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About Crawfordville advocate. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 189?-1??? | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1895)
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. 'O* - i < ?A A l* i - W W'b, L • *■* % \ !* m }, A \ jQ mm ; 9 i w LA 9 m k WL mt 3 . v: % I Sr V. & v r * to I -*A • ^ y *2/ 'SL. A ?■ V Wfhf • y ill m mk m. / 1 m3 d V. j f ___ 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, - 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 •
