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JANUARY 4, 1894
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I cboow not for ray good. A gulden chain,
A wbe o honor, 1 fc good a prize
1 tempt tny hasty band to do a wrong
Unto fellow man Thin life hath woe
Sufficient, wrought by man's satanlc fee;
Aid hothat baib a heart would dare prolong
rv11 a sorrow to eatrlckea ul
That ikH a baling balm'tomaie It whole"'
My bosom own the brotherhood of man.
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Fuktiikr reductions in wages are re
ported from all quarters.
Bonds for the bankers, and bonds for
the people.
CARLISLE is trawling on bis bel'y
sod licking the dust of Wall Street.
A police census lately t tken la Pltts
Tjurg, Ph., discovered out of 70,000 wage
.earners 2O.OU0 workers in enforced ddle
Bess. SOUP and suicide, dependence or death
are the alternatives we have forced up
on hundreds of thousands of our fellow
citizens.
In the small city of Yonkers, N. Y ,
the closing of the factorial threw 2,000
employees out of work. A relief com
mittee distributing food allows small
-i nrm in an .al
amines THTTTTrrfi iinriii -t c
NO work to be bad, no money for rent,
no more goods to put in pawn with the
usurers. Reflaot on what fearful suffer
ing this pictures. And it is the exact
tate of things in tens of thousands of
homes in Amer lot today.
If what we have said m the editorial
headed "Do Such Things Please God"
tlrs any ministerial or lav critic to re
ply, we shall be glad to print and con
aider the other side, if there is another
side. Our columns are open.
Thb "Manufactures Record" is about
to publish letters from (political) farm
ers in the South to show that the farm
ing class of that section are paying off
their debts and prospering smsalngly,
as a result of "th tnforced economy of the
last two years."
ALL Europe is In a panicy condition,
caused by bomb-throwing anarchists
A whisper, a mer8 rcmor, that a bomb
was to be thrown iti the Royal Opera
JJouse Tuesday eight of last week led
to the instant dlxpersal of the audience
in the wildest a'arm.
MR. Hebbaed, Superintendent of the
Charity Organization Society of New
York city, sajs: "Yon have hard of
the Increase of beggars. They aro
getting rabid. In turns cases lately
they have btn using viol ace when
their requests have not been compiled
with. They may be aumsered by the
tens oi thousands." ,
ii s
Wr print on the fifth page an article
from Prof. Jones tf ILuiirgt on the
ubj-elof "The Anioth aa Institute of
Christian Sociology," which we hop
Christians and mtoU'rrs cp cially w HI
wad. We hope to tns't lutes organ
ised In LUoola iromedUte-ly, aad all
tverthe stat during th year, The
church mutt get lnv the prt slon.
They ought to h at the head of it.
TlfK secretary of tk Industrial
CnrUtiaa Alliance of New York U call
lag for enough charity nflerlags to en
abl them to provide 30,1)00 malt a day
for the deetUuWi starvla vl that city,
(Jrtat rtvmhvr arw b Wfg!cg fil
from tltsnr W or and tiitf i many
pi thu pIU itttUm t fi4 hlu r for
the ttift-nl. Light 1 1 th thuritabb m
tUtie tit the c ty la Mknd that ail
IU ilatton lodgers Iw einmi".U"i to
tha workhouaw a )aur
N ws coms In last wet k's disoatche
of the Incorporation of the Unite
States Cordage Company with a capital
stock of thirty-four n illlon dollars. On
a considerable part of the stock a six
tM-r cent divide nd I auaranktd. II r
vey A. Herrold of New York kaldt 339,
860 shares, and fourteen other men
have accredited to them ten shares
each. The bu k In one man's name Is
probably a scheme to evade the grip of
the Anti-Trust law. Men must starve
and suicide at the bottom, in order
that dividends may be decreed for idle
and seberuing stockho'ders at the top.
The American Federation of Labor
at its late meeting adopted a resolution
df during that "the right to work Is the
right to live," and that "when the pri
vate employers cannot or will not pive
work, the municipality, State or Na
tion must." We take the same stand
exactly. It is foundation, truth and
social right, that political parties and
governments must be ruled by or they
will be justly "turned into hell,'' and
perhaps sooner than they expect. For
the benefit of non bible rea3lng Repub
lican critics, who are calling us anar
chisms, we will add that the strong
language of the preceding sentence is
Scripture.
Dr RaiivSjVOKO, rector of St. George's
Church, New York, says: Do you know
that one in every ten funera's goes to
the Potters Field? Now, that indicates
general conditions of poverty always ex
isting, not the far more special and
ghastly ones "Of this winter Think
what that one in ton means, remember
ing that the poor man will sacrifice
everything in order to bury his dead
properly. Then think what the con
ditions are now. Why, men come te
me every day for "work. I hsve to send
them off to shops and factories, and
then I get the answer: 'We are dis
charging our own hands; we can not
take en any.' "
SOME time this month a party of
twenty persons is to sail from London
for East Africa to start a co-operative
colony on the plan of "Freeland," the
romance of the Austrian economist,
Her'zka. The idea is to have public,
community ownership of the land, and
to preserve i quality of opportunity by
taxing occupiers the rental value of it,
the Henry George, single tax plan. But
this colony goes farther thf.n George
socia'ly, Its plan being to have also
coDec'ire ownership of needed capital.
A disintegrating element we think is
sure to be found In that part of their
scheme which allows inequality of
wages or rewards to continue among
them. There can not fall to he strife
over which shall be greatest, over the
unequal pay for work performed.
A Lincoln preacher whom we and
several hundred more listened to on
Sunday, wanted us all to make this one
resolve with him, that we would say
nothing for six months about evil in
the $TltriHSS5 world, but that instead
we should BayTefSfy 8 U right,
lr .a. J. . al
or words to that effo-:u oraer irt
confidence may b? restored. CdnMence,
he declared, was all that is or has been
lacking. HIb sermon showed, if he
was honest, that this preacher at the
First Christian church knows absolutely
nothing of the great foundation sins of
society, of the commercial world. He
affirmed that there is only twenty-six
cents stolen now, as compared with
125.15 on each thousand dollars some
oertaln time bnck. So he U convinced,
and would have his congregation be
lieve, that the business world is now
almost perfectly honest and just; and
he declared that the church is actually
bounding along, moving with a moral
energy "so tremendous that we cannot
realize Its rate of velocity." We went
out of that house of God feeling sad and
weaty.
DSIVIN TOSELT-MUBDER BY MONO
POLISTS. The New York Tribune of last Thurs
day reported four attempts at sici3e In
that city during the previous tweaty
four hours. Three of the four certainly
aud probably the fourth, wire driven to
the desperatedeed by dt stl'utlan caused
by inability to find employment.
One of the cases was that ef Louis
Becker, a German living with his wife
and two gron up sons at 3iu Ett
Tenth st. lie was sixty-six years of
age and had been crippled with palsy
flfUsen years, tils sons had f r some,
tlma been out of work, aud his wife bad
t" go out washing to support the family,
lie took pok jb and slashed his wrist
ith a rsr.
Charles Harris, a clerk, twenty years
old shot himself In the had at fcU sis
ters, al 401 East KlMletn-st. He waa
out of employment, destitute, and pre
ferred death to charily.
Henry GrUve. a laborer thrtty-five
year old, living with his wlf and two
children at C7 Flrt-ve, tried to kill
hlffi't ty drinking ooff in wblch h
bad aiaked th head intUlea. lt
had he 0 if woik six wet k. and
had money with which to pay the
real. HI lf had hvea working ivtt
to get HittitPf ta keep thu family from
arlng, Th fourth man, a rpnr
tried ta.terifullr V.i btdW tfUt hi
braiu, hit mfuwd to stale why hv did
It.
This U lha dejrt work that 0f
a t prt'dt diwaud, tu ttd efhat aa4
mony usury ch-tr s Wi to. And
wh'ver flflib'y v 'Ti'antiy and
apathetically suptrrta th usury sys
f rn, will find the Vo id of i despairing
victim upon his jrarnvrnts.
Da. Felix di.eh of Nw York,
speaking of the Kant, bide, where over
a third of a rail. ion people are crowded
into f pace only a mil square says of the
work of the Relief Committee of that
district: They have a f hundred
men and woman at work In their tailor
shoD and at street-swepirif. But It is
said who knows? that there may be
one hundred thousand ou of employ
ment. We know somewhat as to their
destitution. T eir need is great, and
demands a great rerridy Now, why
should we not borrow fr.m the future
for the present, and m ; thse new err.
ployed people for work ou gr at under
takings, which would interfere with no
present ones, but whie'u arj necessary
to the coummuntty ar Jai go?"
THE LOBD'S GEE IT BLUNDER.
Rev. Dr. McS weeny of St. Bridget's
church, Nw York, savs: In this d strlct
the great problem among our poor
Raman Catholi ;s is not fW nor fol.
but rent Landlords art liberal enough.
but there are bounds to their patience,
as we well know. With men daily and
unexpectedly thrown sutof work where
are the rr nts coming from?'1
Why, bless your church worshiping
soul, Doctor, don' you se there are too
many people? The Lord didn't make
a big enough world for them, and the
landlords; and the landlords having
used up all the patience they have
waiting for the rents that must come,
there is nothing to do but to crowd
them off the earth. If they still stay
in the ttrtets after being evicted, and
refuse to suicide, the only thing to do
is to commit them as vagrants or dump
thtni, because destitute, into the poor
house. The men thrown out of work
haven't any right to homes for their
families. They haven't any right' to
life, and can live only by sufferance, on
charity.
VI0TIM3 OF AN A00UB3ED SYSTEM.
The University Settlement Society of
New York City has made a house to
house visitation of two streets in the
Jewish quarters ard forty per cent of
the wage earners there report them
selves out of werk. If this percentage
is fair to estimate from there must be
about 320,1 00 idle wage-earners In New
York alone, not including Brooklyn.
In St. Louis an investigation has been
made on the plan of going to employers
for information, Twohundrtdaud fifty
firms, ordinarily employing 47,000 por
eons reported but 40,000 at work. This
shows fifteen per cent, which must be
Hdded to the ten per cent of wage-earners
who are always out of workj or
twenty-five per cent f the worklpg
class now unemployed-. TMs 'fen per
cent alwaysjtrfiabfe to get work, under
the capaifstic system, is not a guess,
butlfc figures obtained by an authori
tative investigation of the entire state
of Massachusetts in 1885, a good busi
ness year. That Investigation showed
that thirty per oent of those having
employment were out of work at some
period during the year, and that this
period of non-mpioyment averaged
about four months, which makes the
average of ten per cent ef the workers
always out of work whe business is in
its rormal state.
We are indebted to "The Outlook," of
New York, perhaps the best religions
and family paper, for the above and
other figures made use of in this issue.
PUr THIS IN YOUR HIT.
Mr. George K. Holmes, who Is at the
head of that depurfmeatof the National
Census Bureau which has given us the
important facts showing the startling
growth of mortgage indeltcdness, has
an a tide in the Political Selene; Quar
terly for December on the "Concea'ra-
tionof Wealth," which is of great in
terest. Some of the figures drawn from
the Census report should ba parted in
our hts for ready reference. These
espccltlly: I
One one half farm hiring families (averags
wealth 1 S0 own suu,ouo.Otio.
Five million home hiring families (average
wealth !) own K,5t)(X0t.tJ0.
Two one-halt million families owning farm
worth leH than 5 (a own trt.JU'tM) 00O.
Two one-half million families owning hornet
worth leu than tb w own ts ouu oo,tf"0.
Ou one u bib million families own about
Mr Holme in addition to there
figure mentions the Naw York Tribune
Hit of 1 017 millionaire, who known
wealth aggregate not lent than twetve
billion dollar.
Mr, H4me think If thl concentra
tion of wealth I to be checked ''the
moet enVcUv aid practical remedies
are progrelv taxes on income, gifts,
and inheritance " But we think the
usury robtmrle which in causing the
wealth onnceatrattoa should be stopped
ty i rovulinf the ppl money without
loteraet, through the ruodium of our
propped I'alU-d H'atea postal avlng,
ia and lehacg hank. W are in
c'.tcted to it H "wa -on-tl-tu-tloa-alM
t allow the l!Hrtalr Sylotkto rvb
the e.p!., aud taa to'c th nt to til
vi-ktiie p il with oar tat otUe t r.
M-rvot cr, by hi plan tha inU Shy
I .!. ! K r t, i not tulii.
pi) ii in .mm in id. i iinj.ii. iW
A HArt'V Kw Ytar to alt.
FUrURE OF THE P0PULI8
MOVEMENT.
IT he fol'.owlnz papr was read by the editor
of the Aduaici IttiBPfcDsiT tM-tore the
lni-eiing of toe Neir.na Independent Press
AMociauon neta at Hastings, January z, ist j
My Fellow Laborers and Friends:
It is not given to men in these day
to lift the veil of futurityand have clea.'
visions of what is to be But iik
causes produce like effVcta, and with a
knowledge of the social cotditionf and
lorces we may, witn more or less cer-
tinty and clearness, forecast the futur
of our movement.
me popuast movement ts a move
ment of the times, and, I may say, ef
the eternises. Of the eternities, be
cause eternal princ'ples are its inward
l'fe. its progressive, irreprf8ibl! force
Our cause is the cause of justice, tbe
causa of humanity; and su :h a cause
cannot be crushed down and destroyed,
It Cicnot bj mi-represented and buried,
it cannot ba riuicuh d and disregarded.
An increasing nurolx r of peoola are
CDming to see the truths we advocate,
and th) light which we follow is grow
lng brighter. Error can never extiu'
gulsh the truth we have set blazing,
Since the invention of the printing
press the shadow on the- dial plate of
progress has never been reversed, or
driven backward. A God lives the
light cannot fall, the truth cannot die
It is well for uato anchor our souls in
thesn eternal verities, for the strain
upon our faith and derotion wiU be
great. We have eatered upon
struggle with all evil, the last great
rattle of the world, and we are oa the
side of the poor, the weak, the OD'
pressed. We are set, under Provi
dence, to prove that "the needy shall
not always be forgotten," that "the ex
peotation of the poor shall not perish
forever."
The fact that there is a populist party
is a fact which alone sustains my argu
ment that the world moves, that truth
advances. The platform we stand on is
a grander platform than was ever be
fore by any political party oonoelved
and formulated.
But L t us for a moment look back
through the records of history. The
sixteenth century reformation was far
from a thorough, fiaished work; but it
lifted the roligiouj world out of the
grap of the greatest and worst of des
potism?, it broke the piwer of thu
hierarchy, and it raised permanently
the moral standard of Christendom,
Catholic as well &i Protestant. Out of
this great struggle for free thought ha3
grown at last entire religious liberty,
not alone in America, but throughout
the more civilized nations of the world.
And put of religious liberty has come
political liberty, la the nations where
intelligence became diffused ''the dt'
vine right of kings" long slace ceased
to be a popular enslaving superstition
Cromwell, and the Puritans In their
struggles tVitb.' Charles the First over
thTdW'its 'despotism in England, the
French revolution cutoff Its dragon head
in France, andithe rest of the kings of
the earth have profited by these exam
ples of what an outraged populace will
do. The great truth, that "govern
mepts del Ive their just powers from the
consent of the governed," is established
in Europe as well as in America. The
right of suffrage is by irresistible de
mand being extended in many nations,
including our own, and this right once
legally reoognized never has been.never
can be, taken back from the people.
Feu 'alism has been left behind. Chat
tel slavery has been overthrown. It
took twenty years of most earnest aad
ptrsis'.ent agitation under the leader
ship of Wilberforce t overthrow the
heartless money power which in the
English Parliament defended the Afri
can slave t:ade; but it was done, and
clone peacefully. It cost us a most
dreadful war in America to destroy
chattel slavery, but the war was made
necessary by the massing of the evil in
one great., nearly equal section of the
country, and the despotic force which
for a period prevented free speech.
Truth with every historic victory
has gained momentum anl direction to
sweep away refuge after refuge of lies
Every new victory has added to its
height and power. Let us not forget
thl. The irresistible moral forces will
all be with us as soon as we eaa bring
to all men a clear knowledge of our
movement. The so-called "divine rigst
of kings" has been swept away, never to
be again acknowledged, and the power
that swept it away is all our to sweep
away the logai defense of monopoly,
whieo we see to be but another shape
of the taane. inhuman monster. Tyranny
ha N ea forced to hldd Itself to new or
unexamined form after every open
fight; but we have now got our grip on
It lat Protean shape, and ww have en
UnxX upon and are calling for recruit
for the final, decisive conflict.
H w many ar tfcerw wo love liberty?
Every man of them hel ng with our
movement, and will he drawn to our
vot og rank a soon a w eaa brlog tbw
fact to thtlr knowledge, Atl who feel
aa obligation to do Juatly sod to rvlt
the rvacrituratt of tyranny, will
"nr vr ltr tola ba. The great wa
jorUy if our cltUcn. ura who belle
In a foternaivBt of lm j.i pl by th
people ai d for IH yet ple, mail find
tlu it way Into the in-vr-V party. But
they will ttot cm to aey faster thai
our priMipk are mad kaowt ad
our p'an for Kcrig Juttlcw am
fitted. I said la tb Uf'.aotoi; that h
populUl atoveturtt t a ttiovemvst of
THE
tro times. The agitation is certainly
umeiy, rut tne time of It sneer es d
pends on our brains, our intellectual
abi.ity to remedy wnat we cmulaln of,
.'e must furnish convincing evl lence
or our e'a'esBaaship. If we can agree
on needed legislation to cut off the vast
tribute to monopolists, If we as a party
can proprae legislation which reaaar.d
intelligence must approve, it will soon
be evident that we are come to the
kingdom for su h a time as this.
Are our phns at present perfected?
Hardly.
Do we agree in our teaching?
No.
But the differences between us are not
serious, or fundamr nta!. We have the
samo fixed principle, opposition to mo
nopoiy taxation wherever we can find
It We are working on the same eroun
or equation?, but all the unknown quan
uue are not yet by the party as a
party clearly worked out.
tor instance: it is not clear to part of
ice populist leaders and edu"ators tht
there should be no arbitrary per caoita
limitation or the volutue of money if the
government is to do the banking and
loan raonty on good security to satisfy
the people's need", us our platform
cans lor. 1 he people snould have iu
as many legal tendtrgreenbackaasthey
care 10 Borrow and irir mmd unm-u.
ror, iana and capital monopolists
cept d. it may require a fiftv dollar
per capita volume; it may require lesB,
or more. No more will be so borrowed
than can be alvantageously used to
keep all most effectively at work The
money so dreadfully needed is now In
the banks because the people who would
use it cannot pay the usury or Interest
charges. If the government should
take back from the Shylock class what
it ought never to have granted them,
the privilege of issuing and loaning
mo iey, and phould monopolize this gov
ernmentai function itself, the rate per
cent charged would regulate the vol
ume of currency. Under, say, a six Det
cent charge, a certain amount of money
wouia oe ca;ied for, under four percent
a much larger sum, and at the bare cost
charges (less than two per cent) the
uaturai volume, the full amount that
eould be securely issued and beneficially
usect, would be demanded. All this re
quires but the simple machinery of
postal savings and exchange baais,
banks where all nuney not needed to
rchange servios would be deposited.
The fiaanoial system of the present
and past is tiia usury system. No;more
urmey In circulation than the people
can by sliving themselves or others af-
rd to burrow. All producers must pav
tribute to fie louder or users of money,
mustconsmt to have a part of their
earnings, represented by tke market
price of hdp products', "diverted from
their hands, and so, not being able to
command equ4 value for what they pro
dice, the mark-Jts become periodically
glutted. In constquenee of the usury,
trielnteftVl oFrietTirofitsT being drawn
away from the wealth producers. The
usury system contains in itaU the forces
of oppression. Tbo despots that have
been politically overthrown, usury re
establishes in power. The equality
vvhioh a republic 'is supposed to provide
for, usury destrojs. As Lord Bacon
says, it "lends to draw the wealth of a
nation into few hands," and not only
the weal'ti but the natural resdurcis,
the whole basis of liberty. The his
torian Roliin says: "'Usury has always
caused the ruin of states where it has
been tolerated, aDd it was the disorder
which contributed very much to sub
vert the "constitution of the Roman
commonwealth ana to give birth to the
greatest calawides.in all the provinces."
Because money is exchangeable for
land in fee si a pie and for all lorms of
capital, the usury system extends itseif
into everything used by man. There
fore the money question in its commer
cial reach comprehends, or enters lai ge
ly into to control, all other questions,
questions regarding the use of land ami
capital. It should not be lest sUht of
far a moment that the money question
Is the usury question. The silver ques
tion is but a small part of it at best, and
but for ignorance and custom ii would
be no part at all. If the people decide
to provide themselves currency atcot
(better monev than they are now bor
rowing of the bankers en usury) they
tan with this monoy buy or build rail
roads, or telegraphs, or telephoues, and
run them at cost. They can ecape pay
lug interest on mortgages, and rent in
comes to ldl landlords.
The People' party Is against the us
ury system in all its branches sod rami
fications, Wa consider it the world-over-shadowing
up tree of feath. It
brings to all the evil of irresponsible
monarchy, aud all the crushing burden,
degradation, and dee pair of lavrr. It
mut ie cut down, unrooted, and by the
new system of government banking aud
loaning t)f legal tender currcner, era
pkuty annihilated; r the liberty of th
Ct'turuoa people U a drvata that must
tMu aad forever pa away,
Itvtween nsaad uccitaodt two old
party machine, the taoratly 4berv lent
pMlttloal tool of 'ha money power; and
Uiele ruachlar an a great powtr to
o ro'tu. Th dally pr I almost
wholly their, the ireat majority of the
wek'y parr also, and also tna trala-.'
army of profolat politician, found
la every voting precleot, Uwa and
city of th laol. But th Ditto me
jty of Truth U agalot oar foe They
eact nat u 'a or, fair aad full
discussion. The utmost they cant do
is to put obstacles in our way; they cia
misrepresent us, wall out our ideas, and
so delay our final victory.
I am convinced that the great thlDg
for us to do is to hold up to view the
plan and u-ury-saving beneflta of our
government loan and banking system.
We should discuss the details of it in
our papers that every minute feature of
it may be made perfect, or as perfect aa
legislation ever can be. We shou'd
make it clear to every one of our read
ers that it is a plan which provides for
a larger volume of the currency with
out inflating It, without depreciating
the unit or dollar measure; that it pro
vides for thia by issuing it otly as it
will be used to employ labor and in
crease wealth, aud by destrojlng its
monopoly values, its usury value and
speculative value by hoarding. We
should preach the benefits of this gov
ernment banking system "In season,
and out of season," till all the people
wlthm our reach learn all about it. and
intelligently comprehend it. Let us
buckle down to hard and careful study
if we do not yet see clearly the con
structive legislation that is needed.
Let us have a clear comprehension of
our principles and what they lead to,
and definitt ness and adequacy in the
truths and plans we prtsent.
I am of opinion that we have not
given enough at ten-ion to the moral
side of our questions. There is a very
widespread impression that the money.
r.diroad, land and other monopo'y ques
tions are not moral puestiocs, thai they
along to what ii called, very improper
ly, the secular affairs of life. But the
fact is, the tilings we contend for as
Populists are at the base, they consti
tute the very foundation of all morality.
Monopoly prices, net profits, usury
tribute of any and every sort, are rob
bery. It matters not if it be legalized,
the moral law condemns monopolists
and usurers, and those who profit by or
defend thede robberies are criminals. '
The moral sense of mankind must see
this if attention is directed to It. There
fore let us appeal to men's consciences
and convince them that usury, or mon-
poly tribute, is rightly classed in the
Scriptures with all that is abominable
and execrable. Let us take pains to
show all the suffering and worid-wide
evil that it leads to, and prove that no .
man can ba Chris iau or moral who is
not with us in seeking justice for the
oppressed.
The Populist movement is the long
lost "gospel to the poor." It is an or
ganized movement "to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy bur
dens and to let the oppressed go free."
Our demand is the demand of Jehovah,
"that ye break every yoke."
, , We are scorned andmisrepresented
and migitify-ivsisted by 'ff tie "ruling
class, but the desire of all nations is
reaching out blindly for what we bring.
la our hands is the hope of the world,
We glory in the fact that we represent
neither political monarch tor com
mercial monopolists, but the common
people. 'Our hearts, our hopes, are all
with them.' And their" cause is the
broadest and noblest men ever cham
pioned. Nor can it be doubted that
the toil-worn, class-burdened millions
will gladly listen to our message when ,
they learn that it is for them.
Brothers, sisters, when my thought
reaches out to the consideration of
human wrongs and needs and sufferings,
and the changes that simple justice
would bring, It kindles a fire in me that
can find in words no adequate expres
sion. I can not help wishing for a di
vine afflatus, for mental genius and
the gift of sufflcientspetch. But "Wis
dom is justified of her children," and
deeds, self-denial, whole-hearted sacri
fice, are us much needed today as is
eloquent, multitude-moving speech.
" V hen a deed is done for freedom, through
the bio-id earth's ai.'hlng breast
Run's a thrill of Joy prophetic, trembling on
from east to west;
And the si av, where'er he cowers, feels the
soul within him climb
To the awful verge of manhood, as the
energy sublime
Of a century, bursts full blossomed oa the
thorny stem of time,"
Brave, true word and noble deeds
who e Indus nco will be endles, are for
m to give. LH us give them to the full
limit of our power. For, as I said at
the beginning, there is not a form of
evil overthrown in the past, whose
spirit in another form does not now
confront us, at d with modern enginery
threaten to win back and hold, through
usury, all depotio power. But of this
bo sure, the forces wblch have over
thrown monarchy and its compulsory
tribute in ta pas', will conquer the
am proud forces of tnooomtly aud
usury in the great, imtit ndlogo 'tfltct ,
Gkofqk Howard iusum.
LET THE GOVERN MEN f T4KE THEM
lYopte not thoroughly Informed oa
the railroad quettloa, thoe who read
only the old party papvr, are morvthaa
likely to be misled by th report of
railroad pinf Into the hand cf re-
orlvra. it doe not Indicate at all that
the railroad arw changing too low
tariff, but that they are !o,td dowa
with a fraduttit(watr) raplUilitt a,
Tbo AW-hleoa tth r:M,M. t!M,
wt at a4 l02,WiWW stock, th lrg.
railroad ytem ia th wotid. ha
juat pard Into thbadf a rxoeiver,
fht puU into reoeitror' haatl thl
year aa ag gregato railroad property uf
aWut l,HV..w,i0,
By tft way, putting raT.rvaJ Into tha
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