People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

—A foreign paper dubs America “the land of sheriff sales.” —Both parties are controlled bv monopoly.—David Davis. —Watson and Winn won’t leave us. Neither will any good man. —They levy tribute on all our vast industry.— James A. Garfield. —Money is the great engine of force that moves the car of civilization. —Labor is superior to capital and deserves the higher consideration.— Abraham Lincoln. —Robbery by law is the worst kind of robbery. It is the most extensive, too. —Farmers’ Tribune. —Be sure the action of your party is in your interest before you strain yourself shouting for its leaders. —Monopoly has the republican party in one pocket and the democratic party in the other.—DeWitt Talmage. —The best service that you can render to God is that which you perform for humanity.—Farmers’ Tribune. —The millionaire is more dangerous to the state than the barons were to the liberties of England.—Farmer’s Tribune. —ls gold is a good base for money and bonds, why is not wheat, cotton and corn ar- good base for the same thing; they surely have value to them? —The competitive system of dog eat dog, everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost, is a system of savages, and under its blasting influence our civilization will wither and perish. A more humane code is destined to take its place before the twentieth century dawns upon a misgoverned world.— N onconformist. —The people’s party is a party by itself founded upon principles relative to the prosperity of the masses of the common people. These same principles have been repeatedly ridiculed, derided and thrown aside by the two great parties of the country, who now represent nothing but the wishes of plutocracy.— Concordia Alllant. —All bankers' credit-money systems arc founded on some form of interestbearing public bonds,,and is, therefore,, founded upon usury, and the curse of usury is sure to follow. If usury is morally wrong, and the sages of the ages all agree that it is, then it must also be both scientifically and legaHy wrong.—People’s Paper. —The very “reverend” Joseph Cook & Co. having so signally succeeded in closing the world's fair on Sundays are doubl less looking about for other worlds to conquer. Go for the mortgage and bond fiends, Joseph. Urge congress to pass a law providing that no bond or mortgage note shall draw interest on Sundays.—Chicago Express. —The “better element” is a phrase used by newspapers to avoid the necessity for characterizing more particularly a lot of sharks, who wear good clothes, and their more or less gullible followers, who take their cue from the sharks. The “better element" is the crown and glory of our dog-eat-dog civilization.—lndustrial Union.

—The man who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage is universally acknowledged to have acted like a fool. But what would be thought of him who sold his bithright and did not even get a mess of pottage in exchange? That is what a city does when it gives away its streets, worth millions, to be used for their own profit by professional exploiters.—Nonconformist. —lt is worth noting that a large percentage of the Minnesota towns in their recent local elections were lost to bothu the democrats and republican parties. The successful tickets were either citizen’s or people’s party. A special election to fill a vacancy in the Georgia house of representatives has gone popu-i list. Many Georgia counties were carried by the people's party last month— New Nation. —Tom Watson says it is reported that Senators Vest and Vorhees, of the sen-i ate finance committee,' have been converted over to Cleveland’s side of the question, and that Henry Watterson hast also made up his mind that there need! be no remonetization of silver. Watters son is the great champion of tariff! reform, and he don’t say anything! about that nowadays. Where are we at, anyhow?—Progressive Fanner. —Within the last few days a man in the city of New York, stole an eight-cent loaf of bread. He was certainly hungry. They have a large number of men there who are called the greatest financiers in the country, and are held up as paragons, worthy to be patterned after. Every now and then one of them steals a million or two, and has to camp in some other locality for a while and then returns and is received with open arms. But if a hungry man steals an eight-cent loaf of bread, they pounce on to him with all the vigor of the law.—lndustrial Union.