Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02

for shorter sessions Of the Legisla-
ture and less per diem?
In a previous issue of The OUr-
LOOK l advised my old friend John
b. Lane to vote the Peoples Party
ticket, ticket he would not be
ashamed of, and not deposit in the
ballot box to keep any one from
knowing. He comes back on me
and the Popuiist party with con-
cradle sarcasm, more especially y the
party. He says the Peoples party
is bastard party, without father
or mother, was layed by a bird and
Matched in the sun. He gets very
sorry for me IN my lost and ruined
condition and invites me back
home, to the Democratic home.
Now, for the invitation back l ex-
tend to you, friend John, my
thanks. happen to know some
thing concerning the government
of that home, and it was such "a
home of tangled antiquities and
broken promises that l wish to
reach home, or enlist under a
banner which means u purer gov
ernment, happier home life, a
better manhood and w0manhood,
and a higher civilization. 1t would
take the little child by the hand
and teach it the principles of the
fatherhood of God and that all men
are brothers; that he is the great
est who accomplishes the most good
for humanity, and he is the least
who is the most selfish. 1t would
turn the efforts of the strong into
channels that would relieve the
sufferings of the human race, in
stead of adding to los mis-ries. 10
would pattern after nature and
natures God by enacting co,upen-
satory laws to prevent the life-giv-
ing elements of the universe con-
in the hands of a selfish
few. Populism embraces in its
creed the prayer of the Man of Gal
lice and would make this earth as
the Kingdom of Heaven, where all
men are brothers and all have an
opportunity to partake of the boun-
tiful gifts of God and eat their
bread in the sweat of their face.
Now, in fairness, friend Lane, does
the Democratic platform carry out
that doctrine? II so, what about
this redemption theory you latter
day Democrats are holding to? You
denounce the Republicans and the
Gold Democrats for gold redemp-
tion money and you bob up and
want to go them one mill better,
and 1 see that Mr.. Bryan, the great
reform apostle of the silver party,
is willing to change the ratio from
l6 to l to any ratio provided Billie
can ride the white calf into the
White House, and Billie is going to
try to do it if he has to put him on
still "a to l. Now, this would all
do, l suppose, if the Government
owned gold and silver mines, but
to have to sell bonds to buy gold
and silver, and those bonds exempt
from taxation, and Tor what? You
say to make money. The Republi-
cans say to make sound money.
We, as Populists, say there is no
occasion for redemption money.
There is not a dollar in existence
today but what is made money by
the fiat of Government. Friend
Lane, you are a free-silver man;
how are you going to get 81 cents
worth of silver to make a. dollar
unless you fat for it2 Then if you
admit the fact, which you cannot
deny, why not affiliate with the
party that has the manhood to put
it in its platforms2 Now, friend
Lane, watch close and see if you
are not nearer the Republican party
than you think you are. It's not
names that make parties, but prin-
ciples. Now. John, do you still
persist in coming back to such a
homer Now, as to the party being
a bastard party and was layed by
bird and Matched in the sun, il is
erroneous. Every one who is con-
versant with the facts knows that
it was the intelligent and honest
and conscientious Of both the old
parties who left them to join the
Peoples party. But have it your
way-that a bird layed and the sun
hatched. 1t must have been the
bird of liberty, as it scars upward
and bathes her beak in the clouds
of righteousness. We are all aware
that it was not the latter day barn
yard fowl who is found scratching
in the dunghill in the barnyard, the
emblem Of representative Democ'
! racy.