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THE PEOPLES VOICE
I-iRtoor Is the Parent ofCapital. Encourage Labor and You Bui lei XJp Capital."
VOL. 1.
NORMAN. (LKV ELAND CO., OKLAHOMA TY., FRIDAY, N( v l.M lilil! In, 1S{)2.
NO 1H.
A paternal Government. congressman flimflam.
What It W«« and It Could Knallj
He.
As a goneral rule, when tho stiff-
necked conservatism who considers
all suggestions of social change >14
nothing but pestilent socialism do- Nearly fourteen dollars a day
•ires to utter his most unanswerable l^v regular legalised pay,
argument ho savs: ■—
•To do so would bo to instituto a
puternal government. and of courso
you cannot wish thai"
lieforo replying however, it would
be well to consider and decide what is
meant in this easo by a paternal gov-
ernment says the < nicago hx press; 80 to visit my numerous girls
for a decidod and suggestivo change I g°. or to take a few whirls
. ^.yi/ha w( ihin tho memory of men not In nyv carria'/iMhrough jown
jet ol«< *no 11 bout in the general
^ . conception of what Is a desirable and
proper relation for a father to hold
with regard to his children; that is
to say, what is really 11 parental gov-
eminent of children
Fifty years ago the man who should
have darod to euestion tho wisdom of
Solomon's proverb "Ho that spuroth
tho rod. hateth his son; but he that
lovethhim chastenoth him betimes."
would havo boon thought a fool, but
to day, among persons of any culturo.
a father who should so far forget
Congressman Flimflam I am,
I'm the net of one dear l*ncieKam,
J gobble up the dollar*
No matter who hollers.
For the people don't care a— clam.
I get mileage, too,
That Is paid when due.
Yet from congress I'm often away.
The sessions of congress are dry,
And for life T cannot tell why;
I should sit th.-ro for hour*
And waste my flue power*
Wnti-hing the spread eaglo fly.
With my dashing Miss Brown,
Who the sweetest of glances hurls
Aud I never forget to dr.iw
M.v salary under the li\r —
My flve thou-and dollars n year,
Which the people so trusting and dear
Pay me for my services Wan!
Th; free silver bill went to grass;
No such blanked measure shall pass;
It paid us quite w -11
To sound its death knell
And ke« p d )wn thj co rse working clas*
For the honest dollar I prate,
And a goodlv Interest rate
1 believe that, the b inker should got.
* chi'd-.rteht .0 .ho i„v.ol«Uility"of | A f«a^<,,the.U«a
its porson as to strike it would bo
punished by tho loss of his own self-
respect and would ncod no othor
punishment
While fifty years ago or so it was a
recognized maxim of education that a
l o rccis and do;? fights I go,
For a little rarj pleasure, you know;
I drink foreign wine.
H ghly flavor -d and flnc,
Which thedoir people pay for, Oho!
Child ;VlU had to io bro k o n" be tore it ?£
could bo trusted to obey voluntarily,
to day tho majority of reputable peo-
p'e rely only upon dosorving their
child's love and respoct to get it*
eager and prompt obcdionco.
Two senei ntions ago the best mean-
ing men. evon. frequently believed
that only through tho fear of their
children could tho noedod respoct for
thoir paternal trovornmont bo re-
tained. and hence, though such a
course was averse to their bottor na-
tures. thoy felt it was their duty to
bo cold and distant with thoir chil-
dren; to nover treat them as equals
with the ring,
And help conjure sotnj way
The dear people to flay
Tdi the little they've left takes wing
I tell you. I pluy 'em flno,
Thsy pay for my women and wine;
Hut care I must take
I/)st tho.v shjulu awak \
And to b« further flej.:>d should decllnt.
—Kmma (Jhent Curtis In the Chicago Sen-
tinel.
Concentration of Wealth.
The following intoreotlng statistics
were gathered by John Bright Pro-
fessor Allen and olhors. and will show
the enormous amount of wealth in the
youngor human beinrs. but e mal hands of a few whilo tho groat mass
for four lost two mm-h familiarity °",um"nUlr ls onl)' priviloca.l to lira
a J upon the payment of rent and interost
might degenerate into contompt
Paternal government thou, as il-
lustrated in tho family, has evidently
undergone within tho space of two
or three generations tho radical
chingo which has substituted love
for fear as its motive foreo.
In Franco there aro 800,000
thatched cabins without a window
1,600,000 with one window, und 1. i
600.000 with two windows. Out of
7.5 0. 000 houses, more than 4, 500. 00 )
have less than five openings Including
Nor has this rhnnijo boon limited UTS ""J "r0 th"tchod in
thn fnmiiu «i««.. 1.. • ... . , which livo nearly two thirds of tho
to tho family ulone. In tho school
the method of discipline depending
upon tho rod is about past and pub-
lic opinion has nearly roached tho
conception that tho teuchor who re-
quires a rod to enforce his discipline
proves by this fact nothing but his
own incompetence; while it is evident
that at no very distant period an in-
stance of rowdyism in our collogo
students will bo taken ns a proof that
the faculty pretending to educate them
are more deserving of dismissal for
unworthiness than aro tho students
themselves.
Thus slowly by degrees, but stead-
ily. society in its ovory department
is learning from experinnoo that tin
evils from which it suffers are due
more to its own mistakon conceptior I
hich livo nearly two thirds of the
population.
In Kngland and Wales 100 porson^
owned 4, 00 J, 000 acres. In Kngland
in 1H.S7. ono thirteenth of the people
owned two-thirds of tho national
wealth.
Seventy persons owned one half of
Scotland; 1.70) own nine-tenths and
twolvo persons own 4.346,000 acres
In Ireland less than eight hundrod
persons own one-half of the land; 40.
members of the House of Lords own
1 I, 240, 012 acres, which rent for $.' 7. -
8J6, 6 19. Tho total number of tenant
farmers in Kngland Scotland and
VS ales is 1,06H, 127. and of thesa Iro
land furnishes 674,2^2 and hnMand
JU1. 814.
Kngland's war debt is $;l. GuO 00 >.
of its powers than to tho necessities ■ Rnd lhe.^nirli8h bondholders fa
of its nature.
The possiblo objection, thoreforo
to tho paternal government arose
from the fact that it was not
paternal; that is to say. that it was a
despotism carried on by a tyrant who
ten on an intarost of $812,0o4 36'J
annually drawn from th j industrial
population of that country.
In London rolief was g.ven to
•S8,1G I paupers in ono week. It take-
14, ooo policeman to guard London-
It tho I nlted States seventy person-
are worth $2,700,000,000. and lo t
than lifty of thesj control t .e
currency and commerce of tho
country at a days notico. One
hundred are worth |3. 0 )0 00). 0 -
nnd 26.000 own half the total wealth
Tho census hIiows that the railroads
of tho country own 281.0.(0,000 acres
of land, and fore gn and doraost c
syndicates own 81 000.000 acres
making a total of 866. 00:"), 000. Th
total number of farms in the United
States is 4.226,95\ and of thone
1. 024, 701 are ronted. of this number
702 J2la*i ompillel to share their
crops with Ihoir landlords whilo the
greatest share asked of tho British
farmers is one-fourth.
In Now York City 10.000 of tho
F
had no eoncoptlon of tho tender rein- population.
tion of father mplies to his children.
and which should bo naturally ex-
pected from his larger experience.
And in so far as analogy is or any
raluo in indicating tho tendency of
social dcvolopmont, we may, judg-
ing from tho benoliccnt elfects for
domestic happiness, which wo know
haro accrued from tho change wo
havo boon considering in tho paternal
relation, bolievo nnd maintain that
its further extension is to be desirod
instead of deprecated.
Imagine (or instance that tho finan-
cial interests of this country wore
rogulatod for the purpose of pro
viding tho best conditions for all. and
that in this rospect tho government
was paternal; and that t.jo purpose
and etforts of those who practically
organize the issue and distribution of I « 000. 00 > inhabitant, own nearly the
currency were tu ned earnestly t„ whole city and only 13,'jjU own any
making them un.vernal instead of ! real eetata
partial what an immense advance I 1„ Chicago —population 1.20} 000
would bo made towards the practical I.-less than a j per cent own all tho
organization of tho Kingdom of Cod. | real estate
through the destruction of tho pre The total number of mortgage. In
' „fl° nciual slavery by which we this country, according to Census
are all disinherited. j .Superintendent Porter, is H.03ft, 0 i0;
~~ ~ j or ono to every seventy inhabitants
, . 11 1 Total number of millionaires :-;o, 000.
•ere in a silver-producing country . Total number of people out of work,
we have too much silver, there is. ; over I ,KM. 00(1 Tramp, number
our great banker, say. "an abundance J nearly 600.000. Kx-l'nion soldiers
of money, yet the rate of Interest is jn poor houses. 50.0 )0: bondholders
thr.ee as high as in Kurope. Mexico : none. It is estimated that 10 0 >0
has dug out of her marvelous mines I children die annually in this country
silver enough o make her. could she f f.-otn lack of food. In 1880 there
havo kept it (ho banker nation o( the J wero 57.000 homeless children In the
world. Once she was tho treasure ! United States
house of Spain, then amighty nation | ]„ New York 40.0)0 worklngwomen
dominating Kurope and tho Now j nr0 so poorly paid that they must ac-
Wor d. So here wo have our own | ocpt ebnilty. sell their bodies ot
puzzles to think about. It is clear gtarve. In one precinct twenty seven
that a country may produce silver ! murdered babies wero picked up, si;
enough to buy the terrestrial globo in vaults. New York has 1.0JO mil-
and food enough to feed mankind, lionniret
nnd yet men shall bo poor all their '
days in the land of thoir fathers nnd [ A I In . ••oite*
toil for a daily sop and a morsel, and ! ' ollp billions of dollars have been
for shelter lacking that dignity which | P;li,l on tho national debt either
should mark lhe homo of man!
Mexican Financier.
Itilglinlt O; 111'on*.
Tho English press speaks 111 or.-*
pointedly about our labor wars than
any ol our own stereotyped, pluto-
cratic sheets. Tno Labor standard
•ays:
Men do not fght like t'gers and
wreck property with savage fury
unless driven desperate by want.
Lvidontly a point is reached when tho
men feel that lifo is not worth living.
Never since the abolition of llio corn
laws has Kngland experienced any
thing like the bloodthirsty hatred
of capitalists manifested in thesn Hot*.
principal or interest since 1 yet
to-d ty. as a result of Republican leg-
islation. it would tako more bushel?
of wheat to pay tho balance than It
would ha o taken to pay tho whole in
is li. In reality as great a burden in
tho form of a national debt now facoi
tho farmer (by whom the greater
part of it must be paid) as at the
close of tho war nearly thirty year*
ago. I our billions of dollars paid,
and yet a debt which, when compared
with the price of wheat remains a*
large as ever is the record of the Re-
publican party on the national debt.
What a glowing tribute to that • glo
rious financial policy!" — Salem lier
;ilr'
HOT SHOT AT SHORT RANGE.
IIY W. S. MORGAN.
Tin: old party papers are ftill making
i frantic appeal for "the boys" to
"whoop up." Hut the boys are not
whooping much this year.
It is said that Carnegie has endowed
thirteen libraries In Scotland. The in
famous system which furnished him the
money to endow these has furnished
reading matter enough In the 1'nitcd
States to make several librariei.
Tin: Globr-Democrat says the stalwsrt
Democrats of Kansas are going; to
vote for Harrison. There is nothing
Ktrange about this. Harrison ta as good
a plutocrat ns Cleveland, and Cleveland
Is not "in it" at all in Kansas.
Thk Democrats of St. Louis are kick-
ing against the Republicans importing
negroes from Arkansas to this city for
voting purposes, but they ought to know
that the Democrats first imported these
negroes from Mississippi to Arkansas
for voting purposes. In the language of
a celebrated Texan, "what are we here
for?" Chickens will come home to
roost.
♦ f •
Wnr.s the pcojiC .ot hurrahing
they nre thinking nfWT they think
they want to kick themselves for ever
hurrahing for the old moss-back politi-
cal bosses. They are not hurrahing this
year.
« *
Thk difTcrenco between 2 per rent
and 8 per cent is 0 per cent. The
borrower is that much benefited. Who
Is hurt? Why, the money loaner, of
course, and that Is the reason he opposes
the People's party, but the chump who
votes to continue to pay 8 per cent in-
stead of 'I, w hy, he hasn't sense enough
to come in out of the rain.
SPIRIT OF THE REFORM PRESS.
II Pays to Vote The Republican Ticket.
The ragged clothing shows that it
pays.
The patched clothing shows that it
pays.
The cheap clothing shows that it
pays.
The slip-shod shoes shows that it
pays.
The old hats show that it pays.
'lhe ill-fed children show that it
pays.
The worn and weary wife shows that
it pays.
The struggle to pay rent shows that it
pays.
The mortgage on the home shows that
it pays.
The price of coal shows that it pays.
The meat combine shows that it pays.
The milling trust on bread shows that
it pays.
The bankers' palaces show that it
pays.
The high salaried officials shows that
it pays.
The rich man's militia shows that it
pays.
When the poor people, the great mass
who create all wealth, find these are
the fruits of their devotion to the repub-
lican party, why shouldn't tliev con-
tinue to VOte the ticket?—The Coming
Crisis.
The Silver Dollar.
One reads in the dally papers a great
doal about r. silver dollar that Is worth
only 80 cents, and I suppose such non-
sense deceives many persons. It takes
lot) cents to make a dollar. A dollar
that Is worth SO cents is impossible. I
have never yet met a person who would
take 80 cents for a silver dollar, or 90
ents, or even cents. When the
bankers, politicians and editors who talk
against an so-ecnt dollar will sell their
dollars for 80 cents it will be time to
think they mean what they say. The
secret of all the talk against tho silver
dollar is that the more there are In
irculation the less chance the money-
lender has to live without earning his
living, and the better chance a wealth
producer has to get a decent living.—
Twentieth Century.
There comes from over the sea. side
by side, two ships. One is loaded with
foreign merchandise; the other with
foreign labor. The one loaded with
merchandise comes in competition with
the rich American manufacturer and
must pay an exorbitant duty before it Is
permitted to land. Tho other comes in
competition with American labor, and
is allowed to land free of duty. That Is
how labor is protected.—Onida Journal.
No, sir: John Sherman does not
pander to the labor vote; he compels
Ills agents to do the pandering and then
vote for him afterwards. "Honest John"
is no slouch, nnd if the State of Ohio
ver had a dictator then he can claim
that honor. Whatever lie goes after he
gets—Legislatures, office, patronage,
everything. There arc men in this city
who were dragged down to ruin by the
great panic of for which Sherman
and the contraetionists alone arc respons-
ible—who lost homes, happiness and
were beggared by hell's monumental
crime on that memorable Rlack Friday,
who to-day arc compelled to work for a
dollar a day at hard labor and are all but
worn out, ready to sink out of men's
minds, where they were once honored
and respected, men who have ever since
their ruin blindly, slavishly nnd coward-
ly worshipped the author of their misery,
yet will cheer and ei.lhuse whenever his
name is mentioned, and stand ready to
swear by his bill now before Congress, to
entirely prohibit the coinage of silver.
When partisan blindness and hero wor-
shipping reaches such a stage the future
historian will bo justified in doubting
the sanity of the present generation.—
Cleeland Citizen.
Nevertheless the ease with which the
Carnegie pirates seem able to utilize the
judicial machinery for the gratification
of their grudges and the Intimidation
of their employees is alarming. When
the impression becomes prevalent among
the people that the plutocrats own the
courts—look out.—New Nation.
A TALK WITH A PLUTOCRAT.
Now, look here, Mr. Plutocrat, just
lend me your ear a moment. I know
you don't like to hear such racket, but
if the present signs of the times indicate
anything you will hear a more un-
pleasant racket in the "bye and bye."
You are rich, you have a palace to live
in, fine horses and carriages and nice
clothes to wear. You have all the good
things which the earth produces to cat.
Your children are sent to the best
of schools, and have nothing to do but
enjoy themselves and turn up their
noses at those who have produced those
good things. Now, Mr. Plutocrat, laying
atddc all sentimentality, we are nearlng
a crisis. Something's got to bo done.
Did you hear the rattle of the Winches-
ters at Homestead, the Tennessee mines
and C<eur d'Altno? Oh, that trouble Is
all over you lay. Hut you never was
worse mistaken in your life. It is only
the beginning of the beginning. Those
troubles are the result of a condition
and that condition i* growing wars,-. Do
not deceive yourself. The trouble will
come again, and since it has pleased
your tools to punish so seven ly t he men
who were fighting for bread, the next
battle will be to "the death." Mark
this! It required all the militi'i of those
several States to suppress a small
detachment of those who are vainly
striving for freedom from the yoke o!
Industrial slavery which you have placed
upon them. The great coti . rvatlve
classes are only waiting, striving, hoping
to accomplish their ends through tin-
ballot. But In your greed you have
sought to thwart their efforts there.
Again I say, beware. Wo are standing
on tho verge of revolution. Tho last
sacrlfleo is being laid upon the altar.
Deprived of a free, fair and untrammcled
ballot, and the tiger In the nature of
hungry men w ill show its' f It will be
no small Homestead affair. Tho Ten-
nessee troubles will pale imo insignifi-
cance and the echo of the battle of ( u ur
d'Alene will sound like tho dropping of
a feather on the floor in a thunder-
storm in comparison. When that
day comes, If it does come, depend not
upon your militia—they w ill be swept
away like chaff before the wind. Depend
not for mercy upon the men whose
children you have starved, the mothers
will turn upon you and rend you to
pieces. Depend not on the courts you
havo corrupted, for justice and humanity
havo long since departed from them.
Where will you look lor mercy? Look
to the mountains to fall upon you and
hide from your sight the storm of wrath
which your own acts have excited.
Bolievo not that we aro exciting men to
deeds of violence! May God hide from
our sight tho storm of human destruct-
ion which the signs of the times cast the
snadow upon the dial of the future. We
would to Ood it was otherwise. But
the anarchists below and the anarchists
above—the men who want no law at all
and tho men who want it. all their way—
tho two extremes in s« .etv, are driving
the country to revolution. Tho middle
class — those only on whom you can
depend to sustain tho law and good
crdor — arc losing all respect for laws,
because they are made and administered
only for tho favored few. Note the
feeling of this class will you with regard
to the recent labor troubles. The strik-
ing laborers had their sincere sympathy
and the Pinkertons nnd the militia were
held in scorn. Oh, Mr. Pluto, come
down from your high perch while it h
yet time and compel your miserable and
unprincipled tools to take their hands of
tho throat of labor, to release their grip
on the political machinery and allow
the people a free and unbiased vote.
Will you do this? No? Then look
well to that which you havo. You have
"taken the sword," ye "shall perish
with the sword." Ye have ignored tho
law nnd it shall bo ignored. Ye havo
trampled upon constitutions, don't com-
plain if the people set them aside.
have lived in idleness off the fat of the
land and plied up riches unto \ our-' l\ es,
say not ono word it It shall be t i Ken
from you, for ye have it not by right -
yon hrve earned not a dollar of it. In
the pride of your heart you havo for-
gotten the people and enjoyed your-
selves at your Bachanalian feasts. Again
I say, beware, beware, tho tiger in
humanity—nay the independent man-
hood of the nation is rising up to strike
down usurpation, and oppression and
red handed wrong must go.
The Republicans have practically
abandoned the tight in Kansas. It is
reported that the National Committee
have withdrawn their aid and they .ire
now only claiming they will carry the
State for the purpose of keeping other
States in line. Weaver will carry Kan-
sas ; stick a pin hero.
THE THrTFVlATFORMS.
rkpimicak pi.atfohm.
Plank First: l>—n the Democrats.
Plank Second : We've got the offices.
Plank Third : D—n the Democrats.
Plank Fourth : We need the oflices.
Plank Fifth: I) —n the Democrats.
I'lank Sixth : We want to keep the
offices.
I'lank Seventh I)—n the Democrats
s'more.
democratic platform.
I'lank First . D—n the Republicans.
I'lank Second : Wo wan't office.
Plank Third : D—n the Republicans.
Piank Fourth : We need the flices.
Plank Fifth : D—n the Republicans.
Plank Sixth: We want the offices had. I
Plank Seventh D- n the RepuMlcai •
s'more.
peopl.l;*^ party pi.atform.
Hank First: Liberty, Justice, Equal-
ity.
I'lank Second : "A government for the
people, by the people and of the
people,
THc 1UMBLINGS OF REVOLUTION.
"A Little More Sleep, a Little More
Slumber, a Little More Folding
the Hands la Sleep."
Thousands of good men nnd women
arc or seem to be, totally un' onsclousol
the depressed condition of the people,
and blind to tho dangerous tendencies
of the times. This is not unusual but
in this enlightened ago it Is altogether
inexcusable. Before tho French Revo-
lution the ltoyaliits thought their posi-
tion was secure, nnd so confident were
they that, while tho mob had possession
of the streets and wero threatening the
Tuillerles, the King was nt his country
seat hunting. If the present Indications
do not point to revolution, then tho
lesson of history is of no avail.
One need but watch the ti" id of pub-
lic sentiment to know how dangerously
near the people are to open revolt. The
scenes at Homestead, Buffalo, Cn urd'
Alone and the Tennessee mines nre
object lessons that it will - .> *\cli to
study. In every instance pub: senti-
ment was with the workingwtn. ' ho
Pi'ikerton's nre abhorred and t'len ' Itia
are regarded with but little more respect.
Instructions to Juries, decslslons ol
Courts, nnd the mal-administratloii of
justice, Is provoking a disrespect of ln\\
that bodes trouble in the future. But a
stronger indication of open revolt coinos
from our publie speakers and tho press.
Vanderbllt's "tho public bo damned,"
and Mrs. Leslie's "shoot them down
like dogs—mad dogs," nro rankling
thorns in the hearts of the people.
Those are recently supplemented by the
declaration of Senator Coke of Texas, in
his speech at liil.'sboro on September
6th. He said:
I ft rue toll you mo*, with the | n*t before us,
I QMr-'t ami rliHrfrn, ll nt tyiy mnn llint eppoHCH
the rcftulnr Diniocrnth i ckrt. Ix-mlnl by (Jov.
Hojtjj.Ik n traitor i • t>c inocrscy ami hin country
Willi 'In* force bill RtnrinK us In tho face an it
does, I *ay that tliehrr l thai Rcrnlclies a la-m-
< rrolic ticket In the coiPiiig clectiou is lhe linnd
ol n traitor, and the oitncr of that baud ought
not to live.
Hucit from the people conns those
dclnnt. challenges clipper' from the
R'form papers:
Jto w hint at revcrutlon? \es. And we
mean every word of it. If every vrstlgo of
honcft administration ha* «tis«|<!>ei red. and it is
Mniply a question between money, wealth, and
the honest, brave manhood in this country, tint
sooner it h* fettled the better—XaUonal F.cono-
m(*f.
And this from The Ho
paper:
friends hope
Denver
Kd ly
enough
votes to pull them through. A nb*o stout rope
about eight feet long will uifpend the flrat
mhrrcant to a lamp post that fries it The
I'oVulistH will have judges and watchers at all
the noils, and it wont be a healthy Job for tho
wrntch who tries any oi l party mdhods W
del-at the popular uprising. *
1' i.t war to tin* kirfe iliis time nnil no inonkt^
fanny business goes. A word to t <• wise, etc
'I he Tennessee Toiler bids defiance
and sounds the following warning:
Or course the People's party will go to the
polls and vole- no sen of intimidation will keep
ther.i away. They i ot oi \\ propose lo vote but
at the risk of their lives will see their votes
counted. Democracy had as well understand
now that it will not b« a lot or i mharassed
negroes who Mill demand justice (his time
It will be an outiaged, intelligent set of deter-
mined Americans. Justice they will demand
ai d justice they will have.
The .Vic nation presents the following
problem to the plutocrats :
If it takes s.ooo militia to "<
loeked-out steel workers at I
lo, f
illitj
erawc" 4 .non
miestead, and
Itufftilo, how many militia is il
ov< rnwe the jo OKI.OOO workingmen of all sorts in
ilie 1'nited States, and where are they coming
fromV It would he well to llgure out tho size ol
the job before taking the contract
The Silver State, of Colorado utters the
Ultimatum in this plain language :
Can the adm nlstration of this government he
restored to the people by the peaceful means
provided by low/ ( sn principle and the rights of
lhe people prevail at the I allot box against cor-
porate ur, od, Shy lock rapacity, old party treach-
ery, Wall street fold, fraud and intimidation
at th- ballot box lias American manhood de-
parted lias the sp rit of freedom been smoih-
r I I.N
mission to party exigencies? lias the grasp of
Plutocracy . .t such hold as to the potency or
the American nal'.ot when freely deposited and
honestly counted.' Free men will deposit n free
ballot and see to it tlint it is honestly counted
Then let I Ik w.itch word of freedom be, iu tho
South, the North. th> hast and tho West, on the
Sih of Novi mher: ' A free ballot nnd an honest
count, or free bullet*." Let this be the pro-
gram, nnd let it be carried out to the letter, and
the ordeal will be passed, our free institutions
presi
The position of the Kkpokmku has
never wavered a moment from that of
patriotism. The object in establishing
this government was in the interest of
the people. It was sought to make it in
fact a "government of the people.'' It
is only so In name. IVe have only the
form left The spirit of our free in-
stitutions has gone. Liberty has been
sacrificed in the greed for gold. The
people nre making an earnest nnd sin-
cere effort to restore the government to
its original purity. But gold steps in
and thwarts their every effort. It cor-
rupts thoir legislators their courts and
their executives. The issue to-day is
between the people nnd pure govern-
ment on t!i< one side,and Plutocrats and
oppression and fraud on the other, and
we - iy now that tho people will win.
Pure .'•vernment will be restored if it
i- necee.--.iry to bathe the land in blood
"to the bridle bits."
Workingmen do not be deceived, it is
not friendship for you that actuates the
Democrats who wipe away crocodile
tears over your misfortunes. I grant
that they are right when thoy tell
you the Republican party is not your
friend, but they toll only half a truth.
If they told the whole truth, they would
finish the sentence by saying," and we
are ju>t a - bad ;s • the i;. pul4icans."—
t. v. Powderlv.
Ik the (Jcorgla hoodlums think the
use of rotten eggs, although indorsed by
70,tM)0 majority in that State, is going to
rip the reform movement up the back,
we beg to Inform them that the party Is
not built that way. It still lives and
w ill yet bo able to put the hoodlum
element In the back ground, or in the
penitentiary.
Tiik plutocratic press is very busy
just now circulating reports that the
Populists are all going back to their old
parties. Its a lie. Tell your neighbor
so. It is always iu another county or
another Stato according to the liars, but
there is no such thing. Don't be fooled
by this old g.tg.
Tiik Globe'Democrat says: "Let'n
agitate." What's tho matter with tho
bans wagon and the torch-light proees-
•Ion! h.iv • tlioj Allied! it ii i o lata
in the season now for tho to talk
about agitating. The other fellows have
been doing that till along and have got
the thing pretty well agitated.
Twfn i v-Forit of lhe ibrly f: ur States
In tho Union have Democratic Govern
ors, yt t the railroad companies have full
sway, and with the repeal of the State
Bank tax of 10 percent on their issue
of money, tho railroads will have strong
allies In retaining their grip on tho in-
dustries of the country.
In commi:\tinu on Judge Paxon's
charge to the Jury wherein he already
convicted the Homestead men oftroason,
the plutocratic papers lose sight of the
fact that It was not the legal authorities
which the Homesteaders were resisting,
but tho illegal invasion of an unlawful
band of hireling butchers.
It tiik tariff was the biggest robber In
this country the manufacturers would
he the wealthiest men, but thoy aint.
The wealthiest men are the railroad
men and the bankers, as they have tho
money it Is safe to conclude that the
transportation and currency questions
nre the main Issues before tho people.
Onk of the funny feat tires of the
(Joorgla Stato campaign is the fact that
the Democrats who paid the negroo's
poll-tax that he might vote aro now
frightened by the threat of the negro to
vote against them in the November
election. It seems ns though tho con-
tract did not include both elections, at
least the negro did not so understand it.
Tin: Globe-Democrat, Is glad that some
of tho Democrats in Kansas are kicking
against voting the People's party ticket
and held a convention to so express
themselves. We forgive the G.-D.
Mom: money. It is tho broadest
plank ever written for uny political
platform. It means more for the work-
ing man than all the other planks ever
written. It is to the great industrial
army what Lincoln's Proclamation was
to the black slave. It means liberty
from the power of plutocracy.
SOME THINGS THAT CONTRACTION
HAS DONE.
It has reduced the prico of wheat
from two dollars, to seventy cents per
bit h* 1.
It has reduced tho price of cotton
from twenty-live cents to seven cents
per pound.
It has reduced wages to one half ol
what they were.
It has reduced the price of property to
one half its former value.
Il has doubled th • value of all railroad
stocks.
It has doubled the value of all bonds
and other evidences of debt.
It has doubled the value of till salaried
so that a Congressman on a salary ol
$r ,0()0 a year is receiving practically
twice as much as he did twenty-live
years ago.
It has increased the burdens of the
producing classes and doubled the
fortunes of the bond-holding and mon-
eyed classes.
It lias made 7,000 millionaires and
1,0(1(1,000 tramps.
It litis robbed tlie aged of the employ-
ments of life and the young of the ad-
vantages of education.
It has put 1,500,(MR) children under 1J
years of age to work in the factories.
It has thrown 3,000,000 men out oi
employment.
It has placed 9,000,ono mortgages on
the homes of the people.
It has made the rich richer and tht
poor poorer.
It has robbed the people of liberty at
the ballot and denied them justice at
the courts.
It has created more suffering than
war, pestilence and famine put together,
It has ignored the sufferings of tin
people and mocked the laws of (Jod.
It has tramped upon human rights,
violated constitutions, and murdered
justice.
It has sent poverty and distress to the
of homes of millions.
It has stood in high places and under
the plea of an "honest dollar," boldly
robbed the producers of millions ol
their sweat earned products.
It has corrupted our courts and defiled
our churches.
It has bribed our legislatures and do
baitched the manhood of the country.
It stands to-day with one hand on the
Republican party and the other on tin
Democratic party demanding more
victims.
In tho name of consistency, in tin
name of humanity, in the name o.
Heaven whose laws it mocks, vote tlit
thing out of existence.
A vote for Weaver is not a vote; foi
Cleveland, but it is a manly and bravi
protest against being bought, sold oi
delivered, like cattle by t lie gangofspoill
hunting politicians, who have for yean
sold out and betrayed the people's
Interests in Colorado. A' y 1/ i<
LOST BAGGAGE.
The following parcels of baggage havs
been deposited by the parties named,
anu will be sold to the highest bidder
if not claimed by the kinsfolk of the
parties making the deposit. Who
claims the baggage ?
"I cay that the committee (senate fl-
nance committee, John Sherman chair-
man) with all the determination of its
able and determined chairman, with the
d« termination of the former Secretary
of the Treasury, now a momber of the
committee, with all the determination
of that influence which has controlled
the financial policy of the country for
the last thirty vears, and controls it yet.
the control of the bond holders and
money lenders, has resolved that
nothing shall be done that shall operate
to make the burdens of the people
lighter by increasing tho volume of
the currency or even by preventing
further contraction."—Senator Ptumh.
"No people In a great emergency ever
found a faithful ally In gold. It is the
most cowardly and treacherous of
metals. It makes no treaty it does not
break. It has no friend it does not
sooner or later betray. Armies and
navies art not maintained by gold. In
tiuie> ; • nlc and calamity, snlpwreck
and disaster, it bo cmes the agent and
minister of ruin. No nation ever fought
a great war with gold. On the contrary,
in tho crisis of the greatest peril, it
becomes an enemy more potent than the
foe in the field ; but when the battle Is
won and peace has been secured, fold
re appears and claims the fruits of
victory. In our own civil war it ls
doubtful If the gold of New York and
London did not work us greater Injury
than the powder and lead and Iron of
the rebels. It was the most invincible
eneiny of the credit. Gold paid no
' ldier or sailor. It refused the national
obligations. It was worth most when
our fortunes were the lowest. Every
defeat gave It increased value. It waa
in open alliance with our enemies
the world over, and all Its energies were
worked for our destruction. But as
usual, when danger has been averted,
.nd the victor} secured, gold swagg<*rs
to tho front, and asserts tho supremacy."
./ ./. Ingalls' sjwch in ths I'mted States
Senate, February 15, 1878.
"Harrison has never done a thing for
tho West, and If any man knows of a
reason why tho pcoplo of Colorado
should aid in securing nisrc-nominatlon
I should like to have7dm tell what It is.
We can pass a free coinage bill through
i 'ongress, but we know that it cannot
become a law whilo Harrlsoa Is I*ret-
idont. Vet such is the cowardice or
party zeal that men who fully recognize
the pi eat importance of the sliver quest-
ion abandon it rather than to antagonize
the proposed nomination of a candidate
that they think has the lead In the pres-
idential race. It cannot be hocauseltis
supposed that he Is especially stronff,
for his most ardent supporters admit
that ho is not as strong ns some other
candidates. This expression in his
favor, in my opinion, arises out of a
desire to be with the winning party and
partly, it is possible, because it ls
thought that it is not good policy to say
any tiling against a possible candidate."
—Senator Teller, Republican.
"We believe In revenue, with Inciden-
tal protection. In so far as the tariff Is
necessary to meet tho expenses of tfce
government It may be Imposed, and any
other benefit which may be legitimately
derived from Its imposition may and ne-
cessarily does accompany it."—David B.
Hill, inshis rceent Brooklyn speech.
"It is not proposed to entirely relieve
the country of this taxation. It must bo
extensively continued as a source of
government income; and in a re-adjust-
ment of our tariff tho interests of
Atiieriean labor engaged in manufacture,
should be carefully considered, as well
as the pr« -ervatlon of our manufactures.
It may ho called protection or by any
other name, but relief from the hard-
! ipi M"l dangers of our present tariff
laws shot M bo devised with a special
pr< oatitisn against imperilling the
\i.-donoe of our manufacturing inter-
i -;. 1' r.i. Cleveland, in his message to
Co no rets in 1SS7.
A CALAMITY HOWL.
i iie landlord levies his toll on labor.
The banker levies his toll on labor.
I he coal trust levies Its toll on labor.
The eoa 1 oil monopoly levies Its toll on
labor.
Th railroad kings levy their toll on
labor.
Tin'milling conspiracy levies its toll
on labor. •
The meat combine levies its toll on
labor.
The sugar combine levies Its toll on
labor.
The coffee combine levies Its toll on
labor.
I ! furniture combine levies Its toll
on labor.
I I" water monopoly levies its toll on
labor.
Th • -■ -s and electric light trust levies
its toll 'ti labor.
I lie ...thing combine levies Its toll on
labor.
T-'n thousand other combines each
i . pluck at the poor devil, wno
triv in vain to live like a man and
su ; in; all these idlers In kingly
-) lender, and he sinks under the load
• ■ i \ i ■■Ids up the struggle of life, and
tho Collin combine steps in after he ls
. :.<! nd takes everything that is left,
e \ mg wife and innocent, unsuspecting
hi hirer: to the charity of the other
workers who are suffering under like
And this is civilization at the close
of the nineteenth century! This Is
what the demo-republican toll talkers
I ove enumerated ask the poor workers
to vote for and endorse. They say the
country Is prosperous, there's nothing
rong, money is plenty, and no change
e :iry. No wonder they think
those ire good times. They are enjoy-
ing all the good things the millions of
\\ ';er create. If the workers vote to
lot the vampires suck the life out of
them, they ought to be poor, they ought
to g;. hungry and ragged, they ought to
!iv in hovels, from hand to mouth ;
ti. 'V ought to see their children servants,
menials. All those Ills have come upon
them because thoy have voted blindly
for party, have allowed themselves to
bo made tools of by the old party poli-
tic ns, who have used their votes to
r< 1 them. But there Is no excuse fo*
ignorance any longer. "The other side"
presented on every hand. They can
- o nnd tool the trusts. Vote this year
for wife and babies and your liberty.—
The Coming Crisis,
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