People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

mile haul* No labor organization ever demanded more for a half day’s work than for a whole one, and no farmer ever charged more for a half bushel of wheat than a whole bushel. It is only justice the people are asking.

The advice of the President to the country to keep cool in the present financial emergency ought to have a soothing and reassuring effect, and would have, perhaps, if anybody but the gold bugs had any confidence in his future policy. As he has clearly outlined his purpose to force the single standard theory as against bi-metalism, he will find that his recent utterances counseling coolness will not allay the popular indignation that is rapidly rising in the West and South against his already defined purpose of handing this country over to Wall street.

The leading men of this nation are trampling its laws under their feet. Cleveland has arbitrarily set aside the Geary Chinese exclusion law. Attorney General Olney, whose sworn duty is to prosecute railroads and trusts that violate the law, is in the pay of two of those corporations as their attorney. Carlisle is paying out gold on silver certificates from the $100,000,000 reserve created expressly for the redemption of the greenbacks and nothing else. If such men openly and willfully violate the laws of the land how can it be expected that the people will respect them.

The Pharisees of the country are in a perfect rage over the opening of the World’s Fair gates on Sunday. Like their proprototypes of old they are straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.” As a matter of duty the World's Fair ought to be closed on Sunday to give rest and recreation to the thousands of employes who labor inside the gates. As to the absence of the Sabbath, if the conditions of the producing classes were as they should be, there would be far greater respect for the Sabbath than there is, and until the churches address themselves to the duty of improving man’s temporal conditions, their loud professions of sympathy for his spiritual welfare will sound more of hollow mockery than anything else.

Republican papers and politicians that are charging Cleveland’s administration with the responsibility of the present financial distress of the country ought to give the people credit for having a little sense left, even if they have been foolish enough to allow the country to be brought to the verge of bankruptcy by trusting the news papers and politicians. Go back to March 4. 1885, and you find that Cleveland took up where Arthur left off. March 4, 1889, Harrison took up where Cleveland left off. March 4, 1893, Cleveland resumed business again, taking up where Harrison left off, and not a change in all these years that could distinctively be called Republican or Democratic, but carrying out, and continuing a policy that is jointly Democratic-Republican’; and one party as much responsible for it as the other.