People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — HERE YOU ARE! [ARTICLE]

HERE YOU ARE!

They Will Come Together if Need lie and »B*l»'iee All” U Necessary—Feats Till* la Yoar Hat. The two old parties will pursue their own course, and the Farmers’ Alliance will pursue its path until enough of its members recover from their mid-sum-mer madness, when the organization will crumble to pieces as the old oathbound secret know nothing party did. If it should appear that there was real danger of the people’s party holding together long enough to do great mischief, the democrats would unite with the republicans, from whom they differ chiefly on the tariff and offices, and the two would fight against a common enemy. When that job was ended the two parties would separate and resume their dispute on the tariff os of old. ---Chicago Tribune (Rep.). To this may be added this additional testimony from the foremost republican int tho nation. Ex-Secretary of State James G. Blaine, of Maine, two months before the recent election wrote in the North American Review as to the similarity of the republican and democratic platforms: “It is interesting and suggestive to look over the platforms of the two parties and see how much they are alike. In parallel columns they read: “That the republicans favor bimetallism and dollars of equal value. “That the democrats favor bimetallism and dollars of equal value. “Both are in favor of a'navy. “Both are in favor of building the Nicaragua canal. “Both are opposed to trusts and demand more rigid laws against them. “Both are in favor of restricting immigration. , “Both are hostile to Chinese immigration. “Both are in favor of public education. “Both are hostile to any attempt of union of church and state. “Both are in favor of making congressional provision for the world's fair. “Both are in favor of civil service reform. “Both are in favor of admitting the territories at the earliest possible moment “Both sympathize with the Russian Jewß. “Both are in favor of granting pensions. “Both are in favor of river and harbor improvement “Both would avoid any entangling alliance in our foreign policy. “Out of this long platform the measures on which the parties really differ (not much) are the tariff, reciprocity," the tax on state banks, and the force bill, if the force bill can be regarded as a party measure when so large a number of the republicans do not favor It" The ex-secretary might have carried the likeness much further.

Both are in favor of modern banking —one national banks and the other state banka Both are in favor of repealing the tax on all banks. Both are opposed to United States government isSUB of money. Both are opposed to further issue of money except through banka Both are opposed to the free coinage of silver. Both propose that tariff shall pay more of the revenue. Both stand in with Wall streei and London Shylocka Both are opposed to an income tax of any sort Both we in favor of the workingman and the farmer. Both conspire to rob them (the producers), and Both denounce each other in extensa Both have no issues worth a tally that have not a money background for the few. Both are deceivers, hypocrites, demagogues and prevaricators, and the truth is a stranger to all the leaders from ocean to ocean. Both are managed and manipulated by corporation lawyers—think over the leaders’ names and see. Vote the “regular” ticket “Brave boys are they who come at the party’s call," and yon woa’t have a shirt to your back in five years from now.—H. W. J., in Columbus (0.) Farmers’ Union.