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SOUND AM) LOGICAL.
NUGENT BLAZES THE WAY FOR
POPULISTS.
The I’oople'H I’arfy In Now the* Only
Parly With Consistent Declaration*
and Prtnrlplm on tho Money Qne*
tion*
T. L. Nugent, There are some good
meaning populists who believe that by
scaling down our platform and confin¬
ing the campaign of next year to the
financial issue, our chances of success
will be greatly Increased.
Practically the campaign will turn
upon the money question, since the
logic of events has forced it to the
front; but this, as I have endeavored
before to show, does not Justify the
priming process advocated by the par¬
ties referred to. Indeed, the money
question as understood by ttie rank and
file of the people’s party, is quite dis¬
tinct from that advocated by the so
called silver or bi-metallic, party. With
the latter, the free and unlimited coin¬
age of silver is the sole, vital issue be¬
fore the country; while populists, not
• underrating the silver question, have
always contended that full monetary
relief can only come to the country from
a comprehensive financial scheme in¬
volving, first, the abolition of hanks of
Issue altogether and their total divorce¬
ment from the general government;
second, the practical recognition and
enforcement of the doctrine, that the
money coining and Issuing function
belongs exclusively to the government;
and that government should upon some
proper plan emit and keep in circula¬
tion a sufficient volume of circulation,
a sufficient volume of metallic and
paper money, to supply the- demands of
trade; third, that all the forms of money
so Issued should be of equal legal ten¬
der quality, and that no part of it
should consist of convertible treasury
notes. In other words, we insist upon
n system of true scientific money,
maintained permanently hy (In* govern¬
ment, without dependence upon inter¬
mediary agencies of any kind what¬
ever. »
It will tie seen that this system neces¬
sarily includes the free and unlimltc d
coinage of silver and gold, the ratio of
which our platform declares shall be
sixteen to one. The silver people do
Indeed propose that the government
shall issue legal tender paper cur¬
rency, but only in the form of credit
money, promises of the government to
pay the hearer in primary money that
Is iu coin. They will not concede our
demand for Inconvertible notes, and if
we go to them we must do so not upon
any demand for a comprehensive sys¬
tem of money which we believe can
alone bring our people, permanent relief
from vicious financial legislation, but
upon a demand virtually for free coin¬
age alone, which if obtained will leave
the essential money question unsolved.
View the suggestion as you may, it
amounts to this and only this. If car¬
ried out, we might enable the silver
leaders to hold their places, hut would
there be much outcome for the peo¬
ple's party, or the cause of reform?
We might afford to support Reagan, or
Bryan, or Stewart, or Jones, or any
other one of the silver leaders, If hy
so doing the work of real, lasting re¬
form could be advanced; but when by
doing so we must close our eyes to
every Issue except the single one of
sliver rehabilitation.
1 for one can see only disaster as the
outcome of such a policy. Populists
have advocated free coinage for years.
While the old parties were dodging the
stiver Issue, trying to got on both sides
of it, making platforms construed to
favor gold monometal Ism in the east
and anything or nothing in the south
or west, according to the standpoint
from which they were regarded, the
people’s party in convention assembled
made a straight honest declaration in
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the ratio of It! to
1. And now after all these years of
juggling and dodging, during which
not a single honest declaration in favor
of the white metal ever crept into the
old party platforms, these silver leaders
step to the front, and with suavity and
cheek characteristic of the trained
politician, Invite us to enter the demo¬
cratic party, meekly take hack seats
and listen to the old-time eloquence
with which we have been for so many
ytvirs regaled
These periodic howls in favor of the
white metal have hitherto led to no re¬
sult. for the reason that after the elec¬
tion they always sink into the usual
democratic monotone -stand by the
party. I wonder that any number of
populists can now be moved by the old
hypocritical dodge that has broken up
and destroyed every reform party
movement in this country for thirty
years past. “Stay in the old party!
We believe as you do on this question!
We are for free silver or greenbacks!
Come back into the fold!" Yet. some
of the very men who tell us this say
they will vote the ticket even if the
platform declares for the gold standard.
Indeed, did not Judge Reagan, to whom
we are In the habit of attributing high,
patriotic purposes, after declaring that
he could not honestly run for governor
on the last democratic platform, sup
port the entire state ticket nominated
op that platform? Did he not justify
his-action by virtually saying that any¬
thing was preferable to populism?
How. then, can we consistency support
people w ho thus prefer oven gold n iono
metallism to the policies advocated by
the people's party?
Will Higher Brice. II* nelll Labor*
Advocates for a gold sta lard claim
that higher prices for products will not
benefit labor, because c ou
b« nc t u
employes would be fTeeied under such j
a condition. Railroa s have three prat- j
lems to solve They must get money j
to pay taxation, running expenses, and
interest on bonds. AH of those must
be paid before the stockholder receives
a dividend.
Taxation can be reduced but little.
Interest charges cannot be reduced at
all. To reduce operating expenses is
the only way of economizing. There
Ik but one way to do this; that is
diminish the amount paid to employes.
By discharging some, reducing salaries
of others, and working less hours, the
pay-roll is made smaller.
A reduction in revenue has forced the
road to economize. This diminution of
revenue has been brought about in two
ways. Wtu-n the prices of farm prod
nets fall below a certain point, sfcip
merits stop unless freight rates are
lowered. The expense to the road can¬
not he lessened except hy a reduction
of its pay-roll.
The low price for products furnishes
the producer less money, consequently
he must economize. He cannot buy so
large a quantity of manufactured prod¬
ucts, and the road lias less freight to
haul to the farming distiicts, therefore
a less number of employes to operate
its lines is required. Labor, in both of
these eases, has been the sufferer.
Now let the opposite condition pre¬
vail. Higher prices for products not
only allows the road to raise its freight
rates, but production itself is stimu¬
lated, giving the road a larger volume
of business. The employes are put on
full time, Salaries are raised to the
old point and more men employed. The
pay-roli can he increased and the road
still make a profit, because not only
lias the business from the farming dis¬
tricts increased, but the farmer having
more money is able to buy more manu¬
factured articles, which increases busi¬
ness toward the farming district.
That the manufacturer and his em¬
ployes would be benefited by increased
sales of their products is obvious, as
the one would sell more goods, the other
get steady employment and Increased
wages, and of the three parties affected,
labor would receive the largest por¬
tion.
Wonderful rroapcrlty.
In all lines of trade throughout the
land comes cheerful news of laboring
men receiving employment in great
numbers. With labor comes cheerful
ness and courage, and prosperity beams
upon us. The bountiful harvest of 1895
will be a blessing in many ways, The
laboring classes will share in the whole¬
sale benediction of the year 1895.—
Trades Review.
Think of it! Many laboring men are
actually getting employment.
What luxury untold!
Who ever heard of laboring men ac¬
tually getting work?
Cheer up!
Rome of them are liable even to got
real Jobs.
Some of them are liable even to get
hold of a dollar.
If you are hungry and out of a Job
why Just read the papers of the pros¬
perity whoppers, laugh and grow fat.
Your turn to get a day's work may
come any time—and then you will get
j our name in the papers as one of the j
fortunate sons of toil who lias discov
orod a job right here in America where
capital thought it had all the jobs cor
nered.
Capital has been enjoying all the j
work far so long it is refreshing to know
that even some of the laboring men are
to be allowed the glorious privilege of
working.
And the laboring classes are actually
going to get “a share” of the glorious
prosperity that is beaming upon us.
The “laboring classes" will share
with the idle classes.
Isn't ibis delightful news?
Everybody knows it is a time-honor¬
ed and golden-whiskered custom for the
idle classes to appropriate all prosper¬
ity to themselves—but the times are
getting bo "oxhuberantly splendiferous”
that the laboring classes are to be given I
a share of what they produce.
Oh my! Oh my! What a happy day
is dawning.
Blessed be the man that invented
Jobs.
Now if the laboring matt don’t go to
work and cause an overproduction ol
prosperity, and the capitalists don't
create an overproduction of jobs, the
country is saved.
W hoopoe!
Alurtitlnir Symptoms.
Referring to the recent platform
adopted by the Mississippi Populites
the Rolling Fork Pilot says: “There
are undoubtedly a few good features
about their platform and the resolu¬
tions adopted, but the language used
and the style in which their work was
done, remind us more or revolution
ists than reformers as they choose to
enll themselves. j
Sounds revolutionary, does it ? And j
still you must admit the righteousness
the principles.
The trouble with the little namby
pamby papers of the old parties is that
they are not accustomed to platforms
that mean what they say.
The reason Populism sounds rcvolu- !
tionary. . because it means to do
is some- |
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yell. j
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must be to accomplish anything. Old
barnacle institutions have to be torn i
down, prejudices have to be smashed. | >
and the flowery beds of case on which j i
old party politicians repose have to lie
removed; the temple of liberty has to j
be fumigated; the tables of the money i
changers have to be kicked out of ihe i
sanctuary; and a general renovation,
painting, repairing and rebuilding is j
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“THOU ART THE MAN.”
DICTATOR GROVER.
No Other President II»b Presumed to
Govern the Great American People.
Mr. Thomas F. Bayard has borne the
character of a brainy man and has teen
ranked among democratic statesmen.
The people will learn with regret that
he is rapidly going into an Imbecile
dotage. His last illusion is, perhaps,
the wildest of his vagaries. He imag.nes
that tills country has changed Its form
of government, and that, it has bec< ne
a monarchy with Grover Cleveland* ,s
its ruler. Here is w.hat be reft*. tyv
said to the English people in reference
to our people and their government;
“The President of the United States
stands in the midst of a self-confident
and oftentimes violent people and it
( a j {es a nian such as Mr. Cleveland to
them." '
g 0vern
Thc most charitable view that we can
take of this utterance of Mr. Bayard's
is the one we have given above. To
suppose that he is still possessed of a
vigorous, healthy mind is to believe
him a traitor to li is people and to the
principles he has always professed.
The only strength of any true man as
a President of these United States is a
strength to obey the laws and faithfully
carry out the behests of the majority of
the people. The strength of a President
of this government lies in his ability
to serve the masses. A President of the
United States is in no sense a ruler.
Were it otherwise men of such com¬
mon origin and training as Grover
Cleveland would never reach the Presi
dential chair. It is because the Presi¬
dent is not a ruler that often such men
ns Cleveland are selected from the
masses and carried by a wave of popu¬
lar enthusiasm to the office of Chief
Executive. Were it otherwise the peo¬
ple of this government would select
men of birth, of ancestral lineage, men
who were accustomed to command.
Who would think of selecting the er¬
rand boy, who had been the lacquey
and the fag of all employed in some
village store or shop as a ruler of a
great nation? A president jpf a demo¬
cratic country is selected from the peo¬
ple because of his nearness to them,
because of his practical knowledge of
the service the people endure and a
manifestation of his ability to faith
fully serve and sympathize with the
people. He is selected because he is in
sympathy with and has a disposition
to encourage and uphold the self-con
fldenee an j self-reliance of the people.
That Mr. Cleveland has disappointed
hopes and expectations of the peo
p i 0 V ve confess. That he has proven
himself a hypocrite the mas of the
people know. That he has usurped
authority and violated the constitu¬
tional rights of the states is admitted.
That he has become the tool of the
ba ,, kers and bondholders and sacrificed
the prosperity of the people to this
class is to his everlasting shame. But
that he governs the people save as a
usurper and perjured official ;s not true,
He hypocritically proclaimed the be
lief that the public office was a public
trust, and in the face of this proclama
tion has used public property for
private use as no previous President
has ever presumed to do. This man of
plebeian antecedents has presumed to
usurp powers and to dictat to bis
official family as no President with a
military training or newness from as
sociation with kingly government
whlch surrounded our first s
wer thought of arrogating to them
elves. The wereis-' peo; e ’he
taverners of t is country, w;
perform that function as a m.id-man ,
nered or a violent people. The very
fact that Cleveland assumes to govern
is proof positive that the people are not
violent.
What Mr. Harvey Says.
In speaking of the manner in which
the silver dollar was destroyed in 1873,
Mr. Harvey, in 'the Horr-Harvey de¬
bate In Chicago, chases the culprit
in the vicinity of John Sherman's domi¬
cile. Mr. Harvey said:
"I want every man and woman in
American, who wish to preserve free
government, to this republic, ti> read
the Congressional Record, giving the
words uttered in the senate on Jan. 17,
1873. It shows that the silver dollar
was in the bill that came from the
house that was to put us on the French
ratio, and that the senate agreed to it.
Mr. Sherman himself extolled it and
said that it was a dollar that would
float around the world. This dollar
was agreed to by both houses and was
in the bill when it went to the confer¬
ence committee. The duty of the con¬
ference committee was to settle dis¬
puted questions on which the two
houses had disagreed. The silver dol¬
lar was not one of the questions on
which the two houses had disagreed,
and yet the bill turns up enrolled, With
the silver dollar erased from the bill by
the conference committee. Senator
Sherman and Mr. Hooper of the house
handled the bill,, and these two men or
a corrupt clerk made the omission.
The significance of this can best be
understood when I say that these men
represented that they were re-enacting
the law of 1853, except in changing the
size of the silver dollar and the law
of 1852, the silver dollar only had free
access to the mint.”
What Becomes of the lOO Men?
In a few days the enormous coal
dumper along the Nypano railway
trestle, the Columbus street bridge, will
be ready for operation. It is a recent
invention, and the only one now' in use
is located at Ashtabula. It weighs sev¬
eral tons, and by picking up a car load¬
ed wMth coal and dumping the fuel into
a boat in the river, it does away with
the employment of nearly 100 men.—
Cleveland Pr^ss.
“Does away with the employment of
a hundred men” does it?
But what does it do with the men?
What does it do with their wives?
What does it do with their children?
If they go to the next town in search
of work, they find that another ma
chine has just dispensed with the em¬
ployment of a hundred other men.
If they start through the country in
search of work, they find thousands of
men ahead of them.
Pinally their rents are unpaid, their
families are turned out on the highways
to beg, steal or starve.
If they beg they are sent to prison to
work for nothing.
If they steal they are imprisoned for
life.
If they do neither they starve to
death.
XVhat is to become of the hundred
men and their wives and children?
That is the great problem of to-day.
Bitter Irony.
To drop a man in the middle of the
Atlantic ocean, and tell him he is at
liberty to walk ashore, would not be
more bitter irony than to place a man
where all the land is appropriated as
the property of other people, and
tem he is a free man. st liberty to work
Henry George.
A SHAM BATTLE.
The Money l’owor Can Control Both
Silver and Gold.
Current Voice: The money power in
control of this country is not idiotic.
It is of the highest intelligence.
It is satisfied that the people will have
silver. But it is making a fight against
silver, and making the issue, hoping
to engage the attention of the people on
this matter, and keep them from a con¬
sideration of fiat money. The fellow
who argues for the remonetization
q£ silver argues for a metalic basis •wr
commodity value id the substance on
which money should be stamped.
This argument will so educate and
commit the people to intrinsic value
of money that it will take a long time
to correct this and educate the people
to a government paper fiat money.
So long as the money power can con¬
fine primary money to metal—so long
as redemption money is stamped on
metal, this power holds its control.
With the present concentrated for¬
tunes it is easy for this power to con¬
trol the money metals. They can now
more easily control both metals than
could one in 1873.
This power can buy up all the sil¬
ver mines in the United States and
Mexico, stop the mining, let the smelt¬
ers go out of blast. Silver can be
mined and smelted only at a great cost.
This is an industry that cannot be
.
entered into by individuals with small
capital. The captial for silver mining
will be withheld; and tne output of sil¬
ver practically stopped. And for at
least another twenty years this money
power will have absolute control of the
finances of the country. It is only an¬
other sham battle that the money pow¬
er is fighting on the silver issue.
We Populists must not forget that
the only permanent settlement, and ra¬
tional solution of the money question
is in paper currency issued by the
government.
tion Rule.
The people of the United States are
under the rule of the political bosses,
always have been and always will be
unless the masses decide to take a
greater interest iu practical politics.
The boss rules because he grasps the
scepter and nobody objects. His reign
is a usurpation, and is possible slimply
because of his impudence amj the! luke
warmness of the people *■» asserting
their rights. There is a#, occasional
revo it that in Pennsylvania against
Q ua y > hut the result usually is that one
boss is deposed and another enthroned.
This is the outcome for the reason that
the revolt is not by the people at large
but that of one political faction against
another faction. It is never an upris
j n g t jj e p eo p; e large; and better
things cannot be hoped for until voters
as a mass, the common millions, assert
their power in politics and transform
politics from a professional game to a
strict, common matter of business. The
boss is sure to come to grief sooner or
later for a-j constantly grows more ar¬
rogant an a tyrannical; but while his
downfall may be a source of satisfac¬
tion, the people are not benefited, for
while the boss goes, his methods re¬
main.—Voice.
put not your trust in democratic pa
perg> that pretend t0 be friendly t0 the
p 0 p U i} s t s j n order to persuade former
democrats back into the partv. Re -
me mber the Chicago Times, and he¬
ware of the Dispatch. •
Talking about Christ with one anoth¬
er will always bring him close to us.
STRIKING CONTRAST.
ONE LAW FOB THE HICH, AN¬
OTHER FOR THE POOR.
A Vivid OMect I*e3Son—A Rich Girl
Goes Unpunished for a Most Shocking
Cold Blooded Murder—Poor Girl Sen
tenced.
A few weeks ago, an ignorant, pas¬
sionate Italian girl employed in one of
the sweat shops of New York, cut the
throat of the man, who under promise
of marriage had betrayed her, and then
contemptuously refused to fulfill his
obligations, remarking: “Boys marry,
men do nSt.” The girl was tried, and
sentenced to death, and although 40,000
petitions have been sent by men and
women to the governor, urging pardon,
or at least commutation of sentence,
for a deed committed in the frenzy of
shame and despised love, no hint or
token has been given by the august
executive that the law will relax its
hold upon the girl’s life.
On the second day of August, Miss
Elizabeth M. Flagler, only daughter oi
Gen. Daniel W. Flagler, chief of ord*.
nance, U. S. A., shot and instantly
killed a fourteen-year-old colored boy
for stealing pears on the grounds of the
Flagler residence.
The boy it appears had walked out
into the country, and the fashionable
suburbs where the Flaglers reside. See¬
ing the luscious fruit hanging tempt¬
ingly near the fence, he yielded to the
temptation, and put two or three pears
in his pocket. From the second story
window Miss Flagler observed the boy¬
ish act; filled with rage at the loss of
her pears she fired; the bullet entered
the boy’s heart, who fell to the ground
and died without uttering a word. A
meaner and crueler act was never com¬
mitted; yet the verdict of the coroner’s
jury acquitted Miss Flagler of criminal
intent, and ;zas couched in the follow¬
ing language: “We find that the said
Ernest Green came to his death by a
bullet fired from a pistol held in the
hands of Elizabeth Flagler, but we do
not think she did it with murderous
intent. We believe that the shots were
fired carelessly and indifferently, but
upon the evidence we cannot hold her.”
We are further told that the Flaglers
are very prominent in army social cir¬
cles; that they have a handsome house
of an Italian style, beautifully fur¬
nished, and that Miss Flagler is tall
and dignified.
Gen. and Mrs. Flagler are in Wash¬
ington, and Miss Flagler, when she re¬
covers from the shock of killing the
colored boy, will accompany her par¬
ents on an extended trip abroad.
Do we need anything more to con¬
vince us that the people have no rights
that wealth is bound to respect; that
in our class distinctions there is one
law for the poor and another for the
riche One girl, child of poverty^ robbed
of her only "possession—her honor—
maddened with shame and grief, slays
her betrayer, and is sentenced to death.
Another girl, proud daughter of wealth,
is robbed—of her pears—by a foolish
boy, and instantly kills the boy robber,
but is acquitted on the ground that she
“fired carelessly and indifferently.”
One wretched girl in the death cham¬
ber awaits her doom; the other in a
luxurious home is preparing for a trip
abroad.
IMOGENE C. FALES.
Which are You?
There are two kinds of people on earth
to-day,
Just two kinds of people, no more, I
say.
Not the sinner and saint, for ’tis well
understood
The good are half bad, and the had are
half good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to count
a man’s wealth
You must first know the state' of his
conscience and health.
Not the humble and proud, for in life’s
little span,
Who puts on vain airs is not counted a
man.
Not the happy' and sad, for the swift
flying years
Bring each man his laughter and each
man his tears.
No; the two kinds of people on earth I
mean,
Are the people who lift, and the people
who lean.
Wherever you go, you will find the
world’s masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes.
And oddly enough, you will find too, I
wean,
There is only' one lifter to twenty who
lean.
In which class are you? Are you eas¬
ing the load
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the
road ?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others
bear
Your portion of labor and worry and
care?
—Ella Wheeler YUilcox in Harper’s
Weekly.
She Was Governor Pro. Tem. of Wyoming.
Miss Eleanor Alice Richards, daugh¬
ter of the Governor of Wyoming, dur¬
ing a week's absence of her father, was
acting governor of the state, empowered
to exercise all the prerogatives of the
office. She is her father’s private secre¬
tary, and a very valuable one. The
Lieutenant-Governor of that state is
merely the president of the senate, and
it is rather strange that no official is
designated by the constitution to act as
governor at such times of absence.
The Reason.
Sapphira—Truth is stranger than fic¬
tion.
Ananias—Yes. but that is because we
meet truth so rarely. i