breadstuffs from the United States re
salted in a severe famine in the islands
befor-' it was given up as a bad job.
England then pursued toward Jamaica
a restrictive commercial policy, like
that it attempted towards its American
colonies, and which resulted in our in«
dependence. f •
