People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — Adicu. [ARTICLE]

Adicu.

For four mouths, we in our feeble way have tried to edit this paper; with no experience, with no taste for the work we went into it under protest and with the understanding that our stay should only be transient. The day of deliverance has at last come and doubly glad are we, glad to quit the work and gluder still to kuow that the People's Pilot now is in a fair way to become something more than a conmon county newspaper. We feel perfectly safe in recommen ling Mr. Craig and his assistance to our subscribers, for no mau ever came to this o lice with better references. Now hoping that the Pilot may still continue to prosper aid that neither we nor the world are any the worse for this four months of editorial life we kindly bid adieu to our one thousand readers.

The next number of the People’s Pilot will be issued under the management of Francis D. Craig, who lias leased the paper and publishing appurtenances, and will conduct the business as an individual enterprise. Subserioers who are in arrears, are requested to pay up their indebtedness to the retiring publishing company and add a dollar for the encouragement of the succeeding editor and publisher. Mr. Craig is a native of Waukesha, Wis., and lias been in the reform work for 18 years, having organized Greenback clubs in Wisconsin in 1877.

His wile will assist him in much of his work, she being a practical printer. Mr. Craig and his wife come to us well recommended, lie being an active political reformer and she being an enthusiastic member of the Christian church. We think we can safely promise our readers that the Pilot will be one of the best papers in the state, when it passes under its new management.

The gentlemen who insist that it is safer to let the national banks issue the peoples money than to leave that duty to the government have probably forgotten the record of the national banks in the summer of 1893. Chicago Times. .As the Pilot has been leased for one year to Francis D. Craig, this is the last issue under its present management. It now goes into the hands of practical printers and experienced writers. The change can not possibly fail of being for the best.

Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska, said the other day in the house: “Mr. Cleveland thinks that the issue of currency is a function of the banks. Jefferson declared such an issue is a function of the government and thought the banks should go out of the issuing business. lam not ashamed to say that I stand by Thomas Jefferson and not Grover Cleveland. ,

Our financial policy has long been made for us and continues to be made for us by a coterie of capitalists, the aggregate of whose wealth is colossal, who are engaged in using the government of the United States to enrich themselves at the expense of the people. The gold getters and gold hoarders, the men who with one hand are putting $50,000,000 of gold into the treasury in a single transaction on which they make an euormous profit, and taking gold out of the treasury with the other hand, and continuing to cry that the gold reserve is being depleted and the finances are going to smash, give to this country its financial management. They are more exciting and remorseless than ever were the tariff-fed | barons. They exalt gold and j depreciate silver and cry out against any fiat of government concerning currency, whereas the currency they themselves emit is nothiug but a fiat of government to sustain which the government has issued bonds and people pay interest on the same. Until the currency question is settled it will be idle practically to talk further of the tariffs.—Chicago Times.