Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-02


honestly a salary that affords such
campaigning? If salaries are so large
that for the mere chance of getting it
such expensive campaigning can be
paid for, Is it not time to cut them
down? If this be the effect of large
salaries, then is it not cOrruptlng and
| gathers in rogues instead of competent
| public servants? If the salaries will
Justify these extravagances, is 1t not
plain the people are to be robbed in
other ways to pay them! And does it
not strike you as queer, exceedingly
queer, that Kansas, that same Kansas
that gave $4,000 Republican majority
should require a Mckinley to try to
/ persuade the people to vote the Re-
publican ticket? Poll les mas made
some wonderful somersalts in the last
eight years, vet the great mass of voters
do not seem to realize it.
Plain Truths
NORTH DAKOTA Populists absolutely
refused to combine with the Demo-
Gratis.
PoPULIsM in Kansas has reduced the
tax levy the lowest in the history of
! the state.
ONLY just think of A. cent cotton,
and thousands of people III rage. If
that Is right, vote to continue it.
THE Democratic majority in Georgia
fell from 10. 600 in 1892 to I 900 or less
in 1894 Democratic frauds included.
THE reform movement looks for sue
cess through the education of the peo-
pie. Goldocracy lives on the ignor-
ance of the masses.
GOLD standard must be driven from
the land, or the American republic
will decline and fall as surely az did
Rome and Babylon.
The people are tired of many things,
but they are weary of this Vanderbilt
domestic rottcnneSs. IN the name OF
Hoke Smith, saw it off
The sugar and whisky trusts are Of
the opinion that the present tariff bill
IS better than the Mckinley bill. Ii
is Il hundred million better TO those
trusts.
The colonlsts only left Bunker Hill,
when their ammunition gave ont.
Many labor armies have retreated
from the same cause. Moral: Fill I'D
your treasures with munitions of war.
Mr.. FARMER, did you have any
tro bile to support your family and
liquidate debts when wheat sold fer 81
ler bushel? And WAS that not at q
time when money was most lentiful?
II is crime to call at ention TO the
panic. 1t has been no crime to bring
it on. Even tie old feudal baron rob-
bers denied the right of criticism. But
criticism will flourish, and don't for
get it.
Ii it be anarchy to oppose national
banks, oppose the single gold stand
ard, English domination of American
finances, Presidential control of the
militia and 10 advocate free speech:
then brand us with lette of flaming
fire as an anarchist of the most pro-
nounced type.
MONEY is made by law There
never was, nor can there ever be, any
other kind. Bankers and trusts tell
the people they can have no good
money but gold, and the silly flies do
not see the net that is impoverishing
Inem- coming Nation.
The man who has brains enough to
support crop of new ideas, is the fell
low who, by the babbling throng, is
looked upon as having horns on his
head. But there Is one consolation:
y "critter" with horns cannot be mis-
taken for a lackass. Living Issues.
The elections in Maine and Vermont
.I
The northern states will all endorse
Groverism in about the same way.
How ra idly the Democratic chance is
slipping away. One term of Demo-
cratic chance" is enough for the peo-
pie.
EMINENT economists have estimated
that the ca acity Of mechanical and
other scientific instrnmcntalites even
now existing is sufficient, il borough
~ utilized, to supply all mankind with
not only the necessaIie5 OF life, but
also reasonable luxuries. - Western
Waterman.
INTELLIGENT farmers are beginning
to learn that their only hope is in
standing together. While they vote
against each other in the interests of
bankers, lawyers and professional poll
ticians, they are only helping to make
paupers OF themselves aud slaves of
their children.
Gov. ALTGELD has called the atten-
ton of the State Board of Equaliza-
ton to the tax lodging proclivities of
the Pullman company and insists that
their assessment should be ST., 000, 900
instead of only II 60. 900 of only an
increase of the neat little sum of SILL
304, 500 or aboui $50 per cent.
WHEN such men as Judge Lyman
Trumbull of Chicago deserts the DEM
ocratic ship and announces it time for
every American to have care for his
liberty, that it Is threatened and in
serious danger, it is sure time for men
to think. 1t also shows the wonder
full growth of the Populist movement
when he enters the platform to assist
it. Emergencies always produce men.
A PROPOSITION in logic, to be prop
osition at all, must consist of two
known points, from which third can
be reached Soa problem in life must