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tional Bimetallism m
MR. TOBE SPILKINS.
HE THINKS POLITICS ARE VERY
BADLY MIXED.
Him Sweat to Keep rjp Would
tear the Democratic Party If Bo
Did Not Want to Bo Sheriff Bo Bad
Describes Nineteen Kinds of Democrat
Ftp in laMijsySaiu Saw (Hardy. Ark.)
' . Boney Forks,
(Which Iz in the Stait uv Arkansaw),
February the 6teenth, 18ninety6.
Mistur Editur Things Is gittin' au
f ully mixed up, I'll be dad gummed if
I hain't gittin' tired 4iv this polltix
blznes. If it wuzen't fur bein' sheruff
I'd leev the dod dratted party. It
hain't no longer a solid falanx like it
wuz when I coodea't git the nomina
ehun fur nuthin': Now when I kin git
the nominashun fur a good ofBs, tha
Air qu aril in' and fuse in' like dogs and
kats. I never wut bo puzzeled tu kno
how tu bee a Democrat in mi life.
Thare haia't no recete nor formulay
that will eute aul okkashuns. God
knose I tri tu bee a Demikrat, fur I
want tu be sheruff so bad, but It malks
me swet. The trubbel now is I don't
kno wh itch kind uv a Demikrat tu be.
Thar lz tu mi nollege nine t ene kinds uv
Dtmlkrats, as f oilers:
' The gold bug Demikrats,
The free silver Demlkrata,
The national bank Demikrats,
The government issue Demlkrata,
I The high tariff Demikrats,
The low tariff Demikrats,
The tariff fur revenu Demlkrata,
The fre traid Demikrats,
The bond ishuin Demikrats, j
The anti-bond ishuin' Demlkrata,
The home rool Demikrats,
The federal trupes Demlkrata,
The grenebak Demikrats,
The hard munny Demikrats,
- The "my( daddy wuz" Demikrats,
The inkum tacks Demikrats,
The no inkum tacks Demlkrata,
The phool Demikrats whob don't
want offls.
The smart Demlkrata whoo duz. -Thare
ma be sum uther varietize,
but I kan't think uv them now, and I
ho ap-1 ha. won't git offended bekos I
fale tu menshun thair partikular va
riety. Now whaL-puzzels me iz whair did
aul these varietize kum frum? Tha
coo dent kum frum the saim ansesters,
and it looks like sumboddy haz bin
goin' awa frum boam and kroasin' the
brede. Tha hain't, no .dlfferents be
twene sum uv these Demlkrata and the
Republlkans. If sum uv our leeders
hain't bin sleepin' with Republikan
harlots then I haia't no Judg uv oph
spring, and kan't tell a mulatter frum
a ful bludded nigger, whitch I think I
kin. i
Thare wuz a time when you cood tel
a Demlkrat bl the wa he talked, but
now you haf tu see him voat be4 you
kin kno. The only sines left uv old
Dembkraay that kin be rekenized with
out identyflkashun lz our luv fur hk-
. ker and our inklinaahun tu kuas the
Republlkans.
Under these tryln. surkemstansea it
. Is very difflkult tu run fur offls with
enny kind uv satisfakshun.
When a man runs fur offls he is ex
pekted to sa sUmthlng. In order tu git
tu bee aheruff I cood kepe ml mouth
shut and be a ninetene-sided Demlkrat,
but tu talk enny to speek uv and Bute
aul kinds uv Demikrats is a fete that is
hard tu du. I hav bin thin kin' over
what kind uv a speach I wood malk
In this kampane, and have rit out what
I am goin' tu sa, I think it will klver
aul kinds uv Demikrataand not malk
enny uv 'em mad. Hart Is ml speach
tn substanta:
BWINOINQ 'ROUND THE CIRC: LP. TnMfti mrirTiTTT mnnTrin j ' ! - 'r""'""""""""""""'!?
"Feller sitizens: I am no offls seeker
like the dad gummed Populists, but at
the urgent solisitashun uv millyuns uv
ml frends L hav konsented tu leev ml
peeceful home and la doun fur the time
beeln' mi okkupashun az a plain onest
farmer, and bekum yoor kandydait fur
the responsibel offls uv sheruff.
(Cheers.) Feller sitizens. in makin' this
gralt sacriflze, I want tu sa I du it with
du appresiashun uv the onerous dutlze
uv the offls tu whitch I I meno mi
trend, hav asked me tu aspire. Yqh
want tu kno. uv korse, be4 you voat
fur me what ml politix iz. I want tu
sa rite here tha air jlet the sntm az
yourn. (Great and tremendous ap
plauze.) Tu the men whoo beleev in a
gold standard I want tu sa, when Tobe
Spilkins lz sheruff, he wil let you pa
yoor fines and taxes in gold. (Not mutch
applauze.) Tu the fre silver men, you
kin pa yoor's in silver, and the paper
munny men kin pa tuair's in paper
munny. (Applauze.) And tu they men
whoo hain't got enny munny at aul, 1
want tu sa I wll talk the taxes in kobh
ekins and heffers. (Aufful site uv ap
plauze.) Feller sitizens, I stand with
you aul on the tariff. (Applauze.) t
beleev in a hi tariff on sum things, a
low taruff on sum things, and fre traid
in sum things, and what tariff we have,
adjusted fur revenu only. (Tremen
dous applauze.) I'm oppozed tu nash
nul banks (applauze) eggscept when we
think it iz nessessary (applauze). I'm
oppozed tu the lshue uv bonds (ap
plauze) only when we nede munny.
(Cheers.) I'm In faver uv home rool
fur Demlkrs (appluaze) and federul
trupes fur the Republlkans and Popu
lists. (Wild and enthusiastic applauze.)
I'm In faver uv them wthoo wants an
inkum tacks a havin' it (applauze) and
them whoo don't want It not havin' it.
(Applauze.) My daddy wuz a Demikrat
(applauze) and I never scratched a tick
et in mi life. (Great eggscitement and
loud cheering.) I luv the grand old
Demlkratick party (applauze) with Its
brilyant rekord and eminent staltsmen.
(Applauze.) I wil never see its banner
traled in the dust. (Loud cheers.) It's
a grand old party. (Cheers). It's got
more prinsiples on tap than enny other
party ever thought uv. (Cheer a.) It
stands reddy tu reseev ennyboddy that
wants tu kum intu its shelterin' fold,
and it don't malk enny dlfferents what;
he be lee vs. (Cheers.) We have taken
out patents on ninetene kinds of Dem
ikrats and have patents for seven moar
kinds applide fur. (No applauze.) Let;
every Demlkrat du hiz duty.' Boysj
stand bl the grand old party wunts
-moar. Let us voat 'er strate. Let the?
eeerlde ranks kloze up and form a solid
falanx whose majestick t red kin be
heerd from the rok bound shores uv
Nu Ingland tu the golden gait uv Kal
iforny, and from the shimmerin' laiks
tu the Gulf uv Meckslko. Let the band
pla." (Loud and prolonged cheering.)
You see, I hav insurted the "cheers"
and. "applauze" at the proper plalses,
and when I am maikin' mi speach and
kum tu them I malk a sine tu the uther
kandydaits, and tha start the applauze.
I think this is the best plan, as you
air aulwaze shure uv the applauze and
git it right whair it iz needed, and
whair you want it. If that speach don't
fetch 'em I don't kno what wil. It
don't seme tu me like ennyboddy cood
find enny fait with it
Seniter Jones and- Gnvernor Clark iz
havin' a talkln' match in mi stait now.;
Tha both want tu be sen it era. Clark
kin beet Seniter Jones a spittin'. and
kin hold him a pur ty level rase a prom
isin good things tu the peeple, but I
don't think dark kin beet Jim Jones,
bee os Jim has a bigger salary tu spend
than Clark. I hoap I'll git tu bee sher
uff. Tours til the kows kum home.
TOBE SPILKINS,
Whoo wants tu bee sheruff.
oolilbus 1" raise for Popnllt
The following encomium from the
goldbug Oregonlan on the populist
party will make thousands of votes for
the army of reformers in the coming
elections:
"For the free-silver man, whether he
pretends to be a republican or demo
crat, there fa no logical stopping place
or greund to stand on short of the popu
list camp. There is where he belongs,
i for the populist party is the only party
I ... . W
uiM naa commit tea useu on any na
tional platform to free coinage of silver.
When, therefore, men who insist on
free coinage of silver like Hon. C. P.
Yates, of Washington county, and Hon.
Sylvester Pennoyer, of Multnomah
county, take formal leave of the repub
lican and democratic parties and cast
their lot with the populist organisation,
they do a logical, necessary and
straightforward thing. The populist
party is the silver-money party."
We seldom have an opportunity to
copy the truth from any of Rothschild's
organs: but the Oregonlan, of March
5, 1896, admits the fact that there is
no rocm in the army of avarice, flaunt
ing the banner of the demo-republican
combination, for an honest silver man.
No one can serve in either of Roths
child's political parties without leaving
country, home, liberty, prosperity and
happiness behind. It is only the cap
tains and generals, the bosses and cor
ruptionista of the two old parties, who
live upon the fat of the land and enjoy
the crumbs whioh fall from the table
of gold aristocracy. Honest men in
the ranks of gold monopoly are as
much out of place as Christians obey
ing the commands of the father of lies
who offered to the Savior of mankind
as large a bribe as the kings of avarice
ever offered for the worship and sub
mission of the masses to the rule of
the classes. What honest man can view
universal distress In a country of un
bounded resources and inhabited by
seventy millions of the most enterpris
ing and energetic people on earth,
without indignation against the con
spirators who produced the ruin? When
the Oregonlan says that the populist
party is the only party against hard
times, is the only party that repudiates
alien rule, la the only party that is
opposed to bonded slavery, is the only
party 'that is in favor of preserving the
Institutions of America, is the only
party of liberty, truth and equal rights,
it commends the populist party in lan
guage of eulogy which cannot be sur
passed. If it be true, that the populist
party is the only party in favor of
Americans ruling America, and against
the subjugation of this country to the
English gold standard, and the oppres
sion and extortion Of the agents and
emissaries of the mother country, what
name is there in the English language
which shines brighter and is more em-
blematic of our institutions than the
name "Populist," which is already
glorious by the enemies It has made?
The commendation of the Oregonlan
has removed every objection that any
honest man can have to join the popu
lists in a common cause against the
iniquities which the Oregonlan cher
ishes, and for which it lives and has
its being.
Don't be alarmed, Mr. Oregonlan, the
silver men and populists, and ail other
good men, will get together to fight
your kind and every other kind who
are In favor of the enemies of the re
public. You have drawn the line be
tween honest American citizens and
Tory corruptionists of the gold stand
ard. The people will take yon at your
word. Silver Knight
Both the old parties are in favor of
"control" of railroads: the Omaha plat
form favors ownership, and when it
was put there it was supposed to be
a "fundamental principle" of the platform.
SALISBURY, N.C., THURSDAY, MAY 7. 1896.
SOME TIMELY TOPICS.
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAY
ING AND DOINO.
Ei-Gav. Campbell's Warning to th Dfm
ooratlo Party (All That Is Left of It)
He fflU lie Found with the Popu
lists at St. touls.
Senator Blackburn has been away
from his post of duty for three months
trying to have himself re-elected as
senator from Kentucky. During this
time his salary has been going on at
the rate of MOO or $5Qo a month, which
the people have to pay. Likewlae
Senator Jonea haa'been spending con
siderable time in Arkansas to the end
of strengthening his political fences. It
eeems now that When a man is once
elected to congress his sole object and
greatest ambition Is to keep right on
succeeding himself.
This is sll right but be should make
his record in congress such that the
-people could not see their wsy clear ttf
spare him or exchange for another. A
it is the average congressman has tV
go home and explain things to hla con
stituents and indulge in the usual de
nunciatlons of the other fellows. A
machine that needa to be conatantly
greased is a poor excuse "at any rate.
Think of a Webster, a Clay, or a Cal
houn going home during the session o.
congress to toot their own horn for
re-election. Verily American statesman
ship has the dry rot
"
We have before us a report for the
agricultural department It shows the
corn crop of 1894 to be 65,582,000 acres,
from which was gathered 1,212,770,000
bushels, worth $554,719,000. The crop
of 1S96 was 80,075,830 acres, from which
was gathered 2,151,139,000 bushels,
worth only $567,509,000. In other wordi
15,000.000 acres -more in area, with
about 950,000,000 more bushels, In 1895,
only brought $13,000,000 more money
than the crop of 1894. There's noth
ing like having something to sell, you
know. With oats the farmer fared
worse. He received about $50,000,000
less for 824,444,000 bushels in 1895 than
be did for 663,086,929 bushels in 1894.
The farmer has been producing on a
falling market for twenty-five years,
while the money lenders' crop has peeb
advancing in value. And the formet
has been voting for so-called honest
dollars instead of honest bushels
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Soon after this present congress met
Congressman Joe Cannon, speaking oi
what would likely be accomplished.
said: .
"There'll be a lot of flddlln' an' talk
in' an' resolutin', ah' investigate' an1
bluffln' an' makin faces, an' playin'
buncombe, an' firin' the popular heart,
but when we get through we'll find we
have not done a blamed thing but pass
the appropriation bills."
And this la just what congress has
been doing and Is doing, and is all It
Intends to do.
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Tho St.Louia Globe-Democrat la wor
ried over the aotlon of the aouthern re
publicans. In a recent isaue it Bays:
"If tha aouthern republicans would
fight the democrata with aa much
energy aa they fight one another, their
party would have more reason to point
to Them with pride."
The trouble with the aouthern repub
licans la that they have nothing to
fight for but spoils and there is not
enough of that to go around. The re
publicans in the south stand about as
much show as a one-legged man would
In a foot-race.
Of course there are a few localities
where they succeed in electing county
officers. But It only results in another
set of men drawing the salaries. When
a republican president Is elected the
Federal pie counter is also open to as
pirants and there's nO dearth of them.
Then during a presidential year a dele
gate's vote is worth something. It has
a market value sometimes it has two
of them. Of course the south Is not ex
pected to furnish a single electoral vote,
but all presidential aspirants look to
the southern field as a more or less
profitable one to Invest what spare cash
he has. It is sometimes reported that
the man who buys last buys best This
is perhaps the reason there is so much
wrangling among the southern republi
cans. see
Ex-Gov. Campbell has warned the
democratic party of the dangers which
beset it "I say It with firmness,' he
exclaims, "for it Is my unqualified bOr
lief that Bhould the party be split at
the Chicago convention, it will then and
there meet Its death." It was in the
national democratic convention in 1892
that Henry Watterson said that if
Cleveland was nominated the party
would "march through the slaughter
house to an open grave." The slaughter
house scene has been experienced, and
now in the defection in the party which
promises a split at tha Chicago conven
tion, is the "open grave" which Gov.
Campbell sees. But how to avoid it is
the question. Cleveland, Carlisle and
Co. are riding the party with a rough
spur. It is being lashed along the geld
standard road at a furious rate. Sena
tors Jones, Vest, Harris and others, It
is true, have bound themselves to the
flying chariot, and declared their pur
pose to follow it to the jnmpingHjff
place. But there are Tillman, Bryan
and others who are not so pliable. The
question now is will they bolt the Chi
cago convention? And what ladteesies
will it have on the rank sad file if they
do?
Missouri will send a free silver dele
gation to the Chicago convention, but
it will do no good, as a straddle on the
vllver question is all It can expect
The Omaha platform Is a
document What we need
hood to contend for It
HOSTS FOIl SILVKR.
THE PEOPLE ARE WINNING
RIGHT AND LEFT.
A Valliant Fight Being Waged Against
the English Gold Standard Advo
cates of "ound" Money Becoming
Alarmed.
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silver Prohibitionists.
The Ohio prohibition state conven
tion, at its recent meeting at Findlay,
occupied considerable time in discuss
ing the financial plank in the plat
form, as reported by the oommittee on
resolutions. 1 he free silver men were
successful anil the convention de
clared in j favor of free coinage at a
ratio of 16 to 1. The platform de
clared in jfavor of an income tax, wd
map suffrage, government control of
railroads and telegraph?, and main
tains that import duties should be
levied ofily as a means of securing
equitable! commercial relations with
other nations.
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No Show for the "Bosses."
The silver men will have aix hundred
or more fotes in the national conven
tion and hey will be able to nominate
a free coinage man without resorting
to a repeal of the two-thirds rule. It
is not beljeved that Whitney and Brice
will be ahjle to change any votes in the
conventiop. Whitney has announced
himself for Russell, of Massachusetts,
but, with jthe democrats like it has been
wish the republicans, the favorite son
game will not work in the politics of
this year. ; The administration people
are not oily trying to bring out favor
ite son Candidates in the northern
states fori president, but after chasing
after the delusive hope of breaking the
silver vot in the south by proposing
many southern men fur vice president
None oT these schemes will be of
aVail. Within the next two weeks it
will be clearly demonstrated that the
free coinage democrats will control
the convention and will nominate for
president a man who is known to stand
squarely Upon that platform.
To Boom Bland.
The free coinage democrats of Mis
souri have set in motion a plan to cap
ture the Kentucky delegation to the
Chicago (convention for Bland. A
conference to this end was held at the
Capital by leading free coinage dem
ocrats, including nearly all the Mis
souri delegates to Chicago.
Governor Stone was made chairman.
Letters Were read from prominent
Kentuckiaus and others. All the
speakers thought Kentucky could be se
cured forj Bland and that the effect of
downing jthe administration goldbugs
in Carlisle's own state would secure
Bland's nomination.
It was resolved to draw upon town
Bhip club3 for a lobby delegation of
10,000 sliouting Miseourians. An
executive! session followed. - State
Treasure Stevens opened the question
of revising tho two-thirds rule in the
national ponveution. It was decided
that if A. froo coinage majority was
elected the rule should be changed to
get a nomination by a majority and
thus make easy going for Bland.
A committee consisting of Governor
Stone and five associates was appointed
to push tho Bland boom in every
quarter.
Governor Stone has accepted several
invitations to speak in Kentucky, his
native state.
Sain In man on Currency.
Mr. S. M. Iuman, a prominent At-,
lanta business man, and well known
SjBj
throughout theBoutb, was interviewed
iu April pf lastyear- j ist twelvemonths
ago by the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
the following is clipped from that
paper :
''Do the totttheru planters feel that
their interest lies i:i the rehabilitation
of silver in iho Bime ratio that the
western farmer coitten Is it will benefit
him?' And to this question Mr. Io
nian replied :
"If I know the southern planters
there is a more prorouud sentiment in
favor of silver among them thau in al
most aqy part of the country. With
tfa. m a silver currency would b? hailed
as a blebsiog though it drove gold
from cirictllatiou and to a premium.
The oidjer ones remember the times
after th0 war when on acc ..tit of the
premiurji on gold the exporters who
drew against Cojtton in gold paid 3 to 8
cents pr pound alditionftl for their
cotton dn account of this yiremium.
The mopey paid Ihern was the money
of theirj country the money that paid
their taxee, p lid thiir lab r bought
thir sujpplies and paid their debts.
They rtrgue that if gold was at a
premiuii of 40 now, ins'ead of re
ceiving5 io 6 cents for cotton they
would Receive 7 to Si cents, and
tho difference to tho planters on this
cotton Cop would have been $100,000,
000 in their favor ; that many more
"dollars wouid have gone into the south
ern states and though they might not
h ive bald equal purchasing power with
gold it jwoul 1 have mado a marveloue
difference in the feelings of the men
-who toicd and would have saved many
A man from the sheriff. Even if the
Silver. jas like the silver of Mexico,
worth dnly one half as much as gold,
the present crop would have sold for
8250,000,000 more of tbeee dollar
than it as. From the planter's stand
point hie would prefer $50 per bale in
stead o $25 for his cotton, even if the
dollars iwero not quite 6o good. It ii
especially so with the poorer classes oi
cation producers, who, under the
best co aditidns, have a hard life of it
After a year of hard work, such ai
nien it more comfortable position!
kr; jvt very little about, and aftei
selling his cotton for less than ii
costs him to make it his children bare
foot and in need of the actual necessi
ties of life, this man would prefer tc
have double the amount of money he
has received, even if the dollars are oi
less value, and even if, as he Is told,
the so-called ' honor ' of the govern
ment and the trade relations of our
country with other governments were
a little strained.
"I am not discussing the matter in
the abstract. I am only talking of the
feeling of the planters I meet in every
day life. They admit that the gold
standard is a very great blessing to the
man who has the gold, but to the man
the product of whose labor is measured
by gold, the blessing is not bo appa
rent On the contrary, he thinks that
the single gold standard is something
of a curse, and while he cannot be cer
tain whether a debased silver currency
would make his condition any better,
he at least is willing to try the experi
ment It may be that more prosper
ous times may change the views of
these men, but from what I know of
their feelings on the subject now, they
are going to act and vote for any
party that shows unqualified friendship
for silver. The repeal of the Sherman
law gave them disappointing results.
The abortive tariff tinkering has not
been as beneficial as they hsd hoped.
These questions for the time being
settled, they are going to hunt for a
still further remedy for their trouble.
I am not discussing my personal views,
but simply give you, as far as I can
judge, the sentiments of the men upon J
whose prosperity rests the south. If
I have mistaken their feelings, time
will develop it, but I have kept in
pretty close contact with the producers
of what are especially known as the
cotton state-, and do not think I can
be mistaken about the almost universal
opinion at this time."
Hot Shot From Attgeld.
Gov. Altgeld has written an open let
ter in reply to the speech on the money
question recently delivered at Chicago
by Secretary Carlisle. He begins by
quoting from Mr. Carlisle's statement
in 1878, in which the latter declared
that the demonetization of silver
which the characterized as a "con
spiracy," would ultimately entail more
misery upon the human race than
all the wars, pestilence and famine
that ever occurred. The absolute
and instantaneous destruction of half
the movable property of the world, in
cluding horses, ships, railroads and all
other appliances for carrying on com
merce, while it would be felt more sen
sibly at the moment, would not pro
duce anything like the prolonged dis
tress and disorganization of society
that must inevitably result from the
permanent annihilation of one-half
the metallic money of the world."
Commenting upon this Governor
Altgeld says :
"It will be seen that this language
is clear and emphatic and has none of
the sophistry and pettifogging about
it that are found in his Chicago speech.
His awful predictions, made in 1878,
came to pass. He not only saw his
own prophesy fulfilled, but he saw the
misery of his country become even
greater than he had predicted. Find
ing that his views "had bean correct, he
continued to hold them until he en
tered Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, when,
in some mysterious manner, there
was a change of heart, but for
some reason he seems unwilling to
talk about it. There are two other
members of the cabinet, Hoke Smith,
of Georgia, and Herbert, of Alabama,
who, like Carlisle, have mado their
voices heard for nearly a lifetime de
manding the re.toration of silver and
denouncing the great conspiracy that
struck it down, and, strange to say,
when these two men entered Cleve
land's cabinet they Underwent a change
of heart, and, like Carlisle, they avoid
talking about it. Why did not Csflisle
throw a little light on this question?
"All these men now denounce the
people who are opposed to the single
gold standard as scoundrels and luna
tics; yet they are only following the
doctrines which Carlisle and company
preached. Are we to infer that Mr.
Cleveland and biB two cabinet asso
ciates were scoundrels and lunatics un
til they got to be old men, and that
the tinsel of a cabiuet position not
only made them honest, but gave them
brains? Carlisle ehould have told us. "
Governor Altgeld then enunciates
several questions which he saya Mr.
Carlisle should have answered, among
them being this :
"Why it was that for 200 years gold
and silyer held tho market ratio of
about 15 to 1, while the ratio fixed by
law was 15 to 1 in fome countries', 15$
to 1 in most countries, and for a while
16 to 1 in our country? Why it
was that in every country
where silver was stricken down, rt
was done by the arbitrary act of the
government, and that neither com
merce nor DUsmess had anything to do
with it? As there cannot be a general
rite in prices without an increase in
the volume of money, must not the
present parity system and stagnation
continue until the volume of .money is
again. restored io what it was before
silver was stricken down?
Referring to the recent bond issues
Governor Altgeld charges that the
president enabled a friend and former
client in association with some feliow
speculators to make $9,000,000 to 310,
000,000 out of the government in
a few weeks in a small bond transac
tion under the pretext that "the sharks
of Wall street" had agreed to protect
the government against gold raids un
til the following November, lhat is,
the wealthiest, the most enterprising,
the most powerful, the most indus
trious and the most thrifty nation on
the globe paid tribute to a small band
of speculators for "protection."
The British Gold Standard.
The man who .'avora the scheme of
the gold standardists is certainly pur
suing the course best calculsted to op-
ESTABLISHED 1832.
press farmers of the south ; to force
them to a slavery worse thau that en
dured by the blacks, and to keep them
and their children in perpetual and
abject poverty.
He who desires in his heart to "crush
out" the old confederate veteran, his
children and their neighbor?, could
not possibly attain his object more cer
tainly and thoroughly thau by joining
the army of John Sherman, and help
to fight onr people, beneath the folds
of the British gold standard.
There was created three billion dol
lars of war debt and many more bill
ions of debts prior to 1873, and before
the gold standard was adopted. AH
this vast indebtedness was contracted
in what is called "unsound money"
dollars that were worth in comparison
with the present gold dollar from 55
cents to 164 cents ; thus we are payi
irom tnree times to six times the on-;;
inal value of the dollar, and not only
thia but every old veteran with' a fam
ily to support is forced to pay more to
the curreut expenses of the govern
ment and the war debt thau many
millionaires in the east pay. I doubt
not but that each and jevery old one
legged or one-armed vote-ran in Geor-'
gia today and every laborer are paying
more of the union war debt and cur
rent expenses of the- national govern
ment than Hetty Green, who is said to
own $30,000,000 of bonds, which are
exempt Jrom taxation.
God said : "In the sweat of thy face,
shalt thou eat thy bread," and there
was never a better or more correct
standard of values than that. Every
man who honestly toils is entitled to
the fruits of his labor, and the schemers
or government that deprives him of it
and forces from him morevand more of
his products for the same dollar, until
double, triple and six times as much
is taken, is nothing more nor less than
a robber.
In 1864 the citizen could pay his
$100 obligation with 33 1-3 Mexican
silver dollars. ' The Union soldier re
ceived his pay on the same scale. In
1873 the speculators had the measure,
mcreaf-ed by which they reaped about
3 for 1 invested. In 1894 they so
skillfully manipulated the measure
that it held six times as much as the
measure held iu 1864 ; and the ebt
that could be paid in 1864 with 100
pounds of cotton, or 562 pounds in
1873, required in 1894 1,550 pounds of
cotton ; and this is called "honest" and
"sound money" measurement; and
although the farmer's acre, and seed,
and day's toil, will produce no more
cotton now than it would in 1873 and
1864, yet he is told that this trick
ery and measure, is honest and
better for him and his family strug
gling under an immense load of publio
and private debt. At the same time
this tale is whispered into the unsus
pecting ears of the farmer ; the salaried
man is told by them that he should by.
all means favor the scheme of robbing
the producer, for the reason that ho
can buy the farmer's products for half
price. The salaried man and wage
earner is not told that by this scheme
they, too, are paying war debts, cus
toms, taxes, pensions, interest, etc., at
the same rate the farmer pays; but
they are pursued ed that the gold stand
ard was devised and is. maintained
solely in their interest and that poor
Wall street and the patriotic owners of
government obligations really don't
care for it, only to help the people.
All the presidents of the United
States from Washington to Lincoln,
believed in and practiced bimetal linn.
They favored silver equally with gold.
They did not believe in a system that
permitted speculators to corner one
metal andJhereby have the people at
their mercy, and force, them to sacri
fice their property and labor to pay
government obligations and private
contracts; but if gold vas cornered it;
was then their privilege to pay silver ;
and the speculator being thus check
mated would not attempt to corner
gold and force it up to 200, as is now
the case. But it seems that Wail
street has exercised a most potent in
fluence on all the presidents skic
Grant. It iB useless to undertake to
satisfy the masses that it is to their
interest to play at a game that enable
the classes to accumulate inimen6?
fortunes at their expense, and whilo
they, the masses, are growing poorer
all the time.
There is not as much property value
in the United States now as there was
in 1884, when Mr. Cleveland, was flrpt
elected president. The classes have
many millions more now than then ;
the masses have not so much by many
millions of dollar. How can it be ac
counted for? Has God been unkipd
and neglectful to us? Has He with-'
held his rains and sunshine? Has He
sent famines, pestilences, war, and
poured out His wrath upon us? No;
He has done jnst the reverse in all
these things. Then what has sent dis
tress, desolation and Want all over our
land? Boes not the eight object
lessons above offer an explanation
to the trouble? Verily "man's in
humanity to man makes counties
thousands to mourn." Low price?
mean distress and privation to the
producer, and Dun k Co. report the
lowest range of prices this month thai
ever prevailed in the United States.
Low prices also react on labor, for
where there is distress and prostration
in agriculture other laborers will expe
rience its baleful effects. Who is ben
efited by it except the speculator and
those who have great surplus wealth,
who are thus in position to grind down
opon the producer in buying and cor
ner and extort upon the customer ?
"Blessed is he that considAreth tb
poor." J. W. Goldsmith, in Atlanta
Constitution.
Gresham'3 Remains Disinterred.
The remains of ex-Secretary of
fitate Gresham were disinterred at
Jhicago Thnrsday for the purpose of
being interred at Washington, D. C.
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