People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — Only one Night out to Florida. [ARTICLE]

Only one Night out to Florida.

If Gompers would turn the search light of his giant intellect on the money and transportation questions a short time, he could see where the over production comes in. The Democrats asked for a chance—a chance to do just as the Republicans have done. This chance they will never have unless they get a half interest in Hades, and go full partners with the devil. The purchasing clause of the Sherman law is repealed, the McKiinley tariff is in full force, but thousands and thousands of unemployed men in our large cities are to-day begging bread and praying for work.

Of all the people in these United States, none but the national banker can live and grow rich off the interest of what he owes. If you think he cannot, .'ust borrow some of his “bank notes,” and you will soon be undeceived. As the population increases, the per capita circulation, under a gold standard will, inevitably, decrease and prices will continue to fall until in a few years the products of an ordinay farm will not pay the interest on a mortgage for half its present value at the present rates of interest. If you like that, vote to continue it by sticking to either old party. When ycu try to explain the advantages of government issue of money over that of national bank issues, to an old party striker, he is almost certain to

ask you how you are going to get government issues in circulation, atid thinks he has you downed. Just ask him how the greenbacks were put in circulation and you have him “up a stump.” When the present session of ! congress ends Democratic free: trade and Republican protection : will bo so mixed that it will be impossible to ever make tariff the issue iu another national campaign. Wall street would give millions to-day to have one branch of congress under Republican control so that an excuse could be made for keeping alive the tariff question. Thank the Lord, tariff as a national political issue, dies with this congress.

Isn’t it about time those good times which were to follow repeal were getting here? We were told that as soon as the Sherman law was out of the way, money would be forthcoming in plenty and at a low rate of interest. Yet a gentleman right here in Jasper county lias been asked to pay three dollars a month for a loan of fifty dollars, which makes over seventy-five per cent., per annum. Where are the good -times, Mr. Voorbees, and where is the cheap money?

Republicans want a tariff for protection without regard to revenue. The Democrats want a tariff for revenue without any protection so they say in their platform. Populists be- : fi eve ihe tariff fight bo tween i he i : "v o-d parties 4 .» ho mostly

sham, and do not say much about tariff, yet they hold to the idea of a tariff in the interests of all the people. That is, in so far as it is necessary to collect revenue in that way. lay the duty on articles, which came in completion with our own. The cause of the hard times has at last been discovered. President, of the Federation of Labor, made the discovery. It is over production. That is, the manufacturers of the East have produced so much clothing that they are hungry. The farmers of the West have raised so much grain they are suffering for want of clothing. The cotton grower of the South has produced so much cotton that he can neither get anything to eat or wear. Truly, Mr. Gompers, you are not suffering from an over production of gumption.

The old party editors find it impossible to answer the argument of the Populists, so they | only call them names. Nearly two years before the panic came Populists warned the people of its coming and won the name calamity howlers. They ask that the power to bring about panics be taken away from the money changers, and they are called anarchists. They ask that the government issue all the paper money in the interest of the people, and are called fools. Verily, old party editors are overstocked with argument.

When you get an old dyed-in-the-wool Demo-Rep whipped all over; when you have answered every argument so logically he is compelled to admit the truth of all you say, then he will answer you by saying, “Well, suppose you turn out both the old parties and put in a new set of men, they will soon be as corrupt as the existing parties.” He virtually admits your charges against the old parties, but acknowledges that they have so obtained control over his prejudices that he has not got manhood enough left to cut loose from the old hulks and stand up for the right.

Republicans are fond of telling how good times were before the election, and attribute the hard times to the defeat of their party. We do not deny times were fairly good, but we think the reason for it* lies in the fact that for fifteen years we have been adding two or three millions of dollars to the circulation in each mouth.-. Wall Street determined that this should be stopped. Its will has become law and good times will never return no matter what party is in power, until some measure is carried into effect that will increase the circulating medium as the demands f >r it increases.

If you are in favor of the government issuing bonds at three or four per cent, interest, and buyiv i-old with them, to lock up in the treasury and keep out of circulation, and then let a ; corporation deposit those bonds back in the treasury and receive jiusie< d notes to loan to the peop e at e>ght to twelve per cent., why, sir, you are a financier, a statesman and a philanthropist. But, if you are in favor of the government issuing notes on which it pays no interest and ! paying them out direct on penl sions, and for public improvej ments, and letting them circulate as money, why, sir, you are only a calamity howler, an anarchist or a damphool. That is the best argument a plutocrat can offer.

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