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Sutxmbxt in favor of natiooaliaiag
be liquor tnffie is crowing- rapidly. ,'
Mowc votes ia what we aeed, and
low is the time to hustle for them.
Tax peop'e of this country are free!
Pome of them are free to starve, leg
W steal.
As , tos as there are undevc'oped
resor-reesin this country there should
"be no idle hands.
Th democrats' are piling1 up great
loads of material for populists to use
in future campaigns.
This golditcs and the tariff barons
of the east hare "jined hands" and
a? ill control both old parties.
Grovkk Shkkuax and John Cleve
land offer no resistance to British dic
tation and British oppression.
tlF 1 1 I .1 .1
V .1 It a DfW (iy v ii uouu auu m
i - " v . , ii" T ' . n 1 -
t f . i ( at:u&ic i.ii ink i a i ii i in v u
i
to getjbelund with his fishing'.
IK plutocratic wings of the two
I parties have decided to erect a
i calf, but the people are to be
from yet.
eat and all kinds of produce
I never to cheap as now, yet there
lore hcngry people in the country
Fever before.
M, hs alnavs been a traitor in
f war and peace, yet there are
who want to make it the sole
Lndaxd of value.
(This first prominent American who
iiccnoabed to the British gold basis
Jmrnm Benedict Arnold. The last was
rover Cleveland.
That baby that was born at the
white house is just tike all other babies'
We wcslda't trade our baby for it and
fake all of G rover's fishing- tackle to
lltABINO HOUSK CERTIFICATES, IS-
liieby toe New York banks, are tax
k'.e at the rate of 10 per cent under
"?istiegj.aw.. 4t now remains t"
cn whether the law will be an
Irced or not A jug of buttermilk
(rainst a summer coon skin it wen t
tbsAiKUAH Tacbexeck don't talk
mucn but wnen ne noes ue aumc
thin; to the point. lie announces, in
m uncertain language, that the cur
rency question is the all important
one, in magnitude and importance,
. . .
and that there will be no compromises
it
jbje Northe n Pacific railroad has
nn into toe nanus oi a receiver.
i'lten the companies fail in the'r man
Vetnentof the roads they are put into
hands of the government to
rhten tbem out If the govern
owned tbem there would be no
J Winon is a thorn in the side
js Georgia democracy. ' Thej- now
1e th-t tfaey made a mistake
they defrauded him out of his
'a congress. He has gone before
p" in bis state and the prob
es are that the who e state wilt
to the party.
c way to relieve the unemployed'
art pnb ie works, employ them
.ythena with leral tinder paper
y issued by the government
1 the wealth producers refuse to
ais kind of money for what they
psell it is then time to talk
It not being good
Ik are 3,00, 000 men out of em
in this country. More than
V
t""""- 1'
subsistence. These do not
V-half enough to eat and wear.
jlion men. if at work, could
jCuOO per day. Working 300
I year, they would earn S'JCO,-
r more than enough to buy
Lied surplus which we expert
countries.
pl
lie are losing tneir respect
uaiog. When we consider that re
, t for the law is the only barrier to
jlntion, itisa condition that should .
Jtmand the attcn ion of every con-
vative citixen. The cause of this is
parent Corporations and combina-
bs set the example by ignoring the
; themselves. Then unjust laws
put upon the statute books through
3 uoet corrupt means. The laws
the most part are only enforced
iinst the poor. The injustice of all
ia so apa-ent that it is only a
'"er ofjTe when disrespect will
! 'tiea defiance and blood v
STEWART IS WITH US.
THE NEVADA SENATOR IS
OPENLY A POPULIST.
Was nonnt Republican Bnt Could
3ot follow tha Party's .edei
Writes a. Letter Sustaining- 11 il Po
sition. The following letter, frum senator
Stewart of Nevada, is one of those
clear, ringing arraignments of the
two old parties that cuts like a two
edged sword. It should be given a
I wide circulation by the reform press:
I'xitbI) States Sksate, )
Washington, I). C, Sept. 13, 1S93. f
Dr. C. Q. Nelson, Grove City. Ohio:
Dear Sin, Your favor of the 7th
instant is received. You inquire if I
am a populist. My answer is, that I
am. There is no other party in which
a true friend of the people can be use
ful. The democratic and republican
parties have both been betrayed by
their leaders. I became thoroughly
convinced that Mr. Harrison and Mr
Cleveland were both nominated by
the money power as soon as those
nominations were made an I their
platforms published.
I was a candidate for re-election to
the senate of the Un'ted States from
the state of Nevada. 1 could not
afford to deceive the people, who had
honored me so mucb, by asking a re
election as a republican. On my re
turn home from Washington I in
formed my constituents that I could
not support '.he republican nominee
for President, and that the demo
cratic nominee was no better than the
republican; that they both belonged
to and were representatives of the
bondholding gold monopoly of Lonclan
and New York, and that if either of
them were elected the power of his
administration wou'd be used to aid
concentrated capital to absorb the
earnings of the people, augment the
power of the oligarchy of wealth, and
reduce the masses to dependence and
wriat
1 canvassed the state of Nevada and
advised the people to vote for Weaver
and Fiold, the nominees of the Omaha
convention, as the only true repre
sentatives of the people's rights.
The platform of the Omaha conven
tion demanded the free and un
limited coinage of silver, and the dele
gates who composed that convention
were honest, earnest men, and meant
what they said. The people of
Nevada, without regard to former
political affiliations, believed as I did,
and cast more than two-thirds of their
votes for Weaver and 1-ield and elected
Francis G. Newlands, the free coinage
candidate for t oogress, by a still
larger majority. They nUo elected
every member of both houses of the
legislature pledged to the restoration
of silver. When the iegilaiure met 1
was re-elected to the senate of the
United States by a unanimous vote in
each house.
My statement that whichever was
eleeted, Mr. Harrison or Mr. Cleve
land, he would use the power and
paVronage oi the Presidential office to
destroy one-half of the metallic money
of the world was vehemently denied
by the friends of bo h. The truth of
my statement has been verified. The
President united with the banks and
bondholders to alarm the people as to
the sounduess of the money of the
government and created a panic. They
falsely proclaimed that the addition of
$iS0 000.000 of lesral tender money to
the circulation of the country nas the
cause of the panic they themselves
had creat d.
The President then declar d that an
extraordinary emergency had arisen
and calle I congress together to repeal
the Sherman net and nothing else.
The call increased the alarm and in
tensified the panic. The subsidized
press of all the commercial et nters
was made to declare that the people
demanded the immediate repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman net.
Silver was clandestinely demonetized
bj Ihe mint act of IsT.'J, since which
time an overwhelming majority of the
people of the United States have oeen
in favor of the restoration of the white
metal to the place it occupied for
thousands of years as a money metal
previous to' the crime of 13TU. No
party, state or national, dare
go Deforc the people soliciting
their suffrages upon a declaration jus
tifying or even palliating that crime,
bAt all parties claimed to be bimetal
ists and in favor of the use of silver
equally with gold. Some reeognit on
of silver was obtained by the legisla
tion of congress against vetoes.fede al
patronage and the influence of money.
The Bland act, requiring the purchase
of not less than two nor more than
four million dollars worth of silver
bullion per month for coinage was the
first: the so-called Sherman act, re-
im Twin" Co
IT WON'T DO. It won't work
quiring the purchase of four and a
half million ounces of silver bullion
per month by the issuance of legal
tender treasury notes, was the second.
At every congress since silver was de
monetized. A vast majority of the
democrats in each house were in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. Three bills for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver passed the
senate during Harrison's administra
tion. The first was passed June IT,
1S90: the second Jan. H, 1891; the
third. July 1. lS9i. The last was
passed after the nominations were
made and the platforms published.
A bare majority of the democrats of
the bouse, with the aid of a vast ma
jority of the republicans, have at last
obeyed the commands of Mr. Cleveland,
and passed the bill repealing the pur
chasing clause of the Sherman act.
The combined power of London, New
York and the administration at Wash
ington, aided by a subsidized press,
are now attempting to coerce the sen
ate and force the passage of the house
bill which ratifies the crime of 187a,
adopts the gold standard and precludes
any further use of silver as money.
The issue is mom -ntous. The suc
cess of the money powers means fall
ing prices, poverty and misery fcr the
masses. The question which the sen
ate is considering involves more for
weal or woe to the human race than
any question ever submitted 10 the
American congress. The press either
conceals or totally misrepresents all
that is said in behalf Of the people's
cause and publishes broadcast, w.th
llaming headlines, the hypoeritieil
and false pretenses of the repres nta
tives of capital that they are bimetal
lists and friends of silver, while they
are urging the repeal of the only law
which recognizes silver as money and
insisting by their votes and acts upti
the single gold standard.
It is the duty of ever patriot and
lover of his i ountry to rouse himself
to action anl resist the cruel aggres
sions and warfare which capital is
now makiDg against labor and the
producers of wealth. Defeat means
slavery, misery and want Victory
means the restoration of the rights of
the people guaranteed by the consti
tution, liberty and prosperity. Come
what may, I am enlisted in the war
tor the people's rights to th bitter
eud, whatever the result may be.
Your very truly,
Vii.i.iai M. Stewart.
THE CRY OF MILLIONS,
Seel see! a million idle hands.
Uplifted from the starving bands.
Imploring work, for bread they uea
Thomselves and little ones to feed .
Gold! gold! ten thousand men of wealth,
With loaded purse and burdened ihelf,
Are struggling hard for dollars more.
Of Mammon's yellow master ore.
Bread! bread! call hungry idle men.
Or give us work, you must, aud can;
Why should we starve while plenty reigns?
And millionaires make boundless gains.
Bonds! bonds! ten thTand bankers cry!
Hard times, wo tiien. w. i i!l defy,
With n oaey jlenty for tho u e.
In every business, kind. nd gi u-e.
Notes! Notes! The laboring classes cry,
From Uncle Sam, they'll help us out,
Greenbacks once made for soldiers' pay,
Are good enough to come and stay.
Work ! Work ' A million people ask
A paying, honest, living task.
To yield them just what most they need.
With which thomselves and babes to feed.
On ! On ! go rich, high, low and poor,
All through the one wide open door,
To find beyond a just reward.
All based uyou eacii one's record.
Right! ltigbt! I bear it from on high !
Twill plenty give and help us die
In peace, rejoice and mount and fly
To waiting mansions in the sky.
Eoitport, Mich. Oil Wu. J. Hill.
till it grots a new silver wheel.
J WASHINGTON NOTES.
I Senator Mills of Texas has made a
' speech favoring the unconditional re
I peal of the purchasing clause of the
j Sherman law. The (Jlobe-Democrat
' and other republican papers compli
ment the speech very highly, but all
sftch compliments will do the great
tariff reformer no goad a r.ong the
people of his own state,
j Judging from the howls sent up by
' the republican minority in the house
and the press, it would s;em that Czar
Crisp has succeeded Czar Heed. It
! makes the biggest 1 difference in the
world about what position vou oc
cupy. The majority can usually bear
' up manfully under the' woes and iris
I fortunes of the minority.
! The silver senators have beaten the
1 gold bugs to a standstill and the sub
sidized press is raising the cry that the
' mine owners are spending millions of
J dollars to defeat the repeal. However
this may be, it is not less honorable
than trading patronage for votes
against silver, a thing which the gold
bug press has ODenly indorsed,
j All this talk about cloture limiting
debate in the senate is nonsense
The senate has done without anything
of the kind now for nearly a hundred
years. If it is to be invoked now in
order to accomplish the infamous de
signs of Wall street the next thing in
order would be to descnatize the sen
ate. i
I The United States senate is discuss
. ing the problem of endurance. Tnere
I is no telling when this discussion will
end. The silver senators seem deter-'
. mined to prove to the country that the
i Sherman law did not drive gold from
. the country and if the vote is not taken
soon the gold that was exported will
) hare all touud its way bacU".
j When President Cleveland called the
' e-tra session of congress he evidently
: thought the house would at once pass
I the repeal bill and that the senate
j wonid concur and then he cou'd take
his regular fall hunt, but from present
appearances he will be obliged to put
off his fall hunt or take it in the win
ter. Senator Stewart of Nevada has writ
ten a letter in which he boldly declares
himself to be a populist He says
'there is no other party in which a
true friend of the people can be use
ful;" and adds that both Harrison and
Cleveland were nominated by the
money power.
Congressman McLaurins of So th
Carolina is giving the polit'cal bosses
considerable trouble. He believes in
carrying out the pledges of the party.
He says his state will never go demo
cratic again. It is in order to state
r!ght here also that l hare, are several
southern states that will not go demo
cratic again. While the bonce, through
its ways and means committee, is con
sidering the tariff question, there
don't seem to be that enthusiastic
gush, that patriotic sentiment, or that
'ean't-be-put-off" yearning for red ac
tion that characterized the democrcic
stump speakers before the election.
Senator Teller is leading the free
silver forces in the senate, and he
manages lo give the anti-silver men a
great deal of trouble. If the contest
does notfc ug elaei it will p'ace the re
sponsibility -of demonetization of sil
ver where ijf, "belongs.
The senate is stiH debating the silver
question and ls likely to for some time
yet There 'a 'e ijo'rules to limit the
debate and tSe silver senators seem to
have plenty to -jay on the subject The
anti-silver men' tare the majority, but
as the vote cannot be reached as long
as any senator" has anything to say on
the subject the result cannot be fore
told. '7 1. 1
THE BALLOT FIRST.
TAUBENECK TALKS AT AN IN
DIANA PICNIC
And Yells the rooole Some Wholeiome
Truths Why Cleveland la a Void
Standard Han The B total rower of
Wall Street.
Extracts of a speech delivered at an
l M. B. A. picnic in Park county,
Ind., Aug. 31: The next question is,
how are we going to secure these re
forms? Quietly sit down and wait un
til they come? No; that will never
do. These reforms must come through
the ballot box. Don't you know,
friends, that as voters we all have an
obligation to fulfill which we ought
not overlook. Our laws depend upon
how we vote, just as the shadow on
the wall depends upon the object
standing before the light. Voting is
like farming. We reap exactly what
we sow, and to-day we are reaping
the follies and mistakes sown ten, fif
teen and twenty years ago.
if we have bad laws and dishonest
officeholders, who is to blame? Our
politicians? Partly, yes; but the most
blame must fall upon the voters, be
cause they are clothed with .almost
supreme power to protect their interest
at the baliot box, and if they don't use
this power to their own advantage,
then they have no one but themselves
to blrne. Before we can have good
and just laws v, e must have good and
honest lawmakers, and before we can
have good and honest lawmakers we
must have wise and patriotic voters.
We will never have a change in our
laws until we make a change in our
voting. That must come first, and if
you can't do this, then don't complain
or expect any relief. At the ballot
box you voted this system of class laws
upon us, and there also is the only
place you can vote them off of us.
By legislation we received tne laws
which oppress us, and through legisla
tion alone can they be repealed- in a
peaceable way, and I, for one, will say,
that so long as we have a free ballot
no one has a right to think of settling
this question in any other way or at
any other place than the ballot box.
Keeausj if a good citizen violates a
bad law, it always encourages a bad
citizen to violate a good one, and it is
a thousand yes. a mil' ion times better
to prevent a crime than to punish one
Just as self-preservation is the first
law of nature, so the protection of our
interest, our welfare, at the ballot box
is the first duty of a voter. It is not
enough if we think right or talk right,
but we must act right and vote right
One vote will do more good toward
shaping the laws of our country than
a hundred resolutions or a thousand
petitions.
Why an independent political party
as we have had for sixteen years, em
bodying all the demands of organized
labor, should receive such meager sup
port from wage earners is hard to ex
plain. It is a singular fact that labor
ing men will go on a strike, with
nine out of ten chances against them,
endure privation, hunger and cold.
They will see their wives and
children suffer and almost starve
to resist' the encroachment of
capital, but when it comes to voting
they cringe like cowards before ward
bosses and vote against everything
they have been striking for. The
wage earner has but two things which
capital needs his labor and his vote.
If the laborer will give them his vote,
capital will so use it that they will
also get his labor for a bare existence.
So long as the wage earner strikes for
higher wages and vot -s for lower ones
they will continue to receive the treat
ment given them at Homestead, in
East Tennessee and by Judge Kicks in
Michigan. If they would vote the
way they march on labor day all
strikes would cease. ,
W. S. Morgan once said: "Labor
might as well try to take the kink out
of a grape vine by cultivating it than
to better their condition Dy voting
against their demands."
The Knights of Labor and the trades
uo-'ons have for twenty years peti
tioned cosgress and state legislatures
to abolish the convict labor system,
and what have they accomplished?
Nothing but to see their own free
labor reduced nearer down to the con
vict system every year. Had they de
posited their petitions in the ballot
box in the form of a ballot this system
would have vanished long ago.
So long as voters refuse to support
their interest and principles at the
ballot box, they have no moral right
to ask their representatives to support
them in congress or legislatures. No
man has a right to ask another to do a
thing which he won't do himself. To
Snd out what the people wazt, a poli
tician always consults the election re
turna That is his barometer by which
he registers publio opinion, and so
long aa the people continue to vote la
the same old channel, tbat long he
will legislate l the same old way.
Henry Wattoison not long ago said:
'It cost $100,000 to procure a seat in
the United States senate, 91,000,000 to
secure a Presidential nomination and
t5,000, 000 to elect-'
Does any one ror one moment think
that those who give their money to
conduct campaigns are doing so for the
good of the people? Don't you know
that when capital gives SI towards
electing a senator or President they ex
pect our laws to be so shaped that they
will receive five in return? Does
any one believe that Wall street
would have permitted Cleveland to be
elected last year without a pledge
from him that they could control the
financial policy of our government?
When capital contributes towards a
campaign fund, it does so not through
patriotism, but simply as a business
enterprise. What will be the ultimate
result if this is permitted to go on?
Does it mean anything good for the
weal th producer? Are we not drift
ing into the same channel that Rome
did before her fall, or France before
her revolution? If the centralization
of wealth destroyed the older nations,
will not the same cause have the same
effect with us?
It is time yes, high time
4 Vim t i )i tra.Hli ni-rtrl nroia ftwulrft In
the situation which surrounds them
and cease to be the tools of otters'
profit and the creaturesof others' pleas
ure. If the majority of voters in our
country are not interested enough in
their own welfare to throw their
petty pa ty prejudice aside for a com
mon cause, then it is only a
question of time until our republic will
be lost If the farmer, the miner, the
artisan and wealth producing classes
caunc stand united and banded to
gether at the ballot box for their own
good, then we will prove to the world
that we as a people are no more capa
ble of preserving our liberties and in
stitutions with the ballot than the
people of the older nations were with
out it But I believe when this con
flict between organized capital, and or
ganized labor squarely comes-before
the people, to be decided at the polls,
as come it must When the storm -meets
us low down on the horizon and
our political sky is overcast with
clouds, then I believe that the people
will rise in their majesty, as they did
in the past, and be wise enough to
know their rights, heroic enough to
conquer them, and generous enough
to extend them to others
OUR CONDITION,
According to Mr. Walker, a repub
lican member of congress from Massa
chusetts, the people of the United
States owe debts, public and private,
amounting to 832,000,000,003. We take
Mr. WiJker as authority because, com
ing from New England and being a
republican, he will not be accused of
placing the figures too high.
It is claimed by some that the rata
of interest on this indebtedness will
average 8 per cent per annum. But
to be entirely safe and conservative
for the purpose of this article, we wilt
place the rate at t per cent 3ix per cent
on 32,O0:,OOO,003 amounts to $1,020,
00a,003. Now whst will it take to pay
this interest? The corn crop of the
country in 1892 was l,6'i8,464.0O0 bush
els. If it brought an average of 40
cents per bushel, we have $651,385,600
as its total value. Our wheat crop the
same year was 519,490,000 bushels,
which, at an average price of 80 cents
a bushel gives us $415,593,000. Our oat
crop was 061,037,000 bushels; and at 25
cents per bushel we have $165,259,000.
Our gold mines produced $33,000,000
and our silver mines $75,000,000. Now
let us put the value of all these pro
ducts together and let us see how we
come out
Value of corn crop 851,38'5,65t
Value of wheat crop 415.5W.0OO
Value of oat crop 165.159,000
Value of gold crop 89,000,000
Value of ailver crop 75,0OJ,0OO
Total !...$l,3W,JJ3f,6CO
But the interest bill is ,(1,950,000,(00
; So there is a balance of $579,763,300
to make ip after giving up onr gross
products as above shown. To pay this
balance it will take our entire cotton
ana hav crops It is estimated that
two-thirds of this interest is paid di
rectly and indirectly to foreigners.
Now fr.ends, Americans, freeman,
how do you like n iu far as we have
gone? We select these great staples
for illustration, to aid the mind in
grasping the vas; proportions of the
burden upon us. If we reserve any of
these produ. ts for our own use we
have to make up therefor in some
thing else of equal valu-. '1 his debt
is row equal to one-half the entiru
wta'thofthe nation. It draws 6 per
cent and will double in twelve years.
The wealth of the nation increases a
the rate of only 3 per cent, and ben.e
will take twenty-four years to double.
Tl e -efore, the debt wi 1 double tw ee
while the wealth is doubling ence, and
at the end of twenty-foar years wiil
equal the entire wealth of the uattoeV