The Louisiana populist., 1895-07-12

of presidents and the unlnaking of
the American people.
| Beware of the Democratic ma
chine. and beware OF the man who
eXhorts YOU To seek redress for
the wrongs of the MISSES in the
ranks Of The old party. He is
either a knavc or the tool of knavcs,
for we certainlyyought to know by
this time that the fight of the par
ty and It's success is the work of
leaders who unscrupulously prom
isc all things to all men, and then
secure for the same man the votes
of men directly opposed to each
other in policy and in purpose.
The people have found out that
there is something wrong with our
financial system. They are rushing
forward TO look into it. In this
rush the party coralls are broken
down and they escape to freer,
healthier political air, and some
thing must be done to get them
back. To do this, all the "grand
old parties" will summon to head
quarters the political puppets of
the stump ard dry goods box; all
the pimps of the servilc and mer-
cenary pen, and send them forth
with instructions like these:
''Go We without the let of truth
or the hindrance of conscience,
and with either lying tongue or
villainous pen reach every gullible
voter and befog his brain so that
he may not be able to perceive the
hidcous deformitics of our party,
nor understand the grand duties
and possibilities of American citi-
zenship. But be careful and don't
use the same tatfy for all. BE wi
scr than scrpcnts and more harm
Iful than devils. Throughout the
South warn the people of that mig
ger in the woodpilc.' You may in
sist, with as much truth as is usu-
ally needed in partizan assertions,
that in each PopuIist wOOdpile there
are forty niggers awaiting an OPP
portunity to equalize themselves
with the Populists and superiorize
over the Democrats. When adj
dressing boards of trade, and other
assemblies where extra goOd'clothes
are worn, you may hinethat if the
silver people succeed in moneti
zing the stuff, the poor people may
get some of it, and I've enabled to
walk upright along side OF the
gold bugs"
Throughout the North let it be
asserted that every man who steps
outside of the g. o. p's to vote, in
stantly becomes an anarchist. 1t
might also be asserted by the
pimps of the pen throughout the
whole country, that the overpro-
duction of money has produced
hard times. For proof of this, ref
erence may be made to Cleveland's
extra session of Congress, and its
stopping of the monthly coinage
of 81, 500, 900 in silver. If any
incorrigible Populist should dare
to claim that after this Democratic
action, times grew worse instead of
better, let the puppet occupying
the nearest dry goods box jump to
his place and demolish him. 1t can
be easily done the people who are
trying to free themselve from our
party despotism are generally con-
scientious, and conscientious men
are usually modest, and modesty
cannot endure in the presence Of
gall"
Now this being the spirit of par
tizanship and this the manner in
which it holds the people in subser-
viencc to the interests of its lead
ers, should we not with scorn re-
sent its control! We have worked
inside the party long enough to
learn that there is nothing in it for
us, now let us work outside as long,
and see what we can do. During
the Cleveland campaign the news
papers and stump speakers told us
to vote the Democratic ticket and
we should have financial admins
tration that would turn everything
it touched into gold. But we have
lived to sec this same administra-
ton do all that could be done to
turn all the gold into the pockets
of the bankers, and declare that
nothing but gold is money. We
have seen it tinker with the tariff
and repeal the law permitting the
coinage of silver under pretense
of increasing wages and relieving
the money pressure, until cotton
went down to four cents or less,
and labor to nothing. OverprO-