The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-31


all their years of hard labor, moth
ing for all their self-denial, but the
free and unlimited right to get off the
earth by starvation or suicide, when
they are just in the prime of life
Johnston, r. L., Beacon.
The fusionists carried 81 counties in
Nebraska in the recent election, and
the Republicans carried 16, as against
"a last year. And most Of the coun-
ties that adhere to modern Republic
anism are out-of-the.way, almost un-
inhabited frontier communities.
And the Indianapolis gold commits
sion still holds forth in secret sessions
at the Arlington in Washington. Its
fulminations on finance will represent
fully the Sound business methods"
of the bankers and gold gamblers, who
put up the money to meet the wine and
dine bills.-Silver Knight-Watchman.
The $16,O00,OOO that was expended
to elect Mckinley president would have
saved all the bank failures in Illinois
and Wisconsin, and fed all the hun
cry and clothed the unclad this win
ter. 1t cost money to defeat VIM. ].
Bryan.-Sacramento Bee.
The number Of statutes Of state
are appalling. None but lawyer
knows anything about them, and he
only enough to keep himself out CT
the penitentiary and get other people
in. The constitution is good maui to
retard progression, used as 1t is, by
few. Look at the power vested in
the United States Supreme court! No
appeal, and they are only men, subject
to temptation, personal influence, and
some Of them in their dotage, never
stepping down and out unless "re-
tired" by death or the president. The
laws, like the clothes Of the revolution
ary fathers, don't suit or fit present
generations, no more than England's
suited them.--Council Bluffs Mail.
There are women in the fax mills
Of Paterson, N. j., who work ten h6dfs
day ankle deep in dirty water, and
breathe an atmosphere like that of a
Turkish bath. They receive $3.50 a
week. There are other women who
work ten hours a day, and at every
breath take into their lungs a fine
dust that breeds early death as Surely
as do germs. They receive $3.50 week.
Meanwhile the house of Barbour has
accumulated millions Of dollars. and
has established its trade mark every
where.-Chicago Social Democrat.
Henry George died the most heroic
Of deaths. He fell as the greatest
heroes Of the world have falien-at
the post of duty. In spite Of the terri
bic shock of his death, 1t f1iay be per-
ceived, in time, when the great grief
of his taking off is lessened, that he
could not himself have chosen a death
more beautiful and more appropriate.
It was as II destiny had fashioned the
details with the most exact nicely to
give point to the adage that death loves
shining mark. And all the world is
now thinking Of this great man. Had
he died a few weeks ago or a few
weeks hence, even as the mayor Of the
greater city itself, there would have
been wanting that element Of might
ness which makes his fate so brilliant.
These are the considerations which
may be Of most weight in all con-
temptation of the end of the greatest
economic thinker of any age or coun-
try, the first man to rouse the masses
Of all the world from the lethargy of
their hopelessness and to teach them
that the earth was made for them.
Others had taken up this truth, but he
made it mighty.-Twentieth Century.
A dispatch from St. Louis gives the
account Of failure Of queensware
merchant and gives his assets at twice
his liabilities. Such is the prosper
Gus condition of the country that a
man with twice as much goods as he
owes cannot raise money to meet his