People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

People’s Party Ticket.

State Ticket. Secretary of State, C. A. ROBINSON. Shelby County. Auditor of State, E. A. PERKINS. Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEE PORT, Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. 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. Hint lift 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 D.ucaaberJ.st, for 25 cents.

In this country to-day there is one American family whose private fortune amounts to *274,000,000, or considerably more than one-half the valuation of the great state of lowa. There are five citizens whose fortunes average $00,000,000 each. Fifty with $10,000,000; 100 with $5,000.000; 200 with $3,000,000: and there are millionaires almost without number. Less than 2,000 persons own twice as much as all the money in the country, to say nothing of the many millions more they control. Two thousand capitalists already own more than all the rest of our 65,000,000 of population. With these figures on one side of them tnd a million idle men looking for work on the other, what has congress been doing? It has beeu dickering and trading over a mere question of taxation, in the midst of a scramble of selfish men for the loaves and fishes.

JSo much us the great question of equitable distribution. Now let us look at the land question. Mr. Vanderbilt “owns" 2,000,000 acres of land. Mr. Disson, of Pennsylvania, boasts of his 4,00 ),000 broad acres. The Schenley estate owns 2,000 acres within the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny. The California millionaire, Murphy, owns an area of land bigger tlia n the whole state of Massachusetts. Foreign noblemen, who owe no altegience to this country, are permanently absentee landlords ind spend all their money abroad, own 21,000,000 acres of land in this country, or more than the entire area of Ireland. Lord SkulJy, of Ireland, owns 90,000 acres of farming land in Illinois, which he rents out in small parcels to tenant farmers, aud pockets his $200,000 in rents to spend abroad. Now, while over one-half of the people are landless, what has congress ever done with the land question? •Since 1861 it has given 181,000,000 acres of the people’s land to railroads, of which the Illinois Central alone got a subsidy of 2,500,000 acres, a good part of it has been put into home lots, whereby to extort rent and profits from the landless and houseless.

The Indiana State Sentinel, Democratic state organ says: If there be anything unlawful in combinations “in restraint of trade or commerce” the Havemeyers and their ilk have set the example in law-breaking. The Havemeyers, in the first place, formed a combination of all the sugar refineries in the country for the express purpose of controlling the price of sugar. They have admitted it, and every one knows it is true. They combined with other protected interests to secui’e the bounty given them by the KcKinley bill. They have admitted it, and every one knows it is with other protected interests to hold the infamous concession made to them by the Gorman bill. They have testified that they are in Washington for that purpose. They have testified that they contributed to the state campaign funds of both parties in order to secure political influence to promote their restraint of trade and commerce-

The Havemeyers sugar trust was driven ou f oT New York by prosecution under the state laws. It took refuge in New Jersey. The Sherman law was adopted for the alleged purpose of exterminating trusts. The New York democratic papers urged Attorney-General Miller to prosecute the sugar trust, and he refused, or at least failed, to do it. Attorney General Olney came in and he, too, was urged to prosecute the sugar trust. He likewise failed to do so, and also stated that the Sherman law’ “was not made to be enforced.” He continued of that opinion until he found that John Shermans ingenuity had made the law available for the purpose j

of punishing the strikers, and then he decided that it was made to be enforced. Federal judges at once took the cue and issued the most sweeping injunctions under the law, which had never been found available to punish any conspiracy of capital, and in this city we had the extraordinary spectacle of a federal judge promenading the railroad tracks and furnishing advice and assistance to the cor-

porations. We call upon Attorney-General Olney and the federal courts to show something of their desire to prevent lawlessness by prosecuting some of the notorious combinations of capital. If they had shown one-tenth the zeal in punishing such lawless combinations as the sugar trust, the whiskey trust, the lead trust, the copper trust, the plate-glass trust, and dozens of other wellknown law-breakers the country j would not now he humiliated by j the spectacle of these law- ! breakers dictating terms to a senate which was pledged to exterminate them. Let us have a little justice in this country. If the law is good enough for the punishment of strikers it is good enough for the punishment of trusts. Let these gentlemen show some of their exalted patriotism and sublime devotion to law and order by enforcing this law on the other side of the fence. There is more ample room for its employment there.”