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F1UENDS OF SILVER ■ MUST QUIT THE CORRUPT OLD PARTIES. Tom Watson fit Georgia Points Out the Criminality of Pree Silver Advocates Trying to Ituo the Old Parties—Losing Time. Hon. Thomas E. Watson, ex-con¬ gressman of Georgia, who stood to¬ gether with other Populists true and unflinching on the Omaha platform, talks to "free silver republicans" and “free silver democrats” and shows plainly the inconsistency of their re¬ maining with their old parties. nays: Is there anything that need be said to a free silver republican further than that his party Is openly and avowedly the party of contradiction, and has burnt more money since the civil war than England itself ever destroyed. From McCulloch to John Sherman the record is one “damnable Iteration of bonds, burnt greenbacks, resumption, contraction, gold reserve, demonetiza¬ tion of silver, parties and ruin. To the free silver democrat is there anything that can be said more con¬ vincing than the record of his own party a record so recent the ink is scarcely dry on it? Throughout the land go orators and editors preaching free sliver democ racy: Bryan here and Bacon there! Walsh here and Howell there; Bland here and Voorhees yonder, what does it all amount to? Nothing:- literally nothing. It’s the coldest trail that ever was harked upon; the stalest wine that was ever drunk; the shabbiest, thread barest political coat that ever was donned. Free silver In the democratic party Is a back number, a tale that is told, a song that lias been sung, a cold dish that rio cook, however cunning, can warm over again. Can Bryan make better arguments for silver than Carlisle did? Can Bacon declare more zealously for silver than Gordon did? Can Howell write more forcefully for sliver than he did in 1892? Can oratory and penmanship make the democratic parly more overwhelm¬ ingly in favor of silver in 1895 than it was In 1890, 1891 and 1892? Wasn't the party well-nigh unani¬ mous for silver in 1892? Can It ever In 1 so again? Even if It could, can anybody be¬ lieve that it would any more enact a free coinage law than It dill hi 1892? If a democracy apparently unani moils for silver slaughtered the Slier man law, how on earth can any sane mtin ask the country to trust demoe racy again when it has so emphatically proven its profound antagonism to Jeffersonian blmotallifnn? The republican party domina ted by the capitalists of the east and the north offer no hope for silver— no hope to tho south and west. The people’s party is the natural rallying point of the producing sec¬ tions, and the friends of free silver should Join us. We have been tried and we have been found true, W** voted in congress as we talked on the hustings. We were faithful to our colors amid Jeers, Insults and temptations, We have borne defeat rather than renounce principles. \\ e have suffered ostracism rather than betray trust, Wo have lined the English language not to con¬ ceal our political creed hut to declare It. We have been manly enough to say what we believed, and constant enough to stand to It, The democratic party can never unite the friends of silver Its machine and Us record forbid. The republican party can never unite the friends of silver its machine and Its record forbid. The people's party ('AN unite them. Its machine (so far i( has one) and Us record are In accord with its plat¬ form. and its platform neither straddles nor dodges nor turns somersaults. Would that the friends of silver could unite with us, and inaugurate a move ment which would liberate the pro¬ ductions from the fearful tyranny of the parasite sections the east and the north. Hypin'!*!*)*® Why is it that the advocates of a gold standard decline to give the real reason which influences them to oppose free silver? if you ask a farmer why he favors bimetallism, he will tell you that it is because bimetal¬ lism is a good thing for him; if you ask a laboring man why he is in favor of bimetallism he will tell you that it is because it is a good thing for him. Ask the merchant why he is in favor of bimetallism and he will count up th > shrinkage in his stock as the dollar has risen in purchasing power and tell you that h< is in fa\er of bimetallism because it will help him. But if you ask the financier why he is in favor of a gold standard, is he candid enough to say that it is because a gold standard will help him' No. he always tells you that he might really profit by the free coinage of silver, but he is so unselfish that he will ignore that which is best for him in order to bring the blessings of a gold standard to those who an opposed to a gold standard. Is not thi: hypocrisy 7 Does h tore show us that the < ? nors of gold conduct their busi n 7 < ithout regard to their own in- 7. ? Is there anything in the busi ness of money lending which purgts away the 0? vyf d lea v no f h IE one each the a tand ard 5! j <5 Oi 1 ia t no ex 3th that the editor t w»,i at on fo.ee the do rs into ruin ii free eei ■ nge is resumed. If our financier* are really yearning for the masses of the people, is it possible that they will at¬ tempt to ruin the masses by the fore¬ closure of mortgages? The very fact that our opponents disguise their real purpose and seek to betray the common people with a kiss ought to he suffi¬ cient evidence that their cause Is not a righteous one.—Omaha World Herald. What On** I.if*- CoHta. There Is abundant material for the novelist In the tragic end of Charles Gorman, who was shot to death by Offi¬ cer Rosenthal Monday night near the Auditorium hotel. Gorman hao seen out of work sev oral months and was penniless. He had left a wife and child In St. Paul, and received a telegram Monday that the latter had died. He tried to borrow enough money to buy a ticket to St. Paul to see his dead baby, but failed. An attempt to pawn his revolver proved unavailing, He offered the $18 weapon for a $9 Railroad ticket, but was refused. He spent all day Monday trying to beg, boyrow, or raise the necessary money. At night, crazed by desperation, he attempted to rob a saloonkeeper, met with resistance, was pursued, and shot to death like a hunted wild animal. And all this in a city of 2,000,000 peo¬ ple with wealth and affluence on every hand! Thousands would have gladly given the pittance he asked if the facts had been known, but the truth was es¬ tablished too late. It la a cruel world, my masters. Chicago Dispatch. That man was shot down as a crim¬ inal but Is there a man in America with soul so dead and mind so ortho¬ dox that he believes God will condemn the victim of man’s cruelty and the criminality of laws? Poverty causes more crime than ev¬ erything else, and itself is caused prin¬ cipally by the unjust laws favoring spe cial classes of respectable thieves, and turning honest laborers out to beg, steal, starve or commit suicide. The man who fired tin* shot was doubtless doing his duty as an officer of the law but, nevertheless, this man was murdered murdered by soclety and every person who neglects his duty to work and vote for honest govern¬ ment and equal rights'to all, Is in some measure guilty of this and other mur¬ ders. 'There may he material in this for the cold-hearted novelist, who ana¬ lyzes hM>an beings as scientists study insects, plants and rocks, lint to tin man who lives among human beings and has a heart instead of a thermom¬ eter in Ids breast, this is a tragedy that no novelist should dare to touch with his bloody dissecting knife. Changed Their Tune. The gold hug newspapers, especially those in the north and ei^. aje pursuing a policy of suppression, hav¬ ing found that the sljver issue could not be laughed dawn. When the Har¬ vey-Horr debate opened in Chicago all of the cuckoo organs gleefully predicted that Horr would simply wipe up the earth with Harvey, In fact, it was openly boasted that there would not he a “grease spot” left of the author of “Coin's Financial School” when Horr got tlirough with him. The gold or guns printed full reports of the first day’s debate, when to their horror it was discovered that the tables had been turned Harvey had literally flayed the gold bug champion alive. Then there was a scene like unto that which hap¬ pened after the famous battle of Bull Run. Those who wont out to see the rebel Harvey thrashed turned tails and flew for their holes when “Coin” un H in bored his artillery. The gold hug newspapers closed up like clams. They now refuse to print the debate. Every newspaper In Chicago, with the single exception of the Inter Ocean, a free silver paper, Is Ignoring the contest in their news columns and trying to be¬ little it on their editorial pages. They haven’t the nerve to admit that their man got the wor d of it, and now they hope to hide their humiliation and eh a grin by a policy of suppression. But the people cannot he fooled in any such style. There are enough other news¬ papers in this country to print the news. The people will read the debate and rally to the cause of honest money the gold and silver of the constitu¬ tion—and when the next election is held they will rise up in their wrath and wipe the gold standard contrac¬ tion 1st s from the face of the earth. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. July 21. «» >**\i*r Forgot. My advice to workingmen is this: If von want power in this county; if you want to make yourself felt; if you do not want your children to wait long years before they have bread on the table they ought to have, the leisure ; in their lives they ought to have, the j opportunities in life they ought to have; if you don’t want to wait your self, write on your banner so that every political trimmer can read it, so j short-sighted that very politician, be. no matter read how it: he may can We never forget, If you launch the arrow of sarcasm at labor, we never forget. If there is a division in eon gross and you throw your vote in the wrong scale, wo never forget. You may j go down on your knees and say; 1 am j sorry 1 did the act. And we will say It will avail you in heaven, but on this side of the grave aever Bo that a man in taking up the labor question wii that he is dealing with a t pistol and will . : 1 am o justice and to a , other wic 1 am a uoa d duck Wendell Phil uht but that th • HO D3 imount issue hut it is not tho soh DOUBLE:. mJfikzs. _ ssssfvfcaaasgPINHREST ><#• (TV, M: sS •S' Sffi * fA 6 #> / \OWES s mm WILL 4 4J THE: Wk «< & W & BEARER 3k \ m ’mk f TEN w VI BANK i : I / DOLLARS Will, V\ INT FRE5 ii $ FOR. /AT THE RA7E\' % WHICH THE\ OF N ■SgQvE bearer n TEiN If PER. CENT <4.RG * <w mmmm m*wmm cwiim VOLUNTARY SLAVERY. Wage Slaves of ‘Tree America** Who Prefer Absolute Slnvery for Life, Spring Valley, Ill., July 5.—The community is excited by 300 miners offering to go into voluntary slavery, if guaranteed, for themselves and their families, comfortable homes, plenty of fuel a/id food, and serviceable clothing. They represent the best ele¬ ment among the miners, and are will¬ ing to serve thus without a cent of wages. They say they will sign an ironclad contract. The miners say that this attitude will prove that the present trouble which threatens to result in a strike is not of their seeking, , During the past three years they have suffered for the necessities of life, an(l that rather than see their families suffer for the necessities of life they— will become serfs.—Press dispatch. Oh, America!! and has it come to this? That able-bodied, industrious Amer¬ ican citizens volunteer to submit to a life of absolute slavery^rather than take their chances in the field qf com¬ petition, where thousands of producers must go ragged and hungry while ab¬ sorbers dress in silks and feast on the cream of all creation without doing anything at all useful! Is this the land of the^freo and the home of the brave? Or is it the private property of the monopolist and the prison of the coward and the slave? Can a "republic” stand, while the useful members have to beg for the privilege of being servants of the use¬ less? Will the grandsons of revolutionary fathers consent foreve to remain serfs in a land where children are taught to lisp freedom from their cra¬ dles? Can slaves remain loyal trr the gov¬ ernment that permits tb ’ *o become ,slaves? & Is manhood already > "rushed in America that the exatnjje of followed these poor conquered miners will be by the many thousands of unemployed and hungry? Will American muscle submit to the lash of wealth it has Itself created? Do you think It possible that there nre not thousands of men In the same condition as these who would fight rather than submit to such a proposi¬ tion? Are you in favor of having 300 American citizens become slaves? Do you think such conditions are just and necessary? Would you submit without force if you were in the same position? Do you think you are any better than these men? Do you love your family any more than they do? Does God consider you any nobler? Are you any more useful to the community than they? Would the capitalists treat you with any greater consideration un¬ der like circumstances? Do you vote for the parties whose administration has fostered such con¬ ditions? Do you care anything about it at all? If you don't, perhaps the sooner you get a similar dose the better. Legion Kallyinf* Song. Tune—“Bonnie Blue Flag.” Hurrah! Hurrah! Our camp fires Grow bright o’er all the land; Our lines are drawn, we’re marching on In a united band. Against wrong and oppression We go in nil our might; And send on high our battle cry For freedom and the right. Chorus—Hurrah! Hurrah! We hall the morning bright. Hurrah! Hurrah! For the coming day Of freedom and the right. No rich are in our army, A lowly band are we; No creed we own but one alone, And that is—Liberty. We ask for simple justice, For that we make our fight, For home we stand, and native land, And freedom and the right.—Cho. All hail! All hail! the morning At last begins to dawn; Across the earth we’ll rally forth, Beneath the rising sun; And where his beams fall on us Will bless the gloriouea light. No hand can stay the coining day Of freedom and the right.—Cho. —J. A. Edgerton. Lofton Circular. Omaha. Neb., July 20.—We must have 1.000 brave, unselfish Legion scouts. They can make a living taking orders for Legion certificates on commission and organizing Legions. If the scouts won’t volunteer the people must suffer tnd liberty will perish. If we cannot jet men and women who will sacrifice tnd become martyrs in the people's muse we will lose the battle and man¬ kind will be enslaved. If we cannot get noble men and women to save up their money and pay a dollar for a Legion certificate we cannot organize and we cannot send help to Kentucky, Iowa and Mississippi to our struggling brethren. If we can carry one of these states it would mean victory in 1896. Let us help break the solid south. Let the people do without something they need for one week and get the beauti¬ ful Legion certificate. Every dollar is sacredly used to organize. Remember we work without money and without price, and we only appeal to the people to do what we have done for over three long years. If we mean to win we must organize. If we are in earnest we will stop contributing to any but the peo¬ ple’s cause and we can snatch victory from the red jaws of defeat. Support your papers; help your workers; hold entertainments; help convert the heath¬ en In our own land. God will help us if every man, woman and child will do his or her whole duty. Let every one who can give time to the work send stamps for papers to organize. Let every mem¬ ber of any committee wake up and work, for the time is short and the peo¬ ple must be startled from their slum¬ bers. PAUL VAN DERVOORT. N. B.—All papers please copy. WHY SILVER WON'T CIRCULATE. The Treasurer Refused to Pay Silver When It Was Demanded. The strongest argument against free silver Is to be found in the fact that the treasury cannot possibly keep more than one-elghtli of the total supply of silver dollars In circulation, They are put out at every opportunity, but they will not stay out.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. The fact that the Globe-Democrat will give editorial utterance to so out¬ rageous a falsehood as the above shows to what desperate straits the gold-bugs are put for something to arrest the "free silver craze” that is sweeping the f •: itotryr--Tl!e— maw 1 who* that knows, and everybody else knows, that silver is never paid out of the treasury if it can be avoided. In 1893, when holders of Sherman notes which were redeemable in either gold or silver de¬ manded silver for them, Mr. Carlisle absolutely refused to pay it out, and they were forced to go out and buy silver certificates, which he could not refuse. He was in this way compelled to pay out silver dollars, but even then he did it under protest, and made a pub¬ lic announcement that he would have preferred to pay gold. If the govern¬ ment is so anxious to get the silver dol¬ lars into circulation, why didn’t it pay running expenses with silver instead of selling bonds to get gold for that purpose?—Topeka State Journal (Rep.) Supremo Court Justices Termed Prosti¬ tutes. Boston, Juno 1.—H. H. Bryant of Somerville was held in $500 to-day by the United States grand jury for send¬ ing a scurrilous postal card through the mails to the judges of the United States supreme court at Washington. The card, which was mailed on April 9, had the Boston postmark on it. and was addressed: “To the Prostitute Judges of the Supreme Bench of the United States, Washington, D. C.” On the back was written thb follow¬ ing: “After Judas had done his dirty job he had enough manhood left to re¬ turn his bribe and then forever put himself beyond human right. His ex¬ ample is worthy of your serious at¬ tention. Private income from land is unmixed injustice as the same spring from public effort, and is beyond the reach of private endeavor. No doubt that millionaires needed to support their lordly establishments in various parts of the world and their luxurious harems that float upon the seas. But millionaires have always been a curse to all people in all times—a deadly and far-reaching rot to the entire gamut of morals, both public and pri vate. You illustrate one phase of that rot. (Signed.) H. II. BRYANT. Somerville, Mass., April 9. 1895. Bryant has very strong views on the matter of taxation, and the income tax decision at Washington is supposed to have inspired the communication to the justices. wh it a Record. The secretary of the treasury and the * administration have made a sorry financial record for the year. They are face to face with a deficit of nearly $46, 000 000 and with an increase of our in terest-bearing : ' indebtedness of $162.- 3 *5 l00 vpon all common principles of reasoning this would indicate a rapid gait toward bankruptcy. The seere SESrSSFS rr are „ js“? t r. be excited to the point of desperation, But Mr CarUsle and his superiors are apparently as oblivious to the prospects as a blind man would be of a precipice that he was approaching. They are borrowing money right and left to carry on the government. Pay-day al¬ ways succeeds borrowing. It comes as surely as death comes, and what the American people will think when pay¬ day does come and when they pause to think that the increase of indebted¬ ness is largely owing to the fact that Mr. Carlisle refused to redeem treasury notes in silver, though having the legal authority to do it, remains to be seen. Judging him by his management of the treasury, wrn w'ould not trust Secretary Carlisle with the management of our business for a month. Yet he is con¬ sidered able enough to manage the na¬ tional finances.—Farmers’ Voice. ljclvt anil Payment. One of the ablest speakers at Mem¬ phis said that the logic of the silver question is included in this principle of monetary stability: Let the money of debt bo the money of payment. And he spoke a good philosophy. Unless the money of debt is the money of payment—that is, unless the value of debt is the value of payment somebody is injured. The gold standard has injured the private debtor because every month and every year the money standard has been raised to a level of higher values. The taxpayer has been injured by a process which has raised the value of the money in which public securities were reckoned and paid. Every form of enterprise has been burdened with the weight of appreciat¬ ing debt values. The farm, the fac¬ tory and the railroad have been asked to pay more than original contracts contemplated. No wonder ail have felt, whether or not they perceived clearly, the drain on strength and vi¬ tality. As in all movements which originate in a real grievance, unreasonable ex¬ tremes are demanded by some in the free sllver moverrtent. and But sound there policy is^lion- in esty, reason, truth the maxim that the money of debt should be the money of payment.—St. Louis Republic. Can They Whin It? Who Is making this fight against sil¬ ver and in favor of gold? The holders of American bonds. Who holds these bonds? The National banks. Who represents the National banks in this contest? Cleveland and the Reform club of New York. What is Cleveland’s politics, and which political party predominates or controls the Reform club of New York? Cleveland is a Democrat. Tho presi¬ dent and the chairman of the execu¬ tive committee of the Reform club are Democrats and the secretary is a Re¬ publican. The membership is one-third Republican and two-thirds Democrat. How dees the Georgia Democratic leaders propose to whip the Bilver fight? By voting the Democratic ticket and extending the political life of the party that murdered silver. Bankrupt merchants, struggling pro¬ fessions, depressed farmers, half clad tenants, and idle laborers, do you think you can whip the fight and better your condition by such a Don Quixotic war¬ fare? Flying flags and waving penants never whipped a battle in the 60’s. It took lead and iron, directed by brave men, into the ranks of the enemy, re¬ gardless of the uniform they wore, to achieve victory. Rub up your thinking apparatus and apply a little common sense to your politics.—People’s Party Paper. “Anarchy.” “Why, if the people took that an¬ archist Wayland’s advice, and took all their money out of the banks, it would break every one of them,” was re¬ marked to one of my friends (you see, I have two friends) the other day. Ah! indeed! and it would be just too awfully awful if the poor devils would refuse to furnish the sweet hankers with capital to conduct their business! Poor, help¬ less dears, to be thus threatened with dire distress! Just as if these people knew enough to care for their own sav¬ ings, too! How the poor millions who are now on the verge of starvation would shed barrels of briny tears if those whose speculations have brought about ail this misery were to feel just a little of it. How the hearts of the people must bleed at the bare prospects of a banker actually doing something useful! How bravely have these bank ers come to the rescue of the unfortu nate in times past—at from 6 per cent to 36 per cent a year! How they have stood in the breach—and drawn four rrr*cs? pS* Wtek. «. HO. would tbe people get along without such “safe” places for the people's money! O, rats! -Coming Nation. WHAT GROVER T.COSTS HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT MILLIONS A YEAR. Or Eighty Millions More Than It .Costa Any of the Great European Armies— Would That We Could Esehang® j Him. Though we fear to shock Senator Hill’s delicate sensibilities, we are forced by a comparison of the budgets of great powers to the conclusion that modern standing armies are not, in dimensions at least, the economic evils that they are said to be. We say “by comparison.” It is only when ranged beside a Cleveland debt that the cost of a standing army, like every other human expenditure, be coms a minor evil. It is not only that it costs a great deal less to keep a standing army on a peace footing than it does to keep a standing Cleveland, but when you have a stand¬ ing army you have something pleasant to look at—a police parade all the year round, so to speak, You have a vent for the hot blood and the bad blood of the population; you have a good school for physical development for slouchy young men, and a bulwark against in¬ ternal disorder. But when you have Mr. Cleveland forthe same or a greater expense, you have nothing but Mr. Cleveland and his debt. They are not decorative or useful in any of the ways we have indicated in which a standing army is either decorative or useful, or both. The statement of the comparative expense may seem exaggerated, but is rather under the mark, It cost us more last year to keep this one man than it did France to koop 504,003 men. That is her establishment. The cost of it was $126,730,618. The cost of Mr. Cleveland was the half of $330,000,000, or $178,000,000. Germany saves much more than France by keeping a standing army in¬ stead of a Cleveland. The cost of her 511,995 officers and men last year was only $88,501,700, a little more than half the cost of our one officer and man. Russia also has a bargain in her standing army, It is some 780,000 strong, and she kept it last year for 236,312,000 rubles, or giving the paper tokens in which the soldiers were paid the generous value of 50 cents each, $118,150,000. This is a round $50,000, 000 less than our standing Cleveland cost us. It would pay us, then, as a matter of outgo, to exchange Mr. Cleveland for a European standing army, We could keep one for from $42,000,000 to $88, 000,000 less than it costs to keep him. To be sure, at American rates of sub¬ sistence we could not have sb large an army as France, Germany or Russia. Our present establishment of 27,000 -fp.en , TT, Oft Srfmw.' ’ • ly. For the annual cost of Mr. Cleve¬ land ($168,000,000), we could keep near¬ ly five times as large a one—say 125, 000 men. Thus 98,000 idle citizens could have employment. When we say the cost of Mr. Cleve¬ land, we do not mean the cost of tho government of the United States. The $330,000,000 which the standing Cleve¬ land has cost us In the last two year3 in addition to the cost of the govern men, as properly administered. Therefore, we say again that it costs us from $42,000,000 to $88,000,000 more annually to keep this one, neither decorative nor useful man, than it does France to keep 564,603, Germany to keep 511,995, and Russia 780,000, both decorative and useful men.—New York Press. IT IS COMING. All the Powers of Hell and Plutoeraey Can’t Stop It. My old party brother, you think this reform movement will not succeed, don’t you? Quite sure of that, eh? That’s what the tories in Washington’s day said about the reform movement. That’s what the slave power said. But they succeeded somewhat, didn’t they? Do you think you know anything about the forces behind this movement? Well, you don’t. Not having read tho ethics of the case, and not knowing what influence it has on the ideas, you are not qualified to judge. This move¬ ment under one name and another has been gathering force for thirty years. At first there were only a few and they had no literature. If It could have been, , killed it would have been strangled in its infancy. But you cannot kill ideas except by substituting better ideas. The revolution is spreading as rapidly as the panic and as world-wide. Every¬ where are new papers springing up, new books, new pamphlets. It appeals to men’s reason. The present appeals to prejudice. Prejudice Is never pro¬ gressive. We want a better system for all. We are going to have it and all the powers of heaven and hades cannot prevail against it. It’s coming, and every hour brings it nearer. Every failure, every discharge of willing workers adds speed to its coming. Tjiere is a great commotion down j among the masses who have been robbed, and it means something. Read , up and get on the band wagon. The Prince of Peace is coming in the hearts of men. The reign of the devil-capi j talism—of a thousand years is drawing to a close. Rejoice, all ye weary and overburdened. Capitalism may control the churches, but it cannot control the principles promulgated by the Christ, | It’s coming, coming, coming.-Coming i Nation. ««"■ .«*• »f £ «£ •“ but .= l S/e p.rt e d .bat U. b®l .111 not be sufficient to overcome the republican majority which was made by demo “ ralic b!undors -