People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Monkeys vs. Men. [ARTICLE]

Monkeys vs. Men.

The Populist pain in three of the counties composing the old McKinley district where Coxey ran for congress, is 6,773. Keep off the grass. Republican victory was to restore confidence, and confidence was to bring good times. Something has failed to connect, or else good times have come' and the fool people do not know it. We are willing to be patient, but, say, Republican good time makers, don’t forget your promises. Perhaps next week times will be better, or peradventure bus nos i- reviving in spots and ou: i : . . i: i. yet come. Hur'■y vi - Tjbsui. v, iii ■ > 151). men in congress inis yehi who have been turned down ip the people. These men have no political future. Now is their last chance lor a pull and now is the chance lor jobbers to get in their work. No man should sit a day in congress after he has been defeated, nor should a new congress have to wait a year after it is elected before it can begin work.

The old Republican heelers have beeu kicking themselves ever since the election for spend g so much mouey in this coun y. They say the landslide and - 2,000 would have got tljem there easy. So mad and kicky are they that last week the Republican was moved to say the> would have had 200 votes to .~>pare had the Pops swallowed the whole Democratic party it is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The money is put in circulation and the shoemakers now have a rush of business half-soling the Rickers' boots.

< <hio Populist. Monkeys and squirrels will gather of nature's bounty (nuts) and store them in a hole in a tree, lhach will then enjoy the ■ ull products of his labor and be happy. Men will gather of nature’s bounty (the necessary articles for food and clothing), store them in holes in the trees (granaries and store-houses) and when the holes are full let some fellow come along and claim the tree, the hole and its contents as “private” property. They will then sit and shiver and starve while they watch him eat, drink and be merry. The advantages of “superior intelligence and of civilization,” you see. How can any man of intelligence and self-respect say that the figures on the recent election show that the Populist party is dying out? We have increased our vote in Oregon, 131 per cent.; in Georgia, 120 per cent.; in Maine, 200 percent.; in Illinois 250 per cent.; in New York, 150 per cent.; in Minne-'

sota. 300 per in Ohio, *OO per cent., in Wisconsin, 250vp@r cent.; in Pennsylvania, 200 per cent. Taking the whole country. it is thought that on a general average, the Populist vote has increased *l2O- per cent, or more. The vote as now counted shows our party the second party in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington. We are first in Nevada and Nebraska. and with a fair count, first in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. With a little help from the Republicans we have carried the Carolinas. We hold the balance of power in the senate. With one or two exceptions, in every state, we have “goue it alore,” fought two parties and came out second be.>t. What is there in this that looks like dying out; what is there : n this to discourage a new party? No informed man that wast» to oe honest and fair; that wants to tell the truth will say that the late election shows the People’s party to be dying out.