People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — Page 4

The People’ Pilot. FttfiTfilSHED WEEKLY BY THE PILOT PtBUSffIKG COMP AM’ (Usutcd)., OF sorh Western Indiana., David H. Yeoman. ..President. Wm. Washburn Vice Pres. Lee E. Glazebrook .. Secretary J. A. McFarland. .. Treasurer. LEE E. GLAZEBROOK, EDITOR. Th* P*o4»i.b's Pii/atl* t he official orzan of he Jasper and Newton County AlUaucbS.and ■ published every Friday at ONK DOLLAR PKK ANNUM If paid in advance. If not paid in advance, 11.25 per year will be charged to all subscribers. KATES OF ADVERTISING. Displayed Advertisements 10c inch Local Notices 5c line. F.utered as secn’id clas-.s mutter at the post office in Ken.v,ela*'r, Ind HcnH*etacr, Friday, Oct. 1594

People’s Party Ticket.

Htate Ticket. Secretary of State. C. A. ROBINSON-, Shelby Cpvmty. Auditor of State, E. A. PERKINS. Marion County. State Treasurer, A. B. KEEPORT, Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. f Clerk Supreme Court, J. H. MONTGOMERY, Lawrence County. Sup’t Public Instruction, J. 11. ALLEN, Vigo County. State Statistician, W. P. SMITH, Marion County. Geologist, EDWARD KINDLE, Johnson County. ./ uilge Supreme Court 4th Dist., D. H. CHAMBERS, Henry County.

Dlatrivt Tick**. Representative in Cangress, 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 Clerkv. JOHN A. McFARLANDv of Jordan Township. *■ For County Auditor, THOMAS H. ROBINSON, of Gillam Township. For County Treasurer, JOHN L. NICHOLS, of Barkley Township. For County Sheriff, ELLIS JONES, of Carpenter Township For County Surveyor, WALTER HARRINGTON,, of Union Townships . For County Coroner, MARTIN Y. SLAUGHTER, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, Ist District JOEL F. SPRIGGS, of Walker Township. For Commissioner. 2nd District, JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township., For Commissioner, 3rd .Dist rict, GEORGE O, THOMPSON, es Carpenter Town shi p. It F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.’s steamer, g ues and threshers and solicits H rrcspondence.

Everybody in New York excepting the Republicans want Hill to take the race for governor. Ip high taxes will make a people rich as some argue, the residents of Marion township will soon be millionaires. If Al. Rainey had needed a team of horses and bought them of the right man, doubtless, he would not have been bounced from his gravel road job. He must learn to pull the right man’s leg. Uncle Billy is too honest. Thompson & Buo. received a total allowance of §164.85 at the last term of the commissioners' court foi legal services. While the rest of the attorneys in Rensselaer did not receive a red copper. Verily “our Simon,” standeth in.

Trustee Greenfield caD hire a good honest competent man and team for *2.50 per day to work on the gravel roads, but that is too eeaupmical and business like to.,.quit the county comjtfPftSionbrs,' So they go and hire one for *4.50 per day. No wonder the county is having to borrow money. The Ohio Democratic State Platform declares, for free silver, and the Bryan silverites in Nebrarka, are having things their own way, but wait till a national democratic convention is heard from, and Ohio and Nebraska democrats won’t know where they are.

If the §B,OOO of our county funds had not been squandered cn the Iroquois and fVakarusa ditches the county would not now be put to the humiliation of having to borrow the *5,000 negotiated a few days since to make both ends meet, till more can be squeezed out of the publip. Down with sucli rascally management. Uncle Billy Greignfield. our trustee, is one of the most mild mannered and good natured old gentlemen to be- met with in a day’s journey. But there is a limit at which iorbasarance ceases to be a virtue axd he in some mighty plaiu words informed tlie county commissioners, the other day that he had just reached that limit with them. Look out, gentlemen, you may wake up the wrong passenger.

Fra’sx Foltz whs suggested for prosecuting a 1 torncy in this district, and he would have made a good one but he was told to stand aside. -Frank Chilcoto deserved and was—if long and faithful service to party counts! for anything—entitled to the nomination for state senator, but he wws turned down ftr the I comparatively recent and not J very valuable acquisition from the Democracy of Benton coun - ty. C. E. Mills was. likewise turned down. Why, gentienwjn, were you not in it? Was it because a certain great apostle of drainage had certain thin'gs he wanted done in a* certain ’way in a certain plase? We do not know. Time -frill tell.

Jasper county is paying 7 per cent., interest on ss*, 000 borrowed money. There ys a $6,000 judgment, ag&mat the county, drawing 6 per interest. This judgment may b*o over-ruled by, the supreme cou/.-tl but there is uo possible way "to avoid payment of the $6,000 and the 7 per cent, interest thereon. Should this judgment be sustained by the supreane court, we will have an interest bearing debt hanging over us that will amount to $4 per capita for the entire voting population of the county. Very fiw counties in tiho state pay a higher tax than Jasper, yet the last? two years our county fund has run behind and this year we are forced to borrow. W«e have had no losses and have made no extra improvements,,, still we

are behind, paying interest on *5,000. Only a few years ago the county was out of debt, paid all its bills promptly, and collected from the taxpayers less county tax than it now does. What is the matter?

The farmer who thinks protection or free trade, democratic or republican rule, has a world to do in fixing the price of his produce will do well to examine the following figures we have taken from the tiles of the Rensselaer Republican. We compare prices of Sept. 16, 1860 with prices of Sept. 8, 1894; prices when the Harrison administration was 18 months old and prices when the Cleveland administration was 18 months old. Just the highest prices are given. Indianapolis- market report for Sept. 16, 1890, and Sept. 8, 1894: Wheat in 1890, 981 cents. Wheat in 1894, 49 cents. Corn in 1890, 48 cents. Corn in 1894. 56 cents. Oats in 1890, 39 cents. Oats in 1894. 321 cents. Cattle In 1890, *4.30. Cattle in 1894, §4.60. Hogs in 1890, *4.57. Hogs in 1894, *6.40. The farmer who went to the ludianapolis market, Sypt. 16, 1890, with a bushel of wheat, a bushel of corn, a bushel of oats, 100 pounds of live pork, 100 pounds of live beef got for the whole, §10.721. The farmer who went to the same market, Sept. 8, 1894, got for the same kind and amount of products, *12.371. See how close the markets keep together under the two different party administrations. There is in these figures a slight difference in favor of the Deinocrats v but, after all, we all know that prices are regulated by the volume of money, supply and demand.

Spinner's Prophetic Vision.

Chicago Times. One of the chir»f arguments of the advocates of the gold standard is that the less money there is in circulation the more prosperous are the people. They have been practicing on that theorj for the last thirty years and have, succeeded in transforming a condition* of almost universal prosperity and popular content Into one in which ninetythree out of every 100 business ventures.fail, and the people are in a state of unrest which threat-

ens the very foundations of government. But the advocates o.f a contracted currency have not oeen supported in their view oy the men of unbiased mind, familiar with the currency qiinestuon. When he was United S tates treasurer under Presit lent Grant, Gen. F. E. Spinner, the I year following the great panic sos 1873, made a report of that panic and the causes whic.h led

up to it. When the character of his report became known to the Wall street kings they importuned the president to refrain from using it, as he had intended doing, as a part of his n message to congress. As usual, t' he Wall street money kings won, and the following was eliminated from the presidential mess age. In the light of present co-> editions it reads like a prophesy/, and the shrewdness of tha men who wanted a constantly appreciating currency—a monopoly of the circulating medium--in causing its omission,, is more thah ever appreciated:’ Then there were sow creditors; as there was enough to do so, all paid as thery went, and therefore there was mo collapse, as is usual when a country emerges from a long war. It was after the nnmber of people using the money had largely increased, and the currency decreased. that long credits became necessary; after which, after awhile, came suspension of all credits and a fearful panic. The truth is. when money is abundant there will be few private debts. W r hen money is scarce the exchanges of commodities are made on private tired-

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its. As it becomes more scarce the credits are given and debts made on larger and longer time, to give the purchasing parties, as they call it, “time to turn themselves, ” Soon these private debts become so greatly inflated that an explosion takes place, that could not have happened under a better credit system and a more wholesome state of the money market. When,,. on the other hand; money becomes i core and more abundant, credits are asked for and given on shorter time, until the time comes when there is money enough to transact all the legitimate business, and to effect all necessary exchanges of all the merchantable commodities of the country; then private credits will be almost entirely unknown, as will commercial revulsions and consequent panics.

All of the people cannot be fooled all of the time. A great many people have already learned to distrust that thimble-rig-ging delusion, the less one has the more he possesses, and are surprised that they have been so long fooled. When the people come to understand just how much the success of this confidence game has had to do with the irtfffering and misery now on every hand they will rise up and wipe every vestige of Wall street legislation from the statute books.

Opening a w>atch with a knife or finger-nail is needless in our d ay. The Keystone Watoh Case Clompany, of Philadelphia, Pa., free a handsome watch case opener which makes, besides, a pretty charm for the watch chain. If you can’t get one from your jeweler, send to Philiadelphia. This Company is the largest of its kind in the world, and makes all kinds of cases. Its specialty is the Boss tilled case. Jas. Boss invented and made the first tilled case in 1859, and many of.the cases then made and worn since are still intact. Later the Boss patents passed into the hands of the Keystone Company, which has the sole right to make these cases. It has also the sole right to use on its cases the patent Non-pull-out bow or ring, which prevents loss of the watch by theft or injury to it by accident. The Keystone Company does not retail, but all jewelers sell the Boss and other Keystone cases.

Bargain Store, Gall and Sfee^ Coal Chikeis and Files, Axes and itandles, Stoves and Wash-boilers, Saws and Saw-sets, Potato Forks and Scoops, Hinges and Locks, Braces and Bits, Tin and Glassware, KBives and Forks, Shot and Powder, Loaded Shells and Primers, Groceries and Confectionaries. ]Don't forget that I make new tai iff prices on oil stoves and the resd of this list. C« E. Hershman.

THE CHICAGO TIMES.

KHtabliahctl 1H54. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. S, 12 and Id Pages Daily. 112 to IS Pages Sunday. No great daily in the United States is so closely in touch with the people as The Chicago Times. Its policy is progressive, liberal, tolerant. The Times holds that existing social, political, and industrial conditions are not founded upon the principle of equal rights to all and Special privileges to none. That under existing conditions injustice necessarily done the mass of the people. The Times has its own convictions as to how these conditions may be amended. While urging its own beliefs strenuously and intelligently it does not dismiss with contempt or without a heaving the advocates of other ecdnomic reforms. The Times is fearless in its utterances and unswerving in its devotion to the great body of the people. The Times believes in free speech, the free coinage of silver, and radical tariff reform. The Times believes in government control of all natural monopolies. The Times believes in such a tax on land values as shall lighten the burden of the farmer and make the owner of valuable city property pay his just share. The Times believes in the wisdom and good faith of the people. The Times prints all the news from. all the world in a manner interesting and instructive to all the people. Send for sample copies. Read the People’s Paper.

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People's Party State Platform.

Ing-neral tenns wpondonte ih»pr';i i>'—, :m<l d«v*larkllor.s of the Omaha ;> i { .r>«, •»n<l herewith submit the platform -,r •■auivi by yonr committee on r«isolations. TM fIXANCIAf. SSSJ'K. We demand a national currency of V ' per capita. ine|iMt:n;r the free eoinajre »' at the ratio of 15 to I. Kited by the ■' tforernnietit only, a t u ll legal tender - debts both public and private cliMri’i. f the people direct without the interv -at i banking corporations in payment of i - gut ions of tlie government, and den. i . ! t. issue of non-interest hearing trea>.. tfc--of small denominations. We declare our unalterable oppo- i. .- a party, to banks of issue, state or na ! inn ' \\ e also denounce the past and it tied use of the government Hat by coag.- -.«:>• create Interest-hearing bonds. "'-charge that Hit; erime of dent >: -ti/ir.i silver in ’73. by the Republican party, further consummated by the joint action of '.olh th-. old parties at the extra session of c.;ngress in tKI, has full} - accomplished the purpose 0 ’ the monied aristocracy of the Unitea mates and England, in placing American producers of our great staple crops on ale ■! with the poorest paid pauper labor of t - world under English control, by changing t trough this crime against American producers and laborers, the pricing instrument for u’l products and wages to tlie single standard of gold only. We demand a national graduate income tax on salaries or incomes in excess reasonable expenditures for the comforts and necessities of life. We pledge the People’s party, wL-r. given control of the government, that the gun holders, who put up life to save the Union from secession, shall be equalized with th- > bondholders, wlio speculated in human lit ■ and the blood of our people, and tieir pensions shall be treated as a vested right. We favor the election of United States senators and all postmasters by direct vote of the people.

STATE ISSM.’KS. We believe the people are yet ens able of .self-government aud home rule, and demand of the next legislature the repeal of the metropolitan police law applied tc> cities. Wo also denounce the present unfair and un - Just law that forbids minorities representation on election boards or witnesses to count of ballots, as a violation of the natura rights of the people; the entering widget the destruction of free government; th • very essence of party tyranny and taxation without representation, laws that ru hone-' man can defend. We demand a constitutional convention t. revise our '•oustitutlon and Include therein reform In the method- -7 'vntlm and the initiative and referendum system , legislation, with the veto power of ail t ie. important laws in the hands of the people. We demand such equitable adjustment ofthe statute for the listing of property so: taxation that will permit the deduction o’ all boiv& fldc Indebtedness from sum tola! listed. ' We demand a reasonable homestead law that no process of any court can touch. We demand a law taxing alllnhorltanre* coming to citizens of Indiuna, both direct and collateral, at 5 per cent, above 13.000, for tii# be nett of the state sinking fund. We demand that most liberal educational facilities for the masses within the power of Jhe state to provide, and a more efficient ad ministration of the public school find. We demand that convict labor shall be taken as far as possible away from competition with honest, free labor in conduct of the state prisons, recommending that counties worlt their convicts building aud improving public roads. Wo demand a law at the hands of the next legislature that will make it optional with debtors In this state, to pay any legal obligation in gold, silver or other lawful money of the United States. We demand that our state naturalization laws conform to our national laws upon the subject. We view with alarm the evil influence of the liquor traffic. Wo heartily endorse tlm Initiative and refeieudum system of legislation, believing by this means the people cansuppress this and other evils more effectually than by any other mode. We demand an effect ivuenforcement of the laws prohibiting the employment of child labor. We demand that a system of arbit raUon b > established, whereby serious difficulties between employer and employes muv be speedily and impartially adjusted, before either party resort to measures detrimental to one and to both. We favor a reduction of the working limn s by law in mines and factories In conform!! \ with the progress of industry. We demand that cities be specially empowered to assume ownership and control of public water, transportation and lightizm plants, in such manner as to operate wholly in the interest of the people, without imposing burdeusome.taxation. We are against the giving out of public works under contract to the lowest bidder, state and the communities should carry out such work thaznsolves under the supervision of .experienced officers. We favor an efficient employer's liability law and the inspection of mines and factories for the protection of life and limb of the workingmen. The right to vote is inherent in citizenship irrespective of sex. Lakey and Sayler, the new bakers, are prepared to do all kinds of fancy baking. Give them a call if you are needing anything in this line.

Electric Bittern. This remedy is becoming so well known dnd so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.— A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood. —Will drive malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers.—For cure of headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters—Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded.—Price 50 cts, and SI.OO per bottle at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store.