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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
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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. Meets
Second and Fourth Thursdays at 8
p. m.
COURTS.
DISTRICT COURT.
Criminal Term-First Mondays in
June and December.
CIVIL TERM.
First Mondays in March and Octo.
First Mondays in April and Novem.
ber.
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