People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Our Conditlen. [ARTICLE]

Our Conditlen.

Mr. Editor: It seems as though enough had been said by the reform press of this country to teach the people that about the only reason they have to vote their old party is to beat the other fellows. The intentions of the masses of the people are for a union of interests, but they allow predjudice to overcome convictions. They allow Wall street to dictate the financial policy -without investi- j gat ion. Both old parties are alike on all questions of importance to the people. The only point of difference is tha tariff ] and offices. Alike on the fund-! jng system. Both alike guilty I in giving away our western domain. Blaine entered congress in 1863 and remained there until 1881. From 1863 to 1871 con-

gress gave away 296,000,000 acres of the public lands to railroad corporations and every one of these gifts Blaine supported. He never had a word to say about taking back the unearned land grants. As oft times i&id one great robbery of the people was the enactment of the credit strengthening act. Mr. O. P. Morton said a man that would ask gold for his bonds after buying them with greenbacks worth only 66 cents on the dollar was a repudiator and extorationer. Then John Sherman and others of his party got the credit act through. Such statesmen patterned their policy from Mr. Doubleday. of England, and his own father told him he made himself rich, but you have ruined your country. Reader unless you are very wealthy you must admit the race is uneven. Amount of public debt paid in interest. Three fifths of the people mortgaged for every dollar they control. Most every state in the Union in bonds and personal mortgages on the increase. I refer you to our own state department. There never was a time when a dollar had as great purchasing power as now (except the hog dollar). That class holding the money of the country never had the power of money under their control as today. Money to be cheap should be plentiful. Oh, says some Rebel Band or National Banker or some of his school, “You will depreciate the currency of the country again.” Listen, a full legal tender dollar, I care not what the material made of, never depreciated a mill since God turned the first two rascals out. As long as the government was a compact that issued them, not a dollar of our greenbacks that went down was made a full legal tender, I must say I sometimes get angry when I see the treason practiced upon the people for the last twenty-five years in all the legislative halls and see the people, 1 must say, with willful ignorance, submit to the laws that are dictated by the men i hat care for no realm on earth. England once had one hundred and fifty thousand land owners, now less than thirty thousand. Under our policy it will increase until our domain is gone; then under our present alien laws money and transportation acts in a decade or two here it will be billionaires and millionaires. Eastern money loaning companies owning endless domains of mortgaged and enclosures occupied by tenants. All this in harmony with an English system of finance and land lordism. Then will unborn generations look around lapon the monuments of such men as Jefferson, Jackson, Webster and Lincoln. Then they will turn to history and see what kind of a policy those men taught. Then like some far off fairyland or dream try in the imaginations of the human mind to conceive what a Republican form of government -was when a primitive precedent could cast a ballot along side of the bond holders and money lender. Then will they exclaim, my dead countrymen, Oh, my dead countrymen, why did you not with the ballot keep the feet of the Goddess of Liberty on the neck of the old serpent monarchy ? George O. Pumphrey,