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Show BONDTROCESSIONAL. JAMES SYME HASTINGS. Lord God of Bonds, thine aid we crave Thine aid that war may last apace; Thine aid that men may dread the grave, Full sanctified by hostile grace. Grant us the fullness of thy prime. Lest we forget the passing time Lord God of Bonds, let them repent For 3 per cent. for 3 per cent. The tumult and the shouting dies; The Senate drags to fearsome length The victory of the sacrifice Of all our millions hoarded strength. Grant that our gold may yet persuade Grant that with votes we be repaid Lord God of Bonds, let them repent For 3 per cent for 3 per cent. Lest victory mount the eagled helm Too soon, and end our chance to gain; Lest blooded volunteers oerwhelm The dear destroyers of the Maine Hold thou then back until we feel The issued bonds and win our deal Lord God of Bonds, let them repent For 3 per cent for 3 per cent The strife is measured but by days, Nor can it last if they but act; Thea grant us bonds that we may praise The backbone which our rulers lacked. So grant us bond or sue for peace; Without our bonds the war must cease Lord God of Bonds, let them repent For 3 per cent for 3 per cent. THE WAR OF OPINION. MRS. DANA. When a patriot falls, must he fall in the battle Where the cannons loud roar is his only death-rattle- ? warfare where none but the morally brave Stand nobly and firmly, their country to save. 'Tis the war of opinion, where few can be found, On the mountain of principle, guarding the Theres a ground; With vigilant eyes ever watching the foes Who are prowling around them, and aiming their blows. The government bonds which Cleveland and Carlisle sold to a Wall Street syndicate at 1042 are now worth in the open market, and in spite of war, 124 to 123. This means a profit to the syndicate and its successors of at least $20 on every $ioo, or on the $62,000,000 a profit of $13,400,000 a clear gift to the speculators by a president and secretary who did net trust the people. Southern Mercury, Dallas, Tex. Why dont you tell it as it is, brother? Why dont you say by a president and secretary who shared in the swag they helped the thieves to steal? In purchasing war revenue stamps buy $100 worth at a time. By so doing you get This discount is for the 1 per cent discount- benefit of the poor. The government wants to help the poor and make their burdens of taxation as light as possible. Hence this discount of 1 per cent in lots of $100 or more. Patent medicines, beer and tobacco articles consumed almost exclusively by the wealthy, and on which taxes are very high are subject to discount. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. See? The Coming Nation. The Populist State platform of Kansas demands public ownership of monopolies, and the ownership and operation of the stockyards at cost. Worse than that, it also demands that the State furnish insurance to its citizens at cost. This is simply awful in the eyes of the dear, good insurance companies, who pay their officers such high wages they will withdraw from a State before they will show their payroll to the State commissioner. The platlorm also demands the Initiative and Referendum. Taken altogether, it should easily carry the State against any issues the parties may bring forth. Coming Nation. In Australia the government owns the railroads. It only costs a person $6.50 to ride one thousand miles there. Commutation rates for local service are still lower. A workman can ride to and from his work, a distance of six miles lor two cents a trip; twelve miles for four cents; eighteen miles for six miles for eight cents; thircents; twenty-fou- r ty miles for . ten cents. Yearly tickets good for thirty-mil- e trips are sold for $17.40. This we need in this centralization is a kind of country; it centralizes bread and meat into the mouths of the workmens children and clothes their dacks. National Citizens Alliance. What about those starving Cubans, we ask again? Have they all been fed or are they all dead? Or is it, as we said it was, to get only a scheme of the bonds? some Our friend James H. Barry, editor of The San Francisco Star, announces himself a candidate for Congress. He ought to be nominated and elected. bond-thiev- es Direct legislation is employed throughHOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. out Switzerland, and the people have deThe greatest reform of today, the one that towers like a giant above all others is stroyed the poer of the legislator for perthe Initiative and Referendum. Once let the sonal ends; they have made it easy at any time to alter or change their Federal constipeople secure its adoption by our legislators and the way for other reforms is immensely tutions, and have simp'ified their form o! widened. At present the men we elect to government; they hold their public officers office are not our servants. They are our responsible direct to their constituencies as rulers. The people should be heard on all servants and not as tools to legislative corlegislation that affects their interest and there ruptionists, who maintain an expensive lobby should be some methods whereby unjust and about the halls of the legislature to buy mens class enactments might be unable to pass souls and enslave the people through vicious without their indorsement. If the reformers legislation. They have defeated monopolies, of all grades, whose labors are now divided, improved the method of taxation, reduced would unite and demand this radical reform the rate, avoided national scandals growing in our system of government, the others out of extravagance unwarranted, with no would quickly follow in their turn. The other object in view than the enrichment of movement is growing strong everywhere and a legislative ring and their favorites; they the time is ripe to push on the work. Let the have husbanded the public domain for the benefit of their own citizenship; they have people demand that they shall be heard in all that concerns their interest and see that the established home rule in fact in every comInitiative and Referendum becomes a law on munity; they have destroyed partisanship, our statute books and then the majority of and established a government of the people; the electors will rule and the politicians who they have quieted disturbing political elenow run our government machinery will be ments, disarmed the politician, enthroned the our servants, in fact as well as name, and people; by the vote of the people they have cease to be the autocrats of the nation The assumed authority over the railroads, express Industrial Banner. companies, telegraphs and telephones, reducing freight rates, charges and tolls Industry, under the competetive system, more than 78 per express below the cost for like cent is but slaughter of human beings. The ships service under private control. A. A. Brown their white sails J above a rotten spreading hulk that sinks in the storm; the matchmaker and quicksilver worker and sugar refiner giving up their lives in a certain number of years for a little food and clothing to sustain them while they do live; the railroads crushing, mangling and killing their victims by the dozen daily; the miners caught caused by by unexpected slides and cave-inunsafe supports; the boiler explosions blow-inits victims all out of resemblance to humanity; the lineman hanging dead among the wires of an over head system, his flesh sending up blue smoke to the indifferent heavens; the scores buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed building, or burned to death in a hotel without fire escapes; the office men daily passing from their stools to the grave all these are but examples of the value of human life compared with good old yellow gold, the God of man, for which man will not kill others, but die himself. Peace and plenty he doesnt want, but gold he must have. Coming Nation. As The Mercury understands the proposition, the reason why the government issued the $200,000,000 bonds recently sold was because it wanted $200,000,000 in money. Now if the banks bring $200, 000, coo in money and get $200,000,000 in bonds, then deposit tae bonds with the treasurer and on them issue 90 per cent, of their face value in bank notes or $180,000,000, which the government is pledged by law to redeem in money, and which to the banks answer all the purposes of money, how much have the bonds actually cost the banks? You say $200,000,-00- 0 less $180,000,000 or $20,000,000. Not 0 so. When we understand that these bonds bear 3 per cent. , and will net the buyers $6,000,000 in interest, we find that they have cost the banks $200,000,000 less $180,000,000 in bank notes, less $6,000,-00- 0 in interest or $14,000,000, which represents the net profit to the government on a bond issue of $200,000,000. The banks get $200,000,000 in bonds and the government gets $14,000,000 as the result of the transaction. This is what the "underwriters call "financiering the war. Southern Mercury. The postal savings bank being one of the demands embodied in the platform of tee Peoples party, it is well to understand that it is not merely sought as an experiment, but that its success in other countries, especially in Great Britain, has been phenomenal. In England postal savings banks were established at all money-orde- r offices in 1861. From then till 1890 there were 113,000,000 deposits, amounting to $1,387,950,000. At the end of 1890 there were nearly 5,000,000 depositors, and $326,296,000,000 deposited. Since 1876 there has been paid over to the Exchequer sums which now amount to about $7,305,000, and the institution still shows a surplus to the credit of the government of $8,425, 100. The total cost of management up to 1890 had been $1,580,538. Thus the institution, affording an absolutely safe savings deposit system, has been quite an important revenue in itself for the government. It is well known that, as a business venture, savings banks are in the main successful. They operate upon the money of depositors, but when a depositor wants the same privilege they ask him a high rate of interest. To a certain extent the government is in the banking business at present with its money-orde- r department. Why not extend it further and become a depository for the savings of the people? Twentieth Century. mid-ocea- n s, g $200,-000,00- in Self Reliance, Cincinnati, O. Capitalistic and plutocratic organs never weary of ridiculing tramps, who are, in most cases, poor fellows looking for work. They take every occasion possible to inform us all that industry is rewarded and that shiftliness is bound to suffer. And this is so in a general way. It was an industrious man who, on Monday morning last, invested $1,000 in January cotton and came out $5,000 ahead in the evaning. His industry consisted in telephoning the laborious' words to his broker: "Place me a thousand on cotton margins. While this young man was wasting his vital energy at the telephone, "Dusty Rhodes was probably sawing wood somewhere for his breakfast. Look at the tireless, the almost superhuman industry by which Jay Gould used to make a million dollars in a second of time by pressing a button. The question is, how many tramps did that pressure manufacture? The million dollars must have come from somewhere and the general opinion is that it came from somewhere and the general opinion is that it came from the pockets of the widow and orphan. Wizard and all, as he was, Jay Gould could not make money out of nothing, though it must be admitted that he went very near it. No, the horde of parasites and loafers that throng the Exchanges do not work, but then they own newspapers which say they do, and at the same time throw filth at the poor men who are idle because capitalists will not let them work. Twentieth Century. Germany has set us an example of successful government insurance. The system has been made compulsory and includes both accident and illness, as well as life. In this way the government not only saves expense to itself in the way of almshouses, but the profits which with us go to private companies are made to pay part of the expense of the government. Within the last few years the national insurance funds have grown to enormous sums, so much so that the German government is embarrassed to find satisfactory investments for it, aggregating as it does the sum of $125,000,000. What a relief it would be to our Western farmers if following the example of Germany, our government had thet much money which could be loaned at a low rate of interest. Instead of S and 10 per cent, now demanded by shylocks, the government could loan at 1 and 2 per cent., and with all, make a handsome profit. Comparing what has been done abroad with conditions at home, one would think our government had been established for the purpose o enabling a few favored individuals to exploit the rest of the population. Reforms which w are demanding with little hope of speedy attainment such as government insurance, ownership of railroads and postal savings banks, are all adopted by the countries of Europe, and still, while claiming to be the greatest people on earth, we remain at the end of the procession, and in the matter of government ownership with fourth and fifth-rat- e powers. Twentieth Century, slow-goin- g When Cuba once gets fairly within the clutches of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Spreckels, et al, it will probably begin to look upon Spanish cruelty as being not such a bad thing after all. STEAL OR STARVE-WHI- CH ('iutiu'iI from iitwe 1. ? ciples, in going through the cornfields on the Sabbath day, plucked the ears of corn and In proof of the fact that they had a do so he cites the case of David, to right "how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who ate. were with him. (Mark ii, 26 ) So much for that. When Mr. Clark or any other man says that no matter how large a family a man has there is do need of him to want for bread, he simply advertises his ignorance of facts. There are thousands of such. Between the monopolization of natural opportunity and the machine, many honest have laborers found themselves adrift without a job or anything to eat. It is not the fault of thieves. What does the writer mean when he cites the fact that certain men waste their means by extravagance and drink? Does he mean that when you find a hungry man you must inquire how he became hungry before feeding him? If he should find a man drowning would he institute an investigation to learn how he fell into the water before he would lend a hand to pull him out? Why not pull him out first and then investigate? When a man is starving it is no time to ask now it came about until after you have fed him. Whenever a man runs out of argument he at once begins to cry "anarchy. Friend Clark is no exception to the rule and we venture that if called upon to give a definition of what anarchy is he could not do so. There was a time when that word scared people out of a years growth every time it was pronounced, but that day is over. The "pleasing contrast that he quotes from some Catholic monthly, has no bearing on the subject whatever. Now, kind reader, we beg pardon for publishing all this trash. Mr. Clark does not touch the question at issue at all, and all that we have said in reply is entirely foreign to the subject. What is the question? Here it is: After a man has exhausted all honorable means to obtain bread and fails, has he a moral right to steal it? We agree with Cardinal Manning. He has. Let the reader note the two conditions upon which an affirmative answer rests: (1) The man must be willing to work. (2) He must be denied the privilege of working. When these two conditions exist there is but one way open to a starving man, and that is to obtain food by force or theft. The Constitution of the United States guarantees "life. Life without food is impossible. Then the Constitution guarantees to him or, at least, should a right to steal wnen all other means have failed. Let us analyze this subject just a little: Suppose that our friend Clark should find himself in a strange country, and hungry; and that he should be well provided with money, but the people of that country, for some reason, should refuse to sell him anything to eat, He would find it impossible ta eat his money. If these people persisted in this course would he quietly lie down and starve? Would he? We think not We think he would be a cowardly fool if he did. Well, now, what is money? It is stored-ulabor, so to speak. It is a certificate that at some former time the holder has done a certain amount of labor. That is all it is. But here is another man whp hasnt any "stored-u- p labor he has no money; but he has physical ability to labor and a mind willing to labor. This is all he has. He offers it willingly for food. He is refused. What is he to do? Eh? Starve? Not much. The great unwritten law of love, common sense and humanity says to him: "Do the next thing steal. And we say steal, whether Cardinal Manning ever said so or not. labor-savin- g p believe that the earth in a year produces enough to last for thirty. Why, then, have we not enough? Why do people die of starvation or lead a miserable existence on the verge of it? Why have millions upon millons to toil from morning till evening just to gain a mere crust of bread? Because of the absolute lack ef organization by which such labor should produce its effect, the absolute lack of distribution, the absolute lack even of the very idea that such things are possible. Nay, even to mention such things, to say that they are possible, is criminal with many. Richard Jefferies. I verily While you are poking fun at the Populist States, party for being split up, dont forget that has two Populist parties, two platforms and there are two Democratic parties and two two sets of candidates. The Populist parties are certainly increasing, whether in voters Republican parties. In fact, this is a great time ior political parties. or not. Missouri, like all well-regulat- |