People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Not the Standard. [ARTICLE]

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.