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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24
MILLER HOUSE
PoPLARvILLE, MISS.

POPLARvILLE, MISS.
MRS. S. d. MILLER, Proprietress.
Location near the depot, and
convenient to all business houses
Comfortable rooms for drumm ers,
transient visitors and permanen
boarders. Table supplied with the
best the market affords. Terms
reasonable.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24

Fbe following schedule went ms
kasct Sunday, Apl. 10Th, 1896:
/ 2 southbound due 3:42 a. m.
/ southbound due 9:37 a, m.
/ 2 north bound due 5:42 p. m.
/ 6 northbound due 10:lSa. m.
/ 33 southbound due 11:30 a. m.
"a north bound due 11:30 a. IN. .
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24

Two mormon elders, VINO are at
work in this county distributing
literature in the interest of their
faith, were in town several days of
the past week. Permission was
given them to hold service at the
courthouse last Thursday evening,
but after the announcement had
been made public, some objections
were raised, and the order was res
scinded. These men are under the
protection of the laws of the land,
and such being the case, we believe
in giving them, as the school boys
would say, "a chance for their
white allies" The elders are ed,
ucsted young men, and conducted
themselves in modest, unassums
ing manner. Our people would
turn out ell masse to hear a Buddha
priest. or a disciple of Zoroaster or
Mahomet; it is always difficult to
accommodate an audience when
Bob lngersoll lectures: and the
doors of the nation were thrown
wide open to receive Ii Hung
Chang, a rat-eating, murderous,
heather Chinee, then why so seri-
ously object to men who believe the
Book OF Mormon to be the word of
God !? Of course we cannot swal-
low a number of their articles of
faith, but we should remember
that consistency is bright jewel.
The following from the Colum-
bus Commercial should be pasted
in the hats of all business men of
Poplarville and vicinity:
mo town ever prospered or ber
came great as a mart of trade with.
out having good roads leading to 1t.
Money spent on making highways
is the best investment for the farm
err as well as the merchant and bust.
ness men,"
We particularly need s. first-class
road from PoplaIville to Pearl ri7-
err and bridge across that stream.
A long pull and strong pull altos
gether would soon accomplish the
desired end. Poplar7ille-in fact
the entire county-would derive
immence benefit from a public i'm
provement Of this character. And
just think what an advertisement il
would be for this section If such 6
paragraph as the following shoult
appear in the papers of the coun
try: "Pearl River, the younges
county in the great State of Missls
sippi, has the finest roads anC
bridges in the South" Pearl Riv
er county is here to remain fol
ages, then why not make the neces'
sary permanent public improve.
ments NOW ?
. Miss Laura Mitchell, one of oul
most attractive young teachers, hal
closed her school in Hancock Go.
and is again attending Poplarvllle
High School.
Patronize home man by taking
out policy in the Mutual Reserve
Fund Life Association, P. e. Will
lams, of Lumberton, agent.
Ed. Quick, of McNeill, was in
town Saturday, and left in the eve.
ming to attend the Leaf River Camp
Meeting in Jones county.
Will White attended the Leaf
River Camp Meeting, and reports
having had a pleasant time relig>
iously aAd socially.
Poplarville is gradually catching
the bicycle feYer-six wheeimen
were in sight at one time Saturday
morning.
Miss Matte Scott left Sunday
evening for Columbus, where she
goes to attend this session Of the
I. I. &C.
Mrs. w. D. Woulard spent the
past week very pleasantly with
friends at Shady Grove. La.
Now that you are selling your
cotton, please remember your dues
to the FREE PRESS.
Pine Tree Lodge X. of P. met
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Over 20 new pupils had their
names placed on our register during
the past week, swelling the enroll-
ment to 1873. Some of us are oppos.
ed to Stree silver" fearing that
there might be q food of the white
metal, but we are all in favor of the
free and unlimited supply of stu
dents; so il there are any who are
waiting fearing a food of pupils,
come on; there is always room in
the dormltory for one more.
The pianos have come, and with
our accomplished music teacher
Mrs. Hunnicutt, at her post, the as.
sembling in and retiring from the
chapel compares well with clock-
work.
The young men organized soci-
ETY. last Friday night, which prom
Uses to be interesting. A full ac-
count of the society will be given
in the next issue of the FREE PRESS.
W. W. Gentry, of Nicholson, was
in town last Sunday.
When you sell cotton remember
your FREE PRESS dues.
Mrs. M. M. Thornhill and family
have moved to the Anderson resi-
dence.
The Marion House will open
next week for the accommodation
of the travelling public,
The Reed House closed Monday
and Mr.. Reed and family are pre-
parlng to leave for McHenry.
A. j. Clark, of Lumberton, was
a welcomed caller at the FREE
PRESS Office Saturday evening.
j. D. Leake, the popular and
skillful Jeweler who occasionally
visits Poplarville, arrived Monday
and will remain a few days.
Misses Rovilla Summer and El.
Disc Clark left last Monday for
Columbus, where they will attend
the Industrial Institute and College
as representatives of this county
Lum berton Head Block 18th.
Alger Lenoir, the polite and pop.
ular clerk for F. A. Bourgeois, at
Slidell, was welcomed visitor to
home and friends Saturday and
Sunday. Since his residence in
Slidell be has been steadily climbs
ing the mercantile ladder, and as
Excelsior" is his motto, he will en-
deavor to reach the upper rung
AIger did not forget to agreeably
remember the editor.
-,ANTED-SEVERALF FAITH
w full men or women to trave
for responsible established house
in Mississippi. Salary $3.50, pay
able S15 weekly and expenses. 20
sition permanent. Reference. En-
close self addressed stamped envel
ope. The National, Star Building
Chicago. 44-20-W
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24

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The herald., 1896-05-10

trade and industry will not languish be-
cause of lack of money of some kind
There are other tools of exchange beside
coin money. Money is neither a source
of wealth nor tool of production. Mon
ey represents wealth and the people who
possess it in the greatest abundance are
those who control in the largest degree
the earth or the things, the wealth,
that come from the earth. The per cap
ita might be ten times what 1t is and
yet the only people who would get 1t
would be of the class that obtain it now,
those that have something salable to
give for -. If trade languishes and in
dustry is inert it is not because there
is not money enough in the world, but
because of conditions that hamper
trade and discourage or prevent produc-
ton.
The men who clamor for more mon
ey'' are as much in error as would be
the farmer who collected more agricul-
tural implements than his land would
afford the opportunity of using, under
the belief that his crops would increase
in the same ratio that his tools did. The
free coinage of silver cannot lessen the
number of idle hands. badly clothed
bodies and empty stomachs, but 1t can.
through the repudiation and financial
disturbance that 1t would bring. in
crease the number of those unpleasant
The herald., 1896-05-10

Editor Herald High wages is the
promised reward offered to the WORKING
man for voting with the party which
| 1aVors a system of protective tariff.
Soon the Workingman's woes will be
paraded before the public, and the only
sure remedy pointed out will be-pru-
lection. IL the labOring man will inVes-
tigate for himself he will soon discover
that this is nicely concealed deadfall
a beautiful whited sepulcher, but with
dead mems bones within. and even
should they gain the promised reward
1t would prove for them the veriest
apples of Sodom Labor competes only
with labor. and the only way to pro-
tect the American Workingnan is to tax
imported labor If this had been done
Tor the past thirty five years the labor
question would never have been ari-
tated. The laborer needs commodities.
and the more he can obtain of those for
the price of his labor the higher his
standard of living will become, and the
greater the ciVilizati ton of the country
Taxing imported labor, and throwing
open the markets of the world for the
workingman to choose his commodities
from will do for him what no protective
tariff will ever accomplish.
The wages paid in'England are present
ed as a buGbear against free trade. II
the Workingmen will carefully consider
this argument in favor of protection he
will soon discover it's Weakness Eng
land and Ireland together only have an
area of l2OSI9 square miles, while the
United States has 3,602.270. Great Brit
ain supports nearly or quite 500 inha BIZ
tantS to the square mile. while the
United States supports less than 20. The
mines and the manufactures of England
are in close proximity. Coal of the best
quality is plentiful and cheap, and, being
close to the manufacturing cities there
is comparatively no cost for transporta-
ton. These things all considered it can
he seen that did England pay the same
rate of wages as the Workingmen get in
the United States. st,ll she could manu-
facture more cheaply than could the
manufacturers of this country. but the
wages there as here are rated by the sup
ply. England is oVerpopulated. and as
there is no way to get up a corner in
the labor market it has to be sold at half
price. Yet with all this to lower the price
of labor in Great Britain. still the prices
paid average higher than in most of the
protected countries of Europe. Land
monopoly and the fact that there
IS no more government land to be settled
upon is one of the greatest factors in
lowering wages in this country and any
honest student of political economy can
see that a high protective tariff must by
its assistance in building up monopoIies
make it possible for a power detrimental
to the laborer to be put in the hands
The herald., 1896-05-10
An OddltY Of a Watch

There is somthing new in watches. Ap-
plicat ton has been made in Washington
for a patent on a kind of watch that
reads backward. 1t is the invention of
a matchmaker in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ordinary Christians might have no use
for it, but it is not intended for them.
l is designed to be carried by Turks
and other unbelieving dogs of Oriental
countries, who are accustomed TO read
everything backward.
Hitherto these people have been
obliged to content themselves with COM
mon, everyday watches. which read for
ward. This has mixed them up. When
a Turk has in mind the duty of murder
ing an Armenian he does not wish to be
confused as to the hour and minute
most appropriate for the task. This is
one way in which exact time is useful
to him. but there are others. From what
has been said. it will be inferred cor
rectly that this new style Of watch fills
a long-felt want in the east. No Mos
lem or Chinaman, for that matter, can
afford to be without one.-N. Y. Journal
The herald., 1896-05-10
A VALIANT CHAMPION

Before I get through with this thing
I intend to tear every rag of pretense
from it and leave it so naked and shame
less in its fraudulent character that
every man who votes for it can know
that he is voting for fraud. and the
public will know it, too" said Senator
White to The Herald's special corre-
spondent Friday, after his discussion OF
the Los Angeles harbor question in the
senate. He intends to skin the monop-
oily beast from nose to tail tip. and no
man can do the job with more neatneSs
and dispatch than the Southern Cai
fornia senator. who is now adding luster
to his name in his magnificent cham
pionship of the cause of his constitu-
ents. Senator White has splendid op-
portunity to show the mettle there is in
him, and he is making splendid use of
that opportunity. His presentation of
the harbor proposition has probably
never been equaled on any similar oc-
casion in the senate With the skill OF
a master in dissertation he has grouped
the essential facts relating to the sub
ject.
The points of the controversy have
peen ildue Keen enough 10 penetrate
the most befogged of the senatorial in
tellects, and the motives and misrepre-
sentatons of the corporation that for
years has tyranZed over the people of
California have been pictured with the
brilliant rhetoric and the Withering
satire that long since established
Stephen NJ White as the foremost ora
tor of the west. The people of southern
California are to be felicitated upon the
fact that in this, the hour of their need,
they have so able, SO incorruptible, so
effective a champion as the senator who
in the last few days has been tear
ing the rag of pretense" from the Hunt
ington harbor fraud.
The herald., 1896-05-10
HUNTINGTON'S METHODS IN
CONGRESS-

As sample of Mr.. Huntington's
methods of dealing with members of
congress in the matter of securing q gi-
gantic appropriation for the benefit of
his far-reaching corporation, which
claims to have a "harbor" at Santa
Monica. an incident that occurred in
the lobby Of the house at WASHINGTON
few days ago is worth mentioning.
The facts are vouched for by a relia-
BILE citizen Of Los Angeles who was pres
ent when the little incident occurred.
The gentleman states that similar lit
tie episodes are not infrequent in the
Railways and side rooms on the lower
house.
On the occasion referred to Chairman
Powers. of the Pacific railroads commit
tee. was sitting alone in an alcove room
of the house. Very soon he was ap-
preached by John Boyd. known as c.
p. Huntington'S "tape-worm. There
were also soon present Hons. Grove
Johnson. member of congress from Cal
ifornia. and C. w. Woodman. a member
from Chicago. Soon the door was par
TALLY closed and the quintette were ear
nestly engaged in conversation, their
NOlCtS btlilE low 6Itu ALMOST TO Il Wills
per, yet enough words were overheard
to indicate the general drift of the talk.
1t was concerning the proposed monster
appropriation for the Coils harbor
Papers We're examined and passed from
hand to hand, comments made. ques-
tions asked, and considerable was said
In stage whispers. Meanwhile Wood
man, the Chicago member, frequently
passed in and out between the house
chamber and the Huntington alcove,
conveying messages to and fro, and also
occasionally visiting the room of the Pa
cific railroads committee. Congressman
Woodman, who by the way is about as
small potato in many respects as ever
diSgraced congress, is just the kind of
a member to fall easily if not grace
fully into Huntington's methods. That
the people of Chicago district should
have selected such a man for misrep-
resentative in the national Legislature
seems almost incredible; and yet they
did so. By methods known to the un-
scrupulous ward politician in a large
city Woodman managed, after having
played himself out as a fourth rate
justice of the peace. to get himself NOM
mated by Republican convention, and
the G. o. p. cyclone of 1898 swept him in,
as 1t did a vast amount of similar rub
bish. A more plant. willing tool than
Woodman. to act as spy, messenger boy,
news carrier and all-around political
scavenger Mr.. Huntington could scarce
ly find were he to call the roll of con-
gressmen from top to bottom. He has
been so active in Huntington's inter-
ests since the harbor question came to
the front in congress that he has become
known as one of the great railroad mag
Mates most valuable henchmen. AS
there is not the slightest probability
that Woodman will ever be returned to
congress. he naturally desires to make
all the hay he can while the sun shines.
While positive proof of bribery and
corruption may not be obtainable from
scenes of which the above is a sample,
intelligent people who hear of them are
excusable for drawing conclusions de-
cidedly unfavorable to the parties men,
The herald., 1896-05-10
Bismarck's NaQnarimity

a writer recalls a story that Illus
trates Bismarck's magnanimity in his
earlier days. Count Rechberg called on
him once to show him dispatch from
his government, instructing the count to
vote with Prussia at the next meeting
of the diet. Bismarck read the docu-
ment and returned it to the count, say
ing: This is evidently mistake" !"
Rechberg in his turn looked at the sheet
and changed color. Instead of the Off
cial letter he had. by mistake, handed
Bismarck the secret instructions he had
received concurrently, calling upon him,
while openly countenancing Prussia, to
use his utmost endeaVors to cause the
other German states to vote against the
measure. For a moment both states
men looked at each other in silence.
Then Bismarck said: Don't be upset.
You never intended giving me the let
ter. Ergo, you never gave it to me;
ergo. l know nothing about the whole
matter"
The herald., 1896-05-10
A Sound Money Platform

Purely as matter of political expe-
diency therefore wisdom dictates the
adoption of a sound money platform by
the Chicago convention. With such a
platform and the ordinary unity of the
party in the south it could sweep the
country beyond a peradventure. The
moment such a result was obtained
there would be revival of confidence
in American finance which would set
business wheels in motion and make
work, wages and profits for all our peo-
pie. The assurance that there would be
no further tariff tinkering would still
further improve the situation.-San
Jose Herald.
The herald., 1896-05-10
INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS

The chief reason for their faith given
by the advocates of the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 ounces of silver
to 1 of gold, is that there is an ''inade-
quate supply Of primary or redenmtion
money" They propose to relieve this
insufiiciency by coming an unlimited
quantity of fifty-cent dollars.
one ignorant of the financial history
of this country might infer from this
basic contention of the silverites that
during the happy days of free silver
coinage, at their beloved ratio, previous
to the CHASTITY 'crime of 1873" primary
or redemption money was as thick as
the leaves of the forest before the cruel
hand of fall begins to pluck them ruth
lessly away, and that with the perpe-
tration of the '73 crime an alarming
Stringency ensued and has continued.
But the facts do not warrant any such
inference. Up to 1873 the government
had coined only little more than 5000
600 standard silver dollars. In the last
fifteen years more than $500, 900, ,000 in
silver money consisting of silver dol
lars or treasury notes issued against
silver bullion in the government vaults,
have been turned out. In the year be-
fore the great crime" 1872, the amount
of coin estimated to be in the United
States including bullion in the treas
ury against which notes were outstand-
ing that were for all practical purposes
coin, was s25, 000 coo. At the close of
last year the coin of the United States
amounted to $1260, 10, $40 OF this
amount more than half was gold, so that
in 1895 the United States had in gold
alone more than twenty-four times as
much primary or redemption money"
as they had in 1872 in both gold and
silver. In 1872 the per capita of money
of all kinds in the United States was
figured at $3.50 and the per capita of
circulation at S1S19. In 1895 the per
capita of money in the United States
stood at s3432 and the per capita of cir
culation at so 9G. IT win be observed
that more than third of the money of
the country in the last noted year was
reCkOned out of circulation, and that
therefore the supply was amply in ex-
cess of the demand. And ii is fact
that all the silver orators and writer's
cannot wipe out or explain away that
actual money is being used less ana
less in the business transactions of the
world; that for reasons of economy
safety and general eXpediency forms of
credit made possible by the banking and
clearing house systems of civilized
countries are taking the place of money.
AS a tool of trade real money cuts a
much smaller figure than it did prior
to 1873, It's chief function today is to
measure value, and therefore it is not
so important that it be plentiful as it is
that it be stable.
With modern methods of business,
The herald., 1896-05-10
MORE COMPLIMENTS

| The Los Angeles Herald issued q splen.
| did La Fiesta edition with q fine cofored
| cover page.-Venturian.
The Los Angeles Herald Of Wednesday
| was a special number. enclosed in gaudily-
! colored covers and celebrating La Fiesta.
| Chino Champion.
The Los Angeles Herald issued a fine
Of twenty-four pages and richly iilumi-
mated cover.-Orange News.
The Los Angeles Herald issues a most
is one Of the most enterprising Journals
in the United States.-Santa Barbara
Press.
The Los Angeles Herald publishes a
pages. with illuminated covers that from
an artistic standpoint are strictly up to
date.-San Jose Mercury.
The Los Angeles Herald did itself proud
last Wednesday by issuing mammoth "a
page edition, with La Fiesta colored pages,
thus showing print of enterprise and up
to-date te-itiness.--Norwalk Cali.
The Fiesta edition of the Los Angeles
Herald was a credit to the management
of that excellent journal. Everything in
the edition was well arranged. well edited
itor.
The Los Angeles Herald got out a Fiesta
edition of much merit 1t was OF course
largs well fi,ed With statistics and al
has recently made decided improvements
in its make-up.-Pomona Times.
Wednesdays issue OF the Los Angeles
Herald was. of twenty-eight pages. with
illuminated cover. and filled with Fiesta
news and information. tastily presented.
of the resources and attractions of South
ern California. 1t is magnificent issue
Phoenix Republican.
Last Wednesdays edition of the Los
Angeles Herald was one worthy of special
mention The cover being a work of art
and containing twenty-four pages of we'll
selected matter in honor of the Fiesta.
This paper shows push and enterprise. of
which il is noted as having, being the best
morning daily south of San Francisco
Riverside Searchlight.
The Fiesta edition OF the Los Angeles
Herald was a thing of beauty and joy
for several days. 1t not only gave u splen-
did resume of the Fiesta. but gave several
full page write-ups Of prominent Southern
California towns. The write-up OF River
side county was especially fine and would
be an excellent number for residents
10 send to their friends in the east-Moreno
Indicator.
The Los Angeles Herald just spreads it
self at the annual festival season. Its
twenty-e eght-page Fiesta edition is very
attractive and complete. The beautiful
cover in Fiesta colors was designed by &.
w. Travers. and is very handsome and ap-
propriate. The Herald's immense arch un-
der which the Fiesta professions pass in
Los Angeles reflects much credit on that
popular newspaper for its ENTERPRISE
Santa Paula Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-05-10

cratic principles have nothing in COM
mon with the modern Populistic advo-
Gates of free silver, and that the great
and distinguished Democrats. from JEFF
ferson down to Tilden, were one and all
sound money men'-adherents and
champions of honest, full value specie,
who would have fought every attempt
at depreciation and at fraudulent shift
ing of responsibility as being rascally
and criminal. One might as well try to
imagine George Washington in the role
of the traitor Benedict Arnold as those
distinguished Democrats advocates OF
the proposition for the coinage of 50-cent
dollars or compelling the creditors of
the nation to take them as payment for
100 cents. Old Hickory Jackson or
old Bullion Benton would have driven
from his Threshold with curse, if not
with lash or horsewhip. any one who
would have dared to approach him with
such a proposition" &"