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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The Temperance Teacher takes this
hopeful view of the situation: "Instead
of drink being the rule now among
native Americans, it is the exception.
1t is rarely seen on our dining tables
Church members seldom make a prac-
tice of drinking. 1t is never heard OF
at ordinations, and not often at funer-
ais. Thousands of children have
grown up without ever taking a glas.
rs il beverage. Total abstinence ha,
become respectable, and drunken
ness disgrace. And yet sensible
people seriously tell us that re-
formatory methods must be given
up because we have made no
progress. They say there is more
drinking per capita now than when we
began this Temperance work. viii
they please tell MS if this means more
whisky or more beer? But suppose
it means more alcohol, will they please
tell us how much we would have been
taking at the previous rapid rate of
increase and with the increased i'm
migration of drinkers, if it had not
been for Temperance work and teach
ings?"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

John G. Woolley writes that "Som-
erset Cottage at Rest Island is com
plete and occupied. This cottage has
n capacity for twenty persons, cost
ten thousand dollars and is home for
inebriate men who wish to reform
"Willard Cottage" with equal capaci-
ty, will be ready for occupancy about
November 1st.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The Liquor dealers, it is reported,
spent two and half million dollars
in trying to defeat Gladstone's party
in Great Brittain, and his success wa Z
followed by a heavy decline in brew
cry stocks. The explanation of the
latter fact is that 29I members of the
new Parliament are pledged to local
option, called there "the direct Veto"
This is the strongest rally Temperatures
has ever made in Parliament, net
gain of So.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

Miss Mary Allen West, of the Union
Signal, who has been engaged in
most successful temperance work in
Honolulu, is now on her way to Japan
where she will establish w. G. L. u.
schools of methods.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

That IA majority of the Presbyterian
churches use unfermented wine at
communion was declared to he Il fact
by the temperance committee of the
Presbyterian General Assembly at
Portland, Ore.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The England Young Abstainers'
Union, the object of which is the pro-
motion of total abstinence from intox-
ieatiDg liquors among the sons and
daughters of the upper and middle
classes, has now eighty branches and
a membership of over 5000.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The Associated Kelley Bichloride
of Gold Clubs are to hold their second
national convention at Dwight, H..
Sept. Is. Delegates are expected
from all parts of the country, and the
session will continue three days
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The International Peace Congress
opened Aug. 22nd, ut Berne IN the
hall of the Swiss Parliament, and vot-
ed to hold it's next meeting. in Chica-
90 i'm 1898.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

All of the six hundred and thirty
two ministers of the Free Church in
Scotland are abstainers, as are also
the nearly sixty-four thousand mem
beers.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

If your party is worth anything to
you as n voter, it should aim to build
you up at home, and not drag you aud
yours to a lower level I'M the struggle
of life.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

Miss Ella l.. Knowles, whom the
Peoples party of Montana has nomi-
mated for Attorney General of the
State. is II successful practicing lawyer
in Helena. She was born in New
Hampshire and graduated from Bates
College, Maine, in 1884.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

British brewers who pnt over eigh-
teen million pounds into American
breweries are not realizing the diyi-
dends that they anticipated.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The saloon system is the political
pet of church ballots. This patent
fact is enough to make Christ weep
over his Bride.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

Gen.. Bidwelps formal letter Of nc
eeptance as nominee Of the Prohibi-
ton party for President has appeared.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The Christian hand that casts a
whisky ballot, is.not the hand to lead
men out of wrongs doing, into right
living.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

A man may be prollibitionist and
not Christian; but can a man be q
Christian and.not q Prohibitionist ]
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

The Nashville aud Chattanooga
railroad ll..dismiss every employee
Sho drinks, either ON or off duty.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

Give your boy the benefit of faith
ers- ballot so invested that the law
will protect him against the saloon.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
USCRERS FATTEN.

Silver. which has been accepted as
coin since the dawn of history, has
been 1emOnetized to add to the pur-
chasing power of gold by decreasing
the Falue of all forms of property, as
Will as human labor, and the supply
of currency is thereby abridged to
fatten Insurers and bankers by the
slave industry. a vast conspiracy
against mankind has been organized
on two continents, and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not
overthrown at once, it forebodes ter
rible social couvulsions, the destruc-
ton of civilization and the establish
ment of an absolute desp0tism. We
have witnessed for more than a
quarter of century the struggles of
the two great political parties for
power aud plumber, while grievous
wrongs have been inflicted upon the
suffering people. We charge that the
controlling influences dominating both
these parties have permitted the eX-
isting dreadful conditions to develop
without serious effort to prevent or
restrain them. Neither do they now
promise us any substantial reform
HCN IdNC bpSCthbl w iOi
in the campaign every issue but one.
They propose to drown the outcries
of plundered people with the uproar
of sham battle over the tariff so that
capitalists, corporations, national
banks. rings, trusts, Watered stock,
the decentralization of silver and the
oppression of the Insurers may all be
lost sight of. They propose to sacri-
flee our home, lives and children ON
the altar of mamm0n to destroy the
multitude in ogsler to secure c0rrup-
ton funds from the millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation, filled with the
spirit of the grand generation which
established our independence, we seek
to restore the government of the Re-
public to the hands of ''the plain peO-
ple,r with which class it originated.
We assert our purposes to he identical
with the:pnrposes of the national con-
stitntion, ''to form a more perfect
uni IN, establish justice, insure domes-
tie tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty for
ourselves and our posterity."
We declare that this Republic can
only endure as free government
while built upon the love of the whole
people for each other and for the
nation that it cannot be pinned
together By bayonets; that the civil
war is over, and that every passion
aud resentment which grew out OF Il
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
PEOPLES PARTY PLATFORM
Adopted by the National Peoples Party

Adopted by the National Peoples Party
Convention at Omaha, July 4th, 1892.
Assembled on the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Declare
ton of Independence, the Peoples
party of America, in their first Ma
tiOnal convention, invoking upon their
action the blessing of Almighty God,
puts forth in the name and on behalf
of the people of this country the fol
lowing preamble and declaration of
principles:
The conditions which surround us
best justify our co operation we meet
in the midst of n nation brought to
the verge of moral, political and ma
terial ruin. Corruption dominates
the ballot box, the Legislatures, the
Congress, and touches even the erninC
of the bench. The people are demon
allied most of the States have been
compelled to isolate the voters at the
polling places to prevent universal
intimidation or bribery. The news
papers are largely subsidized or nuz-
zled public opinion silcnccd; husi-
ness Frustrated, our homes covered
with mortgages, labor impoverished,
and the land concentrating in the
hands of the capitalists. The urban
workmen are denied the right of oil :
ganization for self-protection import
ed, pauperized labor beats down them
wages II hireling standing army, nm
recognized by our laws, is established
to shoot them down and they are rap
idly dcgenerating into European
conditions. The fruits of the toll of
millions are boldly stolen to build up
colossal fortunes for a few, unprcce-
dented in the history of mankind, and
the possessors of these in turn despise
the republic and endangcr liberty.
From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice come the two
great classes-tramps and millionaireS.
The national power to create money
is appropriated to enrich the bond
holders; II vast public debt payable in
legal tender currency has been funded
into gold bearing bonds, thereby add
ing millions to the burdens of the
people.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
must die with il, and that we must be
in fact as we are in name one united
brotherhood uf free men.
APPALLING CONDITIONS.


Our country is confronted by condi-
tons for which there is no precedent
i'm the history at the world. Our an
nual agricultural productions amount
to billions of dollars in value, which
must within few weeks or months
be exchanged for billions of dollars of
commodities consumed in their pro-
durtion the existing currency supply
is wholly inadequate to make the
exchange; the results are falling
prices, the formation of combines aud
rings, the impOverishment of the pro
ducing classes. We pledge ourselves
that if given power we will labor to
correct these evils by wise and reas-
enable legislation in accordance with
the terms of our platform.
We believe that the powers of gov.
vrumcut, in other words of the people,
should be expanded, as in the case of
the postal service, as rapidly and as
far as the good sense of an intelligent
people and the teachings of experience
shall justify to the end that oppres-
sion, injustice aud poverty shall
eventually cease in the land.
While our sympathies as party of
reform are naturally upon the side of
every proposition which will tend to
make men intelligent, virtuous and
temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions important as they
areas secondary to the great issues
now pressing for solution, and upon
which not only our individual pros
/ perity. but the very existence of free
/ institutions depend; and we ask all
men to first help us to determine
/ whether we are tn have IL republic ia
administer, before we differ as to the
conditions upon which it is to be adj
ministcrcd. Believing that the force,
of reform this day organized vii
never cease to move forward unit
every wrong is remedied, and equa
privileges securely established for al
| the men and women of this country
we declare, therefore,
|. That the union of the labor forces
of the United States this day consum'
mated, shall be permanent and per
petual may its spirit he upon nj
hearts for the salvation of the republic
and the uplifting of mankind.
2. Wealth belongs to him who
creates it, and every dollar takel
from industry without an equivalent
is robbery. "If any will not work
neither shall he cat" The interests
of rural and civic labor are the same
their enemies are identical.
! 3. We believe the time has come
when the railroad corporations will
either own the people or the people
mast own the railroads, and should
the government enter upon the work
of owning and managing all roads, W.
should favor an amendment to the
constitution by which all person:
engaged in the government service
shall be placed under Il civil service
regulation of the most rigid character
so as to prevent the increase of the
/ power of the national administration
/ by the use Of such additional govern
! ,,,,pf ap,blnrns
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
For VICE-PRESIDENT,
JAMES G.. FIELD,
OF Virginia.
ELECTORAL TICKET.

J. MlSaps, ....... Of Copiah
Henry Magcc, ..... Of Holmes
First DStrict-ThoS. II Freeman. ....... of Lee
eeond Districts. T, Pollard .os Tippah
Third DiStrct-tro be SIpp.ieJJ
Fourth DStrict-B. T. Gore ....... OF PnntutOc
Fifth District-.J L. Bell ..............of Na.oo
Sixth District-lI. e. Hughes .........ef Anitr
Seventh District y. Milter........0f CoFiah
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
FOR CONGKESS.

First Dlstrict--JameS Burkitt. .......of Monroe
Second District-R. j. Lyle. Marshall
Third District--(NO nOmination)
Fourth District-Frank Burkitt of Chickasaw
Fifth Distrct--W. L. Ratlltf .......... of Alfalfa
Sixth Distrct-ThoS. y. Jackson. of Amite
Seventh Districts. W. Robinson. of Rankin
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

A striking object lesson as to the
need of woman suffrage has been
shown by the election of Sir Charles
Dixie to the British Parliament. The
indirect influence of woman was used
against his election, bnt failed to
overcome the direct influence of the
votes of men. Sir Charles re-enters
Parliment triumphantly, while the
partner of his guilt is left with a
blasted home and perpetual Danish
ment from society.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

Ex-President Hays writes thus about
was President: "The abstinence from
intoxicationg drinks in the White
HOUSE, both in public and private,
while Mrs. Hayes and myself were its
occupants, is without precedent and
has not since been followed. Neither
of us regretted the course adopted.
Every such step when first taken OF
course meets with opposition and crit
icism. 1t cam Ut hereafter be claimed
by minded and well-informed
people that liquor MS beverage is n
necessity in the Executive Mansion -
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
FINANCE.

I'irst-We demand a national cur
rcncy safe. sound, and flexible, issued
by the general government only, full
legal tender for all debts, public and
private and that without the use of
banking corporations, a just, equitable
and efficient means of distribution
direct to the people at tax not to eX-
coed , per cent be provided, as .et
forth in the Sub-Treasury plan of
the Farmers Alliance. or some
better system; also, by payments in
discharge of its obligations for public
improvements.
q. We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
b. We demand that the amount of
circulating medium be speedily in
creased to not less than $50 per capita
c. We demand a graduated income
tax
d. We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands of the people,
and hence we demand all national and
State revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government,
economically and honestly administer
ed
e. We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the govern
ment for the safe deposit of the earn
ings of the people and to facilitate ex
change.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
LAND.

Second The land, including all the
natural resources of wealth, is the her
itage of all the people and should not
be monopolized for speculative pur-
should be prohibited. All land now
held by railroads and other corpora
tions in excess of their actual needs,
and all lands owned by aliens, should
be reclaimed by the government and
held for actual settlers only.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22
TRANSFORMATION.

Third Transportation being means
of exchange and public necessity, the
government should own and operate
the railroads in the interest of the
people.
q. The telegraph and telephone, like
the post office system, being a necessity
for transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the government
in the interest of the people.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-22

on the part of the Republican and
Democratic parties have resulted in
the present reign of mob law, and we
demand that every citizen be protected
in the right of trial by constitutional
tribunals.
20. All men should be protected by
law in their right to one days rest in
seven.
40. Arbitration is the wisest and
most economical and humane method
of settling national differences.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
STATED LIKE BOYS.
The Hippodrome Race at Martins Ferry
Last Night,

Last Night.
Quite a crowd of sports gathered at
the Martins Ferry skating rink last
night TO witness the much-talked-of
race between Z. @. Mcclellan, of Pitts
burg, and Bick Sheppard, OF this city.
The race was very tame, almost amount
ing to a fiasco. Both Of the contestants
acted as though IL was the first time
they ever saw skates, and 1t seemed to
be, not so much a question as to who
would win, as TO who could get around
the rink the most times without falling
down. Both were Impractical and very
much out of trim, making it decidedly
embarrassing to the spectators.
Twenty laps were claimed to consti-
tute a mile, but many were Of the opin-
ion that it was short mile. At the
word ''go' in the first heat Sheppard
took the start, but soon grappled with
the floor, and McClsllan passed him
and ran the heat In four minutes and
seven seconds. The second heat was
also won by Mcclellan in three minutes
and thirty seconds.
In both heats the men tumbled fire.
quently and rolled over the floor like
Vermonters 'just in for a turn around
the rink" The time made would put
many an amateur to blush. 1t was quite
close TO false race.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
A BIG COMPANY
ORGANIZED TO PUSH THE ALTMEYER NAIL
MACHINE
Experiments Being Made at the Novelty Works
at Martins Ferry, by One Of Edison's
Mechanical E1psrts-The Thing
Esteemed q Go.

About seven or eight months ago the
REGISTER printed full description OF
the Altmeyer screw-pointed nail, with a
detailed statement of its advantages
and of the process of manufacture, as
it was then proposed to carry it on.
Since then, Mr.. Mathew Altmeyer.
the inventor, has enlisted the interest
Of number of local capitalists and
business men, and one or two gentlemen
of a mechanical turn Of mind outside
the city, and for some months past ex-
periments have been in progress at the
Novelty works of Stephen Hipkins, in
the upper portion Of Martins Ferry,
under the immediate supervision OF one
of Edison's best mechanics, who has in
terested himself in the matter. A short
time since matters had progressed far
enough for those interested in the ex-
periments to see that they had good
thing of ii. and q company was formed,
with capital stock of 100000, among
the stockholders being such gentlemen
as Anton Reymann, n. B. Scott, John
He'll, one of the Messrs. Stifel, K: Hoge,
and others, and a large amount OF the
capital stock has already been paid in.
The experiments at the Novelty works
have resulted very satisfactorily, so far,
and in few days a committee OF the
stockholders will leave for Washington
City, where additional patents will be
VNnrfnRfAh
will not be an entirely new machine, as
it is at present understood by the
writer, but an attachment which can be
applied to existing machines, at com
paratively small expense. A good deal
OF interest has naturally been excited
among nail men by the formation OF the
new Company, and the matter was in
formally discussed at recent meeting
of stockholders of Wheeling Nail
Company.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
CIRCUIT COURT.
The Business Transacted Before Judge
PAUL Yesterday.

The Business Transacted Before Judge
PAUL. Yesterday.
In the case Of Jas. E. Hanes VS.. the
Standard Insurance Company, both sides
filed affidavitS. A motion to dismiss
was argued to the Court and Ovsrruled,
and the cause continued.
In tho case of the Wheeling Natural
Gas Company VS.. the Wheeling Elec-
trlcal Company, the defendants motion
10 set aside the verdict and grant a new
trial was overruled, and excepted to,
and Judgment was entered for 1897. so.
Execution was suspended for sixty days,
TO enable the defense to go TO the Su-
preme Court, the bill of exceptions
signed, and a bond of $50 given.
The case Of Henry II. Bentley V. the
Franklin Insurance Company, was con-
tlnued generally.
In the case of Henry II. Bentley v.
the Standard Insurance Company, the
declaration and summons was amended.
the plaintiff replied generally to the
plea Of the defendant, and the cause
was contiued generally.
In the case of +. M. Epstein V. ]. H.
Cox, ct al, the answer of the defendant
was rendered and the cause docketed.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
Literary Contest at Cam bridge.

The opera house at Cambridge was
we'll filled on Friday evening, the occa-
sion being literary contest between
class from the GAINESVILLE and CAM
bridge schools. The following persons
took part in the exercises: From
Barnesville-Fay Hubbard, recitation;
Anna Snyder, essay; Clarence Cunard,
grafton; Ella Douglas, debate. From
Cambridge-MaQgie Kline, recitation;
Mary Mcfarland, essay; Matte Shugert,
Grafton; Laura Hoyle, debate. The
Judges were Prof. NJ. R. Andrews, OF
Marietta; Supt. j. A. Shawan, OF
Columbus, and John A. Gallaher, ESQ.,,
of Bellaire. By agreement OF the
classes novel plan was adopted for the
Judges to decide the contest. The es-
say was to count three points, the
oration five points, the debate i've
points, and the recitation four points.
The Judges decided as follows: Cam
bridge-essay, three; GRAFTON, i've; total,
eight. Barnesville-debate, i've; reci-
tation, four; total, nine. The judges
were divided on each Of the contests ex-
cent that Of the recitation, on which
their decision was unanimous In favor
of Miss RibbaFd.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
Fun. raj of Robert II. Wilson.

Quite a good representation Of the
students OF Linsley Institute attend
ed the funeral of Robert Fl. Will
son from the home Of his father,
DIR. Wilson, on Twelfth street. A
large floral emblem, formed of the
letters 81. I. c." was sent by the
students and faculty. The boys
marched as far as Eighth street with
the funeral cortege, and presented
arms while the procession passed
through. The funeral procession con-
tinued on to Short Creek, where the in
torment will take place to-day, Short
Creek being the old home of his
parents. The pall-bearers were Harry
Sweeny, A. B. Butler, DR.. E. c. Myers.
Walker Frissell, w. McC. Miller and
Lucius Hoge, Jr.