The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
"lr DOESN'T PAY"
To Publish Peoples Party News-The
Dollar Dictates to the Daily Papers

To Publish Peoples Party News-The
Dollar Dictates to the Daily Papers
| An explanation is due my friends
among the Farmers Alliances and IL
the Peoples party as to why ! cannot
any longer publish in the Cincinnati
Daily Post and Cleveland Daily Press
the news sent me by the secretaries and
others. was invited by the manage
ment OF those papers to become state
correspondent for Peoples party and AL
lance news. and was told that could
take charge of the department, and
whatever | sent in would be published
as | sent it, without editorial supervi-
sion, except alone that libelous matter
could not be published. and that lack Of
space might sometimes prevent.
1t went well for few weeks and then
articles sent The Post did not appear,
and there was no statement that they
were libelous or that there was lack Of
space could not afford to have CORE
spondents send me as pointed letters as
some Of them did and then be unable
myself to keep my promise to have the
news published. was getting good
salary for the work. but at once sent
in my resignation.
The managing editor of The Post said
to me. as reason for not publishing all
of what sent: You have no idea Of the
pressure that has come from the business
department against publishing as much
as we have done. 1t doesn't pay"
II you do not understand what is
meant by pressure from the business
department" read the following ma
tional Bankers Circular" issued nearly
thirty years ago, and remember that the
boycott then established against all pa
pers that do not support the national
banking system is still in force:
DEAR SIR-It Is advisable to do all In your
power to sustain such daily and prominent
weekly newspapers, especially the agricultural
and religious press. rs will oppose the issuing
of greenback paper money, and that you with
hold patronage or favors from all applicants
who are not willing to oppose the government
issue Of money. Let the government issue the
coin and the banks issue the paper money Of
the country, for then can better protect
each other. To repeal the law creating ma
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government issue of money will be to provide
the people with money, and will therefore seri-
ously affect your individual profits as banker
and lender. See your member of congress at
once and engage him to support our interest,
that we may control legislation.
JAMES BUELL..
IA. Broadway, Room 4, New York
All, yes, it is the pressure from tho
business department that stands in the
way of the people. whose pockets are
empty and whose homes are mortgaged.
ut doesn't pay" to give Alliance and |
Peoples party news.
Then. by the starving workmans |
family, by the millions of mortgaged
homes, by the reeking, steaming tene-
ments, human beehives of filth and vice
and restitution, by the stunted children
hat poverty drives to the factories in
'pite of ncther's love or fathers pride,
,r the child labor law, by the million
md half Of tramps and paupers that
talk ragged and hungry through the
and, we say that the farmers and the
aborers should rise en- nasse, and with
I'D Andrew Iackson's solemn oath,
thunder forth. Then, by the Eternal,
we'll make it pay to publish the news
md the facts concerning our homes, our
iresides and our children's welfare"
Workmen! farmers! start your own
laily papers in the chief cities of Ohio
and throughout the land, and make it
possible for the truth to be told. Let
there be cyclone from the peoples de-
partment that will make the pressure
from the business department unfelt.
Shall the dollar lord it over your
Shall the capitalist be your king and
the politician his Gveried nobleman be-
fore whom you lick the dust?-E. P.
Foster in Golden Rule.