Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

Ten of us will, think. stay out of the eau.
cuses of the two parties. We will meet to-
gether and form bill looking to the better
ing of the financial and agricultural condi-
tion of the country. Money should be SO
regulated that it will not bring more than
per cent at interest. When it brings
more than this, it begins to eat up the In.
crease of the wealth of the country. Al
present there are in the United states
about S62, 900, 600, 900 worth of property and
there are $50, 900, 600, 900 worth OF. debts
which pay an interest of 10 per cent.
What Interest Is Consuming.
eve pay over S., 200, ooO, 900 worth of
interest every year, or nearly 500 IN interest
for each man, woman and child in the
country. These figures speak for them
selves There will undoubtedly be third
party in the next Presidential campaign, and
I believe in the far future parties will
change in this country and the two great
parties will be one consisting OF the friends
of the great corporate interests OF the rail-
road and monopolies run by large capital
and of capitalists, and the other will be
made up Of the friends of labor, of the agri-
culturists and the poor"
Jerry Simpson talks freely and has a good
command Of language, though he says
''done" for ''did' and now and then "seen"
for "saw," but his words drop clean-cut
from his short, sharp teeth and he apparent
ly believes what he says. He was born In
New Brunswick 80 years ago next month.
He drifted to the Great Lakes, and for %
years worked upon the Vessels there, start
ing as a cabin boy and coming ont capt
ain. He served a short time in the army,
and about fiften years ago left the lakes and
bought a farm in Kansas. He pre-empted
160 acres and bought $40 more. He was
sorry to say that this farm had mortgage
on it.
Successor OF Senator Ingalls,.
Senator PETER, the leading Alliance Sen
ator is keeping as close in the tracks OF Mr..
Ingalls, as possible. He was conspicuous
during the last hours of the closing session
of Congress upon the floor in that he shook
hands there with Senator Ingalls, while the
crowd looked down from the galleries and
wondered how Ingalls, felt. He has chosen
his apartments for the winter in the same
block in which Ingalls, lived so long, and he
can look out of his front windows at the
Senate wing of the Capitol across the way.
He is in appearance, action and thought the
direct opposite of ingalls,. PETER is straight,
but his straightness is that of jointed
snake held up BY a string. He looks as
though if he dropped into seat he would
go all to pieces. His joints are loose,
while those Of Ingalls, are tight. Ingalls,
in action is as quick as lightning. PETER
is slower than the wrath of the Almighty.
Ingalls, has tongue which went by Jerks
and always ierked to kill. PETERS words
flow from his lips like the waters of slug
gish canal, and though they are well chosen
you have to wade through a great quantity
of them before you find fish worthy of
catching. Every word Of Ingalls, told. He
was as full of ideas as az egg is full of
meat, and he had a new word for every
idea Peffer's language is that of the
common place. Even in private converse
tion he talks like preacher Of the old
school
Senator Peffer's Early Career.
asked Senator PETER as to his career.
Said he: 'I come Of German parentage on
both sides of the house, and my family is from
Hesse Darmstadt. was born on a farm in
Pennsylvania within sight of Harrisburg.
We wove our own clothing and made near
ly all of the articles we consumed. Wages
were very low. remember the first money
earned was for thrashing. We thrashed
our wheat by throwing the sheaves on the
barn floor and riding horses around over it.
1 got 81 cents day for it. Some time
after that had nv wages raised, SO that
got 10 cents day, and, finally, when 1 was
about II years old, and could do mans
work, L received 81 cents day, and thought
was doing well I got my education at
the country schools, and at Is 1 began to
teach school. enlisted as private and
became lieutenant I studied law while
was in the army. I moved and pre-
empted farm in Kansas. Now, there was
a newspaper in the town near which I
lived which was not run at all to suit the
people. 1 went into town one day and
bought the man out, though had not
dollar to pay for it, and then went around
to the merchants and told them that was
going to run clean paper and that they
and continued editing, practicing law and
farming until 1 went to Topeka to edit the
Kansas Farmer
Senator Pefer's Great Scheme.
81 have always been Republican, and I
was really anxious to have Senator Ingalls,
returned to the Senate. L hoped he would
have taken such stand as would enable
the Peoples Party to support him. I sent
him four questions which I asked him to
answer for the Kansas City farmers defining
his position. He promised to do so in
speech in the Senate, but he never made
the speech, and the Farmer came out against
him. As to the measures l will propose,
the chief one will be bill directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to 60 into the
markets and buy at current rates from time
to time all the gold and silver bullion that
is offered, and to pay for this in Treasury
notes. Then, taking this as the basis, l
would have it ordered that he issue 81 80
additional for each dollars worth of bullion
bought. This would at once increase our
circulating medium at least 81, 900, ,000, 900,
and would remedy to some extent one of
the great needs of the times"
"But how would you get this money into
Judge?" asked
"Ah," replied Judge PETER, ''that is the
question. have my own theory and will
bring it forth in due time"