People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

other farm products in proportion. There was a time that two bushels of wheat would bring four dollars, oats fifty to seventy cents per bushel; rye one dollar per bushel; and cattle that will now sell for from one to three dollars per hundred pounds would sell from three to six dollars per hundred, but that was when there was sufficient money in circulation to do tho business ( of the country. Give us plenty of money and farm products will again bring good prices and the farmer will be prosperous as in the past, previous to the distruction of the greenback and the demonetizing of silver.

The Pilot had a small bill before the commissioners this week for printing programs for the teachers’ institute —work given the county superintendents office. When the bill was brought up before the commissioners Boss Tabor sent a messenger after Superinlenent Warren, and upon his arrival thiscock-of-the-roost asked Mr. Warren if the bill was all right and why the work was given the Pilot. Mr. Warren replied the bill was correct and if the commissioners refused to pay it, the bill would be paid out of his own pocket. The commissioners then allowed the bill, with the intimation that in the future the superintendent’s work should be taken to the “ring organ” down the way. When Geo. E. Marshall presented a bill of over S3OO for printing the election tickets in the Republican, work which he would have gladly done for S4O or SSO, and which heretofore he has published as news without compensation, Boss Tabor saw that bill was allowed immediately. Thus is the tax-payers’ money squandered.

Which party predominated in the struggle for the maintainance of our government. —Republican. Abraham Lincoln, the best and purest president since Washington, aided by .the strongest and wisest cabinet ever selected by any president, directed the affairs of state during that great struggle—the most critical period in our national history. Abraham Lincoln was elected by the Republican party and to the Republican party of 1860—65 belongs the credit of suppressing the greatest rebellion of modern times. But the Republican party of 1860—65 is very different from the Republican party to-day. The party of Lincoln was untainted in its purity, the party of Harrison steeped in corruption, a stench in the public mostril. The Republican party of Lincoln advocated a government es the people, by the people and for the people—the Republican of the present, a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. The Republican party of to-day can not steal the laurels from the Republican party of Lincoln. Lincoln’s cabinet, with one exception, left the Republican party and joined the opposition. Should all their great achievements be left behind or should it go with them? The Republican party of Lincoln was murdered shortly after his assassination and by the hands of the professed friends, the plutocracy, which controls the Republican party of to-day. Three stars in the Republican has prepared a list of questions which he wishes every good, honest thinking Democrat and Populist to study carefully and answer “as answering his own soul.” As the greater number of these interrogatories are aimed directly at the Democrats, and as we do not feel called upon to defend their position, or fight their battles, we leave them for the Democrats to answer. In the following, however, he touches the key-note of the position of every Populist in the land. “Was there ever a time in the history of this country, when a dollar would purchase as