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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Definitions.

Except quotations from Century die
tionary:
Higway-A public road or passage;
a way open to all passengers, either by
land or water.
Highwayman - A robber on the
highway; one who robs passengers in
public roads or places.
Robber-One who commits a rob-
berry.
Robbery act of unjustly and
forcibly depriving one of anything.
Highwaymen = highway robbers;
those who unjustly deprive 1t is
not then question of law, but OF NOR
als-of right and wrong. The man
who stops the stage coach and
levies tribute at the point of pistol in
his own hand-he is highwayman :;
so, too, are all the members of a band
who do this same thing, each and all
using the same kind of instrument as
persuader. How about those who
do the same acts. but under different
methods, though using the same III
struments as accessories, but held not
in their own hands-in the hands of
paid agents who are variously known
as police, soldiers, or marines? But
these are creatures of the law, LIE us
see where their moral position is
Chicago Times.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Don't Want ANYTHING.

The National Bankers Association
that met at Baltimore was a modest
set of men. They drew up bill they
want to be added to the banking laws,
and appointed committee to press it's
passage before Congress. They want
to be allowed to issue bills without
any bonds to any amount they see fit,
and the Government to guarantee
their bills, and the Government is to
do this for the actual labor cost Of
engraving and printing. The old
wild cat banking swindle is nothing to
this scheme. They will put up lois of
grease to get it passed. And Why
not? Are not the people so ignorant
of the money problem that they Will
never detect the cheat? Won't they
believe the old party speakers and
press who will tell the people it is all
right? And can't the bankers sweeten
their sugar for doing this? What are
bankers for if not to skin the people,
and the more effectually they can skin
them the more successful the business.
And Americans read these things in
their papers, see the blighting effects
all over their land, and 60 out and yell
and vote for the men who uphold the
system that produces them.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Couldn't Understand.

An exchange says a farmer was
arrested and fined the other morning
for selling adulterated milk. adulter-
Grated with little harmless water.
He wore at the time suit of all wool,
90 clothes. badly adulterated with
shoddy, and boots whose soles were
adulterated with paper or wood shaw
ings. For breakfast he drank adulter-
ated coffee, his meat was spiced with
adulterated pepper. his cakes pulled
up with adulterated baking powder,
his pickles soured with adulteraed
vinegar, his pie was seasoned with
adulterated spice, his wife was out of
sorts because the could not make good
bread out of adulterated flour that
had been sold to her for the "best;" in
fact, he saw and felt the effect of
adulteration whichever way he looked,
and he had never heard of any of tha
adulterators being arrested or fined.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23

as its prototype did the past, civiliza-
ton?
The old feudalism was based upon a
monopoly of the soil, and the hered-
itary succession of ruling houses. The
present is based upon the monopoly of
the natural means of production,
transportation, communication and
exchange. 1t is based, not upon ma
tural rig is, but upon l. galized class
privileges. Powers and privileges de-
MED to indivi uals are granted by law
to corporations, 10 extort from indivi-
duals.
A thousand toilers produce million
dollars worth of wealt ;, and law com
pels them to give it to one individual
or a corporation. An Aston is assessed
81 900, 900 towards defraying the ex-
pense of protecting his vast estates,
and law compels his poor tenants to
pay it. A corporation uesires to Great e
500, 000,0 900 of wealth, AMI the law
allows it to water its stock to that
amount, and then tax it's value out OF
the people by increased rates for serv-
ice.
Robbery, robbery, robbery is diff
fused through, and permeates every
department of our national, state and
municipal q. ministration. Robbery
begets wealth, wealth begets power,
and the two combined have brought
society to a condition of evaporation
AMI revolt, and revolution, either
through the ballot or by force. is
pressing to the front.-Chicago Senti-
mel.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Act to Strengthen the Public Credit.

An act passed in 1869 under Grants
administral ion, called an act to streng-
then the public ere lit, changed bonds
and United States notes to the amount
of 81, 800, 000,000 into coin notes that
originally had been made by law pay
able in lawful money of the country.
The following is the celebrated act
to strengthen the public credit, passed
by a Republican Congress in 1869,
which started the panic that carried
the country to crisis in 1873.
BE it enacted, etc, that in order to
remove any doubt as to the purpose of
the Government to discharge all its
obligations to tie public creditors, and
to settle conflicting questions and in
terpretations of the law, by virtue of
which such obligations have been con-
tracted, it is hereby provided and de-
clared that the faith Of the United
States is solemnly pledged to the pay
ment in coin or its equivalent of all
the obligations of the United States
not bearing interest, known as United
States notes. and all of the interest
bearing obligations, except In case
where the law authorizing the issue of
any such obligations has expressly
provided that the same may be paid in
lawful money, or in other currency
than gold and silver; but none of the
said Understanding obligations, not
already due, shall be redeemed or paid
before maturity, unless at such times
as United States notes shall be con-
vertable into coin at the option of the
holder, or unless at such time bonds
OF e United States, bearing lower
rate of interest than tue bonds to he
redeemed can be sold at par in coin.
And the Uni ed States also sOlemnly
pledges its faith to make provision for
the REDEEM ption of tho United States
NOES i'll coin.
The bondholders who were to be
benefit ed and cared for so tenderly by
this strengthening act had reaped a
harvest of profit out of the Govern
ment in the purchase of the bonds.
BY manipulating the finances they
forced a depreciation on paper cur
rency and bought bonds with it, and
then formed the strengthening act in
order to get gold on their bonds.
Here are few figures that will show
how the bond buyers made millions
out of the Government from 1862 tC
1868.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
KEEP A-VOTIN'.
II at first you don't succeed,
Keen a-yOtin'

II at first you don't succeed
Keep a-yotin'.
Twill surely down the money greed,
Keep a-vOtin.
No use to grumble and complain
IL justice don fall down like rain,
To hit the game take steady aim.
Keep a-yotln'.
II by chance you meet defeat,
Keep a-vOtin'.
None but towards cry defeat;
Keep vOtin'.
Stand your ground, defend the right.
Talk reform with AL your might
Note until the tine To fight
Keep a-votin'.
Educate, we can and must,
Keep a-votin'.
Twill down the combine and the trust,
Keep a-vouln'.
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
Till the land anu till the head,
Don't be driven and don't be led.
Keep a-votin'.
Truth is mighty. it will prevail,
Keep a-vOtin.
Earnest efforts rarely fail.
Keep a-votin.
With trust IN God anu powder dry,
The hosts OF evil we N DEFY.
And knock the Demo hepS SKY high.
Keep a-votin'.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Go.ernment Owns 1t.

Did you ever think about the fact
that no tax is collected to operate the
postal system? The small deficit is
caused by too low a rate to newspapers
and shutting out of profitable mer-
chandise packages by prohibitary
rule, but the system pays its own way.
Neither tariff, excise or direct tax is
necessary to this operation. People
get value received for all they pay for
stamps. But what benefit does the
x-payers get who pays two prices for
articles because of tariff, or who de-
posts with the county treasurer part
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Net profit in 20 years. ........S 81, U3,

Certainly lot of Government rob-
bers who were permitted to pocket
nearly two and one-half billion dollars
of the Government should have been
further protected by an act strength
ening the public credit.
This was the sort of financial policy
that brought on the panic of 1873, and
the continuation of such outrageous
robbery has finally upset the natural
laws and made it impossible for man
to eat bread by the sweat of his face.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23

THESE are prosperous times. The
trusts are making more money than
ever before. The railroads show in.
creased net earnings. The banks are
busy with money and piling up mort
cages on everybody. Yes, these are
prosperous times-for some people.
Are you wise enough to study and see
what politics have to do with i, and
why you are not one Of the elect?
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23

Since Democrats everywhere are
Boosting of the honesty and patriotism
of their leaders, we take pleasure in
calling attention to few important
characters that have figured as leading
Democrats during the past decade:
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
A Reasonable Compsrisen.


A record of twenty-five years of old
par. y rule gives the country debt of
go, O0O, 100000, with 1000, 900 mort
gagged homes, 4, 000, 900 men out of en-
ployment, with over 1000 600 tenant
farmers and 100000 tramps and a
free soup house in every city and
public charity strained to it's utmost
tension.
A result of two years of Populist
Iule will reduce the debt two-thirJs,
raise two-thirds of the mortgages off
the homes of the people, give every
man employment at renumerative
wages, obliterate the last vestige of
trampdom and free soup houses will
be unknown. Money will be plenty,
every body will receive the full value
of his labor, all of our products will
have a market and Uncle Sam will
manage his own farm without suggest
ions and dictations from England or
any other country on top of the earth.
Advantage of Government Ownership.
The distance between Cincinnati
and st. Louis is $40 miles. To pull
mail coach between the two points
the Government pays 1884 cents per
mile or $36.86. Tl:is is hauled on the
fastest train, and would seat forty to
sixty people, which at the lowest fig
ures would cost but 90 cents fare.
This is not theory is something
that is being done every day and the
railroads are making money out OF it.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Get on the WagOn.

The only thing the robber corpora
tons fear from their men is their votes.
Heretofore the men have been giving
their manhood suffrage to these mon
sters, voting their tools into office, and
they have been robbing the men and
the public. The statutes are bristling
with laws in their interests, but not
one for the benefit of the toiling slaves.
Never can the men who work rise
above the level of menials while the
laws are as they are. This year there
is stir among The people. The men
are reading They are organizing
into more compact bodies. They are
studying the effect of certain laws and
of trusts and monopolies. They are
beginning to understand few things
that heretofore were mysteries. There
is going to be a hair-pulling. The
plutocrats are alarmed. They are
scared They are EN- Toying money.
They are hiring skilled traitors to
enter every lodge. They are trying to
cause dissention. In many places
they will succeed. But there is one
organization these wretches cannot
control. The Peoples party has men
that money will not buy. These men
know the problems to be solved. They
left the old parties when the fight
seemed hopeless. They are fighting
for home and liberty. They are in
earnest. The organization is toe
large to be broken. To this haven OF
safety the men who toll as slaves are
invited. Their interests are identic
They both oppose the same enemy.
The Peoples party is the union of all
labor organizations. l means victory.
II means that men shall receive all
they make-not u small part of it as
now. 1t means big wages for those
who work. nothing for those who
don't. 1t means a good home free OF
debt, good clothing, good eating, and
enjoyment for all who labor. If you
want these things, get on the wagon.
there is good seat for all.-COmlng
Nation.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
False and Ridiculous Reasoning.

Democrats refuse to coin silver for
fear it will not stay on parity.
This is easily proven most arrant
nonsense and humbuggery.
The present silver dollar contains
only so cents of commercial value.
1t is on a parity. A silver dollar
will buy as much IN the market as a
gold dollar.
A silver dollar will pay as much
debt as a gold dollar. Ii a 90 cent
dollar remains on parity why would
not a -1.29 dollar be on Il parity?
The free coinage of silver would i'm
mediately increase the price of silver
bullion to that figure.
Would increasing the price of silver
bullion tend to decrease the purchas-
ing power of the silver dollar?
Democrats of the Mills Hoke Smith
variety say it would. Such an asser-
ton is directly opposite to reason.
Is there any probability that dol
lar containing S1.29 worth of metal
would not have us great a purchasing
power as a dollar containing only 60
cents worth of metal?
This nonsense about the parity of
the silver dollar is too ridiculous for
good nonsense There is not a shadow
of probability of lack of parity in a
silver dollar coined under a free coin
age law.
The idea is not only absurd, but it is
contrary to reason to make any such
assertions. 1t is not made in earnest.
If iS made at tha diets tiOn of the money
power, and the Democratic orators
have agreed to attempt to stuff it down
the throats of the people.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23

IL YOU tulnk, uOueSC hepuDllcdu OT
Democratic friend, that your party
can be trusted in the struggle of the
people against the thraldom of the
trusts and combines, just notice how
quiet your old party papers are re-
garding the robberies now being COM
mitted by these barons. When you
are injured why do you not sound the
danger alarm? They have no word of
condemnation. They have been paid
the price of Judas, and they leave
you to the tender mercies of these hy-
enas. What other evidence do you
want? VIII you continue to vote to
have these men reduce you to still
greater depths of dependence
Haven't the old papers been lulling
you into submission for years, and
have things not been going from bad
to worse? Don't you see that the rich
are gathering in all the wealth of the
country, through chicanery and fraud,
reducing the millions to beggary, and
those papers you look to for council
have abandoned you to your fate! Is
there anything that will make you
break your fealty to the old parties
Are you going to vote for them when
they are enslaving yourself and neigh
bors? Will you not listen to reason
Think of the condition your children
will be In if the present system con-
tinues. What chance will they have
of being anything but slaves? Every
article of life is being monopolized.
What chance will they have against
such competition? Think Think
Think
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
Hard Times.

Hard times? What do you mean
when you say the times are hard ?
Did you ever try to form a picture in
mean? The times are not hard. This
particular portion of the infinity of
time is not preceptibly different from
any other period. 1t has brought the
seasons in regular order, its sunshine
and showers, it's harvests of all that
could happily mankind. Nature has
yielded increased return for every hour
of toll more of the good things TO eat,
drink, wear, shelter, amuse and in
s.ruct. Then if this be true times are
not hard. The fault lies In another
direction. The fault lies with mems
actions toward each other. A few men
have induced the ignorant many to
agree to give these few an ever-increas-
ing amount of what they produce, I'M
til the amount has become so great
that the producers are not retaining
enough to live on, while the few are
surfeiting in abundance. They have
allowed themselves TO be swindled in
the exchange of their handiwork for
others they wanted. They have per-
mitted the few who own the railroads
and commerce TO take the greater part
of all they create to convey 1T to an
other place where wanted and bring
back things they desired in exchange.
No, times are not hard = they are
bounteous to the fullest. But when
people let others take from them all
they create for merely handling it,
they will assuredly be in want and
despair.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23
OUR ROYAL ROBBERS
THE USES AND THE ABUSES OF
GOVERNMENT

Our Government Has Degenerated Into a
Monarchy-A Despotism of Corporate
Usurption Revolution Either Through
the Ballot or 10y Force is Coming.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-23

of his labori Can he use the receipt
perhaps a thousandth part of the
labor it would require him to do? Not
much. What he pays is the tribute
the king levies on his subject to pay
for the luxury of having great people
who can do no useful work. Railroads,
telegraph, coal, oil, and all other
industries can be operated on the
postal system, and each employe will
create the value represented by his
salary. County, state and national
officials to-day consume the salary
without rendering an equivalent, he
cause the Offices are useless, as at
present organized.
"Mendacious Individuals"
Ernst Seyd, son of the London bank
er of that name, under date of Oct. 5,
1894, writes to Gordon Clark of the
American Bimetallic League concern
ing the part his ia; her took in demon
etIZing silver:
AS this story is confined to few foolish peo-
pie in the United States. and would not lie en-
terta ned for moment by any one having the
slightest knowledge OF the world or of curren-
cy matters, | must ask you to acknowledge
you have been mislet in this matter Failing
this, | shall be obliged 10 add your name TO
tne list which will shortly be published, OF
mendacious individuals. including a u. S.
Senator or two. who have villifed the mem
ory OF the first champion OF silver. and are too
cowardly to correct their statements.
SO the English bankers keep a list
of "mendacious" citizens of the United
States who refuse to do their bidding.
Ell? Is it not about time that Amer
leans cut loose from the London
bankers who make our laws? Are our
people SO blind they cannot see the
dictation of England III all our laws?
They own most of our banks and our
railroads and our factories and great
industries; they own or have q mort
gage on the very soil we live on, and
we submit to these degradatIons and
imagine we are self-governing peo-
pie. The men We elect get mysterious
ly rich. Private monopoly is the
cause. Public monopoly is the RENE
dy. Our Government would not GER
tainly be as grasping as all these
leeces who sap the wealth from the
people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-06-07

crap.shooters and jointers were in
such force and such clover in this
town as now. Under the metropol-
itan police law the keynote of local
government is struck in Topeka.
The governor has been importuned,
for the good of the party and for
the sake of common decency, to
strike higher note than he is sound
ing am reluctantly forced to the
conclusion that he continues in the
double bass because it pays him to
do so. On what other hypothesis
can you account for any mans per-
mitting such a damaging appearance
of collusion if the reality is not en-
joyed?
"The conditions are such that
nine-tenths of our people believe
that the administration is in some
way beneficiary of the lawlessness
of this town. We owe it to our
selves, both as patriots and parti-
sans, to turn down officials of whom
such charges are true, or whose con-
duct is such as to render them
probable"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-06-07
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTING.
Topeka, KAs., June 2, 1894.

Topeka, KAs., June 2, 1894.
EDITOR AGIrAToR The manner in
which the county convention of
Shawnee county was conducted to-
day destroys all my hopes of any
relief coming to the oppressed toll
ers of this state from the present
all.powerful machine entrenched in
the state Offices and the state central
committee of the Kansas Peoples
party organization, and forces the
above question upon me, and l,
therefore, ask permission of you to
give short history of the rise of
our party, and the present condition
of the same, at the present time in
the embrace of the Unsuitable devil
fish of machine ring knowing no
principle or guiding force beyond
the lust for Office and the spolls that
Official corruption can procure.
The Peoples party of Kansas was
organized on the 18th day of
August, 1890, as the honest protes:
of the people of Kansas, who had
become worn out with disgust at
the oppression of the machine, ring
of the Republican party, and the
keystone of it's foundation and its
rallyiug cry in that campaign was:
"The office should seek the man, and
not the man the office;" and, with
concluded on 9Th page
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-06-07
THE STATE ADMINISTRATION
CRITICIZED.

At the recent Populist convention
of Wyandotte county, held at Kan
sas City, Kas., Senator Taylor crit
icised the present state administra-
tion in the following language
"In support of his resolution
Mr.. Taylor, among other things
SAID:
1.-TWO years ago at this time,
gentlemen, you selected delegates
who in turn chose governor. The
delegates whom you name to-day,
if they have the wisdom, in con-
junction with their co.partners in
the convention to be held on the
18th of June, to name as our stan
dard-bearer a man of known char
acter and ability like Governor Rob-
inson, or w. A. Harris, or Senator
Forney, or DR.. McLallin, can. for
the second time, nominate victor
But if they should have the unwis-
dom to nominate Governor Lewell-
ing it will take five figures, in my
judgment, to reach to the bottom
of the majority under which he
will be buried.
"The blighting effect of the gov
ernor's career upon the fortunes of
his party is hard to match in all his
tory. Up to the time of his inaug-
uration the Peoples party in Kan
sas had had a remarkable growth.
But every election which has been
held and every other test of party
strength which | know of shows
that although the very stars in their
courses have fought for thePopulists,
as they fought for Sisera, we have,
nevertheless, lost strength, in
stead of gaining, ever since the
fatal day when l.. D. Lewelling's
ample anatomy first pressed the
velvet of the gubernatorial chair.
Permit me to remind you that we
fought the campaign of two years