The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-28
Judge Harlan says it is not a crime
to quit work.
POINTS FOR The PEOPLE.


-Inequitable distribution of labor's
productions is the father of the great
discomfort now everywhere prevailing.
The remedy for the trouble would
seem to be proper disposition of the
creator.
Competent authority states that
under proper conditions America could
consume our entire product at home
and at the same time regulate its price
which would be two or three times
that now NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Il am populist and am in favor of
wiping both the old parties out so they
will never come into power again. l
have been a democrat all my life and
am ashamed to admit it. want every
one of you to go to the polls and vote
the populist ticket.-E. V. Debs.
What this nation wants-what the
world wants, is not a system under
which human beings are compelled to
beg for chance to work, but system
under which chance to labor, and
the enjoyment of the fruits of ones Ia
Dor, shall be guaranteed as the basic
rights of every human being.-New
Charter
The old parties combined to SLAM
der and abuse us rather than try any
longer to furnish argument against
the facts we are presenting to the peo-
pie every day, but the voters are awak-
ening to the truth and making prepar-
ations to visit the ballot box this fall,
with a quiet determination Co vote for
principle, instead of being influenced
by prejudice and falsehood
Express.
No man should be permitted to
monopolize the earth or the minerals
it contains any more than the air above
it. They are the common heritage of
all the people, and a private appropri-
alton of them is robbery. And men
commit this crime in order to get the
power to commit another. What they
want is to rob labor of its rewards and
appropriate them to their own use
Star and Kansan.
The peoples party is the only party
on earth that stands unqualifiedly for
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold at the ratio of 16 to L
that is the silver dollar 16 times as
heavy as the gold dollar-and this be-
ing SO the man who believes this is
right and yet sticks to either of the old
parties must be simple indeed. If you
want reform vote for it. that's the only
Sensible way.-Liberty Bell.
Henry Clews gave the whole snap
away when he sent the Mercury a cir
cular, saying in effect ''the democratic
and republican leaders of congress
have given us wall street, to under
stand that they will provide for the is
suance of $500, 900, 600 more bonds to
base national bank currency upon, and
coinage and legal tender paper money
razes."-Scuthern Mercury.
-Laboring men are to blame for their
poverty in one respect. For years they
have been voting for the men who have
created the laws that have made their
condition thus. There is no reason
why the Industrial class should not
have the majority of representation in
congress and see to it that laws benefi-
cial to them are framed. By affiliating
with the peoples party they have taken
the first step toward their own eman
cipation.-P Herald.
We notice that some of our peoples
party papers are clubbing with old
party papers and offering the two at
about the price of one. 1t don't pay,
boys. When an eight-page weekly
paper is offered you for clubbing pur-
pose at only 25 cents a year, just set it
down that some campaign committee
is making up the balance of the cost,
and throw the offer in the waste
basket. Let the old parties circulate
their own papers; none of the old party
papers will club with yours.
Some persons who claim to be
friendly to organized labor tell the la
boring men that they should not in
dorse any party-not even the peoples
party. These self-styled labor leaders
are doubtless under the thumb of one
or both of the old parties. Why should
not organized labor indorse the peo-
pies party? Was not the peoples
party born at a convention Of farmers
and thirteen orders of organized labor
at st. Louis? What is the peoples
party, any way, bpt q labor party?-