Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-03
sEDUCING THE SOUTH
FAIRY STORIES REGARDING THE RE-
 FORM CLUBS WORK.

It's Real Object Is Education and Not Cor
 ruption = Small Fund HIagnified Into
 Millions-How It Spreads Information.
 Influence and Scope.
 We clip the following from The Jour nal of Commerce and Commercial Bul-
 letin of Sept 9. This is the leading commercial journal of this country, and its statements show that the Reform Club, instead of having millions of dol
 lars, which it is spending for corrupt purposes, really las small fund which it is spending for educational purposes.
 It is, in fact, supplementing the work
 done by our schools and colleges-or
 rather it is doing work that they should have done:
 A Texas paper is manifesting great
 distress over a corruption fund of $1,
 500, ,000 said to have been raised by the
 Chamber of Commerce or the Reform
 Club, or each of them, for the purposes
 of seducing the south from it's loyalty to
 the long suffering and down trodden
 white metal. This money, it repre-
 sents, is being disbursed to secure the control of newspapers and to buy votes for sound money candidates for legisla-
 lures and for congress.
 This corruption fund is mere night
 mare It does not exist. It is as baseless
 as the cargo of gold that Ernest Seyd
 was declared, in Colorado affidavit
 to have brought from London and used
 Ill brlbing congressman to commit the
 crime of 1873. Children and sayages
 easily believe i'll fairies and spooks and
 the supernatural in various manifesto
 tlons, but why will grown men, who
 wish to be reputed intelligent and sensi-
 ble, disgrace themselves by repeating such nonsense?
 The Reform Club has not yet succeeded Ill raising $50, GOO, and it has not spent quite all it has raised. All it's disburse-
 ments have been ill support of its prbll- cation office except trifie that has de-
 Irayed the expenses of some public meet ings. The Chamber of Commerce com mlttee has probably raised less money, and Its expenditures have been of the same general character.
 The Reform Club has bought or hired no southern paper. Much less has it bought or hired any southern politician. The belief ill the Reform Club is that the southern silver men are honest, but mslnformed, and that any attempt to influence them by money would be fu- ule and resented as an insult. The, southern papers that are printing the literature issued by the Reform Club are ooing 1t because they believe or their readers believe in sound money. The matter Is supplied to them, and they print It if they wish it, and it does not cost them anything. But they are not pald to print it.
 :, The Reform Club has issued more snan 100000 copies of the 9 numbers oi Its regular publication, Sound Cur 4ency, ln editions varying from 30,00o ~ 9oO, 900, according to the adaptabil- iey or the various numbers for popular .eaolng. It has supplied broadsides, / which have been folded into country aaeewspapers ae and issued as supplements to ;. oo0 papers, having an aggregate clrcula- 4.on of 2SS,210, which gives an average ui ,:. ooo. This is getting sound currency n'erasure into the hands of the farmers 'n the back counties, who see only one ,n.ewspaper and do not often get to pub ho meetings. This is getting back of tho .ucai Doss or the leading politician to 'ne sovereign voter himself. Of these papers 220 are published in the southern
 's1tes, including Kansas in the south
 "ss1ern group, and these papers have an