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LAWYERS FOR
WHEN MADE LEGISLATORS,
JUDGES. OR OFFICIALS.
Are True to Their Old Ma»t«rn f th<
Corporation** »n<t Their Foes Go Might
Along Tli»»«* for Him to Step I>oan
iiml Out.
The Representative: The Infamies
perpetrated by the corporations are
aided by the corporation lawyer, and
the fact that he becomes a legislator,
a judge, or holds any other government
position, does not in any degree absolve
him from his allegiance to the corpora¬
tion. “There is,” says the Chicago
Weekly Sentinel, "scarcely an Instance
of misrule or of injustice to the common
people, while conferring favors upon
Ihe rich, that cannot be traced directly
to the machinations and intrigue of the
corporaton lawyer.”
Corporations are veritable govern¬
ments, deriving their powers from gov¬
ernments formed by the people, usurp¬
ing the power of the civil government
and avoiding responsibility and punish¬
ment, no matter what the controversy, ,;
by always having “a friend at court,
or a paid servant, or both, in the person
of Ihe corporation lawyer.
The government is poor, can raise
money only by taxation; corporations
are rich, can pay their hired servants
princely sums.
Every attorney regards it as his first
great duty to provide for the payment
of his fee. He will take any case, or
any Hide* of a case, provided Ilia fee is
forthcoming. A man may be a mighty
poor lawyer, but he is always a good
fee-taker. Nobody ever knew a lawyer
to refuse any part of a fee offered him.
Now, take a lawyer who lias spent
half of ills life working for the man
or corporation that will pay him the
biggest fee. Instead of studying ques¬
tions of right and wrong that affect the
welfare of his fellow man, and ho is
mighty poor material to make a disin¬
terested, unselfish, patriotic statesman
of. Ten chances to one lie will keep
right on taking fees from the most gen¬
erous fee-giver.
Uncle Sam pays a lawyer $5,000 a
year for his services us United States
senator. His old master, a certain rail¬
road corporation, in wtiose employ ho
may yet continue secretly, can pay him
$50,000 for his vote on an Important
measure, and make money by the op¬
eration. Can the conscience of the av¬
erage corporation lawyer stand such a
strain?
Uncle Sam pays his president $50,000
a year. A inonoy syndicate, or corpora¬
tion of bankers, if you please, can pay
him $1,000,000 to force a big bond Issue,
and make for them $10,000,000 clear by
the operation. Could a man accustomed
all Ills life to taking fees from corpora¬
tions, and trying to inako the wrong
side of questions appear right, resist
such a temptation?
A man accustomed all his life to re¬
gard his fee ns the most Important
feature of any transaction is a danger¬
ous man to represent the interests of
• the common people, who uro unable to
back up a small salary with extra fees
and perquisites.
And yet it Is Just that class of men
who get into office, especially Into legis¬
lative hulls, elected by the aid of corpo¬
rations, to do the dirty work of corpo¬
rations.
You can count on your lingers the
names of every congressman and U. S.
senator who was, prior to Ills election,
neither a corporation attorney nor an
officer, director or stockholder in a na¬
tional bank.
Nearly every cabinet officer since the
days of Lincoln has been a corporation
lawyer. Every president since Grant
has been a corporation lawyer.
Every federal Judge of the present
day, with scarcely an exception, has
been a corporation lawyer.
Shiras, who went over to the million¬
aires with the casting vote oa the in¬
come tax, was a corporation lawyer.
Olney, the new secretary of state, won
his appointment through his devotion
to the interests of corporations less than
a year ago.
Hannon, tho new attorney general,
has long been the head of a firm of
corporation lawyers, and announces
that business in his interest will still be
transacted at the old stand.
Chauncey Depew gets $100,000 a year
as attorney for a single corporation,
and the man whom he is coaching for
president wouldn’t stand the ghost of
a chance for renomination were it not
for his past services as attorney for
railroad corporations.
With the executive, judicial and leg¬
islative branches of our government
under the management of corporation
lawyers, is it any wonder that our laws
are passed, interpreted and executed
In the interest of corporations, and to
the groat detriment of the common peo
pie?
There is little hope for genuine po¬
litical reform until the corporation law
yer is made to step down and out.
IHfthoncKt Mon«*y.
We publish elsew here the story of a
pensioner of the government living it:
the State of Kansas w ho demanded his
money in gold. The goldbugs have eu
couraged every man to believe that he
has a perfect right to demand gold for
any government obligation. Mr.
lisle has insisted on paying out gold on
paper that specifically states that it
represents gold or silver, and he pays
out gold on other paper whose face
calls for silver. Mr. Cleveland and his
abettors say that it is necessary to pay
every obligation In gold upon the do
mand of foreigners. They insist
more that there is an abundance of gold
as a basis for all the pnper and silvr
obligations that are now being used
The man who believes the truth of
these statements naturally expects that
he can go to a bank and demand golj
for any money he earns. Whether thi*
Kansas pensioner really believed th(
story he had heard that it would be £
robbery of the soldiers to remonetiz«
silver and pay the government pen¬
sioners in silver dollars, or whether he
wanted to prove that those who thus
talked were liars, he tried the experi¬
ment and found that the “honest
money” was not on hand to pay his
pension.
Here is a practical test of the honesty
of the "honest money” scheme. If the
pensions of the soldiers alone worn to be
paid each quarter in gold two-thirds of
the banks of the country would have to
shut their doors and go out of business.
Let the people demand the gold for
every day business purposes and the
bankers would be the most eager people
in the country for a double standard.
We doubt if there Is a bank in Riqh
rnond that could pay its obligations for
three days with gold alone.
There is nothing that more clearly
demonstrates the dishonesty of these
advocates of a single standard, This
pensioner had a perfect right to de¬
mand payment in gold, and if he had
been dealing with honest men he would
have received his demand. These gold
bug papers tell us that the poor man
wants the very best money for his
services, but when he goes to a bank
and demands that he shall be paid in
gold he is driven out of the bank.
A homo or foreign banker can, how¬
ever, send to the United States Treas¬
ury a silver certificate, which the bank¬
er says is worth only fifty cents on the
dollar, and get dollar for dollar in gold.
When one who knows anything of
money hears one of these goldbugs talk
about the abundance of gold for all
commercial purposes and sees with
what tenacity the banks cling to it and
knows that there is not enough in the
bunks to pay the soldiers' pensions
alone the thought cannot be kept back—
"what liars these goldbug mortals be."
— Richmond, Va., Star.
Hurd on Glevtfland.
The law said that Import duties
interest on the bonds should be paid ir
“Coin.”
The law said that import duties
should he paid in “Coin.”
The Hclieme of the law was that the
Import duties should supply the coin
needed to pay the interest on the bonds.
If this law were carried out, wo
would always be flush of coin, and bond
issues could not he forced.
But Cleveland says that coin, at the
Custom House, means either silver or
gold.
Therefore the Wall Streeters pay the
import duties in silver.
At the treasury, Cleveland says the
word coin means gold.
Thereforo tho Wall Streeters get
gold.
In this adroit way Cleveland plays
into the hands of the Wall Streeters,
and they catch the tax payers both
ways.
Do yon believe that Cleveland pros¬
titutes public policy to the Wall Street
syndicates in this way without being
paid for it—either directly or In¬
directly?
Never In the world. A corrupter
ruler than Cleveland has never held
the reins of our Government, His
enormous wealth, suddenly piled up
during tho last four years, cannot b(
explained upon any other idea that'
that he has beta a secret partner ir
die infamous deals he has allowed Wall
Street to make at the expense of the
people.
[tic Win Kicked Out.
A pensioned veteran, acting on the
assurance that there was an abund
ance of gold in the country for all pur
poses, was Intrepld enough to ask gold
in payment of his check issued by the
pension agent at Topeka and was un¬
ceremoniously kicked out of the bank
in that city yesterday.
It appears that in Kansas the other
day a circular was issued advising vete¬
rans to demand gold on their checks
and to decline ail forms of depreciated
currency, as the goldbugs are in the
habit of terming everything else except
yellow coins. This document threw the
Topeka hankers in hysterics. One of
them said it was “diabolical," and went
on to show how accommodating they
wore to cash government checks at all.
One veteran acted on the suggestion
and instead of getting gold got a hoot.
No wonder this circular gave the
bankers the shivers. It was a cold¬
blooded method of demonstrating that
the Kansas banks did not hold even
enough gold to cash the pension checks
of a single quarterly payment from the
Topeka agency, to say nothing of pay¬
ments in other lines of business. The
bankers would not have it. and hence
they kicked out the offending veteran
who asked for gold.
This circular may be termed the most
practical and ingenious method yet hit
upon by any one for demonstrating the
falsity of goldbug assertions regarding
the abundance of gold for all business
purposes. It also reveals the hollowness
of the anxiety so frequently expressed
i osl pensioners should be paid in "de
predated" money, if free coinage were
restored. The very first demand for
gold bv a single veteran resulted in his
PX p U i s j 0 n from the bank.—Denver
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Tako a broad view of tho tendency ol
events, and see if this isn’t the situation
which threatens us:
i s t. The nation's public revenues
mortgaged to the Wall Street syndi
ca tes by means of bonds.
2nd. The nation's private revenues
pu t at the mercy of the Wail Street
syndicates by means of the transporta
tion taxes levied by the railroads and
the taxes levied on the medium of ex
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bEMOCRATIC JONAH TRYING
TO SWALLOW THE WHALE.
fhere Are Now Only Two Parties In Tjijs
Country: The l*opnl!st and Republican
—Democracy Has Been Clevclandlzed—
People Are in Karnest.
While pretending to lecture their
party and threatening a great bolt, the
democratic silver papers cannot help
betraying the real object of their
friendsip for the Populists. They wa-nt
the Populists to come and help them
save the old party. The Chicago Dis¬
patch Is one of the papers delegated
tor the work of corralling the Populists,
and the following extract is a fair
sample of its advice and policy:
“The great growth of the Populist
party is proof that the democratic
party has departed from the people.
The republican party stands for mo¬
nopoly and the money power. Democ¬
racy must get back into line with Jef¬
fersonian principles or it will perish.
Its platform in 189G must be bro^d
enough to include all wholesome Pop¬
ulist doctrines.”
“Democracy must get back” — oh,
yes! Democracy is going to reform it¬
self and do better. Don't you see?
kip T . , . ... .. „ ,,,
keep the kickers in tne party anvTT.
must be as nearly like the Populist
platform . as possible, because hat nt is
ho party the bolters will join if they
cave e pai y.
Then many Populists once belonged , ,
to the democratic party, and it is fadr
o assume that, having once been bam
boozled by the glamour of gl tiering
promises, they can be fooied again.
I ut the ops me eamu o
hings since beginning their career as
kickers. They have learned that the
promises of leaders are worthless and
that the people must depend who y
upon themselves instead of upon poli¬
ticians.
What the people promise themselves
depends upon their own efforts to ac¬
complish.
Let the democratic party perish if it
will.
Jeffersonian principles will not per¬
ish, neither will the people perish.
Men who believe in Jeffersonian
principles must get together in a party
that votes for Jeffersonian principles.'
When the party of Grover Cleveland,
Carlisle, Hoke Smith, Brice, et al.,
adopts a Jeffersonian platform, with
gold-bug candidates, the People’s party
will run men of Jeffersonian princi¬
ples on the Omaha platform—not on
mere promises of the candidates, but
upon pledges and with instructions di¬
rect from the people.
Then if they are elected and prove
false to their pledges, there is a grow¬
ing sentiment among the people that
such traitors should be met at the
trains when they return from Washing¬
ton and hanged to the nearest telegraph
pole.
The people are getting too much in
earnest to be played with.
They talk of abolishing many of the
offices by which we have heretofore
been able to control legislation.
They gather in mobs and defy the
federal army and militia, declaring
that the civil power is greater than
the military.
The laborers have combined with the
farmers to organize a new party foreign
to the spirit of the money power, un¬
acknowledged by the great daily press
and a menace to our most shrewd poli¬
ticians.
They declare themselves in favor of
trial by jury, and insist on the rabble
havin g a voice in the government,
^ hey threaten to annuli sacred eon
tracts entered into by foreign syndi
ca * es ^ or protection of bankers ond
exporters of gold.
They talk of confiscating the lands
of foreign investors who have placed
their capital in American estates.
They threaten to abolish our charters
and franchises, and alter fundamental
m ^thods of governmenL
T ^ e >' are at t' me circulating
; ,a Pers. books and pamphlets and send
r ‘ R a ?hators to inflame our most
, assals against
' our most cher
^ed lc “ es - means and methods of amassing
In every stage of these uprisings and
nurmurings of discontent we have tried
to persuade the people to be patient.
in the hope that our plans might be
completed, and they would soon see the
futility of opposing us. But our ex
planations have been answered by re
newed efforts to usurp our prerogative
of governing them.
A people so irreverent and fanatical
are unfit even to serve an aristocracy
of such glorious wealth as we have
built up here in America.
We have warned them from time to
time of unwarrantable efforts to secure
jurisdiction over us. We have re¬
minded them of our power to crush any
act of congress or to quell any strike
or other disturbance. We have ap¬
pealed to their devotion to party and
conjured them by the traditions and
precedents of preachers and politicians,
to abandon these vagaries, disband
their unions and accept the situation
in life to which it has pleased God to
call them. But they are growing deaf
to sermons on humility and despise the
mysteries of finance.
We must therefore take measures to
hold them in subjection; if they can¬
not be induced .to submit willingly—
then we must use force.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the Bank of England and Wall street,
N. Y., owners of the United States, and
joint heirs with Baron Rothschild in
the ownership of the earth, appealing
to the Supreme court for the constitu¬
tionality of our actions, do, in the name
,rnd by the authority of Grover Cleve
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Ugh and decIare tbat the united money
is, and , of , right , , , ought to . . he, ab- ,
power
gove n; and that bankers ,
tru8ts> syndicates and corp0 rations
are henceforth absolved from all
allegiance t0 any law passe d by
congre6S or legislature of
AmerJ and that all po „ti ca i
r henceforth sha „ be hel(1 on]y
by the dlvine right of proper ty. In
witness whereof we mutually pledge the
standjn armleS| guns and war-ships
to ther with the gold of a n the lead
, ng natJong of tho worldf whose rulers
bave adop ted the single gold standard,
WATSONISMS.
Clippings from the Editorials of Tom
Watson.
By the 1st of October the time dur¬
ing which the Rothschild bond-syndi¬
cate hired itself to the government to
keep our gold reserve in repair will
have expired.
Then what are we to do?
Rothschild, and among ’em, charged
us only ten million dollars to keep our
gold reserve in repair from February
to October.
The time will soon be out, and our
gold reserve will need more carpentry.
Will it take ten more millions to repair
it eight more months?
And will it take ten more millions an¬
other eight months after that?
We had to borrow the money to pay
the first ten millions. We will have to
borrow the money to pay the next ten
millions. And so on from term to
term.
What will the end be?
*
Sixty-seven millions of people, worth
sixty billions of dollars, sold out to a
dozen or so bankers, and bound hand
and foot by a written contract drawn
up by the President’s lawy-partner!
That’s the situation.
Are you proud of a government which
thus sells its people?
Are you certain of your future lib¬
erties when you can thus be handed
over to the servitude of an insolent
syndicate of bankers?
* * *
It needs no prophet to foretell your
future.
On and after October 1st the Wall
Streeters will begin to raid your gold
reserve once more.
The treasury notes of 1890, issued
to pay for silver bullion which bullion
the law said should be coined in suf¬
ficient quantities to redeem said treas¬
ury notes, will be carried to the treas¬
ury by the raiders. They will demand
gold for said treasury notes. The law
says they can only demand “coin.”
Cleveland says that “coin” means gold,
only.
Therefore the men whom the law
contemplated as getting silver dollars
in exchange for the notes issued to pay
for the silver, will get all gold, and no
silver. Then the government having
paid out gold where the law contem¬
plated silver, finds itself short on gold.
The raiders have taken out the gold
with silver purchase notes'
The government having paid out the
gold, must get it back again:—else our
precious gold reserve would shrink.
A “shrinking” of our precious gold
reserve cannot be thought of without
a shudder;—a simultaneous, unani¬
mous, and enthusiastic shudder.
A shudder of this particular sort can
only be cured with bonds: non
taxable, banking-privilege, interest
bearing bonds.
The moment these bonds are issued
the shudder quits. In fact we never
knew of a shudder which was more
amendable to treatment than the Wall
street shudder about our gold reserve.
It’s like thunder and lightning in a
play at the theatre—it'll stop when¬
ever it is properly requested so to do.
* * *
Bonds having been issued and the
Wall Street shudder having been cured,
what next?
Another raid on the gold reserve,
and another well regulated shudder in
financial circles—duly chronicled by
the hireling editors of the old party
papers.
This shudder, like the other, can only
be cured by issuing more bonds to get
the gold back once more from the raid¬
ers.
The government having got the gold
back from the raiders, the raiders gath¬
er up another lot of silver-purchase
notes and get the gold back from the
government again.
Every time this game is worked it
means a bigger debt for you and your
children. It means higher taxes,"and
darker homes. These bonds are your
.debts, and the taxes you pay are the
profits the raiders have made by hid¬
ing away their wealth where it pays no
tax, draws interest from your taxes, and
forms a basis for banking whereby
another profit at your expense is reaped.
When will this monkeying with the
gold reserve stop?
When will the Government and the
raiders quit playing into each other’s
hand?
Not till the bonds have been run up
to a sum so enormous that your taxes
can no longer meet the interest.
To this limit they are going to go.
Beyond it they do not care to go. They
are not such fools as to kill the goose.
The syndicate which would not ap¬
preciate the ownership of just such a
copiously idiotic goose as the American
tax-payer would be hard to please.
Very hard.
• • *
When I have the power to levy the
freight rate, I can put It so high that I
can leave you all the labor and the risk
while I take all the profit.
When I have a monopoly of issuing
the currency, I can fix such a charge
for the use of It, that all the profit will
come to my bank, while all the risk, toil
and trouble will come to your store.
When I have a deal with the Govern¬
ment by which I pay no tax on my
wealth, but, on the contrary, derive a
privileged income from your tax, all the
fatness of all the land will gradually
find its way to my larders, while all the
emptiness and all the raggedness and
all the hardships will come to you and
yours.
Is this plain?
The Wall Street syndicates occupy
precisely that position to-day, and you,
by your vote for one or the other of the
old parties helped them to get there.
Wont you now help us to dislodge
them?
Wanted—More Hou Qua*.
The honesty of the Chinese In their
business dealings is shown in the ac¬
tion of Hou Qua, the Canton million¬
aire, who died a few years ago, leaving
at least $50,000,000. One of the Chinese
firms of Canton failed, owing a great
sum to foreigners. Hou Qua got up a
subscription and paid the whole indebt¬
edness. He headed the list of sub
scribers with $1,000,000 out of his own
pocket, saying at the same time that
“Chinese credit must remain untar¬
nished.” This is the same man who,
when the British were about to bom¬
bard Canton, unless their demand of
$6,000,000 was paid within forty-eight
hours, headed the subscription list with
the sum of $1,100,000. “I give,” said
he, "$800,000 as a thank offering for the
business prosperity I have had. I give
$100,000 as a testimony of the fidelity of
my son. and $200,000 as a mark of the
affection which I bear my wife.” Hou
Qua is still greatly honored in Canton,
and his name is synonymous with busi
neos honor.
PAY THE FREIGHT.
PLAIN FACTS FOR OUR UN¬
CONVERTED READERS.
The Railroafl Corporations Responsible
for High Prices—Producers and Con¬
sumers Get Left—-Wanted: Govern¬
ment Ownership.
Chicago Weekly Sentinel: Take the
retail market reports of any large city
and compare them w'ith the retail
prices of products in the localities of
the producers, and one will readily un¬
derstand and be inclined to approve
the demand in the Omaha platform for
cheaper transportation facilities.
The fruit crops of California and
Florida are loaded on cars in the vi¬
cinity of the orchard and vineyard at
ridiculously low figures, but before they
reach the eastern or northern markets
they have been subjected to the touch
of so many middle men that the con¬
sumer has to pay for the product an
exorbitant price.
A few days ago a merchant of Wis¬
consin bought a load of Georgia water¬
melons which the Georgia dealer sold
for six cents each, The railroads
chargdd seventeen cents each for trans¬
portation and they were sold in Wis¬
consin at twenty-five cents each, yield¬
ing the Wisconsin dealer a profit of two
cents each, provided there was no loss
in handling.
A little over a year ago a Georgia
man shipped a box of green peas to a
Chicago commission merchant, and by
mistake sent them by express, The
expressage was $1.25, and the peas
were sold for less than $1.00.
The writer once saw a car load- of
coal started from a Pennsylvania mine
to a dealer in Nebraska, who thought
by purchasing of the producer direct to
serve his customers at a lower rate. The
Nebraska man wasn’t in the “com¬
bine,” and his car load of coal had to
be sold in Nebraska at $8.50 per ton
to realize the usual dealer’s profit.
Everybody knows how a bushel of
wheat or a pound of pork or beef in¬
creases in price while being railroaded
from the farm to the city retail shop.
And what is true of staple products is
also true of vegetables, small fruits,
and everything that the farmer has to
sell.
Short distances count for very little,
either, the inter-state commerce com¬
mission supposedly to the contrary not¬
withstanding.
Two years ago a Chicago man pur¬
chased a small farm about fifty miles
out from Chicago, for the purpose of
growing green corn or “roasting ears”
for the Chicago market. He reasoned
that as an early crop sold readily in
Chicago at 15 cents to 20 cents per
dozen, there was a large margin of
profit in the enterprise. So there was
—for the railroads. And the enterpris¬
ing raiser of roasting ears went out of
the business after one year’s experi¬
menting, much poorer in pocket, but
richer in political principles, as he is
now a shouting Populist—shouting for
the entire Omaha platform and the
transportation plank in particular.
The people pay the freight—“all the
traffic will bear.” And whatever loss
has to be sustained by the buyer or
seller, the producer or consumer, the
freight always has to be forthcoming
—the middle man takes out his profit
in the transaction, though there be
nothing left besides.
In this exciting discussion over the
money question—the most important,
it must be admitted, of all economic
questions—we are apt to lose sight of
the transportation question, and the
urgent demand for governmental own¬
ership and control of railroads especial¬
ly.
Watermelons can be carried from
Georgia to Wisconsin by the car load
for three cents each, and the fourteen
cents thus safed ’divided between the
Georgia farmer and the Wisconsin con¬
sumer.
California and Florida fruit can be
laid down in the eastern market in a
way that will cheapen it at least one
fourth in price at retail, and add as
much to the selling price when leaving
the hands of the producer.
Pennsylvania and Ohio coal can be
made to flood the western prairies at
times when most needed and at rates
far below the prices usually exacted.
But to accomplish these things the
people must lay a strong and avenging
hand upon the throats of the robber
combines and trusts that are fattening
upon the fruits of honest industry and
legitimate trade.
To do this requires that the trans¬
portation plank of the Omaha platform
shall be enacted into law—the people
must own the railroads and other
means of transportation.
Every enterprising merchant owns
and operates his own express and
freight teams. l?nele Sam has paid a
monopoly cut-throat gang to do his
hauling long enough.
The people pay the freight, and they
have the right to run their own con¬
veyances, if they want to.
Crowd the transportation plank of
the Omaha platform right along to the
front; let the people understand it, and
they will soon approve it and adopt it.
What will be the next move, after
the raiders hare got all the bonds they
want?
The retirement of the Greenback!
The paper money of the Government
Is to be destroyed, and the monopoly of
issuing currency and of controlling its
volume is to be handed over to the
national bankers, Silver will be
token money only; gold will be the
money of reserves and final payment;
bank notes will be the currency of the
business world, and the national bank
monopoly will set their own price upon
that.