Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-02-08
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE. :

| Pullman uIu not advance wages II
per cent. after all There has been NJ
increase of wages at Pullman since
the reduction of last wear.
The peoples party was organized
for the purpose of reform. Its path t.
glory lies right in the middle of the
road-this year just the same as ever
Scratch a banker and you scratch
gold-bug who wants to live by loan
ing his own notes and collecting inter
est thereon. He calls this sound cur
rency. Peoples Pilot.
| John G. Calhoun said: 81 under.
take 70 affirm, without fear of contra
diction, that paper money issued by
the government with the simple prom
! Use to receive it for all dues, would be
as uniform in its value as the metals
| themselves"
| The bankers now threaten to bring
On another panic unless the spread OF
populism can be STOPPED. Precisely.
| And they will continue this game as
long as such power is lodged in their
hands. Down with the whole banking
system.-Maine Populist.
"A mugwump has been defined as a
republican with a conscience. He is
taken into the democratic party on
probation. If he ceases to allow his
conscience to work he is allowed to re-
main, but if he insists on his right to
think he is driven out, and that makes
him populist.-Maine Populist
The New York Sun, perhaps the
greatest democratic journal in the
United States, says 'that the silver
people will never again capture the
democratic party" If the old man of
the Sun will only look little to the
front he will find that the democratic
party would never again capture the
free silver people. Tex
Leader.
One of the favorite expressions of
the plutes is that the free coinage of
silver would cause gold to disappear
from circulation, which leads us to
wonder where it is just now. 1t is a
fact that there is no gold, circulating
and it may be well for tie gold-bugs
to explain why this is so. We know
why but we want their opinion.-Non-
conformist.
Don't be led astray with the errone-
Gus idea that the populist party is
dead, dying or going to die. That bad
odor permeating the atmosphere comes
either from the old democratic corpse
or the unwashed feet of the republic
an party. The populist party is ready
at moments notice for a scrap in the
arena of political fame.-Butte Mont
Bystander.
They say that it would be uncon-
stitutional for the government to own
the railroads. The men who framed
the constitution never saw railroad,
nor dreamed that the future had such
e thing in store. They never held their
ear to a telephone or sent message
over a wire. Isn't it about time to have
a constitution a little more up to date?
Maine Populist
When you deposit money in a
bank, the bank loans it, and you help
pay interest on it Every business
man who borrows money has to charge
his customers more on account of the
interest he is paying; and you can't
get out of helping pay interest on the
money you put in the bank, for the
bank to lend, unless you quit buying
things.-Coming Nation.
Congress shall have the power to
coin money and regulate the value
thereof" What does the word regu-
late mean? Manifestly that the peo-
pie, acting through their agents in
congress, shall have the absolute con-
troll over the money of the nation both
as to its volume and material upon
which the government fat or stamp is
placed. -Weatherford (Tex) Leader.
If money is to be loaned at all it
ought to be loaned at the cost of the
service-and the government should do
it. Private corporations have no in
centive to do it except the profit there
is in the business. This profit is al
ways greater than the average increase
in wealth. Such being the case, the
lenders are always growing rich at the
expense of the borrowers.-Star and
Kansan.
If old Rothschild should have one
of his New York subsidized papers de-
clare that it is unconstitutional for
American hens to lay eggs with the
usual amount of white in them the
cuckoo papers and partisan blind
toadies of the west would be earnestly
trying to prove it fact and would de- |
nounce everybody who denied it as
cranks and idiots. And they would
have just as logical a case as their po-
litical stand presents at present-Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
In the Horr-Harvey debate at Chi
cago, both disputants agree that money
is measure of value-and both are
radically wrong. 1t is representa-
tive of value, but in no sense a meas
ure. Value is measured by supply and
demand and by the usefulness of the
article. One man may have horse
that he considers much more ''valu-
able" than it really is. How can money
measure the value that man places on
his horse? 1t may represent it, but it |
cannot measure it-National Advance.
So some of the Alabama populists
are considering the desirability of
fusion with the republicans in the
forthcoming campaign! What benefit |
do they expect to derive by helping to /
pile up votes for the g. o. p? The Ala |
bama populists are already strong |
enough to carry the state if they can |
only get fair count What folly can |
be greater than to weaken now and |
play into the hands of corruptionists? |
We regret to own up to it, but, between
some populists are FOOLS
Coming Nation.
The republican and democratic par
lies are both opposed to government |
ownership of the means of transporta-
ion and transmission of intelligence.
Their chief argument is that it would |
increase the already large army of |
Such an objection from |