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HOMKIt, O A., MARCH 7, ISO 2.
“Sound Sense.”
On the first page of this week's
Gazette will be found a lengthy ar
ticle under the above caption which
was clipped and sent us by one of our
patrons and we give it space, not be
cause we approve of the suggestions
set forth, for we cannot agree with
“A Farmer" that the farmers are to
blame for the present state of affairs,
but hoping that some good might be
the result of wild, uncharitable in
con sistancies.
We have no assurance that the
writer of the article in question would
not take advantage of a general
adoption of his suggestions and plant
his wiiolo farm in cotton. Men very
often take advantage of their neigh
bors’ misfortunes, and even lead them
into error that they may profit. If
“A Farmer" could induce ninety per
cent of the farmers of the cotton
growing country to follow his advice,
and lie know it to he a fact, we dare
6ay that he himself would adopt the
opposite course.
If the failure to raise home
supplies is the cause of the oppressed
condition of this country what causes
the same conditions to prevail in the
great northwest, where they produce
nothing hut grain and meat? You
say that extravigant ideas; buying
agricultural implements on credit and
other improvements. But where
is the consistency in arguing different
causes for different sections? Why
don’t the opponents of reform get up
a little story that will suit every com
munity? Why not, like people who
are willing to do to others as they
would be done by, make up a little
speech and stick to it?
We’re tired advising the farmer
about his mode of farming. He has
hard enough time “making something
to sell” and getting nothing for it.
Let's try to teach him that he is as
much of the government as the man
who has made a fortune by buying
wliat the farmer ha* “raised to sell.”
Let’s give the banker a little advice.
He’s been living in our midst quite a
while, and he certainly needs a little
counsel. Would it not be a pretty
good idea, in as much as he line
nothing to do with the farm and the
famer, but spending his vital force
and financial strength to funish the
people with circulating medium, that
he retire to some deseit place and
live for a while a quiet, secluded life?
Give us a rest on advice to the
farmer. The fellow who is laying
the responsibility of our present finan
cial condition at the door of the far
mer is either a minion in the hands of
the national banking system, or he is
ignorant of the true situation, be he
farmer or otherwise.
I>avld B. Hill for President.
The following from The Voice, of
New York, on the political situation
speaks for itself. Knowing the
strength of David U. the Democratic
party will very likely nominate him,
and we would not be surprised if he
1 1 elected. Wo heartily concur in
The Voice’s sentiments, however.
Head what it says:
David B. Hill’s canvass for the nom
illation to the presidency on the I)em
ocratic ticket has become open, active
and surprisingly formidable. His
bold on the Democratic party of this
State while he was Governor, and had
fc ast amount of official patronage
Pjeal out, was not surprising; but
that he should still, now that he has
become Senator under a Republican
administration, with no patronage at
his disposal, maintain his ascendancy
in undiminished degree, was not to be
| espected. As we write, his clans are
■ gathering in State convention to se
| lect delegates to the National Demo
; cratic convention, and it is next thing
to certain that all the State conven
tion will do will be to ascertain his
will and then obey it. His strength
in other states is not to be despised.
It is likely that his popularity among
the rank and file are counting for very
y much nowadays in the making of
nominations by either old party. The
machine politicians regard him with
favor, for the reason (1) that, if Pres
ident, they could count of an admin
istration run on the spoils system; and
(2) because he has proved his ability
to carry New York State without the
aid of the Independents. With the
Southern States solid and with New
York and Lew Jersey reasonably sure
for him, Hill’s election would resolve
itself into the securing, by purchase
or otherwise, of two more States.
The two most powerful elements in
politics to-dsy are the liquor traffic
and the commercial interests that
find their oheif strength in special
legislation, cbeifly tariff legislation.
The latter element would contribute
far more heavily to defeat Cleveland
than to defeat Hill. The former
element would be far more active in
support of Hill than of Cleveland.
The election of Hill would be a dis
grace to the country, and yet it would
be the natural and logical outcome of
the drift of politics in both parties for
the last twenty years. After all is
said, Hill and Quay stand to-day as
two of the most truly representive
men in American politics -repre
sentatives not of the American people
nor of American institutions, but, we
greive to say, of American politics,
of the forces that dominate in the
choice of candidates and in their elec
tion. One holds with a grip of steel
the largest State of the Union by
means of the liquor power; the other
holds the next largest State with a
grip equally strong by means of the
“protected” interests. Eacli truly
represent the forces on which his
party most reiies for power.
What do you think about the intel
ligence of a man that contends that
the bond holder was as necessary to
the suppression of the rebellion as the
soldier? The soldier volunteered
and risked his life and his all for the
love of his country, without thinking
of money consideration. The bond
holder did not sacrifice a single com
fort of life nor display the first patri
otic emotion for his country; but on
the other hand, absolutely refused to
loan a single dollar ot his money
to the government to suppress the re
bellion, unless it would give him a
death grasp upon its throat as secuity
against risks and for indemnity for
the use of gold. It was not patriot
ism that he was considering;
it was how to secure the greatest
amount of the nation’s wealth tor his
proffered aid.—Clarksburg, Missouri,
Cresent.
Shall we Abandon The Subtreus
ury Plan?
Occasionally we are approached by
an n’dianceman who will say some
thing like this: “Don't you think it
would be policy to drop the Ritbtreas
ury plan for the present? It is cans
ing a good deal of dissension in our
order and the ‘other side’ fight it so
viciously.” No, we invarably answer,
it is the plank of our demands which
is calculated to bring relief to the
people and the very fact that it is
being fought so persistently by our
enemies is proof that it would result
in great benefit to the masses of the
people. The realization of such of
our principles as the plutocrats are
not fighting would be of small benefit
compared to the great financial issue.
To deny the right of government to
enact some such measure as the sub
treasury plan is to assert that it (the
government) has not the inherent
power to create money nor the right
to loan it. Both of these question
have been settled by the Supreme
Court and settled in the affirmative.
The only question now at issue is that
of expediency and it is plainly to be
seen that the adverse opinions on this
point are selfish, avaricious money
powers. If our demands for a ssoper
capita volume of money were imme
diately granted by the issue of treas
ury notes by the government to that
amount what good would it do the
debt burdened people if they posessed
no means of getting it into immediate
circulation? Such a condition would
really be worse than lie present for it
would create such a reign of extrava
gance, jobbery and corruption as
was never before seen in this country.
Besides, those who oppose the loan of
money on farm products also oppose
loaning land, hence the only other
way to get an increase in the circla
tion of money among the people is to
increase the expenses of the govern
ment. No, the great and principal
trouble with such of alliance member
ship as oppose the subtreasury plan
seems to be a wrong source of infor
mation on the subject—they devote
too much time reading plutocracy’s
hessian sheets, the papers which have
no principles of their own and sell
their space to the highest bidder:
“It is advisable to do all in your pow
er to sustain such prominent daily and
weekly newspapers, especially the ag
ricultural and religious press, as will
oppose, &e.” If the people, the great
mass of toiling, debt-cursed common
people would consult their own inter
est by sustaining and reading the pa
pers which have the desire and the
courage to defend their rights and la
bor for their welfare, there would he
less, much less, of doubt and conten
tion adout the fundamental principles
of our platform.—Weekly Union.
Mary A. Livermore for Presi
dent.
John Hooker, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, who is one of the few rare men
to whom the rights of his wife are as
dear as those cf himself, suggests that
as we have had twenty-three men
presidents already it is eminently fit
ting that a woman should now be
called to the position, and he names
Mary A. Livermore as a candidate.
Mr. Hooker says there are some
trifling constitutional difficulties in
the way, but, with all deference to
this great lawyer, we think ho is mis
taken and that there is no legal obsta
cle in the way of a woman taking the
position of I‘residont of the United
states. The constitution does not
require that the president shall be an
elector, oidy a citizen, etc., and the
Tribune stoutly maintained when
Helva Lockwood was in nomination,
that she was eligible for the position.
He says, “I am confident Bhe would
govern this country ns well as George
Washington ever did, or any other
man.” Mr. Hookor says he has always
liked that place in the rhyme of the
King where it says, “Then 'good
William and Mary together came on”.
The glory of the Elizabethan and
Victorian age the reign of “The good
Queen Anne whom God defended,”
the more recent regency of Isabella,
who freed the slaves in Brazil, the
present peace and prosperity of Spain
under the Regent Queen, the firm and
just rule of the Queen of Madagascar
the blameless and honorable character
of the Queen of the Hawaiiou Islands,
all these examples and many others
that might be given, show that women
have the judicial and executive abil
ity to rule the nation.—Womans Tri
bune.
“The Thunder.”
In its issue of the 18th ult, the
London Times, commenting on the
action of a majority of the coinage
committee, at Washington, says it
regards the present success of the
Bland bill as the outcome of elec
tioneering tactics, but is of the opin
ion that it is highly improbable that
the measures will become a law, and
adds: “The flimsy arguments to the
effect that the bill will attract gold, and
enhance the value of cotton aud grain
nuy suffico for the southern and
western farmers of the country but
will not be accepted in the north.”
It was with very considerable pleas
ure that we read the opinions of the
London Times and for this very <rood
reason. It completely confirmed us
in our opiuiou and absolutely convin
ces us that we are right in advocating
free coinage. There are certain peo
ple and papers in the world that oue
has a great degree of confidence in
and to follow whom is usually safe as
they are invariably reliable guides.
There are other people aud papers
in the world who arc also pretty safe
guides, that is if one goes in exactly
the opposite direction they point or
advise. And in all the world The
Truth does not know one that it is
mere secure to differ from in opinion,
and whose advice is more certain to
be safe if let severely alone, than that
of the London Times- Therefore
when the Times denounce the Bland
Silver bill it gives that bill one of the
highest recommendations of its being
a good measure that it is possible to
conceive of. The London Times is a
slow old driveller of an antiquarian
age; it is pompous and dull in the
extreme; it is the organ of organs of
the aristocracy and the plutocrats; it
is in its own leaden footed way, the
contemptuous foe of the people. In
no single instance in its whole history
has it ever been in favor of the cause
of the people; in no single instance"
has it ever raised its voice in behalf
of the masses; in no single instance
has it ever pleaded the cause of the
producer, the workman, and laborer.
The London Times is the text book
of the fat, white vested capon of
smug faced Pecksniffian respectibility
of England; it is the epitome of a pon
derous humbug and hvpocricy; a
monument of learned lumber and in-
flated vacuous imposition; it apes a
magesterial, bombastic tone that is as
ludicrous as it is absuib, and baa
earned the name of “The Thunderer”
because its uttetance so much resem
bles those of a behemoth in a bog, in
its bellowings, and in conveying the
impression of complete helplessness
utter bewilderment. In its news it is
always behind its contemporaries, and
its opinions have usually “matured’’
tout the time when the matter is al
luded to is becoming forgotten. It is
never on tne fence, however, because
it is utterly unable to get there, but
this fact never affected it and its con
tent equals that of a hog in a ham
mock. Therefore, when this heavy
weight incapable of journalism con
dems free coinage of silver, our read
ers may boas certain as human intel
ligence can mako thorn be, that free
coinage is a good measure, that it
will work for the good of the people
and against those who would “con
trol labor by controlling wages" and
be a great measure of help to the
toiling artisan, “the man with the
hoe" and the country at large. And
why? Because the Times loved the
United States like a certain gentle
man in black, whose name is unmen
tionable to cars polite, loves holy
water. The Truth can conceive of
no event that could possibly occur
that would give greater pleasure to
The London Times than a disaster
to the prosperous United Slates.
When, therefore it presumes to give
it only exhibits its own imbecile im
pertinence and the calm, cool gall of
its assurance, that its opinions will be
respected by Americans, is almost
enough to take our breath away, and
might do so but for the facts that we
know “the old lndv o’ Threndncedle
street,” as it is derisively designated
at times, is in its dotage and was born
so. Its ignorance is excusable wliei.
so many newspapers of this country
are as much lost in the woods as it is
on the question at issue: but its opin
ion that “it is highly improbable that
the measure will become a law,’
is merely a bit of Lombard street
bluff that does not “go” in this coun
try, even should the money power
secceed in buying the correctness
of the prophecy. The attemp* of the
Times to wave the old “bloody shirt,”
and to revive sectional feeling, will
meet with the scorn and contempt it
merits, for it will be seen through at a
glance. At the same time the Times
is monkeying with a buzz saw when it
seeks to excite the classes against the
masses or one section of the country
against the other. The fat; of the
Pinkerton thugs should boa warniug
and the St. Louis convention a lesson.
The Times and its English and Amer
ican friends should take warning in
time for huugry stomachs act faster
than heads reason at times.—The
Truth, Sauantouia, Tex.
If you want relief from tho money
power, you know how to get it, all it
requires is sufficient manhood to vote
for it. You voted the present svstem
into existence and you can vote it out
if you choose. You built the mil
through which Shylock is grinding
you, it is your own making and when
you have enough say so.—Lamar
(Mo.)Union.
A Sister's Influence.
A girl in the house, to my mind,
can weild a powerful influence. I
cannot conceive a more beautiful
sight than the affection of a sister to
her brother. A sister s love is one of
the sweetest flowers planted by God
in the iieart of a girl. It is born of
filial sympathy aud confidence, and
ripens into a spiritual love different
from any other affection.
Powerful as is the influence of a
mother, there have been innumerable
cases where the presence of a sister’s
sweet and tender love, or the memo
ry of a sister’s holy affection, have
been the saving grace of a brother's
lifo. The sister's love in the home
often formulates the brother’s estimate
of her sox. A sister can have a soft
ening influence upon a brother where
every thing else fails. She raises his
opinion of a woman by her actions to
ward him,
A young man can be made pretty
well what his sister chooses to make
him. As he sees her in the home, so
he judges the sisters of other brothers.
She is often his standard whereby
others aie measured.—St Louis Pres
byterian.
Senator Peffer introduced a bill
last week to loan one hundred millions
to the people of Indiana on farm
mortgages that are already on the
lands; and immediately all the pluto
cratic papers jumped on it as “class
law, ’ paternalistic, etc. Congressmen
got themselves interviewed, saying
muny hard things about it. The
same week Senator Blunt, of Alabama
and Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
introduced a bill to give $lOO,OOO
to the sufferers of Russia. Crain, of
Texas, introduced a bill to set out a
half million to build a monument to
General Grant; and Morgan, of Ala
bama, and his republican cohorts
called up the famous bill to loan one
hundred millions to the Nicaragua
canal company, and wo never heard a
sinele newspaper say a word about
tliuse being class laws or paternal in
their nature, on the ot .or hand most
all of them showed an earnest leaning
toward them. Buck Kilgore got in
his boot again and did object to the
Russian gift. But while Etn-k Kil
gore of Texas was objecting to spend :
the one hundred thousand in Russia
to help the poor there, tho Fort 1
Worth Gazette was working fur the j
loan ef (ne hundred million to the
rich Nicaraugua syndicate.—Vindica-j
tor.
The greatest danger that confronts
the Alliance is the large number of
self saerifioing patriots within its
ranks who are eager to immolate
themselves upon their country’s alter
serving the dear people in some fat
office with good salary and perquisite
attachments.-—Culbert (Ga.) Liberal
Enterprise.
The investigation of the Pinkerton
detective agency by the government
will, it is thought, develop the fact
that they have a larger standing ar
my than the United States—simi-otti
ci:tl report places their strength at
• >2,0((0 men. It is a terrible reflection
on this government tlmtsuch a power
should he permitted to exist in this
country: composed as it is of seal s
and things who are ready and willing
to do the bidding of the capitalists
and corporations, and to crush the
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attempts of employes to secure their
rights. Through the efforts of labor
organization sevral states have already
passed laws prohibiting fheir em
ployment. It is hoped that congress
will drive all such organizations out
of existence.—The Brass Worker.
A party of the people must take
within its grasp the welfare of men
of all conditions, classes and occupa
tions. It should pursue a policy
broad liberal and rigidly just. Its
purpose should be to protect the
weak, and limit the power of the
strong. It should be the champion
of local government. No enduring
political fabric can be built on a nar
rower base than this. It should say
to tho farmer, the laborer, the mer
chant and merchant, “trade thou free
and untrampled.” While not con-,
templating legislating men rich, it
should see that they are not legislated
poor. In short, it must take as its
guide the Decalogue and the golden
rule.”—Yates Center(Kan)Advocate.
Every true American citizen is op
posed to the alien ownership of land.
There are homes for nil if the govern
ment will reclaim the lands which are
now owned by aliens, foreign syndi
cates, railroads and other corpora
tions. Give every citizen a chance
to own a home in the country whos®
government he is pledged to maintain,
and which in turn, should guarantee
to him all the privileges of citizen
ship.—Farmers and Laborers Journal.
Tli< Postal Lavr Respecting Newspapers.
About two years ago Messrs. (Jeorge I*. Rowell
£ To., of New York, the Publishers of Howell’s
Nrwsjtaper Directory, and several other publica
tion- of great value to concerns wishing to d>
lmsin - s with the newspapers, started a very
nm-pio weekly, both in form lli mo.) ami name
(Printers’ Ink).
It was a m-w idea all through, and like new
as generally, required large capbal, much ex
lNwi*pee and utmost push to make it go. The
publishers bad to educate people and make a
market for the publication. To what extent they
succeeded may bo judged by the fact that Us
! editions now exceed and the business
I probably 201,000 per year. We doubt if any pub
! lication published ouee a week is read with more
avidir.y In fact we have seen it in many in
stances carefully preserved just as monthly mag
azines ar.* preserved, so highly is it valued*.
Now , after allowing the publishers to proceed
on these lines for several wars, the Post-Office
Department rules that the journal is not a legiti
mate newspaper and cannot he admitted to
s ?cond-c!a.‘ rates, but as third-class matter.
The postage o i the is up of January' 13th, a
mounted at third-class rates t<> ssoa, besides the
labor of a-taehing so.r.no stamps to that age would
Ik* .'■(/.).?2, r.uibi ijg a difference in cost of mailiug
this one issue of £733.24. In other words about
* a. \ rat second-class matter, against £41,-
as t Mrd-dass. In the meant ime Kowell & Cos.
an* a; dig this enormous sum under protest, un
til . ■ I L'parf ment cam further const.lerthe case*
Of course U is outrageous that the law is so
ambiguous that the I’o--Office authorities them
sul . * can blunder in construing it, as they do
ano, ting to the whim of the person in charge of
the matter, and it ought to he charged immedi-
I atelv in justice to those compelled to suffer by
i such ambiguity.
It Pui vtkhs* Ixk isnot a newspaper, then there
is not a weekly newspaper in the country.
\\ e believe U at present the best read and most
carefully preserved journal in existence, and en
titled to all the privileges accorded any newspa
per by * no Po- al ia\v, and hope to see the wrong
g.one the publishers righted without dciay.
The Farmers’ Wife
GIVEN AWAV.
\S e have just completed arrangements with
the manager of the Parmer Wife whereby we
• in give that excellent journal one year free
to all now subscribers to the GAZKTTK.
It is a paper that is giving women anew sen
sation ami is being talked of everywhere as a
woman’s paper of an entirelvw new type, it is
the only Simon Pure Woman’s Alliance Paper
published, and is the National Organ of that as
socian. I;.s editors and contributors are among
the most widely known reform writers in the
world. Every woman wants it, every woman
should have if.
Remember we give it away to all new sub
scribers, or to all those who pay up ami renew.
Tudor this offer we cannot send sample copies
free. Address,
GAZETTE. Homer, Ha.