The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-09-07

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produce is exchanged decreases, th,
competition i'll business decreases
in the same proportion Dom
you know that when competition
in business declines, prices decline
Now Captain, don't think yOu car
remedy these matters by buttin2
your brains out against effect, but
go to work to remove the cause
The farmers of this country tried
holding their crops last year foI
a better price, and they like to have
ruined themselves and their mer-
chants too. Now Captain, we were
as big a Democrat once as you ever
were, i'll fact, we always spelled
Democrat with a big "D," but since
we have thrown down the opinion
of others and assumed the privi-
lege of thinking for ourselves, we
have materially changed our opin-
ion, We found that the so-called
Democrats have no democracy
about them, but we did find the
pure old JeifersOnian doctrines in
corpOrated in young and vigor-
ous party. That party was the
"People's party" and OH that rock
we have built our house. This par
ty is party opposed to placing the
volume of money under the issue
and control of a few men by the
issuance of National bank notes,
or promises to pay that are based
upon the entire credit of the peO-
pie of this country, and at the same
time only put into circulation 10y
National banks upon the highest
rates of interest. Size.
This party is also in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver, at the ratio of 16 to /,
with an issue of United States
treasury notes i'll a sufficient
amount to increase the circulating
medium to $50 per capita, and all
money to be full legal tender for
all debts, public and private. Ac-
tual practical experience has taught
us that this will give us relief and
prosperity, and nothing else will
do it. Now if you will aid us to
bring about this reform, you will
get ten cents pound or more, for
your cotton you will find a ready
for it when it is gathered /;
your place will be kept up; your
mules will be fat, and when old
you can replace them with young
ones your old plows be replaced
with new ones your negroes will
not leave you; your children will
be clothed and at school; you can
pay your doctors, lawyers and
preachers; you can furnish better
collins; your Sunday schools can
be supplied; your wife have the
latest fashion, and you can have
your papers, in fact, prosperity will
reign and the ''Devil, Tom Walk
or" aid his family, will subside In
to the distant past. Now Captain,
don't tell us this is politics, and
therefore you are not '.in it, the
best Of photographers tell us, that
politics are ''the science of govern
ment," and therefore if we get re.
lief, we will get it in and through
political action. Don't hang on to
the old tariff kite of the Democrat
ic party any longer. We have had
good and bad times with both low
and high tariff. The conduct of
the Democratic party during this ad-
is sufficient to convince
any man that there is nOthingin the
tariff. We know that if there had
have been anything in the tariff by
which relief and prosperity could
have been brought to the people,
the Democratic party would have
brought it out, more especially so
when it would have perpetuated
the Democratic party in power in
definitely. The fact that there was
no relief given by this Congress is
evidence that there was none in it.
No sir, the main issue is one of
and the only safe financial