People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Some Good Points. [ARTICLE]

Some Good Points.

The national debts of the world amount to more than *34,000,000,000. Have the courage and manhood to vote your principles, if your party goes to Hallifax. High taxes puts “lots” of money in circulation and helps to malic the common taxpayer industrious and saving.

The scheme to allow banks to issue notes on other than U. S. bonds is a movement of the Plutos to bull their worthless watered stocks and' unload them on the people.

Our commissioners have as yet held no meeting-son Sunday, but every other day of the week they can be found at the old stand grinding away at the rate of *10.50 per day.

Every Democrat in America ought to read the speeches of Sibley and Bryan, delivered in the House of Representatives, and thus find out just where tne party stands on the money question.

T. M. Patterson, of the Rocky Mountain Nows, of Denver, a faithful exponent of Democratic principles, has abandoned his party and will henceforth be found using his own power and influence in building up the Populist cause.

With a 45 cent county levy in ’9l we paid over 830,000 county tax, %<5,000 more than the commissioners intended. For this year (’92) the levy was reduced to 40 cents, but for next year f 93) we will pay 45 cents on the *IOO.

It lias been said that you can't make a good old Jackson Democrat mad, but times have changed. If you want to breathe an atmosphere that Is strongly impregnated with sulphur and blue tire, just suggest that ‘-papa" Grover is a Jacksonian Democrat.

If Democrats who believe in the Democracy of Jefferson and Jackson, and Republicans who believe in the Republicanism of Lincoln -and Stevens would only •stick to principles instead of party, the next election would Lgo Populist by more than twoi; third's majority. ,

h Wir<r will not men who revere | Washington, Jefferson, Jackson i and Lincoln follow the teachings | of those great statesmen instead i of allowing themselves to be . coddled and hoodwinked into supporting parties whose leaders I directly oppose all the principles i enunciated by those patriots. * >*- *' l a. "r.’*vfirra»cw m i mj-j KppW.:HY should the Democratic ; party favor the millionaire gold I bug any more than the millionh a ire manufacturer;- why should I it follow the advice of wealthy f . New York bankers any more y than the advice of wealthy Penn- •; sylvania-mill owners and mine -1 operators':' That party will no more release the people from the | wicked grasp of heartless pro- | teetiomsts than it will from the i wicked grasp of heartless money changers. Democratic . tariff reform will never reduce any of the rich protectionists’ profits, I nor lessen any of the common poverty.

At the Populists 1 state con vention, of Nebraska, the first of I this month, in the platform ! adopted, they speak as follows ' on the pension question: “Resolved, That we are in favor of a service pension to our soldiers upon a showing in a! court of record of an honorable discharge and upon reasonable proof, such service pension to be on an equality regardless of rank. And we are in favor of an additional amount based upon the degree of disability, which shall be the measure of the same.”

American Nonconformist. Dan Voorhees complains that he is tired. So is the whole country tired —of him. We told the people last fall that the two old parties were the same. They would not believe it then. Now with their own eyes they can see it. We declared our independence of England in 177 G. Let’s do it again. We got along without her interference in our money affairs then, we can do it now.

There are two kinds of Democrats, Cleveland Democrats and platform Democrats. One repudiates the platform and its promises, the other doesn’t.

The only “change” effected at Washington by last fall’s election was a change from “Baby McKee” to “Baby Ruth.” The whole country will please join in singing “After the Bawl.”

The pitiful stories of want and suffering told of the homeless and-seekers in and around the Cherokee strip ought to make the dead legislators who gave to the railroads the millions of acres of rich land in Illinois, lowa, Nebraska and Kansas, turn over in their graves and the living ones go hang themselves. The land grants to railroad corporations form one of the blackest chapters in the history of legislation.

The two old parties are trying iard to get up a sham tight in congress on the repeal of the election laws. The object, of course, is to excite past sectional feeling and draw attention from that party-splitting issue, the money question. A favorite device jof pick-pockets in a crowd is to start a pretended row in one quarter. While the people are rushing to see the cause the light-lingered gentry get in their work.

There are plenty of “business” men who never advertise in their local paper, which goes into every family circle from which they can expect patronage, but will patronize every •‘card” and sign sboard scheme that comes along, -and from which they never receive a penny’s worth of benefit. The Herald has a bona fide circulation of eight hundred copies; it is read by four times that number of people every week; there is no other advertising medium that offers the same advantages to our business men as its columns, yet there are some who refuse to advertise in it and at the same time patronize every fake advertising scheme that comes along, and pay twice as much for lmmbuggery of that sort as legitimate advertising in the Herald would cost them. But some business men have queer ideas about patronizing home industries. They talk sharply about the ingratitude of the farmers who send to Chicago for their groceries and other goods, while they themselves patronize everything that is foreign and even worthless, while the institution that has been the mainspring in building up their town, and their business in the same ratio, is given to the go-by. It isn’t much to be wondered at that an immense retail trade goes from some towns to Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, and other firms, and that it is yearly increasing. The farmer takes his cue from the business man, and the combination ought to succeed in keeping their town down to a fourth rate village. Then when the town is properly dead and ready for interment these men who patronize foreign job offices and “business directory” sign boards can send away and get one of their fakirs to come and write their obituaries. —Goodland Herald.

We have a fine new combination book case and writing desk which will be sold at a bargain. Call at the Pilot office.