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The People’s Advocate, Established 1892 )
The Urawfordville Democrat "
Consolidated Oct. (i, lStl.5. s
ACCUMULATION
VS, PRODUCTION.
COLUMBUS A FOOL FOR DIS¬
COVERING AMERICA.
He Might Have Demonstrated How to
Otvn the Old World Kasler as to
Discover the New One.
The contest in this country is be¬
tween the producers and the accumu¬
lators. Between the men and women
who, by their labor produce the
wealth and those who, by manipula¬
tion seek to obtain possession
of it. Not many centuries ago pirates
laid tribute on commerce in some
countries. To day this tribute is laid
on commerce and sanctioned by law.
While this legalizes it it does not
make it right. It is as wrong as it
was when it "as collected by the
booted and spurred brigands of old.
The law simply piotects the thieves,
it says in substance: “You may steal
and not go to the penitentiary for it”
lu former times the brigands pro¬
tected themselves with arms: m mod¬
ern times by securing immunity be¬
forehand by law. One of the funda¬
mental principles in law is that fraud
vitiates contracts. A law passed by
means of bribery is secured through
fraud. If the truth was known (and
it is in many instances) most of the
class laws now on our statute books
were placed there through fraud. In
other words legislatures were bought
—bribed to enact them. There is
plenty of evidence to show that the
act making bonds payable in coin was
thus secured. There is no doubt but
that-lolin Sherman and others hare
been in the employ of capitalists of
Europe and America. It is a matter
of record that the legislation secured
in favor of the Union Pacific, the
Southern Pacific and other railroads,
was through bribery. If the princi¬
ple of fraud was applied to many of
the laws now on the statute books
they would be set aside by the courts
and the property restored to the
peop’e. These corporations are com¬
posed of men who do not produce, but
who accumulate property throng] b the
enrfetmehi. of ftpecGl.iaws. 'Che#'
lay tribute on labor and take from it
tliat which is not their own. It i& a
system of legalized robbery. Another
class of men who accumulate money
without earning it are the usurers.
This method of accumulating money
is not only sanctioned by the govern¬
ment, but it has become a partner of
the userer. It furnishes money to the
banker at 1 per cent, and permits the
banker to loan it at It) per cent and in
many cases more. Few people have
any adequate conception of the
power of interest. If Christopher
Columbus, instead of using the
money to furnish tho outfit in
which he sailed to discover
America, had put that money on in¬
terest at 5 per cent and compounded
it every year, in the 400 yejrs that
have elapsed since that time, it would
have amounted to a sum of money suf
* licient to buy the aggregate wealth of
Europe and America. It would have
been easier for him to have demon¬
strated this fact to the court of Ferdi¬
nand and Isabella than it was to prove
even the probability of reaching the
eastern coast of Asia by sailing west
ward. The interest on the indebted
ness of the people of this couutry to¬
gether with the tribute they pay to
tho transportation companies amounts
to more than the entire agricultural
productions in the United Stales.
An article entitled “l’he Kailway
Man,” which recently appeared
in Vox i’opuli, compiles figures from
the statistical abstract of the United
States, showing that for the twenty
two years from 1871 to 18D2, the peo
pie of this country paid to the rail¬
roads the enormous sum of sixteen
thousand million dollars, or a sum
equal to the assessed value of the en
tire property of thirty-one states in
1890
The total increase in , the assesse<
value of the entire property in this
country, from 1#80 to 1890, waR less
than eight thousand million dollars,
or less than one-half the amount paid
the railroad companies in twenty-two
years. Yet it sec-Hls to be the object
of congress to ignore the demands of
the producers and continue to legis¬
late in the interest of the bankers and
the corporations. is g .me ... a
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every patriotic citizen was protest.ng
against these methods.
ly roc are in politics for the fan you
can have in the camnaign it will sort
o’ do to vote for one'of the old parties,
for j our o v n
It is the irony of fate that the start
ins’ of the Commonweal „ , a r my oc
tmrred in John Sherman', state. The
uncm ! ploved to-day are the legitimate
results of John Hbermau’s foreign
gold-basis policy —Capita!, Olympia,
Washington.
’ Advocat- the initiative and referee
dum, it alone can give us the purest
justice. When the people can say by
tbeir votes what the law shall be
then, and not tUl then, shall we have
just government, — I’eoples paper,
Yerssiles. Jnd. __
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All the Active forces of tlie American IoUnstrial Hallway t.'ijloo 31,000,000 .treng r., hh iron HUllift laigimi nnO Alliance urn f’cn|>lr a
J’ar.j men. 11 won't (lo for old party >>r®adO« to try Sbri- leek mt tin Fc,,|i]**a I’arty train.
THE'ROPRM.^m, .... • '
TlfnuKli.it That Sparhie with wit, WIs
dom ami Pathos.
Mr. Democrat, your party lied to
you about the tariff, didn’t it? And
about the silver question, too? And
about dollar wheat? Now, another
question: Are you going to be hoo¬
dooed and wheedled into voting the
old ticket “just once more,” or have
you enough of the thing called demo¬
cracy?—Free Trader.
Can you see a “hole in the ground?”
Telephones in Sweden, where the
government own# them, are a
year; telephones in New York
where corporations own them, are
$240 a year. Who’s in 'the hole/ the
“effete” people of Sweden, or the
“smart” people of New York?—The
Coming Nation.
If drover Cleveland were to be tried
for ‘Tooling’' the democracy he would
come clear. He may have toyed with
the old lady's affections and got her
all “roused up,” and all that, but he
didn’t fool her. He told what he
would do if he got a chapee and he
kept his W’ord.—Thornton’s Monitor.
; During Cleveland's former adminis¬
tration there was an imra nse surplus
of money in the treasury, and Clevc
landgave about «5S,00:),0o0 of it in pro
nl ; uras to the bondholders for the pre
c j OU8 privilege of paying bonds not
due. Now there is a deficit of money,
alK j he gives them more bonds, which
. n turn may produce more fat pre¬
m ; uma Great statesman, C evelan i
is Makes good times ior the bond
holders, whether the treasury is too
fuli or too empty,—Tom Matson,
When the poor man goes loget some
of those nice warm soft blankets to
his children in of cold nights, he
horrlfled to learn that those
,. ?ive us a chance .. dcraoC r al s have
left a roaring tariff on them. But a
Bmile a y >ou t the size of a cellar door
w ju pass OTCr his face when he is told
that he can buv fiddle strings now
clear of any tariff, free as the air. If
hi8children are kep t warm, it will be
danci ,, g after the free fiddle string* —
Union, I.amar, Mo
The curse of all government is that
jt governs too much. At the present
rate of legislation we are approaching
masses will be mere ‘ jumping
^ Another decade in th( , raad ern
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volotkm wi i| trke us back to where
Darwin traces the beginning of the
human race-tbc ape! And, having
no further opportunity for theexercise
made “illegal,” our progenitor will
still have the advantage over us 0 ,
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T pf Iierrepont e ™„? DtU Morgan Morgan, rv tne the New new York » or “
banker, says:
“The paper money o France is the
most striking fiat in the world.
contains no promise foriredemption, s
not a promise to pay. but a legal ten
der money which circulates freely in
France and surrounding provinces of
adjoining countries.’
Not only that but she coins her gold
and silver at the ratio of J5K
MT ADVOCATE OP JE fFERSONIAN P RINCIPL ES-
CIIAWI'ORDVILLeT GA. FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1894. VOL. I-NO. 38
W ;o j M "<+ .. And .-or-,
the h.. ra •• gold than any other
country, and also more silver per
capita. She has no idea of killing her
silver and her paper money in the in¬
terest of gold bugs—as foolish Uncle
Samuel seems striving to do.—Free
Trader.
A dozen thieving schemers can go to
Washington and get a subsidy or a
contract or a law, but a petition of
100,000 poor Americans in person will
get nothing but bullets they have
been taxed to buy, at the hands of
soldiers they have been tax d to feed
and clothe. I long for the traitors to
show- their hands. And when they
leave Washington and go back to their
constituents this fall there will ho
some chance of the people to become
closely acquainted with them. The
people are absorbing a good deai of
history of the past thirty years these
days. And more than cne man is
walking the floor and wondering why
he could not have seen it before.—•
coming Nation.
It matters not what may be thought
of the Coxey movement. Whether it
was ill advised or not is not now the
issue. The army of the commonweal
has a right,guaranteed by the national
constitution, to go to the capitol and
present whatever petition it may see
(it. The guaranteed right does not
give license to seize railroad trains,
or (appropriate oilier people’s prop¬
erty, or levy contributions on commu¬
nities for food or other supplies.
Coxey did not do this. The News ex¬
cuses no act of violence or lawless¬
ness. He went to Washington in a
peaceable manner, and with his hands
in irons he is east into jail for walk¬
ing on the grass. There is not a fair
minded citizen of the United Ktates
but will blush with shame at this na¬
tional disgrace. Ilis indignant man
hood will rise in protest against an
administration that can encourage
and countenance sucii a wrong.—
Kocky Mountain . ews.
The man who imagines the demo
cratic party is a free trade pa-rby
either been asleep or is dull of com
prehension, (’lodged to free trade by
its platform of '2 it has invited pro
tected manufacturers to appear before
its committees, a la McKinley, and
give suggestions. ( arnegie has ex
Passed himself as satisfied with the
bill, as ali protectionists sure¬
JY Ought to Gi. I If enacted into law
*<■ will afford an high protection tz
manufacturers as any law ever passed
tree raw material, but does not com
pel them to lower their prices on the
finished ^ products. The trusts will
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<** 8lan<i a "' J lhe P eop;e " ,a ? “ Wftli
stand up w ^ bIefJ and ]ook p j, ;asant;
or if they ^ can’t look pleasant, as
Mt a# This f , „ tariff re .
{orm ,. Md a)| yoo / e llow» who vo'ed
reform mw>t tako yottrlr ^
ev ,. n if it (JoM( tas , e bad G<hk 1
cTeveiand knows what's good for
you.—Free Trader.
Among ns we have thonsand* of
pBopIe who imagine they are highly
'•jikttk'e.. o.i i... *.'& fity v ' rfiffmt?,
They ate Welllf in polite litera
ture. They ma 6b familiar with
Latin and Greek they are authori
tics upon enr ltional manners,
They are <sonHoi| irs when it c om e
to eating and drinking. They are
well versed in proprieties as they re¬
late to the ball rhom and the banquet
hall. They can discourse charmingly
about Madeira and canvasback ducks.
They can sit dowii to a select banquet
which has cost from 81,000 to $10,000
without a twinge of compunction,
though within cannon shot of their
chairs there are others slaving them¬
selves to death, maidens selling virtue
for foo l and strong men being driven
to suicide because no man gives them
employment. And those persons im¬
agine they are civilized; they think
they hayo swept the utmost horizon
of human pleasure and drunk deeply
from the sweetest nectar life holds for
man. Thr Cod in them has not awak
uned. Their conscience is anaesthet¬
ized by sensuous perceptions. K G.
Flower in the Aiena.
You may plug up your ears, and
blindfold your eyes, and imagine there
are no wails of oppression nor gaunt
starvation if you will. Or you may
hear and fee these thinps and quietly
assume that it is none of your concern
and docs not and can not affect you
and yours. But these tilings are a
fact nevertheless, and they do affect
you and yours, whatever you may
think atiout it. No nation can oppress
its people but the penalty will surely
follow. No nation, of all tho thou¬
sands that have existed, did ft, but
paid tho penalty. Their civilization,
their wealth, their kings, priests and
temples, master and slave, alike lie
buried in oblivion,victims of their own
selfisiiness Oppression carries with
it the germ of its own destruction
The h story of the world proves it
without an exception, ’Hie pres
ent nations exist only by modifying
the wrong of their predecessors
—that only makes the sickness longer,
bu t jt will be just as fatal Oppression
r eig'jx», the laborers are driven by
hunger to be mereserfs, cunning men
are making law* for the benefit of the
j pv/ — ev(;r y symptom of an early do
mise is present. These things do not
concern you, ah! Ho thought, the rul
ing power of other nations in al)
ages. Ask history the result Only
through loss and pain will you learn
pain and i'.sg will be your
teachers- You have no pfty for the
suffering of others? The others Jwdl
have no pity when you snffer, when
your children cry for bread and mercy,
there w ill be no voice to respond. The
landlord will have no mercy for them.
H V ’ ° thW « * "T
' ur9ma ° n, ° y °"’ 1 nUndr<id
open your ears, your eyes, your in
t«Uigence, and help to remedy the
wr0D(r * that are. Time will not
always w aifc—Com ing Nation.
Well, old John Ho-man, some of
your chickens are coming right home
Uz roost, eb?
If you want lost two word* which
express the cause of ‘oe present hard
lime , they are "Gni' Heats ’
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Money,S tight, hut never before li.tve \v>' stuck (hi’
knil'c deep into priced Kvery dcnuGmoul !i lull
-no r.ta 11 ilt* or novelty lias been omitted — ;tlltl IVC
propose lo unload our immense etc r -k o f
Into style goods at unheard ot pri r. es
11 requires effort at all to be <•< noir.ieal if you mule with ih
no
Our C»rcat Sacrifice Taiblrs
arc Now Open.
Sop wind they are loaded with: (»ents tu l ol
clothes all wool, price $l 2 .. r »() now $ 6 ; suits <
jU 2 suits for $5 ^7,50 suits for $'A. $6 suits lor 111 \S *
, and frocks full Isiic ot !»oy suits also at
p>ods run in sacks s
the sin no. reduction.
^aH.ovvly silks in strjM-s ami Irynrcs rniluccl
from # 1.25 to 35 emits a yard.
si.25 gros -jrrain silks slipping at 5oc. .suinmor („liina
#1 1 !V< lured to hoc, $9 dress pateiTH u< » < $ 3 50 , jolt lot $1
v gloves, choice , . tor . A 11 ) I >t'V ‘ it 1
kid your 10 5 , 3 t?T‘'3S ■.
at 8 1 ( e each.
Gents’s $5 hand-made shoes I b.-ilIs and congress r<
duml to ^ 3.50 Zeiglm’s Js3 button shoes lor laities, now $223
eurTlimiwimls of yards of ramuitinl, lull <»wt. >, Sf Ti and 81 se-p-N
for men, ymire.lmieo 'Imv Fnue.y ti 5 iv ',1 |»ir.ii 1 U 011 -’Juf I N «.v » otk
87 ilivss |>atU>nm lli il are lovely go now at $3.
7,000 ynrds ginghams tho nt*\v<»st, daiiilifst cIc.41.jjhs actually we
evt‘1 : shown, 1 '/^ to I2j4c*. ." U 00 yartN eali ci i that
. only yard.
would he taken lor percale by many, 5c
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ftov. Hoikltt TrmililAN llin Nor vet* » f
Koi'mII 11 n IzMoiiorN.
Wici.MNOTOff, Kan., |Special | In the
Method la t church at Hello I’latac lust
night Kev. .1. D. nothin of thin city,
prohibition candidate for governor in
IKH 8 and for nix years prcHiding older
for the Methodist church, lectured on
4 'The Natiou’H Perils*' Jn il ho re
forced to the evils which boNOt the
national legislation ainoii*f other#
the whisky and other trust#,lobbying,
bribery, o’octioit methods, partisan
whipping and immoral surroundings
of legislators, and declared .that all
measures affecting the moral, social,
political or religious welfare of the
people were lit t -picn for discussion In
the pulpit. Incidentally lie pawned
some severe strictures on this national
banking law, ami declared that the
conviction of the “commonweal lead
ers” for wa king on the grass of the
capital had the effect of ‘'making him
tired.”
W. Korney, late chairman of the
republican county convention, arose
In then ar < f the room and Inter¬
rupted Mr. Holkin by asking “Doyou
believe the conviction unjust?”
“It j# trivial infernal,” replied
Kev. Mr. Holkin with strong empha¬
sis. “If a hundred millionaires
walked on the grass not a word would
he said.” t
< , It. I 'arsons, a leading democrat
hanker, Hjirung to Ms feet directly in
fcont of the speaker and cried:
“Leave the room. Lets leave the
church."
Two doyen men and women got up
and started for the door.
“Stay and take your medicine/* cried
State Senator A. I'orney, brother
of the republican chairman, while
there were deep murmurs in the,
i church, much laughter and some sti
(fed applause.
a Tlie speaker offered to divide the
J time with those who had in erruptod
him, but tln-y went on out. lie had
continued but a few moments when
! the janitor of the church interrupted:
“V„u are hurting our pastor, Kev. Mr.
Harps."
Mr. Burns said: “Jt is not my pro
vin e to stop you. You came by invi
tatiou. Only the trustees can take
you '.lit of the pulpit. 1 won’t be re
sponsible.”
j Norton’* No
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Elect a (ongrehfi next November
; that will impeach Urotef Cleveland
within forty-eight bourn after Jt tak<*a
its M?at next March. It can he done.
Elect a congreiH next November
that will need no petitioning, and
that will need no “inrefttigatinff * om
in it tee” to tell it what the trouble in.
If Coxey and bi» crowd had trampled
down al the gras* and torn down
every public building in Washington
it would not have been as great a
erime si ■nding a roan to jail for
simply presenting a petition to eon
gres*.—Chicago Sentinel.
A load of parasol*, late style hgmlles. ihhs to #7,o • Two ho i tr-1
wagon yard loll leal. ED) grosi notion, hues aul lliim wet i
yards TiirIo Ilamaak 20ii reek around Ore 0 Miniy.
le to 83,50, H/ 1 ;- )Ve have nlmo.it enough laee to m
our sales have been
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and musltua. three hundred holts swhs, mull, urgsmlie and erepaii: uue l,u i
died holts dimity, ePalic. nun s veiling.«BTP^<’ tlumtwl yards !I imluirg ami
mull embroidery, inserting to intieli, -V) yard u >. Ptin.4 id t*n<lIt'.Hj* v»u
Our >115,000 rioiliinjr Nitwit
I [as been marked in keeping with the lull’d Dmec If yni
need anything in our line you u iver lut 1 a butter opp utuuity
f.<> StM'lim It. Respect billy
Visit The
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CLOTHING < O
8 !> Wliitehiill St.,
ATLANTA, GA.
1256 —Mens Suits all wool, worth $1200 for 8500,
897 Mens Suits all w >ol. worth and $20.00 for s7,8q« .
596 Youths Suits fourteen to eighteen y< ars all WOO
worth $:o,oo for $300.
IE3ortdL for Samples.
Hi«j Iqi'jvaius offered every d iy in the y* 11.
He sure and see us when yon cone to ATI. \.VTA.
Tin: GiiOiti; siioi: -«
-o- AXI» CLOTHING CO-
89 Whitehall Street, ATLANtA.
Mentio.1 the Advocate Democrat,