The Louisiana populist., 1895-05-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Good horse are selling IN Kansas.
Nebraska, and portions Of Missouri for
$50. some fair animals bringing no
| more thar $lL. Well, unless men learn
to vote right these conditions will con-
tinuc.
At Williamsport, Ind, an election
was held recently and out of 292 votes
polled the Populists had majority
and elected their entire ticket Straws
of this kind show which way the po-
litical winds are blowing down east.
Why are the labor strikes as a rule
failures? Because capitalists we'll
know that behind each laborer stands
hungry man or woman ready to take
the place Of the striker, as has been
proven by every strike in the past ten
years. 1t would seem that in time la
boring men would learn the futility Of
labor strikes and try the ballot as O
remedy.
AS a wedding present George Gould
gave his sister Anna, who married the
French count, coronet set with dia-
monds, that cost $4,000. On the day
Of Annals brilliant wedding four
deaths were reported IN the city Of
New York caused by starvation. Is
this Christian land? What are the
preachers and Christian people think
ing about anyway?
The school children in many Of the
large cities are being taught the use
OF arms and the armories are being
turned over to them in the afternoons
for military drill. Many church organ
lzations have companies Of cadets.
Why all this? Do you see anything
in the signs of the times? Will you
longer vote for systems that recognize
the necessity of educating boys in
knickerbockers to shoot down their
fellow men?
Bank officials stole over $25, 900 900
last year. II we had postal savings
or government banks not dollar. per-
haps. would have been stolen and GER
ta1nly not dollar lost to the deposit
ors. Why have we not government
banks! Because We have too many
foolish people who would rather be
robbed by bankers than to give up
their old parties.
One OF the meanest and most arbi-
trary monopolies in this country and
about which there is the least said is
the telegraph monopoly. What a bless
Ing 1t would be and how many people
would be benefited If the telegraph
lines were owned by the government
Thousands of printers and reporters
now out of employment would soon
find employment. Every town Of e 900
or more population could have one or
more Caily papers, with the latest dts
patches, which would create a demaTd 4
for more printers, reporters, and edi-
torial writer's. besides creating a de-
mand for more paper and printing ma
terial. Best of all, II would destroy
mJuopoly that does more to foster and
! sustain all other monopolies than nby
other element in this country. We
can have government ownership Of tel
egraphs just as soon as the people get
sense enough to vote for it.
Reports from San Francisco say that
not oniy have errors and bad work.
manship frcE repairs to the cruiser
Boston end the gunboat BenninSt IN
been laid bare, but that rumors Are
ailost t. show that the warships PHI
adelphia, Yorktown, and Olympia are
practically useless in case necessity
should demand their usefulness. How
can things be considered different In
government reeking with rottenness
from center to circumference?
J. M. Ashton, chief attorney for the
Northern Pacific railway in the state
of Washington, has been elected a
brigadier general of militia. This Is
according to the eternal fitness Of
things. In filling the United States
senate with railway attorneys and
large stockholders 1t is evident that
trouble is looked for and hence they
are making tin soldiers of some of
them to serve them in that capacity.
According to the Interstate COM
merce commission report for the year
ending June 80, 1898, the railway earn
ings over operating expenses for that
year were 1892 ,830,575 and the income
from corporate Investments was S149,-
649,615. making a total income above
operating expenses of $542 ,48o. 100. II
we had government ownership of rail-
ways this more than half billion dol
lars would have been a clear profit but
Of this vast sum $431. .422.15 was paid
out as interest, rentals, salaries. and
miscellaneous expenditures, leaving,
however, $111 ,05S. .034 as a net income.
Under government ownership the op-
Grating expenses would be largely cut
down and by thus saving the income
would be increased to 500. .00o, 900 or
$500, 900, 900. as can be easily demon
strated by figures.
The agitation Of the silver question
In the United States. which like Ban
quo's ghost, will not down. has forced
the European gold bugs to spring an
other International monetary confer
ence, as means of heading of free
coingage they see inevitable In this
country. II not headed off by the Jug
cIaru ~ In