People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — That Anarchistle Reprint. [ARTICLE]

That Anarchistle Reprint.

The parrot down street is learning to say “Anarchy. Anarchy, Pretty Poll, Pretty Poll, Can't somebody give Polly a cracker or a ‘one little bite of tea?” wmitiwm 94 Senator Turpie, for once is right, in his opposition to the Nicarauguan canal scheme. Turpie is an able man and is capable of doing much good for the people of this country if lie wants too. rrwmwrwvwwr.M-mgiMPW There is a movement on fool, in the democratic party, to drop the tariff question aud take up the question of finance. The initiatory step, in this matter, lias already been taken by the New York Reform Club. Let the people beware the movement lias been started by the wrong fellows and in the wrong place. Secretary Carlisle says: “The plan suggested proposes to exempt the government of the United States from all liability for redemption of national bank notes, and places the sole responsibility upon the banks themselves.” Just like the old wild-cat system ain’t it? Could not the secretary suggest something new?

This country now needs a protective tariff law and a sound stable currency. Delphi Journal. This country has a protective tariff with but one exception, the highest tariff it ever had. For thirty years the Journal-and its crew have been lolling us that we have the best financial system on the earth. They have brand ed everybody as cranks and enemies of their country that merely hinted that there was anything wrong with this financial system it now .wishes to improve upon. jM»»vwrm^wj*iri' l «rwr.rr The .last campaign was fought with tiie distinct understanding that Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, was to reap ■whatever reward therb might be in this state as a result of the recent election.—Delphi Journal. If Charles W. Fairbanks has bought anything and paid for it he should surely have it. Mr. Fairbanks is a very rich man and no doubt contributed much toward republican success in the last election. Indiana, be it said to our credit has never sent a millionaire to the U. S. Senate. A direct vote of the people, a .direct vote of the republican party of Indiana, would not give Millionaire Railroader Fairbanks a seat in the United States senate.

The Republican last week reprinted an article from the Lontdon Echo which had the week before appeared as a reprint in the Pilot. The Republican •said, “the Pilot gives its nearly unqualified endorsement in these words: ‘That while it (the article) is a little extravagant there is much of truth in it.”’ That is just what the Pilot v:id uuu nq more.

The Echo said, “Every election is carried by fraud and boodle. Politics is so rotten that it stinks.” The Pilot says there is much truth in this. Look at the great frauds in the election of 1876. The man that was elected president, as everybody now believes, was cheated out of it. See the election of 1880 carried by “Dorsey soap.” See Dudley’s “blocks of five in care of trusted men” in 1888. What of the recent Alabama election frauds? What is being uncovered to-day in New York and Chicago? Why this Republican cry for 25 years, “a free ballot and a fair count?” There is not an intelligent voter in the United States but what knows boodle aud fraud “Dorsey soap” and “Dudley blocks of five,” have much, very much, to do with our elections. Says the Echo, “America is no longer a Republic. It is a plutocracy.” In this there is more truth than we like to acknowledge. Who are the men that are summoned before the committees of congress to give their advice on

proposed legislation? Who are the men that go before congress demand and get special legislation to advance special interests? For months the Republican has been lamenting and sorrowing over the power trusts have weilded over the 53rd congress. Every Republican paper in the United States; every Republicar speaker that came to Rensselaer during the reeeut campaign said the trusts of the land owned the Democratic party, body and breeches, and the democratic party is the ruling party to-day in this country. Yes, America ’s much more of a plutocracy than we like. Says the Eelid, “The president is merely the creation of the bunks or the bank directors, railroad kings and coal barons, and it is the same with the governors of the states.” In this there is so much truth, the people so well understand it that it needs no explanation or comment to make it any plainer. The Echo says, “The poor whine about their poverty and gnaw their crust of bread, but can always be counted on to vote for the rich and shoulder their muskets and lay down their lives in defense of the right of the rich to rob them.” In this too there is much truth.

Again, says the Echo, “The various organizations neither think together, nor work together, and they have no money to buy votes, lawyers and judges.” Not only is there much truth in this but it is about ail truth. Echo, “Rich idlers amuse themselves at Newport and Tuxedo; poor workers toil ceaselessly in the. darkness of the miue and the din of the mill.” Truth, truth, much truth. The Echo says, “Lap dogs are driven through Central Park to take fresh air; children die of over work in filthy garrets.” In this too there is much truth.

These are the things the Pilot thought there was much truth in. The rest of the article was what the Pilot thought and said was “a little extravagant.” Now, Neighbor, “my native country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” We love our country, because it is our country; we know of no other land we wish to change it for, here wa were born, here we must live, and here we will soon die, but that does not make everything here perfect. The Republican speaks of a dangerous, fast increasing class of anarchists in this country. Is it possible that this is true? Why this increase in this land of promise, here where all the civilizing and christianizing influences of the world are yielding their fullest fruits? If the Republican's statement be true, (here must be some cause for this condition; some wicked, un-

just thing or things arc breeding this crop of anarchists. Is this liberty of which we speak a cheat? Is this education and religion of which we boast a mere myth? Can a fast increasing class of anarchists be possible if ours is the “land of the free aud the home of the brave?” If equal rights are given to all and special privileges are granted to none; if our government is conducted upon sound, philosophical and religious principles there will be no room here for the growth of a fast increasing class of anarchists. If neighbor regarded these as such dangerour statements why did he give them such publicity. He knows bis readers are a class that never see such wicked things unless they appear in Republican papers, then why did he place this article before them? Neighbor has made a mistake or is just trying to “frade.”