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" iii.i ii ii i -ii M " "'" ii i WBtjf-TJ..A-nr. t t i J ). i i . 1 mm ';':".('-. . .. . . .' " hi : ' . ' 1 p PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN. WABSSBORO, N. 0... WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 8, 1895. NO. 6. . i i . : ..... fc VUi. 11. - - I j BOUND AND LOGICAL. Nugent blazes the way for 1 POPULISTS People'! Party Is Now the Only Party With Consistent declarations and Principles on the Money Ques tion. ,v T. L. Nugent. There are come goofl meaning populists who believe that by scaling down our platform and. confin ing the campaign of next year to the financial l issue, our chances 6f success will be greatly increased. .. .Practically, the ..campaign' will turn Upon the money question, since the logie'of events- has forced""it to the front; but this, as I have endeavored before to show, does . not justify the pruning process advocated by, the par .cicwcu iu. inacca. me money question as understood by the rank and nie of the people's party, is nuite dis tinct from that advocated, by the so- caiied silver or-bi-metallic party. With the latter, the free -and unlimited coin ge of silver is the sole, vital issue be fore he country; while "populists, not underrating the silver question, have always contended that full monetary relief can only come to the country from a comprehensive financial scheme in volving, first, the abolition of banks of Issue altogether and their total divorce- OK A. " , juiiL irom tne general government; second, the practical recognition and enforcement of the doctrine, that the money coining and, issuing function belongs exclusively to the Government: , and that government should upon some proper plan emit and keep in circula tion a sufficient volume of circulation, a sufficient volume of metallic and paper money.. to supply the deniands of trade; third, that all the forms of money f o issued should be of equal legal ten der quality, and that no part of it Bhould consist of convertible treasury notes. In other words, we insist upon a system of true , scientific . money, maintained permaneVl. by the govern ment without dependence upon Inter mediary agencies of ay kind J what ever. ! It will be seen that thi I svstem neces- coinage of silver and goM, the ratio of "which our platform declares shall be sixteen to one. The silWer people do indeed propose that tbfk " government ehalL issue ' legal tender paper cur rency, but only in th form of credit money, promises of rtftV government to pay the bearer in primary money that is in coin. They will not concede our demand, for inconvertible notes, and if we go to them we must do so not upon any demand for a comprehensive sys tem of money which we believe, can alone bring our people permanent relief from vicious financial legislation, but upon a demand virtually for free coin age alone, which if obtained will leave the essential mon'ey question unsolved. View the suggestion as you may, it amounts to this and only. this. If car ried out, we might enable the silver leaders to hold their places, but would there be much outcome for the peo: pie's party, or the. cause of reform? We might afford to support Reagan, qr Bryan, or Stewart, or Jones, or any other one of the silver leaders,, if by so -doing the work of real, lasting re form could be advanced; but when by doing: so we must close our eyes to every issue except the single one of silver rehabilitation. I for one can see' only disaster as the outcome of such a policy. Populists have advocated free coinage for years. While the old parties were dodging the silver issue, trying to get on both sides of it, making platforms construed to favor gold monometalism in the east and anything or nothing in the south or west, according to the standpoint from which they were regarded, the peopled party in convent ion assembled made a straight honest declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. And now after all these years of juggling and dodging, during which not a single honest declaration in favor of the white metal ever crept into the old party platforms, these silver leaders step to the front, and wun suavity and cheek characteristic of the trained politician, invite us to enter the demo cratic party, meekly take back seats and listen to the old-time eloquence with which we have been for so many years regaled. These periodic howls in favor of the white metal have Mtnerio ien 10 no re suit for the1 reason that after the elec tion they always sink into the usual ' democratic- monotone-stand by the n,rtv T wonder . that any number of populists can now be moved by the old r r iLl Unci K.a1 'hypocritical dodge mat Ulwn up 'ahrt destroyed every reform party Wement in this country for thirty years past. "Stay in the old party! Wa believe' as you do on this question! We are for free silver or greenbacks! KMr into the fold! let, some f the very men who tell us this say they will vote the ticket even if the platform declares for the gold standard. Indeed, did nouuageiv- - wuum habit of attributing high. patriotic: purposes, after declaring fbat he could not nonesuj - f-iuw ua last democratic platfprm, sup port the entire state ticket nominated nlatform? Did he not Justify v - f his action by virtually saying that an thing was preferable to populism! How, then, can we consistency suppoff people who thus pre er even gold monj metalllsm to the po lcies advocated the people's party? Will Higher Prlcei Benefit Labor? Advocates for a gold standard clala that higher prices for products will nOU benefit labor, because expenses would be Increased. Let .vis see how railroad employes would be affected under su a condition. Railroads have three pro Hems to solve. They must get mon tn nav taxation, running expenses, and interest on bonds, be paid, before the 6 a dividend. All of these mull i ockholder receiv Taxation can be reduced but litt Interest charges cannot be reduced all. To reduce operating expenses the onlv wav of economizing. The! Is but one way to do this; that diminish the amount! paid to erfiploy By discharging somel reducing salart of others, and working less hours, "tqe, pay-roll is made smaller - A reduction in revenue has forced to road to economize. This diminution of revenue has been brought about in two ways. When the prices of farm prod ucts; fall below a certain point, ship ments stop unless (freight rates , af? lowered. The expense to the road cai-i not be lessened except by a reduction of its pay-roll. The. low price for products, furnishr the producer less money, consequent he must economize.! He cannot buy m large a quantity of, manufactured prod ucts, and the road has less freight n. naul to the farm he diKtripts therefor?- a less number of employes to opera! its lines is required. Labor, in bcilh If these cases, has been the sufferer. Now let the opposite condition, prj vail. Higher Drices for Droducts not only allows the road to raise its frelgrt rates, but production itself Is stlmuv Ktita, giving tne roaa a larger voiuma of business. The employes are put on full time. Salaries are raised to tte old point and more men .employed. ThQ pay-roll can be increased and the road still make a profit; because not' only has the business from the farming' dis tricts Increased, but the farmer havip more jnoney is able to buy more manu factured articles, which increases buV ness toward the f armingTSistrict: That the manufacturer and his em ployes would be benefited by increased sales of their products is obvious, as the one would sell more goods, the other get steady employment and increased wages, and of the three parties affected, labor would receive the largest por tion. : ! ! ;' J' Wonderful Prosperity j In all lines of trade throughout, the , land comes cheerful news of laboring men receiving employment in great numbers. With! labor comes cheerful ness and courage, and prosperity beams upon us. The bountiful harvest' of .1895 will be a blessing in many ways. The laboring classes will share in the whole sale benediction of the year 1895. Trades 'Review. : , ;; j i; 1 Think of it! Many laboring men are actually getting employment. ; j M What luxury Untold ! I " . : f , Who ever heard of laboring inen ac tually getting work? : Cheer up! Some of them are liable even to get real jobs. . Some of them are liable even to get hold of a dollaiL : i If you.are hungry and out of a job' $vhy just read, 'the papers of the pros perity whobpers,' laugh; and grow fat. Your turn to get a day's work may come any timeand then you; will get your name in the papers as one of the fortunate sons of toil who has discov ered a jdb right; here in America where capital thought It had all the jobs cor nered. . ; ) ' Capital has been enjoying all the work for so long it Is refreshing4to know that even some of the laboring men are to be allowed the glorious privilege ol working. t -And the laboring classes are actually sqing to get "a share" of the glorious prosperity that is beaming upon us. The "laboring glasses" will share with the Idle classes. : Isn't this delightful news? : Everybody-knows it is a time-honored and golden-whiskered custom for the idle classes to appropriate all prosper ity to themselves but the times are getting so "exhuberantly splendiferous" that the laboring classes are to be given a share of what they produce. Oh my! Oh my! What a happy day is dawning. ' Blessed be the man that invented jobs. : j ; , ' . I ' ' l": Now if the laboring man don't go io work and cause an overproduction of prosperity, and the capitalists don't create an overproduction of ' jobs, the country Is saved, i ! Whoopee! .' i Put pers, not yourftrust in democratic pa hat pretend; to be friendly to the Populists, in order to persuade former democrats back- into? the party. Re member the Chicago Times, and be ware pi .ne iJispatcn. j If the democratic and republican sil ver men would tvbte j as they shoot off their i months,' they might accomplish sometniggi. f ; I Hi It ,?J ski whsk in iw mn',, , ' ) . ef-' DICTATOR GROVER. No Other .President Hss Presumed to Govern the Great American People. Mr. Thomas F. Bayard has borne the character of a brainy man and has been ranked among democratic statesmen. The people will learn with regret that he is rapidly going into an imbecile dotage." His last illusion is, perhaps, the wildest of his vagaries. He imagines that, this country has changed its form of government, and that it has become a monarchy with Grover Cleveland as its -ruler. Here is what :.e recently sai to the English people in reference to pur people and their government: "The President of the United states stands in tne midst of a self-confident and oftentimes violent people and it takes a man such as Mr. Cleveland to govern them." The most charitable view that we can take of this utterance of Mr. Bayard's is the one we have, given above. To suppose that he is still possessed of .a vigorous, healthy mind is to believe him a traitor to his people and tp the principles he has always professed! the only; strength of any true man as a President of these United States is a strength to! obey the laws and faithfully carry out the behests of the majority of the people. The strength of a President of: this government lies in his ability to serve th masses. ' A President of the United States is in no sense a ruler. Were it otherwise men of such com mon origfn and training as Grover Cleveland would never reaeh the Presi dential chair. It is because the Presi dent is not a ruler that often such men as Cleveland are selected from the masses and carried by a wave of popu lar enthusiasm to the office of Chief Executive.- .Were it otherwise the peo ple of - this government would select men of birth, of ancestral lineage, men who were accustomed to command. Who would think of selecting the er rand boy, who had been the lacquey and the fag of all employed In some village store or shop as. a ruler of a great natibn? A president of a demo cratic country is selected from the peo ple because of his nearness to them, because of his practical knowledge of the service the people endure and a manifestation of his ability to faith fully serve and sympathize with the people. He is selected because! he is in sympathy with and hag a disposition to encourage and uphold the self-confidence and self-reliance of the people. . That .Mr. Cleveland has disappointed the hopesland expectations of the peo ple we confess. ; That he has proven himself a, hypocrite the masses of the people kipw. That he has usurped authorityfand violated the constitu tional rights of the states is admitted. That he nas become the tool of the bankers and bondholders and sacrificed the j prosperity Of. the people to this class is t his everlasting shame. But tnat he governs the people save as a usurper and perjured official Is not true. He hypocritically proclaimed the be- THOU ART THE MAN." r 1 I lief that the public office was a public trust, and in the face of this proclama tion has used public property for private use as no previous President has ever presumed to do. This man of plebeian antecedents has presumed to usurp powers and to dictate to his official family as no President with a military training or newness from as sociation with kingly government which surrounded our first Presidents ever thought of arrogating to' them selves. . The sovereign people are the governors of this country, whether they perform" that function as a mild-mannered or a violent people. The very fact that Cleveland assumes to govern is proof positive that the people are not violent. What Mr. Harvey Says. In speaking of the manner in which the silver dollar was destroyed in 1873, Mr. Harvey, in the Horr-Harvey de bate in Chicago, chases the culprit in the vicinity of John Sherman's domi cile. Mr. Harvey said: "I want every man and woman in American, who wish to preserve free government to this republic, to read the Congressional Record, giving the words uttered in the senate on Jan. 17, 1873.; It shows that the silver dollar was in the bill that came from the house that was to put us on the French ratio, and that the senate agreed to it. Mr. Sherman himself extolled It and said that it was a dollaT that would float around the world. This dollar was agreed to by both houses and was in the bill wiien It went to the confer ence committee. The duty of the con ference committee was to settle dis puted questions on which the two houses had disagreed. The silver dol lar was not one of the questions on which the two houses had disagreed, and yet the bill turns up enrolled, with the silver dollar erased from the bill by the conference committee. Senator Sherman and Mr. Hooper of the house handled the bill, and these two men or a corrupt clerk made the omission. The significance of this can best be understood when I say that these men represented that they were re-enacting the law of 1853, except in changing the size of the silver dollar and the law of 1852, the silver dollar only had free access to the mini." She Was Governor Pro. Tern, of Wyoming. Miss Eleanor Alice Richards, daugh ter of the Governor of Wyoming, dur ing a week's' absence of her father, was acting governor of the state, empowered to exercise all the prerogatives of the office. She is her father's private secre tary, and a very valuable one. The Lieutenant-Governor of that state is merely the president of the senate, and it is rather strange that no official is designated by the .constitution to act as governor at such times of absence. Talking about Christ with one anoth er will always bring him close to us. A SHAM BATTLE. The Money Power Can Control Both Sliver and Gold. Current Voice; The money power In control of this Country Is, not Idiotic. It is of the highest intelligence. It is satisfied that the people will have silver. But it is making a fight against silver, and making the issue,; hoping to engage the attention of the people on this matter, and keep them from a con sideration of fiat money. The fellow who argues fbr the remonetization of silver argues ior a metalic basis, and commodity value in the substance on which money should be stamped. This argument will so educate and commit the people to intrinsic value of money that it will take a long time to correct this and educate the people to a government paper fiat paoney. So long as the money power! can- con fine primary money to metal so long as redemption-money is stamped on metal, this power holds its control. With the present concentrated for tunes it is easy for this power to con trol the money metals. They can now more easily control both metals than could one in 1873. This power can buy up all the sil ver mines in the United States and Mexico, stop the mining, let the smelt ers go out of blast. Silver can be mined and smelted only at a great cost. This is an industry that; cannot be entered into by; individuals with small capital. The captial for silyer mining will be withheld; and tne output of sil ver practically) stopped. And for at least another tjventy years this money pcwerywill have absolute control of the finances of the j country. It Is only an other sham battle that the money pow er is fighting on the silver issue. We Populists must not forget that the only permanent settlement, and ra tional solution of the money question is in paper currency Issued by the government. , Don't Do It. Please don't write five and Don't. six column articles about j the fearful condition of the poor slaves in some particular Industry. Are they written to enlighten or interest, or educate the proletariat? If they are th6 proletariat will not read them, and, fact Is, they cannot. They haven't timei When our milLhands reach their homes after a day's painful toil, over-hieated, over worked, with, strained nerves and ach ing limbs It rs not five-column articles they want. They eat their plain, scanty suppers-with as much pleasure as pos sible, and then if there is a chance to clear out their lungs with fresh air, they are only too glad to j embrace it. Let the educational diet be light. Make it short, sharp and witty if you can. Justice. Some democrats say thje party will go to pieces if it advocates a single gold standard; and some say it will go to pieces If It advocates free silver. Both rightr it will go to p eces no mat- terjwhat it advocates. STRIKING CONTRAST. ONE LAW FOR THE RICH. AN. OTHER FOR THE POOR. A Vivid Object Letson A Rich Ctrt Goes Unpunished for a Moat hocktajr Cold Blooded Morder Poor Girl Sa fenced. A few weeks ago, an ignorant, pas sionate Italian girl employed In one of the sweat shops of New York, cut the throat of the man, who under promise of marriage had betrayed her, and then contemptuously refused to fulfill his obligations, remarking: "Boys marry, men do not." The girl was tried, and sentenced to death, and although 40,000 petitions have been sent by men and women to the governor, urging pardon, or at least commutation of sentence, for a deed committed Irf the frenzy of shame and despised love, no hint or token has been , given by the august executive that the law will relax lta hold upon, the girl's life. On the second day of August, Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler, only daughter of Gen. Daniel W. Flagler, chief of ord nance, U. S. A., shot and Instantly killed a fourteen-year-old colored boy for stealing pears on the grounds of the Flagler residence. i'he boy it appears had walked out into the country, and the fashionable suburbs where the Flaglers reside. See ing the luscious fruit hanging tempt- . ingly near the fence, he yielded to the temptation, and put two or three pears in his pocket. From the second story window Miss Flagler observed the boy ish act; filled with rage at the loss of her pears she fired; the bullet entered the boy's heart, who fell to the ground and died without uttering a word. A meaner and crueler act was never com mitted; yet the verdict of the coroner'i jury acquitted Miss Flagler of criminal intent, and was couched in the follow ing language: "We find that the said Ernest Green came to his death by a bullet fired from a pistol held in the hands of Elizabeth Flagler, but we do not think she did it with murderous intent. JWe believe that the shots were fired caikessly and Indifferently, but., upon thTttvidence we cannot hold her." We arirjurttier Told "that ttie Tiaglers are very prominent in army social cir cles; that they have a. handsome house of m Italian style, beautifully fur-ni-L?d, and that Miss Flagler is tall aim dignified. Gen. and Mrs. Flagler are in Wash ington, and Miss Flagler, when she re covers from the shock of killing the colored boy, will accompany her par ents on an extended trip abroad. Do we need anything more to con vince us that the people have no rights that wealth is bound to respect; .that in our class distinctions there Is one law for the poor and another for the rich. Onegirl child of poverty, robbed ol her ,oniy possession her fiotiOf maddened with shame and grief, slay 1 V J . . . ner Detrayer, ana is sentenced to death. Another girl, proud daughter of wealth, is robbed of her pears by a foolish. boy, and instantly kills the boy robber, but is acquitted on the ground that mhm "fired carelessly and indifferently." One wretched girl in" the death cham ber awaits her doom; the other in a luxurious home is preparing for a trip abroad. IMOGENE C; FALES. Boss Rule. The people of the United States are under the rule of the political bosses, always hare been and always' will be unless the masses decide to take a greater interest in practical politics. The boss rules because he grasps the scepter and nobody objects. , His reign is a usurpation, and is possible simply because of his impudence and the luke warmnpss of the people in asserting their rights. There is an occasional revolt like that in Pennsylvania against Quay, but the result usually is that one, boss is deposed and another enthroned. This is the outcome for the reason that the revolt is not by the people at large but that of one political faction against another factions It 13 never an j upris ing of the people at large; and better things cannot be hoped for until; voters as a mass, the common millions, assert their power in politics and transform politics from a professional game to a strict, common matter of business. The boss Ip sure to come to grief sooner or later for he constantly grows more ar rogant and tyrannical; but while his downfall may be a source of satisfac tion, the people are not benefited, for while . the boss goes, his methods re main. Voice. ' Bitter Irony. To drop a man in the middle of the. Atlantic ocean, and tell him he is at liberty to walk ashore, would not be more bitter irony than to place a man wher all the land is appropriated as the property or other people, and tell him hp is a free man, at liberty to work for himself and to enjoy his earnings. Henry George. The Reason. Sapphira Truth is stranger than no tion. . , Ananias Yes, but that is because we meet truth so rarely. a I 41
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