People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]
Stockholders' Meeting. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pilot Publishing Company (limited) will be held at the office of the People’s Pilot at Rensselaer, Indiana, on Saturday, September 2nd, 1893, at which time a board of seven directors will be elected and other important business transacted. L. L. Ponsler, Pres. D. W. Shields, Secy. Making debts payable in gold is equivalent to making them as large again as they are. It requires an extra session of congress to repair the best financial system in the world.
The question for congress to settle is. whether money or manhood shall rule this country, f The farm failures are not quoted by the commercial agencies. There’s too many of them. Have the people of this country get anything to sell for mon oyV Yes. labor. Lots of it, too. If the Democratic party believes in the principles of Democracy why don’t it work at it? There’s a groat want of confidence —in the money pirates that seem to be running this government. Labor is the creator of all wealth, yet it has received no consideration at the hands of our ;aw makers. If the farmers were prosperous there would be but few failures in any other kind of legitimate business.
Is it the tariff that is busting the banks? If so, why didn't Cleve!.;••!>! call the extra session of < -- to repeal the tariff i. (l> V' • The poor working girl maxes the shirt gets 7 cents. The ('hitiatr.au who spits on it and irons it gets 10 cents. That's protection. There are plenty of men and women in this country who want the opportunity to exchange their labor for money. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. A banker in Nebraska stole *400.000 and got five years in the penitentiary. A workingman in Chicago stole one and one-quar-ter cents worth of pigs' feet and got thirty days in jail. The proposition to change the ratio of the silver to gold by in•ri’ea»ing the size of the silver .dollar should be frowned down. If the ratio is changed at all let the gold dollar be cut down in .-size. ■„ v '
The reason the people don't ..get relief from oppressive class daws is simply because the plutpcrats don’t -\yant them to have it and have made part of the people believe they don't need it. A single gold standard not only means a reduction of wages and products, but a perpetual indebtedness, increasing each year, and entailing a system qf industrial slavery upon rtbe people. RfeV- r* 4 ——: This nation will never .prosper while .it imblislies a living die, and in doing so, defames »God. The inscription on the dollar, -qlh v God We should ijjl&nged to
