The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1895-09-13
MADE so VERY PLAIN.
THE DAILY FEDERAL RECEIPTS
AND DISBURSEMENTS
The Situation Made So Plain That IL Can
Not BE Meanderstood, by One Who
is Thoroughly vsrsed with Public
Anairs-Mhsion of Popuiism.

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ment the world ever saw Is now re-
ceiving from you Taxpayers a little
more than one million dollars per day
is spending about million and hal
per day; and is revolutionizing our
currency system so as to make money
scarcer, products cheaper debts high
er, and dollars harder to get.
Can't you see danger ahead?
At the close of the Revolutionary
war this people owned eighty million
dollars as the price OF four years OF
war resulting in victory, liberty and
independence.
We now have one hundred aud six
ty-two and one-half millions of dol
lars added to the principal of our
national debt as the result OF two
years Of Cleveland's profigate admin
istration. The bloated humbug OF
Buzzard's Roost has sold US to foreign
Jews, and domestic plunderers; and
to mako the condition OF the people
completely wretched is using all the
corrupting Influences of patronage to
revolutionize our currency and make
our debts and our taxes twice as
hard to pay.
Populism came forth in 1892 and
demanded that old political land marks
be re-established, that our govern
ment be re-dedicted to the purpose
for which it was founded, that the
principles our ancestors put upon
record in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence be made living letter ana no
longer sealed book.
No innovation did we seek. No
rash experiment did we propose.
Every policy we championed had the
sanction of experience, the support of
sound reason, the inspiration of JUS
tice and good will to our fellow men.
We were feared, hated. abused, in
suited, maltreated, and trampled un-
der foot.
Why?
Because we we're said TO be anar-
shists, communists, incendiaries, rev.
olutionists.
By whom?
BY the very gang of Democratic and
bosses who now seek to
tear down the financial system Of the
constitution. reverse the historic pol
icy of the government, violate letter
aud spirit OF the laws imbedded
in the statute book, unsettle the GUS
toms of trade and the obligations of
revolutonize prices by de-
stroying half the money of the peo-
pie. add to the burden of taxes by
the dollar scarcer aud harder
to get, double the value Of all debts
held against you by making it twice
as hard for you to get the money to
pay with!
There is no anarchy in this pro-
gramme, no incendiarism, no revolu-
ton.
It's statesmanship, pure and simple
and its watch-word is, Long live
the Money King, and death to the
people.
Why is it that a man who never
saw a gold dollar in his life is so
dreadfully uneasy for fear that all
debts and taxes will not be made pay
able in gold alone?
When he loses the privilege of pay
ing in silver or greenbacks, how much
better off will he be?
Why is such a man so deeply
grieved when they tell him that if the
government goes to coming silver
dollars our dollars will '.go to Eu-
rope"
What could be do with gold dol
lar that he could not do with silver
dollar?
Why does such man have night,
mare when the village merchant or
the passing drummer pictures to him
the horrors of a flood" of European
dollars?
Does such a man know where the
silver in the silver-dollar he now has
came from? Does he know that it
did not come from Europe?
II so, how does he know it?
If European silver, melted and coin
ed into United States dollars cannot
be distinguished from American sill
YER, melted and coined into United
States dollars, how would such a man
aver know which was the s'hood" dol
ar. and which wasn't?
He wouldn't know which to run
rom. would he?-Atlanta Peoples