The Louisiana populist., 1897-12-24

vocabulary.-Civic Review.
The total output of the gold and sill.
yer mines of the United States last
year was about $125O0O, 600, about what
the wheat and corn crops of Kansas
for 1897 are worth.-Topeka Advocate.
Those owning orchards allege tina,
apples are too cheap to pick. The al.
legation is probably true. However,
out this way they are too dear to eat
The railroads want 1000 per cent more
than the farmer gets for hauling them
few hours. Result: Apples rot on
the ground. Let's have government
ownership of railways.-Stillwater
(Minn.) Populist.
1t looks as if President Mckinley
might attack the stability of our cur.
rency by placing a few more Repub.
llcans in the offices now held by Gold
Democrats. - Silver-Knight Watch.
man.
Wouldn't 1t be nice to elect your
man every time you vote? The pref
erential ballot does that very thing,
and yet the professional politician is
against it.-Pittsburg Kansan.
These are some of the powerful fig.
ures given by the Single Tax advo.
Gates. There is not the most remote
doubt Of the fact that the single tax
would benefit ninety-nine in a hun.
dred Of the farmers of the country
Colusa Sun.
In the last five years George Gould
has lost $25,644,637, or at the rate OF
$5,OOO,0O0 year. In the last three
months he has made it all back ex.
cept $9,72S,525, which is incontrovert-
ible proof that the Dingley law is the
workingman's best friend.-Chicago
News.
Call it by any name you like, it will
smell just as sweet. when "conflsca-
tion" or "repudiation" sets in in 1900.
That's what Johnny Bull called it 121
years ago, when the American colonies
rebelled against the British tax-gath-
erer. That is the ultimatum now, and
it is brewing fast.-Coming Events.
The most dangerous anarchist Is one
worth a million dollars, mouthing pa
triotism and piety at every step, and
continually trampling upon and set.
ting at defiance the laws of God and
man.-Hanford Radical.
The Chicago & Alton railroad pulls
six mail trains daily between Chicago
and st. Louis, for which it receives
$3.50. This means $50 for each train
trip. The distance is about three
hundred miles. To operate q train
requires an engineer, fireman, conduct.
or, three brakemen-six men who re.
ceive, say, 81 per day each. This
makes $24, leaving a balance Of $3e
for coal and each trains proportienate
share of the Office and track expense
You can plainly see that. the mail
charges pay all the expenses of operat-
ing passenger train, even II the pas
sengers were carried free and no
charge were made for hauling the ex-
press car! And yet some are so
thoughtless that they believe that the
railroads do not pay because their
stock is purposely manipulated so that
it is worthless except to gamble in.-
Appeal to Reason.
The utter unreliability Of telegraph.
ic news reports has come to be a So
rious question. No man can now tell
with any degree of reasonable certain.
ty whether a newspaper report is true
or false. Generally it seems to be false
and contradictions occupy nearly as
much space as original reports. The
Associated Press, which has most OF
the papers by the throat on ninety-nine
year contracts, seems to have utilized
it's cinch to revel in corruption and
unreliability. After a while national
enlightenment will bring postal tel
egraph, and then it will be impracti-
cable to form combinations between
telegraph and news monopolies.--Sac-
ramento News.
That was a powerful comparison
which George Fred Williams Of Boston
drew when he said that the British
officers and men who shot down citi-
zens in front of the old Boston State
House on March 5, ITO, were surren.
dered to the civil courts for trial, while
Sheriff Martin and his numbering gang
of deputies were protected from ar
rest by Pennsylvania militia in Sep
tember, 1897. More than what was
gained in the war of the revolution has
been thrown away in government BY
Injunction and military rule today