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Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-11-11

The Hannaites, in charge of the Re
publican party, perpetrated this helm
GUS crime upon our people before the
war debt of the rebellion was paid,
and they have continued in crime, to
contract the money in circulation until
the people, irrespective Of party, are
forced to unite against common enc
my. Because of these "heinous crimes"
you have Populism. A Populist Is but
a political protestant against "heinous
crimes" as described by the martyred
president of the Republican party. Pop
ulism agrees perfectly with Lincoln
ism, and upon Lincoln's ground 1t pro-
poses to stand, shouting these "heinous
crimes" perpetrated by the Hannaites
until the thousands upon thousands OF
voters learn that Hannaites, masquer-
aiding In the narne Of Lincoln's party,
are not Republicans. The possible af-
finity between Hannaism and Lincoln
ism fails to materialize, even under
the Huntington process of bribery and
coercion.
Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-11-11

While, of course, there was a bolt
from the California Populist conven-
ton 1t stands to reason that Mcguire
will poll practically the whole vote of
the party, and that his majority will
be nearly $4,000, for the people of the
state are with him in his fight against
the Southern Pacific railroad monop-
oily, which is the burning local issue.
The plutocratic newspapers of San
Francisco, after thoroughly abusing
Mcguire for his revolutionary political
doctrines" have turned their guns
upon Populism, which they recognize
as the real host that Mcguire is lead
ing. In replying to an editorial in the
San Francisco Chronicle R. M. Collins
says Populism is willing to acknowl-
edge itself a revival of Jeffersonism.
Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-11-11

True Populism proposes to continue
Its shouting against special privi-
leges" until every true Democrat in the
land awakes to the fact that jefferson
ism and Clevelandism are as wide
apart as the poles.
Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-11-11

Happily every sign indicates free
silver majority in the next house, and
the larger the vote polled the larger
will be the silver majority.
Natchitoches populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1898-1899, 1898-11-11

But Populism is also a revival Of
Lincolnism. Lincoln said. IF natior
has certain amount of debt and Ger
tain volume Of money in circulation
II the volume OF money In circulation
Is contracted before the debt is paid
1t Is the most heinous crime that car
be perpetrated upon a people"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
LIVE WELL AT DAWSON.
Rochester Youth Says There Is No
Danger From Cold and
Hummer.

Special to The St. Paul Globe.
ROCHESTER,, Mimi, Feb 25.-Mrs.
c. M. Keep, of this city, has just re-
ceived a letter from her son George,
who is at Dawson City, Northwest
territory. He says:
There has not been a day that they were
compelled to suspend work on account of
the cold. The manner of carrying on the
work in the winter season is to sink shafts
in the gulch to bed rock, where the gold
is found (about twenty feet our claim;
drifts are then run on bed rock and the
dirt hoisted to the surface by windlass,
where it remains until spring, when it is
slViced and the gold cleaned up. The ground,
OF course. is frozen solid from the sur
face down and It can only be removed from
the drifts by first thawing out with fires.
We have a fine warm cabin to live in
and plenty of good provisions We live
much better than most people think on the
outside: So if you read of any reports OF
starvation on the Klondike you may know
better supplied with provisions than most
people, but none are in danger of starva-
ton: am working together with John
Lind; also mess with him; we worked to-
gether in Montana in a bridge crew. He
will probably be able to leave here next
fall worth from $4,000 to $780, eco. 1 am
getting SO a day when / work.
There is but little employment to be had
in the country at present, outside of hard
manual labor. Every one has to do his own
washing, mending, darning, patching, etc,
dishes, etc l do not intend to do any pros
pecting in here-it is too expensive and
too hard a proposition. John Lind had a
hard time of it in this country for three
years, getting barely enough TO live on
When these rich discoveries were made all
the good ground was located before he could
get to the creeks, and he had no money
but his experience proved Of value to him.
He offered the highest price that had ever
been paid in this country for an interest
in good claim on three months time,
and took the money out of the ground and
paid for it.
The diggings, of course. are not all good
but many are wonderfully rich, and mil
lions of dollars will be taken from the
ground on Eldorado and Bonanza creeks
between now and next summer.
Dawson is situated on the Yukon river
at the mouth of the Klondike. Eldorado
creek Is tributary to Bonanza, and Bonanza
is one of the tributaries of the Klondike
Most Of the rich diggngs are on these two
creeks. Two large mercantile companies
are operating at Dawson. 1t requires plenty
of capital to do business in this country,
as each outfit must have it's own line of
steamers on the Yukon and bring in all
it's own goods. We have had no news from
the outside since early September.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
A PrOner Relief

The action taken by the interstate
commerce commission. In suspending
the long and short haul clause of the
act as applied to traffic on lines in the
United States where competition with
the Canadian Pacific is to be met, is
proper and just. 1t is a measure of re-
lief, indeed, which should have been
taken long ago. The Canadian Pacific
is sharp competitor for business, es-
pecially with the Northern transconti-
mental lines. When it cuts rates in
order to secure business, they must
meet the reduction or lose their share
of the through business. But, under
the interstate act, they cannot do this
on through traffic without so read
justng all their local rates as to pre-
vent the charge for the long haul from
short Of the Pacific coast. AS this
might be ruinous. in case of a rate war,
where the Canadian Pacific is under no
such restriction, our own lines have
business according to the changes of
trade. And the Canadian Pacific has
been taking advantage of this situation
to depress rates and put it's competi-
tors in hole.
For several years now this inequality
has been used by friends of the East
ern trunk lines to support their argu-
ment in favor Of abolishing the privi-
Iege of carrying goods in bond. They
proposed to remedy the injustice to
American lines by barring the Cana
gether from participating in the
through carrying trade Of American
merchandise. This. Of course, would
be to the injury of New England and
Of the Northwest, whose people have
obtained lower rates on through ship
ments by open competition. The true
remedy has now been found. This Is
not to foster monopoly by shutting
the Canadian road out Of the field, but
to remove from our own lines the han
dicap Of a legal restriction unknown
to our neighbors on the north, and
thus enable them to make the fight
for business on equal terms. The de-
cision appears to cover only passenger
traffic; but the same reasons apply
obviously to all business subject to
such competition.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
Why These Limitations?

The most singular feature Of all the
varied plans for creating money by leg
islative fiat is the limitations that they
contain. If a man is sick and has in
his pocket a vial Of the elixir Of life, Of
which one drop will cure a sprained
ankle and ten drops will make him live
forever. why should he take only the
smaller quantity? All these people rely
upon the underlying proposition that
money Is the mere creature Of govern
ments. They can do what they please
with it. The quantity or quality Of the
issue cuts no figure. All that needs to
be done is to pass legal tender act,
and then money may be issued in
unlimited quantity and be just as good
as any other portion Of the circulating
medium. If this be true, why should
such woodworking benefcence be
limited in it's operations?
We have noted this as the weakness
Of the position of the free silverites.
1t separates them inevitably by great
chasm from the Populists, and makes
permanent fusion impossible. If the
passage Of law can make a 44-cent
dollar worth 100 cents, then it can make
a 1-cent dollar worth 100 cents What
on earth is the sense of limiting the
miracle? OF the two, the Populist is far
the more logical. He consented to act
with the silver men under protest two
years ago, on the principle that half
loaf was better than no bread, but no
man who espouses the free silver cause
can stop long at that halfway station.
He is committed, by the inevitable force
of logic, to unconditional ffatism.
The Populist himself, however, is not
severely logical. He is open, on his side,
to the same charge of inconsistency
and of unwillingness to accept the
blessings that Divine Providence and
congress have in waiting for him. Thus,
while the Populists of Indiana. in their
recent convention, go further than
some of their brethren. they still draw
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

August Wtte, Charles Coleman and Charles
White. hailing from Watseca, Ill, were among
the Alaska passengers on the Great Northern
yesterday.
The Northern Pacific coast train yesterday
took to the West julie Emerson. c. NJ Thune
Ed Larson and Herbert Johnson. of Toronto
s. d. The party will outfit on the coast and
will push on to the gold country.
David O'Neill, of Cleveland, passed through
here with quite large outfit of clothing and
mining implements. He left on the Northern
Pacific.
Four Rochester, N. Y, men came in yester-
Northern Pacific for Valdes in the Copper
river country They were John Bullock, A.
Krieg. A Mckee and II. Leschander.
A. E. Feihle, c. II. Smearer and J. McCor-
Northern Pacific for the coast, and will later
sail for Dyea, where they have claims upon
which they will put in some work this sum
r!er.
bers of the Lakeyiew Cycle club. of that
city, have sold their wheels and passed
through here yesterday on their way to the
Copper river, where Instead of making cen
Edward T. KEN and Charles F. Brehme.
They took the Northern Pacific train West.
and mean to set sail from Seattle March 5
on the Valencia for Valdes.
There were a lot Of stragglers on the North
ern Pacific train among them being Charles
Aleer and George Pease, Of Prairie du CHEN,
en- route Tor NalCeS; IhaddeuS Arnold, or
Buffalo, ~ Y; G. w. Simpson, of Kenton,
O.. who goes In advance of party which
will start from that place to the Copper
river next week. and George B. Clarke, of
Chicago, who joins q brother in Seattle Sam
Barrett and Val Bum, Of Blair, Neb. were
also on the train bound for Dawson City.
A trio Of La Crosse men including W. L.
Robillard a cousin of DR.. Robillard, Of this
city; j. E. Hendrickson. and e. Cole Burke
left yesterday via the Great Northern for
Dawson City. Mr.. Burke has been editor Of
the La Crosse Press. The little party
purchased quite a comfortable outfit in St.
Paul
]. A. Carney the Waverly To-. stoclkman,
who was prevented from starting for the
coast on Thursday because he had a dozen
dogs for shipment which were two closely
housed in crates to suit Humane Agent
Moak, doubled the number Of his crates yes
terday, and started off with twelve crates,
twelve dogs and imprecations for the humane
agent.
The Brockton party, which arrived over the
Great Western road Thursday. set out yes
terday afternoon for the Pacific slope via the
Great Northern overland train. The mem
bers ''shopped'' in this city, and purchased
articles like mackinaw outer clothing, cham
OILS lined stuff, and some rubber goods. Their
guns and ammunition were purchased in
Boston.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26

The Alaska Mining Cooperative
Company of Chicago. made up of man
from Chicago and Riverside, ILL.,; Pier
mont, Ind; Huntington, w. Va, and
Winona, this state left Chicago
Thursday and reached here yesterday
morning, bound for the Copper river
district
The party came in over the Omaha,
in charge of City Ticket Agent Harry
Brandt, of the Great Northern, at Chi
cago.
The members Of the party have put
$4,000 into a most extensive and COM
plete outfit, which includes a twenty
five-horse- power steam sled, a porta-
BILE saw mill, a river dredge, and some
improved hydraulic mining machinery.
The band viii set sail from the coast
on the steamer Valencia, March 5. and,
upon their arrival in the interior, will
start in at work in a systematic man.
ner. At the head Of the party is Err
nest Gesvold, of Chicago, and the full
roster is as follows: Ernest Gesvold,
Wolf, William Ring, Alfred benefits,
S. j. Wallner, Joseph Amen, A. H.
Rantz and John Hoffman, of Chicago;
Charles B. Starecke. E F. Brooks,
Samuel Fisher, Gus r. Anderson, Otto
Johnson, August Hallberg, Gus Hen
erickson and George Wood, of River
side, ILL.,; w J. Wild, Charles Camp
bell, Marcus Bin, William Shelly and
Charles Lyon, Of Piermont. Ind. Ed
ward Roeser and Walter E. Smith. of
Winona,; a. E. Cox, J. w. Mayes, Ed
win McCurdy. Trevor Hall and J. NJ.
Holmes, of Huntington, w. Va. The
party occupied an entire tourist sleep
er on the Great Northerns Alaska
mail train
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
VOLUME LARGER THAN EVER.
Industrial Production Fails so Re.
feet Speculative Scare.

NEW YORK. Feb 25.-Dun &, Co,
review will say: Foreign possibilities
nave affected speculation and caused
hesitation in some large business op-
erations, possibly accounting in part
Tor check in the rapid advance OF
wheat, but industrial production con-
tlnueS larger than ever a few more
works being added to the active list.
with decrease in the number of
hands on strike, and there is renewed
evidence that the volume of business
is larger than in February of any pre-
Vious year.
Nor is there any symptom of a sense
less craze based on rising prices. The
legitimate export and domestic demand
presses closer to the capacity of works.
and, though there is no fighty advance
IN any line, and in all narrOwness Of
profit is matter Of complaint. new
business for this dull season is unpre-
eCdented
1t is not the season for much i'm
proVement in textile manufacture. but
the cotton branch has gained ground.
The wooden manufacture meets many
cancellations, especially in goods sold
early without definite price but is do
ing more than ever at this season,
though new business in the higher
grades Of worsteds and woolens is not
particularly enCOura cling Sales of
wool are slow, with weakness in cloth
ing, amounting to about cents de-
cline from the highest point, indicat-
ing that mills have at present album
dant stocks. but some are selling for
eign wool, in order to take supplies Of
other qualities
The iron manufacturer has more de-
mand for products and slightly better
prices for Bessemer pig, which has ad-
Vanced at Pittsburg, with Grey Forge
unchanged. No unfinished products
have changed in price and all are
strong in demand, excepting bar, which
a combination has failed to advance
Some large contracts are reported,
especially at Chicago, in car and bridge
building, ship and structural work and
the demand for sheets is heavy
Failures for the week have been 233
in the United States. against 296 last
year and 30 in Canada, against 50 last
year
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26

| a line where no line can exist. The
| moderate members Of the party have
been clamoring for issues of paper
| money that would bring the total circu-
lation up to $50 per capita. They could
give no good reason why it should be
$50 rather than $780, Now comes the
Indiana camp, and says that money
should not be limited, but that the
United States government should print
enough paper money to make loans on
all farm properties at per cent to the
extent of one-third of their cash value.
This is a good long stride in advance,
but 1t still falls short. Why charge 1
per cent? If the natural rate of interest
is not to be levied, what excuse can the
government offer for charging any?
Why limit the face Of the loan to one
third Of the cash value Of the property?
Why not purchase it outright? Why
have any property basis at ALL any
more than an interest charge? Since
government is all-powerful; since it can
make money without let Or hindrance,
and without limitation Of volume,
why should it not end all poverty and
distress at once by issuing enough to
make everybody rich and to remove
both present hardship and the necessity
Of future labor?
The most marvellous thing about
these fiat money people is their readi-
ness to starve when full feast is set
before them. The limitations admit
ted by the Populist are no more rational
than those accepted by the advocate of
free coinage. Both are out Of place.
Either let the natural forces of trade
determine the quality of money. as they
always have done and always will do,
in the long run, or else let govern
mental fiat accomplish its purpose at
one stroke, and issue money on demand
in any quantity to any person who asks
for it. so that the question may be set
tied once for all.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
Floyd. OF Peoria; II. w Miller. from Penn
sylvania, and Frank Holmes, of Chicago.
ONE MANS LUCK DID TT.
Eleven Men From One Neyv YORK
Concern Will Try Alaska.

Eleven whilom carpenters wheeiwrights
molders and patternmakers from the big es-
Enlistment of Hoe, the printing press man
in New York, came here yesterday on the
Chicago Great Western just twenty minutes
late for the Great Northern train for the
West
The eleven are banded together as the Man
haitian Mining company, and are travelling as
the MoultOn party, Charles Moulton being at
this time in Seattle with Henry Neumiller
and Herman Miller, getting together the
outht and making steamship reservations for
the party. The eleven are all German Amer
leans and will so to the Copper river coun-
try, although they say they w>re first led to
abandon their machines and benches in New
York by the good luck of one of the Hoe en-
pioyes, who, fourteen months ago went to
Dawson City, and who today is worth $780,
coo, and who lately sent to New York a check
for $75, eco to his wife.
This was all too much for his fellow work
men, and they forthwith set about making
plans TO go.
Their friend was William Reed pattern
maker like themselves, who is at present at
Dawson City on his claim. The list of the
eleven is George Traup, Emil Boyer Robert
Paulowitch, George 2. Stanley Gust Werner,
William Glaese, Louis Rothkenz and William
Krohn.
The party is at the Commercial hotel and
will leave today.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
NORTHWEST NEWS AND VIEWS.
From the Morris Sun

Often CT late we have noticed items In the
country press of the state. which. when
taken in connection with comments frequent
ly heard in conversation relative to the encr-
nous expenditures fer the support of
state educational institutions, indicates that
there is a feeling that the system, with its
heavy and increasing outlay, is a costly
luxury. 1t does seem as if the state was go
ing beyond what was either intended eX-
pected. and there are not a few who look
with concern on an educational system that
is already imposing onerous burdens. For
one we do not believe it any part of the
states duty to maintain either university or
normal school, let those who want an edu-
cation above that which the high school af-
fords, pay for go without 1t.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
HIS OPINION.
From the Chicago Tribune.
CuApTEp

CHAPTER /
my opinion is from all 1 can learn about
1t, said Mr.. O'Pshaw, that the accident Ia
the Maine is enc that might have been fore
seen and prevented. 1t was due to some
oversight or carelessness on the part of the
crew.
L think you are right" replied Mr.. Puttie.
CHAPTER II.
THE blowing up of the battIeship Maine, ;"
observed Mr.. Gutout simply shows the in
eVitable tendency Of modern war vessels to
go to pieces sooner or later. 1t was spon-
taneous explosion in one of the powder maya
zines, and no amount of care or forethought
could have prevented it. There are dozens
of such cases on record"
l think you, are right said Mr.. Puttie.
CHAPTER Ill
''It's plain as MONDAY" averred Mr..
Wrightside. THE treacherous Spaniards
over torpedo, and then blew it up. It's all
nonsense to say 1t was accident It was q
deliberate plot and it was carried out ex-
actly as planned. The investigation will
show it,
II think you are right" said Mr.. Puttie
CHAPTER ".
Talk about the Spaniards having blown
up the Mafne!" exclaimed Mr.. Nozall. do
you suppose they are Such fools as that? It
was done by Cuban insurgents. They are
the only ones who would be benefited by a
war between Spain and the United States
and they are doing everything they can to
bring it about They did it, and nobody
else!"
II think you are right" said Mr. Puttie.
THE END.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26

newspaper articles, not aimed at any
in1aming the feelings Of the multi
tude.
We believe, as we have always be-
lieved, that the United States ought to
have interviewed and put an end long
ago to the atrocities in Cuba at any
cost to herself. We believe, as we have
always believed, that, having refused
to do that, it is to our lasting shame
and disgrace that we have invited upon
ourselves all the consequences of war,
without any Of its benefits and with
out assisting in the slightest degree the
struggling patriots Of Cuba. The petty,
sordid, mean and personal motives
which have stirred members Of the
senate and the house of representatives
in their continuous fusillade of popgun
resolutions are bearing their legiti-
mate fruit. If it was a hostile hand
that sent those brave souls on the
Maine into eternity, the hatred that
moved it was not inspired by the gov
eminent Of the United States or it's
people, acting in their political or Of
fetal capacity, so much as by a ram
pant and worthless jingoism.
If it is too late to repair this injury,
as it is; if no compensation can solace
the woe of the widow and the orphan;
if the immitigable horrors of war are
to come upon the two nations, because
their feelings toward each other have
reached a point that nothing but ac-
tual hostilities can assuage, let us trace
the responsibility to it's proper source
The American jingo-that is the man
who mistakes words for action and
loud-mouthed vituperation of the for
eigner for patriotism-is the man who
is primarily responsible for the terrible
incident in Havana harbor, provided
that was the work of an enemy, and
he is a worse traitor to the American
cause and the American people than
the commander who should turn over
his fort or his man-of-war to an enemy
in arms
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-26
TAXES OF RAILROADS.
Amounts Paid Yesterday Swell the
General Revenue Fund Of the
StntP.

A number of railroads operating in
Minnesota yesterday paid to the state
treasurer a large portion Of the tax on
their gross earnings.
The Northern Pacific paid S57 476. SO.
the St Paul &, Duluth, $40, 1886 10; the
Minnesota Belt Line Transfer Railway
company, $478.81; the Milwaukee. a bal
ance due of $18,29584
These amounts will go into the gen
eral revenue fund Of the state, and
with the revenue received since the first
of the year wipe out the deficit Of $780,
600 which existed, and leave a surplus
of nearly 100000 to the credit of the
general revenue fund.