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The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-05

The session OF the legislature is
dragging along mighty slowly. and
unless brisker pace is struck it will
be midsummer before final ADJOURN
ment is reached. Houston Post
Why. bud; We thought they were
retor:neys- good Democratic reform,
ers, -
The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-05

"Schrage's 100000 Rheumatic
Cure" never failed. Pleasant, harmless.
Doctors praise it. True testimonials
free. Take no other. Write to-day.
S. r. c. Co., 167 Dearborn street, Chi
cago, III.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-05

Here we find that the entire funda-
mental crops of the farmers will
bring but one-half of the interest
tribute demanded OF the people.
How is the balance OF this interest to
be met. and how will the principal be
liquidated under present conditions
are not easily answered. The only
method through which it is possible
to accomplish this desired end is to
increase the volume of money in cir
culation, thereby raising prices and
making one bushel OF wheat, or one
pound of cotton, or one days work.
pay twice as much debt and interest
as they do at the present time.
To do this is the great object of
financial reform, which. in our judge
ment, must come at once, or the peo-
pie will become bankrupts. Wash
ington Watchman.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-05

We win meet the enemy on our own
line Of hattIe-not upon "his chosen
iine." We have forced the issue, and
Fia -ores tae night
The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-05
FINANCIAL REFORM.
AN ARRAY OF MOST STARTLING
FIGURES
Change the Facts, Neither Does it Re-
lieve Us From the Payment Of So, ssI.-
900, 900 OF Interest Annually.

The following statement of indebt-
sdness is doubtless within the bounds
Of conservatism. We call especial
attention to the table. and suggest
that it be held for further reference:
It shows the debt of the nation par
tally classified:
Total steam railroad debt. ........S 6,00O,0O0000
Total stock issued (rairoed) ...... 50C0 900, 900
The advocate., 1895-02-20
BEYOND A DOUBT.

One of our late exchanges dis"
cusses the uncertainty of the ordi-
nary signs of dissolution under the
caption, when Is Death Realp II
we were called upon to answer this
question, we should point to che null
titude of people who starVe to death
from day to day in all parts of the
country, and to the others who are
found frozen as stiff as an iceberg,
as instances concerning Whicn there
need not be a shadow of doubt. The
public authorities of our Christian
cities and the charitable boards
throughout the country need not
hesitate to bury these people through
fear that they are not dead. There
is not the least bit of doubt about it.
Even their ghosts will require con-
siderable recuperstion after their
arrival on the other side of the river
before they will feel inclined to take
a pleasure trip back to this highly
favored Christian land, the scene Of
their earthly joys and triumphs.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

mercy Of the bankers, and the ways
and means committee feels bound to
Concede to their demands.
Since che above was written the
contract for the sale of the forth
coming issue Of bonds has been pub
lished, and it will be found iu an
other column of this issue. It re-
quires no comment. 1t speaks for
itself. Haven't we "the best banking
system the world has ever seen?"
Do you think the bankers doubt iti
The advocate., 1895-02-20
CONFIRMATION OF GEORGE t. ANTHONY.

While, as a general rule, we would
not desire the PopuIist senate TO en-
bsrrsss the administration or throw
any obstacles IN the way of Its free
exercise of the privilege of appoint
ment to public positions by refusing
to confirm such selections as the gov
ernor may choose to make, yet when
a man so VIGOROUSLY dishonest as
George T. Anthony is selected for as
important place as insurance com.
missioner, we doubt the wisdom of
his confirmation. 1t may be true
that the responsibility Of his acts will
rest chiefly upon his party and upon
the governor, yet if he should be
guilty of defalcstion or of any other
serious abuse of trust, 1t will be diff
cult for those senators who voted for
his confirmation to shift their share
of the responsibility. The republi'
can party may be short ofhonest men
for such positions, as this appoint
ment would seem to be confession
that it is, but in our Judgment it
would have been good policy to have
permitted the governor to look over
the material at his disposal once
more.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

Thirty years after Lincoln's death
10 came to pass that in many cities
the people Of leisure and Of the fash
ionable clubs and churches celebrated
the good mans birthday in modern
style. Bot so far as we can learn,
none Of the dude orators made par
tiCulRr mention Of the fact that their
ancestorp, the people OF fashionable
clubs and churches thirty-fvs years
sgo, reviled and ridiouled Lincoln
just as they are reviling and ridiCul-
ing the leading Populists of to-day.
Yet the fact remains, just the same.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

IF RALPH BURTON ever reads re-
publican papers since the senatorial
election, Le can imagine how an in
telligent man feels when lot Of pin
headed editors point to him as the
man from whose disgraceful influence
they have redeemed Kansas.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

Tn Topeka ADVOCATE reprints our edi.
torisl, "Sold Into Bondage" and makes
some true remarks in connection with ID,
but other Of its assertions sre 30 false We
cannot discuss the question with them
LsavenWorth Times, February Is.
The Times might certainly conde-
scend to enlighten us SO far as to
point out the false assertions we
have made. If we have been making
false assertions, we want to take
them back.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

The National WatchmRn is very
much exercised because the ADvo-
cArn said that Mr.. Taubsneck should
not be furnished with Popnlist money
% maintain headquarters at Wash
ington. The ADVOCATE does not
make such statements without rea-
son. We have seen letters from Mr..
Taubeneck which led us to say what
We did. These letters will be at the
nesting Of the Reform Press assoCia-
fion on the 22nd, and every editor
present Will be able to judge whether
~ have stated the case too strongly
or not. We are not alone in this
opinion, but until after the reform
press meeting We have nothing more
Ho aay.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

WHEN a statesman of the Cleve.
land Sherman stripe calls himself q
bimetallist, the Kansas republican
who has proclaimed himself q prohi-
bitionist for these many years, whis-
pers 'rats," and says, same old
game"
The advocate., 1895-02-20
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The advocate., 1895-02-20
INTERESTING NEWS.

no means certain that the partisan
prejudiCes Of the people will permit
them to see the true import Of these
items. It is so hard for the average
partisan to believe that his party can
do anything wrong that very few re-
publicans will be likely to discover
any significance in the facts con-
tanned IN these dispatches. In the
republican mind the financial diff
culties how confronting the Ameri-
can people are all owing TO demo
cratic incompetenOy and mismansge-
ment. They, perhaps, believe that
had Harrison, instead Of Cleveland,
been elected in 1892, no such difficult
ties would have been encountered.
Little can be done with such men.
They take little account of facts, but
rely upon the assurances Of republi-
can newspapers that republican vic.
tory in 1895 will set everything right
and usher in an era Of great pro sper-
ity to the people.
But let us look at these dispatches
csndidly. Referring to the ways and
means committee Of the house, they
say:
After being Closited for two hours with
Secretary Carlisle, the committee talked
over the situation, delegated the framing Of
an agreement TO q sub. committee Of three
democrats and two republicans, an late in
the afternoon learned that the sub commit
tee had dropped partisan differences and found
common ground.
What is that common groundp'
What proposition does the republi-
can reader apprehend has been set
tied upon to which republicans and
democrats alike agree? Here it is.
Read it carefully and study 1t
thoughtfully:
The resolution reported by the Quintsbbs
at che Last meeting was one TO authorize the
secretary of the treasury to issue So million
dollars in 3-per-oent bonds, payable IN gold,
with the pEOviSO shat none Of the proceeds
shall be used for current expenses.
Now, will not such a measure be
an immense relief 10 the financial SIT
ustioni How does this proposition
differ from the very policy which the
administration has been pursuing in
the issue Of bonds already sold? 1t
differs in two respects; it provides
that the bonds shall bear interest of
only 3 per cent, and that they shall
be payable in gold, instead of in COIN
and the committee, we are told, has
dropped partisan differences" and
agreed to this scheme. What does
the proViso, that ''nons Of the pro-
ceeds shall be used for current ex'
psnses" amount toH Will there be
anything to prevent the withdrawal
of this gold from the treasury within
the next two months by presenting
treasury notes for redemption just as
it has been withdrawn beforeH Would
not the payment Of the gold for cur
rent expenses be mere advantageous
to the government than to permit il
The advocate., 1895-02-20

sted another sale OF bonds, and their
issue is only delayed in the hope that
congress may be induced to author
ize their payment in gold instead Of
in coin; and these dispatches say
that the secretary pledged Che COM
mittee to secrecy respecting the
terms upon which these bonds have
been negotiated. Representative
Walker Of Massachusetts, himself a
member Of the ways and means COM
mittes, in q speech IN Philadelphia,
at the university banquet Of the
Young Mems Republican club, de-
nounced the president and Secretary
Carlisle as traitors, and said they
ought to be lmpeached. Continuing
he said:
mean what say. They made a CON-
tract which they were ashamed to reveal 10
the ways and means committee, and then
pledged the committee to secrecy about
the contract.
The Washington dispatches state
explicitly that "the committee adopted
a resolution pledging it's members
not to reveal the terms of this docu-
ment so far as it concerned the pay
ment;" and this committee is COM
posed Of republicans and democrats
alike.
But this is not all. In reply to
Mr.. Reed who asked why the plan he
had submitted was not satisfactory
one, Mr. Carlisle made answer in the
language of the dispatch in question;
The secretary proceeded to quote fea-
tuEe Of the aOt of 1874, which had not before
been noticed in financial debates, and
which seemed TO greatly invSlldate Mr.,
Reeds scheme. This clause binds the Sec
Eetary to The redemption of national bank notes
when the holder formally requests il. Con-
seQuently the withdrawal Of the gIeenbacks
into che treasury, the secretary argued,
would not stop the drain Of gold upon il,
but would merely add another step in She
process Of obtaining gold, as fnsnCiers
could procure national bank notes and Sc
cure treasury notes for them. In effect,
therefore, the government is bound TO 70
deem bank notes in gold.
Here is another new discovery in
the interest Of the "6nsnciers" de-
signed to further Complicate the sit
ustion, and serve as another lever, il
possible to influence congress to su-
thorize practically unlimited issues
OF gold bonds. While Secretary Car
Isle states what is not true when he
says that treasury notes are redeem
able in gold except at his discretion,
he ls only following the rule estab-
lished by his republican predecessor
in this respect. Now will our good
republican friends tell us who enacted
this law Of 1874 which Mr.. Carlisle
construes as obligating the treasury
department to redeem national bank
notes in goldH Who held the reins
Of government in 1874? This dis
patch continues:
Secretary Carlisle admitted that the bank
ers practically had the government at theil
mercy, aud he was obliged TO accept th'
kaaA karuna hM could VNnk0 NTH khaun
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
MURDER AT FLORENCE.
c. a. Pravy Shot Dawn by Hoid-Up- on
Sunday.


Denver. Nov. IA special from
Florence to the Republican says:
. Another outra. .eOus murder was com
mitteed in this city tonight. c. \, Pea
w, employed on the Denver u Rio
Grande water service. running the pump
at the Arkansas river, which supplies
the railroad reservoir while returning
from work at S:15 p. m. walking on
Pixies Peak avenue in a thtckly inhnb-
tied section of this city. and in the glare
of an electric street lamp, WAS shot
down by holdups. The place where the
shooting was done was opposite the resi-.
dence of S. SeSs. n merchant, who with
Mrs. Sess had not returned home for
the night. The house was dark and one
theory Is that the party or parties who
did the shooting We're trying TO gain
an entrance into the SicsS residence for
robbery and Were probably molcsted by
Peavy, and for fear of detection shot
him and ran. This theory is most like
ly. for IL the robbers had been after
Peavy's money or had him spotted they
would have tackled him on the out.
skirts Of the city from whence he came.
The fact that the perpetrators did not
ltake watch or money casts mystery
,over the cause of the murder unless 1t
is TO hide their work in some way.
There was no one in the immediate vi
cinity at the time of the shooting, but
residents all around heard the shot and
parties living 300 yards away in tents
heard the footsteps of two men r,lnnin.
past them in .he direction of the Santa
Fe depot.
+. o. Pelhorn and ]. A. Robertson
were sitting in Jcnnison's boarding
house on the opposite side of the street
and after the shot stepped on the side
walk and heard the dying man exclaim:
"Oh. my God" and give a few Groans
and then all was still BY this time a
half dozen citizens We're on the spot.
They were horror-stricken TO find the
familiar form of Peavy prostrlted and
dead. The lamp which he carried in his
hand sat by his side. still burning and
n bullet had pierced his right hand and
side. AS the deceased was a prominent
Mason. In the absence OF the sheriff, J.
C. McCreery and others wired TO Rouse
for the C. f. & I. compIny's blood
hounds. The railroad yards arc bcin.
carefully guarded for any persons try
Ing to escape on freight trains. The
community is thoroughly aroused over
this outrageous murder and the author
tiles and citizens will leave nothing un-
done to apprehend the perpetrators. The
deceased has family at Pueblo.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
THE SULTAN DEFIANT.
Confers a Decoration on an OmcIaI VIVA
Abuscl ArmenIanx.

Constantinoplc, Nov. 9.-The Official
Gazette announces that Bahri Pasha,
who was dismissed from his official po-
sition in pursuance TO the representa-
ton Of the British ambassador, Sir
Philip Curry. owing to his ill-treatment
OF the Armenians, has been decorated
with the grand Gordon of the Osmanien
order "as n reward for his good serv-
Ices
This step upon the part of the Sui
tan Is regarded rs most significant. 1t
is not only an open and distinct mark
OF approval of the ill-treatment Of Ar
menians. but it IS a deliberate snub to
Great Britain, particularly as in addi-
ton TO the decoration bestowed upon
Bahri Pasha. the Official Gazette pub
fishes a long list Of names Of Turkish
officials in Armenia who have been dec
Grated by the Sultan for their good
services" In fact ii almost seems as
If the Sultan is openly defying the
powers.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
LOCOMOTIVE eoILERExPLopEs
-Four Men Killed A. a Result of Suppose
Carelrssness.


Warwick. y. Y. Nov. 11.-Engine No.
. of the Lehigh & Hudson River rail.
road blew up yesterday morning near
this place Two men We're Instantly
Killed and two others died later from
their injuries.
The engine was drawing train be
tween Maybrook and Phillpsburg. Con
ductor Martin O'Neill of Bevedere and
his head brakeman. James l.. Sloan of
Phillipsbnrg, We're in the cab when the
train started again for the junction, with
Engineer William Cooper of Phillips
burg and his fireman. Harbert Beetner
of Easton. Pennsylvania The train of
forty cars had reached the top of the
grade near the stone bridge, and as the
train started down cold water was un-
doubtedly run Into the boiler.
Brakeman Morris Hell saw the explo-
sion that followed The heavy boiler
went fifty feet in the air and fell twen-
ty-tivc feet from the tracks. leaving the
engine trucks uniniured. Hell threw
himself full length on a car and clung
there He recovered himself. and he
and Flagmnn Adams began setting
brakes. Tbe train ran mile and half
before it could be stopped. He'll ran six
miles to Warwick and gave the alarm.
express.
Superintendent Bailey. with gang of
men. went in an engine 10 the scene. A
terrible sight met the rcscuers. Conduc-
tor O'Neil was crushed and mutilated
almost beyond recognition, the train
having passed over him. Sloan hung
unconscious on Il barbed wire fence,
and Engineer Cooper lay dead under the
boiler. All We're nearly naked. parts of
their clothing hanging in the trees near
by.
4 llt!ls laier nft6ffemanr Rfetcfs 'YiiH iiHiss :
trousers being his only apparel. He was
dazed and said he remembered going
through the air and found himself in Il
field fifty feet from the tracks. He soon
relapsed into Inconsistencies and was
taken to Enston, where he died last
evening. brakeman Sloan died here
this morning.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
CHURCH EXTENSION WORK.
Session of the Methodist Board In Chi
cago.

Session of the Methodist Board In Chi
cago.
Chicago, H., Nov. S.-The Church Ex-
tension society of the Methodist Episco-
pal church began its session here yester-
day with fourteen bishops and about
forty laymen in attendance. The report
of the Board of Extension showed re-
ceipts on the general fund available for
donations to needy churches during the
past year to have been Sill ,337. On the
loan fund the receipts were $24b, ,43S
Loans returned by churches which had
been helped amounted to S51 900, which
the report said was most encouraging
feature. There was decrease of sixty
in the number of churches aided below
last year, and 234 below the year pre-
yious.
The decline in receipts noticed during
the past few years is attributed party to
the general financial depression and
partly to heavy gifts having been made
to a few churches. 1t was recommend
ed that money should not be given to
churches costing more than the limit of
$4,000, which has been fixed in the
rules Of the board. The average cost Of
churches assisted by the board is less
than half that amount, and the prime
object is to assist cheap churches in
needy localities.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
MAY DIVIDE TURKEY.
SALISBURY SAID TO FAVOR 1T.
situation =. Constantlnople Continues
CriticaI-The New Cabinet Worse Than
the Former One-The sultan's DuPlAe
city,

London, Nov. "a dispatch to the
Chronicle from Rome says the Scorrier
Del Mattino of Naples has advices IL
the effect that the Marquis Of Salisbury
has confidently proposed to the powers
the dismemberment of Turkey.
A Berlin dispatch to the Chronicle
says the Yossische Zeitung has news
from Bucharest that French massacres
have occurred in the Villayet of Erzer-
oum, and that many villages have been
burned and pillaged and enormous num-
Oers killed.
A dispatch 10 the Times from Rome.
referring 10 the gravity of the Turkish
affairs, says that Italy is in perfect ac-
cord with England, and that the Italian
fleet is ready to cooperate with the Eng
l!sh fleet wherever the interest OF Euro
peln peace may need Il.
There is no change for the better IN
the political situation at Constantinople
unless 1t rests on the fact that the ot-o-
man bank has advanced the TURKISH
government the sum of 81 .J00,00O which
viii enable the new minister OF finance,
Sabri Pasha, to provide for the most
pressing needs of the government The
latter, 1t would seem, consist IN ntunS
out the army reserves just called out In
the porte's attempt 10 make some sno"
of irving TO restore order in Armenia;
but there are so many other demands up
on the Turkish treasury at the present
moment that the money just advanced
will not 20 long way even II 1t was
10 m To
likely to be the case.
at would be difficult says the Times
correspondent. "to conceive the condition
of mind which brought the sultan to aI'-
point such deplorable Cabinet or TO
describe the CONSERVATION it has pro-
duced everywhere.
'"rhe grand vizier is perhaps the least
objectionable. His intentions are hon
est. but his abilities are small. TewhsS
Pasha is nOnenity. Abdur Rahman
and Memdukh are couple Of fanatics
Munirs' aptitude for unclean work mas
raised him high in the esteem of the sui.
tan, and places him facile princeps Il;
the head of the political spies"
Kiamil Pasha was dismissed from the
office of Grand Vizier by an extensively
expressed TRADE which was Intended tc
disguise the fact that he had refused t1
retain office and to cloak the sultan
insincerity as to his intentions regard
ing the reforms which have been de
manded by the powers in Armenia, and
also to cloak his refusal TO proclaim tht
reforms by an imperial ukase. kiami
was ordered to Aleppo forthwith, whict
is virtual exile. but he was taken sud
denly with high fever and bronchitis
and six physicians declared that he was
unfit to travel. The sultan thereupot
gave permission for the delay OF his de
parture.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
War IN Ashanfee.

London. Nov. S.-The Chronicle is of
ficially informed thar the war office has
arranged for an expedition to Ashantee.
This leaves no further doub; of the ac-
curacy of the report from Accra. on tba
coast of Africa, as received exclusively
by the Associated Press October 81.
that the king of Ashantee had declined
the ultilnatum offered to him by Grca,
Britain to the effect that the kin.
should have British commissioner In
his country and that he should place
Ashaniee under British protection. The
dispatch Of the expedition indicates
that Great Britain IS determined 10 re
lnce the king of ..slantee 10 complete
s,,Sigct;on.
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16

lard mountain By being caught In a
spow-slide. Heitahrend and his partner.
Jack Pulyer, started from the La Junta
basin TO the Jim Grow. property sit
mated i'm a basin few hundred feet
distant.
After leaving ledge of rock and
crossing a comparatively level slope on
Ballard mountain. Heitahrend, who
was in advance. started slide, which
took him down over precipice of sew
eral hundred feet. and he was undoubt-
edly killed Instantly. His partner, Jack
Pulyer, who was about fifty feet be-
hind. heard the crash of the slide. and at
once started to run in the opposite di-
rection escaping by only four feet
Knowing that his partner was un-
doubtedly dead, he went to the nearest
cabin for help, and found Il. B. Weller,
who together with himself, spent day
in searching for the body Of Heitahrend,
and late in the evenin. discovered his
body buried beneath several feet Of snow
among the jagged cliffs. Recognizing
the impossibilIty of bringing the re-
| mains to town at the lace hour and with
meacer assistance. Pulver and Weller
| Immediately came to town and notified
| r. f.. Runkle and others, lessees Of the
La Junta and this morning some eight
or twelve started out to the rescue.
The body was brought down about S
O'Clock, and the relatives OF the de
ceased, residing in Rock Island, Illinois,
advised of the sad death. They instruct.
ed that the remains be expressed at
once to that place The deceased was
about 30 wears old, and highly respected
by those who knew him
The Meeker herald., 1895-11-16
spain'a Stringent Measures.

Madrid. Nov. "a dispatch from Ha-
vana says that the ;nsurgent leader.
Maxine Gomez. has sent circular 10
all the insurgent leaders, directing them
to destroy all the property of persons
who do not contribute to the insurrector
funds. Maceo is also said to be exact
ing enormous sums from the landed pro-
prietOrs of Cuba. under threat OF de-
stroying their plantations.
The insurgents are said TO have disap-
peared from the province of Havana. bur
it is admitted that the rebellion is gain
ing ground in MatanZas.