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People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
We compel foreign
SOME DEAD ers to pay license
before they can offer
WIEN AMI their goods for sale
TILE table, in this country. This


age, is equal to half the value of the
goods. In many and many case the
license is double the value of the @o@ds;
in many others it is treble.
Whatever license the foreigner has to
pay, he of course adds to the price of
the goods and WE pay the same back
to the foreigner when we buy his
goods. This license fee is called the
Tariff
When merchant living IN your town
can prevail on the Town Council to
compel outsiders to pay license-fee
before they can sell inside the town,
the merchant inside the town gets the
advantage of that arrangement does he
not? 1t shuts off competition, to the
extent OF the license fee, does it not ?
1t gives the merchant a monopoly in :
side the town, to the extent of that
license-fee, does it not?
Suppose the butcher outside the town
has to pay license fee of five cents
upon every pound of beef he sells in
the town, will not the butcher inside
the town get more for his beef than he
could get if the outsider did not have
to pay the license fee?
The butcher inside the town can sell
beef at 6 cents per pound and pocket
the whole sum as his own.
If the butcher outside the town sells
at cents he pockets only one cent, for
cents must go to pay the license fee.
But if the butcher outside sells beef
at all he must sell so as to make a
profit: hence he runs up his price to a
sum that will afford him profit AFTER
paying the license fee.
The butcher inside the town runs
up his price likewise: both butchers
making a profit, and the customers
being compelled to pay to EACH high
er price than they would pay to EITHER
were it not for the license fee.
Precisely so does our Tariff work.
We charge the foreigner license fee
to sell: he adds it to the price of his
goods: we pay the license-fee when we
buy the goods: and the home manu-
facturer of the same class of goods gets
an advantage over the foreigner, and
likewise over US, to the extent of the
license fee.
This being the case, it would seem to
be fact that these license fees, or
Tariffs, are exacted for the benefit of
the butcher inside the town, for the
home manufacturer.
For one hundred years we have been
compelling the foreigners to pay high
license for the privilege of selling their
goods here. SOMEBODY has been bene
fitted by these laws, else the Privile ged
classes wouldn't clamor for them so.
Who is this somebody?
Most of the old party politicians say
III is GnS IhuOfSE' lucy Ic44 US OAdE tAAc
Government has for a hundred years
been shutting out foreign capital from
competition with home capital for the
benefit of the laborer.
1t wasn't done for the benefit of the
home capitalist at all, it seems.
And during all these hundred years
in which foreign capital has been shut
out. entirely or partially, from compet-
ing with home capital, foreign labor
has been loudly, constantly and urgent
ly invited to come in and compete with
home labor.
This was for the benefit of the home
laborer, we are told.
The unemployed of all nations have
been brought here to compete against
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

Last week, Miss
LONE OF THE Sallie Oh apm an +,
while visiting friends
~ONGnON in Macon, Ga, was
pEren brutally outraged by
negro named Char
les Gibson.
The foul deed was done at night, the
ravisher having entered the sleeping
room of the unfortunate girl, and &C.
complished his purpose within few
feet of where several white people were
sleeping. and actually in the presence
of a little white child who had been
sleeping with Miss Chapman, but who
was wide-awake, and looking on, as
the crime was perpetrated. The child
was too much frightened to make an
cutlery, and too small, in fact, to real
lie what was happening.
Was there ever a holder crime than
this2 Was there ever more reckless
criminal ? Could anything more clear
ly demonstrate the danger of Southern
women, and the infinite daring and
desperation of negro ravishers
Gibson committed his crime in the
very midst of a sleeping family, in the
heart of great city, in the presence of
little white child, and yet when he
jumped from the window and ran
away, no trace whatever was left be-
hind by which vengeance could follow
him. He went about the city as usual
fearing no detection, feeling no remorse.
Nobody suspected him. On the Sunday
morning afterward he shot and killed
negro named Jim Smith; was pursued
by posse, was brought to bay in the
swamp, fought like wild-beast till he
was shot down, confessed to the raping
of Miss Chapman, and died at the hands
of the furious captors without showing
the least fear or repentance. He was
brute to the last, and died not as q
human being dies, but as a wild-boar
dies.
It is believed that he was the man
who outraged Miss Couch, in Vineville,
Ia suburb of Macon) few days previ-
, GUS to the assault upon Miss Chapman.
The Macon Telegraph says:
sssOuvenir for the Governor"
''While Gibson was hanging from
the limb, some one in the crowd said
he wanted to get a lock of his hair
when he was cut down to send to the
Governor. This provoked laugh and
several others said they thought the
Governor would appreciate such a
present from the head of lone of his
pets"
We do not know whether the lynch
ers sent the Governor lock of the ne
gro's hair or not, but there is something
very terrible in the suggestion that
Gibson, the confessed rapist, was zone
of the Governors pets"
What was the meaning of language
like that? How dared any man, even
in the widest excitement, to allude to
negro rapist as pet" of His Excel
lency, Governor AtkinsonP
We presume that an allusion was in
tended to the famous "Rape Circular"
OF the State campaign of 1896, In that
memorable campaign. it was needful
for Governor Atkinson to get the negro
vote of Georgia, because the majority
of the whites favored his brilliant com
petitor, the Hon. Seaborn Wright.
In order to influence the negro vote
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
POULTRY, PRODUCE, ETC.

Chickens are scarce and are bringing
be tier prices than for years past, all
receipts being sold on arrival at about
25c higher than four weeks ago.
Ducks, Pekin, 25c each, Puddle 15c to
zoe. Eggs 1Sc to lac dozen. Butter,
(Tennessee) in cans 12c to 15c pound.
Creamery Butter, in prints or small
wood tubs 1Sc to zoe to 22c pound.
Honey, Toe to Ice pound in frames to
1Oc pound, in bulk, in small cans.
Cheese, lie to 12c pound. Hams 10c
12c pound. Shoulders, &c to SC pound.
Navy, Beans $1.75 to 81. 90 per bushel.
We advise all parties with chickens to
ship, to do so while the market Is good.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
THEY ARE RELIABLE.

We believe through careful inquiry, that all
the advertisements in this paper are signed by
works, upon Complaint of subscriber against
an advertiser, that shows on its face an irreg-
ular transaction we will use our best efforts to
advertiser proves unreliable, he will in future
be debarred from the use of these columns and
be promptly exposed. Rogues shall not ply
who are our friends, through the medium of
these columns.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
Official Organ Peoples Party
State of Georgia.
OuR BUSINESS PLAN.

THE PEOPLES PARTY PAPER gives no chro-
mos, puffs no swindlers, inserts no humbug
advertisements, and does not devote one-half
its space to telling how good the other half IS
1t is published weekly and is furnished to sub
scribers at one dollar year, postage prepaid
ANY reform book or publication furnished at
wholesale cost to our subscribers Terms, cash
in advance.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
The Only cure tor Oatarrh.

1t has been found by experience and
scientific observation. that the only
way to reach and cure catarrh, salts
factorily, is by inhaling the proper
remedy in the form of smoke DIR.
Blosser who is the discoverer of this
mode of treatment. is meeting with
wonderful success.
He offers to send to any sufferer a
three days treatment, free by mail.
Address DIR. J. w. Blosser & Son, IL, 10,
& Is, Grant Building, Atlanta, Ga.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
JNo. L. MOONEY.
WEEKLY PRODUCE LETTER.
BY the Shaw-Fincher Commission Com
pany.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Apples, in better demand, 50. 90 to
So so per barrel for good stock, for
cooking apples. SOC to 6Oc per bushel.
Pears, best, so 90 per barrel. Figs &c
to SC per quart. Grapes, very scarce
and selling readily. Good varieties
pound ba l1ets 15c to zoe; 10 pound zoe
to soc Peaches, scarce with the excep-
ton of California goods, and selling at
$1.25 to 50 90 per crate. Sweet pota-
toes, 60c to zoe per bushel Irish pota-
toes, SOC to 90c per bushel for fancy
stock nicely packed in sacks. Onions,
81 90 per bushel for Northern, and soc
to 81 90 for Southern grown. Cabbage
are not moving very well and few are
arriving in good shape except those
shipped in car lots. best worth in small
lots 81 25 per 100 pounds. Dried apples,
SIC pound.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

Labor fills the world with wealth,
yet labor has to beg wealth for a
chance to earn something to keep alive
on.-Tacoma Sun.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
..Not Made of that Kind of Mud

SLAYDEN, Texas, Sept. 2, 1897.
I clip the following from the Calves
ton Daily News of yesterday, which
has been given extended circulation
throughout Texas;
ssWATSON TO RETIRE.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

PopuIism, Democracy and Political Chaos.
He who dares not lead and compro
misses cannot be trusted with leader
ship. When a great issue. is developing
and new questions arising, when mems
minds are in formulative period and
there is chaos of views among even
those striving for the same general end,
when party lines are changing and the
necessary re-alignment lacking in di-
rection, then is the greatest need for
leadership to bring order out of chaos,
to give direction to that which lacks
direction, but then too is the greatest
trial to those who essay leadership,
then the greatest temptation for would
be leaders to compromise and avoid the
responsibilities of leadership where
announcement of convictions may
mean the wrecking of personal ambi-
tions, then the smothering of convic-
tions by those who are cowed by the
shadow of their own ambitions. He
who seeks to shape his convictions and
views toward great and rising ques-
tions by the effect that such shaping
of views may have on his self advance
ment and who, unable to forejudge
what shaping of views will best pro-
mote his personal ends, comes, SO far
as the public is concerned, to no con-
victions at all, is untitled for leader
ship.
Two generations ago the struggle
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

Don't send Stamps-We can't use them and
will return at your expense
Delays sometime occur where parties fail to
write name, post office and state plainly
Don't send Private Checks-unlessy you add
10 cents extra Y~a exchange-we have to pay
exchaHge IN them
SEM full amount of the club offer in regis
teTed letter, money order, or express order, or
checks on New York City or Atlanta banks
y only. Address
National Paper Club,
Atlanta, Ga.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

Carrier pigeons will be used hereaf-
ter to transmit news from war ships to
the Navy Department.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

? P and Missouri World. &1OO
Chicago Express. ............... 100
Southern Mercury .............. lbs
New Time [monthly]. .......... lbs
The American ............. 15O
(Wharton Barker)
Cosmopolitan [monthly1. -.... 15O
Morgan's Buzz Saw ]monthly]. LOO
New York World. LAO
Equality ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1.5O
(Bellamy's new book
Story of France ............. LOO
(Watson)
Roman Sketches. ............... LOO
(Watson)
National Platforms. ............ 100
lRaynOlds(
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
In another column
MR.. BARKER'S will be found nota-
BILE editorial from
Envrop,AI VIII ton Barker's
81 m rinan -

EnHTnnHA1 w Ii d W IL DdIA CI >
American"
It should have wide circulation. 1t
is timely and true. Mr.. Barker sees
the situation just as it is.
The Republican party does not mean
to do anything for the people its mis-
sion is to serve the classes.
The Democratic party does not mean
to do anything for the people; it's mis-
sion is to keep on pretending that it
will do something, and thus stand in
the way of real Peoples party.
The only hope of the masses is The
Peoples Party: and the only hope of
the Peoples Party is to go back to
Populism, casting off this internal
Nessus-shirt of Fusion. It is poisoning
us to the very vitals. 1t degrades us as
men. 1t dishonors us as patriots 1t
ties us to the foes we swore to fight.
1t fastens us to policies we were
pledged to resist. 1t gives the lie to
every Populist speech that was ever
spoken. 1t is grave in which Demo-
cratic politicians are burying us as fast
as they can hire the Populist leaders
to lead us up to it.
Mr.. Bankers editorial is bugle call
1t should be heard all along the line
1t should rouse every Popullst to re-
newed energy and purpose. 1t should
nerve us to one more great effort,
Let the Peoples Party take the mi
tiative as it was wont to do. Let it go
ahead regardless of other parties, and
paying no attention to jeers on this
side or sneers on that, to bowls here or
to scowls yonder.
Let us all be Populists once more, as
we used to be before that small gang
of conspirators got together in Wash
ington City in 1895 and agreed upon
our betrayal @ T. E. w.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17
OUR CLUB LIST.

The following papers, magazines and
publications are furnished with the
P. P. P. at the rates given below.
Papers may be sent to one address or
different addresses as may be desired.
Club rates are for full year. For any
other paper, magazine or book, write
for ,orioac
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-09-17

issue involved in the emancipation OF
our producing classes from industrial
slavery, when there are many, cannot
be trusted with leadership, and it is
down to one issue involved, and that
one issue the silver question, which is
in fact but part of the monetary issue
that Mr.. Bryan and others seek to tie
the Democratic party. Thus led, the
Democratic party cannot be trusted
with leadership for it is untitled to
lead with success, untitled to accom-
plish the emancipation of our produc-
ing classes even if crowned with au-
thority, untitled even as was the Wing
Party under Henry Clay, to lead in the
struggle for the emancipation of the
negro from cha ttel slavery.
It may be that Mr.. Bryan and other
Democratic leaders who seek to tie the
Democratic party down to the silver
issue, and make the struggle for the
new emancipation on that inadequate
issue alone, are not blind to the agrees
sions of the moneyed oligarchy on the
rights and liberties of our producing
classes made through the arm of our
transportation system and the indus
trial monopolies built up by the abuse
of transportation facilities. It may
be urged that the Democratic party en-
trusted with power, after campaign
narrowed down to the silver issue,
would develop in Office though failing
to develop out, arise to the necessities
OF. the occasion, com bat the aggressions
of the moneyed oligarchy wherever and
however made, preserve the industri-
GUS from despoilment through the me-
dunn of our transportation system as
well as through our monetary system,
bring about the national ownership of
our transportation facilities and do
whatever else was needed to bring
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
STATE PRESS.

That state printing machine Is an au-
tomato concern. The auditor runs the
machine and the machine oils the au-
ditor.-Winston Republican.
All the republicans. and a number or
the less self respecting populist papers.
are engaged in a desperate attempt to
stem the tide that Is setting In In North
Carolina in favor OF n government or
men for white men. These sheets
grow hysterical at the least ~insinuation
that the negroes want office, and when Il
is pointed out that the great number or
rapes and outrages that have taken place
in the south in the past four OF fve
months are traceable to our changed po-
litical conditions. they froth at the mouth
like unto dogs with Observation-Disclosures
boro Messenger.
The power behind this move from n
higher to a lower calling Is probably that
of a higher salary instead Of one not low
except when compared with the higher.
A professorship I'm our state university
means at least an economical suficiency:
a salary under the tobacco monopoly may
mean luxury and opulence, but VIII 1t
ever sustain that peace OF mind hat Is
beyond all salary? VIII a teacher who
has risen to n full conception Of his noble
calling ever be at ease Of mind In the
walks of life I'm which he may well Ques-
ton IL the world would not have been
the better II he and his lucrative industry
had never been? No one can be censured
for leaving the teachers profession X
consciously inefficient or unappreciated.-
Concord Standard.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
PEOPLE ALL ABOUT

DR.. Mary Walker is writing her au-
photography.
Miss Annie s. Peck, the mountain
climber, has just accomplished h feat
Of climbing every peak Of the White
mountains.
The new bishop of Bristol. England.
is a newspaper man by profession. He
was a regular contributor to the Pail
Mall Gazette under Mr.. Greenwood and
also wrote for the magazine.
It is announced that Mrs. Elizabeth
Phoebe Key Howard, the only sur
viving daughter of Francis Scott Key,
author of the Star Spangled Banner"
is seriously i'll at Oakland, Cal.
Miss Beatrice Harraden has becom
a practical woman farmer. She can
plow a field, plant and cultivate the
same, build fences, harness horses,
etc. She rises very early in the morn
ing.
Klu Six Kim, a young Korean. has
arrived at Salem, Va, to enter Roam
oke college this coming season. He
has a fairly good command Of Eng
lish, having studied it for three years
in his own country under competent
masters. ,s.. 1s.E ;
Rev. Mr.. Vrooman, Of Chicago, says
he has been frozen out of the Presby-
terrain church and starved out of the
Peoples church., and that now he Is
going to the Klondyke. He evidently
wants to try both at once.
When DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
after a visit to Professor Max Muller,
was bidding his host hood-bye, he said:
Il have had much talk with people in
England; with o I have had real
conversation"
It is reported in Atchison, Kan. that
J. D. Harmon, the famous Missouri
laugher, Is dead. Harmon had a guf-
faw which could be heard for many
blocks, and it was so contagious hat
he was a great attraction when he
visited Atchison to sell the products of
his farm. Harmon lived a few miles
across the Missouri line.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
JOTTINGS.

The street duel at Abbott, Texas,
last Wednesday accentuates the differ
ence between a French duel and the
Texas brand.-Washington Post.
News has been received at Columbia,
s.. c., that the town of Ridgeville,
dwellings and railroad depot, was fired
in several places last night during a
severe electric storm and many build
ings were burned. Whether there was
loss of life cannot be ascertained at
this time.
The Glasgow (Ky.) Times tells of a
negro who lives near Savoyard, Met
calf county, who is only II years old,
but has already mastered the common
schoo rudiments of education and is
away up in algebra, geometry, astron-
branches. He is a lightning calculator
name is J. r. Thompson.
DR.. c.. A. Henderson died yesterday
morning in Baltimore. His remains will!
pass through here this morning en-
route to Greenville, S. c., for burial. AS
previously mentioned in The Observe.
DR.. Henderson was an uncle of Mrs.
J. G. ShannOnhouse. He had suffered
since boyhood with a wound in his
head, caused by a kick from a mule.
The suffering became so intense h a
he decided to go to Johns Hopkins and
have an operation performed. He did
so, but death was the result.-Char-
lOtte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
The Dry Goods Market

New York, September 1.-The mar
ket for dry goods continues quiet. In
cotton goods the demand is limited, al
though dealers have no fear for the
future of the season. They look for a lull
in trading during the present n the
approaching week. Later, it is believed
the recorder business will be in full
blast and returns will be adequate in
both cotton and wooden lines. The mar
ket is active among jobbers and, al
though the demand is scattered, it con-
tinues to make a fair aggregate in all
divisions of the market. The export
trade is still quiet. Buying for South
American use still continues in fair
proportions. Staple cottOns specifically
are steady and firm. Print cloths are
quiet at 2%c for extras. Odd goods ar.
steadily bought at we'll sustained
prices. Printed and woven cotton goods
are firm and in active demand. Wooden
and worsted goods in all grades are
firm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24
Especial to The Messenger)

tGohsboro, N. c., September T.-In"the
superior court this afternoon William
Haywood, co1ored. submitted to the
charge of attempting to- wreck the "shoo-
fly ON the Wilmington and Weldon rail.
road. near this city on the night of No.
vember 2s, 1895, and was sentenced to
eight years in the p~enitentiary. Charles
Manuel was convicted of the same offense
last January and is now serving a SEN
tence of our years in the penitentiary.
Ex-Sherif D. A. Grantham gets a re-
ward of $500 for the arrest of both OF
these train wreckers, the full amount Of
which was offered by the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad, Wayne county and the
state of North Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24

New York, September 2l-The hearing
in the case of the governor and attorney
general OF North Carolina. against the
Railway Company was conclud-
ed here today before Special Master Kerr
Craig, appointed by the United States dis
trict court to take testimony. Colonel +.
w. Hindekoper, president OF the Chicago,
St. LOuis and Peoria railway company,
formerly receiver Of the Richmond and
Danville railroad. which was succeeded by
the Southern railway. and r. Francis
Hyde. second vice president OF the Gem
trail Trust Company, holders Of the mort
cages, testified today as to the value OF
the lease. Both declared that they knew
Of no fraud, or irreguiarity In connection
with the lease. The next hearing Will be
held in Baltimore tomorrow. J. Pierpont
Morgan was subpoenaed as a witness
yesterday. 1t was said that he was IN
control OF the Southern railway Mr..
Morgan was excused on the statement
hat he knew no details regarding tho
lease of the North Carolina road.