People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — Page 5

Direct Legislation Notes.

CANADA. The Patrons of Husbandry is an organization mainly of farmers, started about four years ago on lines similar to the Farmers’ Alliance and with a radical political program. It has now spread over the Dominion, and has about 175,000 members; in the present Ontario parliament it'has fourteen out of the ninety-four members. It has fifty-five candidates for the Dominion parliament and expects to elect at least forty. It has direct legislation in full operation, as no political demand can be added to its platform by the central body till it has been voted on favorably by the local bodies, and any local body can start a demand. It soon votes on four new demands —direct legislation, porportional representation, woman’s suffrage and prohibition —and they’ll all probably go through. Many of the members favor making direct legislation the dominant issue. SWITZERLAND. Two national referendary votes have taken place since the last Record. On the last Sunday in September the proposition to make the manufacture of matches a public monopoly was rejected by about 40,000 majority. On the first Sunday in November the government’s proposal to centralize the control of the militia by taking it from the cantons and giving it to the federal government, was overwhelmingly defeated. The next Record will probably contain a detailed account of these from a Swiss gentleman. The question of establishing a national bank without any private capital or control, will soon be voted on. NORWAY. The Norwegian law of July, 1894, according to Prof. E. B. I. Gould, applies direct legislation to the liquor problem, as the question of license in any community is submitted to the direct vote of both men an women in that community. Formerly it was decided by their representatives. If the people vote for license, the licensing authorities are the magistracy acting with the formal assent of the governor. The licensing period is for five years, and by popular vote a reduction in the number of licenses may be affected at the end of this period. The bylaws under which these licensed liquor selling companies act are subject to the approval of the magistracy, municipal council and governor, and the appoint ments of bartenders and other officers are confirmed by the magistracy acd municipal council. —Direct Legislation Record. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. ’E. J. O’Connor was the first to bring the referendum before the house in a practical form, in 1893. His bill, however. met with a sorry fate, members not taking the trouble to debate its second reading, and throwing it out by a majority of thirteen in a thin house—ayes 20; nays 33. ' In 1894, whh a new house, Mr. O'Regan introduced his first bill on the subject, the members on this occasion debating the principle of the measure and finally rejecting it by a vote of twenty-four to nineteen, another thin house. Nine members. however, paired on it. This year Mr. O’Regan scored a win, the second reading of his bill being carried by twenty-eight to fourteen, there being eleven pairs, making a total of sixtyfour who recorded their opinions upon the principle of the measure; New Zealand is the first British colony in which a referendum bill has advanced so far. It has been dropped because opposed by the ministers, but will be taken up next session and urged. ENGLAND. Samuel Gompers and P. J. McGuire, the two delegates from the American Federation of Labor to the British trades union congress at Cardiff, Wales, in their report at the federation convention in New York last December, told how the British unions without knowing it by name, are to use a direct kind of direct legislation. I quote from their report: “In the congress very little, if any, new matter is brought up for consideration and action; other than such propositions which have been duly forwarded to the executive office at least six weeks before the meeting of the congress. These propositions are sent to all the organizations affiliated, which, if they desire, may forward amendments within four weeks of the congres. These propositions and amendments are sent to the delegateseleot two weeks before the meet-

ing. We are aware that our fed eration has adopted a similar measure, but we are of the opinion that until it is more generally accepted that new matter or measures which have not been regularly proposed and submitted before our conventions, we may behkely to have resolutions for which there is insufficient time for consideration, as well as consultation with the rank and file of our membership.” IS THIS FAIR? In the recent summer election in Great Britain for a-new parliament, the liberal party and its allies polled 49j per cent of the total vote and got 38f per cent of she members of parliament. The conservatives and their allies polled 50| per cent and got 61| per cent of the members. A majority of 37,000 in nearly 5,000,000 votes, or less than one per cent gives the conservatives a majority in parliament of 152 in a total of 670 members. The election of 1892 was accidentally very fair. The liberals polled 52 1-5 per cent of the vote and got 53 per cent of the members and ]the conservatives polled 47 4-5 per cent and got 47 per cent of the members. But comparing the ’95 election with that of '92, we find that the liberals lost 27 per cent of the total vote and lost 14£ per cent of the members, and the conservatives gained accordingly. The the fairness of the election of 1892 was only accidental is shown by the election of 1886 when the liberals polled 48.6 per cent of the vote and got 36.7 per cent of the members of parliament. and the conservatives polle<Dsl.4 per cent and got 60.5 per cdnt of the members. Also by the election of 1885, when the liberals polled 55.8 per cqnt but obtained 63 per cent of the members, and the conservatives polled 44.2 percent and got only 37 per cent of the members. The same thing is true about our legislatures. If each party had been represented in the fifty-third congress in proportion to the number of votes cast for that party, there would have been 153 republicans instead of 127. 164 democrats instead of 218, 31 populists instead of 9, and 8 prohibitionists instead of none. Representation does not represent. It is essentially unfair. It can be remedied by allowing the people to vote sep arately on any measure, whether it is passed by the legislature or not, which has been petitioned for by a minority of the voters substantial enough to show that it has some backing, and then letiing a majority df the people decide. This is direct legislation.—Eight Hour Herald. OKLAHOMA. Last March I was the only “Loyal American” in Oklahoma, but now I have nine county organizations. Our country is poor, and during the summer £ have camped on the open prair;e without shelter many nights. I could not find shelter, because many of our people live in dugouts< which consist of but one room. I carry a haversack made of half of a fifty-pound flour sack, slung across my shoulder, and this filled with biscuits. My pony and I share these. This summer has won Oklahoma for the A. O. of L. A. and the next legislature will my bill or a better one unanimously. We have annuals in October for each brigade. There are nine regiments in each county, and the governor and his staff and the mayor and his turned out on our annual. They all know what the referendum means now. Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease has been initiated and has accepted a commission as a national organizer and starts out soon. This winter I go into Kansas to storm the school houses. We will win there, too. COLORADO. Last fall the Denver common council was elected on the sole issue of forcing a reduction of the water company’s rates. When they got in office they did not do it. Boode was the cause, much agitation of municipal direct legislation one of the results. A tax-payers association was formed and a ticket putin the field. At convention in September the following resolution, slightly condensed, was passed: “We, the committee of one hundred, representing the taxpayer’s party, censure the methods pursued by those whom corporation influence has placed in our local offices. Such methods have brought us to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Our city is controlled by bribed and perjured agents of corporation greed, our county

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY. JAN. 3. 1896.

treasury looted, our citizens intimidated by an army of irresponsible deputies, and people held up and robbed in sight of a subsidized police force. We are promised reformat every recurring election. As vote catchers these promises have succeeded, but the elected have refused to redeem their pledges. A public office has become a public distrust a curse which a community already overburdened by taxation has been compelled to sup port, a channel through which robbery by a few powerful cor* porations is being legalized, and is using them to escape their just share of taxation.” And the third plank in their platform reads: “The securement to the people of a larger share in their own government by direct legislation. CALIFORNIA. Readers of the Record will remember the account in the June number of the adoption by the trustees of the town of Alameda of an ordinance by which they agreed; on a petition signed by 10 per centum of the voters, to submit any measure to a poll for advice. Without a change in the charter, difficult to obtain, they could not delegate the lawmaking power, The first question submitted was the addition of 20 cents to the tax levy to provide $25,000 for a public library. It was carried. But behold, some of the trustees did not want to follow the advice of the people. Public-spirited citizens had to get up a big mass meeting to overawe their own trus : tees before they would carry out the will of the people. Advisory referendum is good if you can’t get any better, but the vote of the people should be final.

A Wall Street Black List.

The New York bankers have prepared a black list of the U. S. senators who displease them, and have sent word to the republican and democratic committees of eighteen states notifying the committees of their displeasure. The republican and democratic conventions hereafter must submit their nominations to Wall street for confirmation. A better way perhaps would be for Wall street to furnish the nominations for both parties in the first place. The following are the blackened names: Democrats—August O. Bacon, Ga.; William B. Bate, Tenn.; James F. Berry, Ark.; Joseph S. C. Blackburn, Ky.; Wilkinson Call, Fla.; Horace Chilton, Texas; Francis M. Cockrell. Mo.; John W. Daniels, Va.; James Z. George, Miss.; Isham G. Harris, Tenn.; John T. Morgan, Ala.; William N. Roach, N. D.; George G. Vest, Mo.; Daniel W. Voorhees, Itfd.; David Turpie, Ind. Republicans—Lucien Baker, Kan.; James Donald Cameron, Pa.; John H. Mitchell, Oregon; George C. Perkins, Cal.; Richard F. Pattigrew, S. D.; Henry C. Hansbrough, N. D.; Francis E. Warren, Wyo.; Clarence E. Clark, Wyo.—Joilet, (Ill.) News.

Danger of the Trusts.

Mayor Pingree, of ’Detroit, not a populist, but a republican, in a speech made a few days ago at Ypsilanti, spoke as follows regarding trusts. We commend it to the consideration of our republican friends, and hope they will ask themselves what their party is doing to save the country from such dangers: ‘.‘A trust fears neither God nor man. It is merciless and arrogant. It laughs at the law. Whenever the officers of the government have dared to prosecute a trust, the proceedings of the court read like a farce. The time will come, if things continue as at present, when the profits of the merchantile business of the United States will go to less than 100 persons, and all others will act sifnply as agents and consumers “These vast accumulations of wealth are more dangerous to the liberties of our republic than if all the anarchists, socialists and nihilists of Europe were let loose on our shores. It will not mend matters, nor can it stifle the conscience of those who, after having become wealthy by robbery and wrong doing, try to compromise with the Almighty by endowing a university or building a library. These will be but monuments to tell future generations that the income of such a man was 810,000,000 a year, and that to reach this figure he had desolated more homes and ruined more men than Goth of Vandal. The poor and honest laborer is more to be envied than such a man.—Progressive Farmer.

BEHIND THE SCENES.

An Allfgorital Conference of the Old Forty Leaders. Sherman: The two living fundamental principles free trade and protection—have kept our two parties alternately in in power for the last twenty years. You gentlemen of the south have enjoyed the honors and emoluments of office on account of your devotion to free trade. We of the north have been especially aggrandized and enriched by our devotion to pft>tection. As long as we can make this the paramount issue our parties are safe. But these are perilous times. The passage of the tariff bill at the last session threatened the destruction of both otour parties by the loss of our main issue. The skill of Mr. Reed and his friends at the other end of the Capitol have furnished a way out. They have sent us two bills—a bond bill and a tariff bill. The bond bill is not of the slightest consequence. Nobody wants it, the Rothchilds are opposed to it, and why should we be for it? But is will serve a good purpose. We are on the finance committee. Let the bond bill be reported, and you put your free coinage amendment on that. When it comes into the senate all free coinage men can vote for it and make free coinage speeches on it for home consumption, because it will do no harm and aid them at home. When it is passed through the senate that is the end of it. In that way our friends both in the west and south who must be for free coinage to come here, will have given evidence of the faith that is in them and will have made themselves solid with their constituents. The tariff is the important question to keep before the people, because onehalf of them are educated to free trade and the other half to high protection, and it is very easy to make them fight on that issue, and when they get to fighting on on that issue they will forget all others as they have for the last twenty years. The silver men of the west can very well vote against putting silver on the tariff bill, because that bill gives them protection on wool, lead, lumber and coal, which the peo j pie of the west attach much importance to, and with their votes we can keep the tariff clean from any amendment, and then there will be a fair issue on the tariff between you of the south and us of the north, as it has been from the beginning, and it is easy to fire the American heart on that issue. Without that issue the populists would take the country, and consequently I have called this caucus for the purpose of deteripining a policy for the committee. Harris: You have spoken wisely. We must use both silver and the tariff in my country or the “Populi” will snow us under. ’ The people are in earnest about silver, but they are getting a little of the tariff which has done them no good, and we have got to be vociferous for silver. We will vote for silver on all the bills and denounce any man that votes against it, and we are forced to be particularly severe on alt of you good standard men, which you always pard?on on account of our common motive to keep our parties in-line. Aldrich: I fully concur with all that is said by my brother from Ohio and rfiy dear friend from Tennessee. We must keep the tariff issue alive or both of our parties will die. There is no other issue upon which we can divide the people and prevent them from joining the populists and overthrowing our friends in Wall and Lombard streets. Everything is at stake in raising the war cry of freedom over the tariff. On that the north and south have always come together with a great crash that attracted the attention of the whole country. Let us strip the tariff bill of all embarressment by the plan suggested in the wise remarks of the senator from Ohio I agree. Jones (of Arkansas:) I am surprised to find my sentiments echoed and re echoed by each one of you. Arkansas is in a perilous condition. The populists are in earnest for silver, and our people are in earnest, and the only way we can get their votes and keep the democratic party alive, is to make them think we are really for silver, which we cando on the plan suggested by Mr. Sherman. The plan suits me exactly. CarIry out that program. Voorhees: I have always been profoundly impressed with the wisdom and patriotism which has developed in these joint cau-

cuses. They reflect the essence of good sense and statesmanship of both of our parties. And theirs combined is the highest wisdom which the republic or any other country on earth can produce. I am so thoroughly convinced that the senator from Ohio is sincere in all he says, and that he speaks the truth on all occasions, that I can without hesitation indorse anything he may say, in advance. I have equal confidence in my associates on the committee, and I am delighted that they follow the wise counsel of the great senator from the state adjoining my own. I have found it during my entire political life to be advantageous proper, and wise to be for every sound principle. I am for the | single gold standard and I am for the free coinage of silver. I am for a high tariff and I am for a low tariff. lam for free trade and I am for protection but I only use one of these principles at a time.

Allison: I would have made some suggestions earlier in the debate, but my sentiments were so well expressed by all of you that it seemed unnecessary to say anything. I am a bimetallist and. x am for the free coinage of silver whenever Great Britain says the word. I am apprehensive, however, that it would be unpleasant to Wall street for me under the present circumstances to vote for free coinage or any bill presented; but I can see the great propriety in having a bill upon which afree coinage amendment can be placed voted for and against without offending anybody, that is, those who have been in the habit of voting that way. As for the tariff issue, I have always been in favor of that issue, and I have judiciously balanced on that issue to the entire satisfaction of the people of lowa. I and x no difficulty is adapting my course to what fren traders there are in my state and those who are protectionists. They understand me. I harmoize these matters and that is the way to do. Now with the tariff issue in the next campaign as the paramount issue, we can sort of harmonize all our silver friends and protection friends in our party, and you can harmonize all your free trade men and all your free silver men in your party, and we will continue to remain in power and see to it that the conservative, liberty-loving sentiments of Walland Lombard streets are not outraged.—Progressive Farmer.

The Peoples Party.

The most important meeting the reform forces have ever held in this country was that which met at the Lindel Hotel in St. Louis last Friday morning. It was strictly a business meeting of business men, and they went about their work in a business way. All seemed to realize that the day of mere sentiment with the peoples party is over, and that henceforth it must take upon itself the responsibilities of a great political party, a shaper of the destinies of a great country. Even the great news papers, the men of business and wealth, and the city officials seemed to share this feeling, and attention was paid to the meeting that was never accorded the peoples party before. We need not discuss the meeting at length. That has been done by the daily papers. Suffice ittosay that it did its work well. The national convention will meet soon after the two old parties will have held their conventions. It wilt invite all honest people who desire the overthrow of the present ruinous policy as carried out by both of the old parties, and who are willing to unj te in an effort to se - cure prosperity once more for our country and people. The basis of representation is so fixed that not only all sections of the country will be fairly represented, but the peoples party votes will be represented in such a way as to give them deserved power, and so that no interest or section can dominate the convention. The old party manipulators regard this meeting with keener dread than any that has yet been held —Progressive Farmer.

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Tyler; and all the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees and all the unknown heirs devisees and legatees of the unknown heirs devisees and legatees of each and every of said defendants. Be it remembered, that on this 6th day of January A. I). 1896, the above named plaintiff by Schuyler C. Irwin his attorney died in the office of the clerk of said court his complaint against said defendants and also the affidavit of a competent person, that said defendants are non-residentsof the State of Indiana, said non-resident defendants are therefore hereby notified of the penddncy of said suit, and that said cause will stand for trial at the March term of sal<l court, 1896, to-wlt: on the 16th day of March 1806. Witness, my hand and the seal of said Court, affixedat office in Rensselaer, on this Sth day of January A. D. 1896. Wm. H. Coo vbr Clerk.

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