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PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TO MEN. VuL. II WADESBORO. N. C WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895. NO. 12. i DIRECT LAW-MAKING. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, GREATEST OF REFORMS. tntroJace ThU System and Strike at the Hoots of Party Tyranny, and Stop . Kxtra valance. Cupidity and Political Bribery. The initiative and referendum form f government which is being agitated from one ocean to the other, and adopt ed by a great many labor organizations is becoming more and more popular nvery day, and means that the people shall rule and Settle all questions, na ;ional, state and county. The U. Mi B. Press, of Taconia, Wash., says, the form of the initiative, and referendum, is proposed and formulate d by the ''Di rect Legislation League," as an amend ment to .the constitution of any state and which might bemused, is given as follows : L.The right to approve or reject pro posed state laws shall rest with a ma jority of the citizens of the state. The right to approve or reject the proposed Jaw of political subdivision of the state, such as county; city, town, township, borough or village, shall rest with the majority of the citizens of such- subdi vision. The method of such approval or rejection shall be that known as the referendum. ' j 2.-Tfie right to propose laws of the tate shall (in addition to being ex ercised .by members of the senate and the house of assembly,) rest with any proportion of the citizens of the state.j between 5 and 25fper cent, which may be determined by statute law. The! right to propose laws of any political! ub-division of that-state (such as coun-1 i3v, city, town, township, borough, on village) shall, (in addition to being exi rcised by' members of its legislative! body as at present,) rest with any pro-; portion of its citizens, betweei 5 and! 25 per cent, which may be determined by a law of such political sub-division The method to be employed in so pro posing measures shall be known as the! Initiative. i The operation of ' the initiative is mandatory, but regulated by constitu tional provisions. jrhrefeidu con&mui I'.anarliinitation of leeislativeA and ex cutive power ; and by Virtue, of this power proposed legislation by the peo ple's representatives-is referred back, to them for indorsement or rejection under the operation of legal provisions. Of all the reforms in. our political machinery this- surely is the best anj foremost in its ameliorating and rei forming power. It is an effective means of removing the whole train of social and political evils that burden the people, and would do much to rer store to them their long lost rights, j The introduction, then, of the initiaf live and referendum into our political .vy stem would be a great and beneficial reform. It is admitted that it is. our duty to obey the laws, but that duty.1 implies another duty embodied in th right to approve or reject the law? that we must obey, both before anil after legislation, if necessary, and tbj: ultimate ratification should rest wiii the clear majority of all the voterV of .the nation, state or other sub-divisions of these. ' ' I Introduce this system and strike aft the roots of party tyranny, and stop exl trayagance, cupidity and political rob bery and lay an ax of economy to he very roots of scheming corruption, j In 1893 the city of Haverhill, Masyj, by a unanimous" vote adopted direct legislation through the initiative and referendum; secured by the persistency audv take-no-deniai attitude of the;' workingmcn, demanding justice an ' fair play as supreme qualities thai should distinguish the legislative and executive power of their public serv ants., By the adoption of this one prinf ciple they secured a common grouufi in regard to all-abuses, monopolies anl "a common plank upon which all reforrja parties can stand. I ' '... This grand theory of political maj chinery and of sovereign power in ihf hands of the, people, wherein it has had practical operation, has proven in two hemispheres a most thorough an$ peaceful revolutionary institution. A regards the initiative, it has been use 4 in our own country since before its ex istence as a nation. In Belgium, 1892, through the use o the referendum, the law of suffrag was completely changed for the bette Hpfovh ihat vpnr th'p siiffr;isrf wan rpl sirictea to iiu,uuo votes, uy tne us of theV referendum, the people force tne enactment ot a reformed i&w in creasing it- to 1,000,00V, an increase o the suffrage to over seven times th ' previous franchise. . All this was accomplished because a private canvass proved the truth of the ' fact that the whole people werl clamorous for it; and by their uncomf promising attitude they dominated the senate, ti l P-cracy, the army, the time-serV!ng legal lights and royalty, itself. TLe sovereign will of the peol pie, interpreted by Its Vote, overcam every obstacle in a country"hereto thi scene of riot, bloodshed and tumiiltnl But the existence of this powerful agency does not mean that any and all measures that; seek legislation must te submitted to a rote of the people, but it does mean that the power exists, and that when the people wish to do so they can demand a popular vote on any measure that they consider likely to be hurtful, if it should become statutory. There is no such weapon in the hands of the people against the politicians so peaceful as this one may be made. It includes every reform In the circle of its grasp. REPUBLICA S WANT A CHANCE They Will Show the .People How to Prosper. "Give us republican rule, fora single decade and we will show the people the beneficence of republican legisla tion. Every man who wants work will have it. We vill restore our merchant marine to the Iproper place and increase our white, strong armed squadron .so they "can command the rpect of all nations. We will show the people a policy that is American in every filpre." The above are the words of Senator Frye, of Maine, at a republican banquet given at Bridgeport, Conn. ' Shades of the departed! Only give 'em a dhancelj Only want a single dec ade now! What nerve the senator has, and he had it with him at that banquet! This may be styled the sublimate of gall armor-plated cheek, minus blow holes! v Only been out of "power a little more than two years when they had had thirty "years of rule, during which time the republicans came as near sending the country to the devil as it was pos sible for them! to do, and since'the dem ocrats took hold the republicans have aided them id every species' of vicious legislation suggested. ' During the thirty years of republican control the curse of monopolistic rule was fastened upon the country. "Trusts -and combines have grown up and flour ished as never before in the history of any nation; class legislation has been the rule, and so deeply is plutoc racy entrenched that even conservative men are free to predict .revolution as a means of freeing the people. The causesj that have brought the country to where: it is today chief of which is the present financial policy originated with the. republican party, which was aided: and abetted by,J&QL The present democratic administra tion has not deviated one. iota from the policy of its republican predeces sors, and yet we are now told that if the republicans are given another chance they will bring prospeity to the county. ! - Why didn't they do it when they had a chance of thirty years' duration? Senator Frye asks for a! decade- only wants ten years to . undo; what it took thirty years t& build up. That's too long. Give the populists; control of this government and they will cleanse the Augean stables in less than one year, and bring relief to the people inside of sixty days after congress convenes. The republican party and the dem ocatic party have both been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Democracy is dead and republicanism will soon follow. -There will be no more chances for either! one of these old parties, as the people are too thor oughly aroused to place any confidence in them. Their records of venality and hypocrisy are so black and -damnable that they cannot longer; deceive the people. ' ' ; J . NOTK Yj. ! THE PEOPLE'S fARTY OF CHI CAGO, THROUGH ITS COUNT v AND CITY COMMITTEE, HAS REPUDI ATED STATE SOCIALISM BY DI VORCING ITSELF FROM THE NO TORIOUS GANG LED BY ONE TOM MY MORGAN, A LITTLE ENGLISH MAN WHO HAS JONAiED EVERY CAUSE THAT HE HAS ATTEMPTED TO ADVOCATE. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF CHICAGO IS NOW WHAT IT SHOULD BE A STRAIGHTOUT, Ml DDLE-OF-.THE-RO ADj ORGANI ZATION, STANDING SQUARELY ON THE OMAHA PLATFORM. THERE NEED NOW BE NO FEAR ON THE PART OF POPULISTS THAT CHICAGO WpULD BE A BAD PLACE TO HOLD OUR NATIONAL CONVENTION NEXT YEAR, f silver Too llenvy. ' -' How the I bankers are, squirming about silver.1, They are alarmed nt the prospect. Tliat twentjj-five million dollars annually stolen from depositors would weigh Msevenj hunded and fifty tons if it was all in silver. Just think of it. If all taken' at once would re quire 12,000 cashiersj to carry it would make .a procession -eleven miles long. Every man loaded down with over a hundred and twenty pounds of silver. Some faf them' like as apy Would get caught, too, carrying such a load as that.--Chicagoj Express. Col. Jones, who was ousted from the St. Louis Republic on account of his ex pressing friendship for the -people, is now editor and manager; of the Post Dispatch. But he is getting too friend ly to the . clodhoppers again,' and the English tbrlesl are determined to turn him out. . s. Dumn your ! surntns silver at this office, ; please, i NATIONS BOW TO THEM ROTHSCHILDS MORE POWERFUL i THAN ARMIES AND NAVIES. The Eleven Baroni Work in Concert for Gain Golden Bales Laid Down by the Pounder of the Fortune a Cen f tury Arc. New York correspondence to the Den ver Daily Republican, and written from an old party standpoint. When a Par isian anarchist sent an j infernal ma chine to. the head of the French Roths childs a couple of weeks ago the finan cial universe trembled the next day, when the cable flashed the news to all quarters of the globe. How intimately the nations of Europe are entwined with the fbrtunes of the Rothschilds is a question.) That the connection is very i close,- indeed, can be seen by a glance at the history of Europe. One nation may declare war upon the other, but not the most powerful of them all has the courage or hardihood to declare war upon the Rothschilds usury mill. Such is the power of gold when guided by the hereditary gentfis of this Hebrew family. In all the European wars of the past century the Rothschilds ! were a most potent factor. They practically held in their hands the power to give defeat or victory 'to either side, by withdrawing their support from the one side or the other. War in the past has always meant untold millions to them. 'Car nage coins gold for them. , What the wealth of this family is can only,be roughly estimated. It may be $1,000,000,000 and It may be $3,000, 000,000; it is somewhere between these figures, for all the gold in the world only amounts to about $3,800,000,000. There are eleven barons, each of them among the richest men in Europe, and with their respective" fortunes so fixecijy of Frankfort that they can be used as a unit if need be. ' . . ! All this wealth sprang from the genius of a son of a poor dealer Mn furniture and cheap bric-a-brac a Frankfort. This genius was name$J Mayer . Anselum, and over his pawn' Shop hung a red shield instead of the usual three balls. In German the red. Shield Is called "Rothschild," and thusb itctttci! earner 'totrer Knowir as xnc name of Mayer Anselum, who was the founder of a fortune which has no equal in contemporaneous history. In a small way this man started a bank ing business. It was a little concern, and for the first : few years he . had a hard struggle to keep it from going to the, wall. From the first he mapped out Certain rules which he absolutely adhered to, and which are just as potent in the management of the numerous'banks to day as' they were then; and for that matter they will probably be in force a dozen generations from now, if this combine of gold owners and usurers is not destroyed in the meantime. One of them Is; "A mah will not tell what he has not heard.") Another is: "Gold never repeats what it sees." Absolute secrecy in all dealings is the rule of the house. Let a clerk in any of the banks be discovered in talking about the most trivial thing connected with the affairs of the business, and he is at once discharged. As far as possi ble the Rothschilds employ clerks from the same family generation after gen eration. The great grandson of a pres ent clerk may be keeping the same ac counts a hundred years hence that his forefather is working over today. In time capacity for saying nothing be comes heredity. The Rothschilds employ a skillful professor of finance to Instruct their growing sons. Finance -with them is everything. A few Americans have studied undej this genius. Henry F. Gillig, the founder of the American Ex change in London, was one of these, but he did not follow his -teachings strictly, for after building up a great fortune .in London without having "a cent of original capital, he failed seven years ago for $6,000,000, leaving hundreds of touring j Americans stranded in all parts of the globe. At the time of the Napoleonic inva sion the great ''Redshield ' had built up a local reputation a!s a financier, and had already established his son, Nathan-Mayer Anselum, in London, for these were unsettled times, and. the prudence of the man discovered the necessity of having a place to fly to if occasion required. When the news of Napoleon's coming reached Frankfort, the elector ,of Hesse placed 15,000,000 francs in the custody of the elder Rothschild for safe keep ing. This sum was sent to his son Nathan in England. Napoleon heard of it and tried in every way to induce the banker to give it up. j A commission went to jhis establish ment and minutely 'examined the yault and the books. Menaces jand intimida tions were in vain, however, in ner- suading Rothschild to j divulge the whereabouts of the 'treasure, and the commission undertook to play upon his religious scruples by demanding an oath. He refused to take! it, and there was talk of putting him junder arrest, .tfapoleon did not quite care to venture such an act of violence, bnd an effort was made to win the old man by the promise of gain. They proposed to him i ' - to leave him half of tie treasure If he would deliver the other half to . the French officials. They promised him a receipt In full, accompanied by a cer tificate proving that he had yielded only to force and that he "was blameless for the seizure of the entire amount. But the banker had already decided that all trusts were sacred, and re fused. In i814 the, elector returned to Frank fort and the 15,000,000 francs were paid back to him. The terms of the deposit gave ihe Rothschilds the interest on the money wnile it was in their custody and this considerable sum was in real itythe cornerstone of the family's for tunej Wealthy marriages has also been part of the creed of the family. In 1806 the son who had settled in London married the daughter of a rich banker, Devi Barnet Cohen. This Nathan Rothschild. was on the battlifleld of Waterloo and by a won derfully quick trip reached London be fore "the real news had been received by the government. He was on the staff of Wellington, and the minute he saw the defeat of Napoleon was certain he rode at breakneck speed to Ostend, crossed the channel at the risk of his life, and was on the stock exchange next morning. At that time England only knew of the first part of the bat tle, when it seemed that Napoleon was again destined to conquer. Rothschild's gloomy air and the adroit rumors put in circulation argued the worst for England. ' The prices of securities fell at a terrific rate. At the proper time Rothschild put his agents at work buy ing everything in sight. Later came tc news of Wellington's victory. ReVischild is said to have cleared $6, $C00 by this shady trick. Bismarck has been forced to bow to the moneyed power of this family. In 1866 the Prussian government demand ed an indemnity of $25,000,000 from tho The Rothschilds sent word to Bismarck that if any at tempt was made to enforce the levy, they would break every bank in Bei linU, This j was no idle threat, as Bis marck well knew, and he succumbed to the inevitable. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, to chine was re- ,vhom the! infernal ently sent, is the h d of the Paris the Jew usur- ank. He; ha a. Jikea! vers, Strong ideas on t i labor questlou, and has made many efiemies in conse quence. Three years Igo he expressed tese views on the labor problem: "l do not believe in the so-called jjabor movementr I am confidant that the Ttrorkingmen are satisfied with their condition and- have neither cause nor desire to complain. They are, I am convinced,! indifferent to progress. To be sure, some agitators make plenty of noise, butj that amounts to nothing: they do not influence the honest and reasonable; workingman. "In considering the so-called labor movement j it is necessary, however, to (!Ssjguish sharply good from bad wofclimen. j Only the idle good-for-nothings desire the eight-hour day. Seri ous men, fathers of families, work as long as thj?y think necessary for their own and their children's needs. There is much loose talking nowadays about the danget of so much capital in the hands of a few men. This is all rub bish. Sonie men are richer; others are poorer. It; is the money which circu lates which fructifies. "Frighten and threaten capital and it vanishes (ljecause we can make it van ish, tee!) jCapital is like water. Grasp it violent! and it slips through your fingers: treat it gently, dig a canal (bonds) in which to lead it and it runs wherever you will. Capital is a coun try's fortune. It represents the energy, intelligencie, thrift and labor of the people. Capital is labor. Apart from unhappy ejxeeptions, which seem to be unavoidable, each shares in the peo ple's capital according to his intelli gence, energy and work accomplished (and interest absorbs it all if you know how to wbrk the scheme and the Roths child3 do). If a workman be dis contented with his share he may strike (and get siot down by the military, as they did atj Homestead and Pullman). "It is unjust to compare a man with capital aid intelligence, organizing faculties.Jhvention and knowledge with nny gross, brutal workman, who applies to his work only the intelligent work of his hands." These views were not pleasant to. the excitable masses of Paris. Perhaps the infernal machine was an echo of them. , Of the eieven barons,. Nathaniel, Al fred and Leopold are located in Lon don; Alphojnse, Gustav, Edward, Adolph and James! in Paris; Nathaniel in Vien na and 'vV'illiam in Frankfort. The New Y'ork Belmonts are the agents in the United States. Some idea of their riches can be had from the fact that since 1815 they have raised for Great Britain alone more than $l,00j),000,000; for Austra, $250, 000,000; for Prussia, $200,000,000; for France, $400,000,000; for Italy, nearly $300,0000,060 ; for Russia, $12S,000,000; for Brazil, from $60,000,000 to $70,000,- 000; and they took through the Bel mont syndicate $150,000,000 of the issues of United States bonds issued by Cleve land and qarlislet . To be plain, the Rothschilds gold octopus Is today ruler of the universe and their- gold commands the armies and navies! of the world. L PUBLIC OWNEBSHIP. POPULAR OBJECTION VERY CLEARLY ANSWERED. f ' . i Would Have a Tendency to Take Fol ltlcs Out of the 1'ublic. Cirll Service Rather Than to Increase Partisan i i Power of tlie Officeholders. ! The movement for public control and ownership of natural fmonopolies seems to be gathering force eviery where. Whether representatives of radical or conservative thought; be in power they seem to be forced, almost asof neces sity, into, a further and further exten sion of the power of government over matters heretofore $t largely to the management of individuals. This tend ency receives a fresh illustration in proposals just madejby the new Con servative government in England, through its colonial secretory, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. 1 ,1 With the advent of, the Conservative fearty to power in England one might Naturally look for a sharp reaction, from the alleged socialistic tendencies off the long Liberal reign. We might eectmmettJ101 jt'eft9j& Li.if the . principles -of - -aU-XoVr ats, a quiet slulabering of the eightr hbur movement, and, j above all, no fur ther demands for the application, of t)he principles of public ownership to 'he transportation, lighting, 1 and kin dled monopolies. But lo! here conies ftiamberlain, colonial secretary of an lleged reactionary kovernmnt, in n speech which is described as the "one' speech of the week, that will be remem bered," asking the imperial govern ment of England to go intothe busi ness "of railroad building in' tropical Africa, for the development of English colonial interests located there. "If railways are ne'eded in tropical Africa they should be built junder cojonial .or imperial administration rather than be handed over to .private , speculators," the secretary is reported as saying. He further declared that ;many of 'the Brit ish colonies are in this condition of un developed estates, which could be de veloped only "by a judicious- invest ment of imperial money." This demand of the;Conservative En glish secretary contains the very . meat and kernel of the demand for public ownership of natural monopolies in this country. An extension of ihe pow er of the whole people throijgh gov ernment, when necessary- tb bring about results demanded by the public good. Under such a demand may be in cluded the movement in the j United States for government railroads, a post al telegraph, and municipal ownership of gas, water and el4ctric-liglt works and street railroads, j ! On another page Mr. Edward Rose water, of the Omaha Bee, vjho has made a careful study of the results of public ownership of natural monopolies in England and other European coun tries, answers what $eems to us to be one of the main popular objections to the rapidly growing movement for pub lic ownership of national monopolies the possible danger .of increasing power of the office-holding class. Mr. Rcsewater is arguing for a postal tele graph, and r-ays: f "One great objection against the pos tal telegraph in this country is that it would bring into operation more politi- cal offices. I regard this as oii e of the features most important and beneficial of the whole affair. It would be an en tering wedge for the greatest possible success of the civil service. It would bring into the postal service from 25 000 to 30,000 skilled j operatives whose services could not be dispensed with. These would naturally be divijied into various politics, as every other class of citizens, whose trustworthiness and value would be Increased by the knowl edge that they could not be displaced by any political partisan. This has been' the experience j in Great! Britain and it would be the same here. Once get the postal service under govern ment control and the civil service act and you would soon be able to place all departments of the government under the came system, and a large share of the public nuisance incident to office holding would he done away with, leav Sir. jM s - . ! I ; . i 2 - 4 - ing the officers free to Inquire into and THE DiVL-DAM FROM WH03& DIRTY DU6S DCMONBTIZINQ OEMAQOGUES )DRAW 0ZVLI3H learn their duties to their office and to the public'; We are inclined to agree with Mr. Rose water that this Increase of io called office-holders resulting from In creased public ownership of natural monopolies would, as he intimates tend to take politics out 'of, tho public civil service, rather than to increase the partisan power of th offlco-holdln class. As tho railroad, telegraph, lighting, and other monopolies came under public control the people would naturally see more and more clearly the necessity of having skilled men in charge instead of mere partisans. They would demand that a man's "politics" be the last thing to be considered In deciding his fitness for tho position of engineer on the public ' railroad or manager ot tho public lighting plant. Thus, might we not conclude that the ownership would result in educating the public to demand that alPdepart ments of government should be brought under moro strict civil-sericc-reform rules? The Voice. ARE WE FISHWORMS? What lias Become of Our atloaml Backbone? "There can be no doubt about it that it- t ne vnttctt states wef e to aftopr a silver basrs (j tomorrow British trade would be ruined before the year is oul. Every American industry 'would bo pro tected, not only at home; . but In every other market. Of course tho state would suffer. to a certain extent through having to pay their obligations abroad in gold, but-the loss in exchange undei tii is head would be a mere dropdn the bucket compared with tho profits to be reaped from the markets of South America and . Asia, to say nothing of Europe. The marvel is that the United States has not long ago seized the op portunity; but for the necessity in the perity, undoubtedly it would have been done long ago." The above is from the London Finan cial News, one of the highest financial authorities In the world. Does it not seem strange remark ably strange-that in the light of thesf frequent admissions on the part of Brit- isn journals and statesmen as to tne advantages that accrue to Great Britain by reason of pur financial policy, Raying nothing of the object lessons constant ly presented to us here at home, that we will go on year after jyear on lines of policy that are eo .injurious to our own interests and of such great ad vantage to our English neighbors? Why will not the American people arisf? Have we become a nation of chumps? Has statesmanship In this country gone to seed? Are patriotism and national pride dying out? Have we none of the spirit that animated our forefathers? KWhat has become of our national backbone? j English statesmanship and the vor acious greed of her financiers has, after a third of a century of j Intrigue and cunning designs, succeeded, through tire most damnable conspiracy , ever sprung upon; a free people, in reducing the American republic to what is prac tically! a Britis'i dependencyby arti fice and cunning scheming have our people been reduced to a '5 condition in finitely worse than that against which our forefathers rebelled accomplished through intrigues with 'our modern Benedict Arnolds what she failed to ac- compiisn oy iorce ot arms on two Bey era! occasions,; bringing us prostrate at the feet of British greed and avarice. How much longer will j our patience endured When will the American peo ple arouse and shake off this accursed yoke of oppression? Oh, for men strongmen, men of hearts, of courage who dare to think and to act, and who are not giveh over wholly to the god of mammon. t - May! the dojl of nations arouse our people" to a. sense of the wrongs. Inflict ed upon them, of a sense of the degra dation! to which we arc descending by reason of the 1 poverty and distress of the masses, and prompt them to exercise an j intelligent use of the power! of the ballot placed in their hands, that greater dangers may be averted. I , Hang the bank officers who titoU $25,000,000 last jyear from depositors. , a-
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