The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-09-12
Il CANDIDATES.
Jones Says the Issue Is on Prirci-
pies, Not en- Pergons.
Personnel Of the Two Tickets Wal Not
Furnish Ground for Difference
All Discontinued Men Want
q Change.

u1SlT CduuludUS hdJs nASAAAllCJ" G1NS
silver and low tariff have for their can
didate Mr.. William ]. Bryan. The issue
is clearly drawn. The personnel of the
two tickets will not furnish ground for
difference. Mai. Mckinley is n thought
full, sensible, clean-minded man. Bryan
is much younger, but a man of sense,
q born orator and a gentleman in every
sense. The issue is clearly made on
principles, and not on persons. Pat
riotism will cut less figure in the COM
ing election than perhaps j n the his
tory of the country. In this campaign
we will get down to personal interests.
This will be the most selfish political
scramble in the history of u country.
Party lines will be broken up and most
men will vote in line with what they
believe is the best for their own per
sonal interests, and then the best in
terests of the country. Most men think
that whatever is best for them person
ally is best for everybody else. Mil
lions of men will sit quietly down and
think over the matter, and settle the
question from d selfish standpoint how
they will vote.
All disconnected men want a change
and they are many. Most men who
are in debt want a change. Most men
who are boarding with their wives
want a change. 1t is a question now il
all these classes combined will make a
majority, for discomfort is pretty wide
spread, and debtors outnumber cred
itors by the hundreds of thousands.
Most goldbugs whom 1 have heard
speak on the question say they can
stand anything THAT the other crowd
can stand. Most silverites say they
must have a change. had a talk with
a farmer this week in northern Louis
lana. He was a rabid free silver man,
and said there must be a change in the
financial methods of this country. He
Faid: 81 work late and early. 1 have
two farms and a dairy. 1 work six days
in the week and most of the seventh day
looking after my dairy. 1t is hard for
me to get along at all. We must have
a change"
1 remarked to him: "You say you
have two farms and. a dairy?"
"Yes, sir" he replied.
slave you plenty to eat at your
home?"
"Oh, yes, sir" he replied.
Sand your wife and children dress
comfortably
EYES," he said.
"Well," / said, ''my friend the only
trouble with you in the world is with
your mouth. You seem to be doing well.
You are a comparatively young man
and have accumulated two farms and
q dairy, got plenty to eat and wear
and getting along very well except your
mouth" / advised him to go home
and get down on his knees and ask God
to forgive him for being a GROWER, and
go on about his business with 4 CRATE
full heart. He is a fair sample of the
fellows who want a change.
The cry is that the ~goldbugs want to
rob the country; that they are in CO.
partnership with England, and so on.
Generally the goldbugs are the business
men and property owners in the cities.
Look how they have suffered from the
stringeucy. Rents gone down SO per
cent; property gone down until there
is scarcely any profits left at the end
of the year. This class are mostly gold
bugs. And yet they say this class are
robbers and traitors.
Passing down the line of the Cotton
Belt road a few days ago a largessaw-
mill owner boarded the train at the
station where his sawmill was situated.
l got in conversation with him. Iasked
him how much lumber he was shipping
now. He said ten cars y day on an
average. 1 asked him what he got for
lumber now. He replied: "Six dollars
and a half a thousand" remarked to
him that about the time he sawed up all
his timber lumber would go up SO he
could get a fair price and he would be
sorry he had cut up all his timber and
got nothing for it. He said: "Mr. Jones,
] have been running a sawmill for 30
years. When 1 began 1 got $40 a thou
sand for lumber. 1 only get $3.50 now,
and / pledge you my word l am making
more clear money to-day than 1 ever
made in life."
81 said; sis that true?"
He said: "It is true. 1 work 700
hands Il day." he said. 1.-THE highest
price men 1 have are two at nine dollars
a day. The next to that are at six dol
lars; some l pay four dollars; some
three dollars, but 1 pay a majority of
them SIPS. l pay no hand less than
Sl.25 a day. Since lumber has fallen
from $40 a thousand to &c. a thousand
| have cut their wages five per cent.
from first to last. In the last three
years lumber has gone down As per cent.
have only cut their wages five per
cent. I have stood 40 per cent. of the
loss or shrinkage in the price of lumber.
They have borne five per Cent. only"
then asked him: "You'say you are
making more money now than youever
did?"
WELL" he said, "from start to finish
have Paid cash always. 1 owe no man
anything. l have the best improved ma
chlnery. The dollars l get to-day go
farther than any dollars l ever had; and
not only is that true of me but it is true
IF every man | have. At the mill to-day
the hands gathered around me and told
me l had always been their friend and
asked me- how it was that / could be for
sound money when they were all for
free silver. / told them / was their
friend in this as well as other things.