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LOUISIANA POPULIST. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 A YEAR. There is No Free Country, Unless the People Rule. PRICE, 5 CENTS. VOL. [I. NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1896. NO. 29. If-n-fl\N- --- -- -- ----- _ __ ._._ - . .-- -- --- ..... ... . - - ._. --- n. an s Heritage is Pain. AIN'S ANTIDOTE IS ST. JACOBS OIL ASK YOUR DEALER FOR W. L. DoucLAs s3. SHOE "U9Jo."E If you pay 4 to ES for shoes, ex amine th4 W. L. Douglas Shoe, and ee what good sboe you can buy for 8 OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, as LAam hr s M bind" drbesamde l leather by skille weeb uss. We I make e sell more t say w ethe? pric is stampedol can b"e. TMRE S In dab cananot u, s a . to payuca, p rke. W. L. DOUGLAS, *Irockton, Mass. EXCITEMENT. a. ,lariek, of GilautI sm s, St. LiE, Writis to Van Qeti. fying That Wm. Hew, 13 CheoutmuAmueae, Had see ui*PW fr Three Years nd 81a 1b _ SLus Y.lei Ld , .we Ct Wa. v lW lO Ch tEsa was . a btr a be ssHid Bo ibetes a waits ms. hef WaeIth Va t are soarer. t ra 1a 4al t enLt i th*tS at aº. f C~ibbrrr*1 POMEROY ON MONEY. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION VERY ABLY HANDLED. "Money It Anythlng That the Law of the Lead Says I. a Full Legal Tender for Debts, and Has No Legtlimate Power Ex cept to Pay Debts." "My son, what is money?" "Anything which the law of the land says is legal tender for debts." "What power has money?" "None except to pay debts." "Has it no power to purchase, to buy things?" "No. If the person who has some thing which I want, declines to sell it to me, then I cannot get it from him unless I steal it or take it from him by force." "Suppose the one you may owe will not take the money you offer him?" "He has the right to refuse anything I offer him, even if it is money, but when I tender money, being that which the law says is legal tender, he has no right to put me to any expense or inconvenience after I have made him wrseder of what the law says is legal 4leder mosey." "How em yoeg ue money ?" "T'o pa my debts, or trade It for plmethias whiek I wllk to hav-4and tSe otheropreon is wiltd to selLame." 'g"Who says sot Who ays that mIutey is amything which "thi'giernment says is legal tender.' "My fkthqr so taught me." ' Whbdeaseays so?" "The 'uvernument. every govern ment in the world: that is every inde pendent government." "Who else?" "The supreme court of the Gaited States and every other court In the world. For lastanee: "A litigant ia.tlhe supsa court of Iowa, who had loaned gold dollars, ob jected to recetving greenback dollars in payment. He claimed that they were of less value than the dollar he had loaned. The supreme court, In rederinag its decision said: "'The gold dollar is not a commod ity having an intrinsic value, but money having only a statutory value. And every dollar has the usme value 1 without regard to materlal.'-Iowa Re ports, Vol. 16, p. 54G. "The attorney general of the United States, speaklng of the legal tender act (12 Wallace, p. 510) says: 'We re peat, momey is not a subetanee, but an impression of legal authmrity; a printed legal decree.' "The function of all money Is to pay debts, and what the law says is momey shall possess the debt-paytng power; and this is all the power money has, and it i the duty of govermeat to furnlsh such money, sad this was so Gdeald by Me United States supreme I oart a the legal tendr ease (12 Wal lace. p. 529), as follows: "'When the busainaess beglas to stag sate and general beskruptoy 1is Ml I emat, the gowsrament must have the power at the ale time to removate Its own resoeares and revive the dmop Iag mer0es at the nation by supply lug It with. a elslatlag mediun. What that medium shall be, what its char aster and quality, will depend pon the degree of prompttudae whiitIt demands. The heart of the asio i mat not be crashed out. The peo- r pie must be aided to p~ thet debts" and meet their obLgatons. The debter lerests of the eantry rereemsts it peMa acsow nn d must be earour edo pursue their obligatloeis. If re was i a hored usna i emnat bank raptey would assue nd Industry would be seopped and gevemme. t would be pa lyun ed la the paralysu of the pe sIm h to '-the teat. ad ea* t hea. dbetrar a l rd~pbt e dreai but 'mra mas esme. Tho Pepasts In the sants are er and term the leesd. -sse - uassess so, Ooroy ~l~bsI The Democrats of Texas will possi bly split on national and maybe state ns affairs, but they will kiss and make cc up on the county candidates. pr When this country returns to a one hundred cent dollar prosperity will p return. Money is now out of the reach of all except the favored few. Finance, land and transportation, we in repeat, are the burning quest!ons. tt They are here to stay until amicably ai and justly settled. Monopoly must go. The advantages of a silver basis are w recognized and enjoyed by China and 0' Mexico. These countries are prosper- m ous, especially is this true of Mexico. a' Congress knocked out the prize fight- al era in a day's time. Now. why not ei stop the money power? But the prize gi fighters had no boodle to put up. See? How many sensible men will the w promises of the old party leaders de- a celve this fall? They have been tried it and tried, and done nothing they pi promised. A Our Democratic Secretary of the In- m terior asks for an appropriation of $45. 000 to buy reindeer to turn loose in h Alaska. A fair specimen of present di Democracy. The gold power says that intrinsic ti value makes money, when all reform- 2, era and the highest authorities and P courts have and do declare that law b makes money. iJ Dog wrestling and chicken fighting for money continues undisturbed, and 13 our "heroie young Christaln Cover- b nor" is as mute as a mouse would be at a feline fandango. There cannot be too thorough an or ganisation of the reformers of this state. The gold conspiracy must be D overthrown, and it requires a major ity of the votes to do It. The cent per cent gang in the east- y ern states have had their way long g enough. The South and West will t vote together for their mutual inter- e: ests, whclh is as it el ould be. e Among other things that the money power are determined to do, is to fund nI our Federal bonds into 100-year gold th bonds, and thus change them from coin ti bonds, and perpetuate the debt. N Walt and see it the Democratic can- c didates for county officers. don't tell u the people that there Is no polities In el county oces. If there is not, then E why do Democrats want said oflces? I Be it remembered that a dollar In 1~61, when we had $60 per capita In circulation, would pay as much debt 1i as the 200-cent dollar of to-day will; fI our eirculation now being about $9 per capita, a Chauncey M. Depew, the agent and spokesman of the Vanderbilts, has been alicted with runnnlag off at the mouth since Tillman delivered his fa mous speech in the senate. He is quite p Every principle of the Republican and Democratic parties have been grafted into the laws and policies of ' this nation; therefore there is no ne ceassity for their existence. Of what y use are they? I1 e The questies with every prodeucer is: 1i Shall I be a freeman or a slave? The r action of the goidbugs has made the a money question the question, yet we ti should not lose sight of land and trans portation reforms. a The deAeeney eoetinues to pile up. on our "heroe Toung Christian gov- b ernor," and the mudaill people gre sav- d Sng thelf tax soobipts. It required T more money to get said receipts this g y er t vn eaer before. Ed. Eager Queer Ni la delag his best to mak the lgolugs believe that he is with them ard the free silver PDemocratbtelieve that he is with them. Milts hi' loweieo hi '2ee to a tlatl It it Cdiag to see writeups. mu a Democratle candidates who a . bore sv the war, contatnlpag ul hhr" iteao j. Whkthb that a i l'tt , th premsst emiltiost llI a want pleaty of ond, good moner l l, .,tem. teseatlcm., t ,r m, t 'ibd.;theji ed rsgtiv :pmsty ens/te 4 s~.~ ~,eese waam aisi,. ma. s " Ss. 'herv ,sv* *it be ime, i i H- Wbw bum .... . .. - '; , ' " . . . : . _ , • . , So soon as a county ticket is nomi nated that moment each candidate be. comes an active worker for Populist principles. a "he evils of which the people com plain, the injustice, the favoritism of f the law, can only be changed by chang Ing the men that hold office, and thus t put the principles of the People's party into effect. No reform will ever come through the old parties, nevw They are joined to their idols. The good people of Alabarb will a make a desperate effort this fall to overthrow the ballot box stufiing de mocracy and Texas must do the same act in many counties. The political conscience of a Democrat is of rubber, and he can and wlIn stretch it far enough to count his candidate in. Or ganize. Populists, organize. In 1866 a 500-pound bale of cotton was worth $210. A farmer could buy a given bill of supplies for $32.96, leav ing him $177.05 In cash. In 1895 a 500 pound bale of cotton was worth $25. A farmer could buy the same bill above mentioned in qualit) and amount for $9.45. leaving him $15.55 fn money from his bale of cotton. Do you see any difference? When the Hon. John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, Aug. 2, 1776, be said: "There must be no pulling different ways, we must all r hang together," to which Hon. Ben jamin Franklin, who was standing by, replied: "Yes, we must all hang to geth'er, or we shall all hang separate ly." -so it is with us Popolists and brother reformers, we must act as one I man at the polls. And now comes the Hon. John H. Reagan In an open letter inviting and urging Populists to return to the Democratic party. Well, hardly. We all remember the spider and fly epi sode. Come to us, judge. We'll treat you right, and, as to defeating the goldbug Democrats, we'll attend to I them. All of the free silver Democrats except the leaders in and out of of fice will vote with us. The gold oliarchy want all treasury notes taken up and bonds issued in I their stead; the perpetuation of the na tional banking system; our currency to be controlled by corporations, and to consist of gold, bank notes and silver as a subsidiary 'money (to make change with); in other words, the English system of finances. Are you in favor of it? If not, you should vote the People's party ticket. a Hon. James G. Dudley is out in a t long article showing (to his satis ; faction) that he is right and that the r "sona' munney" oyster roast crowd are all wrong. Just fight it out, gen tlemen. The Populists will stand to one side in complacency and watch the result. In the meantime the silver Democrats, the reformers in the Demo cratic party, barring the leaders In Sand out of office, are joining the Peo ple's party. Barney Gibbs put it down about right when he said that the leaders of "both the old parties continue year after t year bellowing and pawing up the dust like two piney woods bulls that never either fight or grow any bigger. It Is a perpetual game of cussing the I rascals out and cussing the rascals in Sand never letting the people vote on a the issue ltelf by itself." We are "leader" ridden, "leader" cursed and almost ruined by "leaders." p Senator John Sherman in his late - book, page 254, vol. 1, says: "Silver - dollars were not in cireulation in 1861. I Their issue was provided for at the be I ginning of our government; but, asi they were most of the time more vain able than gold coin of like face value, Sthey were hoarded and exported." Yet he atands in the United States to-day rand dghts every proposition to re I. monetise silver. What'should be done with suceh men? I John Sherman In his book, pages 8I aI and 178, referring to the greenbaclks In , ISGS, sa: "All of this money was in i settie elralation, ad in great favor I amalg the people, and rapidly risling , In value compared with coin. It was Sthe least burdensome oram of Indebted idU 'tpls alatung The tresaur notes 4 an ompound-inherest noteq were, in express terPas, payable in this lawful ihoney," yet tb-day h sindS' for d' adig hgLii dtidard. a ·a4l a·ptuion of glver Republi F4. says r Wa.,hpj.zits il'eri SI~thL and Watehmaa, who' are'-mt williag to sell their country for wlitt the goldites will give them, 'either ti Sthe shape of ofce or money, to the -ui tlhat the Repabilesa pIty, by Its re ord, Is a single gold standard Pirty. Tl h o Inot adiIl It mst be a ldle , to the rear Reed, Idarte, eile, H !rso a adlema, bemans mo Oem t ma goqsusdothesidejity ofat of these estleads to the 3aglk 5lI etmai Sina: Theft vebiam t62metrgu i -* ir timet bes besns to oftn I tated to admait i thalghtat b, i What Rebtlesa epeets to bsat aU ir 9 a W? -- ... LOUISIANA NEWS NOTES. Al t The street crossings at Shreveport 2-yes ate being put in order. Shreveport is to have a new building mothe f for Caddo engine house No. 1. whid The Democrats, of IAfayette parish, house I have split and will run two tickets. bird A lodge of Odd Fellows was institnt- Wher ed at Alexandria a few nights since. dropF hews The State Dental Society met at New Orleans recently with a good attend- Mala t ance. From The Michigan editors stopped over at New Orleans and took in the car- The nival. t New Orleans "cops" arrest a gambler ally 4 occasionally, and a burglar everytime trat they can. are f Burglars and sneak thieves are still those quite energetic and successful in New dread Orleans. mitte Charles Prados cut Charles Long in a the neck at New Orleans recently and damp made his escape. Mei e Twelve prisoners were taken from a r Shreveport to the "pen" at Baton aIlme Rouge the other morning. Idae The people of New Orleans are now any talking about street paving as well as has I political, municipal and state. vona John Rousseau, alias Mustache, a stay. p tough negro, stabbed and instantly them killed a harmless negro named Dan store Bird in the Blue Goose saloon, No. 912 Mr. Poydras street, New Orleans, the other dnc eening. its it Near Newellton, a gin, with about OcCUI d 100 bales of cotton was consumed by that e fire the other night. It was the pro- bust, perty of Mrs. M. B. Douglass. The gin alwa year, and cotton was partially covered by very insurance. tion f e A few days ago in Jefferson parish, um e Louis Bares, in a fit of jealousy, out pose. the throat of Miss Agnes Bits. hib Willi t sweetheart, resulting in her death, and ter c e then ended his own life by cutting his impr o own throat. ther a A monument will be erected at he h - Thirbodaux to the memory of the late go Charles M. Menard, who presided as .. priest of the St. Joseph's Catbolle dige church at that place for more than and fifty years. tolay a At Thibodaux recently whilst an cone] 0 octogenarian colored woman nampd t r Clarisse, residing on St. Charles street, I col e was kindling a fire by the use of coal ' * e oil, her clothes canght Are and burned lik a her so badly that she died in a few atom hours. ton, At Plaquemine, a few days ago, in clam the district court Willie Zenon.olored. grati a notorious sneak thief, was sentenced Pills ' to the penitentiary on three different Mr s charges of larceny, geting six months in t on one and three months on each of now the others. D. The other nigt sacriligious thieves Coli attempted to break into St. Theresa' year church, corner of Camp and rats dysp streets, New Orleans, by cutting away tob a portion of the door. They then at- trom tempted to pry it open with a crowbar diet but failed. t Lee Colvin was shot and dangerous- oat 1 h ly, if not fatally, wounded by Dan . Stevenson, as the result of a quarrel e at a dance some fifteen miles north- has vest of Monroe the other night. Bad blood existed between the young men and a for some time. shat n Probably the cleverest hotel snesak f a in the country is new io prison at New c Orleans, and with so much damaging i a 1 evidence against him, that it is more than likely that James Raymond, alias Fe u Kelly, alias Wilson, ails the "Artful cone tr Dodger," will serve some years in the build 1. atate penitentiary. ran, " At New Orlens, Ernest Erslew, a yar a brakeman on the Northeastern road, elect Iet with a horrible fate the other at , morning while in the discharge of his out t daties Eralew was thrown from the toe o a box car on which he was rid nlg, and his body fell directly beneath L1 the wheels. He was horribly mangled sdi and death was lnstataneous. or ot At 4 o'cook the other morning a maiL a Are was discoered in the drying kiln a of Mr.Jules D'lbhod's aw mill. about r two miles from Gibesoono theSoatherasey g Pac$Ac mrilroad. A brisk wind was - u blowng, eand the ire could not be a •ltnguished, sad the kiln and a lot of a salas were pmonam ed, valued at a ,0g. No Iloriatlo uas to in3r* Over al sea m i 'At New Orleas the otther morping Su while a nesmo ad Wllie Randalls meat ws aleep lai his bed at his home, another nqro named Will Muora, Salias Mexleal Kid, entemied his room TI and cat him tour time about the body with a pocket halkfe, iaLctlg m pai au al W . Murray e aed. the F. e yield k At artv a .fe dayes alam a ma b I, same fem ChiJgo, Ill., and 'h i a 4 er ab Uho Bs bee working -· Sas his trad sthat pledl5e d . duly. He wasn s as pyrse at 1 1 a bad ais - wbt him, and from inter. Yetr * matism oelaine tree a letter found -nd Inb his poket,, ite hack about sews U .r elgbt yers, o h spr u a dsnr Hi , Irviesg qgw cam beeq.ue S tlK o e . t s.. What a Pet Lagi Did. A pet eagle recently picked up the 2-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. I.. Morrison of Gaineville, Fla., and car ried him 70 feet in the air before the mother's eyes. The young eaglets,. which were in the eagle's nest near the house, began to scream and the mother bird turned and slowly descended. When 40 feet from the ground she dropped the boy in a cedar bush, and he was not seriously injured. Malaria mo the Mississippi Bottems. From the Banner-Democrat, Lake Providence, La. The swamp lands along the banks of the Mississippi river in Arkansas. Mississippi and Louisina are gener ally considered very unhealthy in con trast with the hilly country adjoining them. It is here the germs of malaria are formed, and from which originate those terrible malarial chills and fevers which the people of the low couptries dread. In addition to these are inter mittent and remittent fevers, dyspep sia, Indigestion and rheumatism, all caused from malarial germs and the dampness of the atmosphere. Medical science has been put to its utmost capacity to devise some mode of treatment by which these physical allments can be moderated, if not erad icated, but so far it has failed. Nor does it seem that there can be found r any cure for these symptoms. Such has been the general opinion until re cently, when Dr. Williams' Pink Pills found their way here, and came to stay. Today those who have used them say they would not do without them for all the medicines in the drug stores. Mr. Dan. O'Sullivan, Sr., is a promi nent citizen of this city, Lake Provi dence, La., and has been identified with its interests for years. At present he t occupies an important position on the City Council and is also secretary 9f that body. He was once a strong, ro bust, healthy man. full of vigor and 1 always on the go. Within the last year, however, his health has been very bad, his appetite poor, his diges tion poor, in fact, his entire system was completely out of order. He began to use various medicines, but to no pur t pose. At length he decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. In a few days the change for the bet ter could be noticed. He continued to a improve so fast, that the proprietor of the Lake Providence Banner-Democrat interviewed him and asked him what t he had been taking to put him in such * good shape again. His reply was in substance as follows: "My liver was all out of order, my c digestion was very bad, I felt sluggish and did not want to do a thing but lay around the house. My blood began to get thin, and I felt sick all over. I a concluded to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, as I had heard so much about them. After taklng them a few days L, I could feel that they were doing me I1 great deal of good. I continued the use of them, and in a week or so I felt like a new man. They toned up my r stomach, put my blood in good condi tion, gave me a good color, a good appetite, in fact, put me in a first Sclass shape again. My friends con i, gratulated my return of health, and I smiled when I told them that Pink Pills did the work." t Mrs. D. H. Parker, who was raised SIn the olty of Lakt Providence, but who now resides in Greenville, Mississippt. also uses Pink Pills. Her husband, Mr. D. H. Parker, a popular traveling salesman of the Drummond Tobacco Company, of St. Louis, says that for Syears his wife had been suffering from a dyspepsia and indigestion, that she had to be very careful what she ate, and would frequently have severe spells from being a little imprudent in her r diet. She mt for some Pink Pills, took themi and is now well and strong, and can eat any and every thing with out belag affeoted in the slightest man aer. She is loud in her praies of Dr. Willams' reat remedy. She also suf I tered from rheumatism, and that too, has left her. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life a and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves They are for sale by I all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, SIlchenectady. N. Y., for 5 cents a box, Sr six boxes for $2N. s Cerstasy he wiul. s Felix Moral, a German. has got a I concession from the shah of Persia to a build a railroad from Bagdae to Tehe ran, the concession to last seventy-five yeara. He has the right to make his own rates, and use either steam or electricity, as he pleases. They say Sthat he is going to make biMg money outof it. A ever Law. The English law imposes a fine of £10, or 12 months at hard labor, for Ssending an ,"indecent print, book, card or other indecent article through the SmaiL" By the k Li jImurities pas of harm I ley. The IsaCtvty of the acgaos named eat oly eaem these imperIties to remain and pis the system but also leeds to mthe de. leieUSa sod dursectlc of the ergann Llmmm pmretss lhrighs's dlsease dsa t e psd y, grave~l saod ether ailments t the kid6ee ar a blder wit Ioete(tr's Stomach itters. wbh likewise evertemes malarial, dsPeptic tilUlous. net vous ad rheumatie comlaints. S Suceess does not mean happiness; it 5 ieaens an umusual number of enemies. W Os wUD'S EA5LE3Wr rfrATO. SThat's Salser's Earliest. t for use ia St days. SeIer's new late tomato, SChampion of the World, is pronounced t he aviest yielder in the world, and we challenge you to rodue its equal! 10 acres to Saiter's Eariest Potatoes Syield 4000 bushels, sold in June at $1.00 a buuel--0 0. That pays. Aword to the wise, etc. New If y wi eat this t ea t ad se it With 10e postage you will get free, 10 packages grains and grasses, in cluding Teosinte, Lathyrus, Sand Vetch, Giant Spurry, Giant Clover, etc., ad our mammoth seed catalogue w.a SHow every married man hates cupid, h if he wa~ uiatalk .