The Louisiana populist., 1895-11-08
The scheme of the law was that the

would always be nush OF CON- ano
bond issues could not be forced.
But Cleveland says that coin. at the
custom house, means either silver or
gold.
Therefore the Wall streeters pay
the import duties in silver.
At the treasury. Cleveland says the
word coin means gold.
Therefore the Wall streeters get
gold.
In this ardent way Cleveland plays
into the hands Of the Wall streeters,
and they catch the tax payers both
ways.
DO you believe that Cleveland pros
titutes public policy to the Wal! street
syndicate in this way without being
paid for it-either directly or indi-
rectly?
What will be the next move, after
the raiders have got all the bonds
they want?
The retirement of the greenback.
The paper money of the govern
ment is to be destroyed, and the mo-
nOpoly OF issuing currency and of
controlling its volumes is to be hand
ed over to the national bankers. Sill
yer will be token money only; gold
will be the money of reserves and
final pay yment; bank notes will be the
currency of the business world, aud
the national bank monopoly will set
their own price upon that.
Take broad view of the tendency
OF events, and see if this isn't the sit
uatiOn which threatens us:
First-The nations public revenues
mOrtgaged to Wall street syndicates
by means of bonds.
Second The nations private rev.
enues put at the mercy OF the Wall
street syndicates by means OF the
transportation taxes levied by the
railroads; and the taxes levied on the
medium of exchange by the national
bank monopoly.
Now bear in mind that the Wall
street syndicate which own your
bonds also own your railroads and
your national banks. and remembe
that IL these three agencies OF extOr-
tion be powerful In the hands OF sep
arate owners, they are simply ire
sistible when united in the hands Of
one gigantic combination!
Isn't your future rather perilous?
What influences control the Kepub-
llcan party and dictate its policies?
These Wall street syndicates.
What influences control the Demo
cratic party and dictate its policies ?
The very same syndicates. And
every intelligent voter who wants to
know it. knows it.
When | have the power to levy the
freight rate, can put it so high that
/ can leave you all the labor and the
risk. while take all the profit
When l have a monopoly of issuing
the currency, can fix such charge
for the use of 1t, that all the profit
will come to my bank, while all the
risk, toll and trouble will come to
your store.
When l have q deal with the gov
ernment by which / pay no tax on my
wealth, but, on the contrary, derive
a privileged income from your tax.
all the fatness of all the land will
gradually find its way to my larders,
while all the emptiness and all the
raggednesss and all the hardships
will come to you and to yours.
Is this plain?''
The Wall street syndicates occupy
precisely that position to-day. and
you. by your vote for one or the other
of the old parties, helped them to get
there.
Won't you now help us to dislodge
them?
After due reflection, the following
remarks seem to us to be clearly true:
First-The preacher who makes
Jesus Christ take back seat when
the interests OF the Democratic party
are at stake. was laboripg under an
honest mistake offact when he thought
he heard "a CALI to preach.
1t was some other noise he heard.
Second-A prohibitionist who sup
ports the Democratic ticket was mis-
taken when he supposed his con-
science wouldn't let him support
a Dar-room candidate. He knows now
that his conscience isn't so easy to
tear and rip as he feared il was. He
finds. to his immense comfort, that it
will stretch.
Third-That the free silver Demo-
crat who remains with his party in
the hope of getting "relief' inside
the party should lose no time in
reaching an agreement with the Alli-
ance Democrat to make wills in each
others favor, and to mutually pledge
each other that the survivor will at
tend the funeral OF the one which
dies first.
II it should be farther agreed that
Livingston should be the executor
OF whatever assets they may leave,
and testamentary guardian of any de.
scendants, who may be left lying
around loose, the arrangement will
be all the more fitting, satisfactory
and proper.