The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1895-09-06
Time To wake Up.

1t is quite time for the American
people to put a period TO the in
cessant undermining of their bu-
siness prosperity and ruthless alb
stractiOn of their due profits by
the robber capitalists of Great
Britain. Those people have al
ways been robbers. They began
their long and unchecked career of
spoliation by stealing the fertile
lands of England and driving the
native owners of those lands into
the mountains of Wales and Corn
wall. They are now steadily steal
ing the lands of America but
they are accomplishing it through
the more civilized suction power
of unlimited capital, and instead
of killing or driving of the Ameri-
can owners they. are leaving them
on the lands as a species OF serfs
attached to the soil.
British capital Is rapidly inhict-
ING on the United States the worst
evils of nonresident landlordism-
extracting all the profit obtainablc,
and leaving the American farmer
barely enough to cause him to hold
on to his property and hope for
better times next year. This 81
gantic 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 from them, that the London
Times boldly SAYS: 1T seems inn
possible to get bimetallists 10 TN
derstand that there is quite large
number of us for whom general
rise of prices has no charms what
ever. We like them low. and the
lower the better. If they all went
down to half their present figures
we should rejoice, because we have
nothing to sell and great many
things to buy. For those who
have things to sell we do not feel
any great concern
What do our producers think of
those who propose to rejoice if
prices 90 down to half their pres
ent figures, which are already down
to half what they ought to be {!
What do they say to twenty-five
cent wheat, and three-ccnt cotton,
and everything else in proportion!
Is it not about time for us to
awake, and to pay some little
watchful guard to our escaping ma
tional Iife-blood! Are we not the
most innocent lambs in the whole
shorn world, that we must furnish
meat and clothing TO those cynical
and cold bloodod slaughterers of
valuel Will we not deserve our
continuing punishment and ulti-
mate poverty if we lift no hand in
self-dcfcnse, make no attempt to
use our legislative power for the
protection of our property rights,
and as humbly pass under the for
eign yoke as ever did the degraded
herd of cowardly Egyptians
Time was when those same Egyp-
tians were led to victory by loyal
warriors but now memory pales
and fades out in the effort to re-
turn backward over Egypt's cours-
es and find a year when they have
not been beneath the heel of the
conquerors.
So shall we pass under the yoke
and disappear as free and self
governing race, unless we wake up
to the depressing issue and fight
for our national life. We are in
no danger from the sword-we are
being fought to earth with differ
ent weapon, the power of gold.
Let us make one strong battle for
self-deliverancc. Let us insist on
the parity of toe metals at the RI
ito of 16 to 1, and our financial
clouds will clear away like malarial
mists before the glorious sun of
morning, and our business blood
will bound and throb in the veins
of our young and vigorous people
as 1t never before has done.-Times-
Democrat.
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