The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-09-28
All That People Can Expect Of
the Administration is the Agi-
tation of the Tariff Question.
ED. POPULIST:

Ed. POPULIST:
The administration so o-called Dem
Ocrats and a subsidiezd press, by
sophistry, misrepresentation and
the suppression of facts are endeav-
oring to deceive the people in re-
gard to the cause. and the extent of
the deplorable condition of affairs
that exist throughout this once
prosperous country. Fortunately,
the sinister designs of these par
ties are so patent that they have
ceased to exercise any influence up
on the public mind. These jour
mails are read by the majority of
people simply to crafty the natu-
raj curiosity for news. Such as
murders, cyclones, floods and fires.
These parties would have the peo-
pie believe that overproduction,
credit system, lack of confidence
and protection are the cause of their
woes, and that contraction and pro-
lection is the panacial. They sup
press evidence of election frauds.
They are silent in regard to the
fact that many of the officials to
whom the people should look for
legislation against the encroach-
ment of trusts and combines are
stockholders. and the saleried en-
ployees of the monopolies. They
regale the public with the assurance
that there is evident indications of
returning prosperity, the result
of their wise legislation. And in
evidence of this, cite the statistics
showing decrease in mortgages,
and they aver that real estate is en-
hancing in value. They suppress
the fact that ninety-nine of every
hundred of the mortgages are can
celled by foreclosure of the money
lender, and that nearly every can
celled mortgage represents one
more family of units to the rapidly
increasing army of homeless wand
erers, and they fail to call attention
to the fact that the enhancement of
values, is confined to the localities
that are favored with a bounty or
ample protection. They are vocife-
rous in their feaity to bimetalism.
But he warns the people of the
dangerous experiment of the un-
limited coinage of silver at ratio
of Is to /, without the consent of
all other nations, an experiment
under which this nation prospered,
and that was only abandoned at the
behest and in the interest of the
shylocks.
Such admission is about as rea-
sonable as to warn a man who had
sailed smoothly for years under the
flag of his country, that had been
cast in mid ocean, and was strug-
ling for existence, to be warned OF
the dangerous experiment of trust
ing himself to being rescued on g
staunch bark bearing the flag OF
his country, and to wait, and trust
to an international feet coming tC
his rescue.
They point to the passage of the
administration trust protecting tar
iff bill, and the subsequent ruise OF
the House towards tariff reform,
as an evidence of the administra
tiOns intention to carry cut one OF
their pledges to the people. Should
they do so!
| Could any expectation be more
chimeracal than this would restore
prosperity. Could any course bt
more properously absurd ant
suicide and than for a nation like
ours with resources almost unlimi
ted only partially developed, with
a rapidly increasing population
and heavy outstanding Indebtedness
and to submit to creditor nation,
to dictate her financial policy ant
quietly abide the time, hoping tha
! the national shylocks might a
some time relent and consent to {