People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE]

People’s Party Ticket.

For County Clerk, joiin a. McFarland, of Jordan Township. For County Auditor, THOMAS H. ROBINSON, of Gillam Thownship. For County Treasurer, JOHN L. NICHOLS, of Barkley Township. For County Sheriff, ELLIS JONES, of Carpenter Township. For Count}’ Surveyor, WALTER HARRINGTON, of Union Township. For County Coroner. M. Y. SLAUGHTER, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, Ist District JOEL SPRIGGS, of Walker Township. For Commissioner. 2nd District, ADDISON J. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, 3rd District, GEORGE G. THOMPSON, of Carpenter Township. Nothing for labor in this country, it is all for capital.

The people asked for more money; Wall street asked for more bonds. Who was accom modated? Got it through your Leads? There are those who would put capital above labor in the structure of the government. — A. Lincoln. Leaders of both the old parties do nothing else. Wall street had some idle money and asked the government to furnish an investment, and it sold them fifty millions of bonds. Five millions of idle men ajid women asking a chance to invest their labor so as to get bread, but the government can do nothing. What do you think or do you think, or do you think at all?

Liberty cannot 'long endure in a country where the tendency of legislation is to concentrate wealth in a few hands.—Daniel Webster. Nine per cent, of our population owns seventy-one per cent, of the nation’s wealth. The laws divided that way. Webster thought it endangered liberty; Sherman and Grover think it the right thing.

‘ The bankers and bondholders of Vv all street are gambling on the misfortunes of the country, but the people will yet see to it that their government is not turned into a government of bondholders, by bondholders, for bondholders.”—Senator Beck. What would the sturdy old Scotchman say, were he to arise from his grave to-day and find that in the short space of sixteen years his party had surrendered the whole government to Wall street, and that a man from his state, one of his most trusted lieutenants, as secretary of the treasury, was the chief (conspirator in the devilish plot. Al the downward pace at which have moved for the past sixyears will bring us in the sixteen to the point where

if a man criticise the acts of Wall street he will be led out and shot down like a dog.

A nation that can maintain thirty odd billions of debt at par and can't maintin five hundred millions of paper money at par without selling bonds, has got into a devil of a fix.

, To hear a man whose knees and elbows are sucking wind through the rents in his garments, talking of the importance of “maintaining the character of our money,” is extremely fatiguing.

There is only one industry mentioned in the last census bulletin in which the wages paid is anywhere near the value of the finished product, and we think, probably, McKinley forgot to “protect” that industry. It is

the manufacture of button holes. There are 1373 hands employed who are paid $526,924, and the value of the finished product is *784,055, this leaves the manufacturer a margin of 8257,130 for profit and “raw material.”

Society naturally divides itself into two classes, the rich and well born and the common people. —Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton lied. Society don’t now or never did divide itself. The laws divide it and create the distinctions that he points out. Hamilton was the creator of banks in this country, and the cussedness of banking institutions, whereby one man lives in idleness and luxury at the expense of the toilers, was his idea of good government.

A Massachusetts congressman wants three hundred thousand dollars appropriated for the destruction of the Gypsy moth. He is a pesky little rascal and deserves killing and that sum would be well spent in getting rid of him, but what about the bank moth? He is a thousand fold worse. Where the Gypsy moth has injured the country to the amount of one dollar, the bank moth has injured it a million. What is to be done with the bank moth?

□ Never since the eternal fiat went forth, saying, let there be light and there was light; never since the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, has there been fifteen men that more bravely stood for the rights of the common people than the fifteen Populist members of congress who stand in the midst of unparalleled corruption and bravely fight back the money power in their encroachments on the rights of the people.

The last census was manipulated in the interest of the protected industries, and is notoriously inaccurate. Yet, by a late bulletin concerning manufactures, the wages paid do not average twenty-five per cent, of the value of the finished product. The average rate of duty in the Wilson bill is about forty per cent. This leaves a margin of fifteen per cent, protection, if we allow the foreign manufacturer his labor for nothing. Is it possible that our manufacturers are so infernally greedy that they will not work on that large margin, or are you tariff fellows just lying to us about fear of tariff reduction causing the hard times.

To make a show of respectability, the Republican party still classes Senators Stewart and Jones as Republicans. These two gentlemen are to-day, in point of ability and honesty, second to no men in the United States senate. The following from Senator Stewart explains itself: To the editor of the Post. In your issue of March 30, in giving the views of senators on the veto message, you class me as a Republican. I left the Republican party more than two years ago, because that party was in favor of the single gold

standard in the interest of bjmks bondholders. There has been no reform in that party since I left it. On the contrary, during the 53rd congress the almost unanimous vote of the Republicans in both houses of congress made it possible for President Cleveland to force the gold standard upon the country and produce a condition of unparalleled misery and want. To be classed as a Republican is to be classed on all financial questions as a Cleveland Democrat lam neither. I am a Populist and belong to the only party that is unequivocally opposed to the subjection of the people of the United States to the rule of banks and bondholders. Yours, very truly, Wm. M. Stewart, Washington. D. C., March 30, 1894.

The senatorial pot in Benton county is furiously boiling, and as the waters whirled over we caught glimpses of Williams, Johnson, Phares, Biddle, Doyle and something that looked like a banker, couldn’t tell exactly We philosophized a little. Williams would make a good senator doubtless for the same reason that the fellow’s dog was good for coons. Johnson wants it along with the rest that is in sight, and the further fact that at one time he bulled St. Simon for the same place. Phares is one whose political necessities are great. The memory of man noteth not the time when Isaac was short on political 'necessities. If Isaac’s abilities equalled his political wants, he would be a stunner. Biddle would doubtless make a formidable candidate, being well acquainted in all parties, having boxed every point of the political compass. He has been a Bourbon Democrat, Granger, Independent, Greenbacker, Union Labor, Alliance and finally turned up in the Republican camp, seemingly nothing the worse for the multitudinous evolutions. He has “tried all things and held fast to nothing.” If elected and he keep up his migratory habits and should join the regular army wouldn’t they be in a pickle? Doyle would like it, but they have it so fixed that his “goose will be cooked” at the first turn of the spit. If the unknown that was seen and it was a banker, and we think it was, why wouldn’t he do? He would seem to be the logical candidate of this illogical party. To the Reps we will say, gentlemen, that is our plum. We propose to knock it.