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NAPOLEON M'KINLEY. 3RHELMAN AIRS SOME OF HIS METHODS. "ronil«r» KT.ryllilOB 1“ Everybody While rur»nln« the Ifauble of Faroe and rotltlob Mow Ohio Hai Been 1’ut 111 Doht. James Creelman, a staff correspond¬ 'd! of the New York World, writing to tils paper from Columbus, Ohio, under lute of June 23, says: "I showed in my dispatch to the World last Sunday that the state debt of Ohio was greatly increased under ■McKinley’# rule as governor; that the Ohio (tale institutions were given over to political plunderers and contractors with pulls; that Gov. McKinley reveal¬ ed a singular weakness and infirmity in dealing with wealthy corporations, and that Mark Hanna was able to take posset; ion of the governor’s private office, send for state senators and dic¬ tate to the legislature, while Gov. McKinley stood passively and obe¬ diently in the background. "Major McKinley Is only embarrassed by a promise when he lias 10 keep it. Tliis has happened occasionally. There is one instance known to every man, woman and child in the Btate of Ohio. It is historic. It briefly and keenly sums up his character: When Melvin ley was a candidate for the governor¬ ship of Ohio he promised every office in the gifl of the executive, to almost every pen on politically useful, Nat urally, as events progressed and tho stale campaign developed, the lines of tho candidate’s promises began to cross each other and things wore sliglit ly tangled, McKinley was in a dcs perate positlon. He had lost his seat in congress, in spite of the enormous corruption fund poured into ids dl i trim by the trusts and corporations he had served. McKinleyism had been re¬ pudiated by Hie people at the polls. It was necessary to be governor of Ohio in order to be a serious candidate for the presidency, McKinley bribed the politicians. He promised the office of state Inspector of oils the most lu¬ crative political sinecure at. the rtls posal of the governor to at least five different persons. Mr. McKinley was elected. The. clamor for office was ap palling. The candidates for the oil inspectorship besieged the governor's, office. Two of them George W. Can field and B. L. McElroy were politi¬ cians of Importance, and each was in a position to prove that McKinley had solemnly promised the office to him. There was savage contention, The fol lowers of the two candidates uttered threats of war on the governor. Mr. McKinley Induced the legislature to pass a law creating two oil inspector sblpa, Instead of one, and thus rodeem ed his promises. "There is another interesting illus¬ tration of Mr. McKinley's official meth¬ ods well known to the people of Ohio. Two years ago a bill was introduced in the legislature to ‘provide for the abandonment of the Hocking Valley '■'Mktt*’ ' the *• •■utvww Coluiubu: - .* *'* Hocking 'fr mg the sumo to Valley and Athens railroad company.’ This law gave the railroad company the right of building a road along the Hooking Canal-, and turned over the whole canal property to the corporation for the sum of $50,000 paid down and an annual retal of $10,000. There was a storm of protest. This wushu exceeding¬ ly valuable franchise, for the routepar ulleied the lines of the wealthy Hocking Valley railroad and peneratod the great coal fields The Chicago, Columbus and Southeastern Railroad company offered to pay $100,000 in cash and $15, 000 a year for the franchise. In spite tliis the original net. was forced through the legislature. Gov. McKinley made no secret of the fact that he regarded the transaction as a corrupt bargain The representatives of the Chicago, Co¬ lumbus, and Southeastern Railroad company tried to have the law amend¬ ed so that the franchise should he sold to the highest bidder. They offered to value the canal property at $500,000 and to bid at (lie rate of annual interest upon that sum, which would have amounted to at least $25,000 a year twice and a half times as much as the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Athens Railroad company was to pay. The governor privately announced that he was in favor of the amendment, but he did nothing to aid its passage. 11c grew timid when the promoters of the steal threatened to retaliate politi- 1 rally. McKinley was seldom in his of- j fiee. He was a presidential candidate, j j and his time was occupied chiefly by speech-making in various parts of the state. The amendment was killed. "This was followed by a petition signed by representatives of the as soeiated canals and prominent eiti sens representing $30,000,000 of prop erty, asking the governor to direct tho attorney-general of Ohio to bring quo warranto proceedings in the supreme court to test the validity of the law. The petitioners went to the governor’s office a ml their case was presented by ex Gov. Foraker. ex-Judge Harrison, Gen. Powell and other prominent lawyers. They insisted that the state had been robbed, that the law had been passed by corrupt means, that it was special legislation forbidden bv the eonstitu tion, tuid that it violated the agree ment between the United States and the state of Illinois under which 500, 000 acres of Federal lands were aequir ed for the purpose of a canal. Gov. McKinley had privately promised to order the attorney-general to begin the action but again his presidential ambition controlled his conscience. The men who had organized the steal were powerful republican politicians. They told him that the people in the Hocking Valley coal district would resent any interference on his part; that if he authorized the quo warranto proceedings he must be prepared to lose the support of two congressional distriets in the next republican na- Uonal convention. Gov. McKinley re¬ fusal to art. Ami now he asks the American people to make hsru presi dent of the ('ailed States. I have- written down these facts moderately." DEMOCRATS, WHAT ABOUT THIS Does the Treachery «of Your Party Ap¬ ply as Well to Tariff as to Silver? The democratic party has always professed to be a "tariff reform” party. This was practically the only issue be¬ fore the people when it was for the first time since the war successful in the national election of 1884. Cleve¬ land was elected and the party was given 42 majority in the House of Rep¬ resentatives where, under the consti¬ tution, all tariff or revenue bills must originate. Mr. John G. Carlisle was elected speaker and in the formation of his committees gave the chairmanship of the Ways and Means committee to VV. it. Morrison, and of the Appropria¬ tions committee to Samuel J. Randall, it began to be whispered about, even before congress convened, that rxo tariff legislation would pass the House because of the opposition of the Ran dallites. It was said that enough democratic votes v/ould be controlled in the interest of republican tariff ideas to prevent an opposition measure pass¬ ing. Such argument watt treated with scorn and contempt by the majority of the party who would not believe that, with complete control of the House in their possession, the party would prove so recreant to its pledges as to permit such a course, and democratic rejoicing over the. fact tiiat the party was now in a position to show to the country Just what it meant by "tariff reform” was unrestrained. Mr. Morrison and ms committee went to work and in the course of a few months prepared the famous “Hori¬ zontal reduction bill,” and introduced it in the house. Mr. Converse, a demo¬ crat from Ohio,, made a motion to strike out its enacting clause. Upon the result of this motion depended not only the fate of the Morrison bill but the fate of all tariff legislation for that session. Mr. Randall threw the weight of his influence against the bill and in favor of the adoption of the motion. The battle was long continued and ap¬ parently honest. Mr. Morrison urged the House to remember that its major¬ ity was chosen directly for the purpose of reforming the tariff and that if his bill was not acceptable it had the power to take it in hand and amend it to suit, but to "for God’s sake, pass some kind of a tariff reform bill." in spile of all. in spite of the 42 “tariff reform" majority, Converse’s motion prevailed and thus the "lariff reform" party, backed by all the Influence of presidential patronage, went on record in favor of the republican tariff policy. Sam Randall was made the scape¬ goat of democratic malcontents and was abused as a traitor, Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, etc., because he used his power as chairman of th* appro pj.j;|ta/uiiultt6@ tO tie* 4 c ** “* ! . fiic.i had the sanction of «„ pa. iy. But listen to the sequel. When the next congress convened It, too, was democratic and the House again elected Mr. Carlisle speaker and he again appointed Mr. Samuel J. Randall to the very same position as chairman of the appropriations committee which he had been accused of using to defeat democratic tariff legislation in the previous House. Does this indicate that the democrats of that time wanted anything, even on the tariff, different from what the republicans did? Again, If the democratic leaders really wanted legislation on the tariff different from the kind given by the republicans any¬ thing like as badly as they lately wanted monetary legislation exactly like the republicans, couldn’t Cleve¬ land have effected the passage of the Morrison bill, which had the approval of the majority of his party, much easier than he did the repeal of the silver purchase clause? Certainly, he could and the fact that ho did not, goes to prove that the democratic position on the tariff is as treacherous and fraudulent as it is on every other ques¬ tion in which the vital interests of the people are concerned. How much longer the people will consent to be gulled and betrayed by democratic and republican leaders is a question for the future to decide, but nothing is plainer than that they will never get relief from present condi tions until they shall have repudiated Hie entire crowd, One of Many. He was a mechanic in Kansas. His little saving he ha i put in a forty acre tract. Times became hard; no work; a $40 mortgage took the farm, Being single he drifted to Kansas City. He was sober, neat, honest. The few cents he had was soon exhausted. He struggled in vain to get work. He never complained. His clothes became shabby and in time his honest face became pinched; his eyes sunk deeper and deeper in his skull: a sicklv palor overspread his face. He avoided his few acquaintances, A friend asked me last week if I had seen him lately. No, not for several weeks. He had; he said he slunk off to avoid meeting. His condition was awful. He was a mere skeleton—starved. His eyes had that look peculiar to a starved dog, border ing on idiocy. His mind was all but P° ue - Starved in Kansas City, where wealth and food is piled stories high! t Great God! What a civilization! How .ong v:d men suffer in silence?—Ap peal to Reason. _ - - rhe rich corrupt the poor, and when conditions are reached that men can w bought like sheep we are on the verge of revolution and the men who have tho most money are in the great cst danger. TWO FINANCIAL PLANKS. Republican Platform, 1896-We arts for the free and anlimitel coil ge of silver at tne ratio of 16 to 1 provided that England will consent to let us have it. Populist Platform, (Omaha), 1892 We are for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and we do not ask for the advice or consent of any other nation on eaith. The difference England’s consent alone. THEIR OWN MEDICINE THE TALK ABOUT FIFTVCENT DOLLARS An t.'nfippcted Effect of Gold Worship — i.aiiorcr. iteinami Gold—The ton tractor* Are enable to Obtain it— Some Su(jK««tlou». The "educational campaign” of the gold bugs appears to be entirely too convincing in quarters where extreme ignorance prevails. Rut the people of intelligence don’t believe what they hear about iifty cent" dollars, and go right ahead ac¬ cepting whatever kind of dollars bear the stamp of Uneie Sam. The following press dispatch from Hazleton, Pa., shows the danger of iy ing to the ignorant foreign element of our population: “The monthly pay days of many of the contractors of this region were in the past week, and much trouble was expected in paying off the foreign ele¬ ment. They refused to take either pa per or silver money. For the past week or two, Anthony Reitz, a well educated Austrian, who speaks several languages, has been among the foreigners and put it into their heads that The Silver Dollar was not worth more than 50 cents, and when any foreigner expressed a doubt regarding his statement he read extracts from American newspapers to substantiate his argument. “Jacob Hogan, a contractor, who is building ttie reservoir at Buck moun¬ tain, employes 300 men, who had lis¬ tened to Reitz’s arguments. The men held a meeting and decided they woui J all be gold men, not only politically, but commercially, and that their labor should be traded on a sound money basis only. Reitz, who is an under boss, communicated this fact to Con tractor Hogan, Thursday. The men Were to be Paid their month’s wages on Saturday. "It did not strike Hogan at that time I hat there would be any difficulty in paying the men in gold. He called at his hank and demanded $1,900 in gold He was struck dumb when the teller told him he could not get that sum in the entire county. Out of the $11,000, 000 on deposit in the several banks of the county, it is estimated that scarce ly $1,000 In gold is circulating. “The laborers, however, have refus beyond the $5 limit, to take {diver, V .vl. nl * »*• uuvocating under boss are very much embarrassed in consequence.” There are some good hints in this for the people. It shows the absurdity of depending upon gold alone as a cir dilating medium. It suggests a way for working men to give the gold-bugs a dose of their own medicine. If the people would simply demand gold for all checks and drafts on the banks they would soon have orators in the field talking out of the other side of their mouths. But the people are more honest than the bankers. A wholesale boycott of bank notes, and silver would make the bankers beg for mercy. They don't want their argument taken literally. NOTES AND COMMENT. Flushes of Thought Prompted by Pas* fliBtr Ev«»nts* The annual drain of gold upon this country from British investments is said to be not less than $150,000,000 or $200,000,000. This is about live times as much gold as we produce. Every dol¬ lar of interest and dividends on these foreign investments is payable in this country, and therefore payable in any lawful money of the United States. But little gold is in circulation. The business is carried on with silver and paper money. What is left in profits consists of that kind of money. How then does the foreigner turn his profits into gold to take to Europe? Away hack in 1879 this government resumed specie payment. That is to say it piled up $100,000,000 in gold, for which it sold bonds, and said, this “re serve fund" is for the purpose of mak i n g the greenbacks as good as gold, Anybody who wanted gold for green backs or treasury notes could get it. But nobody wanted it. for the green backs answered the same purpose as gold and were much more convenient. R looked like a sort of superstition to keep Unit gold piled up there to make lhe treasury notes or greenbacks good, w ^ en back °f Gie $100,000,000 in gold was $70,000,000,000 worth of other prop ert - v - an< * n °bod> wanted the green¬ backs redeemed other than such re demotion as that of every man receiv¬ ing them as money, which was the case. When the resumption law was passed there was no thought or intention of establishing a national brokerage for the purpose of aiding foreigners to de p i ete t h; s country of gold and then selling jt biU . k again for interest-bear illg bonds. Every paper obligation of the vnited States having the form of urrenev. except perhaps the gold eer can legally be discharged in either gold or silver. But a decision 0 ; John Sherman, sustained by every succeeding secretary of the treasury, without warrant of law, gave to the creditors of the United States, what is denied to the creditors of states, coun tics corporations and individuals, the right 10 ,leman(i S°ld in payment of tho obligations they held. * Thus the treasury gold reserve bo came the reservoir from which foreign nations could draw their supply of gold, and four times has Mr. Cleveland re to the expedient of selling in terest-bearing bonds for gold to re plenlsh this reserve. Had the secre¬ tary of the treasury exercised bis right unddr the law to have paid off even one-half the demands made on him in silver, it would have put an immediate and effective check upon the raid on the gold reserve. As it was, the very tnen who conspired to raid the treas¬ ury and force the sale of bonds, were the ones who profited thereby by ob fairiing them at a lower figure than the market value. i * And this is the process by which it is expected to force the government Jout of the banking business,” and t-urn the whole paper money business over to the banks. Now the question presents itself that this is either a conspiracy or a bare faced ffaud. If the government, the people, with their seventy billions of wealth can’t sustain t*heir paper at par without placing it¬ self at the mercy of foreign Jews and Shylocks, how are the banks going to do it without government aid? The banks would do just what they do now, they would not pay a dollar of gold in redemption of their obligations. They are now demanding of the government a thing they would not think of doing themselves, and if the people would as¬ sume the same attitude toward the banks that the hanks have toward tho government, they would force every ink to suspend within the period of months. * * jOne of the most contemptible frauds in this country is delegating to tho 'Jinks both the power and credit of tho government to issue their own notes and collect interest thereon. I have bc < re me a bank note which says, “Tho First National Bank of - will pay ! bearer five dollars, Now what ‘ «'S that mean? It means that that k is owing somebody (the bearer) five dollars; yet the bank is collecting ins'rest on that note—on what it ae itally owes. Anybody that can see th pugh a ladder can see at once that this is a fraud on the face of it. If thire is any credit attached to that « It is because the government— people—are back of it. The whole 'nttshell consIt?6*UinT>-!..-••• .yeniiig the banks our cred¬ . it *ut one per cent and borrowing it baefk at ten per cent, or whatever tho bapks want to charge, * * * j don’t know that the bankers ought to be seriously blamed for doing this as long as they can find a set of nin¬ nies willing to wear patched clothes and pay the freight, yet it is a serious thing to bequeath such a burden to our children without a protest. The ban¬ ker, however, is to be blamed. He is not satisfied with the laws he has for fleecing the people, but wants addi¬ tional ones, and the assurance that tho present ones will be made permanent. Of course there will be an end to ali this, as there is to all else that is wrong and unjust. The money power have the people enslaved now with debt, and seek to make that slavery permanent by imposing conditions that will make it impossible to pay the debt. To ac¬ complish this end they are corrupting our legislators, our courts and execu¬ tive officers. Not content with this they have now begun to tamper-with the ballot, and accuse the people of being too ignorant to vote. How it will end God only knows, but that right will prevail we have absolute confi ■ ice, if wrong has to be shot to death us was chattel slavery. W. S. Morgan. Iii a Hole. The Real Republic discusses farming, farmers, products and prices as fol¬ low--: "From the report of the secre¬ tary of agriculture for last year, we find that in 1880 we raised 498,549,STS bushels of wheat, price 95 cents, $474,201,850. In 1894 we raised 460.- 267.416 bushels of wheat, price 49 cents, value $225,902,025. In other words, wo raised practically, as much wheat as in 1SS0 but got $24S.399,825less money for it. The same rule holds in cotton and all other staple crops. How the farmers of this country are to pay their mortgages, taxes and other debts, live comfortably and prosper and at tho same time the more they raise the less money they get for it, the goldbug farmer at the head of the agricultural department fails to tell us. If the far¬ mer is to continually get less money for the more he produces, the way we figure he is bound to find himself in the hoie. He is there now.” The Moner Power. The London. England. Clarion asks: "Gould England annihilate the un speakable Turk? Yes. if it were not for the unspeakable English bondhold ers. The Christian English are de terred from rescuing the Christian Ar menians by Christian bondholders. The deliverance of the oppressed Armen inns from bondage would involve the destrm tion of several hundred millions of Turkish bonds held by English ban kers. And that is the reason why Eng land does not annihilate the unspeaka ble Turk.” STORY OF BONDHOLDERS HAVE PULLED UNCLE SAM’S LEG. •lie Debt Reduced in Dollars and Cents but Increased lu the Value of the Commodities It Represents — Some Plain Figures. In the course of the late war and just afterwards, it was discerned by those who held the national debt, as it had been discerned by some of them from the beginning, that it was a good thing for the possessors. A great in¬ terest had been created by the war— the interest of the bond. It were vain to conjecture how many sincere patriots found themselves possessors of the interest-bearing ob¬ ligations of the nation. For all such there is no animadversion, but rather praise. It were equally vain to con¬ jecture how many held those obliga¬ tions simply for the prolit and ad¬ vantage that were in them and with no concern about the welfare of the government or of the people of the United States; but the latter class, whether many or few, increased and the former class decreased until the fund-holding interest was consolidated in the hands of a party having its branches in New York and London. The party of the bond become skill¬ ful and adroit. It began immediately to fortify itself. It took advantage of the inexperience of the American peo¬ ple and of the inexperience of their legislators, It profited by the mis takes and misplaced confidence of both. They who held the bonds were wise by ages of training in the old world and the new. They understood the situation perfectly, and adopted as their method a policy embracing two intentions: First, to perpetuate the. bond and make it everlasting by the postponement and prevention of pay ment; second, to increase the value of the currency in which all payments were to be made, that is, to increase the value of the units of such payments as the payments should become due, so that whatever might be the efforts o’ the people to discharge the debt it should Increase in value as rapidly as they could reduce it! And honest peo¬ ple, abused to the soul by the politici¬ ans and Shyloek, knew not it was so. For thirty years this game has been persistently, skillfully and successfully carried out. It has beeen a play worthy of tho greatest gamblers that ever lived! We do not call to mind any other such stake among the nations as that placed upon the issue; and the bondplayers have won oil every deal. They have succeeded on both counts of their policy. They have turned over the debt into new forms of bond, and these again into newer, under the name of refunding, persuading the peo¬ ple that the process was wise and need¬ ful and cajoliyi- ‘hem with tho belief he rite • v , t . \va 9k time reduced Nr the benefit of the na¬ tion'. It was done "in the interest of the people!” Wo, the holders of the bend, labor only for the interest - of the people! It is true that each act of refunding and transforming tho national debt has lowered the nominal rate of in¬ terest; hut at the same time it has lengthened the period of payment. At the beginning the date of payment was at the option of the government. Then it was at five years from the making of the bond; then it was at ten years; then at twenty years; then at thirty years. Now, the period of possible payment has been extended until the second deeade of the next century cannot witnesss the end of the game. If the treasury should have today, or in the year 1900, a surplus of six bil¬ lions of gold the government could not call and cancel its bonds. They were not made to be called and canceled, but io be refunded and perpetuated. Besides, the reduction of interest has been a reduction only in name. In no case has the reduction been made un¬ til the value of the dollar of the pay¬ ment has so enlarged as more than' to balance ' the reduction. The same thing is true of the payment of -prin¬ ciple as well as the payment of coupon. For thirty years the American people have been pouring into that horrid maelstrom the volume of their great re¬ sources. They have paid on their debt, or at least they have paid, in this long period, such a prodigious sum that arithmetic can hardly express it. (At the close of the year 1895 the interest account had reached the total of more than two billion six hundred and thirty-five millions of dollars!) The imagination cannot embrace it. And yet it is the truth of the living God that at the close of 1895 the national debt of the United States, in its bonded and unbonded forms, will purchase as its equivalent in value, as much of the average of twenty-five of the leading commodities of the American market, including real estate and labor, as the same debt would purchase at its max¬ imum on the 1st .of March, 1§66. The people have paid and paid for thirty years, and-at the end have paid just this—nothing! The verification of this astounding truth is as plain and irrefragable as any other arithmetical result. On the 1st of March, 1866. the national debt was in exact figures. $2,827,868,959.46 at the close of the year 1S95 it was premium included, $1,237,500,000.00. Debt will buy of wheat, now .... .......2,133.620,639 bu. Debt would buy of wheat, 1S66..........1.486,842,105 bu. 5 Excess value of debt now ... .......646,7SS,5S1 bu. Debt will buy of flour, now ... ......333,571,428 bbls. Excess value of u^bt nov ...... .90,780,731 bbls. . Debt will buy of cot¬ ton, now............ 14,558,823,529 lbs. Debt would buy of cotton, 1SC6......... 5,8S5,41C,666 lbs. Excess value of debt now........8,073,405,863 Tbs. Debt will buy of mess pork, now. 150,915,853, bbls. Debt would buy of mess pork, 1860..... 99,676,313 bbls. Excess value of debt now............. 51,339,510 bbls. Debt will buy of wool, now ........... 5,755,813,953 lbs. Debt would buy of wool, 1866............5,330,188,679 lbs. Excess value of debt now ............ 425,625,274 lbs. Debt will buy of bar iron, now........... 46,318,314,600 lbs. Debt would buy of bar iron, 1866......41,S51,851,851 lbs. Excesss value of debt now........ 4,49G,462,755 Ills. Let all men know it. Let the world know it. Let the common man ponder •this appalling statement of an un¬ deniable truth. Let our national au¬ thorities know it. Let the leaders of every political party have it shouted in their ears. Let every administra¬ tion that has been in power from the first of Grant to the last of Cleveland be told in trumpet voice that the pub¬ lications put forth from month to month as statements from the treas¬ ury about the reduction of the nation¬ al debt by the payment of three mil¬ lions or seven millions have been es¬ sentially and utterly false. True it is that the debt has beeen nominallly re¬ duced according to the publications; hut it has never been so reduced until by the contrivance of those who possess it the purchasing power of the fcurrency in which the debt was to be paid has augmented fully as much as the equivalent of the payment! All the multiplied millions the peo¬ ple have paid have been simply contri¬ buted to the bondholding class, whoso claim after a lifetime is worth as much as it was at the beginning! The re¬ sources of a great people have been poured like a roaring river into a sink¬ hole that has swallowed all; and tho golden streams of the contribution have Issued silently through a thousand unseen spouts into the private reser¬ voirs of the holders of the debt.—Aus¬ tin Argus. THE BOND INVESTIGATION. The Committee ISetnq: Treated with Contempt* In order that our readers may real¬ ize the amazing insolence of these plutocratic thieves, who are fresh from loniteg. of the Treasury, wo copy the folllowing from the record of the investigation: Here is an extract from the New York Times’ report of the colloquy be¬ tween Senator Vest and Mr. Belmont; “Q. Will you state what profit was made by August Belmont & Co., in tho sale or handling of theso bonds? A. I will not. “Q. Will you state what profit the syndicate or combination which han¬ dled them made? A. I will not. “Q. Will you state to whom the bonds were sold and for what price? A. I will not. “ ‘I may tell you,’ said Senator Vest, assuming a toga which he had tempor¬ arily dropped while he was asking the question. ’That we shall report these refusals to answer to the full com¬ mittee.’ “Mr. Belmont did not seem at all alarmed at this prospect. Mr. Vest tried one more question. "Q Were any persons interested in the contract except those whose names appeared on the face of it? A. I de¬ cline to answer.” * Of course the great J. Pierrepont Morgan was equally defiant. He told the committee just as much as he chose to tell them and no more. He gave them no information they had not already got from the news¬ papers. He insolently refused to state what profits he made, and who shared the booty, or who got the bonds. Unless the committee takes some ac¬ tion to compel these lordly rascals to answer legal questions they had as well adjourn and quit the business. If they tolerate the treatment they ar» getting they will deserve, anf. receive, the contempt of the country.—People’* Party Paper. Tax the I.atv rtlirf eftfe, John Sherman, the public Ehi*f tra. tier pay for services in plundering this country, from British money grabbers, made a speech which in the senate on May 29^ 1894, in he said: "I am willing to <Uk* that bill as it came to us from cjw and if it is not sufficient to supply tie neees sary revenues, let us add a tax on tea, a tax on coffee, or a tax on anything; for, as I said on a former occasion, I would vote for a tax on anything; I would take the last shirt off the backs of the people of the United States ralher than t0 violate the public faith t ^ le Soverument. ’*See Congressional Record, p. 5959, May 20, 1896.) If conditions continue to grow worse, it will not be long till the people will not have even a “shirt” to meet the demands of the tax vampires. Then will come the era of the bastinado, bull-whip and cat-o-nine tails—in which the laboring people will be driv en to their tasks as in the days of chat tel slavery. Vote for the old parties and you will hasten that day!—South ern Mercury.