Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-09-23
FUDGE AND FUSTIAN.
A PLUTOCRATIC PAPERS ROSY
EYEGLASSES.
There IL DlstresA In Gold-Standard
Europe, but In Gold-Standard America
Every Man Has Fat Job or Can
Quickly Get One.

quickly GeG One.
Since c. H. Jones was frozen out
of its management the plutocratic sym
pathies of the proprietors and editors
of the st. Louis Republic are well I'M
derstood, although to save its circu-
lation the paper tries to be, editor
tally, as vague and non-committal as
possible.
But in recent issue one of the Re-
public's underpaid editorial scribblers
made himself absurd by trying to say
something, as follows:
The dominating tendency of mon
arches is to use the common people
upon whom they subsist as beasts OF
burden which must be fed and housed
out OF their own productiveness, but
never permitted to realize that, after
all, they are the whole thing. II they
become at once too numerous and Ill
provided for, they can be plunged into
war without their consent. This deci-
mates the herd and prevents STAN
pede which might have trampled into
the clay the faces of their drivers. War
in Europe adds luster to the crown jew
els by washing them in the tears Of
widowed Betsy Jane. It relieves the
apoplexy of royal misrule by letting
the hearts blood of the canaille.
Therefore is it good. With us the one
perpetual prejudice against war is that
we have not and never will have one
drop Of blood to squander from the
veins of the American citizen. There
is not a man among the quarter of a
million now under arms for whom
there Is not place OF honor and indie
pendenCe in the Office and factories,
the fields and mountains of his home.
We begrudge them even to the noble
cause into which they rushed voluntar-
lily and unselfishly.
The Republics editor Is probably ac-
tually ignorant Of the fact that the st.
Louis millionaire and trust magnates
with whom the papers owners as
sociate "use the common people upon
whom they subsist as beasts of burden
which must be fed and housed out
of their own productiveness, but never
permitted to realize that after all they
are the whole thing" just as the same
class does in Europe The royal fam
lilies are merely ornamental alpen-
dages Of the aristocracy and the whole
| burden of royalty, aristocracy and
plutocracy could be thrown off at any
time by the principal European
nations, but the people allow them
selves to be exploited by monopolists,
money changers and tax eaters, just
as they do here. The people have
seH-government and universal suffrage
in Great Britain, Germany, France,
Italy, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Dem
mark and Scandinavia. Moreover, in
most Of those countries there is less
! illiteracy than in the United States.
Of course the people there are used
SIS servile beasts OF burden, but they
deserve no sympathy, because a ma
jority Of them vote for a continuance
of present conditions. The United
! States, also, recently gave a vote Of
confidence in government by monopo-
| lies, trusts and money LENDERS, but this
! will soon be reversed. The people Of
Europe, too, show signs of waking up
1 According to the Republic it is such
| snap to be a citizen of the United
/ States that one wonders why immi-
| grafton from Europe Is falling off SC
fast. Read: There is not man
among the quarter of a million now
under arms for whom there is not d
! place of honor and independence in
! the offices and factories, the fields and
! mountains Of his home Certainly
that is the way it was before monopoly
got this country in its grip.
/ In these days OF the single gold stan.
dard, land monopoly and trust control
of industry, how Is it? Perhaps when
mustered out the Republic expects the
volunteers to gain places Of honor and
profit by taking the places OF striking
coal miners in Pennsylvania or Illinois
While the war progressed the trusts
have all been reducing wages, and ex-
soldiers will find no more honor and
less profit in working for them than
heretofore.
Perhaps the volunteer worked for.
meriy in the Duchess print works al
| Wappinger's Falls, New York. If so
when he comes home he will find then
shut down for the first time in twenty
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