The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-03-20
NO. 81.

CiOSe altentiOh 10 tne remarks. he re-
ferred to Mr.. Sherman as the Napoleon
of finance" tut this Napoleon was rap
idly nearing his Waterloo and his exile
at st. Helena. Mr.. Morgan enumerated
in detail the financial burdens which
the legislation urged by the Ohio sena-
tor had imposed on the people. They
were evils which brought misery. want
and calamity to the whole people. 1t
had worked more miseries than those
pictured in the Apocalypse. His (Mr.
Sherman's) garment was one of many
colors, in keeping with the variegated
! liles of the party to which he belonged.
At the present time the Ohio senator
and the President were together in
their financial views, both equally OBJ
livious to the constitutional require
ment that the metals be on equal terms.
1t was the Ohio senator who originated
the evil of selling bonds to a syndicate.
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The Peoples party has plenty of gen.
erals but not enough privates. Let us
devote our time now to mastering ana
organizing recruits-when the proper
time arrives we can select our generals.
Industrial Leader.
That is only part of the truth,
Brother Royelle; but it is mighty good
as far as it goes. The Peoples party
has too many so called generals. And
some of them are generals, too,-gen-
eral nuisances. One of the drawbacks
to progression is that too many men
think they are born to lead, who are,
actually not fit to lead mule to water.
All the trouble that has ever come to
the Peoples party has come through
its gcnerals(0. You are right; what
we need now is recruits-privates. And
here is the field for the would-be gen.
erals to work. Let them organize and
equip an army and then they are en-
titled to be called generals. Some Of
them could not, or would not organize
a corporars guard. Yet many of just
such men frequently make the most
noise in our conventions. The trouble
with many of our people is, they got
the impression in their old party that
patriotism consisted more in making
a noise than anything else, and they
can't divest themselves of the habit.
What we need is voters and you can't
get them by making a noise. Go To
work and organize
At this juncture of our strained re-
lations with Great Britain, the testi-
mony of Benjamin Franklin before q
committee of the House of Commons,
in 1776, will be interesting In answer
to the question, what was the temper
OF America to Great Britain before
1872" he answered.:
"The best in the world They SUBJ
mitted willingly to the government OF
the Crown, and all their courts paid obe-
dience to acts of Parliament. Numer-
GUS as the people are in the several old
provinces. they cost you nothing in
forts, citidels, garrisons, or armies to
keep them in subsection. They were
governed by this country at the ex-
pense only of little pen, ink and paper.
They were led by thread. They had
not only regard but affection for Great
Britain, for its laws, it's customs. its
manners and even a fondness for its
fashions, that greatly increased its
commerce. Natives of Britain were al
ways treated with particular regard:
and to be an old England man was of
itself a chaacter of scme respect and
gave a kind of rank among us. The
British government took away from
America its representative money,
commanded that no more paper bills of
credit should be issued, that they
should cease to be a legal tender, and
collected the tax in silver. This was in
1773. Now mark the consequences.
This contraction of the circulating
medium paralyzed all the industrial
energies of the people. Ruin seized
the most severe distress was brought
hcme to every family; discomfort was
urged on to desperation, till at last hu-
man nature arose and asserted its
rightr'
To-day we are practically under the
OOuludtiDn VI EHSilSu HHdhCiciS. IL
was at the dlctation of England that our
silver was demonetized and depre-
ciated. 1t was England that dictated
the contraction of our currency and a
reduction of values of all
she wanted to buy of American prod
lots. 1t is England that is now with
isawing our gold from the Treasury and
to force the issue of more
bonds. If less provocation than this
inspired our fathers to rise up in open
revolt against a much more powerful
nation than themselves, of what stuff
ire we to submit quietly when We pos
;ess as great power as England can
muster? And no resort to arms Is nec-
sssary. We can vote off this domina-
.ion, but since England has captured
,cth old party machines we must smash
he machines before We can do it,