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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- | thing more than straddle the icuee and I yell. j Reform is always revolutionary, and 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 cessary. I Brass bands. McKinley tin thunder. | n*i stage lightning make startling ! ablcaux -but when they are over, the i ticnre don’t do e but sneer * ~ t. T n P that kind of a show. ■ Mm#' TTi z mWimr. (hu 1®: ~ 3 i't 4 €? i IfL ,r’ - rtSSJ' \ I \\ 55^ j% s ilSIgfL 'y a re AM 1 3 *v. ml / a w. V mmL I k Diakc. fu Ay ! ' Ui i m m 5? V' V H V m \ i f m II Mrl m ■ Wl a l 8 $ m - f “S. -jp \\ I I An) > ~~ 5 f l a m ■ 411 V a 4 7 !?)MA V jl ui It j i “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