People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

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,