The Louisiana populist., 1895-04-19
SUPPOSE THE CASE
IF THE MONEY QUESTION WAS
SETTLED IN EXACT
Down in the Address of the BimetaIiic
League: Does Anyone Contend That
tho Agitation Would End:

Suppose the money question was
settled in exact accordance with the
program laid down in the address OF
the bimetallic league? Does any one
contend that this would end the agi-
tation and satisfy the demand for re-
form? Would that satisfactorily dis
pose of the trust evil? Would Have
meyer cease to buy the taxing power
to be used for his exclusive benefit?
Would Huntington stop his Pacific
railroad lobby and quit buying con-
gressmen to do his bidding? Would
the courts suddenly become honest
and quit making law that is
not on the statute books? Would
the problem between labor and capital
be solved? Would the whisky trust
discharge Dan Voorhees, and cease
from troubling? Would the land
question find itself suddenly settled !?
Would the expressions growing out
of our transportation system no
longer vex shippers and producers?
Would all the evils OF the competitive
system vanish Immediately and the
necessity of demanding municipal
control of public utilities no longer
press for consideration? Would "the
armed camp of commerce. dissolve
and the thousand and one COM
bines no longer concoct schemes to
corner the market? Would the Judge
Woodses quit rendering decisions
that put workingmen in Jail for or
ganizing for self-protection and the
railroad magnates into big offices for
doing the same? Would alien owner
ship OF our lands by foreign lords and
ladies', and the reduction of our farm
ers to peasant tenantry, need no fur
ther discussion? Would the corrup-
tion of our politics by partisan COM
mittees, suppression OF suffrage by
force and fraud, counting in OF those
not elected and counting out OF those
elected, become merely unpleasant re-
membranes and not present facts?
Would railroads cease to discriminate
between passengers and freight and
charge all equally for the same
kind of service? Would they quit
defying the laws? Will rascally alder
men in the cities abstain from selling
public franchises to private corpor-
ations and putting the money into
their pockets instead Of into the treas
ury? Will the free pass nuisance. by
which congressman and legislators
are bought to disregard the welfare
Of the people and enact legislation in
the interest of corporations, no longer
be crying evil that needs suppress
ing? Will Wall street for once in its
life commence behaving and no more
attempt to rule administrations and
congresses? Will Rothschild retire
from business on this contiIent and
the hooked nose and "three balls"
no longer be our national trademark?
Will Pierrepoint Morgan and "my
law partner" make no more secret
contracts with the secretary OF
the treasury? Will Ickelheimer &
Co. take down their sign' Will the
Pacific railroad let 60 its grip on Cal
ifornia and surrounding states? Will
the Standard Oil company and other
monied kings quit buying legislatures?
Will German, Brice and Elkins dis.
solve partnership with the trusts and
commence legislating for the people?
Will the Nicaragua deal be dropped,
congress quit voting bounties to su-
gar planters. and grabs be KEEP. out
of appropriation bills? Will favorit-
ism stop and all accept and act on the
fundamental principle OF Populism.
.equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none?" In short, will the
millennium be here and nothing re-
main but to out on our wings and sail
of to the New Jerusalem? As Mr..
Toots would say, We only ask for in
formation? - Indianapolis Noncon-
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