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"ex- 1 1 1 V0 - THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS 01 STATE POLICY. Vol. 7. RALEIGH, N. C. OCTOBER 4, 1892. No. 34 FABMBB ,-aE NATIONAL FARMERS ALLI ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. Prcjident H. L. Loucks, Huron, South Dakota. Address, Washington, Djrctary-Troasurer J. H. Turner. JSSr Address. 239 North Capitol ffW, Washington, D. C. ertorerUr. HTwfflettfl. Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. i W Macune, Washington, D. C. Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Da- ' j p Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. a i , Cole, Michigan, pj W. Beck, Alabama. SI. D. Davie, Kentucky. NATIONAL LEGISLATTVK COMMITTEE. g L. Loucks, Chairman. c'V. Macune, Washington, D. C. Uami Page, Brandon, Va. L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar- cansas. W. F. Gwinn, White, Tennessee. ,,BTH CAROLINA FARMERS' 8TATE ALLI ANCE. president Marion Butler, Clinton, C Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe ille, N- C. Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, taleigh, N. C. Lecturer C. W. Thompson, Clinton, v n Steward C. U. Wrignt, uiass, in. j. flhaDlain -Rev. Jno. Ammons, Madi- goaCo., N. C. Door-Keeper K A. i nry, luiijay, N.C. ' Assistant Door-Keeper ti. King, Jeanut, N. C. Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk ,evel, N. C. State Business Agent W. H. Worth, Raleigh, N. C. . Trustee Business Agency Fund W. v. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. ilKCUTTVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH JA.EOLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. 4 "R AWnnder. Charlotte. N. C. Jhairman; J. II. Mewborne, Kinston, ", C. : J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. -IATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. infos f!arr. A. Leazer. N. M. Cul- oreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. ConneU. TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 7? T Pnmrftii "Rdeierh. N. C. : N. C. Siglieh, Trinity College: J. J. Young, Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. tforth Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; Marion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. Barnes, Secretory, PAPERS. Progressive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C Caucasian, Clinton, N. C. The Workingm&n's Helper, Pinnacle, N, C. Watchman, Salisbury, N. C. Tanners' Advocate, Tarboro, N. C. Country Life, Trinity College, N. C. Mercury, Hickory, N. C. Rattler. Whitakers, N. C. Agricultural Bee, Goldsboro, N. C. Alliance Echo, Moncnre, N. C. Special Informer. Raleigh, N. C. Carolina Dispatch, Hertford, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are quested to keep the list standing on ike first page and add others, provided Ihey are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform ivill , dropped from the list promptly. Our pecple can novo see what papers are published in their interest. PLUTOCRACY REIGNS SUPREME. Mr. Editor: At the beginning of the war President Lincoln called for men and they responded like patriots. He called for gold to pay the men and gold, iike the coward it always is in tiaies of need, hid itself away in bank vaults and did not respond. The Presi dent then called on Congress to come to his rescue, to levy taxes and issue treasury notes to be legal tender, with which to carry on hostilities. Several million of "greenbacks" were issued, tne soldiers received them for their service, the farmers received them for their products, the mechanic received them for his quartermasters' supplies, and everybody received them m full payment of any debt or account he held; and the banker, with his gold, was the only man who kicked. Seeing himself so completely outgoneralled, and fearing that the plan would suc ceed without him and his gold, he pro ceeds to manipulate politics and makes himself and his howling gang busy SJ5 mc? to foist on &e Parties as candidates for Congress who will work for him. The people had their atten tion diverted from the scheme which wese bankers were secrelly manipulat Si2?d RUri 1eQGU)?h the bankers suc hf,l' anAth0 Planof Mr- Lincoln, of W0Ul7 lef us $1,257,000,000 tff! teer paper currency in Sni1-011 aJ thevlo2e of th6 . ad W t W ?r .Pubhs debt, was defeated Kbaf,trld flings in of fia nio ifB, mo aictation panker, inserted the exception clause in the greenback and then ZS began to open warfare on it baby "money, etc. He had laws passed Withdraw what he called the wh tL? nd J85"6 bonds bearing in n,St JVta ?iaco- He tfaen put the price of his gold up to as hieh as 8? m greenbacks for a dollar in gold He or?h!ahn ? nbacks and paid lor the bonds m greenbacks at the rate of from 45 to 60 cents in the dolla?. Ife S2.SSS!Sk -ith his'enor! latino. Vr u au Per tQUs accumu- war eni a a tTT j UUi 11Kmg. i-hrj ends and finds us with an enoi- X . mous debt of nearly $3,000,000,000 piled upon us. The greed of the shylock banker is not yet satiated. He decides that he has not yet made enough out of the cruel war, and must have some more. The credit-strengthening act is patsed, which declare that the interest and the principal of the bonds shall be paid in 4 specie," changing the words "lawful money" in the bonds to "specie," which meant either gold or silver, or both. Then they corner the gold and suruptitiously get silver de monetized. By these two acts the gov ernment was robbed of nearly $3,000, 000,000, and the farmers of the country of at least 25 per cent, of the products of their labor ever since. These two acts at the same time have increased the value of the bonds to at least five times their actual income to the gov ernment from their sale, have covered the lands of the South, West and North with mortgages, robbed the producer of the means of exchange with which to meet his obligations ; made five thou sand millionaires and millions of tramps, paupers and many more mil lions of ruined homee. Thus the debt of the government which ought never to have been made, was at the close of the war about $3, 000,000,000, in round numbers; more than $1,500,000,000 of which had al ready gone into the coffers of the money changers as commissions, discounts and interest. Since the war the gov ernment has paid more than $5,000, 000,000 on this debt, money which has gone out of the pockets of the producing tax paying people- into the coffers of non producing plutocratic shy locks who pay no taxes. This grinding still goes on. It would take twice as many pounds of cotton to-day to pay what is still due on the same debt as it would have taken a year after the war to have paid it all. Gen. Weaver, though elected to Con gress as a Republican, and by 4,000 majority, was honest enough when he saw the arift of these things to protest against and sound the alarm. For this he at once became the target of ridi cule, slander and abuse from the class who were doing this robbery ; and they have never held up. For about twenty years now this patriot statesman and high-toned Christian gentleman has been opposing this high handed rob bery, and the stronger he grows in the estimation of the people, the more vile, slanderous and contemptible are the efforts of the plutocratic shylocks and their hireling press to damage his repu tation and disgust the people with him. And thi3 .varfare has been waged by plutocrat, regardless of party affilia tion, while both parties have vied with each other in their efforts to do all they could in the interest of the money class and ignore the interest of the producer and tax-payer, and they spend millions of this wealth every four years to darken council and blind the people and keep them in ignorance, that they may go on with their robbery. But I think I hear some Democrat say, "The Republicans are responsible for all this." We have not had the chance to stdp it. We acknowledge it is as mean as the devil would have it, but we have not ben able to check it, because the people, defeat us and keep the robber Republicans in power." We admit that since the world began there never has been a more corrupt party in power in any country than the Republican party in this country has proved itself to be. But it is not true that the Republican party is re sponsible for it all ; there has not been a time since the war when there was not Democrats in both branches of Congress. If they could have done nothing else, they could have informed the people of the robbery and thievery that was going on, and if they had in an honest, straightforward, manly and truthful way done this the people would have believed them and put them in power. Did they warn the people of the curse coming to this country from the passage of the "credit strengthening act?" Did they open their mouths about the bill demonetiz ing silver? Did they object to the in ser:ion of the exception clause in the greenback, and destroying it as a legal tender! Not a bit of it. But on the other hand when the farmers of this country in the little log ' school houses began to meet and discuss the hard times their causes, they soon found out and were willing to lay all this blame at the door of the Republican party. And two years ago, upon the promises and pledges of Democratic candidates to Coi gress throughout the agricultu ral territory of this country, the peo ple rallied to the Democratic banner. The like had never been known before. The majority rolled up wiped out an overwhelming Republican majority in thelast House and gave the Democrats, together with the nine People's party members, about a two thirds majority in the present House. This was an item for the Democrats, but the men who voted for them looked in vain for any measure of relief. They did abso lutely nothing they had pledged them selves to do, they made a sham fight on the free silver bill, which reformers hoped they would pass; but it failed. They had blamed the Republicans with robbery, treachery, thievery, knavery and everything else that was mean m passing the act, demonetizing silver. But given the chance to show their sin cerity, they approve rather than undo the law. The Democrats never abused this act until the people found it out by careful investigation. Then the Democrats were loud in its denuncia tion 'until the people determined to civ thfm a. fhjLnr.A to undo it. When they were given the chance they made a miserable ana. aisgraceiui ltuimo w carry out their solemrr pledge. And now the parties of plutocracy are out in "their platforms: they know their treachery and trickery is discovered, ana tney offer not a blessed relief that the heavy-laden wealth-producing and tax-paying people ask for, but frame their platforms wholly and entirely in the interest of the vampire plutocratic money class, who have sucked the life blood of the nation, the circulating medium, into their coffers and are de manding more laws in their favor. They have united in their warfare upon the reformers of the country. Thev declare the Alliance must be crushed. They fear intelligence which is inclined to investigate, and wage relentless war upon all labor organizations; and their methods are as unscrupulous and mean as were ever employed by contending armies in actual war. Thus it appears to the people that this is in the estima tion of the leaders of both old parties "our government must be a govern ment of the few millionaire plutocrats, by the hirelings of the few millionaire plutocrats, and for the benefit of the few millionaire plutocrats, and the people must be content to work for us." The writer, through neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, will venture a prediction : Three fourths of the men who vote for either of the old parties this year will live to see the day that they will regret from the bottom of their hearts that they did not vote for the party that knows no sectional bit terness, no hatred growing out of the war, but is strong for a government of the people, by the people and for the people Jas. Drydkn. A RE-UNION. The last re-union of North Carolina Grays Co. I 6th N. C. Regiment, will be held at Cedar Fork, Durham county, on Friday, Oct. 7th. The morning will be devoted to the representation of the colors by Mrs. Lowe; the response by Lieut. Gunter; the historic address on the Regiment by Maj. R. W. York, and calling the roll by Sergeant C. L. Williams for the last time on earth. The evening will be devoted to short addresses by invited veterans. There will be a basket pic nic, and a table will be spread for the veterans and all veterans are invited to share with the North Carolina Grays and the citizens. THAT SECRET BALLOT. Mr. Editor : Some of the shriveled giants (?) who are just recovering from the shock they received when they dropped through the meshes of the po litical seive, are making muca ado about the "Australian ballot system." To quote one: "Why, every feller who can't read, will be deprived of votin" And thi3 is to deceive the un wary. Read the first resolution appended to the People's party national platform : Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections, and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without Federal in tervention through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot system." Couched in the above we find (1) a free ballot, (2) a fair count (3) every legal voter his rights; (4) no Federal meddling; (5) each State to adopt a secret ballot system, in order to avoid espionage and intimidation, two lurk ing demons sometimes found at the polls. Remember every legal voter will be secured in his rights ; that illiteracy is no legal barrier, and the secret ballot system will be so arranged as to meet the wants of all. In response to the national platform, hear the North Carolina platform of the People's party : " We demand of our General Assem bly at its next session the passage of a secret ballot law, with a provision in said law that will secure to voters who cannot read an opportunity to vote." This is unequivocal language. Ample provision will be made for voters who cannot read, and thus none will be de prived of a vote from want of educa tional qualificatioi s. The secret ballot law, whatever may be its details of ar rangement, Australian or otherwise, will have a good effect. Bulldozers, loafers, loungers, electioneers and others of their like will be admonished to stand aloof from the judge's seats, " where they can spy on a man's vot ing. The People's party intends to have a pure ballot, but it will stipu late with any citizen that he shall en j jy every right as a voter guaranteed to him by the Federal laws of the land. The qualifications of voters are defined by the Constitution of North Carolina, Art. 6, Sec. 1, as follows: "Every male person, born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election, and ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector. But no person who, upon conviction or confession in open court, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, or of any other crime in famous by the laws of this State, and hereafter committed, shall be deemed an elector, unless such person shall be restored to the rights of citizenship in a mode prescribed by law." These are critical times. Let no demagogue bewitch you, lest he be smear you with the offal of hipocrisy. Oh Lord, let the hand of the despoiler rest no longer upon the oppressed of the land 1 In thi3 righteous cause let every patriot summon courage, and by the help of omnipotent God, we shall conquer in this campaign for justice. Old North State. Is it worth reading? What? The Progressive Farmer. Then read it. - POLITICAL PLATFORMS. A Series of Interesting Documents. Milestones in the Development oj Politi cal Parties Since the Organiza tion of the Goverriinent. 1884. DEMOCRATIC, CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1884. The Democratic party of the Union, through its representatives in National Convention assembled, recognizes that as the nation grows older new issues are born of time and progress, and old issues perish But the fundamental Erinciple8 of the Democracy, approved y the united voice of the people, re main, and will ever remain, as the best and only security for the continuance of free government. The preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law, the reserved rights of the States, and the supremacy of the Federal Government within the limits of the Constitution, will ever form the true basis of our liberties, and can never be surrendered without de stroying that balance of rights and Sowers which enables a continent to be eveloped in peace, and social order to be maintained by means of local self government. But it is indispensable for the prac tical application ani enforcement of the fundamental principles that the government should not always be con trolled by one political party. Fre quent change of administration is as necessary as constant recurrence to popular will. Otherwise abuses grow, and the government, instead of be;ng carried on for the general welfare, be comes an instrumentality for imposing heavy burdens on the many who are governed, for the benefit of the few who govern. Public servants thus be come arbitrary rulers. This is now the condition of the coun try. Hence a chinge i3 demanded. The Republican party, so far as prin ciple is concerned, is a reminiscence ; in practice, it is an organization for enriching those who control its machin ery. The frauds and jobbery which have been brought to light in every de partment of the government are suffi eient to have called for reform within the Republican party ; yet those in au thority, made reckless by the long po3 session of power, have succumbed to its corrupting influence, and have placed in nomination a ticket against which the independent portion of the paty a re inopan revolt. xaeref ore " a change is 'demanded. Such a change was alike necessary in 1876, but the will of the people was then defeated by a fraud which can never be forgotten nor condoned. Again in 18S0, the change demanded by the people was defeated by the lavish use of money contributed by unscrupulous contractors and shame less johbers, who had bargained for unlawful profits or for high office. The Republican party, during its legal, its stolen and its bought tenures of power, has speedily decayed in moral character and political capacity. Its platform promises are now a list of its past failures. It demands the restoration of our navy. It has squandered hundreds of millions to create a navy that does not exist. It calls upon Congress to remove the burdens under which American ship ping has been depressed. It imposed and has continued those burdens. It professes the policy of rt serving the public lands for small holdings by actual settlers. It has given away the people's heritage till now a few rail roads and non resident aliens, individ ual and corporate, possess a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. It professes a preference for free in stitutions. It organized and tried to legalize a control of State elections by federal troops. It professes a desire to elevate labor. Iohas subjected American workingmen to the competition of convict and im ported contract labor. It professes gratitude to all who were disabled or died in the war, leaving widows and orphans. It left a Demo cratic House of Representatives the first effort to equalize both bounties and pensions. It proffers a pledge to correct the irregularities of our tariff . It created and has continued them. Its own Tariff Commission confessed the need of more than 20 per cent, reduction. Its Congress gave a reduction of less than 4 per cent. It professes the protection of Ameri can manufacturers. It has subjected them to an increasing flood of manu factured goods and a hopeless compe tition with manufacturing nations, not one of which taxes raw materials. It professes to protect all American industries. It has impoverished many to subsidize a few. It professes the protection of Ameri can labor. It has depleted the returns of American agriculture an industry followed by half our people. It prof esses, the equality of all men before the law. Attempting to fix the status of colored citizens, the acts of its Congress were overset by the de cision of its courts. It "accepts anew the duty of leading in the work of progress and reform." Its caught criminals are permitted to escape through contrived delays of actual connivance in the prosecution. Honey-combed with corruption, out breaking exposures no longer shock its moral sense. Its honest members, its independent journals no longer main tain a successful contest for authority in its counsels, or a veto upon bad nominations. .. , That change is necessary is provea by an existing surplus of more than $100,000 000, which has yearly been collected from a suffering people. Un necessary taxation is unjust taxation. We denounce the Republican party for having failed to relieve the people from crushing war taxes which have 7 1 i !T - t t i parttiyzeu uusiness, crippiea maustry and deprived labor of employment and of just reward. The Democracy pledges itself to purify the administration from corrup tion, to restore economy, to revive re spect for law, and to restrict taxation to the lowest limit consistent with due regard to the preservation of the faith of the nation to its creditors and pen sioners. Knowing full well, however? that legislation affecting the occupations of the people should be cautious and con servative in method not in advance of public opinion, but responsive to its demands the Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. But in making reduction in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this government taxes collected at the custom have been the chief source of federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. However, manv in dustries have come to rely upon legis lation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The process of reform mast be subject in the execu tion of this plain dictate of justice. All taxation shall be limited to the requirements of economical govern ment. The necessary reduction in taxation can and must be effected with out depriving American labor of the ability to compete successfully with foreign labor, and without imposing lower rates of duty than will be ample to cover any increased cost of produc tion which may exist in consequence of the higher rate of wages prevailing in this country. Sufficient revenue to pay all the ex penses of the Federal Government economically a Iministered, including pensions, interest and principal of the public debt, can be got under ourpres ent system of taxation from custom house taxes on fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest on articles of luxury, and bearing lightest on articles of necessity. We therefore denounce the abuses of the existing tariff, and, subject to the preceding limitations, we demand that federal taxation shall be exclusively, for public purposes, and shall not ex ceed the needs of the government eco i omically administered. The system of direct taxation known as "internal revenue" is a war tax, and so long as the law continues the money derived therefrom should be sacredly devoted to the relief of the people from the remaining burdens of the war, and be made a fund to defray the expenses of the care and comfort of worthy soldiers disabled in the line of duty in the wars of the Republic, j and for the payment of such pensions as Congress may from time to time grant to such soldiers, a like fund for tha sailors having been already pro vided, and any surplus should be paid into the treasury. We favor an American continental policy based upon more intimate com mercial and political relations with the fifteen sister Republics of North, Cen tral and South America, but entang ling alliances with none. We believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. Asserting the equality of all men be fore the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever na tivity, race, color or persuasion re ligious or political. We believe in a free ballot and a fair count, and we recall to the memory of the people the noble struggle of the Democrats in the Forty-fifth and Forty sixth Congresses, by which a reluctant Republican opposition was compelled to assent to legislation making every where illegal the presence of troops at the polls, as the conclusive proof that a Democratic administration will pre serve liberty with order. The selection of federal officers for the territories should be restricted to citizens previously resident therein. We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citizens and interfere with in dividual liberty; we favor honest civil service reform, and the compensation of all United States officers by fixed salaries ; the separation of Church and State, and the diffusion of free educa tion by common schools, so that every child in the land may be taught the rights and duties of citizenship. While we favor all legislation that will tend to the equitable distribution of nroDertv. the nr vention of monop oly, and to the strict enforcement of individual right3 against corporate abuses, we hold that the welfare of so ciety depends upon a scrupulous regard f or the rights of property as deSnedhy We believe that labor 13 best re warded where it is freest and most en lightened. It should, therefore, be fostered and cherished. We favor the repeal of all laws restricting the action of labor, and the enactment of laws by . which labor organizations may be in corporated, and of all such legislation as will tend to enlighten the people as to the true relations of capital and laWe believe that tho public lands ought, as far as possible, be kept as homesteads for actual settlers j that all unearned lands heretofore- lmprovi- dently granted to railroad corporations uy m o uuuun oi me Kepuoiican party should be restored to the public domain' and that no more grants of land shali be made to corporations or be allowed to fall into the ownship of alien absen tees. We are opposed to all DroDositions which, upon any pretext, would con vert the General Government into a machine for collecting taxes to be dis tributed among the States or the citi zens thereof. x In re affirming the declaration of the Democratic platform of 1856, that "the liberal principles embodied by Jeffer son in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned by the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic faith," we nevertheless do not sanction the im portation of foreign labor, or the ad mission of servile races, unfitted by habits training, religion, or kindred for absorption into the great body of our people, or for the citizenship which our laws confer. American civiliza tion demands that against the immi gration or importation of Mongolians to these shores our gates be closed. The Democratic party insists that it, is the duty of this government to pro tect with equal fidelity and vigilance, the rights of its citizens, native and naturalized, at home and abroad, and to the end that this protection may be assured, United States papers of natu ralization, issued by courts of compe tent jurisdiction, must be respected hy the executive and legislative depart-, ments of our own government, and by all foreign powers. It is an imperative duty of this gov ernment to efficiently protect all the rights of persons and property of every American citizen in foreign lands, and demand and enforce full reparation for any invasion thereof. An American citizen is only respon sible to his own government for any act done in his own country, or under her flag, and can only be tried therefor on her own soil and according to her own laws, and no power exists in this government to expatiate an American citizen to be tried in any foreign land for any such act. This country has never had a well defined and executed foreign policy, save under Democratic administration; that "policy has ever been, in regard to foreign nations so long as they do not act detrimental to the interests of the country, or hurtful to our ciSkzena, to 'letnthtm alone; triat as a result of this policy we recall the ac quisition of Louisiana, Florida, Cali fornia, and of the adj icent Mexican territory by purchase alone ; and con trast these grand acquisitions of Demo cratic statesmanship with the purchase of Alaska, the sole fruit of a Republi can administration of nearly a quarter of a century. The Federal Government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the Re 1 A J" A puoiic so as to secure ior ine interior States easy and cheap transportation to tide-water. Under a long period of Demo2ratic rule and policy our merchant marine was fast overtaking and on the point , of outstripping that of Great Britain, Under twenty years of Republican rule and policy our commerce nas been left to British bottoms, and almost has the American flag been swept off the high seas. Instead of the Republican party's British policy, we demand for the peo ple of the United States an American policy. Under Democratic rule and policy our merchants and sailors, flying the . stars and stripes in every port, success fully stretched out a market for the varied products of American industry. Under a quarter of a century of Re publican policy, despite our manifest advantages over all other nations in high-paid labor, favorable climate and teeming sails ; despite freedom of trade among all these United States ; despite their population by the foremost races of men and an annual immigration of the young, thrifty and adventurous of all nations; despite our freedom here from the inherited burdens of life and industry in old-world monarchies their costly war navies, their vast tax consuming, non producing standing armies ; despite their twenty years of Eeace that Republican rule and policy ve managed to surrender to Great Britain, along with our commerce, the control of the markets of the world. Instead of the Republican party's British policy we -demand in behalf of the American Democracy, an Ameri can policy. - Instead of the Republican party's discredited scheme and false pretense of friendship for American labor, ex pressed by imposing taxes, we demand, in behalf of the Democracy, freedom for American labor, by reducing taxes to the end that these United States may compete with unhindered powers for the-premacy among an nanuu oil nrfo nf npAce and fruits or arts of peace and fruits liberty. TO BE COSTOTED. TOO EXTRAVAGANT. "Farmers are altogether too extrav agant "New York Tribune, You bet 1 Whitelaw Reid, a West chester county farmer, has a farm house costing $150,000, while the furni ture cost as much more. He &Uo owns a' richly furnished residence in the city, and has spent $50,000 a year for the past three years trying to keep up with the Paris fashions. Besides this, ne runs a New York political paper and wants to be Vice-President. ,rn?ers are tooextravagant.-.Parmera Weekly, Jasper, N.Y. . . .
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