Newspaper Page Text
i X ROOT OUT THIS ROT. NO SUCH THrMO AS A FIFTY CENT DOLLAR. It Make No Difference to V Whit a Dollar Costs the Man From Whom Wo Receive It, So I.on as It Pays One Dollar of Debt for Us. Stop this senseless twaddle about a fifty-cent dollar. There la no such . thing. A dollar la a dollar. A fifty-cent coin. Is half a dollar, fifty cents of good money, and It would be honest money were It in the aggregate full legal tender Just as It was when I democrats, whlgs, republicans and otfiers were declaring that gold and sil ver were alike money, and that nothing else could be money! Were there such a thing as a fifty cent dollar it would be preferable to a two-dollar dollar, as the gold, dollar is one dollar's worth of gold and one dollar's worth of fiat I Why not say something about the nickel, which is five cents as sure as you are born, though there is less than one-sixteenth of a cent's worth of nickel or metal in the coin. But It is Ave cents, and stops a five-cent debt hole as quick as a president stops talk ing for the people as soon as he reaches we wnite House. W,hat about your postage stamps, all izes and yet of many different values j 9 the law has spoken through them? Jb 'A lady takes ten cents' worth of strings and wires and in an hour makes a fifteen-dollar hat. Why not talk about that a little? A saloonkeeper sells you a fifteen cent drink which costs him three cents. Why not kick at that a few times? The president of the United States receives fifty thousand dollars a year as salary from a law firm in the city of New York, he steers Into the pudding-patches he has his hands on, and fifty thousand dollars a year more as his salary as president. What kind of a flfty-cent dollar is that? A lawyer goes to Washington and sells a lot of talk for $100,000, as did Choate, who was paid the latter sum for his argument In the Income tax law case, and surely there was a difference between the cost and the get of the thing sold. It makes no difference to us what a dollar costs the man from whom we re ceive it. so lone aa it will nay one dol lar of the debt we owe. Therefore there is no uch thing as a flfty-cent dollar, unless a man will deliberately sell us a debt-paying dollar for a half la dollar, In which case he is foolish and we are financially wise to buy It, even If we hold it a few moments before some creditor comes In and beckons it away. Why do not the people of this coun try get down to talking business a lit tle while, and If they have a govern ment that can create money good enough to pay Its debts at a little or no direct cost, In God's name let us have it, as the government has cost the people more money than they bar gained for, and Ibis time it was return ing to those who have footed the bills at least a trifle of the expenses of the past. If our government cannot, after all that has been done for it, and all It has cost in the way of blood, treasure, life and suffering, return some pront to the people, it should be set aside for a better one or knocked In the head and handed over to the Rothschild fam ily. If the government should create every dollar of money to meet all Its needs, and use but ten dollars' worth of paper and all the rest flat, having nothlne but a substance that can carry the money declaration, it would still be billions of dollars in debt to the people who horned and brought it up. Pom eroy's Advance Thought. A TRUTH CONCISELY TOLD. Government by Injunction 1 Despotism Pare and Simple. The following letter from Eugene V. Debs concisely expresses a truth which many people in America are Just be ginning to realize: Charles F. Blackburn, WeavervlUe, Cal.: My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 20th Is received. Thank you cordially for your kind and sympathetic words. To bear punishment for one s honest con victions is In the nature of a privilege which does not require a high order of courage. I fully concur with you in your estimate of the courts. As a gen eral proposition, they are for the pro tection of the rich and the punishment of the poor. Judge Trumbull said the ' other day that any federal Judge may now imprison any citizen who happens to displease him. This Is despotism, pure and simple, and so far as the lib erty of the citizen is concerned, we differ with Russia only In name. There Is, however, a hopeful view to be taken of the situation. The people are wak ing up. Educational Influences are in operation and in due time American manhood will assert itself. Thanking you again, I am, Yours very truly, EUGENE V. DEB3. Talking Secession. In an Interview in this city, a few days ago, Mr. Frank McLaughlin, one of the chief owners of the Philadelphia Times, said: "There is bound to be a secession of a part of the union, sooner or later." He says that he does not think that the dissolution will be brought about by the sword, but he thinks the time Is not far distant when the west will say to the east: "We are tired of taking laws made from Washington. Our In terests are separate and distinct from yours: there Is no community of sent! ment between us; let us go our way In peace and you go yours." He further thinks In this contingency the south will sympathize with the west J instead of the east, and will act with the west SUrer Knight WAYLAND'S HOT SHOT. The "One Ilosa Editor" Kicks for a Purpose. The dispatches give us the wonder ful news that the architect of the Chi cago postofflce was "granted" an In terview with Secretary Carlisle! How gracious our rulers are becoming! It will soon be as easy to approach one of our hired hands at Washington aa any king. And this is what you call a republic, eh? e Wheat Is selling at 32 cents In Utah. Wheat gamblers live in palaces. One busts occasionally, but the farmers do not move into his palace another gambler does that. And the farmers are pretty solid for the same good old tickets. I'll tell you what, fellow-cltl-zens, this is the greatest, grandest, freest country on the globe and our people are the most intelligent, e At Houghton, Mich., thirty-two min ers are killed by "nobody to blame," while getting out coal for the coal barons to make money on. No loss to the owners, as men are the cheapest things on earth. Horses, hogs, sheep, even chickens have value to their own ers only men have none. Thirty more to take their places can be had without paying a cent for them. O, this is a Jolly country and a glorious system. Only on election day are men worth a dollar a head to vote the old tickets. Why do men buy houses to live in or do business In? Is it not to avoid Paying some one else Interest In the shape of rent? If this is desirable this avoidance of Interest why do not the people vote to buy or build their own street railways, water works, gas and electrlct plants? This idea hit me when I read that the street cars 01 Philadelphia netted nearly $4,000,000 last year, that would have remained in the people's pockets had they owned the system, as they should. Only sixteen people were killed by a little collision near Melby, Minn., on the private enterprise railroads last week. People are cheap and dollars are dear, and safety appliances would cost dollars. . Railroad owners muBt have big profits to live In palaces and buy titles for their daughters. The cheap people are taught It would ruin them to have the nation own the rail roads and not have any profits go to millionaires. This Is not anarchy, sure not! This is order and harmony! e National banks are enemies of the republic. They are the means of near ly all corruption and bribery in poll tics. They work. In secret like an as sassin. Already the press Is current with reports of the on-coming lobby at Washington by the bankers. I hope they will succeed to such an elegant degree that the people will get real mad then their bonds, stocks, mort gages and real estate will be served Just like the sacred right of property In the chattel slaves. History repeats itself. Crime always brings up at the halter If let run far enough. I don't blame men for being bankers, but I do for defending so villainous a system and preventing a Juster one. Pharaoh put new burdens (bonds) on his people as fabt as he saw they could stand It. Our people took their sale into bondage to American and English bankers so meekly, never uttering a protest, and Indorsing It by electing the same people to office, that a new set of bonds will be again given to the shy locks next month. The American peo ple drfn't know that bonds mean bond age. They don'e know their lives and property have been pledged as secur ity for gold for their rulers to squan der In riotous, licentious and traitorous luxury. There Is not a savage tribe in Africa that wo'ld so meekly submit to such degradation. Issue more bonds, masters. Issue lots of them. We love bonds. We like to bow the neck to British rule. We don't care a cent how much of our land and property the grandees own. We like to work for them. Next fall we will re-elect the old parties to prove our pleasure at your action. Hurrah for the bonds. We will hang any traitor that utters a word against the bonds. Whoop-la! e You can hire two men one day for two dollars now. Formerly you could hire but one man one day for two dol lars. Are men depreciating? OUR GLORIOUS SYSTEM. Legislators Bought and Sold Like 8heep. This is the nineteenth century of the world's civilization and progress. This Is America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here the people are supposed to gov era themselves through represent tlves Instructed to do their bidding. Yet behold the charges men of prom inence make openly. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio, in a speech at Co lumbus recently, said: "It Is safe to say that no bill of any character what ever was passed or defeated In the Seventy-first Ohio general assembly without the use of money." Here Is a man whom his party has honored with a renomlnation for gov ernor of one of our greatest states a man who is entitled to some respect Think of such a statement coming from such authority. "I here challenge the records," said he, "to show that a single bill can be exempted from this charge." No doubt he tells the truth and per haps his own party would do worse. At least his opponent makes charges Just as bad. Are we to believe the utterances of either? If we believe either, might we not as well believe both? It is surely time for the people to break loose from both old parties, and elect honest men to office. The system of selling legislation for the benefit of corporations has both old parties in its tolls. Tha eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of a goose. LAWS BY THE PEOPLE THE INITIATIVE AND REFEREN . DUM PRINCIPLE. Is Democracy In Its - Purity and Re publicanism In Its Simplicity Govern ment by the People Impossible Other wise. By George X. Young, Longmont, Colo. In theory a representative govern ment is a republic; In fact a representa tive government is not a republic, or at least It does not long remain one, after its founders have passed away. Every representative republie of the past has perished from off the earth. The little Alpine republic of Switzer land was upon the same road that led so many of its predecessors to ruin; but nearlng the rocks it changed its course, adopted direct legislation, and Is to-day the healthiest, as well as the oldest, re public in existence. Perhaps our own country is the most striking example of the complete fail ure of the representative system. The people never get the laws they desire, but they get plenty which they dislike. If a measure good for the people be in troduced in a legislative body, the final product is as badly disfigured as a man who has run an Indian gauntlet ; Even our constitution fails us. Made more than a century ago, its framers saw not the embryonic but tremendous forces lying in ambush, to finally crush the liberties of the people; but they heeded not the warning voice of the elo quent Patrick Henry, who plead in vain for a bill of rights for the people. They turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of that embodiment of statesmanship Thomas Jefferson who, from beyond the sea, deplored the absence of a bill of rights. Of this defective document James Monroe said: "I see in It no real checks upon the government." See Bancroft's "History of Constitu tlbn," page 428. The people have, for many years, been clamoring for the poor little priv ilege of themselves electing their United States senators. But even this Is denied them. The enthroned corpor ations prefer senators of their own choosing. The history of legislation in this country for the century now closing should convince every one that it is a waste of time and energy to work for reform under the present system of law making. All efforts for "free coinage," prohibition, single tax, restriction of immigration, government control, etc., will fall in the future as they have done in the past. There Is always some power other than Divinity that shapes all the ends of legislation. The initiative and referendum consti tute direct legislation by the people. It is democracy in its purity. It is re publicanism in its simplicity. It is, in itself, not so much of a reform as it is a means of obtaining reforms. It will throw wide open the gates which have so long barred the people from their God-given rights. It will relegate to the rear all the political crooks, the heelers, gangsters, shysters, parasites, etc., which have so long been a curse and a disgrace to our country. Hypo crites and fawners, too, will have to take back seats. Of all the demands of reformers, the referendum is most feared by plutoc racy, as witnessed by its omnlous si lence regarding it It does not oppose, it dare not agitate. It orders its tools: "Fight government ownership, ridicule sub-treasury, but Ignore the referen dum." It sees that its "craft is in dan ger;" for, with direct legislation, the briber and the lobbyist could not ply their vocation, and the reckless parti san, the oily politician and the heart less demagogue would be as helpless for harm as would be a lot of wild beasts after their claws and fangs had been ex tracted. With the imperative man date and the veto power in the hands of the people, there would be no need of drilling Sunday-school boys in the arts it war, for the people would respect and obey laws enacted by tbemeselves. Instead of being nominal freemen, but real slaves of the politicians, as now, the people would all be, in reality, free men. Little or no argument is ever ad vanced against it Occasionally some one says: "It may do in a small coun try like Switzerland, but would never do in a large country Ilk ours." With equal consistency the same could be said of the golden rule It might do in a little country like Pales tine, but not in a big country like ours. It is of vital Importance that all re formers unite their strength for the fast approaching campaign of 1896. An other four years and It may be too late We are nearlng the dead line. The next presidential term will ex tend into the twentieth century. Momentous questions are confront ing the American people. Shall the wonderful discoveries, advancements in knowledge and the arts and sciences go out in darkness? Shall tne bright and glorious possibilities of the future end in disappointment? Shall the hopes, aspirations and happiness of millions of our countrymen be sacrificed upon the altar of greed and avarice? "Forbid it, Almighty God!" The brazen-armored phalanx of Aus tria met a Winklereld; and the gold armored phalanx of our country may meet many a Winklereld e'er its last chain is rlvlted upon its victims. It is probable that there are not a dozen well-informed persons in the re form ranks at this time, but would agree that the principle of direct legis lation is right and Just. It is the one and only issue upon which all reformers can unite; it is absolutely invulnerable, stronger and more perfect than the god made armor of Achilles. It is founded upon our immortal declaration that governments derive their Just powers from the governed. The common enemy of all reform will no doubt, continue to sow the seed of dlssentlon by means of hireling dema gogues and a shackled press. But the sad experiences of the past should warn us to unite our forces. Many a good cause has been lost for want of union of friends. The Christian church may be cited as one Instance of how feeble a great and good power becomes when divided into factions. With commendable zeal It has been fighting Satan ior nearly two thousand years, and still a glance at surrounding social and economic condi tions should convince the most skepti cal that the old fellow is not only alive, but has lots of "business on his hands." In nearly every human undertaking there is some one article of prime neces sity. The woodman must have his axe, the seamstress, her needle. A party of campers might disagree as to what they would have for their first meal, whether fish, flesh or fowl; but all would agree that in order to have anything at all, they must first have a camp-fire. So the mass of reformers must first get their right to legislate, then all de mands which commend themselves to the people will be enacted into laws. While no one should expect the refer endum to cure all the ills from which the people suffer, yet all thinkers must see In It a measure calculated to loosen and ultimately break the galling chains which now fetter a tax-ridden and debt-burdened people. Unjust and unequal laws could not be enacted. Instead of state legislatures consider ing a thousand or more bills at each ses sion, and passing a few hundred of the worst ones, the people would enact a few plain, wholesome laws that could be easily understood and efficiently en forced. Court expenses would be greatly reduced, and three-fourths of the lawyers would be out of a Job. Juries would decide causes on their merits rather than upon precedents es tablished way back In the stone age. Partyism, as we now have it, would disappear; and last, but not least, every election would tend to educate and ele vate the people rather than brutalize and degrade them, as does the present system. It is not wisdom for us to longer play the ostrich act The storm is actually upon us. We are being rapidly driven upon the rocks. Let all Join hands, brace up the halyards 'bout the old ship, put honest capable officers In charge, and she will yet outride the storm and carry us safely over. Hogan for Congress. James Hogan, of the board of direc tors of the American Railway union, was nominated for congress at the state convention of the people's party re cently held at Salt Lake City, Utah. Brother Hogan was not only not an as pirant for the office, but strenuously de clined the nomination. His friends and supporters were too numerous, however, and amid demonstrations of the greatest enthusiasm they tvaae mm the nominee by acclamation. In mak ing Brother Hogan its congressional ptnnrlnrd hearer, the neoDle's party have made no mistake. In no sense of the term a politician and scorning tne methods of political wire workers, Ho gan Is a man in whom the people can place implicit confidence. He is a close student of men ana anairs, is thoroughly honest and his heart throbs responsive to the common people. If Hogan Is elected, as the Railway Times earnestly hopes he will be, the people of Utah and of the country will have at least one congressman who will bravely champion the rights ot the people and who will be above the corrupting in fluence of boodle. Times. MONEY TALKS. Both Old Parties Use Money to But Their Ends. What Is the difference between them? Nothing, though nominally one Is labelled a democrat and the other a republican. Both are vastly rich both are capitalists and both use their money laviBhly to accomplish their po litical alms and ends. Quay ;s a high tariff and gold tlan dard advocate. So is Brine, though three-fourths of the democrats of Ohio are against him on both quastlons; yet he rules democratic conventions as with a rod ot Iron by the lavish use of money. The reo-int democratic convention in Ohio illustrates the fact. Br Ice won, and money did it. Quay, on Wednes day, achieved the greatest triumph of his life. Money did it, for it :s esti mated that more than $1,500 were spent In the election of the delegates to the Harrlsburg convenl.'.on, and Quay spent more than any ono else or he could not have been victorious. Brlce had nothlrg to recoir.mend hlra but money and never had; bu: "ir.onpy talks," and Brlce came out on top, as Quay did at HarrUburg. We would as soon bo In tlic hands of one as the other. They use their money to achieve success, and the peo ple allow them to do It. But we hope the day is near at hand when merit will vln and not money. Neither Brlce nor Quay would have a ssat in the United States senate If the honestly expresitd will ot the people could bo hoard. Tricksters rule and stlile the voice of the people, and corrupt men force themselves to the front by foul means. Saturday Bulletin, Aurora, Ind. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. The Treasury "In the Hands of Cod and Morgan." Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan, of New York, seems to be the undisputed king ot this country. He is acting president, sec retary of the treasury, treasurer and general king pin Of the government, and that is equivalent to being king. A New York banker said last week that "the treasury situation seemed to be In the hands ot God and J. Pierpont Morgan." Without desiring to appear Irreverent, we are inclined to remark that in our opinion Morgan has the whip-band of the arrangement. It must be anything but comforting to the American people to think that i Wall street banker, the personification of greed, has the country by the throat and that his will goes. If he orders an issue of bonds the bonds come. It the government wants money the president says to this august financial autocrat and boss of 70,000,000 people: "Will you please, sir, loan me a trifle?" The back door of Wall street Is the great government of the United States. When Mr .Morgan's feet are particular ly dirty he wipes them on Washington and steps Into his palatial office. He is the Rothschild of America, and every man In the republic Is paying tribute to his greed. Is it not time to an nounce that this country bo free from Morgan? Is It not time to proclaim an independence for the second time in the history ot the republic? The spectacle of 70,000,000 people being de pendent upon the bounty and will and greed of a product of Wall street is quite enough to crack the old liberty bell on the other side and to make every dead patriot from '76 to '65 turn over in his coffin. If we can get the living dead to show sow signs of life next year, possibly we may free our selves. Farmers' Voice. WHO ARE PATRIOTS? THE BANKERS AND BROKERS OR THE TOILING MILLIONS? Absorbers of American Produce Who Annually Spend Millions In Europe Are Not Truly Americans Lot Their Native Land for the ProBt Only. There are a class of people in Amer ica, a growing class, who call them selves Americans, whose Individual members are asking, "what does are publlc amount to anyway?" This class is made up of those who absorb the pro fits of American labor and American enterprise. They annually go to Eu rope, and annually spend In Europe millions ot American dollars. They are not truly Americans at heart, and the more they Bee and enjoy the European privileges which their money so readily commands the less American are they. In short they care little for their native land farther than they reap the results of Its energies and genius, which re sults are dissipated in wasteful self-indulgence on the bounties of older civil izations whose glitter and pomp is aris tocracy. Gold Is the god of. this grow ing class of Americans, and costly Jew els their playthings; wome their pas time, and fine wines their recreation. America's tolling millions to them are all right so long as the millions do not rise above their tolling conditions. The happiness and prosperity of Amer ica's millions is a menace to these an nual American tourists, to these ab sorbers of American blood, and con trollers of American destiny. The brokers and bankers of this class are found in the financial heart of every commercial city, their servitors in every capital of the country. In speak ing of America to their foreign enter tainers they praise only its material re sources and its financial possibilities. Their paid agents and expert statisti cians count the number of acres tinder plow, and watch the weather reports; rstlmate the probable tonnage to be moved and determine how much freight charges each commodity will bear; cal culate the output of every kind of mine, the produce of every sort of factory, tha margins of profits of all which they deem to be theirs by virtue of their stock-exchanges, their boards of trade, their chambers of commerce, and the money of their banks, and even of tha treasuries whose volume they control. The national treasury itself is not safe from their manipulations nor tha precious metals of which money ia coined, they sending the price of tha one up and destroying the value of tha other at will, whereby the farmer's bin of corn, the miner's pound of ore, tha planter's bale of cotton, all becomea theirs. The man who never goes to Europe, the man who never expects to go to Europe, the man who loves the govern ment and the institutions of America, loves it mountains and prairies, iti woods and streams, and all that it la physically, socially and politically, past or present, outnumbers the man who spends his millions in Europe a thou sand to one. The plain from which the Caesars sprang, the waters that re flect the palaces of the Doges, tha grape-laden hills and cathedral-shadowed valleys of Spain, the castle-be-studded banks ot the Rhine and all that England or France has to offer In tha way of the mist and dust and ruin oi ages, with all their tinsel crowns, and feather-bedecked nobility, fall to at tract, much less win the heart from Ha fealty to this land ot manhood and hu man equality of the man who never goes to Europe of the American who is for America. The question which is now confront ing the man who never goes to Europe is: Who is to rule America? The thousand, or the one; the toller who stays at home or the absorber who goes abroad to criticise his own land? It ia confronting him through the medium that has ruled all lands in all times, and which has become so potent of lata In this country of tho ballot-box and school-house the medium of money. Is it to be a currency of the people or ol medium so limited that the absorber can corner it at will? Is It to be ot both gold and silver and promises to pay In either or both? or ol a metal which 13 owned and held by thi absorber, together with such additional currency as the absorber may see fit to have Issued by those who own out bonds and control and fix the amount of our debt-burden? Is It to be uni versal national prosperity with an even handed chance for every man, or peon age to syndicate gold? . In the great middle agricultural sec tion covering a dozen states, in all tha region whose fields are white with fleecy cotton, in the vast sweep ol mountain and plain that stretches from lakes to gulf and from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, there Is not one man in ten thousand who is an "ab sorber," not one In ten thousand who distrusts the republic, not one in ten thousand but that loves his country and its Institutions. Why should the ten thousand su'jmll to the selfish greed and rule of the one? Cretula Eagle. Spinning to the Fire. A distinct feature ot the crowd at tending fires In the metropolis thesa dnys Is the wheelmen. It was observed that when the fire engines, hose carta and ladder trucks began to race in to ward a fire in Sixty-first street, near Second avenue, one day last week, the wheelmen and wheel women who were talilng spins turned and followed th firemen, distancing them often in th race. New York Sun. Two Public Disturbers at Large. "I suppose," said Rivers, watching loose steer as it darted roijad a corner md went splashing tnrough a narrow, llrty side-street, "that's what you call cet alley mud."