The Louisiana populist., 1897-02-26


"And all Of our yesterdays, have lighted !
fools
The way to dusty DEATH
The epic of gold and silver-1596 to
1896.
"Fcols are my theme, let satire be my
song,
For forms o. government let fools con-
test,
And ever since the conquest, have been
fools.
Quoth she, I've heard old cunning
stagers
Say, fools, for argument, use wagers.
Gold and silver, twin relics of barbar-
ism.
The paradise Of fools is where con-
cert is used
To enact un-right into law-and open
daisy,
TO suckle fools and chronicle small
beer"
This is the day that reviyes the
chivalric, and untombs the knight Of
300 years ago, Saaredra Miguel De Ger
vantes, known as wide as earth. Don
! Guixote First, who represented the
fools" Of his age, as fully as "Furios"
does the "Knayes" of the present.
Don, away back there. seated on his
war horse, Rosinante. followed by his
faithful Sancho, on his ass-charged
the Wind mills, for the space of a
day" and the mills" withstood the
charge and smiled. And now, in the
knight errantry for the precious
metals" Don Quixote Second. mount
ed On Balaam Hone" cap-a-pie, from
head to foot, shouting" Silver the is
sue"-followed by his faithful Sancho.
(Bunco) on his ass, the twain below
ing, Subordinate everything to re-
monetizing' silver" ."-Lud;ficari Fallere.
They assault the Gold bug wind milf
the other half Of the false bases.
And the mill" as in the case Of
first Don, withstood the assault and
laughed at the push on gold, which is
Sound" wind.
And as the scattered, scar-worn VIC
Tins, Of the Silver alone ISSUE" gath
cred their spoils from the ensanguined
field and possessed themselves OF the
wealth, wrested from the enemy-it
was found they had the tissues" and
the enemy had the Offices" and with
them, much goods laid up for many
years. Selah.
And the wall comes up from the
three-headed headquarters:
"The harvest is passed and the sum-
mer is ended and we are not saved"
All, hah.
| And lie enticed Ahab, and he was
slain at Ramoth Gilead (Which is Wall
street, with Single issue"-a lie.
We drop the satire and the song and
come to the plain we must all stand on
for we can do nothing against the
truth.
False Glamour is falsehood."
Put the fight on ground where truth
and justice, and God can support it.
Paper money is to be the money OF
the future; absolute paper money
Moran.
Let Paper Money vs.. Metal Money
be the war cry, as the 10Th century
goes out and the Goth century is born
to the new life.
With a Bible, constitution and
money, all stamped ON paper-all re.
; t1exes from the heart A flag stamped
on silk, the emblem Of country-all
standing on the earth; Gods footstool
!. and mans home.
Mankind can have enough paper
money. 1t cannot have enough of the
two metals.
) Truth against the world. Z Motto Of
the Kumree.)
From this level Of Gods engineering
let us call to the rich, net alone in
warning, but in love, also to them as
a brother man.
Note:-For nearly five months no ef.
fort that ! could put forth, has been
spared in the cause of justice and hu.
manity. worked in season and ou,
Of season, with all my intellectual
moral and physical powers. to secure
the election of VIM. J. Bryan-seeins
all the time the false issue that in.
hered to our cause-metal money.
: Throw them both to the moles ant
t bats" and turn to the Peoples part,
platform adopted at St. Louis, at thu
national convention, July %, 1885,
which is the first born political child
, OF the Declaration Of Independence
and when utilized, life, liberty and hap
, piness will be verify.
, Turn from the nliss-rule Of politica
despotism, because the trend Of tn,
J struggle Is:
1st-The class against the mass.
2nd-The greed against the want.
3rd-Tyranny against humanity.
4th--Monarchy against the Repub
; lic-as the laws now stand.
The Divine ruler, His voice.
: Come now, you rich, weep and la
ment over these niseries of your
which are approaching.
Your rich stores have decayed an,