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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. MANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1896. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. THE PEOPLE'S CAUSE. Forestspringfarm, Libertyville, Ill., Aug. 12, 1896. To the National Bimetallist: I have opposed free coinage of sil ver until I was aliost forced to in vestigate the question six months ago. Then I was on the fence until the bankers began to "draw in their funds" and the Henry Clews and the Slaughter circulars came out. Now I am writing and talking to free my country from the consequencesof the gold wrong of '73 and the danger threatened it by the money power. Theseself-constituted paternalistshave tricked and hoodwinked this ingeni ous people and filled their coffers off their hard earnings so long that they really seem to consider us their pe ons, their serfs, their slaves. That this United States is their's and that we, the tillers of the soil, the miners and the mechanics, are now allowed to work here for a poorer and poorer living and that the rest of the earth belongs to them to luxuriate and feast and drink and revel in. I did not think their greed and presump tion would lead them this far. I have known how.matters were drift ing but did not think their greed and presumption would lead them this . far. Will I -it here at my ease while my people are being plundered and pillaged and sold out to England by a lot of greedy, selfish, cruel, narrow minded money sharks and tories? On, no! I can tell Henry Clews and the likes of him and Chauncey De pew and the likes of him-all the money-bags and their consciousless hired men, that they have gone too far. There is patriotism left in this country. They have aroused thou sands and tens of thousands of in telligent men of independent fortune, men of the West and South and East who will not let England by the aid of her American allies bring this in genious sovereigg people to the con dition of her starving, fawning mil lions. The fight is on and we are in it to the finish, whatever that finish may be. I can see and hear and feel that tall Virginian delivering the Declaration of Independence. I have letters from men of the West and _East who think as I think and feel nasi feel. The great financiers of London and Wall. Street have been forging chains for this people for these manky years, but they shall not 7 put them on. If Boss Hanna's com -mittee on finance were worth five thousand times five hnndred millions they should not put them on. We will drive them from his temple of liberty first. Money is a mighty ) power, but it has reached its might iest mightiness. What ! this people to be ruled by an oligarchy of gold ? Oh. no! This blessed land of War j~~raTyrand Henry and Paine "and Washington and Paul Jones and Lincoln shall be ruled by tens of millions of patriots. They propose to elect by their ballots incorruptible servants to the presidency. and to the house of representatives and to the senate who will undo the unconstitu tional trickery of '73 and make just laws for the,whole people. They will first give us the money of the consti tution, the money that whipped Eng land, the money that helped the na tion and the people to prosper. What will you do, Mr. Henry Clews ? I would sit at the scanty board of the yeoman who is clearing a way the forest or breaking the prairie sod, or the mechanic who is pounding at the forge while the sweat drips from his honorable brow to provide a home for his wife and children and feel honored, while I would look upon you and your gold and its power with disdain and contempt since you sent out that inhuman, unchristian circular. Was it the likes of you who gave us our independence from Eng land, ever the enemy of my country, or who whipped her in 1812? No ! but it was your crowd and the six or seven in Congress with Sherman at -their bead who gave us single gold standard, which has enabled her to - whip us terribly for twenty-three years and to very nearly ruin this nation and people and now when they desire to undo your mischief you-would say, "too late, your chains are forged, if you squirm or try to hold up your heads and do not now submit we will starve and ruin you and the nation itself by the power of the wealth which we have wrung from you by means of the law of '73." You have nearly ruined the best plant that was ever set up, set up by the wisest and best body of men that has assembled on this earth to form a civil government. You have plunder ed it and would now bankrupt and starve its workman. You shall be stopped in your mad career for gold and nower. You have flattered and intoxicated and euirnpped and corrupted our secretaries of the treasury at your dinneia in New York. You shall do it no umwre-youa and your crowd. We have a champion clean and pure and wise and incorruptible as Lin coln whom your wine will never in toxicate nor your flattery nor your gold corrupt, who will save us from your uholy trickery. You can force repudiation on a most honorable debt-j'o ing, law abiding people and you possibiv can force revolution as oligareLies have done in other coun tries on a people who only want jus tice,-but before you attempt to carry outyourthreat-you and your crowd I would advise you all to send your funds on ahead and prepare to take a hasty leave of this country ar Tories have done before. You and your crowd can stav in this country while you behave yourselves and have the rights and respect you deserve like other citizens, but when you attempt by your circular you must go to "Yurup." I know your crowd. I have studied your thoughts and assumptions and ambitions by personal contact. If it has come to this, that you are to rule this country by greedy, relentless avarice or we are to have a sbakeup and commence again, I am for the shakeup. I am only telling what would be done were you to attempt to carry out your threat-you and your crowd. But you will not do it. You are the biggest cowards on earth. You may talk wisely of the finances of this country which means how you can make most and raise a lot of money, millions to corrupt and buy up your fellow citizens, but I and others will tell the people to take your illgotten "funds" and vote you down anl you will go down and count your loss and loan your gold and take in Daddy Dollars and gold dollars as in terest and serve the purposes for which you were created-you and your crowd-which is not to rule this country. I was not intending now to write you a letter, Mr. Editor, for publication, but I have been prompt ed to try this much by the following circumstances. Two days ago a law yer friend in Chicago who, like my self, has become a Bimetallist recently, sent me some of your papers, in one which has Henry Clews' circular. I am a farmer and want some new milch cows. Yesterday I went to a dealer who said he had none to suit me, but that most any of the farmers would sell me their best cows. I asked him how that was, since we have so much feed which we can sell for hardly anything. He replied that the farmers are very poor and will sell anything to get a little money. This morning my next neighbor came to me and said he wanted me to talk to him about this money ques tion. He is a hard working, intelli gent man-a republican-owns his farm and lives as closely as any man should. He said he had looked over his assets and finds he has not so much as he had five years ago, and was beginning to think something must be wrong. He said all the farm ers were thinking the same way. Many of them have told me the same thing. Then I thought how for many years the tillers of the soil and other workers have toiled and lived on less and less and have been getting poor er and voorer. No wonder they are getting suspicious of their gold standard hired newspapers and want information. Then I saw in the pa pers that the great Hanna had in Union League Club, New York, or ganized that famous $500,000,000 finance committee. These farmers say this is a good country and as a whole must make money. Where does it all go. WE who own our farms and live close are getting poorer all the time. 0 1he gold standard. men are organu izing clubs (pretty little bits of men most of them) to educate the people. I get their weeklies. I can say to you, Mr. Editor, that if education goes on, and there is time enough, McKinley will not carry a congress. ional district, much less a State, and there a-re people in Chicago whc know I have been something of a politician. They better look out for Lake dounty. Several of the most prominent republicans are pronounc ed for Bryan and I know others are leaning that way. I think I canitruth fully say that I know thispeople from the Atlantic to the Pacific as well as any living man and will, in closing, advse Henry Clews and his crowd to go a little slow.-C. C. COmEAND in National Bimetallist. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY. The Experinent Suggested by Franklin and Performed by D'Alibard. To Benjamin Franklin belongs the merit of having perceived that a direct experiment was needed to prove what so far was only a guess. In an article entitled "Opinions and Conjectures Concerning the Properties and Effects of the Electrical Matter Arising From Experiments and Observations Made at Philadelphia, 1749, " the followving pas sage occurs: "To determine the question whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried, where it can be done conveniently. On the top of some high tower or steeple place a kind of sentry box, big enough to contain a man and an electrical stand. From the mid dle of the stand let an iron rod rise and pass, bending out of the door, and then upright 20 feet or 30 feet, pointed very sharp at the end. If the electrical stand be kept clean and dry, a man standing on it when such clouds are passing low might be electrified and afford sparks, the rod drawing fire to him from a cloud. "If any danger to the man should be apprehended, though I think there would be none, let him stand on the floor of his box, and now and then bring near to the rod the loop of a wire that has one end fastened to the leads, he holding it by a wax handle, so the sparks, if the rod be electrified, will strike from the rod to the wire and not affect him." The experiment suggested by Frank lin was successfully performed in Marly, France. by D'Alibard, on May 10, 1752; in London by Canton, in Spital Square, on July 20, 1752, and by Wilson in Chelmsford E~ssex, on Aug. 12 of the same year. Franklin himself described having use~i kite in Philadelphia in a letter damn~ Ocr. 39, without giving the date of his observat5,ns. But this must be supplied in some passage which I have not neen able to find, for Rosen berger ("Geschichte der Physik," vol unie 2, page 316) mentioned that it was dno in June. Franklin's disbelief in the dangerous character of the experiment must have received a severe shock when he heard of the death of G. W. Richmann, who, in the year 1753, was killed by an elec tric discharge drawn from the clouds by means of a k-ite.--Nature. Lord Ellenborough's Wig. Lady Ellenborough, a renowned beau ty, on one occasion accompanied the judge on circuit, on the distinct under standing that she should not incumber the carriage with bandboxes-his ab horrence. During the first day's journey Lord Ellenborough, stretching his legs, chanced to strike his foot against some thing under the seat. It was a bandbox. Down went the window and out it flew. The coachman, thinking the box had fallen out, at once pulled up, but his master furiously roared out the order to "drive on." On reaching the next assize town, Lord Ellenborough proceeded to equip himself for the bench. "Now," said he, "where is my wig?" "My lord," replied the attendant, "it was thrown out of the carriage window. 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