The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-10
THE POPULIST VIEW,

THE POPULIST VIEW.
The San Francisco New Charter saws
: The Common Cause, of Cincinnati
ohlo, and advocate of more money
says:
." What makes falling market an,
stagnant business? The dollar tina
buys more today than it would buy
, last year.
In the very next item 1t gives tht
lie to the above as follows:
, Idle labor lowers prices of com.
modlties. The man out of work con.
sumes as little as possible of anything
and none at all of many things he
would buy if at work. Less consump-
tlon, less demand. less price.
Gould man be more muddled than
one who could set these two paragraphs
together as an expression of his opin-
ion?"
On the contrary, it is the New Char
ter that is muddled. It is surely self
evident that a dollar which always
buys more goods than it could the year
before, will cause falling market and
stagnant business; and besides, every
political economist confirms that truth.
Inen, DO not hard times throw men out
OF work, and does not the throwing of
men out of work make times harder
ana harder. for just the reasons given
Dy the Common Cause? There is no
contradiction in the two paragraphs
from the Common Cause. Read to-
sether they simply state a we'll known
and iamentable fact. Scarce and dear
money starts an endless chain of disas-
ter, each result becoming in its turn
the cause of more suffering.
Frank L. Stanton. the Jim Riley of
Georgia. has opinions on the money
question. as he often shows in such
verses as the following:
School time, gentlemen, Now take
hold:
mere is dollar, and its name il gold.
Ahat you shall worship, and that
alone;
lts bright and shiny, and it's Wall
streets own!
rant c1rculatin', an it's hard to get
l1li land this country into trouble yet.
But this is the lesson you must learn
and hold:
There's but one dollar, and its name |
Is gold.
school time. gentlemen. and hard
times, too!
Let that dollar be god to Won.
~ ~ heavy burden and grinding tax
out man made burdens and God made
backs!
but don't you fear
FOR the poor are patient, and the Moor
must bear!
we've loosed a tiger where the toilers
roam:
schools out, gentlemen-now rim
home" -
me state OF Kansas seems to have
'ederal Judge Williams scared. Pin.
ocracy Is coward when confronted
with a powerful adversary such as
.opulist state government. backed bv
he people. sN W
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And Populism is rampant in the Am
iican association for the Advance.
aen' ., science. In an address to
nat body DR.. William H. Hale said. ;
inere are many obvious advantages s
q naving a responsible government
ontrol and operate all franchises
,nlch use public highways and SUM-
" PUBIC necessities. 1t is well that
ne comfort and convenience Of the
eople who are supplied by these mn.
opolies be made the paramount con-
Iteration. Strikes and boycots the
ane OF the street railway systems ,,
'ould thus be averted or minimized
believe this country is on the eve 3
vast extension of municipal own
Fship and control of systems to sun 8
" light, heat, transportation etc .
ernaps there Is danger of too sudden ;
40 explosive a movement in this d. :,
'ctlon. Work Of this kind REQUIRES :, =
Kill, industry and experience and the :, =
lreful selection Of men. The system . .,
reformed civil service which aims 70 = :,
cure, and toHa large extent succeeds r r
securing, the best men for the per- D D
rmance OF public duties, affords the A
lly economical, and, therefore. the =,
lly practical solution of the problem n
governmental administration of +,
ese natural monopolies for the pub m
good" =. ~
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Judge Wellhouse is called the apple m
ns OF the world. His orchards in ye
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