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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
Political Pointers.

STUDY the money question.
MARCHING through Georgia" the
Populists.
The absence of dollars means an alb
sence of trade.
Low PRICES mean difficulty IN the
payment of debts.
If people had more dollars mer-
chants would sell more goods.
MORE education and less legislation
would produce beneficial results.
A COLD day is now not far off for the
millions of unemployed of the land.
Mr.. CoxEY will bear watching. The
first thing we know he'll be in Con-
gress.
THERE is split in the Democratic
party of Nebraska. That means Pop
ulist success.
DoN'T let the boys forget that ma
jority of Democrats in Congress voted
against free silver.
CHARITY soup houses will soon be in
full bloom again. They are the flow
ers that bloom under the old party
rule.
The Populist National Committee
State that the party will elect fifty
Congressman and control the next
Congress.
THERE is not n moment to lose. Re-
member that organized fraud must be
overcome by organized patriotism. De-
termine on a fair count.
TAKE this text and preach from it
up TO the election day: "Why is it
that amid unparalleled bounty of pro-
duction millions are hungrv?"
Gov. ALTGELD of Illinois states that
$40, 100000 of property in that state
goes free of taxation. A good portion
of this untaxed property belongs to
the Pullmans.
THAT big Georgia Populist vote has
set the Republican party to trembling
also. The handwriting is on the wall,
gentlemen take your medicine, that's
what it was made for.
II is now foregone conclusion that
the next President will be elected bv
the Lower House of Congress, if the
new party does not succeed in electing
him by the electoral college.
TIE Democrats are again promising
the people to pass free silver law.
Democratic promises are at heavy
discount. They are unsound and I'M
stable, and need to be placed and
kept on parity with good faith.
DEMOCRATS would have the voter be-
lieve that business Is rapidly on the
mend but the idle wage Garner knows
better, while the farmer does not need
to be hit with q brickbat to realize
that prices of products of the farm, are
still ruinously low and fail to extend
a helping hand in lifting the mort
gage.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

ocratic party to kill off the United
States banks. He and his party did it
just as soon as they got IN control of
the Government BY the way, the
Democratic party was third party in
1924.
BY 1860 the Republican party rose
and went into power to free the ne
groes, and it redeemed this pledge
even at the mouth of the cannon.
Every Office holder, as rule, is
faithful to those who can give or take
away the Office from him. The masses
have not sent man to Congress in fiji
teen years. hence Congressman treat
the people with contempt The way
1T is done Is that the bankers and mon
ey power agree on man for Congress.
They pass the word around through
those who owe them; the papers are
induced to boom him: the plain people
know him or not, as the case NAV I've,
but they support the man SO highly
recommended without ever knowing
what he is pledged to do If necessary.
He is nominated and elected hence
he sticks to them kat put him in Of
flee. The idea that bankers don't take
much stock in politics is all rot They
always have been and always will be
the potent factor in politics if the reo-
pie will let them be.
You see if the Populists get into
Office they will ship the bankers and
usurers, aud they Will serve the people
SO as to keep in office.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
How TO Avoid Panirs.

The country has had panics under
Republican and Democratic admins
trations.
Ii has had panics under high tariff
and under low tariff laws.
1t has had panics under wild cat
banks and under national banks.
1t has had panics under double
standard under single gold stand
ard
L has had panics with chattel slavery
and with wage slavery.
1t has had panics without railroads
and with private-owned railroads.
1t has had panics withs the small
shops and with the great private-own-
ed factories.
1t has had paDics when its merchant
ships carried its cargoes and when for
eign ships carried them.
1t has had panics when farming en-
gagged most of the people and when
manufac. uring engaged large part.
1t never had a panic under the Pop
ulist party.
1t never had panic under free
trade.
1t never had panic with national
money issued to all people alike.
1t never had Il panic with govern
ment banks.
1t never had panic with govern
ment-owned railroads.
1t never had a panic with govern
ment-owned factories.
1t never hal ii panic with govern
ment-owned merchant ships.
1t never had panic with govern
ment-owned homes for all.
Nor could panic be possible under
these conditions. But as this would
shut out millionaires they oppose it
with vehemence that means revolu-
ton if necessary.
Now the way to avoid panics, bank
ruptcy, depressions, crimes, and other
desirable social phenomena is to vote
for the parties that have produced
these things.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
How Can Trade Revive


1t is nonsense to talk about a revival
of trade.
Trade never revived on falling
market for production.
a necessary article to revive trade is
money.
1t takes money and purchasers to
revive trade.
Who is there with money to spend
and revive trade?
Can the laborer, who is out of en-
ployment, be depended upon to revive
trade?
Can the farmer, whose products have
declined % per cent. over last years
prices, help revive trade?
Will employed labor, under reduced
wages, come 10 the front and help re-
vive trade?
If the consumers have not the money
to spend to revive trade, how is trade
to be revived?
Will some one good at figures please
answer this question, and relieve an
anxious public?
The Democrats say trade is TO re-
vive. Is it going to revive without
anyone reyiving it?
Is it going TO revive despite the alb
sence of purchasers with money to re-
yive it?
About the only thing that is reviving
is Democratic humbuggery. Humbug-
gerry Is on the boom.
Trade is dead, and will stay dead
until the people set money by rising
market. 1t takes money to pay debts
and revive trade by the purchase of
artiles on the market for sale.
If the farmer should receive more
for for his produce this fall, he would
have more money than he had last
year, and hence could revive more
trade than he did last year
AS everything else the farmer has to
sell is lower than it was last year, how
is the farmer to help revive trade?
Wages of labor has been reduced on
| all the railroads and i'll the manufac-
tories and shops. How is the wage
earners to help trade revive?
Who else is there to revive trade ?
| If the tradesman cannot sell his gools,
he won't revive very much, will he?
AS farm products go down, and
wages decline, the power of the con-
sumner is reduced and there is less con-
sumed.
This is followed by a reduction of
the price of goods, as the tradesman
desires to sell, and trade heing dull,
he bids for it by reducing his profits.
Thus tn ere is falling market all
around, yet Democrats tell us trade is
reviving. The only thing that is re-
viving is the old party campaign liar.
He is vigorous, and appears to be do
ing a active business.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
Ponder Over This.

Here is some stuff for toilers to chew
on:
1t would have taken As, 356 pounds
o. wool to pay Lincoln's salary in 1864.
This year the wool men will have to
put up $40, 900 pounds to pay our pisca
torial agent of Rothschild, occupying
the White House. Amt the dear old
parties daisies?
Had Lincoln's salary for 1864 been
paid in cotton, it would have taken
131, $40 pounds. Was Cleveland's sal
AIRY for this year paid in cotton, it
would take $50, 334 pounds. Therefore
the cotton growers are obliged to grow
about seven times as much cotton now
TO pay the salaries of their public oflic-
ials as they did before we adopted Eng
lands financial policy. Hurrah for
John Bull and the gold Standard
In 1864 it took 1870 bushels of
wheat to pay President Lincoln's sal
airy for one year. To-day President
Cleveland can go into Chicago mar
ket and buy with his years salary ST.,
S67 bushels, which if sold at Lincoln's
prices would equal S198, $50. Thus by
the destruction of the greenbacks and
the demonstration of silver, the gold
bug party bosses have by legislation
increased the purchasing power of
their salaries till the taxpayers of the
country are compelled to pay in the
products of their toll nearly eight
times as much to Cleveland as they
paid to Lincoln. No wonder Grover
favors q gold basis. Living Issue.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

this increase of the yellow metal and
of Our circulating medium. Some OF
them are already holding it up as an
answer to the frequent dc claration that
the value of the dollar is growing
greater and that our circulating me-
dunn is being contracted. 1t is all
rank hypocrisy. The whole aim and
study of the money-loaning sharks and
their apologize press and their tools
in Congress, are to make money scarce
and dear and other property cheap. a
trifie increase in gold production
counts for nothing against the pur
poses of these cold-blooded leeches.
Let the increase once amount TO enough
to lower the value of their dollar and
make money more plenty, and every
banker and Shylock-serving editor and
Congressman will denounce "the
money of the world" as if it were
poisonous to the touch and treason
to the State. In the financial history
of Great Britain, the prospect of an
abundant production of gold has some
times turned the lace of her grasping
misers lovingly toward silver. There
is no friendship among our financial
manipulators for anything on earth cut
of which money can be made to decent
| ly float the commerce of the country,
and never will be. They are for 100
cent dollar every time; they mean to
double the obligations of the debtor
by enhancing the value of the dollar;
they aim to appreciate the value OF
their bonds and their coin while de-
preciating the. value of our farms and
farm products. They are engaged in
promoting their own selfish interests,
and the remedy in tho hands of the
people is to force into circulation a
dollar that shall be worth 100 cents
and only 100 cents Farmers Voice.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

New York represents the extreme
sendency to the concentration of land
ownership, with its 81 per cent. of
homeless families subject to the ca
price of the landlord. But the average
OF all the cities shows that the tenant
families represent as per cent. of the
total number, while the average of
mortgaged homes is 8 per cent, and of
free from inr-mbrance a pitiful ID per
cent.
Nor is this the most suggestive lesson
of these census figures. In nation
where the people sang in truth but a
few short years ago
And Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us each a farm
to-day 33l per cent. of our farming
population are tenants, just about the
same proportion that is found in Bel
GUM, France. Germany, and many
other countries, while in Sweden the
percentage of farm tenants falls to II
per cent. of the whole number And
yet Maj. Mckinley and the advocates
of protection beast of "the free land
and the free homes which the beneti-
cent Olicy of the Republican party
has encouraged and Developed" What
Is the advantage. save that which
generous nature gives, of the American
farmer over his fellow who leases his
patch of ground in the land ruled by
IL monarch?
The close sympathy between land
and labor as indicated hy the concen
tration OF the former and the increase
in the number of wage-earners, which
Is its unfailing cOncOmItant, is suggest
ed by comparison of census figures
for the last thirty years. In 1860 wage
earners represented 80 per cent. of
those engaged in gainful occupations,
including farmers: III 1880 the per-
centage had grown to 60, and in 1890
it had become 75-three- fourths of the
people depended upon the remaining
fourth for their means of livelihood !;
70 per cent. at the mercy of his majesty
the landlord.
The parallelism is startling, indeed,
and the ever-increasing rents suggest
the possibilities of the future if there
be not some hing done to check the
growing power of the few who own
the land. No sincere, courageous
lrIeuu Va tne people, ho tIul. patIlotic
citizen who earnestly desires the per-
petuation of popular government, can
study these figures and read their
larger meaning and not be impressed
with the imperative and immediate
necessity of such reform as will re-
store to the people their inherent
rights in all natural opportunities and
bring the reign of the landlord to an
end.-Chicago Times.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
Tax the Vampire.

If man should determine to go to
tilling the soil to raise potatoes and
turnips to fill his empty stomach
where would he go to get land?
About the first thing he would run
onto after being ordered to keep off
the grass" of land owned by private
spectators, would be the wire fences
of railroad corporations. To give the
readers some idea of the amount of
land held by railroads as subsidies. We
publish the following list which is
only partial one. Beside the list we
publish, it is safe to es innate that not
one acre less than 100000 900 are not
taken into account. The following
railroads own the number of acres set
opposite their names:
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

They expect the masses TO swallow q
whole truth all at once and it cannot
be done. TO oppose the Peoples
party because it don't go far enough,
to condemn 1t is middle-class move
ment, TO say its agita,ors do not under
tand and desire to abolish wage-slav-
cry, is the vaporing of bigots. To
assert that men who have yet a dollar
or two left cannot be depended on
unless he joins. a certain party, and
wears label Is ridiculous. All re-
form parties are tending toward tn .
abolition of wage-slavery, but The Peo-
pless party school has the largest at
tendance and are most anxious to
learn.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
They Vote Wrong

That the people cannot send ten
pound package of merchandise to any
place ins the United States for ten
cents is because people vote Congress
men who listen to anti-chamber argu-
ments by well-paid Hobbies of the ex-
press companies. 1t can be done with
the present postal plant facilities and
no money lost on it, but then how
would men become millionares in the
express business? Vote for men who
want to leave things as they are!
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
Good Work by Reformers.

The Peoples party is doing more to
educate the voters in economics, to ex-
plain the horrors of wage-slavery and
the remedy, than all other reform par
ties. Get man to thinking on the
subject once, get one economic truth
implanted: lin his mind, and he is pretty
sure to go on to further truths. This
is one thing that one class of economic
reformers do not seem TO comprehend.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

Some years ago it was announced
that there was prospect that dia-
monds would become so plenty that
probably they would not be worth
more than 10 cents carat. But the
prospective yield did not materialize.
just now we are being told that the
yield of gold is largely increasing. For
the last fiscal year our gold coinage
amounted to $99, 494, 912. so, and dur
ing ii months ending with August our
mints coined S10S.0S9, 4125O. The
production of gold during the present
pear in this country is estimated at
So, 100000 or about 100000 over
the production last year. The national
bank dailies, and probably the farm
papers that are run in the interest of
capital, will prase equolently about
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26

In face of this showing we would
like to inquire what there is wrong
about the scheme of Henry George to
tax these vampires till they let go?
Land, air, water and sunshine God
made for man and not for corporations
to speculate ill.,
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
REIGN OF LANDLORDS
MORE THAN HALF OF OUR FAM.
LIES ARE HOMELESS.

Have No Claim Whatever to the Homes
in Which They Dwell-Parallelism That
Is Startling, Indeed-Rcad These Fig
ures and Study Their Meaning.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
N0INCREASE DESIRED
TAXPAYERS THINK UNCLE SANS
ARMY BIG ENOUGH.

Ponipous Gen. Schofield Stands Aghast at
the Condition of the Country and Pro-
poses More Salaries as the Remedy
Work of the Reformers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

FERDINAND WILLIAMS might
speak five times a day from now
until November 9Th and he would
not change a single vote. The men
who have had their wages reduced ,
4or who have lost their employment
altogether through the Democratic
fight against American interests,
have made up their minds how to
vote, and their determination can
not be shaken by demagogic sophis-
try or campaign canards. The
Democratic party has already played
one great bunco game upon the
people of this country. Mr..
Williams, who is one of the advo-
Gates of a free trade tariff, should
remember that schemes Of this kind
are never worked twice on the same
people. The empty dinner pail is
a more powerful argument than all
the speeches Mr., Williams ever
made in his life. A vote for
Williams is a vote for more tariff
smashing, disaster and distress, and
+ ba ,,oOpIo lyDOur ~
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
Mountain Lake Park Jottlngs,


-Four new houses in course of
erection.
The Weaver & Bardell cottage is
being enlarged and otherwise I'M
proved.
Arnold Bros. have plastered Jake
Eckard's cottage.
Mrs, L. A. RudisilI is visiting in
Cincinnati.
W. r. Johnson's cottage is being
plastered.
Howard Echels and family have
returned home from their visit to
Pennsylvania.
Offutt & Son received the con-
tract for Al 900 feet of lumber to be
used on the ice house.
G. W. Conner and John Bailie,
of Wheeling, and L. 7. Yoder, of
Pittsburgh, were visitors at the
Park last week.
The old ice house is no more. A
new ice house is to be erected on
the east shore of the lake. 1t will
be 50xS0x20 feet, and have acapacz.
ity for storing 1000 tons Of ice.
A large force of hands are at
work on the lake with plows and
shovels. Instead of the lake cover
ing 20 acres of ground as originally
intended, it will enclose IS acres.
A large amount Of ditching has
been done through the glades.
The stone abutments for the iron
bridge across the Little Yough are
almost finished. 1t is a substantial
piece of masonry.
Engineers have made surveys for
and investigated the possibility Of
water supply for the Park and re-
port the feasibility of the plan.
The carpenters who are building
Mrs. Nesbitt's house are boarding
at the Assembly House.
Chas. Dawson is painting the
Weaver & Bardall cottage and is
doing a good job,
Several cottages have been rented
for the winter.
Our merchants are dong good
business. They deserve the pat
ronage they are receiving,
a number of Oaklanders are at
work at the Park.
Mrs. M'Ilwane and daughters
have gone to Atlantic City for the
winter.
Mrs. P. 7, Cartwright is visiting
friends IN Pennsylvania.
"Batch' Feathers, clerk Of P. Z.
Cartwright, has purchased CIlne's
cottage. Now that the "nest" has
been secured, ought to
follow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
Indian Summer.

Indian summer in all its hazy
glory has been prevailing during the
past few days. This season is an
inoonstant one: sometimes it pays
us feeting visit of day or two,
sometimes Il week or two, and some
times not at all. Why 1t should be
called Indian summer no man
knoweth for certain, though there
are various myths on the subject,
the most plausible being that 1t
received its name in the colonial
days, when settlers observed that
the season was peculiar to the re-
gion west of the Alleghanies then
occupied by the Indians. In the
East, as already indicated, it is
irregular and uncertain in it's visi-
tations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

points in Kentucky. At Hunting
ton, W. Va, he addressed 10000
people in the afternoon. The gov
ernor frankly admitted there were
mistakes in the tariff law of 1890.
but insisted they were all on the
side Of America. The Wilson law
is found to contain more than 600
errors, but not one of them was in
the interest Of America. "They
did net lcgislate for America even
by accident" exclaimed MCKINLEY.
At Charleston the governor was
given a splendid reception, and an
overflow meeting was necessary,
which was addressed by the Hon,
S. B. E1kins. In his opera house
speech Gov. Mckinley said: cit is
better fer Democrats who believe in
the protection of American homes
to be regarded as traitors to their
party, rather than as traitors to the
best and most sacred interests of
the country. 1t has been charged
that the Republican tariff bill was
full of mistakes, but they were in
the interest of the masses, while of
the 600 mistakes the Democrats had
themselves discovered in their new
bill not one was in favor Of the
people. The governor saae~ when
he spoke in West Virginia two years
ago all was prosperity and good
times, and when he asked if the
same condition prevailed to-day,
there was a great shout Of "No."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25

of confidence and soundness, they
are not likely to reject meritorious
applications for capital.
A feeling approaching uneasiness
has been caused in some quarters
by the high rates of foreign ex-
change and the shipment of 81, 000,-
600 gold to Germany. And vet
there is no visible reason for ex-
pecting any really important move
ment of that kind. One shipment
of 100000 appears to have been
made in settlement of a transient
railroad just matured, and there
are reasons why Germany should
have preferred gold in it's liquida-
ton to anything else. At this
season Of the year, the interior de-
mand for currency always makes
money scarce at Berlin, added to
which Russia has recently drawn
freely on her deposits at that centre.
At New York, the symptoms are
not such as to suggest any contin-
uous adverse state Of the foreign
exchanges. While the rates are
high, there seems to be good deal
of elasticity in the supply of
bills. There is likely, however, to
be nue. more active demand for
gold in Europe than has been ex-
perienced for many months past.
Egypt will call for some e. ,O00,O00
i'll payment for her cotton crop;
Brazil has call upon considera-
BILE sum in payment for her large
exports of coffee; the British Prov
lnces and Scotland are expected to
forthwith draw largely upon the
bank of England; and Austria Hun
gary is ready to sieze every con-
venient opportunitunity to complete
her new currency scheme. 1t is
quite possible therefore that, before
the end of the year, we may need to
increase our exports of merchandise
If we are to escape exports of gold.
HENRY CLEws.