People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

People’s Party Ticket.

Stilte Tickrt Secretary of State, C. A. ROBINSON, Shelby County. Auditor of State. E. A. PERKINS, Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEEPORT. Cass County. Attorney General. CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. 11. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public Instruction, J. H. ALLEN, Vigo County. State Statistician, W. P. SMITH, Marion County. Geologist. EDWARD KINDLE, Johnson County. Judge Supreme Court 4th Dist., D. H. CHAMBERS, Henry County. • District Ticket. Representative in Congress, S. M. HATHORN, Carroll County. For Senator, PERRY WASHBURN, of Benton county. For Joint Representative, DAVID B. NOWELS, of Jasper county. For Prosecuting Attorney, J. D. RICH, of Newton county. County 'Ticket. For County Clerk, john 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 County 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, JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, 3rd District, GEORGE G. THOMPSON, of Carpenter Township. The Pilot from now until Pccembe* Ist, for 25 cents.

The great strike demonstrates more that ever the necessity of government ownership of the transportation systems. Let organized labor meet organized capital at the ballot box and the battle will be short and decisive, labor winning. Every county in Oregon that run a straight Populist ticket elected it. Every county that run a fusion ticket was defeated. Don’t lose sight of the fact that labor produces all wealth, and capital not one cent. Labor is entitlod to great consideration, while capital needs no encouragement. As a sophist, R. G. Horr, of the New York Tribune, takes the cake. No other editor in the United States can use false statements and half truths more skilfully than he. Any financial system that requires that money be borrowed in order to get it in circulation, takes the amount of interest off labor and gives it to him who does nothing.

Those who used to argue for ••a strong central government,” now tell Populists that that government is best which governs least, as that gives the greatest individual liberty. That is the Anarchist's platform to a dot.

The element bent on destruction of property during the st rike was not the strikers themselves, but the hoodlum element of society, mostly foreigners. Wholesome immigration laws ought to be one of the outcomes of the great strike.

The gold reserve is lower now than it was when the Sherman law was repealed, notwithstanding the fact that it was replenished by a loan of some fifty odd million dollars. If congress wants to stop the outflow of gold they can do it by repealing Sherman instead of his purchase law.

The Nonconformist gives tlie market price of the stock of the National banks of Washington city on Tuesday, July 2. The prices asked range from 330 down to 140. Yet the philanthropic gentlemen at the head of these institutions would make us believe that a national bank does not pay.

By the last census, workers in woolen factories get 21 per cent, of the value of the goods they produce. If a protective tariff is for the benefit of labor, why do they not get the full amount of the tariff which is about 80 per cent, average on woolens, and will be about 40 per cent, under the new law. The time was when the ills of “Baby Ruth” received attention from the public and press, but now the public has too many ills of their own, and from the same source, to puy any attention to "Baby Ruth.” In fact, they wish they had never heard of “Baby Ruth,” or her papa either.—Oklahoma (O. T.) Times Journal.

Din you ever stop to think that if there was an abundance of mon«y and nobody was in debt (a perfectly natural and feasible condition, let me assure you), that bankers would have no income at all? Do you not see that it is to the interest of these usurers to have people in debt so they can live off of them, just as much as it is the grocers’ that people get hungry? Bankers have engineered every law tc make money scarce, so their business would thrive. But don’t blame the bankers—it was all done by the votes of people too ignorant of politics to watch their own interests as the bankers watched theirs. Whv don’t you vote for von** Coming

The present railroad troubles are the best argument yet produced for government control or ownership. Reason is a better weapon than either the riot gun or the bayonet to settle any difficulty. At no time during the strike haye the Railway Union refused to arbitrate. But the thieves who have been looting honest labor of a just reward under cover of the law are the anarchists who refuse, and say we have nothing to arbitrate.

The People's party platform makes this demand: “We demand that a system of arbitration be established, whereby serious difficulties between employers and employes may be speedily and impartially adjusted, before either resort to measures detrimental to one and to both.” This demand coined into law and peace in the future is fully guaranteed.

A (jreat deal is being said and written just now about the corruption brought to light in the investigation of the New York police force, as if it was something quite out of the ordin ary. Yet, the same conditions could be found to exist wherever the spoils system prevails if an honest investigation could be made. Correct the system of appointment and such evils will not exist.

The New York Tribune concedes the election of Coxey in McKinley's old district, and then proceeds to belabor the whole state in advance for permitting such a thing to come to pass. Mr. Coxey may or may not be the best man for the place, but the people always sympathize with the under dog in the fight when they can see him, and they propose to see Coxey walk on the grass, and not be arrested either.

If the $500,000,000 dollars of bonds asked for by the National Banker’s Association were issued, they could not be sold above par. Then the banker could buy a SIOO bond for SIOO, on which he would draw $3 interest. He would also get S9O in bank notes which he would loan at the usual rates, leaving, practically, $lO invested in the bond. Thus a $lO investment pays a $3 dividend. Best system on earth for the bankers.