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Have the honest voters in the rank
and file of the democratic party
want it. It is wanted by the poli
ticians, and especially those who are
anxiously waiting at the pie counter;
and the ordinary mortal, whether he
be Populist or democrat, ia not par
ticularly interested in the gratifica
tion of their insatiable appetite for
office. Let them wait
IS THE LABORER ENTITLED TO THE
PRODUCT OF HIS LABOR.
At the Hyperion upon the anniversary of
Washington's birthday the Re. W. W. Mo
Lane, D. D.. in the oourse of hia address
said "that patriotism would lead to the en
actment and preservation of suoh laws as
would make possible to every man the pos
session of the produot of bis own labor."
At this point, amid the applause was a sharp
hissing from the right of the speaker who
turned sharply upon the nest of serpents
and said: "If any millionaire or his friends
wants to bisa that sentiment let him hiss.
The wealth of the world will not always
flow into the coffers of the few, but will bo
more justly distributed among the many
who produoe it." The People, March 4.
This circumstance occurred in the
city of New Haven, Conn. We ask
the reader to reflect upon the mean
ing of it Is every man entitled to
the product of his own labor, or is he
not? If not, who is entitled to the
product of your labor? Is there any
significance in the fact that a declar
ation like that of Mr. McLane should
be hissed in a publio meeting in the
city of New Haven? This is but one
of the straws which show the drift of
publio sentiment in these latter days.
Will its warning be heeded or will it
not?
Is spite of the bad weather and the off
year as well as the certainty of Mr. Grow's
election, he received within 26,000 of the
republican vote of Pennsylvania in 1892,
while his opponent reoeived 150,000 less
than the democratic vote of 1892. Capital,
Maroh 3.
It will be seen from the above that
the boasted republican majority in
Pennsylvania was not the result of
republican gains but of demooratio
losses. Pennsylvania democrats are
afflicted with "that tired feeling,"
and, as a consequence, in spite of a
republican loss of 26,000, Mr. Grow
goes in by an apparent majority
greater than the republican majority
of two years ago. What is therein
this for republicans to jubilate over?
Geo. L. Douglass and Ed Greer
are rivals for congressman at large
and the next republican convention
will be expected to decide between
sledge-hammers and dynamite as
preferable agencies of republican
success.
"The Dogs and the Fleas By One of the
Dogs."
This ia the title of a little book pub
lished by Douglas McCallum, of Chi
cago, in which the social questions of the
day are presented in a new and some
what novel light We cannot better con
vey a proper idea of the work than by
reproducing a part of one of the chap
ters. The dogs are made to represent the in
dustrial masses, and the fleas the para
sites who feed upon the fruits of their
industry. The chapter from which we
quote is very suggestive of the cause and
cure of vice, and contains a leeson that
may be more seriously considered with
profit.
The chapter first describes thcea doz
that have been driven by starvation and
the fruitless struggle for comfortable ex
istence into the lowest depths of deprav
ity. When the missionaries have ap
proached them with tracts and besought
them to reform and become honest and
respectable dogs they have retorted that
the fear of God does not satisfy hunger,
and have refused to be reformed.
Then there is another class of dogs a
little more fortunate that have managed
in some way to feed fairly well. These
are philosophical dogs, and they have a
theory that virtue and good conduct de
pend altogether upon "plenty of good,
victuals." Having secured a dog that
had met the misfortune of having a hole
shot in his ribs, thereby exposin? his
stomach, they resolved to experiment
with him to illustrate the truth of their
theory, and we will quote from the book
the result of their experiment:
"And it was so that they stretched
over the aperture a transparent mem
brane, on which they marked a gradu
ated scale whoee zero was located at
half fullness of xhe stomach; and they
called the instrument a conductometer.
"Into this stomach they injected, by
means of a funnel, a specially prepared,
nutritious food, and by means of the
scale they observed the relationship of
the dog's behavior to the food in bis
stomach. Now, it was observed that
when the quantity of his food was at the
zero line, he was just an ordinary dog,
with juat ordinary moral ideas; but for
every degree above zero he improved,
and for every degree below he deterior
ated. "When they injected two or three
above-zero degrees of food intohim, his
eyes brightened, and his moral percep
tions grew more acoute. At this point
they asked him: 'What is thine opin
ion of the commandment, "Thou ehalt
not steal?"'
"And he replied: 'It is an excellent
one; no dog ought to steal.'
"Then they filled him up one or two
more degrees and asked him the same
question. 'It is shocking to steal,' he
said, 'and the dog that does not know
the difference between meum and teum
ought to be made to do it with a club.
"Then they filled him full up. And a
glow of most beautiful intelligence came
into his eye; a most reposeful calm came
over his frame; a heavenly peace over
spread his countenance, and he dis
played a decided propensity to piety, and
an irresistible tendency to hold forth
like a fat-salaried barker, on the virtus
of contentment with one's earthly lot,
trust in God and the beauties of law and
order.
FULL.
"'What now is thine opinion of the
commandment?' they asked.
"'Oh, the unutterable wickedness of
theft and crime,' he replied, 'it is
abominable; it ia damnable; no law can
be too strinzsnt and severe against it;
and anyone guilty of breaking the law
ought to be hanged,drawn and quartered,
and fed to the beasts of the field and the
buzzards and vultures of the air as a
prey and a warning to others. Oht the
very contemplation of crime makes ma
shudder; do, oh do, change the subject;'
and a strong spasm of pain thrilled hia
frame from nose to tail.
"But when they allowed his supply of
stomach furniture to run low, the glow
of most beautiful intelligence went out
of his eye, the most reposeful calm came
off his frame, the heavenly peace went
off his countenance, and the propensity
to hold forth like a fat-salaried barker,
on contentment and trust in God, left
him.
"And when hia supply registered one
degree below zero, they asked him, 'What
no is thine opinion of the command
ment, "Thou shalt not steal?" '
"And he replied absent-mindedly:
Steal, steal? Well, it is not right to be
caught at it'
"But as it fell lower and lower, the
dimness of hia moral vision increased,
until at the lowest the starvation point
his eyes glared and bulged with a
ferocious insanity, and when asked then,
'Is it wrong to steal? What is the differ
ence between rnmim and UumV he vi
ciously cursed and snarled and snapped
at hia questioner, and replied that he did
not comprehend their idiotio jargon, he
wanted something to eat.
LrMPTY.
"All which, these philosophers said,
demonstrated that vice crime andein
(so-called) are merely symptoms of want
and poverty, and vacuity of the alimen
tary canal; and they boldly asserted that
a good sound gospel of comfort and
plenty, earnestly . preaohed would do
more in Ave minutes to cleanse the earth
of sin and All it with righteousness, than
all the barkings of all the salaried bark
ers, and all the sin suppressing machin
ery of clubs and ropes in the world would
do in 5,000 years.
"And when these words came to the ears
of the salaried barkers and the sin sup
pressors they were greatly scandalized,
said they never heard such blaspbemoui
and ungoapel talk. It was actually
bringing into contempt the sacred ma
chinery of vice squelching, which had
been incorporated by the state, hallowed
by the church, and had grown tarough
long years, and by the expenditure of
great wealth and invention, to the pro
portions of a national institution, and a
great vested interest. It was actually
insinuating, most wickedly, that there
was a si ort, simple and direct way of
attaining an object, which was a gross
insult to the memory of the heaven-
annotated Clubstocks, Elder Berrys,
Blatherskites, and other sanctified ones
whoee genius has invented the present
elaborately Involuted, cearohitsdi cca
glomeratsd and roundabout way of get
ting at it Bat, above all, it was a di
rect blow at the livelihood of thousand!
of good and moral dojs who were given
employment, at good feed, who would, it
this new-fangled and highly irreligious
gospel of victuals were adopted, be
thrown completely yea, completely,
brethren out of work."
In Mississippi.
They are called "Populists" In Miss
issippi, and they are making a wonderful
change in that benighted old state. In
the legislature, which has j ust adjourned,
Hon. Frank Barkitt, the prominent Al
liance man, stems to have been a leader,
for the New Orleans Picayune (demo
crat) quotes the leading democrat of that
body as saying:
"Frank Burkitt has more following in
this legislature than any five men here.
He has twenty odd Popuhtes at hia back
on all questions, and as many more mem
bers who claim to be democrats, almost
invariably vote with him. Whatever ha
says is law with his Populite following,
There is no real leader on the democratic
side. There are some forty or fifty of ua
who think we are leaders, but the trou
ble is we are without a following. We
have too many field officers on dress par
ade without any rank and file; in fact,
I might say, an army et major generals.
This is Burkitt'a legislature. All those
who favor the free and unlimited coinage
of silver do not vote with Burkitt, but
all those who vote with him favor the
free and unlimited coinaze of silver. If
you doubt this read the roll call on the
free silver resolution and on the opposi
tion to the caucus to elect penitentiary
commissioners. The fact is, the party is
badly demoralized."
Then the Picayune saw Mr. Burkitt,
and quoted him as saying:
"The financial question will be made
the leading issue in Mississippi, as it is
in the nation. Of course, our democratic
friends will declare themselves in favor
of free silver, but the silver question
will fall far short of covering the field
of financial reform which we shall open
to the people. Then, too, they will talk
tariff, tariff, and flaunt the Wilson bill
as it passed the house before their pa
tient and long suffering constituents, but
the storm of publio indignation has been
lulled by tariff 'makeshifts' about as
long as it is possible. The people are not
to be fooled with 'free trade powder in
a protected capsule.' They demand sub
stantial financial reforms, and are de
termined to have it or know the reason
why it is not accorded.
"Certainly our party will nominate a
stat tioket next year, unless the de
mocracy of this state should do that
which has been unheard of in these lata
years, namely: Formulate a platform
'which says what it means and means
what it says,' embodying a policy pi
motive of the best interests of the peo
ple, and place men upon it whose past
records command the entire confidence
of the farmers and workingmen, as well
as the business men. No Wall street
satellite, national bank advocate or ma
chine politician, can have the field to
himself for any office in this state, from
school trustee to governor. Senator
George, by his course in congress since
the calling of the extra session, has made
friends among our people,but we scarcely
expect, on account of his age, that he
would aspire to a re-election, and if he
should he would moat likely be antago
nized by his own party. We will main
tain, as best we can, our party Integrity
and vote for a man who believes produc
ing west and south should no longer be
dominated by the plutocratic e&at"
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