People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

FOR THE VARIOU PEOPLE'S PARTY CONVENTIONS. Congressional, Senatorial and Judicial Conventions. / The People's Party of the 10th ; Congressional District will hold j a convention at Logansport on iThursday, June 7th, 1894, to I nominate a candidate for Coni gross. Frazi elThom as, W. H. W. Bell, Nelson J. Bozarth, Congressional Committee. THE SENATORIAL CONVENTION, comprising the counties of Jasper, Newton, and Benton. THE REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION, comprising the counties of Jasper and Newton. and the .) UDICIAL CONVENTION. of the 30th Judicial District will meet at Goodland, Newton county, Ind., on Friday, June 15, 1894, at 1 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates as follows: One candidate for State Senator for the counties of Jasper, Newton and Benton. One candidate for Representative for the counties of Jasper and Newton and one prosecuting Attorney for the 30th Judicial District. The basis of representation to each of these conventions shall be one delegate for each voting precinct. W. J. McCullough, J. U. WILDASIN, L. L. Ponsler, Committee. In compliance with the foregoing the Populists of Jasper county will meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, June 9, 1894, and select delegates as aforesaid.

L. L. PONSLER,

Chairman.

We have just received the census bulletin on manufactures for 1890. It is an absolute and complete refutation of all the lying slush of protectionists about fear of free trade causing the hard times. There is scarcely an industry in the sixty-seven that are included in the report, inyyhich the total wages paid equal one-half the rate of the tariff on the same article when imported. Here are the figures for the United States: Number of establishments 257.501 Capital, (indmlim; Water) $ 5.249.139.8-12 Number of employes 3.730.557 Total wag“s paid f 1.811. Cost of materials used ? 4.273.402,0i | >. Value of product $ 7,tilS.B:>t>,2oo According to the above figures, the total wages paid amount to less than twenty- four cent, of the value of the product at factory prices. Now, you tariff calamity howlers, how does that compare with the stuff you have been preaching to us ever since the Sherman law was repealed. The average rate of duty under the McKinley law is about 60 per cent. The average rate in the bill now before the Senate is about 40 per cent., and to prevent its passage, those sixty--1 seven “infant” industries have sulked and refuse to budge because Congress proposes to give only twice as much protection as they pay in wages, instead of three times as much.

Now, suppose the “pauper labor of Europe” costs absolutely nothing, and the “well fed” labor of America .costs 24 per cent, of the values of the goods it produces, how much protection does American labor need ? Perhaps the editor of the Republican can find an answer in that “clean cut” platform lately furnished ready made by the gold bugs, and adopted by the Indiana Republicans.

Banker Clews says we are at the bottom at last. Guess that is about so, for there are four millions of idle ner mid about twenty millions starving.

There is said to be barrels of fun in being a senator, good pay, everything prosperous and no responsibility. The bankers are the only men that refuse to work and insist that they shall live in splendor at public expense. Harrison and his dear dollar have had a fair trial, and people are as tired of the dear dollar as they were of the poor president.

The Jasper county Republicans were so ••riled” by the Kansas cyclone that it may take one from Texas to settle them. All right, gentlemen, just notify us of what your troubles are. We have the remedies in bulk or broken doses just as your symp> toms demand. The caucus will issue orders and Phares will yield Implicit obedience; he is built that way. As a man of individuality and self-assertion he is not in it. The mast and about all that can be said for Isaac, is, that when the Indiana legislature- goes on a big drunk, Isaac will be sober. Perry Washburn, the thor-ough-going business man, clear thinker, upright citizen, accommodating and popular neighbor, an old time Greenbacker and a Populist in whom there is no guile, is the one man on whom can be combined all . the forces necessary to lead us to victory in the senatorial race. B We guess the Republicans did the proper thing after all when they nominated Phares for Senator. He is a good singer, and ■‘music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,” and the Indiana legislature is usually made of an aggregation of the worst of savages, so that Isaac seems to be the right man in the right place for the right purpose.