People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Carlisle Replies. [ARTICLE]

Carlisle Replies.

Washington, D. C. December 13. ls‘K’. Farmers of Jasper Co., Gentlemen: Yours of recent date received and in reply will say, I cannot favor you with presence- at your coining rm ‘Ling, but my advice and counsel you desired, 1 can tivc. with the understanding that my friends, the bankers, monopo lists, syndicates and trusts are never to know that I have written to you. Your institutes or farmers’ meetings do not work li;.<; the bankers', the manufacturers', the syndicates’ and the monopolists’ meetings. These feliows work together to get corners, they lay plans to limit production; they set prices for which they will sell; they determine upon a fixed price at which they will buy; they frame in their meetings l«ws that are favorable to their business, and m i hese meetings they lay plans ■ o carry those laws through congress. My friends; in their ut .. tings, never talk about how to produce the most with the labor of their own hands, but th oueslion will) them is how to get the most out of the labor of other people's hands. Now, you farmers do not manage your ir.f.-eti :g.-> properly. v ou p.y learn how <o produce more, when wuat you < o grow '.'. ill not pay 110 co.-. t of raising. Again in your !<;■ ! iiies you do not arrange to work,’ act and vote tog r • s <m>- !!>;■ a life v.n-, cai itaiists do: indeed, even if you f) >1 farmins’do see I’mt a certain kind of legislation will benefit your ('ailing yon will not vote v. ith the party that advocates it for fear the dear old party your grandfathers used to

a.' W,iu will L>o Hurt. We capitalists have no granddady party, we stand by the parly that stands by us, and. up to date, we have managed to keep two great parties alive that .are ever ready to do as we bid. To keep these two parties alive and large enough to hold the great majority of voters, we never give one of them complete control for but a short time. Farmers, you do not want to learn how to raise more wheat per acre, but you want to learn how to raise congressmen that will work for your interests-; while yon are : earnin'? the nature and cansoil ikes of t.iO sod you till, you want to be '‘omhig b, whose interests your government is run; w;O '-. in your institutes, you are learning how to battle the beetle a-the blight in vour crops, you should also learn how t<j politically art to secure to a just recompense of r • mrd f >r t :e Jmrd, hard labor ‘ 1 wo rid. This letter may seem a little odd. coming from the source it (.toes, b.ut I want to go on record as tolling the truth for once in my life, if the advice here given cannot be discussed in such a meeting as the one to which I am invited, perhaps, you have other associations in which it can be considered. Truly yours. Joi CaN’t Come. tm-m is absolutely u-whangabfe. It- cannot be afn any >manner. The inH Lisle value of a given amount j

of gold or silver is just the same now that it was in the days of Solomon. It fs the .exchangable value that fluctuates, and this value is conferred by law. Intrinsic value as applied to money is a myth and the sooner it is abandoned the better it will be for the producer. For those who think the People's party has had its day, we would suggest this thought. The greatest question before the American people at the present lime is the financial question. On this question the leaders of the two dominant parties are in harmony. Hence, there is nothing left the people bat to join the third party.

Since the Wilson bill has been made public, Pennsylvania protectionists are kicking themselves for having been such fools as to a low Mat Quay to fry the fat out of them. They see that I there is no material difference to them, between Republican protection and Democratic free trade. If we are to depend upon gold alone for th' increase of the volume of our standard money, then the time has come when it is business, good business, for a man "to make a dollar and sit down on it;” then lias the time’ come when dollars hidden away in old socks will grow. The poor man's dollar (gold dollar) is getting “gooder and good” all the time. Hold on to it. poor man, it will buy you more to-morrow than it will today.