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Catalogue of Carpers.
Communicated.
They are not all with ua yet; there are
several varieties that we haven't got,
and each variety contains several indi
viduals. Taere ia the man who is deaf
and can't read, we haven't got him nor
any of his family. Bat he ia a scarce
article; and while our sympathies go
out to him, yet for the present we must
be content to let him find an asylum in
some more ancient party, some party
that was young when he was in full
possession of his faoulties. Then there
ia the man who refuses to listen and
who won't read; we haven't got him
either. And the fellow who is too lazy
to think, he isn't with us. The very
mention of reform makes him tired. To
catch up with the advance thought of a
new party would worry the poor soul to
death. He gets hold of some cheap,
meaningless phrase suoh as "principles
of democracy" or "republican doctrine"
and he crones it over to himssl f until he
falls asleep. He has learned the old
phrase by heart and it costs him no ef
fort to repeat it, and as it means any
thing or nothing, he expends no mental
force in trying to comprehend it.
Then there is the man who is a half
brother to the lazy man, he is the timid
man. The thought of the work that the
Populists have laid out for themselves
scares him out. He would like to be
with us if we would only be satisfied
with telling the railroad companies that
they ought to be ashamed of themselves
for charging so much freight, and then
if that didn't make the companies put
their fingers in their mouths and haag
their heads with shame, to reduce the
rates by law at least 5 per cent. But
government ownership or controlthe
very thought staggers him.
If the Populists would only ask to
have things changed just a little bit a
little more money, a little less tariff, a
little more time, say thirty days on fore
closures, a little less boodling, a little
less interest, he would join the ranks.
But we are too radical for him now, it
scares the poor timid soul to think of it.
So he and his half brother, the man who
is too lazy to think, get together and
the one starts up his tune of "principles
of democracy," or "republican doctrine,"
and the other softly hums "go slow" till
they hypnotize each other, and while in
that condition they cast their ballots on
the other side.
Then there is the man who wants to
belong to all the most fashionable insti
tutions, we haven't got him yet. He is
the man who always joins the most
fashionable churoh or society and deals
at the most fashionable place. He never
starts anything, nor never leads, but is
content to tag along behind, provided
there is plenty of glitter and style in
the procession. He and the lazy man
and the timid man will all come to us
when we don't need them.
There is the man with his belly against
the pie counter, don't count him in, for
even. if the pie is all gone before it
reaches him he will sniff the next batch
baking and wait for that. Ha has put
in the beet part of his life leaning
against that counter and it would be
cruel to ask him to leave it now before
he gets a pie. Lit us try to get along
without him. We couldn't use him if
we had him. We haven't any of the
kind of work that he is used to. He
"fixes" votes for a living and leans
against the counter for recreation.
Another specimen who doesn't see any
virtue in reform movements, and con
sequently isn't with us, is the "wor
shipper of light ancestral,' who "makes
the present light a crime." He is al
wsy looking back over lab ehguldcr,
and the reform party ia not back there.
He is the kind of a chap that measures
the value of all institutions by their age.
He wouldn't join a brass band without
first counting the wrinkles on the horns,
or a lynching party unless it was founded
on the Jeffersonian principles of democ
racy. He wages constant and relentless
war on all new fangled institutions and
the mention of a new political party
rouses his religious ire as something
sacreligious. If his great grandsons
take after the old man we will get them.
Then there is the man who is pros
perous, or who thinks he is. He is work
ing like a slave and living like a bar
barian and is actually surprised to find
that he is getting a little ahead. He
never expected bo much prosperity. He
won't join the calamity howlers. No, sir!
If his neighbors don't get along it is
their own fault, he thinks. Ten years
ago he had nothing, now he is worth
$1,000. He can't see that he has dons
hard work enough and lived mean
enough to be worth $10,000. Ha would
be satisfied to shovel gold out of a mine
all day and let somebody on top of
ground steal the biggest share of it, just
so that he could find a few dollars lying
around when he crawled out in the even
ing. He is a hopeless case, and it would
be impossible to loosen up his hide
enough to make room for a broad gauge
idea. Nature never intended him for a
Populist, in fact she made a mistake
when she made him a voter at all
Then there is the man who has been
set down on and the man who has been
kicked out; they are both out to stay,
thank the Lord. They both feel sore
and have gone to the republican sani
tarium for treatment, and we have no
fear but they will receive the proper
treatment
The fellow who wants to run things,
the man, who would sooner be first in
some republican township primary of six
than seoond in a Populist caucus of 100,
isn't with us. He is on the outside
looking in over the fence and wishing
that he hadn't kicked so hard against
the new party in the start. He tried to
be a leader at one time, but he led in the
wrong direction. He went one way and
the crowd went another. The only way
that he can lead now is to get in the rear
and follow up. He ia waiting for the
party to about face and march back so
that he will be in the lead. Let him
wait.
Then there ia the man who gets his
ideas ready made, and gets a new batch
from every man he talks to. He is so
uncertain that it is hardly safe to put
him on the list of "doubtful" for he
may be "solid" against us to-morrow.
After enumerating all those we still
have left the man whose financial inter
ests keeps him out. He belongs to the
class that the Populist party was organ
ized to fight, and it could hardly be ex
pected that he would help to kill the
goose that lays the golden eggs for him.
So we can count him on the other side
till the inclemency of the weather places
the icy shield over the region of torrid
temperature. He was born, bred and
stall-fed in older parties and there he
will stay. There may be a few other in
dividuals on the outside that are a cross
between two or more of those already
mentioned and also a few unclassified,
but the more conspicuous and numerous
ones have been given. None that have
been mentioned are rare plants; any
community can furnish specimens of
each. Con Healy.
Say the rich, through their militia, to
the poor: "If you don't starve quietly we
will kill you and make you keep quiet."
And the preparation to do it is going on
day and night all over the country
csa aauy pre? ycsur & j;n.
A Conflict ot Opinions.
Editor Advocate: I sea in the Ad-
Y0CAT2 of February 23 the address of
the national committee, and I must con
fess that I was greatly surprised at the
construction they plaoe upon the finan
cial plank ot the Omaha platform. They
state that they are in favor of establish
ing a fiaanoial s stem that ia striotly
American, and deolare that the issue is
made by the declaration in the Omaha
platform in favor of the free coinage of
gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1
and the issuance of standard money ex
clusively by the government without the
intervention of banks. They then pro
ceed to say that this legal tender stan
dard money is to be redeemed in metal.
Now I don't know where (hay can find
anything in the Omaha platform that
would or oould by any kind of twisting
construed to have any such a meaning
and I protest against any such construc
tion by the managers of our party. The
dollar that has to be redeemed by some
other dollar ia not a dollar at all and is
only a device to enable those who can
control the redeeming dollar to levy
tribute upon the people. If we are to
have a purely American system of finance
why not make all forma of our circulat
ing medium absolute money redeemable
in nothing but receivable for everything,
and a full legal tender. Let this be is
sued by the government and let the
demand for its use determine the vol
ume oramount.
I have always thought that such a
system was what the Omaha platform
demanded, and I think the great maaa
of the People's party so understand it;
and if there is to be a different construc
tion placed upon the finanoial plank I
think there will be some kicking done
by some of the most ardent workers in
the party. I would like to hear from
the Advocate and others on the subject
Q. A. Baldwin.
Goes II Ira One Better.
Editor Advocate: Your issue of
February 23 contains an article on "Gov
ernment Banking," by J. C. Buppenthal,
jr. Speaking of the bill in the hands of
Rspresentative William Baker, he says:
"It provides for banks in every county
seat and city of over 10,000 inhabitants."
County seat of 10,000, eta? If so I
would provide that every county polling
1,000 votes should be entitled to a bank,
to be located at the county seat, for the
poorly settled portions of our country
are as much entitled to the conveniences
and necessities for carrying on business
as the more settled parts.
He also says: "The cashiers are to be
elected by the communities in which the
banks are to be located." Well, that de
pends. The spirit of that is all right,
but who does not know that the man
who can carry the larger vote is not al
ways the better educated not even well
educated? Our civil service examina
tions seem to be a farce, and yet it seems
that a cashier, elected by the people,
ought to be submitted to some test ot
his qualifications. I indorse the govern
ment banking as all right Government
could run a bank as well as to issue
money orders and postal notes at the
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