People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — REPUBLICAN RECORD. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN RECORD.

On Finance and Why it Should be Placed in Power. Its Favorite Policy is Contraction and What That System has Hone for the Welfare of the Laboring Classes—How do You Like itt—This Should be Placed in Y'our Hat and C'sed as Vade Mceeum.

It has reduced the price of wheat from 82 to 50 cents per bushel. It has reduced the price of cotton from 25 cents to 6 cents per pound. It has reduced the price of property to one-half its former

value. It has doubled the value of all railroad stocks. It has doubled the value of all bonds and other evidences of debt. It das doubled the value of all s ilaries. so that a Congressman, on a salary of -$5,000 a year, is receiving, practically, twice as much as he did twenty-five years ago.

It has increased the burdens of the producing, classes and doubled the fortunes of the bondholding and moneyed classes. It has made 7,000 millionaires and 1,000,000 tramps. It has robbed the aged of the employments of life and the young of the advantages of education. It has thrown 3,000,000 out of employment. It has put 1,500,000 children under 14 years of age to work in the factories.

It has placed 9,000,000 mortgages on the homes of the people. It has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. It has robbed the people of liberty at the ballot boxes and denied them justice in the courts. It has created more suffering than war, pestilence, and famine put together. It has ignored the suffering of the people and mocked the laws of God. It has trampled upon human rights, violated constitutions, and murdered justice. It has sent poverty and distress to homes of millions. It lias stood in high places and under the plea of an “honest dollar” boldly robbed the producers of millions of their sweatearned products. —N atio na 1 Watchman.