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Show MEN AR LEARNING. ANONYMOUS. e Theres a question now uprising Self-Relianc- Deep affecting every hearth, Sweeping on with speed surprising Tis the ownership of earth; And the grave, sage man of letters, Gazing on the future years, Sees hen-roos- t. the falling of the fetters Sees the drying up of tears. Men are learning now the folly Of the claim that man at birth Is a tresiusser, and wholly Void of claim to Mother Earth. Let no tyrant bind thy knowledge In a cell so cramped and small; Seek the truth at Nature's college This fair earth was made for all. Think ye that the god of nature, When creation was at its birth, Dreamed that there would rise a creature That would buy and sell the earth Who should extort from his fellow Grinding landlords tribute high, Ere on earth the poor may pillow Aching head and drooping eye Pause and ponder, friend and brother; Tis a law of hellish birth That one must from another Buy a right to dwell on earth. But the mind ot man is growing; Soon the writing on the wall To the tyrant will be showing That the earth was made for all. Self-Relianc- e, Self-Relianc- e, FROM OUR NATIONAL FIRST READER. EXTRACTS See this poor old man with his clothes in a bundle. He is about to pawn them. The people call him Uncle Sam. Little did Miss Co- lumbia think when she married the strong, lusty young Samuel and gave him the sole right to coin money and issue bill of ctedit that he would come to this. Do you not know why he is going to pawn his clothes? I will tell you. He wants to get some money. He has the machines at home with which to make it, and he has the raw material; but he has hired Mr. Gage take care of them, and Mr. Gage says if Uncle Sam wants any money he must go to the pawn shop and borrow it. So here he is at the sign of the three golden balls. The pawn ticket says he must redeem his The back of the ticket pledge with "coin. means gold. Mr Gage has says "coin signed the back of the ticket. The man behind the csunter looks very much as though he belongs to Mr. Gages ( family. He is Mr. Gages "uncle. Mr. Gage has told Uncle Sam that THAT HENRY GEORGE MONUMENT. HOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE The sovereignty of the people under the Money is being raised to build a monusystem is a farce. ment to the memory of Henry George. We present Cincinnati, O. like the spirit that prompts the move, for The man who seeks to get relief from certainly if there ever lived a man whose existing abuses through the forces that have memory should be cherished by a downcreated those abuses is like the man who trodden people, that man is Henry George. hires a chicken thief to guard his we are But objecting to the manner in which The New Era. is this to be done. We believe the same thing Populism, reduced to its last analysis, is amount expended in the diffusion of his the doctrine upon which this Republic was the works among the people would be a better founded, and by which it must live. If Republic is to endure, Populism is here to way. There is no danger of Henry George stay. Thos. E. Watson, July 22, 1898. being forgotten by those who have read his until rulers the be will never The people words and works. We believe that this would they are in position to determine what shall be strictly in accord with the feelings and or shall not be the law, and that fact is wishes of Mr. George himself. If there be a wholly foreign and inconsistent with our interpresent misrepresentative form of govern- spirit world, and the departed have yet this in 0. est we believe that the great ment. Cincinnati, world, Mr. of soul revolts at the idea of in is inherent George "all Since political power the people, does it not appear slightly proposing to perpetuate his memory by a inconsistent on the part of those who are mountain of marble. We say, let the spot chosen to carry out the will of the people, that holds the sacred dust of the great and not only to refuse, but, on the contrary, to man be with marked a plain good properly Cincinnati, O. defy them? slab bearing the name of "Henry George The starving reconcentrados in Cuba are is enough ; and let the balance be used all dead or else they were not on hand at the that breaking out of hostilities. It is very prob- to push forward the work that Mr. George able that the banks were starving for bonds loved. We believe that every survivor of more than thi reconcentrados for bread, at his family will agree with us. Then let it be any rate the banks got the bonds and the in- done. Mercury. surgents did not get the bread TIIE CHARITABLE MAN. Neodesha, Kan., has made a success of Once upon a time a man owned a herd of municipal gas works. The plant has been which were lean even to starvation, it cattle, has just running only a short time yet their bones stuck out of their skins. He and couninto The the city treasury. turned $500 cil is so pleased at the success of this enter- owned also a luxuriant pasture, from which prise that it has determined to put in a water- his cattle were excluded by a strong high works plant too. Thus do we note the growth fence. But this owner, whatever might be of the doctrine of municipal ownership, one said of his wits, was a kind hearted fellow, of the leading tenets of Populism. Union, who occupied himself da ly in pulling handfuls of grass from the pasture and shoving Warrensburg, Mo. them threugh the fence to the hungry aniYes, this is a glorious country. The only mals outside. Nevertheless, the weaker cattle trouble is that it isn't our country. It be- starved and died. One said a passer-bday longs to the other fellow, who is either a for- to him: "Friend do you own these cattle? eigner or blows in his money abroad on "I do And do you own the pasture? titled manikins, $15,000 dinners, fast horses, Yes "Then why dont you let down the and equeally fast women. Ive got through so that the cattle can leed themselves? bars, praising the other fellows property. Jf he Bolton Halls Book of Parables. thinks it worthy of being hollered about he The passer-b- y referred to had evidently can do the hollering himself. Uncle Sam, in Industrial Freedom, Edison, Wash. been reading some of Henry George's works. At all events, when he advised the d philThere is a whole lot of osophy in the following: "No man makes man to "let down the bars he was a Single money out of the idle citizen. There is no Taxer. profit for anyone in an empty stomach. The POLITICAL NEWS. sensible farmer is the one who feeds his horse is more horses well, for the well-feThos. B. Reed has been renominated for profitable than a starved one. The men who Congress. are today idle, because there is no work for The Wisconsin Populist State convention them to do, might be apding, and ought to be adding billions of dollars to the wealth of meets at Milwaukee, August 31. the country every year. That is what would d The wing of the Popmake us a great nation, a strong nation, a ulist party will meet in Cincinnati, September Norton's Monthly. patriotic nation. 5, for the purpose of nominating a national for 1900. ticket The optical nerves of the American press in indeed. bad Here we have are a very way The Democrats of Nebraska in their State been treating them for nearsightedness, and platform reaffirm the 1896 platform, favor the now it turns out they arent troubled that free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1 and way at all. They are so blamed farsighted oppose banks of issue. that they cant see a case of tyranny, sufferOn a fusion deal in Nebraska between ing or injustice unless it is several thousand the Populists, Free Silver Republicans and miles away in another land. For instance, the Populists get all the State Democrats, they saw the hhrrible insult to our flag when ticket which goes to except attorney-generaa Mexican spoke disrespectfully of it, but Democrats. the they couldnt see anything wrong in our flag being shot down and trampled in the POOR BLEEDING KANSAS. mud at Hazleton, Pa., some time ago. Industrial Freedom, Edison, Wash. In just one year Kansas will owe no one he y hard-heade- d Middle-of-the-Roa- must take the kind of money his "uncle offers him. Or if his "uncle offers him bank notes instead of money, that will do just as well. Mr. Gages "uncle is called a Shy lock. There is a big bundle of bank notes wrapped up in the clothes Uncle Sam is pawning. They are signed by Uncle Sam, but they have not been signed by the Shy-locThe Shylock has agreed that if Uncle Sam will let him have the bank notes for i per cent., he will sign them and loan them back to Uncle Sam for 3 per cent. Mr. Gage The man who says the people are not tells Uncle Sam that this will be a popular smart enough to make their own laws should loan. So Uncle Sam will do as the Shylock go off and hunt up a monarchy somewhere and have a king, queen or czar to make his says James R Townsend. laws. The first principle of a republic is that government by the people. The demand The Methodist Church (South) had an of of the present time for a system which guarold war claim against the government, and antees to the people the nghta of the Referit gave one Stahlman $100,000 of it to lobby endum is only that demand for free governthe claim through Congress. He succeeded. ment which prompted the revolution against The news leaked out and an investigation monarchy. We are now opposing the monarchical methods which have crept into our was had. Stahlman was found guilty as n the last semsystem and almost charged, but the M. E. Church was absolved blance of government by the people. The from all blame. Funny, isnt it, how awfully Chicago Express. afraid of the church these politicians are? The United States government is being as a fiscal agency to supply a safe used It is now estimated that it will take a investment for the millions of dollars ex1 standing army of at least 00,000 men to torted and to be extorted from toil by usury keep things in order in Cuba and other and unbridled greed. The possessors of this d themselves in territory. If you will keep wealth have so for investtheir that gain ordinary grasping wiil soon see the milk your eye peeled you ments are no longer safe, and it is now in the cocoanut. A large standing army has determined thal the Unit-- d States turn interest-earnedividend-makefor years been the one thing of all things forms of under A and, big army government and by most desired by plutocracy. of the means taxing more power, furnish its more bonds, means more soft jobs, from the sweat citizens wealthier income an taxes, and better and more opportunities for and toil of her poorer but productive classes. issue is sure The American Nonconformist. plunder. Another $500,000,000 to come. The majority of our business men as well the workingmen are being consumed by as cursed Democrats the For twenty years insatiable monopolist. The workingmen the silver a for stealthy giving the Republicans blow in 1873; then they got in power and feel the devouring teeth of monopoly more killed the poor thing to get it out of its keenly and more promptly than business Tex. men, because they are weaker, and have a misery. Forum, Waco, narrower margin between themselves and And then, in less than a year, they became death. Prescience should arouse among business men an even sharper ferment of reform the original and only genuine free silver party that ever than distress h?s created among workingmen. Business men should make common existed. cause with the workingmen and farmers. said: "Labor in Only by such co operation can the country once Weuster Daniel which this country is independent and proud. It be saved from the catastrophe toward and its are prosperity liberty being rights, has not to ask the patronage of capital, but hurried the greed and lust of a small body by Wonder of labor. of the richest and most dangerous disloyal capital solicits the aid of things if men by whom popular government was ever what Mr. Webster would think H. D. Lloyd. threatened. he should come back to earth now? k. over-throw- over-reache- newly-capture- d rent-collecto- r, r, r, l, a dollar except the State of Kansas. At that time the block of State bonds will be paid and refunded in bonds which will be owned by the State permanent school fund. All of the other bonds are so owned. The payment of interest is simply a matter of bookkeeping in the Stat treasurer's office. Bonds amounting to $47,000 have just been taken up in a similar way. By this change the State saves in interest charges, as the new bonds bear 4 per cent, while the old oms draw 7. Advocatt and News, Topeka, Kan. (And the confounded crazy Pops have been in control in Kansas. They are robbers, for they are robbing the money-lender- s by refunding the 7 per cent, bonds for 4 per cent.) The American Nonconformist. PRESIDENT JAMES PROTESTS. Our criticisms on the Utah Press Association of last week has brought forth a letter from Mr. John James, president of the Association, in which he takes serious exceptions to what we said. The letter, with comments, will appear next week, as it came too late for this issue. LABOR EXCHANGE OUTING. The members of the Labor Exchange are planning an outing at Calders Park for September 5, the same being Labor Day. H. W. Lawrence and others have been secured to do the speaking. The New York Dispatch, a Republican thinks the Republican platform in paper, will contain the following demands: 1900 Annexation of Cuba; annexation of the Philippines; annexation of Porto Rico; annexation of the Canaries; annexation of Hawaii; military subjection of Spain; construction of the Nicaragua Canal; a standing army of 300,000 men; a billion-dolla- r navy; a debt paybonded 3 per cent, able in gold. HOT SHOTS ALONG THE LINE. Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Huxley. idle men whether rich or poor, live olf the men who work. This is the tragical tact of history. Columbus Post. All As a fighter Uncle Sam aint so slow. It's only as financier that he bows the knee to Europe. Union, Warrensburg, Mo. Nothing is easier than to form the mind while voung; nothing is more difficult than to eradicate vices that have grown up with us. Seneca There is nothing more pitiful than a life spent in thinking ol nothing but self; yes, even in thinking of nothing but ones own soul. Farrar. When the poor man gets property without earning it he is branded as a thief. When the rich man does the same thimg he is called a financier. Critic. It is the right of every one to be represented in the law- making bodies and if his vote doesnt help to elect some one he is disfranchised. Pittsburg Kansan. No laws, no customs, no rights of property are so sacred that they may not be made away with, if it can be clearly shown that they stand in the way of the greatest happiness. W. Stanley Jo vons. When we get Collective Ownership of public utilties and the Single Tax, the , the pawnbroker, the tramp, the r the note jailer, scalper, the will disappear. Kansan. Pittsburg Never before in any age of the world has wealth been more blindly worshiped than now. Whenever this has been so, criminal methods of obtaining it have become popular and respectable. Columbus Press-Pos- t. - soup-house- mortgage-toma-hawke- When, everyone understands that Single Tax will give every wan an opportunity to iroduce weath the Single Tax will be applied. You can hasten tbe day by distributing Single Tax literature. The Los Angeles Labor World. It is rumored that it will only be a short time until every undertaker will be required to put a two-cestamp upon each eye of nt every corpse. This will isure quick transportation to the other shore, and will raise a neat sum for war purposes. Gilroy (Calif.) Telegram. The bondholders may lose the bonds they hold on Cuba to the amount of $400,000,000, but they have fastened that many on American labor. They will still draw the blood from the producers it is simply changed front the Cuban to the American. Ignatius Donnelly. Two thirds of all the inhabitants of our cities and rural districts are tenants. Tbe h homes of the remainder are mortgaged beyond redemption, and the tendency to the to fiither concentration of distinctive landlord class is increasing year by year. Peoples Forum, Waco, Tex. one-fout- land-holdin- What will Democrat and Republican politicians s.iy against direct legislation? If they say it is inipractidable, then they say that government by the people is impracticable. If they say the people are incapable of using it they say the people are incapable of What will they say? The New Philadelphia (O ) Commonwealth. The only difference between a greenback, which circulates freely, and a United States bond, which is hoarded, is that one is a demand note bearing no interest and the other a time note bearing a fixed interest. Both are backed by the same security, but the interest which the time note draws is what the bond patriots are after. Mirror, Albion, Mich. Glasgow street railways: Owned by the city. Fares from 1 to 5 cents, according to distance. Average tare 1 cents. Profit in four years. $500,000. Sinking fund payments annually, $60,000 Passengers carried last year, 106,344. 437. Socialism? Oh, no just the common sense of a hard headed lot of British burghers who think a citv should keep, not give away, its valuables. New York Journal. There is no denying the fact that the Single Tax scheme is gaining wide lavor with the people. The plan might not drive all poverty from the world, but it would put it in the power of the masses to avoid most of it. The man who has access to the land need not go hungry. The monopoly of land and the attendant extortions of the landlords are no doubt doing much to keep the multitude poor. Sacramento (Cal.) News. Party government has proven utterly futile and hateful, not because it is intrinsically bad, but because the people have not provided any means of present discipline of their servants. It ought to be possible for the people suddenly to spank the fussy old babies in the United States Senate and teach them that they are there to do business for the American eagle and not to slobber over courtesies. John G. Woolley. The fact that the postal receipts for 189S will probaby reach $100,000,000, the largest in the history of the department, will excite but little interest among the people. Past history teaches them that there can be but one result the receipts of the railroads will also be the largest in the history of their department, if the whole $iob,ooo,ooo has to be swallowed to do it. Our great privately-owne- d railroads do not propose to be outdone by such a measly little outfit as a publicly-owned postoffice.- - Industrial Freedom, Edison, Wash. |
