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PEBS ON POLITICS.
HE ADVOCATES THE NEW PEO
PLE’S PARTY.
Says Mon Have JLoug Been Deceived —
With Lincoln, lie lie He veil AH the
People 1 an Not Be Deceived All the
Time.
Eugene V. Debs in Chicago Evening
Press: In a free country where the peo
pi, arc the sov. nugns, as is supposed
to be the case in the United States, and
all the people have the ballot, all are,
or ought to be, as the phrase goes, "in
politics.” Indeed, if they exercise the
"divine right to rule,” which is done
by the flat of the ballot, they are “in
politics.” If they do not vote and there¬
by abdicate their sovereignty, they may
be Bald to be “out of politics” and aliens
In their native land.
Now then, let us inquire, What is poli¬
tics? Webster defines the term, and he
will be accepted as standard authority.
1 quote the "unabridged” definitions in
full:
“I. Politics is the science of govern¬
ment; that part of ethics which lias to
do with the regulation and government,
of a nation or state, the preservation of
its safety, peace and prosperity, the de-
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fondgn control or conquest, the, aug
mentation of Its strength and resources
and the protection of its citizens in
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Hitherto men have voted wilh the,
parties with which they were affiliated.
right or wrong. They were democrats
or they were republicans, without a
reason why. They marched, they shout
ed and voted for the supremacy of their
party, accepted professions as honest
which proved to be false, and platforms
which were made to be disregarded, to
find out at last that they had been the
victims of the vilest duplicities that
were ever concocted, of politics ‘ in a
bad sense,” of “political trickery.” They
were not to be blamed specially for
their allegiance to the two old parties,
for, in sooth, they must vote for one or
the other because there was no other
party with which they could affiliate.
It wa remark of Abraham
T33551 n ! !ia l YT (i“ert n’t! (• c-FiTV- ft If-Tv A h<
ptnplc some of the time and some of the
people all the time, but you cannot de¬
ceive all of the people all of the time.
No one doubts that Abraham Lincoln
had the ability to write political max¬
ims, and, subjected to analysis, his
proverbs are found to bo absolutely
true. For Instance:
"1. You can deceive all of the people
some of the time.”
Inevitably. If there are but two par¬
ties and both of them are political “In
a bad sense,” "artful and dishonest,”
what matters it for which party a man
easts his vote? He is the victim of de¬
ception in cither case, and that is just
what lias been the matter during the
past quarter of a century. The people
have been deceived all the time, 'lhoy
have been jumping from the frying pan
into the tiro and then jumping from the
fire into the frying pan deceived every
time and all the time.
"2. Von may deceive some of the peo
pie all tlie time.”
In politics tlie statement is absolutely
Incontrovertible. We see it illustrated
on every hand and at every election.
We see men wedded to tlieir party idols
and worshiping them with pagan idol
atry. They will not be undeceived.
They have eyes, but. like the potato,
they cannot see; they have ears, but,
like the cornstalk, they cannot hear;
or. if they do see and hear they are so
debauched by the influence of "politics
In a bad sense," by "political trickery,”
that no facts, no arguments, no logic,
and no calamities can influence them,
and they have to be let alone.
“3. You cannot deceive all the people
all the time."
In saying that Mr. Lincoln rose to the
sublime heights of a mental philoso
pher. 11c stated a truth of universal
aceeptaiiee. a truth that is the last hope
of humanity. But to undeceive the peo
ple. to get their consent to renounce
error and embrace the truth, requires
time, labor, sacrifice, indefatigable ef¬
fort.
In polities, if men see clearly that
tlie parties with which they have been
afflliated are forever wrong, and that
by deserting one and joining the other
affords no relief, that the principles and
policies of both are alike vicious, the
first sign that you cannot deceive oh
the people all the time will be a de
mand for a new party, a party pledged
to the reform of abuses and the email
cipation of the people from po.itics in
a bad sense,” from "political trickery,”
a party pledged to the enactment of
wise and just laws and an honest, clean
administration of such laws.
The two old panic s. the democratic
and republican parties, have been re¬
peatedly condemned
people, but. as he been remarked, no
relief to the people c te from such coti
demnation because bandoning one
and flying to the other the victories thus
ns of affordiug relief,
only perpetuated the evils complained
and 4 for another
party 1 . ratine J to be
deceived no longer of courage and
conviction and posaesslng the power of
self-emancipation, could go and work
the political redemption of the coun
try.
The new party that has come and
has come to stay is the people’s party.
It has come because you “cannot de
i f ive all the people all the time." It
has come In obedience to the honest,
patriotic thought of the nation.
If there were those who believed that
the people’s party would vault into
power like a fabled Minerva, full-grown
and ready armed to beat back the one
m , pjj of hones, government, they should
remember that the present is not an age
of miracles nor of mythology. Political
parties are of slow growth, but if they
only “the eternal years,” but men who
will not be deceived, are pledged to
their final triumph.
The patriots in the people’s party
have a right to feel encouraged, be
pause from 1892 to 1894 the gains in
the party exceeded a million votes,
r.stablishing the fact beyond contro
veiny that “you cannot deceive all the
people all the time.”
THE PASSING SHOW.
A l ew Snap Shots at an Endless Pro
eesston.
Jeffersonian simplicity is no longer
“good form” in America. Presidential
etiquette is daily becoming more ,
more like that of the royal court of the
little island which dictates the finan¬
cial affairs of all the vast continents
of the world. Our president has been
guarded day and night by soldiers ever
since the day that his election was an¬
nounced. He is never seen walking out¬
side of his castle. Detectives are by his
side oven when he condescends to al¬
low the people who have him hired to
shake his flabby fat hand in either pri¬
vate or public receptions. He and his
cabinet have at their disposal free of ex¬
pense all the vessels of the United
States fleet, and right royally do they
"spread it on,” cruising about the
lakes on government vessels. An iron¬
clad battle-ship may yet be converted
into their private use for a duck-shoot¬
ing excursion.
Sugar is now handled by wholesalers
on commission only. No wholesaler can
buy sugar. He takes it, pays for it, sells
it at the price the trust dictates, sends
in the money, and if lie swears he has
not cut the price, gets 3-16th cents a
pound rebate at the end of the month.
If he refuses to do this, he «an’t get
sugar at all. Coffee is also thus
handled. O, we’ve lots of liberty in
tliis land of “competition!”—Appeal to
Reason.
And now a mighty railroad pool has
been formed to “carry out the purpose
of the Interstate commerce act”— even
the railroads are going to protect the
government, and help enforce the law.
Yea. verily—they have just been joking
when they worked so hard and so per¬
sistently for the repeal of this act,
'u'rtf'tfiVrtnrttflr Isrtirat'vfrte new
is for the sole purpose of defying all law
now in existence, and to work for a new
law for the special promotion of rail¬
road pools. Senator Chandler has writ¬
ten President Cleveland urging him to
stop the deal. He says one word from
the President to J. Pierpont Morgan
would cause the whole conspiracy to
stop. But the President will not speak
the word. Senator Chandler says:
“Will you act or will you take the re¬
sponsibility of consenting, as you will
by inaction, to conspire against a new
law, which, within a few weeks, will
raise the prices of food and fuel to all
your, beloved people?” Thp leadors of
the conspiracy, say that they will go to
congress with a petition for a pooling
bill. However, the pool is already in
effect, and even though congress should
grant them the privilege of pooling, it
would come too late to cover the viola¬
tions of the law already committed.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 20.—In his
tenth annual report, devoted to strikes
and lockouts, which has just been com¬
pleted, Hon. Carroll D. Wright, com¬
missioner of labor, computes that the
loss to employes in establishments in
which lockouts and strikes occurred
during the thirteen and a half years
ending June 30.1S94. amounted to $190,-
193.3S2. and to employers to $94,825,837.
The loss to employes on account of
strikes was $163,807,866; and on ac¬
count of lockouts, $26,6S5,516; to em¬
ployers oil account of strikes, $82,590
386. and on account of lockouts, $12
235,451. The number of establishments
involved in strikes in this period was
69,167, ami the number of persons
thrown out of employment by reason
strikes 3.714,406, making an average
| 0SS t0 ^ be employes of each establish
nH . n f 0 j $2,368, and to each person of
^ -p b<1 number 0 f establishments tu¬
voived in lockouts was 6,067. and the
number of persons looked out 366,690.
These persons lost an average of $75
each. The assistance given to strikers
and tb<> sub jects of lockouts during the
per j 0d amounted, as far as aseertaiti
ab j t>> t 0 $13,438,704, or a little over 7 per
,, ent total loss to employes,
These figures are taken from an as
soc j Ste press report, and of course they
are intended as an argument against
S j r j k e ? it is true that the employes
near j y always lose more money in a
strike than the employers—hut the mil
jj ons 0 f do u a rs lost everv vear bv work
ingmen for not striking at the ballot
, )0X „ ro teT1 times greater, The strike
may not appear on its face to he a sue
cess—but who knows how low wages
migbt have but (or tbe efforts of
organized labor. Perhaps millions of
dollars have been gained in keeping up
wages through strikes and other means.
But a greater gain has been made in the
,'duration of laborers to the necessity of
uniting at the ballot-box. Let us all
strike together, and the oohtest of a
thousand years will be settled.
A man sometimes poses for an Apollo
when he is only an ApoTo-gv for one.
SILVER BOYCOTTED.
BANKERS SEEK TO DESTROY
MONEY OF CONSTITUTION.
Clearing House Report shows that not i
a Silver Dollar is used by the Hanks
In Settling Balances—Thurf Silver. they H^pe |
to Cast. Discredit upon
!
Silver Knight: The amount of lying j
which both parties do to deceive the i
people on the silver question ought to |
make the devil proud of his pupils.
potb p art j es in their platforms continu
a iiy declare they are in favor of the
U8e 0 f both gold and silver as money,
and every cuckoo and subsidized poli
tician has this lying declaration on his
n p3 . Notwithstanding the law makes
no discrimination between gold and sil
ver co j n and every obligation of the
government is payable in silver, no ad
ministration can be found which does
no t falsely assert that the obligations
of the government are payable in gold
alone. This is not all or the worst of
it. Every administration since the
crime of 1873 has made it a business to
boycott silver and drive It out of use
in violation of law, in violation of the
pledges of both parties, in violation of
the constant assertion of the presidents
of boUl , jartleSi anfl in vlo!a tion of every
principle of honor, decency and truth.
This lying systhm permeates every de¬
partment of the government at Wash¬
ington, and is done in pursuance of
the orders and mandates of the English
gold trust,. The following from the
New York World is one of the methods
used by the enemies of the people to de¬
stroy the money of the constitution:
Banks Boycott Silver—Clearing
House Report Shows that not a White
Dollar Passed in Balances—Reviving
Trade Makes a Change-Over Half a
Million in Small Certificates Taken
from the Sub-Treasury for Local Use.
At the annual meeting of the Clear¬
ing House association yesterday, Man¬
ager Sherer reported on the year's
credit trading of the sixty-six banks in
the association and of the eighty eddi
tional banks and trusts companies
which clear through members.
The report rolls millions upon mil
lions. Here are some of the figures:
Aggregate exchanges..$ 28,264,379,126
Aggregate balances... 1,896,574,349
Total transactions.... 30,160,953,47:*
_
Average exchanges
daily $ „ 7n
............... ’ ’
balances ,
Average
daily .............. b, 218 ,.270
Total daily average.. .$
Largest exchanges on
any day (July 2).... 194,637,038
Largest balance on
any day (Jan. 29).... 16,027,131
Largest transaction on
any day (July 2)..... 207,117,4
Exchanges ........... $1,073,513,117,9
Smallest tranactlona Trim
on any day (April 13)
Total transactions since organization
of clearing-house (42 years);
Exchanges $1 073 V13 117 948
Balance .. 49,463,653,o82 49 463 653 582
Total ..... ........$1,122,976,771,531
The balances of January 29 were
largest on record.
The sub-treasury in this city, which
makes its settlement through the
ing-house, has been debited during the
year with $242,982,953, and credited
with $95,159,905, an excess of debit bal¬
ances of $147,823,048. toi
The banks paid their balances one
another In various kinds of money.
thus:
U. S. gold coin........... $50,000
U. S. bearer gold certifi¬
cates ................... —
IT. S. order gold certifi¬
cates ................... 25,000
Clearing House gold cer
. tifieates ............... 15,436,OOf) 1,335,004)
IT. S. Treasury notes.....
U. S. legal tender certifi¬
cates ............’...... 1,009,405,000
U. S. legal tender and 879,318,34|9
change ..... ....
Total ..................$1,896,574,349
It will be seen that the greenback dr
legal tender note, either in the form lf>- <if
certificates of deposit issued by the
cal sub-treasurer entire or In balancing. actual notejs,
does almost the
Silver does not pay a dollar between
banks in this city, and for nearly
twenty years not a single silver dollhr
n.or a certificate calling for the white
metal has passed as final redemption
monev from bank to bank.
This practical boycott is the unwrit
ten law of the banks In 1878 the clear
in* house put in its bv-laws a positive
prohibition of the proffer of a silver
dollar in settlement of a debt by one
bank to another. The silver men in
congress promptly passed a law for
bidding national banks to remain
bers of clearing houses having such a
rule. The rule was at once expunged
from the by-laws, but it remained in
practice and is lived up to today.
which ManaSr last'vear p*d$147 ltd not 8^047 in cash
re Sherer offer a sin
done -le silver sold dollar aUimel It “ might would legally Tave Ln have
very convenient to do so. Once the
sub-treasury had a payment to make
and had $30,000,000 in free s liver, and
very few treasury notes or gr eenbacks.
It could have turned over s Uver cer
tifieates. which are printed u P to $1,000,
hut rather than do so it ma »ie some
quick shifts to get greenbacks. I .
v No . sub-treasurj treasure’ has has vet . be be Br Rf- bold Doia
enough to try the experiment of using
legal silver in pajment or leg. il t*ebts.
In New York it would have bre toght an
» boycott of the United States
so far as facilities for clearam es were
concerned.
To the customers of the banks the
silver certificates are freely offered. In
fact, the majority of counter payments
are in these or bank notes. Each bank
wojrks off this sort of money as quickly
as possible, but the ever-redeemable,
never-redeemed greenback is jealously
retained as a tried gold-drawing piece
of paper.
Gold, of course, is held back, and
Manager Sherer now has in the vault
some $32,000,000 in fine newly-minted
gold which has been deposited there by
hanks which are short of vault room.
I he Clearing House association elect¬
ed these officers: President, William A.
Nfesh, President Corn Exchange Bank;
Secretary, William H. Porter, Vice
Piesident Chase National Bank; Clear
ing House committee, Edward H. Per
kins, Jr., President Importers and
Traders’ National Bank; George G.
Williams, President Chemical National
Bfcnk; Henry W. Cannon, President
Chase National Bank; James T. Wood
ward, President Hanover National
Bank, and A. B. Hepburn, President
Third National Bank.
'At the Sub-Treasury yesterday New
y\ >rk banks took $610,000 in small sil¬
ver certificates in exchange for larger
It <ral tenders. Transfers of $770,000 to
ojbier cities were called for. Of this
aAsount $50,000 was paid for in gold,
and $675,000 went to New Orleans.
■^The Canadian banks are just now is¬
suing many small bank notes and
ty> the Sub-Treasury here as a
ieht place to replenish their
reserve of gold. One bank yesterday
.took $100,000.
WE NEED A WAR.
ntiat Kill the Surplus J’opulation for the
Benefit of the Rich.
In conversation with a gentleman he
s. id that "we ought to have a war in
order to kill off the thousands who had
nothing to do and could get nothing to
do.” And this is the 19th century!
This is a civilization that has been
ti mlded by the influences of Christian¬
ity and softened by the tenderness of
brotherhood! This is an age that is
with the power and creations
\f accumulated wealth! This is the
in which millionaires increase,
churches and school houses multiply
and art galleries and libraries and col¬
leges and inventions grow more and
more numerous! And yet, like hungry
from a shipwreck it is brutally
that we must kill some of our
that the rest may live. The
is monstrous; it is savage; it is
If in 1,900 years the human
is yet so near a barbaric state as to
a thought as horrible as this
&n express ed, there can be no longer
a doubt of the gospel truth of the doc
trine of man’s total depravity. The
thought at once ignores, brutally ig
nores, the teachings of Jesus Christ and
outrages every lofty sentiment of the
That it should be deemed nec
or advisable to slaughter thou
sands, that the Goulds, and Vanderbilts,
and Morgans and Rockefellers should
— their useless\s and accumu
pie of civilization. The Almighty, we
not believe, ever created men for
0th t r men t0 klH in
might be more room on the earth for
greed and plunderers. In a
settled country like this not yet nhab
ited It by support, the one-tenth to talk of of the its people inability that to
can
feed and clothe and house a portion of
those who are already here, is not only
preposterous, but is tte savage expert
ence of a blood-thirsty disposition that
would shame a cannibal and offend the
religion of a Choctaw; and if such talk
cannot awaken the masses to change
our systems so that a man can live
where wheat sells for 50 cents a bushel
and potatoes for 25 cents, God help the
nation and the race—Chicago Voice.
England’* President.
Anyone who supposed Cleveland
would permit Secretary Olney to push
his “vigorous foreign policy” evidently
don’t know Cleveland. The president
has called Olney down just as he did
Gresham on the Corinto affair. A Wash¬
ington dispatch of Oct. 26th says:
j’You can bet every dollar you can get
hold of,” said an attache of the State
Department to-day, “that there will be
no trouble between this country and
Great Britain over Venezuela. To take
up Venezuela’s case by force means the
establishment of a protectorate by the
United States in South America, and I
can assure you that nothing is farther
from the minds of President Cleveland
and Secretary Olney. The vigorous for
eign policy we have been talking about
will be on paper entirely.
“Spanish-American sympathizers as
sert confidently that the boasted vigor
ous foreign policy” of the United States
has come to a sudden and inglorious
end. These who know of the personal
and social relations between Sir Julian
Pauneefote and the President never
could be made to believe that any firm
stand against Great Britain would be
possible under the present administra
tion, and now they are more convinced
of this fact than ever.”
English capitalists knew what they
about when they put Cleveland in
president. No greater friend of Eng
land and enemy of the interests of the
American Republic ever occupied offi
dal position this side the big pond.
Sentinel.
The old party papers will probably
drop politics entirely, just . ^ after . eiec
tion. The people are so agitated that
the politicians want them to cool down
enough to be handled v ithout glo es b>
*e bosses next year. But t won t
—there are enough Populist papers to
campaign of
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... ... lncrease ^ i as t vear
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Pr( b!em for the single gold stand
ard ad\ocate= to e^.-m.
SENSATIONAL BOOK.
STARTLING REVELATIONS RE
CARDING PULLMAN STRIKE.
--.
Even the Regular Soldiers and Army
Officers Thought It Disgraceful to
Kill Workingmen for the Benefit of
Corporation* and Threatened to Ke
volt.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit, Mich., has
written a book, which, in its introduc
tory chapter, makes certain startling
disclosures which every patriotic Amer
ican should hail with acclamations of
delight.
Mayor Pingree is built upon the pat
tern g ov AItgeld of Illinois. He is
honest, earnest and courageous. He
j oves b i s fellow men who are in distress.
He abbors plutocrats and all their dev
jjj sb machinations. He regards them
as the arch enemies of the republic who
would, if they could, debauch angels and
wreck the government of heaven to
carry out their satanic policy. Mayor
Pingree introduces the Pullman strike
that he may give the public an astound
ing secret connected with that affair in
Chicago. He speaks like one who knows
whereof he speaks, and the public has
learned to place implicit confidence in
his utterances.
The secret disclosed by Mayor Pin¬
gree is that the officers of the regular
United States troops brought to Chi¬
cago by order of President Cleveland,
who foolishly took the advice of Olney,
the corporation lawyer, who was attor¬
ney general in Cleveland’s cabinet, met
at one of the hotels and denounced the
policy of using the army to perpetuate
wrongs and by so doing to degrade it in
the eyes of the people. . . .
Whenever opportunity offered they
(the army officers) compared the infor¬
mation gathered by their own men and
themselves, and when they exhausted
inquiry and were satisfied, they met in
one of the Chicago hotels. That meet¬
ing was one of the most extraordinary
for its significance that was ever held
in this country. It was a calm and quiet
comparison of notes gathered by the
officers themselves, and the conclusion
was clear that the army had been
brought to Chicago under a pretense for
the purpose of siding with the corpora¬
tions in an industrial struggle.
Mayor Pingree, in what he says,
states what multipled millions of men
believed at the time was true, that It
was clear there was no emergency of
sufficient moment to demand the ap¬
pearance of the United States army.
The troops were in a dilemma.
"The unhappy operatives at Pull
man,” says Mayor Pingree. “were not
armed men, nor were the men of the
Railway Union.who took their part cut
throats or armed rebels. It was clear
that it was a fight ° for just wages.
I was clear that . ,. it was a „ fight for
^ us v,i * ges agains u m n '
SfSrS'°?iXS
h to arbitrate,’ and a
ided President of lhe United
States had sent the troops to back Pull
^ R ^ ^ ^ tfae eyes of those
officers that the police, or at the utmost
^ fitate troops> were equal t0 the dfs _
turbaa<je that had been going on, and it
^ dfiar tQ them that such work for
the would, when the real facts
^ known> render the army obnox _
the thinking people , aS show
■
that it was at the beck and
f corporationB and as showing that
J te aristocracy had the control
t and that if a republic were
to be maintained it would can for the
total abolition of an army that could
made use of for such anti-republican
methods."
“There in that room,” says the au¬
thor, “officers who had seen service in
the great war of the rebellion, expressed
their indignation that they were called
out to be used, as was patent to them,
not so much to quell a riot as to crush
labor unions, in a city where cowardice
and greed for money predominated over
common sense; where howling news¬
papers egged on rather than allayed the
excitement of a badly misinformed city,
and all under the flimsy plea of enforc
ing the interstate commerce act. They
were to be used as the general managers
might deem best.”
“These officers,” says Mayor Pingree,
“did not confine themselves to the mere
expression of indignation. Their pa¬
triotic feeling led them further than
that. They denounced among them¬
selves the advisers of the President of
the l mted States who . . had sent them
on such a mission. It was not the spirit
of insubordination, but of righteous in
dignation against being used against
the defenseless and the weak and to
bolster up wrong and greed, which am
mated many regular officers,
“In their righteous anger they were
willing to give their views to the public,
and a second meeting was to be held to
formulate those views, which were to be
spread over the length and breadth of
the land to the people of the republic,
It is a pity these did not see the light
of day at the time. Had they been pub
lished there might have been a different
end of the great strike. The people
would have known the truth. AT the
facts of this meeting were, however,
well known to newspaper men of the
Chicago dailies, and those from other
cities who were on the ground, and some
day it will be history, and be to the
credit of our army, although now it may
not ~ appear so.
“By some means the particulars of
this first meeting leaked out before the
second meeting was held, and a court
martial of the officers who participated
was ordered. Hliis created great excite
ment among the railroad managers, to
papers-It They 11 "known
least were to
those in the interests of the corpora
tions; but they were told not to publish
them, and they kept these important
facts from the public. * * *
“The facts,” says Mayor Pingree, "of
the court martial also leaked out at the
time, and the publication of that, too,
was suppressed. Among the officers to
be court martialed for expressing an
opinion against u3ing the army for such
unholy purposes was a colonel of a regi¬
ment, who had served through the war
of the rebellion, and whose name is well
known in this state. But the court
martial never took place, The com
manding officer was discreet enough to
forward particulars to Washington, and
the President, aghast at the front of in¬
dependent American citizenship which
he had aroused in his subordinates by
his anti American methods, squelched
the court-martial, but the colonel was
retired from active service, and the
other officers were cowed by pressure
from Washington authorities.
“This action on the part of these thor¬
oughly American officers is one of the
bright spots on a black page of Ameri¬
can history; a page as black as that of
Homestead, where workingmen were on
the defensive against bogus philanthro
py and hypocritical patriotism. Their
action shows clearly that the intelligent
men of the nation are holding to the
opinion that justice, and not gatlmg
guns, is the best recourse of this nation
under all circumstances
“It shows that men who have seen
serious service in arms are averse, ex¬
cept under direct necessity, to sweeping
the streets of great cities with machine
guns; that the men who have defended
the flag want the arms of the nation
dignified by placing them against the
real foes of the country, and not against
the workingmen, who constitute the
bone and sinew of our population, and
the bulk of our soldiery in time of real
war. The troops of the United States
should never be called into any strug¬
gle that does not involve a conflict be¬
tween civil authorities and the mob,
with the express intention on the part
of the latter of overturning the gov
ernment. They should never be called
on to interfere in industrial struggles
between employer and employed, as
there has never been a time, and the
time can never arise, when the consta¬
bulary, the police, and the militia of
any given state can not handle the mat¬
ter, however grave.
“No matter how loud the call of cor
porationists and their managers, a deaf
ear should be turned to their frantic
appeals for the interference of the Unit¬
ed States troops. They were never in¬
tended for this purpose by our fore¬
fathers.”
Little by little the well planned eor
poration infernalism of calling out the
regular army to sweep the streets of
Chicago with machine guns for the ben
eflt of corporations is leaking out and
« due time Cleveland, Olney and Mills,
and their coadjutors, will stand eternal
Photographed in the minds of the
American people ^ as inhuman beasts of
prey> ^ the ^ by Mayor pln .
gree lifts the rank and file of the regu
tothe serene* elev ation of p>
™ Mayor sm Pingree p . TilC show f*\ to t8 what depths of
depravity Cleveland’s administration
could descend to defeat the American
Railway Union, whose only crime was
to assist famishing men and women to
escape from the jaws of George M. Pull¬
man, a millionaire man-eating tiger.—
Railway Times.
Rev. Walter A. Evans of Malden,
Mass., is another preacher who is liable
soon to find himself out of a job. In
the Arena for October he has a striking
paper entitled; “Preacher and Pluto¬
crat: or the Corruption of the Church
Through Wealth.” “The favoring nod
of the plutocrat,” writes Dr. Evans, “is
the open sesame to good standing and
promotion in the aristocratic church;
and the shrug of the plutocrat’s shoul¬
ders, his very praise (whispered in se¬
cure secrecy), judiciously faint, will
apply to the preacher, through the de¬
nomination machinery, the ecclesiasti¬
cal gag and boycott by which, in the
smooth usage of the modern inquisi¬
tion, God’s prophets of righteousness
are reduced to silence.”
The preachers all feel more or less
the tightening of plutocracy’s grip on
the church, and we are pleased to note
that many of them prefer to preach the
simple creed of Jesus and live on the
homely fare which the hard-hearted old
world bestows on its reformers.
If the free coinage men in the two
old parties don’t soon join the Populists,
they will be wandering about, gloomily,
hopelessly singing: “Fatherless, moth¬
erless, sadly we roam, our nursing bot¬
tle stolen, our reputation gone.” The
gold-bugs will steal their old party
nursing bottle; their reputation will be
shattered among the people, and they
will be without any party at all. Come
and join us, boys, before the gold-bugs
sell the roof from over your heads. You
fellows are old enough to begin taking
eare of yourselves. Let the nursing
bottle and the bosses go to England if
they w T ill.
Another fine specimen of municipal
corruption under old party rule has
been uncovered at Pittsburg, Pa. A
press dispatch says: “Sensational de¬
velopments continue as the result of
^be investigation of the affairs of the
attorney s office by the subcommit
tee councils. The authorities have
already figured out a shortage of $100,
0W. aQ d it is sa id that before the in
vestigation is closed it will be shown
that the city is a loser of at least $500,
060 or more.”
Why is it that men who are “born to
work” do not find a Job that was horn
at the same time for their accommoda
Grover appears to be more interested
in the rebellion of his party than in t£«
Cuban situation.