Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-05-21
ARP ON SILVER.
Receives a Quantity Of Political
Literature Every Day
And He IL Kept Busy Keading-says the
Game the Politicians Are Playing
Is Something Like "BuIl PEN
He Played When o Boy.

Is something Like "Buli PEN
He Played When o Boy.
The poet says that misery acquaints
Is with strange bed-fellows"-so does
politics. First thing know I will be
sleeping three in bed with old Repub-
licans. But won't sleep in the middle.
I've toted my Democratic habits too
long to be smothered now under o
BLANKET with Sibley on one side and
Don Cameron on the other. And there's
Ingalls,, too, would be slipping around
and want room, and maybe Mrs. Lease
Is silver bug-I don't know. / don't
want 30 many folks using my tooth
brush. II everybody is going to make
run on silver it's bad sign. I am
afraid we can't reform and purify the
Democratic party taking in so many
'furriners"-so many old stays who
have always been sidewiping around
hunting the orthography Of little
office. like the way that old Uncle
Simon Peter Richardson purified his
church. He was telling what glorious
revival they had over in South Carolina
whore he had been preaching. How
many converts did you tako In, Uncle
Simon?" said l. Take in, did you
say. Take in-wby, my friend, we
never took in nary one. but we turned
seventeen out. Oh, it was a glorious
revival"
Well, We are getting a big lot Of
literature now by every mail, and every
bit of it is alike about one thing-it all
wants an honest dollar. The goldbugs
want it and so do the silver bugs and
the bimetallic bugs, but how to get at
it is the question. / never saw so much
interest manifested in any political
question as there is now on the subject
of silver ard gold. 1t has overshadowcd
everything else. Even the Northern
press has stopped abusing US for little
while and there hasn't been a lynching
in Georgia for month or two. The peo-
pie are too busy studying silver. But
we will have plenty Of time to settle
this thing down. 1t will be two years
and moro before any change can be
made, and so the old ship must rock
along on the billows storm or no storm.
Everybody is predicting better times
and say they feel 1t in the air; and so
maybe by the time another crop is made
there will be change for the better.
II there isn't, the Republicans will
have to walk plank in 1896 and the
silver party will take possession and
run the machine. We old-time Demo
Gratis can afford to go slow and watch
and wait. I'm not going TO commit
myself to any new party just because it
has got silver lining. Democracy is
mighty sick, know, but it is not dead.
If mans wife is sick it doesn't become
him to pick out another before she is
dead and buried. I'm afraid to mix up
too intimately with these Republicans
anyway. We can't even trust a Democrat
| nowadays, and so we are between Scylla
and Charybdis. We boys used to play a
game called bull pen. Two boys wen. be-
mind tree and juggled and then walked
all round the ring with their righ
hands in their bosom. One Of them had
the ball, but we boys in the pen didn't
| know which one, and so we ad to watch
both, and the first thing we knew while
we had an eye on one, the other feller
| plugged US. just so, we the people are
in the pen and don't know who has got
the ball. I've been reading a very
scholarly pamphlet, written by Colonel
Ben Green, of Dalton, on the silver
question, and it alarmed and depressed
me more than Coins book. Colonel
Green is now nearly four score years.
and this warning is like a farewell ad
dress from a patriot to his people. J
knew his gifted father, General Du6
Green, away back in the fifties-a pro
found scholar and a statesman. The sor
who writes this treatise has had good
training from his youth, and what he
writes now he believes to be true. He
is too old to practice deceit. Sincerity
is the strongest muniment Of age. II
Mr.. Green's argument is founded on
facts, and it seems to be, the money
kings have got not only the government
by the leg but nations and Kingdoms
are in their power. They combine to
depress values when they wish to buy,
and to increase when they wish to sell.
The Rothschilds made eight millions of
Of our government in few days and we
the people have it to pay. New York
banks are our dictators. Sir Edmund
Burke said, '"Hhe treasury is the state"
and it Is. 1t is the church, too. Money
rules the world. Cotton used to be king
just because it commanded money and
money was king. Is it not humiliating
to realize that Q man like Rothschild
can sit in his Office and dictate terms to
the United States and make eight mil.
lions in few days? Governments can
stand that but individuals can't 1t Is
the debtor class in this country who are
now between the upper and the neither
mill stones. Their property won't pay
their debts at present prices
But we still live and are out of Jail,
thank the good Lord for His mercies.
We still have hope Of the future, and
hope Is good invention, as the school.
boy said in his composition. This de-
lightful spring weather can't be cor.
nered by bulls or bears. The flowers
are ours and SO are the songs of the birds
and the balmy air. The old Persian
| philosopher had but one maxim to live
by-"Even this shall pass away" II
| fortune was good this maxim kept him
kept him from despair, and so in q year
or two this trouble about the money will
all be settled and we will look back and
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