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The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25

Last year the railroads Of this coun-
try paid 1892 ,659 ,0S9 In interest on their
bonds and sS3,339 ,S11 in dividends. All
waste, so far as the community is con-
cerned, when compared with govern
ment roads, which would need neither
bonds, interest nor dividends.-
Francisco Star.
We do not want more cheap men il
this world. We have no need for that
sort OF economy that will drive the
wages OF the workingman down to the
lowest possible notch. We do not ask
for lessons in economy that will teach
us to be satisfied with the crumbs from
the tables of the rich. We are poor
enough now, we who labor fer the food
and clothing, and the common necessi-
ties of life. We have aspirations beyond
S7h cents day or a dimes worth of
peanuts day.-Santa Cruz Penny
Press.
Gov. Leedy told the Texas people
that Kansas was determined to have re-
lief from excessive freight charges. II
there was no other way out Of it, Kan
sas would build a road to the gulf.
There is nothing wild or visionary
about that. If two million people with
the wealth of state back of them can
not build a railroad, how can a COM
.pany build one?-Wichita Commoner.
DO not waste time in mourning over
the supposed condition of the party
over at "Boggtown CROSSING" or down
in "Hooppole township" or out in
"Swatman's Prairie" Look at your
own township and your own country
and district. If things there do not
suit you, there is a field for your ac-
observation-disclosures.
Permitting the horrible outrages in
Cuba to continue through all these
years, simply to humor the timidity OF
our dollar worshipers, is stain on
our national character that will re-
Quire generations to remove.-St.
Louis Journal.
Inc WORLDS money lords have tricked
japan into adopting the gold standard.
After trapping the United States pagan
Japan was easy game. More demand
for gold its price thereby made higher,
which means more of labor's products
to buy a dollar Of it! 'Tis a pretty
scheme, a merry dance, even il human,
groans do accompany the music. and
the floors are made dustless with myri-
ads of tears! Japan will yet repent
her folly in sackcloth and ashes
farm, Stock and Home.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
Legislating Value.

How is this, gentlemen? How do
you account for the facts cited by the
glass budget that advances in prices
are certain to follow the advances in
tariff" If, as you hays been telling
us, value cannot be legislateG into any,
thing" surely the enactment OF a tariff
law Is legislation, and If that brings
higher prices for glass. surely that
must be legislating value into glass
And If the United States government
can legislate value into glass, what IL
the reason they can not and do not
legis.ate value on silver, gold and pa
per: Will some philanthropic sound
money man" please throw little more
light on this subject and oblige.-Alli.
ance Yindicator.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
NATCHITOCHES La. JUNE

country from blmetallism, and to keer
on the road to ruin through gold con.
traction and falling prices.
Let Mr.. Cleveland squirm as much
as he may; the fact remains that he
sold his party to the goldites; that he
betrayed the trust his party had re-
posed in him, and that he knew, when
he aided the election of Mckinley, ex-
actly what the Republican party pro-
posed to do, because they proclaimed it
in their platform. His whining and
skulking now about the bad conduct of
the Republican party to excuse himself
from a downright act OF treachery and
the fraudulent use of patronage to elect
Mckinley, shows that nothing can sur
pass his treachery and deceit except
his egotism and impudence.
There Is one gift which nature has
bestowed upon the unmitigated calam-
lty who cursed the country with his
presence in the white house for eight
years, and that is the power of uttering
unctuous, unmeaning, false and bonn
bastlc platitudes. The following is q
fair example:
Nothing can explain or excuse in
action on the part of those who can
make no compromise with the advo-
Gates OF unsound money or who love
their country's honor more than self
advantage, or who are convinced that
an unstable and unsafe currency inev-
ltaply bodies the greatest depth OF loss
ana misfortune to all the people OF the
iand. These should not delude them
selves. The peril they dread is direct
ly impending"
II Mr.. Cleveland had studied the
truth he would have said that "the
peril they dread" has been inflicted
upon the country for the last twenty
years by a conspiracy of bad men who
stopped the coinage of silver, and
thereby cut off half the money supply,
doubled the value of bonded indebted
ness, reduced the value of property and
services one-half, and created uni
versal misery in the country. If there
Is any example of bad money since God
made the world, 1t is the gold money
OF the present day. No calamity can
De named which the want Of money
can infict which the country does not
now suffer by Cleveland's Sound
money" His attempt to make the
country believe that anybody wants
more villainous kind Of money than we
now have, is about as cheeky as 1t is
for him to plead the baby act for yot-
Ing the Republican ticket. He knows
the sound money he advocates is the
most villainous swindle Of all the ages,
and he knew that the Republican party
was a party of contraction when he
voted the ticket, as well as he now
does. We beg pardon for having given
this much space to the corpulent relic
who is now politically dead; but mas
much as the papers print his trash, we
feel justified in calling attention to the
individual, who is either a fool or
thinks the American people are fools,
Dr. he would keep out Of sight until his
aagrant offenses were forgotten.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
A PopnlIst Legi ture.

So now 1t is acknowledged that the
last legislature passed no really harm
full" laws. That, of itself, is good
record for any legislature of any state.
But when We consider the railroad law,
the state and county depository laws,
the election law. the law against trusts
and combines, the usury law, the act
protecting both mortgagors and mort
gagees, and the acts for local interests,
we find that the legislature not only did
nothing really harmful" but it did
much that was really good. Sioux
Falls Press.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
The Only Way.

At Kansas City the warning gas com.
panies have combined and the price of
gas has been doubled. Competition
is impossible In such cases. The sum-
ply Of gas, water or electricity for any
city is in its nature q monopoly. and
the only way fer the people to avoid
being robbed is to own such monono.
lies themselves Star and Kansan.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
A Principle Emphasized.

We are constantly calling attention
to the fact that an appeal to selfshness
is, in the end, ii continued, the de-
struction Of civilization. Also that IL
narrows the mind and prevents a broad
comprehension of righteous selfish
ness-one's interest served best by
promoting the common good. We now
want to illustrate our meaning by quot
ing an Associated Press telegram from
Pittsburg of April 5, 1897. It reads as
follows:
Several thousand iron and steel
workers refused to 60 to work here to-
day because Of reduction in wages
ordered Saturday night. Pickets are
on guard at the mills affected, and a
large force Of police is on duty. Seri-
GUS trouble is feared. Oliver Brothers
posted notices on Saturday that here
after the wages of the puddlers would
be cut from $3.50 to s4 per ton. A. NJ.
Beyers & Co. posted similar notices at
their pudding furnaces, and Mcintosh
& Hemphill posted notices that wages
would be reduced 10 per cent and
working hours increased from nine to
ten. There Is much discomfort among
the men, as they supported the Repub-
lican ticket last fall on the promise
that their wages would be increased in
the event of it's election. The struggle
promises to be long and bitter"
That this same thing was done all
over the country and materially affect
ed the election of 1896 is we'll known.
The promises Of immediate assistance
an increase of wages-as a bribe for
votes, closed the minds Of these voters
to broad comprehension of the ques-
tions involved in that election. And ye:
we hear men who pose as statesmen
say that questions of state are selfish
propositions; the interest of one class
as arrayed against another class.
When each individual voter takes an
unselfish view of problems OF civiliza-
tion, he will study for himself, and
form an opinion, more or less intelli-
gent, as to what effect a certain na.
tional policy will have on the general
prosperity OF the country. And he will
at the same time comprehend that he
will most likely be individually best
benefited by the adoption Of that pol
icy that brings general prosperity. It
is the narrow view that looks directly
to personal benefit and ignores study
of the common good that we call SELF
ishness. 1t is what is bringing bank
ruptcy to bankers ON the one extreme
and wage earners on the other. And
one of the most discouraging features
Of It all is that men SO situated as to be
pronounced leaders of thought seem to
be insensible to the principle here
enunciated.
Education is needed in high places
as we'll as low places. Bulle-
tin.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25

Accepting as true the figures given in
II. o. Havemeyer's testimony as to the
profit per pound on sugar manufac-
tured and sold by the trust for the ten
years from 1887 to 1896 inclusive SIM
pie calculation shows that the trust has
made in that time 1926, 900.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
The Cause of the Outcry.

"The plutocrats don't say they don't
own very much after all"
"That's true"
"Then why this outcry against
them?"
Because they won't surrender the
wealth they don't own.--Twentieth
Century.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25
NOTES BY THE WAY,

What would you do II you hand all
the money you wanted?" ,Monopolist
I'd invest it where 1t would double
ITSELF"
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25

Representative Ridgely (Populist) OF
Kansas has introduced in the house
bill TO enable the unemployed to earn
living, to utilize industry, and pro-
duce general prosperity" 1t authorizes
any state, territory, county, city, town,
township, or school district to raise
money for giving employment on public
WORKS by issuing non-interest bearing
bonds OF twenty-five years, payable on
ly to the United States, not to exceed
nall the assessed value of the property
OF the state or municipality. In re-
turn for the bonds, the United States
treasury is to issue treasury notes.
Not only has Mexico free coinage of
silver, but also a night federal tele-
graph service of ten words for ten
CENTS Evidently it would not harm
this country to "Mexicanize" it in sev-
eral respects.
Stalwart Populist State Land Com
missioner Ridges of Washington be-
lieves state lands should be leased but
never sold, and that when persons at
tempt to buy them they don't live up to
tneir contracts. BY living up to this
principle, he expects to get $4,000 rent
to the state in Spokane alone, where
nothing has been received previously.
he has detected land frauds by millions
OF dollars perpetrated against the state,
Ihomas G. Shearran, the New York
statistician, predicts an overwhelming
silver victory in 1900. He says: There
is small credit to be gained now for
foresight in predicting terrific defeat
for the Republican party in 1898 and
1900. Most Of my personal friends are
Republican in politics; and have yet
to meet one Of them who does not an
ticipate this defeat. I regret to say that
all present appearances indicate that in
1900 the country will be swept over the
silver precipice.
Give us real self government, through
the initiative and referendum.
Grant Allen says: Don't believe that
ola nonsense about fortunes being
made by industry and ability. In life,
as at cards. two things 60 to produce
success-the first is chance; the second
Is cheating" and the great trusts, syn
dicates and combines are rapidly elm
mating the element of chance from the
combination.
Yes, the consolidation of all Of the
railroads OF the country is a certainty,
and the public will be the owner.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25

Jingle-"I reyer hear you talk about
your ancestors Pickwick-"Well,
they never talked about me. did they?'
The Louisiana populist., 1897-06-25

Not only has Mexico free coinage of
silver, but also a night federal tele-
grapn service of ten words for ten
cents. Evidently it would not harm
this country to "Mexicanize" it in sev-
eral respects.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
SECRET ORDER ROW.
Sensational Encounter, the Result of
Court Decision.

FULTON Qll). Feb. 16.-A sensa
tional encounter ensued to-day from
the decision of the Appellate Court in
the injunction case as to the removal
of the office of Head Clerk of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America from this
place to Rock Island, ILL.,. the court de-
Gliding adversely to Fulton. Before
daylight to-day over sixty Rock
Islanders, including Mayor Knox, w J.
Egan and John Rinck, arrived on a
special train, went to the Woodmen's S
office and seized the records. Citizens
and police demonstrated without avail.
Then the fire department turned out
closed the rear entrance to the build
ing with stream of water and locked
the front entrance, trapping the Rock
Islanders. They chopped the door
down, but the firernen drove them back
They were prisoners for two hours and
were finally forced to restore the rec
ords to tine office. Meanwhile an in
junction had been secured and the train
was held The unwelcome visitors
were at length allowed to depart, crest
fallen.
The Board of Directors of the Wood
men, who are in session here. and the
Head Clerk, it is alleged, are implicated
in the affair Several hand to- hand en-
counters occurred Fulton will appeal
the case to the Supreme Court, and a
receivership may be asked for the
order
The record-union., 1897-02-17
PRESIDENT-ELECT M'KINLBY.
CONFINED TO HIS HOME WITH
INFLUENZA.
Although Improved Over Monday, He
Will Not be Able to be About
for Several Days.

CANTON, Feb. 16-President-ele
Mckinley was kept in bed by his doctor
most of to-day with an attack of influ-
enza, which is epidemic here. He will
not he able to take the contemplated trip
TO Cleveland tomorrow.
Mrs Mckinley is also confined to her
room, but is expected to be out to-mor-
row
The President-elect passed a restful
night. and has condition is vouched by
friends to be improved over yesterday
All callers are, of course, denied admis-
sion.
At 2:30 p. m. DR.. T. II. Phillips, at
tending physician of the President-elect
said:
Major Mckinley is better to-day. but
still unable to see visitors. He must re-
main quiet for several days, and may
not be able to go to Cleveland until the
latter part Of the week. He is still in
bed. but the rest he has received in the
past two days has been very beneficial -
DR.. Phillips at 9:30 tonight said
Governor Mckinley is doing nicely. He
is getting along very satisfactorily. He
has been able to sit up part of the day
and is quite comfortable tonight He
viii be able to be out in few days, but
will not be able to see callers this week
He may he able to go to Cleveland the
latter part of this week. If his condition
continues favorable
Chairman Hanna came down from
Cleveland tonight, and is guest at the
Mckinley home.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
HO, FOR THE FIGHT.
Arrangements by the Railroads for
Handling the Traffic.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16-Ar-
rangements have been made by which
the coaches of the Southern Pacific will
run direct to Carson, New, on the oc-
casiOn of the big prize fight at that
place next month.
At a conference between Genral Su-
pedntendent Fillmore of the Southern
Pacific and A. NJ. Ardery. Master of
Transportation of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad. the agreement was
reached. By it's terms. upon the arri-
val of the Southern Pacific trains at
Reno the entire equipments, consisting
of the rolling stock, engineers. firemen.
conductors and brakemen, will enter
under the control and service Of the
Virginia and Trucllele Railroad Com
pany, and Will remain so until tine re-
turn to Reno. The Southern Pacific
will thus be relieved of all response
bility while its trains and employees are
absent from its lines, and the Nevada
company will be enabled to handle
traffic to an extent for which it alone is
unproyided.
Already nineteen sleeping cars for
the pilgrimage to Carson have been
provided, and this number can be in
creased to forty should the demand
arise. In addition there viii be about
sixty day cars.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
COUNCIL OF EDITORS.
Annual Convention of the National
Editorial Association.

GALVESTON (Tex.l, Feb. 16.-The
twelfth annual convention of the Ma
tional Editorial Association opened aus
piciously to-day with several hundred
delegates present, who were royalty
welcomed.
The first session was called to order
by r. II. Thomas of Mechanicsburg.
Pa, the retiring President, and the Wis
itors were welcomed by Mayor Fly for
the city, President Courts Of the Cham
Der of Commerce for the commercial
interests and F. B. Baloo OF Cleburne.
President of the Texas Free Press AS
sociation. President Thomas made an
appropriate reply to the various ad-
dresses
Committees were appointed and a re-
cess taken until s p. m, when Hon.
John Hicks of Oshkosh Wis, XMinis-
ter to Peru, will speak upon the pecu-
liarities Of journalism in South Amer
lea, and W. E. Pabor of Florida, poet
laureate Of the association, will read
his annual contribution.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
Says He is Confident cf Whipping
FitZsimmonS.
The Steam Collier Mackinaw Which
Recently Grounded at Marrow
stone Point, Meets With Another
Being Towed Into Port, and is Now
in Worse Condition Than Ever.

/ CARSON, Feb. 16.-Jim Corbett, ac-
companied by his brothers Harry and
Joe, arrived on the train to-day 1t is
raining here slightly to-day, and Cor
/ bett Will not so out TO his training quar-
ters until tomorrow at the earliest
CoTbett was met at the train by nearly
half the population of the city, and they
stood IN the rain to get a glimpse of the
champion. but Jim slipped out the back
end of the car While the conductor gave
the tip that the pugilist was in the front
end of the smoker. Corbett went TO his
MOTEL at once, and was soon playing pool
with his brother Joe. He said he will
train at once. using the hills and noun
tains as course to run over instead of
the smooth road. COrbett said:
This snudden change in altitude from
the sea level to nearly 5000 feet above is
an experiment with me- and l am anx-
lous to get TO work and see what the ef-
| feet will be. So l will get out just as
soon as possible. l have heard a great
deal about this matter of altitude. but
am sure l can say nothing about it until
L have been in training a couple of days.
at the end of which time l will probably
be able to judge for myself
He was then asked as to what his
training would be this time and replied:
Il have no reason, | believe. to make
any radical change in the mode of train
ing L have always pursued, and so I
will make no radical departure from
that, except as l understand it. nv
training quarters have been established
where l may run on a level road or take
to the hills. 1 believe now that running
up and down these hills will be a large
part of my training
Mention was made again as to his
condition. and on this subject the cham
pion was eloquent. and declares that he
will be prepared on the 18th of March
to make the fight Of his life. and it is
plain that he considers it the fight of his
life.
CONFIDENT" he said. "Of course I
am, but SO is the other man, for all that.
But l feel sure that when the fight is
ended 1 will be up. l certainly believe
that can best him. AS to the number
of rounds the thing will last? of course.
that is a matter that is all guess work,
but do not think it will be a very short
contest. In the first place. you see Fitz-
simmons and 1 have different methods
in fighting. Now he goes at it in a
whirlwind style, and that is not my way
at all. l like to commence carefully,
and feel my man. l don't think his
WhirlWind work will have much effect on
me, and any way, l am confident that
l can and will win"
Martin Julian arrived on the train
this evening, and is in search of place
for training quarters for Fitzsimmons.
He looked at Steamboat Springs, but did
not like the looks of the place, and will
endeavOr to get a place near Carson.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
BROKE THE RECORD.
Fast Run of Special Train From
Chicago to Denver.

DENVER. Feb. 16.-A special train
from Chicago. over the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy Railroads, char
tered by Henry J. Mayham. mining
Investment broker, reached Denver at
3:32 a. m. to-day, having ran 1.026
miles in eighteen hours and fffty-two
minutes. The journey goes into his
tory as the greatest railroad feat ever
accomplished, The best previous long
distance run was 10 hours and - min
utes for 964 miles over the New York
Central and Lake Shore Railroads,
from New York to Chicago.
Mr. Mayham left New York on sun
day ON the Pennsylvania limited, and
chartered a special at Chicago, in or
der to reach the bedside of his dying
son, William B., aged II years, as
quickly as possible.
The Burlington officials agreed to
take him to Denver in twenty-four
hours. Every resource of the great
system was brought into play, and the
run was made in two hours less than
was Thought possible. On straight
stretches of track the train covered
more than sixty miles an hour The
uphill run from. Akron, Col. to Den
Ver, us miles, was made in 124 min
utes
In spite of the Burlington's splendid
record Mayham arrived too late to see
his son alive. He died at about mid
night. He was taken last Friday with
appendicitis An operation was per
formed but in vain. Deceased was
Secretary of the Mayham Investment
Company. and was recently married.
His mother and sister We're at New Or
leans when apprised of HIS illness, and
are also 'hurrying hOmeward.
The record-union., 1897-02-17
OREGON LEGISLATURE.
SESSION NEARING A CLOSE, YET
NOT ORGANIZED.
Said to be the Intention of the Mitchell
Men to Adjourn Friday Without
Eiecting a Senator.

SALEM (Or.), Feb. 16.-The roll call
the friends of Senator Mitchell This
was announced to be the great day
which was to carry Mitchell into the
! Senate of the United States. The
house was packed to witness the event.
| but a roll call showed that only thirty
six members Were present all told. ten
short of the necessary number to con-
| stitute a quorum.
! As there are only three more days till
adjournment, it is extremely improba-
| bic that Mitchell can do anything more
than he has already done. His utter
defeat may be considered a certainty.
| The probability also is that there will
| be no permanent organization effected
| and no Legislature this year. The spec
| ulation now is whether the Governor
Will consent to the calling OF an extra
! session to enact the needed remedial
legislation. The joint Assembly will
meet again tomorrow at noon.
| 1t is now said to be the intention of
the Mitchell men TO adjourn the Legis-
la ture sine die next Friday without the
election of a United States Senator
Three of Mitchells men are sick, which
reduces his support to thirty-six, or ten
less than majority. The Mitchell men
viii hold another conference tomorrow
| night, and a great deal depends upon
it's action.
Yesterday a number of anti-Mitchell
members of the House received a tele-
gram from Cornelius n. Bliss of New
York, Secretary of the American Pro-
tective League, urging the election of a
Republican United States Senator be-
fore Adjournment. The telegram is as
follows:
Failure to elect a Republican United
States Senator will jeopardize Republi-
can reorganization of the Senate March
9th, and endanger tariff legislation.
Oregon then would be responsible for
continued hard times and the efnbar-
assment of the incoming Administra-
ton"
Several of the members to-day sent
replies and among them George H.
Hill, who said:
II have lived in Oregon nearly twenty
years and understand the situation here
better than you do. Oregon is rich in
Senatorial timber. Have Mitchell with
draw and we will quickly send you a
sound specimen
Other replies were in the same vein.