People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

—The people’s party stretches out its right hand of feUowship to the trades unionists and begs for the privilege of aiding them to secure their just demands. —The people's party of Wisconsin is growdng. In the spring elections it carried La Crosse, Ashland, Merrill and Hudson, and polled a very large vote in Oshkosh, the only cities in which municipal tickets had been placed in nomination by the people’s party. —While Cleveland is building up and consolidating a modernized Hamiltonian federal party, the Jeffersonian democrats and Lincoln republicans, north and south, are preparing to defeat this new mongrel federalist party in 1890. Shelbyville (Ill.) People's Paper. —Do the laboring men see the chains that are being forged for them? Every laborer, no matter what his calling, who stands aloof from labor organizations, is helping to forge the chains with which corporate greed will bind the masses.—Journal of Agriculture. —Those who havo fixed incomes, or annuities, as a matter of course favor a gold basis—their income buys more. However, since such people produce nothing and add nothing to the world, but live off the labor and thrift of others, let their wishes in this silver struggle be the last ascertained. Give labor the right to fix what they should bestow’ upon those who labor not.— Road. —Here’s to our friends in Cleveland, 0. At the late city election the candidate for mayor on the people’s party ticket, Gen. Ed. S. Meyer, received over 5,000 votes. In 1878 Cleveland polled 6,045 reform votes, but through sell-outs and fusionists they dwindled to about 200. The recent vote shows that Cleveland (the city) is on the right road and in the middle of it, too.—National Advance.

—Do you recall how the fraudocratio democrats made the w’elkin ring about the force bill? Of course you do. Do you recall tho fact that Cleveland's premier was the advocate of a force bill that was so ultra that even the republican party did not indorse him? Yet this force bill advocate is the premier of the present administration. Mr. Fraudoerat, where are you at?—Alliance Herald. —“Financial lunacy” consists in believing that a currency that vibrates with taery cashier’s “imprudence” and collapses with every, smash-up of a bank, can be improved. You are a financial “lunatic" if you declare that the law can issue and tho wisdom of men (honest men) regulate the volume of money—that is if you mind what the sarcastic dally newspapers say.—Granite Falls (Minn.) Reform Advocate. —The present and coming social crisis in this country is the result of an attempted seizure of the government and of the country by a plutocratic revolution, and of the resistance of the people to the attempted usurpations. One phase of this crisis is the open, brazenfaced attempt to prostitute the militia service to the interest of the plutocrats against those who resist them, and the boycotting of the militia service by the workingmen is the response of tho people to this attempt.—New Nation. —The “unearned increment" on acres is the value that attaches to them on account of the growth of the community built on them. It is rent (or increased price, which is rent). The unearned increment on dollars is the value that attaches to them by reason of the growth of the community in which they circulate, or by the export or holding out of use of some of them. The unearned increment on dollars is measured by interest (or increased purchasing power, which is interest). — Spokane Industrial World. —At the late city election held in Oakland, Cal., there were four tickets in the field—the municipal league, people’s party, democratic and republican. The municipal league ticket, with the exception of treasurer and auditor, was successful, the two offices named being captured by the populists, who polled' over 2,300 votes—a gain of 1,000 votes since the general election. The republican and democratic tickets were “not in it.” The Oakland Populist had a picture of a rooster in the succeeding issue, crowing over the result. —Americans do not stand alone in opposition to monometalism. One hundred and forty-eight members of the British house of commons voted against it, with 229 in favor. But England is the creditor nation of the world, and to it contraction of the currency is increase of wealth. America, under misrule of the old parties, has become a debtor country. Its people, states, counties, cities and nation, owe English capitalists. To the United States contraction of the currency means panic and destruction. —San Francisco People’s Press. —The Minneapolis Times has discovered through a correspondent of the New York Post who has been studying the “populist movement” in the west, that said movement is due to “a rapid and general spread of socialistic doctrines. ” Bellamy ism is the rage!” And on top of its discovery the Times “hopes” that the course of the present “reform” administration will be such that “political thought may by 1893 have returned to its normal channels.” This is not the language of progress. The Times is looking through the big end of the political telescope.—Granite Falls Reform Advocate. v —The Toledo decisions in the Ann Arbor railway strikes cases are astounding to many people, but like thunder claps they may clear the skies. We believe they are good law. Under present industrial systems man is a mere chattel. He has no more right to obstruct commerce than one has to lay a log of wood across a railway track. What is humanity that it should interrupt even the flow of dollars into thfe pockets of capitalism? Men are even less entitled to consideration than beasts. They are a part of the machinery of commerce. If the decisions arouse working men from their lethargy before it is too late, they will serve a more useful purpose than was intended.—Aberdeen (8. IX) Star.

Remember that our expenses heavy, and must be met with -sh. The people say we are •taking the best paper ever pubshed in Jasper county, and cer . inly deserve support. One ollar per year from each of our übseribers, promptly paid, will! nable us to add still further im- J :rivements. When in town 11 j •ou havn't already been in, don't j .'orget to remember us a dollar's'] vorth. If you are not already a < subscriber you are losing one cl ; ife's golden opportunities. So] just come in and subscribe.

Austin & Co., com])osed of \V. lb Austin, A. 11. Hopkins, and Geo. K. Hollingsworth will loan you money on personal, mortgage, or chattel security for I nyg or short time at local bank rates. These loans can be paid buck at any time, and an; moredesirable than bank' loans bocu > -:c interest is rebated. We h.;, .: unlimited capital and can accommodate everybody. 29-fit. Wouldn’t business get up and hum if Ivnox had a few factories that pal'd oust S-I.OuO or bo, 000 fifontuly in wages'.- The streets would be fairly blockaded Saturday nights with people trying to get. into stores and groceries to do their trading. The thing for business men to do is to get together and do something. They will reap the first benefit and should be the first to set the bail in motion. If business isn’t worth striving for it isn't worth having.—Knox Republican. A similar argument is applicable here.

’The following tenth district a ointments for postmaster have been made upon Congressman Hammond’s recommeudaBuffalo, White county, 1. H. Malone; Burnett’s Creek, IV hi to, W. H. York; Deer Creek, ■- roil. ,j. W. Stone; Denham, i ’ •1 as id, A. F. V urpil! at; Fu 1 ton. : .Vi. v'tood: Certuany, Fulton, ’• ibcody; Grant, Fulton, L. T. Hank man; Koutz, Porter, J. K. ‘h-. m; Halve Station, Lake, J. op on nuan; Lieroy, Lake, W. H. ds;m; Tiosa, Fulton, H. A. Folto; Wheeler, Porter, li. A. 'Gof. B aness men get letter heads end envelopes printed for §2.50 per thousand and sometimes even less; the county pays more than twice that amount. Busines: , men can have an advertise-

li'C'i.o inserted <one week in ; ' n y paper in the county for k the county pays >'ls or six : imes as much, and so on thr ugh the whole list. The con missioners can get the public printing done for less than one-half what they now pay if they want to, and can save the tax payers of the county thousands of dollars each year in cost of printing alone if they war:! to.—Carroll Co. Citizen. The thing for some local merchrms to do is to display as mu :n eaterprns • in advertising as 1 neir city con: pet i tors display. Dori ‘ expect your home pcmer to pren, *n “pair.mine homo iiidustr:!' -. and to refuse the advert tining of these Indianapolis and Chicago houses which pay gilt-edged prices, while you witnnold your patronage from th‘. m, refuse to patronize any paper except *oi! your party, or beat down prices regardless of circulation or cosh In other words, don't try to make a door me: out of the eountry publisher. Tr "n i;'«e editor, like the worm, *- •* tiii’u. —C*fib r ji’-** Nt'V’ Era. Most persons say that the horse is more valuable than the mule, but recent bulletins of the agricultural department set forth that the average mule in this country is worth *7o.(‘>B while the average horso is worth only Hul.tk'. Though ho lias neither hope of * posterity nor pride of ancestry, the average mule has two advantages over the average horse—he can kick more rapidly and can be sold for more cash. Horses seem to be Fay down in price all over the

country. Even blooded horses have experienced a marked reduction in price. Street cars and bicycles are by some given as causes for this depreciation in the value of horse-flesh.—Ex.

The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith united last Saturday to make their fiftieth wedding anniversary pleasant for the old couple and sent in numerous presents of a useful nature. Uncle Henry is 79 and his wife 07 years of age. They were married in Gl2, which makes the period of their manned life hi years instead of 50, which was the supposition last Saturday. The presents were highly appreciated -y the old couple, however, and they wish to return their sincere thanks through the Pilot to the friends who did so much lo help them.

One of the best arguments for good roads is contained in a circular recently published in one of the engineering papers. It states that on the- worst earth roads, not muddy, but sandy, a horse can draw twice as much as he can carry on his back; on a tail' road three,* and one .a [ times as much; on a good rna>;<d imized road nine times as rnu< on a smooth plank road twenty live times as much; on a stone trackway thirty-three times as much, and on metal rails fiftyfour times as much. The men who use the country roads can therefore make money by improving the roads rather than by buying new horses every year or two. —Ex.

It is the easiest thing in the world to find errors in even the best regulated papers, but the mistakes are surprisingly few when one takes into consideration the time in which a paper is prepared for public inspection. The best way to get even with some of those who are given to 1 hiding fault with “newspaper English’’ and pointing out every little slip, typographical or grammatical, would be to publish letters sent in to the press in the precise shape in which they are sent —making no corrections in the spelling or the construction. Were this done we fancy that there would be less said about the slipshod style of a newspaper man.—Buffalo Commercial.

There is scarcely a person in town who has not received from one to a dozen circular letters from Chicago asking for contracts for rooms during the World’s Fair. It is safe to say that more than half of them are frauds and are to be let alone. The other half had better be treated likewise. All the Chicago papers recently published a list of these frauds and its length was surprising. Circulars from several of those mentioned have been received here. In the vicinity of Jackson park alone there are enough rooms to accommodate twice the number in

attendance at any one time; aside from these there are hotels and lodging houses in the city proper with sufficient accommodations for a half million more persons. Thomas A. Edison's individual exhibit at the World's Fair will be his latest invention, the kinetograph. This device produces what is seen. It is to the eye what the phonograph is to hie ear. A mechanical retina.

which stores away*a living picture to be reproduced in all its action, ejrery movement faithfully shpwu at any time and in any place. With the kinetograph it is possible to show in Chicago, Chauncey Depew delivering a speech aboard the flagship, Chicago, in New York harbor. Not a photograph of arrested action, but the living man, his every gesture, the play of expression on his face, the movement of his lips and the distended grins of his auditors as they applaud a witty sentence. Smoke the Mendoza cigar For sale everywhere,

The Rochester Republican observes; During an experience of thirty-seven years in the printing business we have observed that men who do not possess an unusual degree of positiveness, adhesiveness and pugnacity do not succeed as editors or publishers of public journals. These qualities are not only necessary to defend an editor against the officious politician and the office holder who attempt to dictate a line of policy, but the know-all subscriber who wants his political, religious or social ideas made very prominent in each issue. If an editor of a country paper is not endowed with an ability to stand at the head of the procession he will soon find himself embracing a sorrowful dilemma. Look back over the record of the editors who have lived and labored in Rochester and you will observe the cause of the failures of those who failed.