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Show I .7. At last old John Sherman has been reWORDS OF WISDOM. Juim MeBetb, in The Openiug of the Gate. There never was any heart truly great and tired to private life, from which let us hope Ah ! friend of man, thou true, thou kindly noble that was not also tender and sympa that he will never, never be resurrected. friend, Probably no man that ever lived is more thetic South. Thou art in truth to us, the sons of woe, directly responsible for the suffering condiIf men want to abolish crime, let them The kindliest, strongest friend we here may of tion the For even as a mother in her arms people than is this same old John know; provide their fellows with decent surround Sherman. Of soft and peaceful comfort takes the child Had he died before he was born, ings. Ben Tillet. That through a long and fevered night hath world the would be much better off than it is When truth is buried in the earth, it accugrief, Mark Hanna was too much for him. wept And whined and tossed on couch of paia and mulates there and assumes so mighty an ex today. He was appointed to a place in McKinleys And oer him breathes the breath of peace plosive power that, on the day when it bursts not for his fitness, but to make a and rest, forth, it hurls everything into the air. Emile cabinet, And gently lulls him into silent sleep; ' place for that other scoundrel Hanna. No Zola. So in thine arms of peace the child of woe, knew better than McKinley himself that one The measure of strength and prosperity in Cradled in pain and nurtured in the home any government can be accurately judged by Sherman was unfit for the place, bat Hanna Of toil and bitter sorrow, theu dost take, the degree of civil and religious freedom en- had to be taken care of, and so he was, And over him thy coed and holy breath Doth flow as in a silent sfream of peace, joyed by those living under it. American wealth that has been If to DEATH. 1 FROM THE REFORM PRESS. Do you suppose that J. Pierpont Morgan would pose as a target for Spanish bullets for thirteen silver dollars per month? Well, hardly. The Rights of Man. 40-ce- After we are over the present excitement about war with Spain, it would be a good idea to look up the starving in our large cities and give them a chance. Tacoma Sun. Remain honest and society will starve and freeze you. Become a thief and society at once sees to it that you are properly fed, warmed and housed. The Rights of Man, Minneapolb, Minn. The Populist members of Congress have done noble work in the trying times of this year, and we Populists have good reason to be proud of their record. Gvic Review, Los Angeles, Calif. The spectacle of a bank official, jailed for stealing $35,000, living on champagne and duck, and taken to the theatre occasionally,, b another illustration of modern justice. Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kan. the paid priests Sentinel. for proclaiming fables and fictions and false Noah was a calamity howler, and the hoods about gods and the will of gods could bones of the men who laughed at him have . betn employed in increasing .have the know- helped to make the phosphate bed. oot of od flllllM3 of ,he hum the edgc If you want to damn anything in Amer which fertilizers are now dug for the market world today would be immensely in advance H. D. Lloyd. ica, add or prefix the word free to it of the place it now occupies. If the time that and the thing is done. The word free The sciences are not sectarian. People do has been employed in working and lbtening has a peculiar stench to Americans. Free not persecute each other on account of dis- for and to land, free trade, free speech, free press, priests could have been used in free exchange, tree men and freedom alike agreements in mathematics. Families are not laws of the universe, the world the studying are under the ban of pubiic prejudice. If divided about botany, and astronomy does would be vastly more advanced in truth, virThose reckless persons who imagine that there is one word more than another that not even tend to make a man hate his father and tue happiness. Mrs. O. E. Daniels. the People's party b waning should notice should be dear to Americans it is this and mother. It b what people do not word they turn up their noses at and de- know nine-tentof the popular ideas of govthat they persecute one another about Nature rejects the monarch, not the man, that nounce as impracticable. This is the result and ernment political economy that are now the subject, the citizen; kings and subjects, of the education they have received from Science will bring, not a sword, but peace. the interesting people had their origin in the mutual fies, forever play a losing game into their industrial and political masters. You Ingersoll. becan educate a nation into any fallacious So long as religion may be used to cloak each others hands, whose stakes are vice Peoples party. The Civic Review. them if lief you will take time ana prevent vice, so long will the Bible be popular. So and misery. The man of virtuous soul comAlong with every railroad mail car there from seeing the truth. To me the word as a man may lie, cheat, swindle and mands not, nor obeys; power, like a desolat- runs an express car. Each is operated by lrng tree is die sweetest, next to mother, of any word in the language. I have never indulge his passions six days in the week, ing pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches, hired men. The express employe receives been free, and may never be, but my soul and be a thoroughly respectable, good and and obedience, bane of all genius, virtue, mere salary than the railway mail clerk, but longs for freedom just the same. But I can honest member of society if he go to church freedom, truth, makes slaves of men, and of Uncle Sam pays for the use of his car seven seethe evolution working that promises free- on the seventh, so long will Infidelity that the human frame a mechanized automaton. times as much as the express company. dom for the children now growing up. b, the refusal to believe in a fraudulent reve- Shelley. Why? Southern Mercury. Appeal to Reason. lation and a smug hypocrisy be unpopular. Free men and free country are about At present individualism is a myth. If you want to scare the average AmerThe Agnostic Journal. as the fell Choice of out b mythical as can be. No man or woman is. ican clean and clear to death at one question. Opportunities free that must first obtain the permission of stroke, you only need to mention the words Long hours of toil mean that one fit for are sealed against the individual, and he has another to earn their living; and no country with what to he able to for b a free trade. beg The idea that a man ought little but toil that ones high capabilities put up b or can be a free country, where one class to have the privilege of selling his products are deadened or never brought into play. grab. He cannot do what he would like or where he can get the most for them and The labor of the working classes is for is specially fitted for, and millions of willing of men have it within their power to legally of buying with his money where he can others' benefit rather than their own, and men cannot get anythfng to do at all. Individ- rob and starve another class of men. The get the most for it, is set down as being the employer gains by it, the landowner ual aspirations have no play; it b a desperate Rights of Man, Minneapolb, Minn. the quintessence of everything that is bad. fains by it, the capitalbt gains by it; but struggle for bread. Pittsburg Kansan. Employes may enlist in the army to No; the average American loves to boast of the laborer frequently gets from it only the When our government allows the man- fight for Cuba and they will find their jobs his freedom at one breath and of lauding pittance which enables him to refresh hb hood and property of this country the cre- when they return, b the patriotic (?) utterthe chains that bind him in the next. The vital forces and go on working. W. M. ator and substance of all true wealth to be ance of many employers throughout the facts are that the average American is an Salter. sacrificed by money, which is a creation of country at present. Do you need any better If God could exbt without a cause, then inconsistent damphule. law and only intended as a mere conven- evidence to prove that the war will be the universe could abo. If you can imagine for the exchange of wealth, is it not fought by the poor devils who have nothAll our former wars have been carried a god who exbted without the world from ience well for the people to reflect before submit- ing at stake in thb quarrel, and that on by the government creating new money eternity, then you can much easier imagine will stay at home to make with which to pay the expenses; but our a world which exbted from eternity without ting to further taxation and giving up life to and keep the jobs till the boys readministration proposes a new God. If I once assume that the universe, thb sustain such a policy? turn? The Courier, Pueblo, Colo. way to make good times, by increasing the great organbm of suns and stars, could have notes If government treasury (greenpeoples taxes and exchanging the limited arisen from nothing, then verily there is abo backs) bearing no interest, are not good Just think of it. More than $800,000,000-year interest on real estate mortgages in money in circulation nothing to prevent me from crediting that it money, why should interest- - bearing bonds supply of the United States. Now it b estimated that bonds. It will be fun arose without the assistance of a God. Karl for interest-bearin- g be so much better,' when both are a creation if we had silver coinage restored it would for the interest coupo clippers staying at Heinzen. of law, printed on similar paper and dependAre there not enough known facts to teach ent alike upon the credit and wealth of the add $50,000,000 a year to our circulation home; while the poor man who fights the but the silver alone advocate ought to after his our children that would interest and benefit Nation to sustain them? generations battles, together with get out hb pencil and do some figuring; him, will be burdened with an increased and them? Cannot children be brought together sixteen time without of ever increasing weight debt, years coinage to pay interest for Please do not forget to remember that as on Sunday and have a good time, and be end. taught truth and sense instead of lies and a result of war, or rumors of war, the bank- one year. Free coinage would elp, but will get their bonds, golden bonds, cor- taxes, banking and transportation are the At Exeter, New Hampshire, last Tuesday, nonsense? Is there anything more important ers a man was arrested and sent to jail for non- or us to do than to provide a place for our porations their standing army and the work- great bsues. The Chicago Express. payment of taxes. The amount alleged to be children where their minds will be free from ing people will get hell both agoin and a The workingman must fight the battles: due was $1.97Chicago Express. The Rights of Man. such detrimental environments? Have we not cornin. in war, giving life or limb at the demand of Beautiful system we have in this glorious too long been permitting priest and preacher All money b a creation of law, and not the government; while if the same governcountry; isnt it? In some places a man is to bend the twig? Katie Kehm Smith. ment needs coal, the rich man can corner dependent upon tne value of the substance no better off to own property than to be it or any other commodity and force the broke. If he has no property and is out of Thousands of years ago when working upon which the fiat of the law is impressed for its value. Law makes it money by accord- government to pay three or four times as work, he may be put in jail as a vagrant, people plowed with a forked stick and wove much as it would under ordinary circumwhile if he be a property owner and fail to cloth without even the aid of a hand loom, ing it legal tender functions. The Alabama stances. For the life of us, we cannot see Monitor. same. the to he comfortable and made a the just jail taxes, living, goes very they pay the equity in taking a mans life or making With the advent of the Initiative and him a cripple, whether he wilb it or Surely this is the land of the free and home kept up a king and the nobility in idleness, not; of the brave. except when the latter became too extrava- Referendum the corrupt lobbyist who hovers while the man who has property needed by today are so extortionate about the halb of legblation, ever ready to the The nation that disregards its labor ele- gant. Our kings suffer government can force it to pay the price even our hb would use be that want, out of though a boodle, people keen draws the who job. he demands. Think it over, brothers, and ment is like the man wealth with all modern marazor across his own throat. Our times are they produce You had better use your votes while you you will be forced to the conclusion that of royalty unThe extravagance chinery. can student regard there is something that needs fixing. serious. No thoughtful titled as well as titled has kept pace with have them. Youll wake ap some fine morn- The the ominous discontent and the thunders of Sun, Tacoma, Wash. increased capacity of production. J. A. ing to find that you havent got any votes to the future for the without trembling social unrest use. The Social Democrat. Socialists are accused of trying to array Wayland. of his country. W. H. Carwardine. class have never kept against class. The charge b a true one, Religion .and morality Whoever thinks that folly b going to abreast The most strikingly religious epochs die a natural death in the immediate futuie and as long as there b a plutocratic class THE MONEY QUESTION. a very sanguine optimist. G. W. Foote. arrogating to themselves all the power for A great many people are disposed to look have been those most darkly stained with their own benefit, it is the proper thing to as one that is hard brutality and fraud. Evolution and. dissoluupon the money question of all There will always be brakemen enough; do. Every movement having for its object to understand. To one who has spent his tion and dissolution of peoples, as we want is more firemen and engineers. the elevating of humanity, must necessarily what time in reading the stuff usually given out things, is ceaseless; but the evolving peoples be a class movement, and we must therefore Grant Allen. but when the are the least religious, and the dissolving by the press, that is true; incite class hatred and array class against most Civilization and religious. mind is once cleared and the subject prop- peoples the and means bank notes Issuing circulating class. In our Revolutionary war, class was it is no more morab, in evolving peoples, run together; off what you owe. erly presented jn its simplicity, The Farmers living modern and moral civilization is arrayed against class. Then, as now, pludifficult to understand than is the multipli and our Sentinel. due to Pagan letters and Arab science tocracy was on the side of the oppressors,, cation table. This ignorance is positively mainly and most of the people arrayed themselves of religion are not those of proON THE SEVIER. inexcusable. Ten cents spent for a copy of The forces and King George. Socialreliaud progressive forces are not The editor is spending the week in Sevier against plutocracy Ten Men of Money Island and three gress, is gious. Biological science surely teaches that and Piute counties. He spoke to a crowded ists claim that theirs is a class movement,, hours spent in reading it, is all that and they are doing all in their power to creof sentient life. It b a house at Ebinore Wednesday evening. a needed to do the work. Read this little morality b necessity ate discontent among the masses; doing all will be a revelation to primary and inherent property of nerve-matte- r. pamphlet once and it THE NATIONAL PLATFORMS. in their power to incite the present unjust Morality is an endowment of all animab, Xou. It will not only upset all your conditions. of It b only when men become disarishandiest the One books for reference ideas of money, but it will es while religion b an acquired propensity have we seen PlatThe National b contented with wrong that they can be made bul- ing among early men, flourishing in the less that tablish in your mind an impenetrable forms and Political Hbtory of the United to see and do what b and it b only in and the mare absurd am cultured civilizations, paling It gives all the platforms of all when men shall become right, States. wark agianst further invasion of convinced that comcultured. Morality b primary and fundamen- political parties from the Declaration of nonsensical theories on the subject. You will that b and are wrong they and tal; religions inaugurate parasitic transitory. Independence down to the present It selb petition simply understand the money question collectivebm. Socialbt, Williamsport, Pa. cents. You ought to have it for 25 Furneaux Jordan. all there is to it. And sleep eternal, deep, untroubled sleep, Soft, gently, pining not nor giving thought Of what hath been, or what will ever be, Closeth his eyelids like a cloudy veil. hs -- ! the-dollar- s bond-holdin- . g non-intere- st - . - - . |