The Louisiana populist., 1895-07-26


of silver and its payment in ordi.
nary disbursements, thereby in.
creasing the general stock of cir
culation is our chief contention for
silver. As this democratic admin
istration now operates the govern
ment, our stock of money is being
daily reduced, and to this reduc-
ton we can trace the great increase
of poverty. No silver being coin
ed, and one hundred and sixty mil
lions of currency being taken out
of active circulation to buy the
gold bonds that Carslile has issued
in the name of the people. You
can at once see that it has already
cost the people about $500 per
capita to preserve that awful "par-
ity" between gold and silver, which
parity" all know has never been
disturbed. Who ever heard of an
American dollar selling at a dis
counts Still, an imaginary fear
that something, not only improba-
bic, but absolutely unlikely, might
occur, has made the thieves now in
government harness involve you
in an increased bonded indebted
ness of One Hundred and Sixty
Million dollars, running from 10
to 80 years.
We have no need to state all the
iniquities which have completed
the record of this so-called demo-
cratic administration. 1t stands
out in history as the blacklist piece
of political demagoguery that these
United States has ever experienced.
The annals of republican fraud
sink into nothingness in compari-
son. A Congress of towards, a
cabinet of plant agents of Nor
gan and Belmont, and a President
guilty of privately contracting
government obligations to com
pany of Europeans, at price that
lost to the people 9 millions of
money, while hundreds of Ameri-
can investors were knocking at the
doors of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, asking for the bonds at a
better price. This, all by the par
ty that pretended to reflect South
ern sentiment and the laboring
classes, and who sung in plaintive
notes from one side of this Union
to the other ''Only give us Il
chance"
And to this class you will still
look for reform? How can ration
al men expect itl How long will
the long suffering people have pa
tience with such deceptioni How
long will the mere name of that
party tie the people to its ghost,
when the virtues have fled to a
purer sphere.
We don't believe that patriotism
is wholly extinguished in the breast
of our fellow citizens. Their no
bier manhood though crushed by
and stinted by suffer
ing, will reassert itself, like it did
in the trying moments of our rev.
OlutiOnary fathers.
Cleveland has left, you no
room to ask for leadership; you
must follow or be banished. He
has drawn the line between what
he terms the friends of sound mon
ey (gold standard) and the silver
ties. You can follow Cleveland
and the gold standard to ruin, or
you can ask for the restoration of
bimetalism, and the standard of
the fathers that never become dis
by the assaults of conspi-
ratOrs.
Plenty of money, the govern
ment control of oppressive mono
poles, and the consequent pros
perity of those who labor is the
slogan of the Peoples party. Will
you do for us what you have done
for the others-give us a chance.
There is now an attempt in con-
by the party schemers
Of the Bryan, Bland and Sibley
wing, to divert your attention from
every salutary feature of the Pop
hist platform, and to persuade the
people to make this campaign on
silver as a single issue. For what
IS all thisl Can the English Ian
yuage be made more positive than
,ur platform on this question: We
nave fought for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ra-
10 of 16 to 1, ever since the pro-
mitigation of our platform. Why
the platform that has
won us two million votes in one
campaign, and is to-day winning
yround, and even driving the pests