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The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21
TO THE PRESS.

State Bureau of Agriculture, !
Baton Rouge, La, Dec. Z, Y4.
We desire to call your attention
to the ninth annual meeting of the
Louisiana State agricultural Society
which will take place at NatchitO
ches on January %, "a and %,
1895.
A large and representative body
Of planters and farmers of this
State is desired at this meeting.
To accomplish this every agricul-
tural organization, including plan
ters' associations, farmers clubs,
oranges and unions are earnestly
requested to send delegates.
The committee on programme
has appealed to the police juries of
the various parishes to send two
or moro planters or farmers as del
egates from each parish. Favor
able action of each police jury is
not only most earnestly desired,
but will meet with the honest ap-
prevail of every friend of agricul.
ture.
The present financial condition
Of our agriculturists calls for seri-
Ous thought aud deliberatiOn.
Low prices of our staple products,
unreliable labor, soil depletion and
high money rates have deprived
our profession of much of its prof.
its and all Gifts pleasures. Chan
ges in our methods and perhaps
in our crops are imperative, and
what these shall be can be best
determined by the combined wis
dom of assembled conventions of.
our leading men. 1t is therefore
earnestly desired that farmers and
planters from all parts of the State
be present at this meeting and
participate in its deliberations.
The old city of Natchitcches will
extend its usual hospitality, and
the farmers of Cane river will vel
come their brothers from other por.
tions of the State.
Respectfully,
A. V. CARTEB,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21
Some Cold Statistics.

Since free coinage was suspend
ed in June, 1898, India has been
unable to export enough products
to pay her gold interest, but has
been compelled to borrow Sc, OOO;-
600 to pay interest on gold obi
cations during the last year, and
she must continue to borrow and
increase her debts under the gold
standard. The United Stases has
been compelled to borrow $685.
600, 900 by the sale of $50, 900, 900
5 per cent bonds and has $50, OOO,-
900 less in the treasury than she
had a year ago under the same
tariff laws that were formerly in
force. 1t is impossible for the
United States to export enough
products at gold prices to pay in
terest on either foreign or demes-
tic debts. There is no way of
avoiding continuous increase of
Indebtedness but by the free coin
age of silver, and that can only be
had through the efforts of the
Populists party.-William M.
Stewart
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

The following circular will be
addressed to school officers through
out the South:
LA. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
Natchitoches, La, Dec. 6, 1894.
At the last meeting of the Board
of Administrators of the Louisiana
State Normal School, it was re-
solved. OIL motion Of Mr.. II. III.
Hargrove, that the 18th of Febru-
airy, 1895, the one hundredth ami.
versary of the birth of George
Peabody, be celebrated with ap.
pr0priate ceremonies at this insti-
tuition; and the President of the
Faculty was instructed to CORES
pond with school officers with q
view to its celebration throughout
tho South.
1t is unnecessary to dwell at
length upon the benefits derived
by the South from the noble gen.
erosity of George Peabody. Not
content to perpetuate his name by
the erection of costly monument
to excite the admiration of the
chance beholder, nor yet to mass
his great wealth in founding a sim
gle institution of learning to afford
higher instruction to the fortunate
few, he chose the less ostentatious
but more fruitful plan of donating
q vast sum to be distributed among
the Southern States in aid of the
free education of all.
No philanthropist, whether Of
ancient or of modern times, ever
devoted great fortune to nobler
uses and no gift was ever more
Opportune. When the South lay
crushed and bleeding and almost
lifeless, his helping hand was held
out to minester 10 the sorest of
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21
Cotton Prices Compared.

A Washington dispatch says:
The returns to the statistical divis-
ion of the department of Agricul-
ture for the month of December
relate principally to the average
farm price of the various agricul-
tural products on the first day of
the month. BY farm prices is
meant the price of products on the
farm, or in the nearest local town
or railway market. In compar-
isons of these prices with, CONNER
cial quotations, allowance must be
madc for cost of handling, trans
portations, profits of dealers. The
averageplantation price of cotton,
as shown by the departments re-
ports on December 1, was 40 cents
per pound, against $50 cents for
the same date last year, and cents
in the year 1892, a decline from
the prices of these years respective
ly of 200 and 3.5 cents per pound.
The lowness of this price is with
out precedent.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

BELAIR, La, Dec. -, 1894.
c. E. Greneaux. Esq, Secretary and
Treasurer, NatchitOches, La:
Dear Sir:-Referring again to
your favor of the 10Th ult. extend
ing the invitation to the city of
Natchitoches to the Louisiana State
Agricultural Society to hold it's
next annual meeting in your city,
and stating again a. then, that
while the invitation has been prac-
ticaIly and already rccepted, and
in fact our good friend Commits
sioner Carter, is already doing all
that he can to make it q success,
l now beg leave to report the Off
cial acceptance by the executive
committee of your invitation and
would say that we shall do all in
our power to make the session at
Natchitoches a brilliant success.
Our secretary and members Of the
Executive Committee will CORES
pond with you, and perhaps have
the pleasure of visiting you in the
interim, and l hope that the final
results will justify the efforts that
you are making.
Yours truly,
JOHN DYMOND.
President.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

that the official returns show that
the Overwhelming majority in the
house of representatives" was OBJ
tanned by cOnsid erably less than
40 per cent of the entire vote cast,
and not to exceed 80 per cent of
the total voting population of tho
country. If there is anything in
this to crow over the republican
shouters are perfectly welcome to
it.
The prospects of the Peoples
party were never as bright aud ell
couraging as now. Victory in 1896
has never been as fattering as now.
Here are some of the reasons:
First: Republicans sent emissa-
ries into the silver states sOlemnIy
promising free silver if republicans
won. Free silver will not be forth
coming, and the mOuntafneers can
not be fooled again in 1896.
Second: Republican speakers
and newspapers have made the
people believe that "times would
be better" if republicans returned
to power. The times will not be
any better; mark our words for
that. In 1896 the people will not
be fooled second time by a prom
Use of better times. On the con-
trary, they will be anxious to pun.
ish the men who misled them this
time.
Third: The "SOlid South" has
been broken; and this means that
the main prop of the democratic
party is gone. Without the solid
south there can be no democratic
party. The democracy will 60 to
pieces; one portion of it (the Cleve-
land wing will naturally drift into
the republican fold and the other
(the better and more progressive)
will join the peoples party.
Fourth: The dissolution of the
democratic party means inevitable
death to the republican party. For
a quarter of centuary it has lived
and thrived on its opposition to
democracy. Hereafter it must
fight the peoples party-and the
fighting must be upon the lines
proposed by the peoples party
and not on bogus ''tariff' issue
or a ''bloody shirt" Upon a
square fight upon the principles
contending for by the new party
the populists will sweep the coun-
try from Maine to California like a
whirlwind.
Fifth: Tho bogus "tariff" issue
has played its part. Republicans
will let the tariff question stand
exactly where the Wilson bill left
it. The money question, and not
the ''tariff," is the one vital issue.
And the people know it.-Chicago
Sentinel.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

horse and has the money to pay
for it, the value is in the horse and
not the money, if it was in the
money he would keep it and let the
horse alone, the man who sells the
horse puts the money in his peck
cts where it lays perfectly dOmant
and worthless until he sees some
thing that he desires, then the
value is in what he desires and he
parts with his money in order to
obtain that which is of value to
him and so continues this exchange
of value for money. Now; the
Picayune of some date says, Sin
addition to tn, immense bounded
Indebtedness and intere' thereon
that we have to pay il gold, we
also have railroad pond and
mortgage Indebtedness of THIR-
TEEN BILLION DOLLARS with inter-
est to pay on that" Now will old
lady Pic. please explain why the
people of the United States have
to pay this immense sum of money
in gold to the railroads! Will it
please tell us when the people here
ever received a single cent in re-
turn therefrom!
If it will do SO it will certainly
be of more interest to the people
than its nonsencical jargon upon
intrinsic ralue and fifty cent dollar,
and while the old lady has her
hand in perhaps she might be in
order to tell what benefit the dear
people had from the one hundred
million dollars bond issue with FIVE
per cent interest for the people to
pay, and also the seventy million
dollars to he donated to the Mica
raugua canal scheme, also the one
hundred and sixty million dollars
to he loaned the Northern Pacific
railroad, also the sixty thousand
dollars per month that is donated
as a subsidy to each of three steam
ship lines, also the one hundred
and ninty -one million acres of pub
lie land donated to the railroads
of the United States. Now to the
gigantic mind of the WALL STREET
editor of the Pic. these questions
may be very simple but to the
great masses of the people they
are hard to understand, and they
are SO simple we doubt not the Pic.
can explain without any trouble, as
the Pic. is a gallant democratic
journal and all these measures are
either democratic or endorsed by
the democratic party, some direct
ly, and some indirectly. Now Pic,
until you explain these matters to
the satisfa ,tion of the people you
had just as well hush about your
cheap dollar. The farmer wants
one dollar wheat and ten cent cot
ton, and you say that a silver
will give them. Let us
have the silver standard by all
means. the farmers are willing to
risk the fifty cent dollar.
Success to the LOUISIANA PoPU-
LIST.
M. F. MACHEN- |
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21
MONTGOMERY, La.
: Dec. 18th 1894.

Ed. POPULIsT:-Before the cleo
ton every democrat that you met
claimed that the grand GU old dem
ocratic party was a friend to silver
and that one more chance for that
party would absolutely give us the
free coinage of silver, but since
the election l have never heard
one of these democrats or their Or
gans open their mouth in favor of
the measure. Even the mighty
Atlanta Constitution that raved so
much about the free coinage of
silver prior to the election has now
swallowed the whole Cleveland
Carlisle banking scheme, which
carries upon its face the most I'M
mitigated gall ever heard of. A
contention that the Government
itself cannot create money but can
transfer the power to create it to
the banks is most ridiculous alb
surdity and is too flimsy to cover
the deep laid scheme and perfdy
of those who arc connected with It.
This infamous scheme to rob the
people has been made too plain
for any intelligent man (who in
vestigates) to doubt it. The Daily
Piclyune of the 10th inst, tells us
in an editorial that the silver stand
ard for free coinage of silver
would put wheat up to one dollar a
b ishel and cotton to 10 and IL
cents pound, but says the Pie
when the farmer comes to pay his
debts he would only have a fifty
cent dollar. We were hopeful
that this kind of demogogy had
faded away before the intelli-
gence of the people but alas here
is a great daily Haunting the same
old twaddle. The United States
has had the free coinage of silver
from 1892 to 1892, and yet we have
never heard of a fifty cent dollar
until the recent attempt by Shy
lock to rob the people. Will some
of these delectable gentlemen who
harp SO much about the intrinsic
value of silver, tell US why a dollar
stamped upon piece of silver of
the commercial value of fifty cents
is not worth as much as a dollar
stamped upon piece of paper of
one cent commercial value, let
them explain this or forever shut
up their everlasting twaddle about
intrinsic value in money. There
is no value whatever in money it.
self if it would not buy what the
humane race desires, it would be
utterly useless.
If . man desires to purchase a
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

at is funny" says an exchange,
"to see business men with half the
sales and 0ne-fourth the profits
they formerly had, march to the
polls and vote to continue the pol
icy that created these conditions
that made their customers unable
to buy more.'
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

Job work must be paid for on
delivery.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-12-21

President, La. State Normal School.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
j ROYAL MO 7 R-IN-IhW.
Woman Who Holds the rcarc Of En-
rop. in Her Hands.

II j. tn" popular IDEA that in the
hands IF the ear nf Russia lies the
fate If Europe The situation i some
thing like TINS. ore thc one hand is
the triple alliance Germany. Austria
ltalV. ON tn. ~ her hand i unrestful
rance, and. thrrr'"'. ]. natural rnlnitv
10 trrl:.aAt. To-. Il for an invincihlt
ally. i;u>>ia v.,,n il l":eiun> "f men
machines. IL cannon. IL war ships lis
guld ready 10 h, thrown against The
peace IF Europe. j. at the command
uf un,. mind. one y III that If the ear.
y" other such l,"trutatr exists on
earth. Yet the popular idea. il seems.
j. wrong Not in the hands and at the
viii If this powerful monarch lies the
peace # Europe. II rests between The
gentle. frail palms Of a woman. the
ears m"thcrin-law. According TO NJ.
l.. Blowitz. in an article on the Situa-
ton in Europe in Met lures Magazine.
tut for the queen of Denmark Europe
would he a battle-ground, and the civil
lied world would rcsound with the
trroan> Of the wounded and the cries OF
the women and children who are be-
reft. The queen of Denmark loves the
Young Emperor William, whom she af-
fectionately calls my angel" The
ear loves the mother of his wife 1t
is her gentle diplomacy that brought
about the meeting of reconciliation be-
tween the two emperorS at kiel. 1t is
to crafty the kindly affection and not
to prieyc the affectionate heart of n
woman in her declining years that
the two proud young turkey-cocks Of
emperor> are f"rhearing to Stay one
anothcrs subjects and drench Europe
in blood. Surely the power of affec-
ton and the intlu nee of woman was
never shown in. a more interesting
manner. But what is best worth re-
marking is that the destiny of Europe
10 in the keeping of IA mother-in-law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
PEOPLE OF EUROPE.

THE French government has granted
Nine. Renan an annual pension Of 5000
francs.
Miss FAwcETT, the young English
woman of "above-the-senior-wrangler"
fame, has adopted the profession Of an
electrical engineer.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY declares that he
will be a candidate for a seat in parlia-
ment at the next election and that he
has no intention of returning to Africa.
MAX MEYER, who recently took the
degree Of Phi. d. in the University of
Berlin after an examination in which
he excited the admiration of his pro-
fessors, was born blind in that city
twenty-eight years ago.
THE expression: "Vox populi vox
Dei"-the voice of the people is the
voice Of God-was used in the writings
of William of Malmesbury, who was
born A. d. 1915 or 1895 and died about
1142. He quoted the expression as .
proverb even in his time sufficiently
well known.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
SAVED BY HIS HORSE.
Very Peculiar Escape Of = Man from .
Freak In the lee.

Very Peculiar EacRpe of = Man from .
Break In the Ice.
The story comes up from below the
city. says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal
about a man who attempted to cross
the Androscoggin on the ice and was
swamped, together with his team. He
had been hauling wood across the river
for several days, and had just one more
load to haul.
As the water was up on the face OF
the ice he first thought to put off haul
ing it, but the thought that perhaps
there would not be another chance to
haul it made him go across. When he
started back he thought he wouldn't GO
in the same track where he had hauled
the rest, so he went little above.
The ice began to crack slowly when
he got to the middle. Quick as q fash
he unfastened the two tugs and one
holdback. Then he struck the horse
violently with the whip. At the same
time the sled load of wood went
through with crash. He commence
TO sink with it. but when the horse hac
been struck he jumped ahead and
breaking the of holdback, jerked the
man off the load and dragged him te
the shore with the reins. There he
stopped and the man got up.
When he looked back the top Of the
wood and the shafts could be seen stick
ing out of the hole in the ice. He says
that he had rather lose the wood thar
60 near the hole again. 1t is frozen IL
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
Shell Mounds Of Hiorida.

A ships officer who has spent much
time on the St. Johns river, Florida,
thinks that he has solved the problem
as to the origin of the shell mounds
that occur along that stream. The
river twists about in an extraordinary
way. SO that in many places q view
along the water extends for only few
rods, but he finds that tall object Of
the smoke of a fire shown from the top
Of one of these mounds could be seep
from those next below and above, and
he believes that these eminences were
Indian signal stations, by means Of
which the natives were able to an.
nounee the approach Of hostile force
along the river, as the Greeks signaled
the news of the fall of Troy to then
home cities by lights on the mountain
tops, that were repeated from peak r
peak.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
A QUEER WRESTLING MATCH.
The Wonderful Feat Of . Professional
wrestler.

Col ]. H. Mclaughlin, once the
champion collar-and-elbow wrestler of
the world, has Just come of victor in q
struggle for life with Q bull. The
colonel enlisted as q private in the
Twenty-sixth New York infantry at the
beginning Of the civil war, and after a
service Of four years and four months
ne came out q colonel in the Twenty
fourth New York cavalry. At the end
If the war he settled at Detroit. where
he acquired his great reputation as a
wrestler Lately he has INDUCED in
none Of these athletic contests. Five
years since he came to Seattle, and this
:ity is now his home.
A day or two ago he had an oppor-
tunity to show that he had not lost his
former skill. He was crossing a ter
acre lot, filled with brush, stumps and
fallen timber. He was in the center Of
the lot when he saw a big red bull COM
ing toward him. Supposing the bull to
be Of a peaceful disposition, Col. Nc
Laughlin walked leisurely along until,
warned by an angry believing, he
turned and saw the bull within ten feet
Of him. There was no installing the
animals intentions, for its head was
down, tail erect and feet paving the
earth. The colonel knew he was in for
a struggle, but before he could move
the Infatuated beast had him on its
horns. The wrestler's presence of mind
did not desert him. Quick as a flash he
seized the horns, and after the first toss
up he found himself on the back of the
animal, but still clinging to the horns.
An instant later the bull bucked and
Mclaughlin was lying in brush heap
ten or fifteen feet away.
The man picked himself up just in
time to receive a fresh onslaught. By
. dexterous feint he avoided the rush.
and with his right hand seized the left
horn of the bull, and with his left hand
the nose ring. The contest then be-
came one of brute strength against
human skill and intelligence combined
with unusual force and endurance
For a time the bull semed to be getting
the best of the bout and the battle.
The beast would toss his head in the
xir. hurting the wrestler about, and
bringing him to earth again with a
crash among the bushes and brambles.
The athlete held his grip, however, and
avoided being thrown under the feet of
his adversary.
With his clothes torn from his body.
and bleeding from many scratches and
bruises, Col. Mclaughlin had about
made up his mind that the champion
ship belt of the world for collar-and-
elbow wrestling, which hangs in his
house. must go to the bull. when he
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06

thought of an expedient. Without
loosening his hold he sprang to one
side. placed his hip against the bulls
shoulder. and exerting all his strength.
succeeded in cross-buttocking the ami
NAL. The bull went heavily down.
head under, and one horn driven deep
into the ground. The nan had won
the match.
Then he was in the plight of the
hunter with the bear by the tail. He
could hold the bull. but he did not dare
to let 90. He sat on the beasts head
and rested. Finally he drew his knife,
and was opening his knife with his
teeth, to put an end to the bulls life.
when some men, who had seen the COM
bat from a distance. came to the rescue
and secured the bull. Col. McLaugh-
Inns clothes hung in tattcrs and he was
badly bruised and scratched. but h
still holds the championship belt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-06
A Cats Trip to India and Rack.

A good cat story. says the London
correspondent of the Yorkshire Post.
comes from Bombay. In August
Liverpool resident proceeding to Bonn.
bay took out with him a cat which
he intended to present to a friend
in India Some days after the arrival
of the steamer in Bombay pussy was
missed, and, though she was searched
for high and low, she was nowhere tc
be found. Her owner had quite given
her up for lost when he received in.
telligence from England that the cat
had made her appearance at her old
Liverpool home on the 25th of October
as calm and collected as though a trip
to India and back was quite in the or.
binary course of her life. The facts are
vouched for by Bombay paper, and
there is no reason to doubt their sub
stantial accuracy.