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LOUISIANA POPULIST. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 A YEAR. There is No Free Country, Unless the People Rule. PRICE, 5 CENTS. \OL I. NATCHITOCHES, LOIA)ISIANA, FRID)AY, ,[NE 21, 1895. N ). \ 1. .. . .. . .. . -- - i in H l I= PEOPLE'S COUNTRY. NEW ZEALAND AS DEPICTED BY A REPRESENTATIVE MAN. Popullt Ide'as In Frce - (Government l)w;:s and iOperate. the tailroads and TehlIgraph -Free Land and No Mo mop 'lie, of (orruptn. The Call (Seattle.) Hop. A. 1). Willis of New Zealand, a leading printer of that country and a memlr of the New Zealand parlia ment, stopped over night in this city, homeward bound from England. Mr. Willis has been absent from home some months, having been on a busi ness trip to Germany, England and the United States. }ie has been inspecting the latest improved printing and ruling machinery manufactured within the three aboq) named countries. It is needless to say that he has made part of his purchases from American firms. From personal appearance one would. hardly select him as one of the advisers of the best "poor man's coun try" in the world. In size he is about medium, very compactly built, about 45 years old, blue eyes, and wears mut ton chop whiskers which with his hair is slightly gray. But speak to him about the latest work in the art of printing, or, better still, about the gov ernment of New Zealand: his eyes will immediately light up and you will find that you are in contact with a man just chuck full of information and en ergy. When seen at the Hotel But ler Saturday night by a representa tive of the Call, he at first declined to be interviewed, but when assured that the government of New Zealand had been much discussed of late in this part of the world and the readers of the Call would peruse every word he said with interest, he finally consented. Said he: "In traveling through this country and Canada I am greatly impressed with your condition. The fabulous wealth of some of your corporations and citizens, while almost In the shadows of their mansions live people who have not the bare necessities of life, are conditions made by legislation. You made a grave mistake when you gave so much of your land and other natural resources to private corpora tions which have become private mono polies and w'ho will drain you worse and worse every year until the end, which no man fully knows. We made the same mistake, but years ago through the teachings of John Bal lance, discovered it, and now have that mistake almost rectified. In our coun try we have two parties, viz: the liber als and the conservatives. The liber als are the class who believe in legisla tion for the benefit of the poor and let ting the rich take care of themselves, while the conservatives hang around the van and shout 'No! no! You'll ruin the country.' We have killed the mo nopolles and therefore have no corrup tion in high places; a dishonest act by a public officer not having beer seard of , for years. The government Jwns and ] operates both the ralLro . and tele graph lines, which are run entirely in the interest of commerce W!th ut profit to any London or New York aristocrat. i "The land, too, is practically free I from the land monopolist, as we have a graduated land tax law which exempts homesteads. to a certain number of acres, from taxation. Every acre, how ever, above the homestead limit is taxed sad the larger the holdings the higher becomes the rate of taxation. All lands not in use are also taxed and the government stands ready to buy land of say character at its as seesed valuation. It is then cut into hemusteeis sad sold ar the ame price 1 to say ee who wants to buy, provided I they )pay per cent per annum, of which 1 per cent applies to a sinklng ain and pays the entitre principal in utifr-three years. The government ilt Js,AnnL moaey on real estate to w uais to the extent of three flfth. e the valuatea of such real es tate, at the rt e per cent per an-1 ns . We asI eeeiet a graduated in te gu and ha given the eptiona to aegss to.stleo single tax. We have 'ae meaepelle sad better still, we have a papers. This may seem strange to ya but oaeatheiss it is a efast: it a Sman beeomes dUstitute we set him to work ena Ave acre of land in one f the three vir i s resrved tr that par pese. He bllds a hase, cultivates the U4 sad etherwise improre the prop erty, afor which va rable service the prr ment pays him in money. After the I rst ye he Iname self supprt lag and begis to rnambure the gsv ra3rat by maklag sma payments annaaui, r ti lir a number of years the popert beemes his. *.Nelthr have we uch a thla3as pea les. When man goes to work for the gverme t be I1 required to dake eat a lt linrabe policy, whisk he. . ay itake. in thie govrment coe p, besem at tIhe amuh lower rates I Is . thek e a thelwpeO, but i hei beeat l age n Si t beeemess a sa- I gt$ and pain him a eertain partaiu p - thLL e 'suee f the o e- I , a uat-le I sa a 5 ie 4 ..'; the bank or New Zealand. but the gov ernment immeliately took charge of it and guaranteed it for 2,)000,000 pounds, which restored the confidence of the public and we had no bank failures. The government is still in possession and whether it will remain so or not will be determined at this session of parliament. "We have .'optl-,i what we call the co-operative contract system on all public works. That is, work to be done by the government is divided by the engineer into small contracts, which are numbered and any one desiring to work is assigned to one of them. ly this means a first class workman makes large wages while a poor workman makes less. Eight hours constitutes a day on all public works. Our factories and business houses are of course run by private firms. Yes, we have strikes' occasionally and how to prevent them is the most knotty problem we have yet had to solve. We passed a compulsory arbitration law at the last session but whether that will solve the problem it is too soon to decide. We have an excellent public school system with compulsory attendance for all children under 15. They are exclusively secular, no religion of whateoever nature is al lowed to be taught in them. All busi ness houses are obliged to remain closed during Sunday and all labor must cease. One is, however, allowed to do whatever else he pleases whether it be to attend church, attend a place of amusement, or play games of any nature. Besides this we have a law, which is strictly en forced, compelling the city and town governments to select one day out of the six others on which all business is suspended at 1 p. m., except that on this day the saloons may remain open, provided they sell nothing that inter feres with the business of houses that are closed. "Strange to say, the liberals are the protective tariff party in our country, while the conservatives want free trade. This is due to the fact that the con servative party is largely made up of the owners of sheep ranges, who export the most of their products and conse quently want to "buy abroad at lower rates. Any one who desires to leave his district before an election may de posit his ballot, sealed in an envelope, with the proper officer who shall turn it over to the election officers on election day, when It shall be cast and counted with the others. No ship is allowed to leave port without a full crew as re quired by law, and the berths must be of sufficient width to be comfortable. We also have a w'.nan's suffrage law which went into e&lect at the last elec tion. It proved cery satisfactory. We now have the most perfect criminal code in the world, and justice as adminis tered by our courts is quick and cer tain. "At the next session I think that we will adopt a system of consols, some Sthing similar to the French system, which will keep money home, instead of going to England for all our money. Our surplus this year will be more than 380,000 pounds, which is remarkable, considering that all other nations are having such deficits. "Like your country, we have but few liberal papers, the larger papers find more money in supporting the monopo listic party. The general tendency of our legislation is toward single tax." Mr. Willis left Sunday for San Fran cisco, where he will take passage for home. srerl san "Hel Julee." The sub-treasury plan of the Farm ers' Alliance has received the scorn and ridicule of every politician and cross road demagogue in the United States. It provided that the farmers might have the privilege of storing their grain and farm produce in a govern ment warehouse and borrow money on the warehouse receipts; and thus be enabled to hold their grain until a fair price could be obtained for IL This was "lanacy." But hold. After it Is sold at less than cost of production, and the farmer went home to freese, and lose his home under a mortgage fore closure, his crops get into the hands the whisky trust Ninety million b - oias annually are used in this way, eonough to load 250,000 freight cars and making one continuous railway train over 1,583 miles long. And after this crop is turned Into hell-Juice to poison -men with and turn the world intta pandemonium of crime and woe, the govwernment lets the whisky trust store its said hell-fjuice in a warehouse and there take care of it for the trust for nine years, allowing the hell-Juie to go untaxesd all that time until it gets god and hellish! And there areo hundreds of demo cratic nwaerwspr in this and other states that wuld no more dare to at tack this abominaation than they would any other great inftamy that is prac tioed by political rasca.--Vindlcator. w.sna Udns o. waac. In somn *f the wine districts of PWranes fWst bedl are tolled when there is likely to be a severe *est, ad tm ameda·tr ea heari the waring the inhabitants hurry oat of their houes Lad plaIe a attlees o tar betwen the rws et ves. The a mls l s lglves i a ~ eheuld o m ariss, end t--u h w eo ese to be e plaetuly -etsa bes te esyegery at th ; WICKEDI GOLD TRUST. e TH: COLD SYNDICATE 13 AT i. WORK QUIETLY. i at l'reeldent Cleveland's Mlontrenzs Crime to Hlaving Made a Cuntract With the e (Ganmblers, (;iing Theol na (udco to I Form a Money True'. T' he recent dispatches from 11 ash Si!ngton in the ,Journal were rather s n.'nsational: showing that the gold s indLcate is at work quietly to do what the demonetization of silter a ave tihefI the power to do- corner oid. The buying up at a premium of toeir ti gold from the mines will mance them ready for the new loan that the treasury shortage makes t incvtable. in this whole gold matter-or the loan --tho Journal has held to the t theory of conspiracy to force a loan of at least . '- J P.ulfP,ý ,' . lThis is not from the fact that we were any wiser or nod informatLon that other.4 did riot. ouit from the logic of the situa tiol.n'l ore are no coupon bonds any a here available for investment by the great loan brokers in this country, and their sirplus from semi-annual interest payments has been lying idle. r I~iiroi. -, are loaded down so that most of thern are in the hands of re ceivers. 'The conspiracy was that for success the men behind ('leveland - agreed tnat such loan should be the price. As soon as the extra session was called to repeal the Sherman act, the 1 organs of the president demanded at once the authorization of a 00'i0.U) J. 4,) gold loan, and on congress refus g in the loan was made over the heads of congress by a forced construction of an old statute-and D3i, ).)0,,PPr already borrowed. Yet even this seems insuflicient to wake up some Ipeople to the fact that there is and v.as an understanding that amounts in o;!.cial action to a conspliracy to get tiihese loans from the treasury for a favored few in the world of money. It anything was needed to make this plain. it is in the unprecedented fact in the history of civilization, of a Scontract with private parties to give t them control for a term of months of P the national treasury, and an option p on any loans to be made subsequent to the contract. The contract runs to next October-five months yet and with a deticit of #50,0!U,P000 now before the treasury, not only that, but possibly a hundred million added, will be needed. The syndicate seems to be getting ready, and to make sure of being able not only to meet the demand, but to keep others out, is buying up the gold of the mines in advance. And the cry is, when too late, that the treasury is at the mercy of the contractors. But how can they buy up gold at a premium and loan it to the govern uent at ;J per cent interest? The last loan cost them 104l , and they have been selling the bonds at 1214- 17 cents protit. Gold at !1 cents an ounce premium is nothing like a mar gin of 17 cents on the dollar on bonds. And what for? To force the coun try to a gold basis and fund the $50J, oU),000) outstanding treasury notes into gold bonds. Such a spectacle as this presents of the treasury openly looted by contract is enough to make the very stones cry out against the infamy of such a humiliation to a great nation.-Kansas City Journal. This is pretty plain talk for an in tensely partisan Republican paper, but it is true. It is the Peop!. Who is it keeps this o'd world going, By spinning. weaving, reaping, sowing, Tnrough summer's beat and winter's blowing? The people. Who t it paDs the myriad ta·.e, And humbly grinds the shrewd one's axes, While plenty wanes and famlne waxes? ' he pe.ople. Who builds the ship. but mvay not man it? Who owns the stream, but dare not span it? The rightful sovereigns of this planer- I he people. Io is it that could cure this evil, And bury under one upheaval, These mighty wrongsa wrought by the devil? The people. -Daisy Clover In Red Field Great West. Quite a MiaIst.e The Democratic party has in it en Lirely too many people who do not know what Democracy mepns.--Dal- 1 las News. With the exception of a few fellows who are in oftice and those who I Pexpect office,-there is no such thing any more. The people have pjoined the Populists. The goldbugs are now the Democrats. The Crse of DLebt Debt is the greatest curse to hu-. mnanity. Abolish debt and there would be no interest Without in terest lots of fellows who are taking it easy now would to go to work. aIndependence Star and Kanean. a A Meetlag at aaaers, The so-called -sound mosey con vertion" which met at Memphis on Thursday was a representative body I of Southera bheakers. There were some business men in attendance also, i and a sumcilet number of adminis- I iration pollticians to run te affair. I But all in all it was a packed body, I rooedd up by t~e magers, whlo are I making a tight in the Ikmocratio party for the single gold standard under the direction of ('levelano and the leadership of Carlisle. 'Thle con vention wa, therefore a political movement, and yet it was not a pop ular nor a representative assemblage k of the people. It was just subh a 1 body as can be gotten together in opposition to free coinage in any c'ity in the country under the domination of the bankers and thos whom they control. The affair was planned sini ply to afTord Carlisle an opportunity r to make his speech against free coin d age to a body of .outhern delegates o of some kind.-San Flranci-co Ciroun r Icie. n EDITORIAL OPINIONS, 'I n (;,ol seemn to be getting into a cor s ner and tue pry..-ilent of the United States into a hole. --t. Louis Post 0 Dispatch. e Queen Victoria should have cele n brated her birthday by confering the knight of tne order of humnbugs on (;rover ( leveland. .Southierna Mer cury. The pirates of Wall street will soon , rip open the gold bags in the reserve. The pirates and their allies want an other issue of bonds. - Shreveport Caucasian. t We must not wholly uccpair of ha - manity when the lawyers of America r trust tneinselves andt each other suf 1 ticientiy to form a la'v ern" trust. e Chicago 'lTi es-l lerald. Poiitical parties ref-iu to Settle a issues, and keep thlemi alive untii thle e become aggravating causes of war. The people should untite in a t!atr, I otic effort to deprite the party plO,iti clans of this power for evil.-Da-as SNews. I Abolish all laws for the collection 3 of debt and all laws making any kind e of money a legal tender, and you would see the -'intrinsic value" of s gold ooting out of it like sweat out of La harvest hand in July.-Indepen r dence Star and Kansan. What are bank notes based upon? 3 Upon bonds. What are the bonds 1 based upon? Upon the credit of the nation or upon the people. Would 3 the notes not be just as valid if they were issued directly by the govern 1 ment to the people? Ihink about it. t Emporia (Kans.) Times. The national banks are the greatest factors in American politics to-day, and so long as they are allowed to is sue the currency, just so long they will control its volume and ti5.i.),),u0j of people remain subversive to the dictations of a set of blatant arro gants.-Eupora (Miss. bun. SThe position of Gen. Weaver, in taking political work, under a salary, of the silver-Sibley outfit, is the most destructive blow he has ever dealt himself. The Populists could forgive his everlasting fusion-seven times s seven-but this has, we fear, used r him up.-lied Field (~. l.) ;great West. Labor produces all and gets one fourth of that which it Iroduces. Capital produces nothing but gets three-fourths of what labor produces. Capital can therefore live longer without suffering for tile necessaries of life than labor, having secured the greater advantage.-IHocLk Island rlL.) Populist. Carlisle may howl his Democracy until doomsday, but he is no more of a Democrat than old lloar of Massa chusetts or John Sbherman of Ohio. Like them, he has gone over, body and soul, to the money lenders. lie may call himself a Democrat, but the I fathers of the party would be aston ished at his opinions.-Alexandria I Town Talk. Justice Harlan is a strong, brave mano, and the very fact that his voice was raised in earnest protest against the invalidation of the income tax by a narrow and wabbly majority of his associates is enough to put the stamp of condemnation upon the decision, which not only lacks the respect of the country, but which has brought dis respect upon those who promulgated iL--Omaha World-Herald. The great question before the peo ple in the next few months, we may Ssay until after the next presidential election, will be monometallism or bimetallism. Which shall hold first place? As banks, as a whole, will favor that financial system which is least beneficial to the people, we need only to wait for their deliverance and take the other side.--Hlaleigh (N. C.) Christian Advocate (Methodist) England will stand in the path of bhimetalism as a roaring loin. to pro tect the interests, not of her people, but of her ruling classes. Honest bE I metallists in the United States have , reached the conclusion, however, re gretfully, that bimetallism in this country is only possible by positive and independent action. without wait ing for the aid or consent of any na tion on earth. -Omaha World-Herald. Ir you are a true reformer you will keep out of all "lilver" primaries, "sound" money primaries or any meeting called by the leaders of the Republican party, or of the divided Democracy. All true and sincere re foermers will come to the Peopl'* I «01'..I0H`P. A..(. EL.. - IS VIEWS ON REMANDING DEDS TO JAIL. It Is a substitution ot (Gnernltenlt hi 1 Injuetion, fur (Governulent by the ( in Atitllion anll L.' s," and l a I'rtecel llit Traughat With liinger. IGov. Joho P. Altgeld of . no is i of the blef that the i nite _ t:ate. S-upre me court ha- m.tab.,l sd a d;an -erous IprT' eed Lnt in remiandine, I:. . I ebs and his frien!s to ali. 1,. "i,,e, his \iews for pub;liation in a -.nucil article in which he -avy in par': "This decision marlk. a t:iriin. point in our history, for it c.tab,.;- ,, a new fori of o go l lernirit I.e, :" ib fo',:! heard of among n.en, that i-, av,' : nwent by ili unction. '1 h, ro i .-:,: of the con-titut. on that no lan -"a":. be delprived of his liouerty v. n '.t a trial by an iriu artiai ry, i. pr.l t 'ally wilcd out by this ,ii-; n l f the I nited States s !ore ie v.! t. all i the theory that our- wa, et\a· ,'i.\ a governmlent of law is at an ci,. for every commnlunity is nlow t;, to obey any " himi or Irijud .. h: , any federal judge tnv or i , at. .\And if federal uivge, can i, tth-. then it will not be inlo hili s.J t judges wail fo.tow ths ,'xa .tu . • or oyr a cintury ,or ir u luent mariced along the .:h i- to corstltutton ani w,- bl caite tre at and powerful - ife anti tprot: 'er , protected and the law wa- riforcie. Non., we have muIll a departjrre. tLhe buluwarkc of .ibertv ias been ii:t:,r Inindel, trial |by jury ha- i e'h, sttr.',. 'iin U on. ol'ur a number of years it has heen remarked that the decisions of the United States court were nearly al ways in favor of corporations. lhien it was noticed that no man could be appointed to a federal judgeship un less he was satisfactory to these in terests Over a year ago the New York World taliwed about a packted supreme court and that court has I within a few days rendered two de cisions which unfortuuateli, t,.nd to confirm this charge. A w.e-ci a-o it did violence to tile constitution and laws of the land by hoiding that the government had no power to tax the rich of this country. Now it has stricken down trial by jury and has established goverlment by inj:inc tion. ,"Forty years ago the slave bjoer predominated: to-day it is the noney power. The American people cru.sht.d the slave power and saveel o0 irlitl tutions. ('an they rescue themselves again? .Many say yea. but they have not reflected that the crushing force which now confronts them is g'r'at, than was ever the slave power ( a!, ital sits in the white hoase anil iegs lates in tile capitol. 1 ile court, of justice are its minitere andl l,";.s latures are its lacKets. .\nd t:in whole machinery of fashiona!,;e so."i ety is its handmaid. Just -ce wihat a broad list of evils has sprung from the power of canitali-nm sine i, "*First, the striltinj. ,iown of over one-third of the monev of the wor.,t. thus crushing the debtor class and paralyzing industry. I -e econd. the growin- ,of that cur- I ript use of wealth which is un eir mining our institutions. debauching t public otlicials. shaping legislation I and creating judges who do its bid- I ding. It *'Third, the exemption of the rich I from taxation. -"Fourth, the substitution of gov ernment by injunction for government by the constitution and laws. *-Fifth, the striking down of trial by jury. "Never has there been so much patriotic talk as in the last twenty five years, and never were there so many influences at work strangling institutions." Shme on, You. Manifestly, the one issue worthy notice of a leader in the Populist party is: "*how am I to get an olice? In the distribution of political spoils, where shall I come in?"-Texas Farther. Why, Brother Shaw, you should be ashamed of yourself. You should know that there is not a P'opulist in 1 Texas that wants otfice. Tho D)emo- t crats are the office seekers. But, all 5 jokes aside, Billie. did you ever see a man, without regard to party afliilia- 5 tion, and even though he was an ..In- t dependent" that would not accept at good fat office, not excepting the Farmer man? Ah, Pshaw' Should be "InJumeted." One of the ridiculous features of the federal anti-trust law is, that the big whisky trust has passed into the hands of a receiver appointed by a federal court Being an officer of the government he is in charge of a cor poratoon which the federal law pro hibits, ana the very existence of which the anti.trust law forbids under penalty. Funny. isn't it? Some other federal court judge should step in and ,'injuct" the receiver for holding property contrary to law. 'I' po graphical Journal. Tla cckoo. are getting closer to gethe" day by day, and the reform Daoerate are leaving the old party. REMARKABLE TRANSFORMA S TION OF A NORTH C; RJ LINA MAN. StrllL. . illt True. t'r front ll th I. un. I.tr hlglionl of a 1 i.'h.rll rn . i' t . " 1" , f .. .' : ''. I"": .\ i. - !I ."1:1; : . 1 ,.. . . \ . ý ' It ' : . L. i r f it 1 ' . " J i',. t .I . . , p t ".c r.-, 1 ,, t , i :' "1 : '' I it i t i. «.. i \ rI na" ti I I I ,: t, : t l' . 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N. .Y.. - i, an.hlld rl.r lIln, e i, cl aboti It is ther fa-hiionn acres nge aup to the tlti.a ton )o tos atea o~ ate . eo to a .-a rt, hr nt:,. a l , p... ,.i'' ,,u ona a ii fIt,.l , aun l l , f , I "f t- rstI- . it of an t:. e latnt, s p an rt frot,.I. wih - o1ld muasretun near. y y t lI: ri wll QUe ann ull,.ty, andl ry th.e cnnerti, tunt oa ,ln t s nly, fr$ato of, the thitle r.ofth Cea e ay, lan Th . l..,.t-tr t is) p o l w . . a #20, JOe IJUV. 10 a 0 8oa- soldi lve tha etu very , ' a, ':r a arhe po"et it a, n u .n ' i gust ,, is - u to-third t of an inch thick, with' or eifht seconds to 'o I s. . theBarrier ree is a coral reef exted ag rlong a the northe.ter n co lat o Australa for nearly lOv,'i mle. Th ere are r,'1 ar g to.".. or r'or was so rih in , o d that it Fur out iao-n otf.rlin tes tral.etor person to tras d l oero he mintire ro llm for a fortnight. l'or tiecoWid classn dihe charge is about half as mucrlle oragain, and f than irst and ts a ibot double.d a 0.. (l) t n .ul the.l Ion. the ultivationed of the oysters along theo itLong ofand sound front of Cotnecti- by moplantain rauThe talatter is probably wor runs from th or eiht scnd to . go oa. Azolresl to |e.and.