People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-07-09
WHOLE NUMBER 355.
PERT PRESS POINTERS.
Late News of General Interest
from Many Sources.
POINTED PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

What Earnest POpulist Workers Have to
Say-Editoria1 Thought of the Lead
ing Reform Papers COnden-
sed Into Readable Shape.
A corporation is without soul and
with very little principle.-People's
Paper.
Populism will never die until the last
spark of manhood is dead among
Americans -Reformer.
The first motto the Peoples party
ever had was keep in the middle of
the road" and it is good one yet
Peoples Paper, IN. c.
1t is the men who upset the political
churn that don't want a conference.
They evidently think that the less said
about it the better. -People's Paper.
Under government, state and munic-
ipal ownership of public utilities, the
cost of operation limits the price,
while demand regulates the supply.
Constitution (Tex.)
The Honorable Bob Fitzsimmons says
he can trace his genealogy back to
biblical days, and the wicked Post
thinks he must be descendent of the
Hitites.-Facts.
In New York city, near Wall street,
there are 1000 inhabitants in single
block, and not one bath tub in the
block. This is the model civilization
which we find in the great stronghold
of 'honest money. journal of the
Knights of Labor.
We might as well try to cast out
satan through be-elzebub as to try to
get reform through the Democratic
party. Any party that refuses to give
free and honest elections can not be
depended upon for reform
Advocate.
Apparently there is no law in this
country strong enough to catch and
hold trust magnate. Searles, like
Havemeyer, goes free. But Debs went
to jail and Coxey's people had to keep
off the grass.-Johnstown pa Demo
GRAFT.
A Mobillian, who is paying twenty
dollars per annum for the use of water
from three taps, mentioned the matter
to a friend from Atlanta, and the latter
assured him that his bill in Atlanta,
for six taps was about sixty cents a
month, or less than So per annum. In
Atlanta the water-works are owned by
the city.-Mobile Register.
While the democratic papers are re-
galirg their readers with articles on
what hey are pleased 30 term the split
in the Populist party, the democratic
politicians are wondering whether they
will be able to get enough of white
wash to cover the spots laid bare by
the Blalock committee
A fusionists and middle of the
roader may be equally honest but there
is this difference-the middle of the
roader is tired of any more foolishness
with either old political party. He
has been fooled often enough to get
his eyes open.-Times Democrat.
An exchange says it would like to ask
Professor Barnard, the aeronaut, who
is sailing around through the clouds
over the Tennessee centennial, if he
can see in the dim distance from his
point of vantage any mark, sign or
token of the approach of the Mckinley
prosperity wave.-FactsL
While Ohio and Kansas Populists are
engaged in trading principle for a
chance at the pie counter, Colorado is
placing principle before office, and
laying the foundation for a movement
that will force their principles to the
front. -Denver Facts.
DR.. Carl Peters, the German explorer
of Africa, which cruelty so shocked the
world when it was revealed year or
two ago, has been tried on those char
ges and dismissed from the Imperial
service. 1t speaks well for the human
ity and integrity of the German courts
that even the influential friends of this
man could not save him from just pun
ishment.-F Light.
One by one they're coming to their
senses. It's been hard fight but
right, will win. The twentieth Cen
fury" falls into line and last week says:
'The alliance of last year has proved
all that Tom Watson of Georgia pre-
dicted, and the only way to keep out of
difficulty hereafter is to avoid even the
appearance of evil. A party that fig
ures only as the tail of a kite lacks
dignity and Importance. 1t cannot
expect to be taken seriously in any
circumstance. Chicago Express.
Florence Nightingale, who has just
celebrated her nth birthday, is i'll and
not expected to recover. She has long
an invalid, and will leave at her death
a magnificent memorial OF her achieve
ments as pioneer in the work of nurs-
ing the sick and wounded on an organ
lied plan in the shape of a nurses
home at the close of the Crimean war,
the horrors of which she did so much
to alleviate San Diego Vidette.
The only way to purify the law max
ing body is to adopt direct legislation.
By this means the people will rule and
the legislator will become the servant
and not the master of those who elect
him. Indignation meetings and threats
cannot control the corrupt men elected,
as has been demonstrated in Chicago
this spring. The only way is to let the
people say whet Their they want the laws