People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Grover Smith declares himself to be “a man of good moral character and a fit person in every particular to be entrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors,” notwithstanding the fact that at the January term of court, on his plea of guilty, he was fined on three different indictments, two for selling liquor on Sunday and one for running a gambling house. A pertinent question might be asked: What constitutes a “good moral character” in Wheatfield?

The low price of grain for the past three years when there was a shortage here and a famine in Europe was explained by boards of trade men as an effect of unfriendly legislation in business matters, that uncertainty as to the future deterred men from extensive operations and were the Hatch bill out of the way, much better prices would prevail. The measure was denounced by the gambling horde and their hired editors as “unwarranted interference with business matters,” “granger folly,” “alliance idiocy,” etc, etc. Well, through the cowardice of some, the treachery of others and the purchase of the purchaseable, the Hatch bill was defeated, whereupon the price of all kinds of grain went down, just the reverse of their oft repeated declarations. The truth is, capitalists are a unit in forcing down the farmer’s products, and the sooner farmers learn that lesson and act in concert to counteract their nefarious schemes, the sooner will agriculture receive its just reward. Keep it before the people that the defeat of the anti-option bill was the work of dastardly scoundrels in behalf of thieves and gamblers.