Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-14
GENERAL COxEY
Greeted by aSmaIl House a. OBren's Last
 Night.

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 Quite a small audience greeted Gen eral Coxey at O'Brien's opera house last night. The speaker began his talk about S:3O o'clock and continued to speak for nearly two hours. The subject of his lecture is what is termed by him as the "non-interest bearing bank bill" This scheme MT. Coxey thinks, if enacted into law, would settle the financial question: the labor question, and, in fact, all ques- tions which now or may hereafter agi- tate the public mind. In his way Gen eral Coxey finds no trouble in demon- strating, evidently to his own satisfac- ton, that the 'non-interest bearing bond scheme would make this country bend and blossom with peace and plenty. MT. Coxey, in appearance, does not at all resemble the man likely to have been pictured in the minds of those who. never having seen him, read the news paper accounts published about him during his march on Washington at the head of an army of several hundred men, gathered from the ranks of the thousands of unemployed men who happened to in- habit his section of the country in 1893
 He has the appearance of a timid, but highly polished gentleman, and only re- quires to be heard for a few minutes to convince one that he is man pos sessed of more than ordinary intelligence. He is not an orator, but talks we'll and has no trouble in making himself under- stood. He is a populist and believes in all the blanks heretofore inserted in the platforms of that party. His descrip ton of his arrival at Washington and the events that occurred at that time and inn med1ately thereafter is very 1aughable and appeared to please his hearers.
 The lecturer favors the unlimited issue of greenbacks, the unlimited coinage of gold and silver, government ownership of railroads and telegraph lines, munich pal ownership of electric lights, street railways and water works, the unlim- i,ed issuance of non-interest bearing bonds, woman suffrage, and opposes democracy, republicanism, the gold standard. strikes, bondholders, any species of interest, British encroachment, MT. Cleveland and John Sherman.
 A duck raiser, giving his experience in the Rural New Yorker says ducks are easily matched and, if properly managed, are easily raised-much more so than chickens or turkeys. Probably the worst thing for ducklings is the first thing they usually receive, and that is unlimited range and water to swim in. The little things are, in a measure, nude, and should be Kept in pens with dry soil floors or stone pavement that can be washed down daily. No kind of poultry will suc- ceed on bare boards. All the water they need is best furnished by burying an old pot in the ground and laying a round piece of board on top the water, with room for the ducks to put their heads in and fish out the corn that is put in the water This amuses them and does no harm, while if allowed to go to ponds or streams they are very liable to fall prey to vermin In some shape or to get their bodies wet and chilled from remain ing too long in the water.
 No farmer should buy staples he can raise himself. He is paying the profit to another that he should have.