People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — Specimen Cases. [ARTICLE]

Specimen Cases.

The.only platforms the old parties can make that mean anything is their work in congress and the legislatures. On this last let them stand or fall. If you approve what they have done, vote for a continuation of it; if you disapprove it, vote so that your ballot will show your disapproval. The People’s party may point toJas. A. (larfield as another witness by whom to prove the correctness of their position. Mr. Garfield said. “I am persuaded that the next groat question to be confronted will be that of corporations and their relations to the interests of the people, and to national life. The fear is now onfertained by ii'iiny of our best men, that 1 and stab' legisla 1 ureTttMHvatiug these vast corporations, have evoked a spirit which may escape and defy their control* and which may wield a power greater than the legisla tures ill unselvos.”

If you want the parties'to do d ffe.rently at Washington and in the state legislatures, you must loach them so by voting against them. This is the only way yon can make them pay any attention to you. Ido long as you keep voting for them they will think you approve of what they are doing, or else that you are so- completely in their power that you are. afraid to vote any other way. Show them once. The million and a quarter votes cast for the People’s party two years ago attracted more attention in the upper political circles than did all the speeches and resolutions of the campaign. Should that vote he multiplied by three this fall, you will see a very different feeling in congress toward the people. • For the bon bit of our Republican friends, we propose to prove by James G. Blaine that the People's party is right. No Republican will dispute that he is a competent and credible witness. Here are his words: “I believe that the struggle now going on in this country and in other countries for a single gold standard would, if successful produce wide pread disaster 'inanl throughout the commercial world. The destruction of silver as money and establishing gold as the sole unit of value, must have a ruinous.effect on all forms of property, except those investments which yield a fixed return in money. These would be enormously enhanced in value, and would gain a disproportionate and unfair advantage over every other species of property. If, as the most reliable statistics affirm, there are nearly $7,000.000.0J0 of coin or bullion in the world not very unequally divided between gold and silver, it is impossible to strike silver out of existence as money without results which will prove distressing to millions, and utterly disastrous to tens of thousands. Civ . Kcbt. G. I.w.EKSor.E is an ardent .Republican. Iu 1887 he wrote an article for the North American Review-on ••Labor and Capital.” It was highly commended at that time by the Republican party. But in J 894,

when Populist speakers and Populist papers have declared the self-same facts, the Republican papers of to-day call them “anarchists.” Here is a part of what Ingersoll said: “Capital has always claimed and still claims the right to combine. Manufacturers meet and determine prices, even in spite of the great law of supply and demand. Have the laborers the same right to consult and combine? The rich meet in the bank, club house, or parlor. Workingmen, when they combiue, gather in the street. All the organized forces of society are against them. Capital lias the army and the navy, ihe leg islature. the judicial and executive departments. When the rich combine it is for the purpose of “exchanging ideas." When the poor combine it is a “conspiracy.” If they act in concert, if they really do something, it is a “mob.” If they defend themselves it is “treason.” How is it that the rich control the departments of government? In this country the political power is equally divided among men. There are certainly more poor than rich. Why should the rich control? Why should not the laborer combine for the purpose of controlling the executive, the legislative and judicial departments? Will they ever . tind how powerful they are? A cry comes from the oppressed, from the hungry, from the down trodden, from the unfortunate, from the despised, from men who despair and women who weep. There are times when mendicants become revolutionists— when a rag becomes a banner, under which the bravest and noblest battle for right.

In the days of cannibalism the strong devoured the weak-—ac-tually ate their llesh. In spite of the la.ws that man has made; in spite of all advances in science, the strong, the heartless still live on the weak, the unfortunate, and the foolish. True, they do not. oat their flesh or drink their blood, but they live on their labor, on their selfdenial, their weariness and want. The poor man who deforms him self by toil, who labors for wife and child through all his anxious, barren, wasted life—who goes to the grave without ever having had one luxury—-has been the food of others. He has been devoured by his fellow men. The poor woman living in the bare and lonely room, cheer less and tireless, sowing night and day to keep starvation from a child, is slowly being eaten by her fellow men. When 1 taka into consideration the agony of civilized life—the failure, the mxiety. the tears, the withered hopes, the bitter realities, the hunger, the crime, the humiliation, the shame —I am almost forced to say that cannibalism, after all is the most merciful form in which man has ever lived upon his fellow man.”

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