The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-10
NO.14.f,
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

POINTS FROM THE PRESS. ;.
There Is nothing this country cal
do to kindle the fires of patriotism g.
long as "a per cent of the people ar
homeless.-Seattle Populist.
Prosperity has really been reached
A man near Canton, o., sold his wifi,
and six children for $1OO. A littl,
while ago wives were only quoted a
$3.50 in Missouri. This is quite an ad
vance in prices, considering the hal
a dozen serious incumbrances.-Los
Angeles Labor World.
Hanna and the other coal barons are
the friends of the coal miners and
other laboring people. The laboring
people recognize this and put them
into office and wealth. They always
vote for them or their friends. and
oppose socialism. Darned if l can see
any sense in striking against ones
friends.-Appeal to Reason,
The conspiracy between the federal
judges and executive authorities to rob
the people by selling the Union Pacific
road to the highest bidder, instead of
taking it for the government debt, has
reached to the point of a judicial de-
cree at Omaha. No bid for less than
$5O,637,435 will be received. The date
OF sale Is not yet fixed.-San Francisco
Star.
In spite of the contended good results
to come to the people from the new
tarlff law, significant sign of what
Is to follow, at least in one line, is the
advance in the price Of sugar, an in
dlspensable article to every house
holder.-Fort Morgan Times.
The average citizen is not bitter par.
tlsan, and is always ready to say good
word for the bridge that carries him
SAFELY over rough waters, regardless Of
the builder. But the Mckinley high
tariff will not help him and he will
pronounce it bad and help to overthrow
those responsible for it.-Aspen Tri-
bune.
Extravaganza in public expenditures.
unjust and high taxation, the gold
basis for money and the rapid concen-
tration Of powerful business agencies,
with consequent falling prices, are
among the things which have carried
the country down to the level of the
coast line, and we cannot rise unless
we unload some or all Of these
weights.-Topeka Advocate.
Representation according to the
Hare Astor plan would forever dispose
OF the political machine; taxation &C.
cording to the single tax plan would
forever dispose Of landlordism; public
ownership of all natural and political
monopolies would forever dispose Of
trusts, corporations, and syndicates.
and these three are one.-Pittsbure
Kansan.
The people can only vote for certain
public officials at limited periods: and
these officials are, in turn, imprisoned
IN the straight waistcoat of constitu-
tionalism. The fault is not with the
people, The trouble consists wholly in
the fact that they are not provided
with weapons adequate to the war they
Ire waging. The notion that the people
Ire absolutely free, because they can
vote for governors and members Of
once in while, is very sedul-
'usly inculcated, but it is a very
'hildish notion, observation-disclosures
ieth Century.
A dispatch from South America says
hat the famous Inca gold fields of Peru
ave been found and that the richest
mines in the world are thus opened
p. It this be true, and one-half the
tories about Klondike are true, gold
'ill be SO plenty in few years that
he spectators will want it demone-
zed and debts made payable in dia-
londs, or something else which will be-
ificult to get hold of. Some of the
sound money" fellows are laying
wake nights wondering what next
hicago Dispatch.
The prosperity commission appoint
! by Governor Mount to investigate
le condition of miners, report that
le reports have been greatly exag-
Grated. We would refer such COM
ission to the report Of the late Re-
lblican Bureau of Statistics for 1896.
his report states that the average
'arly earnings Of the miners of In
ana were $201. This gives them an
'erage of 1886 per week. After one
ar of sucn prosperity, the miners 20
a strike. Many of them are report
destitute, and the prosperity COM