People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Page 4

The People’ Pilot. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PHOT PUBLISHING COMPANY (Limited)., OF North Western Indiana., Luther L. Ponsler .. President. J. A. McFarland. ..Vice Pres. Lee E. Glazebrook .. Secretary Marion I Adams. ..Treasurer. L. E. CLAZEBROOK, ' Associate J. A. MCFARLAND, j Editors, z* d wad Doi n I Local Editor and C. B. HARROLD, Business Manager. The People’s Pilot s the official organ of the Jasper and Newtoi County Alliances, and Is published every Friday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM BATES OF ADVERTISING. Displayed Advertisements 10cinch. Local Notices Sc line. Entered as second class nr., ter at the post office in Rens-selat . Ind K<-nnsetfier, Friday. Feb. 2. 181)4,

Official Call!

FOR PEOPLE’S PARTY CONVENTION. TO KE HELD IN RENSSELAER, ON SATURDAY, FEH’Y 17th, 1894, AT 1 O’CLOCK P. M. The members of the People’s Party of Jasper County, Indiana, are requested to meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, February 10th, 1894, at 2 o’clock, p. m. for the purpose of re-organizing the precinct committee for the coming campaign by electing one chairman of precinct committee, who shall be a member of the Jasper County Central Committee. Also a precinct committee composed of one member from each road district.

The chairman of the precinct committees, will meet in Rensselaer on Saturday, February 17th, 1894, at 1 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of organization and consultation. We would further submit for the <?;■nclid and unbiased consideration of the voters of Jasper County, the following propositions, and would respectfully request of all who agree with us t > meet with and assist us in the organization of the county. We believe that the present deplorable condition of the country, industrially and financially, was deliberately planned and carried out for the purpose of foisting on the [people of the United States, an additional and unnecessary interest bearing debt for the sole benefit of capitalists, at the expense of the producers. We believe that the remedies proposed by the two old parties ■will only aggravate and prolong the trouble. We believe that no people can make themselves prosperous as a whole, by taxing themselves either under the McKinley system or under the Wilson system; that all taxes should be ija accordance with the ability to pay, and that no industry should be taxed for the purpose of supporting any other industry. This, both the old parties do, as, witness the McKinley law, and t'ie Wilson bill. We believe that the times demand a more rigid economy in the administration of the affairs of the nation, state, and county; that a congress that expends as much of the people’s money in six years as the debt created by most gigantic war the world has ever seen, is not the congress for the people. That a legislature that continues to go deeper in debt, and that pays out over two hundred dollars a day while in session for services that could be commanded for twenty dol-

lars, is not the legislature for the people; that county officials who keep up high taxes in times of great depression and under an increased appraisement, and continues to pay out, in many cases, a sum nearly double that for which the same value could be obtained is not the best for the county. We believe that the only way to relieve the people of these wrongs is to put a party in power that -was organized for that purpose. This is the purpose of the People's Party, and to this end we would respectfully invite

ail honest voters to calmly and without prejudice make an honest survey of the situation, the promises, work and purposes of parties in the field then make your choice. When every voter has heard all sides and then thus decided, we will be satisfied. Marion I. Adams, Chairman, County Cen. Com. Issue greenbacks, not bonds. This bond steal should arouse the nation. Every day that Cleveland and Carlisle go unimpeached, congress neglects a plain duty. The banks want bonds, the people want money, now watch and see which gets their want. To destroy silver and bond the people for gold is treason, and should be resisted to the bitter end.

The only friends the people have at Washington are the Populists. No one else lifts a hand in their defense. It is a principal as old as the Anglo Saxon race that he will not submit to taxation where consent has not been given. What will he do about Carlisle’s bond steal? It can't be helped, (the bond steal). Dan Voorhees, you are a liar, and you know it. It can be helped. The government has often issued its own notes tc make up a deficiency and the supreme court has always sustained such action. * You lying, twofaced old hypocrite, what other lies and mean things are you go ing to do for those you have spent your life denouncing?

Billy Owen is out of a job. he has not been in office for six or seven long, long months; he is hungry, lonesome, uneasy, and a “little kinder sick.” He thinks the office of secretary of state would help him along a little, would make for him life’s burdens a wee lighter. Billy is a great man for office. When the people told him they had none for him, he had one made to order, but somehow, though made to his special plan, it did not fit him. Secretary of state mly be just the thing for Billy, as he has failed every other place; like the dog, he might, if tried, be good for coon.

Some Democratic journals be labor Populist members of congress for lack of sympathy for the Democracy in its hour of dissolution. It is unreasonable that we should shed tears or feel downcast over your troubles. It is but the fulfillment of Populist prophecies. We told our Democratic brethren that if placed in power they would do nothing that they agreed only upon the desire for office, that love of plunder was the cohesive power that held them together, that every attempt to legislate on the lines of their platform would only disclose the political incongruity of the elements that make the Democratic party. No, gentlemen, it is not our funeral, nor should we be censured for laughing at your discomfiture, we can’t help it, it is so natural,

Not the Standard.

The Democratic party came into power pledged to bi-metal-ism, but have placed the country on a gold basis. They came into power pledged to wipe out protection, and now if they legislate on the tariff at all, Bill Wilson will very much resemble Bill McKinley. They came into power pledged to remove the ten per cent, tax on state bank issues, but have abandoned it. They came into power pledged to relieve the people, but straightway proceeded to load them down with two hundred millions of interest bearing bonds,. They came into power pledged to uphold our national honor, but were soon caught making love to a dissolute worn-; an of less virtuous repute than Maria Halpin. They wenl into power promising everything, but the only measure yet introduced that can help the country was stolen from the People’s party, the income tax. Income tax is offered and urged by the Farmer’s Alliance, Knights of Labor, and People’s party. To issue bonds is to further oppress the people with taxes and reward the scoundrels who planned and engineered the great panic that has well nigh paralyzed all our industries. To adopt the second plan, issue two hundred millions of greenbacks, would discomfit the money mongers, break the backbone of the panic, set in motion the ■wheels of every factory, give employment to all seeking work and hush this great cry for bread. But this congress will never issue greenbacks, that would hurt their masters, the money lords, and further and worse, it would demonstrate that neither protection nor free trade had anything to do with the panic, and then the old frauds would have no issue for another campaign.

Stealings Too Light.

Henry Clews, the grand Mogul of the national bank gang, and interest-sucker-in-chief, is not satisfied with Carlisle’s bond swindle. The stealings are not satisfactory to the bank gang. The rate of interest, three per cent., is too low; twenty-five would suit the hungry horde better, and ten years, the length of time they run is too short, no banker can gorge himself fully in ten years. The whole bond swindle was hatched and helped forward to benefit the banks, and no one else, then why not make the time one hundred years and the rate of interest twenty-five per cent., and that would give them everything, and as that is what they want and congress is willing to give. Why not throw off the mask and do openly what they are working for secretly?

The revenues of the government have been very much reduced by the bold and unjustifiable acts of the capitalists in their efforts to establish the gold standard and retain extreme protection, and as a consequence the national treasury is confronting a deficiency variously estimated at from twenty-eight to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. To meet this deficiency two plans are offered. First, sell two hundred millions of bonds; second, issue greenbacks and pass an income tax measure. The first plan is offered and urged by the originators of the panic that caused the deficiency, and was one of the objects sought for when they precipitated the panic. The second method of supplying the deficiency, by an issue of treasury notes and an What need has this country for a money that will circulate in foreign countries while we sell to them more than we buy? The bankers created a panic in order to set up the gold stand-’ ard and force a bond issue. Will the people submit.

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting Batch of New, From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Jan. 80, ’94. The exciting debate that was expected in the Senate this week in connection with the issue of bonds did not materialize. Senators Stew'art and Peffer made speeches in favor of Mr. Peffers resolution, which states it to be the belief of the Senate that Secretary Carlisle has no authority under the act of 1875 to issue bonds, and then the resolution was referred to the finance committee. It is not expected that the committee will report the resolution back to the Senate, as it is well known that Senator Voorhees, its chairman, was one of those who advised Secretary Carlisle to issue the bonds. It is whispered around that there has been no such scramble as has been represented to subscribe for these bonds, and that the subscriptions received have not yet reached the amount to be issued—sso,ooo,ooo. The house judiciary committee has not taken any action on Representative Bailey’s resolution, but it has listened to a statement made by Secretary Carlisle. • • • The house has this week shown a very decided tendency towards free trade, in its treatment of the tariff bill. It started off by abolishing the bounty on domestic sugar and adopting an amendment putting refined sugar on the free list. Then it defeated amendments providing for a duty on coal and on iron ore. The friends of the income tax say that it is bound to through the house, unless the solid Republican vote be cast against it, and the Republicans say they will not vote either for or against it, unless it be attached to the tariff bill as an amendment; then, of course, they will cast their votes against the entire bill, but in that case many Democrats who oppose the in come tax will hardly dare to vote against it. It is now claimed that the income tax has many more friends in the senate than has been supposed. Indeed, some of its friends are claiming that the senate will pass it.

• • • The speech of Senator Jones, of Nevada, against the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law, which was delivered in sections during the debate on that measure, at the extra session, has just made its appearance in the “Congressional Record.” It takes up 99 pages of that publication and was issued in a special number. Copies are in great demand among those interested in the science of finance, Senator Jones being generally recognized as high authority on the subject, even by those who do not endorse his conclusions. A senator who is one of the latter remarked in my hearing that there was more trustworthy financial information in that speech than in any single one ever made in or out of congress. » ® e Henry George occupied a seat in the gallery of the house when the votes were taken in favor of free sugar (the bounty had been abolished the day before) and of free coal and iron ore. As Mr. George is a pronounced free trader it may be surmised that he was not displeased with the votes, although some other people were, and ail of them did not belong to one party, either. 9 9 9 One hold-over official of prominence has 'been officially informed that he is to be continued in office, He is Dr. William T. Harris, who was recommended in 1889 by Secretary Noble for appointment to the office of U. S. commissioner of education, and President Harrison appointed him. although it was known that he had in 1888 voted for Cleveland. It would certainly seem to be a position that partisan politics should have nothing to do with, but the same might be truly said of many other positions that partisan politics should have nothing to do with. 0 9 0 Senator Teller does not take a cheerful view of the outlook. He says of it: “Just now the amount of ignorance on financial questions among those in authority is something startling, and the country will have to pay dear for it. Times will be much worse before they are better.” o o o The joint senate and house committee on public buildings, which has been wrestling with the selection of a site for a new government printing office, has

completed its labors, but inasmuch as the senators reported one bill and the representatives another, each providing for the purchase of ground in different places, their long wrestling does not seem to have been productive of much good, or to have greatly improved the prospects for a new G. P. O. A jury isn’t “in it,” so far as uncertainty is concerned, with the average congressional committee. 0 9 0 The democrats of the House committee on Foreign Affairs have agreed to a queer reading resolution, which they will endeavor to have adopted by the House as soon as the tariff gets out of the way. This is the queerest part of it: “That we heartily approve of the principle announced by the President of the United States that interference witty the domestic affairs of an independent nation is contrary to the spirit of American institutions.” The senate foreign committee has reported a resolution warning foreign nations to keep their fingers out of the Hawaiian muddle.

Liberal’s Views.

It is rumored that Prof. Rudolph, the ex-Priest, will lecture in our town. Through whose agency he comes is unknown to us; but we believe that his coming here is injudicious. While we believe in the utmost freedom of speech in religion and politics, there are some things that are expedient and others inexpedient. Prof. Rudolph indulges in abuse, denunciation and vilification of the morals and private character of the clergy of the denomination of which he was once a member. His remarks have a tendency to create disturbance or a disorder and we can not see what benefits may result, and we can see what harm may be produced. Suppose an ex-Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist or Christian minister should come here and attack the private character of the ministers of the denomintion of which he was once a member, would it not insult the members of either of those denominations. Assuredly it would. Remember that Catholics are human beings and consider their religion as sacred as you do yours. If Prof. Rudolph should produce arguments drawn from history, logic and science to show the errors of the Catholic church, he should be granted an attentive hearing. But we understand that he does not do this. Our Catholic fellow citizens are law abiding. They are doing in their way what seems to them to be for the betterment of the race and why should w T e who has been expelled from their church be invited here to abuse and denounce them? Rev. Keeley was here a few months ago and he abused and denounced ‘every body and his influence was detrimental to oui town. Should Prof. Rudolph lecture here we hope that no one will be so indiscreet as to interrupt him in the least and then some one will be badly disappointed. We are not a Catholic, but we accord to them the same honesty of purpose that actuates the members of all other denominations. Liberal.

Secrets of the A. P. A.

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