Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 January 1899 — Page 5

> Baking Powder WAYS AND MEANS

To the Friends of OQr Cause—Through the action of the Democratic Nation, al Committee, the undersigned have been appointed a Committee on Way* and Means to begin work, now, for the campaign of 1900, and dejstre to issue the following address upon the work we have undertaken: , Money to meet expenses is as necessary in securing justice for the people in the trials of great political issues before the jury of the whole people, as It Is necessary in the case of a litigant securing a fair and impartial hearing before & court and jury. In the latter instance a suitor without money is unable to employ counsel of ability, take needed depositions, and make, other legitimate preparations requiring the expenditure of money; and when thus situated, If opposed by a wealthy adversary', he frequently fails in securing justice by being unable to fairly and fully present his case to the court and jury. And while this Is true of the individual in a court of justice, on a much larger scale It is. true of a great body 'of people contending tor the cause of truth and liberty. Money must be raised to pay the necessary expenses, or our cause .will meet with an adverse verdict in 1900. The forces opposing us have four active national committees, to whom mbney is supplied by those profiting by national legislation arid the corrupt administration of affairs. 1 One of these committees is -the so-called National Democratic Gold Standard Committee, at the head of which is Mr. George F. Peabody, a New York banker. Another is the Indianapolis Committee, the Outgrowth of the Indianapolis gold standard commercial convention, at the head of which is H. H. Hanna, who is insidiously working through commercial bodies, seeking to frighten them into compliance with the behests of the money power. The third is the bankers’ organization at 52 "William street. New York, that is supplying free of expense to all willing newspapers misleading arguments in favor of the gold standard; and the fourth is the National Republican Committee, of which fiark Hanna is chairman, and to whom the trusts, monopolies and other combinations are, furnishing the money for corrupting the minds of the people and debauching the nation. If we are to combat the evil influences at work the necessary money must be raised to defray the necessary expense thereof. We appeal to the people— the great common people—who have no interest In special legislation and whose rights and that of the common welfare are to be protected. All money collected will be paid to the national treasurer of the committee. The Union Trust Company Bank, corner Dearborn and Madison streets. Chicago. No money will be paid out except as appropriated by the committee in session deliberating upon its expenditure. We have appointed Mr. W. H. Harvey as the general manager of the work of the committee. The plan adopted and approved by the committee is to secure a subscription from as many persons as possible to pay one dollar per month for each month from now till October, 1900. Thus a person subscribing to the fund of the Ways and Means Committee in October, 1S9S. will agree to pay one dollar per month for ^wenty-five months, or in all, 525. One subscribing in November following will agree to pay one dollar each month for twenty-four months, with the last- payment due Oct 1, 1900. A subscription In December. 1S9S. means twenty-three jfayments. the last Oct 1,1SQ0. ami so on. The number of payments depends on the month and year in'which the subscription is made and all ending on the first day of October, 1900. Where one is willing and able to pay more than $1 per month, the subscription will be accepted for such Increased amount as the subscriber is willing to mahe. Where one is not able, in his judgment, to subscribe one dollar per month, he will be expected to get one or more to associate thenpselves with him Jointly In the subscription for the one dollar per month. It is the opinion of the committee that It is only in this way that the money needed can be raised-*-that it must come from the people whose rights and interests are to be protected.

a. ue uiBces oi iae committee nave been opened. at room 1044. unity Building. Chicago, where a complete set of books will be kept showing the names of all subscribers with their poteitoffice address by counties and States, and the condition of each account will at all times appear upon-these books. In no instance will solicitors be authorized to receive money. Any one soliciting subscriptions will receive no money from the subscriber, but will forward the subscription papers to the national office. The national office will notify the subscriber of the receipt of his subscription and will forward blanks governing the details of remittances to the hallonai treasurerIt Is from the sincere advocates of our cause everywhere that subscriptions to this fund for human liberty are expected, and, on the whole, a sum sufficient may be thus raised to properly present our cause to the American people: — which means success, for a just cause Is doubly strong. To those who appre- . ciate what hangs upon the impending struggle, the payment of the one dollar each month will assume an importance equal to that of love for home and children. The fund thus collected may decide for weal or woe our own fate and that of countless millions (o come after us. The selfish system of greed that has mothered the gold standard, special privileges and monopoly. 4s destroying the opportunities for the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! It is confiscating our homes and reducing the people to tenantry! It is quartering among us the agents of English money lenders who are coming into the possesion of the title to our lands and the business industries of the nation! It Is destroying human character and lowering the standard of morals and religion* It respects neither sex nor age! The babe in the mother’s arms, the aged and enfeebled, the boy just budding, into manhood are, all alike, through poverty existing or threatened, the victims of its rapacity! Honor and patriotism, a 'docent self respect and love of country demand its overthrow! Our future and that of posterity is involved! Our cause appeals to the manhood and womrsahood of America! A blank subscription form will be found herewith. We ask that each reader cut it out. fill up the blanks and send it at once to W. H. HARVEY. General Manager, Room 1044. Unity Building, Chicago. III.

JAMES K. JONES. Chairman Democratic National Committee. WM. J. STONE, Ex-Governor of Missouri. .

JOHN P. ALTGELD k , Ex-Governor of Illinois. WM. Senator froih Nebraska. HENRY M. TELLER. Senator from Colorado

PAY NO MONEY TO SOLICITORS. All Money is Payable to Treasurer of the Committee Only For the purpose of promoting the. cause at Bimetallism and of carrying on the necessary work to overthrow the un-American and corrupt5 gold standard domination of this country, imd, la consideration of the fact that others are making similar subscriptions for this purpose. I hereby agree to pay to THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, composed of Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas; ex-Governor Wm. J. Stone, of Missouri; ex-Governor John P. Alt geld, of Illinois; Senator Wm. V. Allen, of Nebraska, and Senator Henry M. Teller, of. Colorado, and their successors, the following sums, to wit; One dollar for the present month, and one dollar for the first day of each succeeding month, to and including the first day of October. A. B, huO; in ali.. payments of one dollar each. This money to constitute a special fund, to be paid out only on the approval and order of said committee. .(Signature) DATE.............. POSTOFFICE.... . STREET NUMBER.... COUNTY..... 0 STATE.—.. POLITICS. Name of paper this was cut out of. Cut out. fill up blanks and mail to W. H. Harvey. General Manager . 1044 Unity Building. Chicago. III. On receipt of the subscription, directions wHi be sent you how tcyremit.

MANKIND NOT DOOMED. * Economic Equality and Liberty May Be Regained. WHERE FREEDOM FINDS A HOME. _ Power mmd Property «■-«-« Not Be Allowe# to Be CoMeatnM la Ue Hands •r a Few—A Small Perceatai* of Population Governs This Conakry— Despotism Versus Popular Oorernmeat. “All history,rt Holt says, “tells ns the same story of the ultimate failures of republics to do any better than hare monarchies and despotism. For a very little while there was satisfaction and peace; then came wretchedness among the masses, revolts, wars and lapses into despotism. In truth history shows us that the longest period of satisfaction, peace and general happiness , among mankind have been experienced "under despotism, and why so? Because for a time the despot ruled by almost universal consent and fairly represented the whole people. For it cannot be doubted that whether one man be chosen by the people or many men the will of the people in the choice governs all the same. It is popular government in the start just the same and to exactly the

saiue extent. Gibbon says if he were called on to select any period when mankind enjoyed greatest comfort he would select the long reign of Augustas Csesar. All free men had their rights. Justice and mercy prevailed. Even the Jews, who for ages had been persecuted and banned everywhere, were guarded by his firm and kindlyTranth—the only ruler that ever treated them jnstily, says Philo. The cause of failure under all government is, firstly, no government has ever been permanently founded on the will of the people. Individuals have been placed in the rule by the voice of the people, but after that the rnle has fallen into the haiids of the few by the very laws of existence. Take France and the United States for examples. Who are the voters? Only the; males that are of age—in effect, one-setenth of the people. Now the real rulers are the lawmakers, and here tbei&e are selected by ,one-seveuth theoretically. But praeti-= caliy only a majority of the one-seventh select the representatives. So we are far from being a government by the people. Examining still clojier, who of this oae-fonrteenth do the real selecting or choosing of the law? Look around you., Who does tbe nominating on the average? A few party bosses. Yes. So our government by the people is really a government by a few party bosses and lobby members not the one-thousandth of the people. Under these circumstances it is only a question of time when all the power falls into the hands of the^Jvery few. The richest, fairest parts of the earth have thus become the that this Ishould^ be the case. Na A wider study shows that there are exceptions. If yon would know where these are, ycu must go to the soil and climes which by their repulsiveness have excluded the luxury loving and avariciously cunning. High up ill the Alps and other mountain regions are great valleys where the people have always lived in comfort and content and perfect equality. No one has beta tempted to monopolise more of the rough, unfertile soils than he could personally manage. No laws have ever been enforced that could gradually piac$ all the means of life into the possessions of a few. Amid such regions no cue is poor, no one very fich. It is tn> re that the spirit cf liberty and the example of equality have ever lived, and it is from these heights that the spirit of liberty has so ofteu descended, like their own avalanches upon the slumbering worlds below, creating universal crash and consternation. And it is because of the existence of these com inanities and because history is forever pointing to them that the assertion made by rascals and credited by fools hat mapkind is ^doomed forever to live amid tueir hells of property and crime contrasting with other hells of luxury, riot and licentiousness have not found universal and despair creating belief. Get Mill’s “Political Economy” and read bock second, volume 1, if you would learn of these communities. Truly he says by way of introduction, if as much pains as have been taken by us fo aggravate the inequality of mankind bud been taken to moderate it*, if diffusion instead of concentration of property had been favored by law, how* happy mankind might b$.

Polities ami Public Service, Nothing could be ruore humiliating to the comitr- than the talk of a congressional investigation of the war department, tint seaBdals may be expected wherever polities is permitted to infineirce the public service. When the president gave tua war portfolio to a man iarly unfitted for its management, in payment of-jti campaign debt and by way of promoting party interests, - he prepared the way for the exceedingly unpleasant developments which have marred the satisfaction attending the victories of the army and which will subject the government to unwelcome comments by foreign powers.—Kansas City Star. Corporations In the Saddle. The administration is entirely indifferent to criticism of its friendliness to corporations. The war has made that much plain. It is led to be callous by two considerations. One of them is that the enemy is contemptible, and consequently no blunder or mismanagement can have a very serious result. The other is^ that when electlon^day rolls around the corporations will remember those who saved them so royallyj It is too much to expect that the people will be powerful enough to prevail ter of this kind. —Twentieth <

INCOME TAX. KepnMinii to Htn a CIuum to Vote ox | a a XHxoet Tax Am.endiaext. * The adverse decision of the supreme court of the United States on the constitutionality of the income tax had the effect two yean ago to array the Democratic party in opposition to the opinion | of that court. The platform upon which Bryan and Sewall ran in 1896 and which received the support at the polls of 6,502,685 voters denounced that de- ; oision as having caused a deficit in the | federal revenue and as having “sustained constitutional objections which j had previously teen overaoled by the ( ablest judges wh«hM ever sat upon its {bench. ’’ It vrent further in demanding i that congress shall use all its constitu- | tional power, “that the burdens of tax1 ation may he equally and impartially ! laid, to the end that wealth may tear j its due proportion of the expenses of I government.” Probably no such sweeping and bold announcement of a purI pose to reverse an obnoxious indicia! decision was ever uttered by any political organization under any cot .stitntional system that ever existed. The Democrats, not having a majority of either house of congress since that famous declaration, have made no movement toward adopting in any way an j income tax policy, but Hon. Mr. Jenkins of Wisconsin, a Republican member of the house, who is an income taxer, has brought in the following proposed amendment to the federal constitution, which he proposes t-o administer to bis party associates and to ask a vote upon at the short session of next winter. It reads as follows: ‘ “The congress shall have power to levy and collect taxes both direct and indirect, but taxes both direct and indirect shall be uniform throughout the United States. ” This would appear to meet all requirements, and its meaning seems beyond the power of any court to gainsay. If adopted, it would be the sixteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States.—New York News. STAND FIRM FOR SILVER.

Gold Democrats Should Get No Place oa Democratic Tickets. There should be no compromise on the part of Democrats as to the currency problem. Men who are not sound on the “monetary question,” men who proved false to silver in 1896, men who are looking for a "new issue”—in short, all the men who have dodged the financial question or who have given aid I and comfort to the forces for gold mouoi metallism—should be required to serve in the ranks of Democracy whenever I they return to-caxup and should be given plenty of time to prove that they are no longer assistant Republicans There is, ! no question of more importance to the ! people than that of the currency. v | The Democratic party espouses the cause of the people, and it w on hi prove false to the trust if it should reward a ! gold Democrat with an office for treason to his party and the people s cause. Let Democratic leaders see to it that only ■ those men who have stood loyally by ' their guns in defense of the free coinage of silver are given recognition on Democratic tickets. This paper will cordially support all Democratic candidates who have a clear record* on this most important question, but it will not ^give aid to Republicans, by supporting gold Democrats. Monetary “reformers” are weakening at Washington. Republican congressmen fear to push the Indianapolis currency -system in the house. New is the time to make the issue clean cut and decisive. There should be no quibbling. Stand firm by i the cause of silver, and victory will be secured.—Chicago Dispatch. The Speculative Spirit. The speculativ/spirit has been one cause of our downhill. The passion for wealth has burned up our prudence and forethought. We are the most shortsighted, wasteful, shiftless and nnbusij nesslike nation that ever existed. Our business policy is to mortgage the first story to build the sccci id and the^second to build the third, and so on till the bnilding is 15 stories high, when there is a general collapse. The man who can build his house of cards the highest before it tumbles is called a man of enterprise and business ability. In six months no less than 19 of onr | railroads have Collapsed, and in the 15 days following the last election 28 banks tumbled to the ground.

Tit* Patriotic Money Shark. The Morgans, Uarnegies, Rockefellers, Drexels and i other high priests of the protection creed are organizing a gigantic steel trust, including 90 per cent of the steel works of the country i Those “patriots’* and “honor’* inen I who swathed themselves indecently in the American flag during the campaign of 1SD6 at the dictation of Hanna, who loves bis country so_well that he doesn't want it to go to war under any pretext, are organizing just in time to cinch the ! government on all sorts of contracts. | Great patriots, those money sharks!— ! Fresno Expositor. I Channccjr the Weathercock. When he was in Paris, onr own and only Chauucey Depew told the Parisians i the talk about an Anglo-American alliance Was all moonshine and that the j only country which America reaita ; loved is France, la London “the peachT* advocated an alliance between the two great English speaking nations. All of | which shows that Dr. Depew has deter- | mined to be agreeable umier any and all i circumstances.—St. Louis Republic To Guarantee, bat Kot to Issue. 1 General Green B. Rauu sums up the demands made by the monetary reformer now pressing congress in favor of the banks in one neat little sentence. He ! says the demand is “that the governi ment shall go ont of the banking bnsii neSj by ceasing to issue circulating i notes of its own, but shall remain in the banking business for the purpose of guaranteeing and redeeming the notes j of the banka " - _* • • -1. 1 \ .

REPUBLICAN CURRENCY REFORM. House bill Na 10,389, which embodies the “comprehensive and enlightened monetary legislation” declared tat in the Republican platform, is framed up- | on two principles. The first is to make gold our only ; money, strictly speaking; and the other I is to give national banks the right to i issue all currency and the power to control its volume. In my last letter I discussed their propoufion to make our silver redeemable in (gold and in thi« I wish to draw attention to the change proposed in our currency. The object which the bill seeks to a£ tain is the retirement and cancellation of the United States notes, or paper currency, and the substitution of national bank currency in its stead. The paper money of the United States, consisting of their noninterest bearing notes, amount to about $450,000,000. and by the plan proposed these shall be re* tired to let the national banks issne an equal amount of their noninterest bearing notes. That is what their notes will be, simply noninterest bearing demandt notes, which will be oar sole currency for the transaction of business. These they will loan at the usual bank rates to the people who, in borrowing money, will have to give the banks interest bearing notes for notes that bear no interest. Xne government will, by the change, thus enable the banks to reap the interest on the currency which tttey do not now have. At 6 per cent, the interest secured by the national banks oil the $450,000,000 of their cnrieudy, which will snpplant the currency of the government, will be $27,000,000 annually. Besides, this currency is to be issued on their “assets.” in the beginning the bank is required, before being permitted to issne its currency, to exchange greenbacks with the national treasury for “reserve notes,” to an amount equal to one-foorth of its capital. This is to effect the cancellation of the greenbacks, and the “reserve” notes are to be ultimately redeemed by the government in gold, thus indirectly securing the gold redemption of the greenbacks gnd their

destruction. The bank is also required to deposit bonds with the national treasury to an amount equal to the currency they issue on their ‘‘assets,’* but on these bonds they may issue, as they do now (and in addition to their “asset” currency), their: national byik notes; and the bonds may be withdrawn at the end of eight years, leaving their issue of notes and currency limited and backed only by their paid ; up and unimpaired capital In the end the result is this, that they have been allowed to create currency on their assets—issuing money up to 8Q per cent of their capital without paying a cent of tax or interest on it, and issuing to the full amount by paying 6 per cent on all money issued over the 80 per cent of the capital This is the “enlightened currency” of the Republican party for which our greenbacks are to be destroyed, ilt is true that two fnnds are established for the redemption of these bank notes. (1.) A 5 per cent gnrantee fund of gold,which each banlp shall keep on deposit for redemption of its own notes. But the notes of each bank are to be payable only at its office, and oucq^ issued they will be scattered fax and wide over the country. They will pass current, will be accepted in business, being the sole ! currency in use, and their practical redemption is not anticipated. (1) A “reserve” fund of gold is held by the national treasury into which each bank j will pay an amount equal to 5 per cent of its circulation, and this is to be used j to redeem a bank’s notes only on failure of the bank. It is, in fact, not expected that the banks shall redeem this currency. They are to be given the right to issne practically an irredeemable fiat money. Why. the batiks would close their doors at the snggestion of actual redemption. The government maintains a “gold reserve” fund of 110^900,000—often more, never less—more than 20 per cent of its demand obligations, and yet they say the government cannot maintain redemption, that' the greenbacks are a menace to our national credit, and that “the government most go out of the banking business.” And to teach ; the public and to prepare them for a “comprehensive change,” a conspiracy has been formed between the recent treasury officials and the Ixiuks, the first establishing the policy of gold redemption and the latter cornering the greenbacks and with them raiding the government and robbing it of its gold. And now, haring demonstrated that the government, with ad of its inexhaustible resources, cannot maintain gold redemption ou a 20 per cent reserve fond, they propose to do it ou a 5 per cent fund! Neither can do it. They smi-'‘ ply propose a system under which gold will be the sole money and bank notes

tfie sole currency—golil to pa'r the public debt and to measure auu fix the value of a dollar, aud their curreucy to circulate irredeemably among the people. And this currency is to be issued on their “assets.” The average man uses his assets to borrow money on; by what right shall these corporate darlings of the Republican party use their assets to create money on? Ton want money—ctfrrency. Ton take your note, secured by your assets and bearing 8 per cent interest, go to the bank and. with “bated breath and whispering humbleness.” ask them to give! you their notes backed by their assets and bearing no interest. And' why? Simply because the lgw will make these highly engraved noninterest bearing bank notes our sole currency; because the government will surrender to these institutions the constitutional privilege of issuing money. It is impossible to discuss here all the evils contemplated in this measure. A consideration'of the bill will suggest them to the Wmghtful citizen. Y this is the “currency reform”'inaugurated by the Indianapolis monetary convention, introduced in congress by Overstreet of Indiana, reported favorably by the committee on banking and currency as house bill No. 10,289. and the measure that H. H. Hanna, chairman of the Indianapolis committee says, a careful poll of the house shows will be supported bv the Republican majority in congress Are you really in favor of sued “corn-nreheiisive and enlightened monetary legislation Y t s ' ‘ i

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