Business becomes lively, and the mas
ses of the people as a whole are pros
perous when there is an increase of
money, and consequently a rise in the
general average of prices, because it
takes less of their property and labor
to pay a. given amount of debt, in
terest and taxes and they have more
to spend for the necessaries, com
forts and luxuries of life. Money is
the life-blood of business. Its issue
should not be- controlled by banking
corporations in their own interests,
but by the government in the inter
est of all the people. This is the
Populist doctrine, and until the peo
ple adopt it, they will be skinned by
the money power.—Missouri World.
“WHY THE SOUTH?”
In the course of a front page ar
ticle in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal,
on the subject of the political effect
of the rate advance, we find these
paragraphs:
“ Why have the railroads chosen to
impose upon the south rather
than some other section this increase
of rates that ■will cost the merchants
and the consumers between a half
million and a million dollars a year?
“Had they inaugurated such an ad
vance in New England or the west it
would cost Taft a million votes.
