People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

For an “era of unexampled prosperity,” we have managed to get up a panic of very respectable proportions. The commissioners of White county have employed experts to examine the county records. By the way, Jasper county's commissioners pursued the same ’course once, but the books w’ere not examined. Wonder why. Fifty dollars per capita, full legal tender greenbacks, and government savings bank,s instead of banks run by individuals, and this panic, with all its failures, perjuries, bankruptcies and suicides would have never occurred or been thought of.

Ex-secretary Foster, led by John Sherman and Cal Bryce, howled for an “honest dollar,” one-that was as “good as any other dollar.” Well, through the manipulations of Sherman & Co. the dollars got so everlastingly valuable that Foster had to give eight hundred thousand dollars worth of property for six hundred thousand of John Sherman's good dollars. Charley says it’s all right, but he is a little puzzled to know just where the benefit was to him.

Grover posed as the great tariff reformer, told what ought to be done, what could be done and what he would do, if given a chance. The opportunity is his, and Grover is perplexed beyond measure to find how to do that which seemed so easy. He can reduce the tariff, of course he can. but that will cut off the revenue. How to reduce the tariff and get the revenue is what Grover wants to know. Word has been sent out from Washington that he will recommend an income tax, and improbable as that seems to us, it is generally accepted. Grover won’t do that, the tariff will go unreformed. His rich masters will teach him better. As the People's party pointed out last year, it is the only way to get revenue that will be tolerated, but Grover will never recommend it.

The princess Eulalia arrived in Chicago Tuesday, and the society swells of the windy city are now practicing the double back-action bow which will enable them to get out of the distinguished presence without turning their backs to her. The idea that they could lie down upon their stomachs and crawl off, thus turning their heels instead of their backs upon the proud scion of a sickly house of royalty, does not seem to have suggested itself to the society dudes and dudesesses of Chicago. Really, to see an American snob backing across a room, doubled up like a jack-knife, bowing his head to the aunt of a monarch still in swaddling cloths, would raise up a desire in the manly democratic heart to plant a robust kick upon that part of his anatotiiy most calculated to straighten him up to the full dignity of Republican manhood. —Goodland Herald. On the 25th of October, 1892, Rensselaer was dressed in her ‘•best bib and tucker,'’ bands of music paraded the streets, cannon were tired, "five thousan-'’ l>eople came to town and all because it was Governor’s Day, all because his excellency, the Hon. Ira C. Chase was here. How