Natchitoches populist., 1898-04-15

ness Of Ohio increased $50, 1000 900 last
year, the calamity bowler must surely
subside.
Those labor and reform organiza-
tlons that believe In the rule Of the
people through the ballot, instead Of
spasmodic and unsuccessful strikes,
should elect delegates to the national
LABOR convention at St. Louis, May 2,
1898.
Inc enormously wealthy and gold
buggy Chemical National bank Of
New York was despoiled Of nearly
S4Vo,OOO a few weeks ago by loans
made by the cashier on worthless Sc
cuflty, and sympathizing silverite
mas sent the president the following
letter OF coincidence, or congratula-
ton: George G. Williams, President
Chemical National Bank: Sir-I
hasten to congratulate you on your re-
cent misfortune. which, thanks to the
Vaccinations of the crazy 'Bryanites'
Is not as serious as it would appear,
Tor your late cashier, no doubt, paid
his brother 'financier' the s393,000 in
silver certificates, and so l figure 1t
out that your bank has really lost
ONLY $172,92O, assuming the certif-
Gates, or the silver they represent, to
be worth only 44c on the dollar.
While the ways of the wicked are
past finding out'-until it is too late,
very often. to intercept them, there Is
this consolation that even the shrewd-
est capitalists sometimes over-reach
themselves.
Twas ever thus since childhood's
Some accident befell, etc., etc.
Just think Of it! Suppose the
single standard advocates had sue
ceeded in forcing the gold standard on
the country, you would have actually
given this particular silverite and his
Grable-ing associate $220,0S0 more
than you did. Virtue is its own re-
ward even In Wall street, or that
neighborhood, and your poor little
bank is thus saved nearly two-thirds
OF Its reported loss"
"New conditions OF business" have
forced Andrews Bros. of Syracuse, N.
Y. to cut the wages of all employees
from 10 to 20 per cent; and the same
new conditions Of business" force
the workers to take the reduction with
out word. In the course of time the
people will have had enough OF these
new conditions.
Some thirty years ago, when he was
contending against greenbackism,
Baron Rothschild spoke as follows OF
silver: "The simultaneous employ
ment Of the two precious metals is
satisfactory and gives rise to no COM
plant. Whether gold or silver domi-
mates for the time being, it is always
true that the two metals concur to-
gether in forming the monetary circu-
lation of the world, and it is the gen.
eral mass Of the two metals combined
which serves as the measure Of the
value of things. The suppression of
silver would amount to a veritable
destruction Of values without any COM
pensation."
Since then plutocracy has taken
several advance steps, and now Baron
Rothschild finds that gold alone Is the
best measure of the value Of things,
as, the measure being smaller, he is
able to thus get more Of the things.
A New York capitalist sheet has
done rash thing. 1t invited the peo-
pie to write their opinions of society,
with this result: Such multitudes of
letters, critical and condemnatory, and
nearly all condemnatory, flowed upon
the editor, who is himself a Swell"
that he was scared with the threaten
ing host Of angry people he had reused
into expression. So he sat down on
them all, saying that whatever society
might be, it could write.
The most striking fact in the secre-
tary Of wars report is that he asks for
an appropriation of s92,25S,445.sO for
the next fiscal year. This Is over s43,-
100000 in excess of last years esti-
mates, over one-half more than the
$62,S32,41725 voted for the current
year, and nearly double the $49,35O,-
1862 actually expended last year.
An exchange suggests that in the
fact that Mr.. Letter controls the bread
and Mr. Armour dominates the meat.
lies a concentrated hint to somebody
to get a corner on the mustard.
Whenever the doctors and lawyers
get their fees down in line with cent
cotton, they are going to fall in line
with the boys from the creek
Meridian (Texas) Sun.
They would better get in line against