The Louisiana populist., 1895-05-31
ON CURRENT TOPICS.
WHAT PRESS AND PEOPLE ARE
SAYING.
Democrats Want an Extra Session of
Congress-Gov. Altgeld Talks-Senator
Isham G. Harris on the situation
Gold Bugs Want Everything.

The gold bugs are leaving nothing
undone to check what they call the
silver craze" in the South and West.
1t is thought now if an extra session of
congress is called and the responsible
ity of the situation thrown on the Re-
publicans it could help their cause. A
dispatch from Washington says:
"A large percentage of the Demo-
cratic party have become convinced Of
the immediate necessity of an extra
session. They urge that it would serve
tc divert popular attention and cause
temporary cessation of the silver
craze and would place the Republicans
in the same attitude of incompetency
and imbecility as that ascribed to the
Democrats of the Fifty-third congress.
1t is considered by men of both parties
that it will be as impossible for the Re-
publicans to enact financial legislation
as the Democrats. The result would be,
1T is urged, the division of the Repub-
licaps into factions which would de-
YOUR each other. AS consequence, the
disgust. The Democrats would have
nothing to lose and might stand to be
greatly benefited by internal dissen-
sions in the ranks of their rivals.
These arguments, opinions and facts
are now, it is said, being daily laid be-
fore the president by resident and vis-
iting Democratic leaders, who urge the
great party advantage to be gained by
calling upon the Fifty-fourth congress
to make necessary alterations in the
present financial system. They call at
tention to the situation in New York as
bright and shining illustration of
what may be expected when the Repub-
licans come into national control.
1T is believed among politicians in
this city that the pressure upon the
president to call an extra session, will
increase rather than diminish. AS free
silver sentiment spreads, party leaders
will become more and more unanimous
in pleading with Mr.. Cleveland to save
the cause by embracing the great op-
portunity offered of deriving enormous
advantage from Republican indiffer-
ence and indecision."
The present attitude of the goldbugs
towards all those who oppose their So
called sound money doctrines reminds
us of the story of the mean man who
owned a cow in partnership with his
brother. The mean man insisted that
the hinder half of the cow was his and
that the forward part was his brothers,
which he was in duty bound to feed
and care for. The mean man refused to
divide any of the milk, refused to pay
for any of the feed, and then sued his
brother for damage when the cow
hooked him. All the bankers and sound
money want is to give them bonds on
which to base their banknotes, pay
them interest on the bonds, pay interest
on their notes, pay interest on the de-
posits. demand no security from them,
and all of their notes that become de-
stroyed to become a clear gain to them.
This is the Sound Money" dictrine
that is being preached all over the
country.
Governor Altgeld has way of CALI
ing things by the right name in
manLsr that is refreshing. The Demo-
Gratis iS Chicago recently formed what
they called an Honest Money League"
In an interview in which the governor
was asked what he thought about it.
he said:
We'll. they are apparently taxing
out under false colors, and evince an
intent to deceive. for they know or
ought to know that the money system
they sivocate is the most dishonest and