The Louisiana populist., 1898-01-28
NO. 2l.
EDITORIALS.

EDITORIALS.
Does the national banking system
exercise the elective franchise under
the government of the United States?
Not at all. 1t simply exercises q
wholesome supervision over the bosses
and manipulators who regulate and
control elections. - Silver knight.
Watchman.
We don't want a few palaces and q
lot OF novels; we want a lot Of good
houses.-Journal Of the Knights OF La
Dor.
Don't abandon the farm" warns
the Stockton Independent There is
no necessity for the advice. Those
who have had any experience in mon
keylng with a farm, know that 1t 10
mighty easy to get hold of one, but You
can't let go of the darned thing when
you want to.-Sacramento Bee.
The ugliest fact that confronts us
under our present industrial organiza-
tlon is the fact that, at almost any
given moment, there are in this coun-
try hundreds of thousands of able
bodied and honest men, with women
and children dependent upon them,
who would be glad to work steadily
every day, yet whose one great anxiety
IN life is because their employment Ia
uncertain, interrupted, or wholly pre-
carious.-Review of Reviews.
With all the talk about dollar wheat
that cereal is-with the aid Of the
greatest shortage of thirty years-but
twelve cents higher than it was on
this date a year ago, when there was
an abundant crop and big surplus
Comment is unnecessary.
The old maxim that "He who will
not work, neither shall he eat" ap-
pears to be changed into "He who
doeth no work shall live on the fat OF
the land; but he who labors and pro.
duces all wealth shall not taste o. the
fruits thereof, but in want and misery
shall continue to labor, that others
shall enjoy"
Alexander looked for more worlds to
conquer. Mckinley contents himself
with looking for more bank presidents
to pardon.
There is but one remedy. National
ize the coal fields of the country.
Make them the property Of the nation.
Of the American people. Operate the
mines for the peoples benefit-away
with the profit system in the coal min.
ing industry! Then the miners will
become men, enjoying life worth liv-
ing. Today they have been pressed
down below the lives of beasts Their
very life is being crushed out Of them.
Brewers Journal.
The President has done one good
thing. Let us honor him for it. He
has reprimanded the court which was
SO lenient with Capt. Lowering for
maltreating Private Hammond. Now.
when the President gets to denounclng
an industrial system that maltreats
thousands of would-be honest men and
women by throwing them out to starve
of become criminals we'll honor him
some ore.-Appeal to Reason.
Senator Harris, the wise and patriot
ic statesman who represents Kansas
in the United States senate, says the
Kansas Pacific Railroad has never paid
less than four per cent on $50, ,000, 900.
The road is indebted to the govern
ment for $19,000,000, and the scheme
of the syndicates is to get 1t for st.
100000, on the pretext that, without
the Union Pacific and other connec-
tions, it would not be worth much.
Now, let us see how much the admins
tration will give away to the combine.
Nine hundred persons were interest
ed in and benefited from the "Pingree"
farms in Chicago this season. Though
no figures are obtainable as to the &C.
tual value of the crops. 1t is known
that many families received their en-
tire subsistence from them. Verify, Il
Mother Earth and her children were
but able to get together everywhere
poverty would soon disappear.
In stating that no one with any
sense ever expected the Wolcott COM
mission to accomplish anything, the
Topeka Capital simply confesses that
the bimetallic plank Of their last ma
tional platform was nothing but q
scheme to catch votes.
Let Us Not Delay Too Long.