NATCHITOCHES POPULIST. aubscription $1.00 Per Year. There is No Free Country, Unless the People Rule Price VOL. IV NATCIIITOCHE8, LA., JUNE 3. 1898. SIDE LIGHTS ON WAR. IDEAS OF THE PLUTOCRATS AND THE PEOPLE. It All Depends on the Point of View But Evidently the Main Idea Is to elfool and Bob the People If They WIRl Stand It. During the long wait for the presi dent's second Cuban message the New York World pictured Uncle Sam gaz ing in disgust at the following placard: "Notice.-On account of fresh insults offered by Spain and in anticipation of others that may be forthcoming, mes sage to congress postponed.-Wm. McK.'" When the United States bought a warship from Brazil the money was paid to Rothschild. When Spain bought the warship Garibaldi from Italy the price of the purchase was handed to RPthschild. Rothschild deals in the munitions of war. He sells to one and all. He, unlike the wage-slave, has no prejudice, but will sell a war ship to either Spain or the United States. Fine pass civilization has come to when a money-monger stands between the transactions of nations. World populated with wise people, who not only pay Rothschild and his ilk a tribute for the purpose of living, but must give them a rake-off for the priv ilege of killing each other.-Coming Nation The people of the United States must eot!tent themselves while the president di, lpoaticaly dpals with the Cuban  testr3s In the ,meantime the Cuban patriots, whose only crime is love of liberty, will continue to starve to Sdeath.-,ilyer Knight-Watchman. YIf Norace Oreeley, thirty years ago, -.had Iublished in one issue of his paper Srblf- .the "scare heads", and alleged i' te coencerning the Maine explosion ((wppo, g it to have occurred then) t:t "yellow journals" are daily i now,- the ;.whole country. `b en afi a to arms, and Swar t ; i 8 l:n d not only have 1n1 b ecessity, to T--o the credit of isbit said, they ~ ot representatives, on h bill to appropriate ?£ ial -defens was un wIs, of Washing.. W"rartnh Ipectacle of eath ~ '`. used and Internal by the -frst er'v. rw " Did ..aat4 or see that trigrht to be a I iutongress t 6 0; : Matned, I''wl ' eo.`'E w. l4t b 4b R pie to come and settle. Where is a town that wants half the people to move out to make better times in that rS town? Or to have half the farmers leave to make better times in the coun try? You asses who think there are too many people, that your Ills come r- from that source, had better have your to skulls trepanned and some buckwheat key batter put in the place of the matter you-call your brains. There may be too many such fools, but then they are interesting to study as the relics of the pliocene age. Ireland can support ew 20,000,000 of people in comfort and Z- plenty, and then not be as thickly pop blated as Belgium. But not under the its present system of industry. And the of United States can support the popula .e- tion of the earth in luxury, while with m. the present insane social structure a puny 70,000,000 are crying for more room.-J. A. Wayland. a as Now, during the present war :fever, Lord Mark Hanna comes to the front m and wishes to buy bonds also. These as self-same unsophisticated men are all ls trying to make it aplpear to the masses to that they are true to the flag and our re' country, and that party lines will be r- obliterated in case of war. Of course they will! For these magnates know as that there is a bond consideration in sight. But will there be any wavering 1' in the "Sage" crop if the government demands a full quota of men without a delay, regardless of finances? From past experience on this line, there - would be substitutes introduced from 1 the ranks'of the wage slaves to fill the places of such men as Hanna and old Sages, who are utterly "Russelling" around for the purpose of sacrificing at the life-blood of the workingmen for tn filthy lucre, incased in a bonded debt. in -Evansville (Ind.) Coming Events. of - to It is most evident that the money power has the administration firmly in its meshes, and that in order to save 0, their bonds on Cuba there will be no r war. The reported conferences of the money bags. and their man Hanna with In McKinley and members of'the cabinet, 1) and the reports that the Cuban ques ly tion can be settled by diplomacy, go a 7' long way.in making thinking men be d ieve there will be no war, but another re issue of bonds to keep the peace. One 10 good result of the Cuban question is that $50,000,000, which were tied up in 1 y the treasury, have been put in circula tion, and will.make business a little more active. goes not this bear out I A the arguments of the bimetallists that I more money among the people is what 1 the country needs? The money ques- I n tion Is not going to be lost in the war a ' shuffie War, alone overshadows the I L' money question, but even that cannot answer the demand of the people for a proilr money volume to carry on war. -" --Silver Knight-Watchbman. it t d Gold in India. ± Circumstances alter cases. When a Lambe d street. was given a' shock of a tehor "by the entirely friendly visit of the A'merican 'timetallic commission e the sritustifn in India was alleged by 1 the gold clique to be exceedingly sat S.ilactory. In fact, the London National r vievw s'poke cheerfully as follows: "India is leaping and bounding with " prosbierlj v and reveling in all the , i glores df the gold standard." But in I, what direction $ India leaping and . bou~nding at present? Perhaps there ' 1: ·isno better authority on this subject c i thain 'the London Times. That jour- p Ssait has ljust made the following state- g I i ''th "The lituation (In India) is li Iextremely ~ritcal, and the banking and laOItei!t l comiun nities view with dis- s' ·trust; AsIttempt tt uiphpld a system P Sai-ed on a l.,oerd. ot the mints that, t shi d be te oute6; dme solely of a con- si .- int. '~rbroige of opinion be- tl ";, .-the aovernmnt of Indian and ti T. Idianh ieda" Thli : ,L marked i p ciD bictcttfdn 6of the .boat ·' od . ut.tewpd .b. th -evpriew.;But i, i 'hsea ges stll further, 'and cqn- t tss1tUIa iby .eylang] : "How t 1i@R*~ w lg tJ1~i aiy on. ua be judged ci r im the ~t.. · 3that' inCalcutta t iwss n tt at as high S 0, %$ pe t -whrh* W i tomay, i-hj( a es of Inidia, even tl S rf s .t,'lV& ot bring out an ~ V ihe~ *tr t si t solid of ill e l:r ci 'bars." in conl t 4e ents of the Loni ' t noted that the a .s.: "India ought not d" .lftrney rystem . o 0end~kerrnd yet im- at haiitr "'1 ~. ·l; to EXPLOSIVE FINANCE, rs REDEEMABLE BANK NOTES AND a- DISCOUNTS, re ie it 'hese Are Always Dangerous and Always it breeders of tanid - Gage add His Br Associates Attempting to Fasten Spurl )e ous aloney on Country, Paper issues redeemable in coin and Fd the loaning of banking deposits, called bank credits, are the explosives of finance and the breeders of panic, ac cording to the Silver Knight-Watch man, Money redeemable in other money and the compound loaning of deposits have been the cause of every e financial panic of which we have any record. Redeemable paper and bank credit furnish for the time being ad ditional means for the purchase *of t property, and in that way temporarily cause a rise in prices. If such credits could be made permanent, and not I abused by excessive issues, they might have no bad effects. But all paper which is not money, but convertible in to money, and all bank credits which e are not based upon a like quantity of n real money held by the bank issuing n the credit, are the sources of panic, t bankruptcy, and ruin. it The credits which pass for the time a being as money, inflate prices, encour e age imports and force the export of n coin, which prevents the forthcoming e of money when demand is made to d meet the paper promises. The time 10 must come, sooner or later, when real g money cannot be had to meet out r standing promises. When the first crash comes the community is. brought face to face with a vast volume of credits which they have been dealing r in as money, but which are not money, n and dannot be made good for want of a money for redemption. The history of bank issues and bank a credits of every description in Europe i and America is a history of inflation, robbery and collapse. Men of sense ought to know that there must be some I relation between promises to pay money and the money with which to r make payment, and that human nature 3 is such that if people are allowed to 3 issue promises to pay, and increase their wealth in that way, they will do so without regard to the fate of their victims, who, when the crash comes, t hold their promises. As long as money t manipulators are allowed to issue pa-, per and pass it off as money and draw interest on their debts, they will do so, and while they are doing this, they will' imitate the Pharisees of old, whose pe culiarities are described in the New Testament. Banker Gage, his associates and the 1 entire money manipulating forces of the United States and London are now engaged in trying to fasten upon this country a volume of spurious money j which they insist shall be redeemabble t in gold. They expect to deceive the country by the prIetense that the hun dreds and perhaps thousands of 'mil- t lions of credit which they will issue is i as good as gold because they promise to redeem it in gold. The promise they make is precisely .the same as that - which has been mad¶ in every instance where credit monet has been issuad and repudiated after it had served the a purpose of robbing, the community. t There are some who admit that bank c credit of every deasri~tion issued by private persons or corp6rations is dan gerous, because it alWasys ends in a col- E lapse. - a But they say the spternment cana is sue .credit money with perfect safety, t We deny that PrQpos lon in tote. Mark d the differeice betwirei silver coin and a silver certificates and greenbacks and g treasury notes. Silver coin is ful legal tendeir, redeemable Ia noth~ing Silver certifcatee are legal tender for the pay menrit of public iueim and:they are re- c deemtablei-n- silver cbit wliehths Ihn the . treasury, oUar for Bdllar. '-These car. tfleates hai g~irehhbe goaruent no concern,a No bligation wasi created by the issue of gilver Coti, nor by the issue of silver co~tifleatei except t4safely keep the Rl~lercolp ir thei.i.redemp tio~i.Bh ath re !sedl by the,4'uWi f o the gover~ngent: t! eat money, and when that' ~ower isitix-erisedt there is no after-clap alout lt any io'r re than there is an tr6a n ter.~ the. passage of any other laWi. "ilthe Sreenbacksa are credit mtoey. IteyR are tegal ten- i der and .that plakes 4ihem ar good as Sto ,redeem them ,n 1~o pr f~hier coin at the option of theoeri met The U ebutle 4p artmE has 1,en away Ic ,or sold that option. ' dO ,Lot believe to Mcinley, h l1aw that the craate* et to 'dreba 4 ehold tt of~ii the tbaIii. pf i gtaheb I'ta1 o4! i a Fttl tbe ofO verge of bankruptcy, This slander on the public credit by the president of the United States and the secretary of the treasury and by other high officials of the government and bank officers brought on the panic of 1893, which still continues, and which has wrecked a the fortunes of millions of honest and a industrious people, Nothing illustrates . the WiCkedness of issuing credit money when the government has power to is sue real money better than the use made of the greenbacks, and nothing illustrates more graphically the bene ficial effects of issuing real money than the honest, steady work done by silver and silver certificates. We do not propose to occupy space r with the discussion of credit money of any kind, whether issued by the gov t ernment or by private parties, because it is too manifest that money redeem t able in other money is a trick and de vice to deceive the public and induce people to conform their business opera tions to a volume of money which does not exist, and which must inevitably disappear and spread ruin everywhere. t What argument is there In favor of the government issuing credit when it costs no more to coin real money than it does promises to pay? Real money will never bankrupt the government or swindle the community, and it is the duty of the government to furnish that kind of money. The duty of the gov ernment does not end there. It should make it a criminal offense for any per son or corporation to issue any kind of currency to pass as money. Checks, bills of exchange, and other devices to facilitate business are all that are re quired it the government does its duty and maintains a volume of money suf ficient to keep pace with population and business. In this connection the distinction be tween bills of exchange, checks and the like and credit' money must be borne in mind. The former are simply orders for money in existence, and do not pre tend to be more than a transfer of the title of that money, whereas the latter purport to exercise a money function in themselves, and are not the repre sentatives of any money in existence, or any money which will be found in case of stringency. PROSPERITY NOTES. The Androscoggln mills weavers at Lewiston, Me., have voted to remain out until the New Bedford strike is settled. There's one sure thing about the prosperity wave, anyhow-we've al ways got something coming.-Toledo Bee. Cigarmakers and packers, to the I number of 380, employed by Seidenberg & Co., in New York city, went on strike on the 12th against a proposed reduc tion of wages, which, in some instanc es, is alleged to be as much as 26 per cent. If a reduction in the wages of opera tives in the New England cotton mills is to be universal there is no reason why the announcement should not be made at once. The elections are over. -New York World. The strike among the canal laborers at Rome: N. Y., is over, and nearly all the men have returned to work at the old price, 12% cents per hour. It is a beautifuil fact that the wave of prosperity and the discovery that a man may live without a stomach were practically simultaneous in the time of their arrival and announcement. Thus u does Providence provide for the wants of the chfidfen of men in every emer* gency.-Auburn (Cal.) Herald. An attempt was made at Westerly, R. I., recently to start the White Rock cotton mill, whiCh has been closed for six weeks on account of a strike. Only fifty of the citrlkers returned to wo. The Wall Street Game. And now come the patriots of Wall street through their congress and de maid-that the nation shall bow to the men who have the gold cornered and shall ~iemand that tariff duties be paid part in gold. That is the gazme these a traitors-played during the dask days of tje late civil War and by the law made a legal demand for their worthless gold when the sation had no more sae for i it than it had for diamonds. By this b means they can force gold to a pre- k i~ium, buy bon4s at a discount and make millions ot ot the hide and tal- a low of the labor of the couhtry that is too ignorant to see how the game is played. And th band continues its music-J;. A. W lapd. Tb.h Koresab Th*ry1 - s'. peaking of the Korehifan theoryj that this world a hollow spheranmd that Vu4ere Ifvikg on ikhe inside of it, the1 editor Of tie New Dhspeuustion flnds occasion tji remark: "I4 a not Itnow, iatiher tihe eraikt Is a hollow ~4*5jt ~b1i*OStie eoonomyk anrd CANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION 25- 0c DRUGG, NATCHITOCHES DIRECTORY. CHURCH SERVICES. " Services at the Methodist church every First and Third Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., by the pastor, Rev. H. Armstrong. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. BaPTIST-M. E. Weaver, pastor. Regular services, Second and Fourth Sundays at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sun day school, 10 a. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m. All invited. LODGES. Phoenix Lodge No. 38, A. F. & A. M. --Sinmooe Walmsley, W. M.; J. C. Triohel Jr., Sec. Meets First and Third Wednesdays at 7 p. m. CaOsle Hall No. 89, Knights of Pyth iae.-U. P. Breazeale, C. C.; Adol.h L'Herisson, K. of R. & S. 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