People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Not Surprising. [ARTICLE]

Not Surprising.

More money and less bonds. No doubt but. Tabor is the man and that wisdom will perish with him. If Oliver Perry Tabor's abilities equaled his pretensions, wouldn’t he be a stunner? The People's party alone stands demanding that silver shall be treated as money and not as a commodity. Not a corporation thief in the nation has or will be disturbed by the transfer of power from the Republicans to Democrats. The Democratic reform legislature, of Indiana, began its reform movement by wasting nine thousand dollars on needy, but worthless Democrats.

Forty thousand children go to school breakfastless in London. If our Democratic friends were over ihtre they would remedy that by reducing the tariff. Jim Fippen, the sonorous member of the Indiana legislature friur. ill-- “coon belt” got his so!' appointed a page. That m< Uns more drinks for Jim. Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. How about spending nine thousand dollars in creating unnecessary places for deadbeat Democratic heelers? Republicans complain because Senator Moon got all his relatives in positions and some more

places for the rest of mankind. Pshaw, the stupid fellows, don't they know that a moon must always be full before it will change. Tabor didn't say much.—Republican. How thankful we all ought to be that this boanerges was mostly silent, and thereby ..a cataclysm was avoided. We like Tabor the silent so much belter than Tabor the garrulous. A celebrated divine of Chicago, says: There are 500,000 heathens m that city. Add to that the same number of rascals that profess to be Christians, a id you dill have a field that requires all the missionary labor of all the churches. “The world do move,” for Governor Ait e d, of Illinois, in his inaugural address, recommends that cities own and oper ale their own waterworks, gas plants, electric light plants and street railways. This is People’s party doctrine, pure and simple. What we have accomplished is not measured by the vote we cast, great as that was.

When Governor Altgeld urged the legislature of Illinois to make a just apportionment, he should have gone a step further and warned them if they didn’t that he would veto the measure. This gerrymander business has become a national disgrace.

Money lenders, manufacturers of wheeled wares, and lawyers are schemers for new road laws. The money mongers want new investments, the manufacturers increased sales and the lawyers new fields of litigation. Against the xvhole scheme the People’s party presents a solid front. No more bonds, no more debt but more money and better prices.

The threat of young Republicans, that mossback cussedness must take a back seat, is not bearing the promised fruit to any great extent. Quay, the unsavory, Stockbridge, the spawn of protracted lumber interests and Davis, the national bank pet, have all been re-elected as members of the society of associated money bags. Come, young Republicans, better work than that.

As the county treasurer has made no change in his notice of tax levies we understand there was no misprint and that it is really 3 cents on the SIOO for gravel road repair. White county, with 48 miles of gravel road, is only taxed 3 cents, just the same as we pay on 6 miles. Perhaps we should not complain so long as we are only taxed six or eight limes higher than our neighbors.

We publish the following as a sample of that detestable flunkeyism that characterizes the plutocratic press and pulpit. •‘Whether oil is as cheap as it can be, or whether it might be made lower in price if a thousand manufacturers were at work in place of one; whether small dealers have failed through the .success of one great one; whether John D. Rockefeller may or may not be what they call a “bloated monopolist,” he spends his money like a philanthropist,, and a royal one at that. He seems to believe with Andrew Carnegie, that “the man who dies rich is disgraced.”— Rev. John N. Mills.

Of all contemptible, inconsistant, dyed-in-thd-wooj partisan sheets that we have access to, the Chicago Evening Post is the most detestable. It supports Democracy all the time, constantly in an unfair way opposes the People’s party, and yet favors municipal ownership and operation of all public necessities —People’s party principles, even goes further and demands the same national necessities, goes further and demands shorter hours of labor that all may be employed, and if that don’t cure our political ills it demands co-operation under national control.

Roman civilization was destroyed by Germanic nations. They were barbarians, but they had well developed bodies and sound minds and therefore were susceptible of civilizing influences. But the barbarians that we are breeding in the slums of cities to destroy our civilization, are of a different type. Raised in poverty and half fed, they are not capacitated mentally or physically for improvement. Add to this the most vicious surroundings from infancy up and you can form some idea of the material out of which your civilization, when once destroyed, is to be rebuilt. Stop, men, and think.

The following is from a letter in the State Sentinel written by Gilbert H. Hendren, of Bloomfield, Green county, upon the expensiveness and lack of uniformity of fees in our election machinery: ” “For illustration,” says the writer, “in this county members of the election board in the north precinct of ’Beech Creek township got $38.50, in which there were 225 votes cast.

The members in the South precinct, of the same township, with 143 votes, got $54.35. In Washington township. West precinct, 283 votes cast, t 34.50, and East precinct, same township, 191 votes cast, 152.85. Richland township, South precinct, 203 votes, $59.85, and West precinct, same township, 264 votes, 446.90.

Fifty thousand dollars per year could be saved by a uniform and equitable system of fees for members of the election boards. The total election expenses in this county in 1888 was 4616.65, and for 1892 it was 42,209.18, being $1,592.53 more than in 1888, and counting this an average county it would cost the state $146,512.76 more than

it was in 1888. The plan of voting is right, I would not change a letter, but the red tape should be cut off. Repeal the section requiring the-publi-cation of sample ballot in newspapers, which will save about $75,000 each election, and establish a uniform, economical and equitable system for the same fees for the same work of members of election boards and $50,000 more will be saved, and by so doing the election in a presidential year in Indiana will not cost to exceed $25,000 more than under the old law. No or e would then complain of the b'_>st system of voting on the facr of the earth.”

We think here is something calling loudly for reform. The Sentinel is opposed to any changes being made t?o correct these irregularities, o‘r to lessen these unnecessary ex penses. L says to its Green county correspondent “let’s talk tariff; your county pays, by reason of the tariff, annually, $680,000 government tax/'’ Green county taken as an average shows ejection expenses exceedingly high, but if Jasper is taken as an average, they will appear much higher, for when it comes to high priced elections, Jasper lays, Green in the shade by shout $lO to the precinct.

Rev. Martin, of Chicago, says there are five hundred thousand heathens in that city. A heathen is one who has no knowledge of God. Chicago is full of ministers who pretend to preach of God and his ways. What is that, unholy influence that drives men, women and children from where they may learn of God and His ways. Greed, everlasting greed, that greed that eats up the substance of the poor. Men won’t go to a church that will accept gifts from such a thief as Rockefeller and we Jionor them for it. When Chic%g??\nreachers and. professors of religion preach and practice the religion of the Nazarine then will Chicago have less heathens.