People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — What’s the Difference. [ARTICLE]

What’s the Difference.

Our government, as now man aged, is a machine that grinds out pleasures for the rich and miseries for the poor. It is not now. nor never has bee;), the leaders in the moral and i’to- kctnal worid. that own the • nt for!lines of the land. y- 1 HU ■ «UUIII Only f .h Democratic con gressmen .me ks; in the fifteen sia • s >. ; and west of Arkansas. Pluto* ;•<*.-■ .• is concentrating its forces. MUa*r »< wwi; «t sa*«m:?v In 23 states not. a single Dem ocratic congressmaiL was ekcied at the late election. Ohio, Michigan, Indian;’,. Illinois and Wisconsin, will have, all told, in the next congress only liv. Democrat s. » Mtnauai MUMMIMM nwiw »ju There were last week, f'-2. 333,505.92 paid out for pensions at Indianapolis. This is the largest sum the Indianapo agencj has ever distributed. yc : we are told that the Demoura ■ are cutting down the pensions Men are not homeless keau--they are lazy and consiitutiorm worthless, but becui.’se 11; ;ru of their laboi have k. n .-< by others. Nobody nun because of fain hi*, i ■ be< an ■ the greedy have n >re than tlx can use. Neighbor assure.-, ns that there has never been any in tentiun to “beat and pound’’ our frail body. This promised “licking" then, like all other republican promises is m ver i< be fulfilled. We might have known this and saved all the Worry it has giveN us. VtE are told that the republicans could not gei. excursion rates via. Fair Oaks to their rooster roast at Mt. Ayr the other night. Reduced rateto republicans were discontinued after the election was over. It was republican votes the rail roads wanted when They were so liberal with the parly. it;--.- timmiwi r The great increase in the Populist vote ha.s alarmed the money power of the east, and the question now is which shall run, on the Republican ticket in ’96. Sherman or Cleveland. Sherman's age i.-> against him and the sentiment against the 3rd term would wori< against Cleveland. Plut >craey worships Cleveland. It not bear to see him leave the white house.

Let no democrat, prohibition or populist for a moment entertain the delusion that the coming legislature will make a fair apportionment. The republican purty is not built that way. They will gerremand this state worse than it has ever been before. Did not Wm. D. Owen declare they would do so, in his speech here in the commencement of his canvass? Scarcely were the returns of the election footed up, than the talk of the election of county superintendent, jn June, com-

menced.’ Several candidates are mentioned. It seems to be pretty generally considered that there is more than one deserving, competent republican school teacher in the county. In this election the Pilot will have no voice and as between candidates no very particular choice. It is thought that Mr. Warren will hardly ask for the fifth term, but will give way for awhile to others; ence the early talk and the many candidates. Senator Peffer attributes to Mr. Cleveland an uncontrollable ambition to become the leader of the republican party. He ~ iy.- that the tariff having beer disposed of for a decade at lea.-i, I ere is no issue between th* ’;< • political parties but the si ver ;i nd currency questions, and ii; >n these th ■ president is just as much a republican as John Sherman or Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley or Tom Jb ed. Mi Peffer believes that before the ■ xt election the people of the •■< ii.try are going io divide on ireference between two ru :us or one as money . and t t.. 4r. Cleveland, by tiie logic o s position, will be tie: nead i ;.-i of the gold bugs. And, *,r <nge as this suggest ion u.; seem, a large number of otl men believe it. Chic.;go Re id.

VVE i all li* t i tii.iiHi of our readers to Sq *■ Graves’let i r of wiihnrawa run the Republican party, * mud in another column. Sq e Graves is one of trie bes mformed men in northern J isper. His manly i.-tier sets ton b very honestly .mu plainly is reasons for talcum f ie step he has. In this p vlr. Graves is not alone, m-ands of men who love their <• >,;i ry bet o r than their party, <• doing just as he has done. - gent email has renounced 'i i * of his Republicanism, but (and> G\ ihe party of Lin- . Sumuei, Seward and their Lm* oiu Republicanism .■ ffeis* nian Democracy unitlie cay of monopoly, the >'■ _ie of plutocracy will soon ■a . t a.; end.

’ -'SEPH Medimm, editor of uicago Tribune and republi.i> .-.and*d.He for the United’ .si i **s .'n > nale, from Illinois say.-?: ■ The set 1 lenient of thetariff question on proper lines will i.Hid to allay and finally settle .he keling of unrest and discon leal tha; prevails. By settling the tai'tlf question 1 mean le establish su-Ii a tariff poli<-.;. ' hat bom parties will agree to i*d n siand. We want a tariff ii.ii the republicans Will say is >utficiei;i ly I igh to protect the \*n**riean wage scale and that -- democratic party will be .vi-ihng to let alone, except an *>■ is>ional adjustment. for ■••v.-niie purposes.” Do you favor a high tariff?” “I do net want a tariff too u. It should not be so high that it will breed trusts and abuses and not to low to admit foreigh manufacturers in the m irket for competitive goods.” There is a tight now on, in the republican party between wild, crazy McKinley protection and moderate, sensible Medill pro teciion. Which side will win is hard to tell.

Governor AltgeEjD before the Illinois State Grange: “We may talk against combinations as much as we will; they have become established facts in this country. All of the great manufacturing, railroad and commercial interests of this country are controlled by combinations. A corporation is in itself a combination. There is no power under the heavens that can change these conditions. They are the peculiarity of the age, and the only way to prevent these great combinations of capital from oppressing the people is to meet them with a force strong enough to check them. Be as wide awake as they are. If they try to shape legislation, be on the ground and prevent it. If they try to name the federal judges, be on hand and recomyou man,

“I will venture that duiing our entire history no farmers’organization has tried to secure the appointment of a single federal judge, and no farmer ever visited the white house for such a purpose, and yet the interests of the farming classes are greater than that of all the corporations combined. “Again, when concentrated capital sends a man to the legislature or to congress it keeps an ey«e on him, and when he ceases to obey i's wishes it retireshim. The farmers have not yet learned to do that. If they ever learn a lesson in this regard there will not be so many men yvho smile on the farmer at home and then sell him out at Washington or at his state capital.”

Perhaps after some of our esteemed contemporaries have quite finished talking about the “decline of populism,” “the busting of the populist bubble,” and the like, they may have time to note that the people’s party was the one party in the late elections which cast a larger vote than it polled in the United States in 1892. Nearly 2,000,000 populist votes were counted this year, while in 1892, with the stimulus of a presidential election, only 1,041,028 weye cast. Democratic leaders and democratic journals that ignore these iiTficant figures are guilty of i ■ ■■■ most stupendous folly. 1 muot be 2,000,000 popucast in 1896 and a ic president elected, ;iuiis>m’s later gains have , ij .u democratic states. It is the part of wisdom for democrats to face this problem fairly and seek to discover what causes have driven these people’s party voters from the ancient party of the people. The Times has steadily held that were democracy true to its fundamental principles there would be no room for a party of populism. Shall not wise democrats then seek these truths and maintain them, oven though by so doing they break definitely with the small section of the party which has become corrupt by arislo cratic associations.—Chicago Times.

A King or emperor oni.v gets out of the people all ie can wild safety. They hire soldiers to protect them. Monopolists are only getting out, of the people all they can safely. They hirelaw makers and courts to protect them. What is the difference? Our people would tight against a king, but meekly submit to extortion from monopolists and trusts. They vote lor them by voting for parties that have permitted them to come into existence. How foolish them people in Yurrup are to submit to tyrants! The New Charter.