The Louisiana populist., 1895-09-27
THE CRISIS UPON US.
A TIMELY WARNING TO THE
PEOPLE.
In This Hour Of Libsrty's Peril, Citizens
Must Act by Deeds, aud the Hordss of
American and English Monopolists BE
Met and Repulsed.

dsnlnB ION CITY lS eACeeulDBly uul
now. The cabinet officers and princi.
pal bureau chiefs are mostly absent,
having their summer outing, fishing,
yachting hunting, etc., while the
routine business of the government is
done by the clerks. The president
sets the example. by going away very
early to his summer home at Gray
Gables, in Massachusetts, and any un-
der officer who would not follow his
example is not .'up TO date"
We wonder how many of our read
ers ever stopped to figure how little
our noble president gets for his work.
1t would take about one million
pounds OF cotton to pay his salary an
nually. This is about $500 bales.
Extra good land in an extra good
year will make bale to the acre, but
the average for the whole country is
not more than one-half OF this amount.
Now our presidents salary equals
the product OF about five thousand
acres OF cotton, raised for him free
OF cost. II we take into consideration
the cost OF raising the cotton and the
low price it brings. and pay his salary
from the net profit, so good state
as Alabama will hardly furnish enough
cotton to pay the bill.
Suppose we pay his salary in corn.
Say we get twenty-five cents bushel,
it would take 200, 900 bushels. A fair
average Der acre in as good states as
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa or Nebraska is
forty bushels per acre. This would
take the product of 5000 acres to pay
his salary, but If we count out the
cost of raising, marketing, etc., and
add the interest for the money in
vested in land. and pay the net profits
OF the corn. it is doubtful if then the
great and good state of Nebraska
would foot the bill. This is only for
the regular salarary, and does not in
clude the $1,000 for flowers, the $1O,-
600 for cleaning house. new furniture,
ETC., and the army of servants re-
quired to run the machine. nor the
use OF government boats for fishing nor
the infinity of little things.
The object OF this illustration is to
show how unequal things are.
We wish il there is one farmer any,
where in the United States who has
confined his operations to the raising
OF staples and has made clear one
dollar per acre the past year. he
would write and give US his expe-
rience.
We cannot ask those who have lost
money to send us their names, for
their names on top of one another
would make shaft higher than the
Monument. What is true
OF the presidents salary is also true,
in lesser degree, of all Office holders.
The price Of labor has gone down,
products are cheaper, merchandise
much less, and in fact all industrial
enterprises have sunk to lower levels,
but the army of otficeholders, both
national and state, are the same and
most of the fixed charges throughout
the country are the same.
The burden falls now as it always
has and always will, upon the farmer,
the mechanic and the laboring man.
To make this condition better for
the fixed salary horde and those who
live upon the interest of money loaned,
silver has been demonetized and de-
stroyed as a fundamental money,
which has increased the value of
money in this country in the past
twenty years fully 100 per cent. The
100000 a year paid to President
will buy more than $780,
900 paid during Gen. Grants term,
and it takes three times as much OF
the commodities OF labor to obtain
the money.
This condition instead OF growing
better, is growing worse every year,
and will continue to grow worse. un-
I'll the man who works has become a
serf and the man who receives a mas
ter.
There is no escape except by and
through the ballot box. and by the
people themselves, you can receive
no aid, comfort or sympathy from
sherman Democrats or Cleveland Re-
Dublicans.
II the people OF these United States.
iang 10 party lines, and blindly vote
or gold-monopoly candidates for
,f'ice. they are lost.
Citizens Of America. are you blind?
Can't you see this ruin? 1t is upon
you. You Republicans. do not be de-
,eived into the belief that it is owing
10 the election OF the Democrats
which Is now causing the hard times.
we confess they were impracticableand
divided, but they are not the cause.
goldbug rule can be no
better. The root OF the evil is that
our currency is constantly decreasing
IN volume while our population is in
,reasing in number. making money
,carcer and scarcer every day.
Such q condition means ruin.
History tells US that the loss OF
liberty and civilization. in every age
,f the world, that is past. has been
about by adecreasing volume
of currency.
no go ax,ocf thof the lane Of -