Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-29

the KotnScIllu DailkS. Abundance OF
everything. but the people are hungry
and ragged, No end to undeyeloped
resources, but 4 million trampS turning
to vagabonds and criminals daily Hon.
est laboring men holding up express
trains, industrious mechanics com
hitting crimes To keep from starving,
Oh. who would not think il a privilege
to lay down his life for such Il glorious
land of liberty as pluiocracy has made
of the American republic:
Our Condition..
There appears in the Non Conformist
of Jan. - Il debt statement OF the coun-
try by Senator Daniels. of Virginia. that
is sufficient to take away the breath of
a producer. He shows that the debts
amount to fOrty-four billions, and that
il would require all Of the seventeen
staple productions of this country TO
pay the interest alone
OF course these productions cannot all
be sold. Some must be reserved for seed
Ing, consumption. etc. and, rs Il result.
the balance Of the interest charges must
be made up by foreclosures. and the
thing acts in cumulative tendency like
IL snow ball rolling down hill. Now, 1
have been reading the statistical alb
stract for 1894 somewhat myself. and
this is what il says:
Mort gag eS ...................S t.Ol9 taD 600
Manufacturing capital. ..... g. 1:9 900 OOO
X. X. cap. 1t ks. bonds. etc. IL. 26S. 400 gD
Debts of United States .. 2021 900 uOO
Debt represented by taXationat
Debts of life insurance COS. al 900. 900
Church property tuntaXedD. -. G79. 900 900
Total resources national banks.
L. :. comp. report, 1877 :;,Jlo. 600. 000
Total permanent nd'tcdn's SS1. Isl. 600, 900
Interest on public debt at :
per cent. -. : .H2'. ,:,o.OOo
Total value real and personal
property tlSlOl. ~. Az. OO0. 900
Total deficit -S5',3io, 600. 900
Persons in productive occupations -. go 900
Persons in non productive occupa- 49,.
tons ....--... .4',ot"'ooo
Debt per capita on actual producers 81. ...iS 30
Interest at = per cent--.--- 1860
Now. some objections may be raised
against this sort of Il debt statement.
but we insist that all of The foregoing
property statements represent bur
den upon producers ut not less than %
per cent. UntaXed church property
might seem out of place here. but it
certainly represents Il debt. although it
be voluntary, in so far as support is
given the churches which cannot be less
annually than five per cent. of the value
of the property.
Il
sOnal debts and the debt paid to land
Iordism 10y the landlcsS. which in itself
is no small plum. Now We have il in Il
nutshell by orthodox figures. The pco-
pie of this co ntry are worth fifty-five
billions less than nothing. How is that
for high: IL. w. Nelson.
Reform Notes.
Nero fiddled. but Grover goes fishing.
Congress is dead, but Grover still
lives.
Congress died of the dry rot.
Several members of Congress have
political records they would like TO dis
pose Of.
Greatness cannot be measured with
Il tape line.
If Il mans head is taxed. why not also
tax his feet:
Honest dollars are about rs scarce rs
honest politicians.
These are solid times. rs everything
is down 10 the bottom.
1t is time the farmers stopped think
ing via Wall street.
If the good Lord wants Grover. the
people will be reconciled.
Honest. patriotic men do not come
from novels where want sits on the
throne.
Holding up the Federal treasury and
an express trains has become Il national
industry.
Public confidence this year has cost
SI62 900. 900. and the country is not over
stocked, either.
Congress gave the sugar producers OF
Louisiana their bounty. The sugar
consumers have II bounty of poverty
for their share
Grover says he is determined TO make
the public have confidence if he is fore
ed to sell billion dollars worth of
bonds to do it.
Congress has adjourned. Let thanks
giving be universal. If the whole Dem
ocratic administration would adjourn Il
jubilee would be in order.
The idea of farmers. whose families
are half-clothed for lack of cotton goods,
getting together and declaring there is
an ovcr-production of cotton. Bosh.
Any man who lifts Il hand to retire
the d-staincd Greenbacks should be
declared Il traitor to his country and
common enemy of mankind. and be
drummed out of the country.
If the people generally will call on the
banks to redeem their currency in
greenbacks, the endless chain that
dra Tvs gold out of the public treasury
may not run so fast.-Dallas Mercury.