The Louisiana populist., 1896-10-02

mine for themselves, with all the
facts before them, how they shall
vote. This is considered COM
plete and effective reply to the
gold circular, which the railroads
and other corporations are hand
ing out to their employees to try
to array the wage-earner against
the wealth-producer in this fight.
The action of the railroad compa-
nies in boldly entering into poll
tics, and becoming the active and
aggressive allies of the gold men,
is forcing rapidly the question of
public ownership of transporta-
ton to the front. In short, they
are making every silver man
come over to the Populist position
that the Government should own
and operate the means of transpor-
tation, not only SO as to take these
agencies of commerce out of poll
tics, but also to give the people
lower transportation rates and to
insure that no discrimination shall
be made against any class of our
people Or any section of the conn
try. 1t is safe to say that half of
the corruption that has occurred
in Congress and State legislative
halls has been through railroad
lobbies and railroad influences, di-
rect or indirect. Next to a COR
rect financial system nothing
! could do more to add to the pros
perity of our people and to purify
our politics and the administration
of our Government than for the
means of transportation to be op-
Grated at cost for the benefit of all
the people, as the postal system
is now operated. 1t is sure to be
the next great leading question in
our National Campaign.
| WATSON MAKES A GREAT impress
SION IN THE WEST.
Reports received at Peoples
party headquarters show that Wat
son has made as brilliant a cam
paign in the West as Bryan is
now making in the East. The
National Committee is having Wat
sons great speech delivered at
Lincoln Nebraska printed as a
I campaign document, and Will dis
tribute it in large numbers.
Dates are now being arranged for
Watson during the month of Oc-
tober, Immediately after the close
of the Georgia campaign.
BRyAN's MARVELLOUS CAMPAIGN.
The camprign which Mr.. Bryan
is now making is the most marvel
! ous feat ever known in American
politics. His physical endurance
is not only marvellous, but his ca
pacity for making a speech, with
new illustrations, every day, is the
wonder of the greatest orators and
the ablest campaigners in the
country. His speeches which are
all extemporanious, of course, are
taken down by Stenagraphers, ver-
batim, and reported, word for
word, just as he speaks, yet the re-
port of these extemporaneous
speeches appear in type as connect
ed, as logical, AMI as well rounded
as the best carefully prepared
speeches ever delivered or publish
ed. The mans power is develop
ing every day, and to the great
alarm of his political opponents.
ORGANIZED LABOR STANDING SOLID
LY FOR SILVER.
In view of the desperate efforts
the gold men are making for the
labor vote, it is interesting to note
that every labor paper In the coun-
try that is the organ of large la
Dor organization is for Bryan and
free silver. A little over year
ago the officers of alI.thc labor and
farmer organizations of the eoun-
try joined in a petition to Con-
gress to open the mints to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
16 to 1. The fact is that the far
mers and organized labor has fore
ed this financial question to the
front