The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-08-30

III view orleans llmeS-De. n(
crat, one of the ablest papers pub
llshed in the United States, in
recentlsGue in an editorial under tn
heading "Iime to Wake Up
gives to the American people il
few words the most sensible ad
vice we have read lately. 1t S,
lully expresses our views, and vii
be so heartily endorsed by a larc.,
majority of our readers tina. z W. =,
give it in full and ask fer fer + . care
full consideration. 1t saws:
ut is quite tine for tho =, >;
;nnol people Is put a period to the
h "viSsaisF undermining of their
shstr IS prosperity and ruthless
s03laction of their due profits by
me robber capitalists of Great
Britain. Those people have al.
ways been robbers. They began
their long unchecked career of
sspoliation by stealing fertile
lands of England and driving the
native owners of those lands into
the mountains of " ales and Corn.
wall. They are now steadily steel
ing the lands of America; but thew
are accomplishing it through the
more civilized suction power of the
unlimited capital, and instead of
killing or driving off the American
owners, they are leaving them on
the land as of surfs species attached
to the soil.
British capital is rapidly inAict.
ing on the United States the worst
evils of nonresident landlordism
Extracting all the profit obtaina-
bic, and leaving, the American
farmer barely enough to cause him
to hold onto his property and hope
for better times next year. This
gigantic robbery is effected through
the manipulation of the money
power and the establishment and
enforcement Of half prices on
American products. So sure do
they feel that their prey cannot
escape them, that the London
Times boldly says: 1t seems i'm.
possible to gel bimetallists to ua.
derstand that there is quite num-
Der of us for whom a general rise
IN prices has no charms whatever.
We like them low, and the lower
The better. If they went down to
lalf their figures we should rejoice
because we have nothing to sell
md great many things to buy.
FOR those who have things to sell
We do not feel any great concern y
What do our producers think of
hose who propose to rejoice if
prices go down half their present
lgures, which are already down to
lslt what they ought to be? What
TO they say to twenty-five cent
Wheat, and three cert cotton and
vfrything else in proportion?
Is it not about time for us to
wake and pay some little watch.
III guard to our escaping life
hood? Are we not the most limo. /
ent lambs in the whole shorn
World, that we must furnish meat
md clothing to those cynical and
old blooled slaughterers of value?
VII we not deserve our contiuu.
ng punishment and ultimate pov.
rty if we lift no hand in self.de.
snse, make no attempt to use our
legislative power for the protec.
ION OF our property rights, and az
umbly pass under the foreign
oke as ever did the degraded
erd of cowardly Egyptians? Time
as when those same Egyptisns
'ere led to victory by loyal wor-
'o,rs; but now memory pales and
'des out in the effort to return
ackward over Egypt's courses
nd lind a year when they have
OF been beneath the heel of the
)nquerors.
so shall we pass under the yoke
M disappear AS free and self.
'vernlng race, unless we wake up
the depressing issue and Guht