People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — The Reason For Populism. [ARTICLE]

The Reason For Populism.

Populism is a significant and. The Times believes, a healthy factor in politics today. It means that an enormous body of the people have become convinced that neither of the two old parties is tit to meet the issues of the day or has the welfare of the plain people sufficiently at heart to stand as their champion. There is a great measure of reason and of justice pn this repudiation of both ■ parties. The Times has more ! than once, pointed out that oh I questions of the most vital irnj portance to the people the two I old parties are a unit. It was a i democratic president who orderled out United States troops to • break down a strike and who i permittedhis attorney-general—-himself a hireling of railroads—to employ all the machinery of the department of justice for the purpose of crushing the people who had presumed to revolt against the tyranny of corporations. Yet the republican party is equally committed ,to this policy of oligarchy, for its chief spokesmen in congress and its foremost newspapers applauded the president’s action. On the vital question of the currency, too, the two old parties are at

one. There is here and there a free-silver republican, and there are many free silver democrats, but the dominant forces in both parties take their cue from Wall street and stand for a single gold standard. It is because of the folly of democratic loaders that the populist party exists. There must be a “poor man's party" in this nation, but ytSar by year the democracy has. been drifting further and further from that position. In it there are many clear-sighted, sincere truly democratic men whom it would be a national misfortune to have retired from public life, but its leaders—its Clavelands, Brices, Gormans, and Olneys—are out of touch with the people and in close communion with the trusts and the privileged classes. Populism is a revolt against this alliance It is a revolt which deserves to prosper so long as the conditions creating it continue.— Chicago Times. If you have not yet procured one of those pretty watch case openers, get one from your jeweler, or send to Philiadelphia. They are furnished free by the Keystone Watch Case Company. Besides making a handsome charm for your chain, they save your finger-nails and knifeblades. The Keystone Company is the largest of its kink in the world, and makes all kinds of cases, from the low-priced nickel to the most expensive solid gold. Its great specialty is the Jas. Boss filled 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 Watch Case Company. which has the sole right to make these cases. Boss cases are known to all jewelers ss the standard, alter which all other filled cases arc patterned. Ail Keystone cases, Boss cases included, have the far-famed Non-pull-out bow or ring. It is the only bow that is securely fastened to the case, and can only be had on cases made by this Company. It prevents loss of the watch by theft or injury by dropping. These cases are handled by all jewelers, as the Company itself does not retail.