People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Give uk more money. No state banks, please. Give us free coinage of silver. Won't somebody say '‘force bill?” We want no compromise on nil ver. Who was it wanted the ' ‘chance ?” Down with the (tarty that isaiKjs boudfi. And the tariff' We/!, it’sstill ft robbin’. We want more money - and we can prove it. Yellow dog politics voting for the nominee. ' Jx't ua have pk*c* •—es” of diver in circulation. If the people are fit be free they will vote to be free. If a state can Joan its school lends on real estate security, why can it not Joan money issued by the government for that purj»ose?

Twenty-five cents of cash and 75 cents of confidence is the proportion of capital of the present banking system. It is too much of a confidence game. There is a good deal of pros purity in this country, in fact there's Jots of it, but it is not distributed properly. The fellow that makes the most of it gets the least. ’fhe average salary in public office is *2,000. The average for wage earners in private life is less than #SOO. No wonder there are no strikes among government employes. lowa Tribime. The campaign in Virginia this year will Ims the hottest ever made in that state. Populists will have out a strong state ticket and the prospects are favorable for its success. From p/eifent indications Virginia will Lu the battle ground this year.

During the recent panic In Chicago several newsboys were arrested for crying “all about the big bank failure.” It was claimed that by so doing they contributed to«make the panic worse. The “best banking system in the world” is getting pretty shaky when a few newsboys can hurt it. It seems to be the object of the banks, just now, to encourage a Lick of confidence in the financial situation. As confidence comprises about three-fourths of their capital and is not so easily .restored as shaken, they may have cause to regret it in the future. The people are growing tired of a system they can’t depend upon, and it is only a matter of time when they will wipe out thq whole thing.

It costs 92 cents to mine a ton of coal in Pennsylvania. The Nebraska farmer pays 110.50 for it. The Nebraska farmer sells his coni at 64 per ton and the 1 'onrtsylvania miner pays 619.75 for it. In other words, the farmer gives two and one-half tons of corn for a ton of coal, and the miner gives the mining of twenty-one tons of coal for one ton of corn. The railroads and speculators get the balance. The anti-trust convention, recently held at Chicago, didn't anti worth a cent against the