People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — Page 4

Originate Propped Law Through the Initiative.

The People’s Pilot. BY P. D. CRAIG. <Lessee.) Pl!i)T PUBLISHING CO.. (Limited,) Proprietors. David It. Yeoman. President,. Wk. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Or.AZtbkook. See’y. J. A. McFahuind. Treas. The People's Pilot.s the official organ of the Jasper yu* Newton County Alliances,and is published every Saturday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. Entered as second class matter at the post ofttce in Rensselaer. Ind. Henaaelaer, Saturday, , Jan. t'i.

To The Public.

While the business of the Pilot is now under the control of one individual, the plant is still owned by the original company and its success or failure is still as much a matter of interest to its one hundred shareholders as it ever was. The friends in a business wav. of this paper still deserve and will receive the reciprocal patronage of our stockholders the same as if the company was directly managing the paper. We ask that all friends will continue to give the paper that liberal support they have so cheerfully given in the past three and a half years. And we promise that in the future the paper will be made much more desrving (.f support, than it has been in the past. The paper will be conducted in a fair manner, show ir,g all due regard to the religious and political opinions of all honest men; standing firmly by whatever it, thinks is right, and consistently opposing whatever it believes injurious to the common well fare. D. H. Vi; oman, Pres. Li:t: E. Glazrbiiook, Sec’y.

The greenback at last must go. Put a dollar’s worth of gold in the gold dollar. The south and the west are in the saddle for silver. Hit the express monopoly with a 4 cent postage billy. Less than 100 million dollars is the world's product of silver.. Silver is used as the standard money by four-fifths of the civilized people of the world. The policy of Cleveland is the retirement of all treasury notes, greenbacks and silver certificate. Is it possible for the race to grow stronger and greater and more God like by a denial of opportunities to the masses? Starving millions m the presence of unlimited food supplies are a sorry evidence of the wisdom and righteousness of our lawmakers.

-T . * iN parly six million voters, or one-half of the electors of the United States, failed to vote last fall. Can it be that they are doin? some private thinking. Is “Caesar's Column"—reared by the fertile imagination of a philosopher and ardent lover of his tace as a warning to his fellows to become a reality? The Atlanta Constitution, the leading paper of the South, favors free silver, as does a big majority of Georgians atid all other American producers. The postal note, which was made to keep the people from howling when the fractional paper currency was destroyed, was retired by request of the banks. By special request of the banks, the postoffice money order is to be doctored so that the people cati not use it as a savings bank, as it is at present done to the extent of millions of dollars. The national banks in the very desperation of passing existence show an arrogance in demanding further consess’ons of special privileges, coupled with a renewal of their charters, that cannot fail to warn every observant person of the dangerous power that confidently dictates the financial policy of this country. The mills of the Gods grind slow but wondrous fine.

The free and unlimited coinage of silver, irrespective of any nation on earth, and at the established ratio of 1(5 to 1 cannot be side- tracked ivy any promise to coin the seigniorage. As long as metalic money is used the people will insist upon both gold and silver being given equal opportunities for coinage, and the wiTl of the people cannot much longer be subverted by the shrewd financiers, who control the gold of the world.

FIGURES NEVER LIE. —The People's Party More Than Doubled Its Vote Over 1892, While Both Democrats and the Republicans Lost Heavily.

The postoffice should deliver parcels C. O. D., and collect drafts. Who dares to assert or maintain that a policy or a system that denies free recourse to the natural elements from which labor creates wealth, or compels him to pay tribute of that which he creates to usurers before he shall exchange that which he has created with bis fellow wealth producers—a policy Or a system that in any way or to any degree hampers or delays or makes more costly the produc tion and exchange of wealth, or robs the wealth producer of that which he creates —who will assert that such a policy and such a system is not as a ball and chain upon the limbs of the race to delay or prevent its upward climb? But this is the condition of our existence to-day. On every hand we see the sign, “Keep off the grass." and on every lane is a toll gate.

Public Robber System.

When the railroads were granted the right of way under the right of “eminent domain” it was with the implied understanding that they should be operated for the public welfare. Some of the most eminent lawyers and jurists have maintained that when the roads cease to operate for the public welfare their franchises return to the people in whom the right of “eminent domain” originally vested. Who, not financially interested in railroads, will attempt to maintain that the railroads are not run on the system of changing all that the traffic will bear? They are a public robber system, squeezing out of the people the means to pay dividends on billions of watered stock. As an incident to their schemes they are in politics from President to pound - master. They have an army of henchmen, bribed in a score of ways to serve their will. They do'nt hesitate to smirch the judicial ermine to set aside law and prevent justice. So apparent is this becoming to the average man, that the henchmen of the railroads had better beware of the time when a thoroughly aroused people will not stop to buy the roads but will confiscate the whole business. There is a limit to human patience, and the corporations have pretty nearly struck the limit.—New Charter.

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Beware of the armies of straw men that are arrayed before the people that their attention may be kept withdrawn from the real cause of their sufferings, the true source of their danger. Wonderful are the achievements of the race in science; wonderful its progress in the arts; wonderful its command, newly acquired, over some subtler forces in nature; but more wonderful, most wonderful, is the blindness of its leaders to the final, inevitable result upon the race of a governmental policy which instead of advancing the standard of wages and of living among the masses of the people, deliberately and persistently seeks to lower it. The reform party has for twenty years said that the money question was the paramount issue. The old parties claimed it was the tariff. Who was right? Both the old parties are a unit in demanding a reform of “the best currency system in the world.” And why? If the system was as good as claimed, it could not be bettered. Is it not time to suspect these financiers of either incompetency or dishonesty? Will their proposed change, which is an extension of the same old system that has brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy, be better? Why not compare their system with that laid down in the Omaha platform?

It Will be Stopped.

Hettie Green the richest woman, perhaps, in America, reputed for shrewd financeering and economical habits, though profiting by an social system that allows her to become immensely wealthy from the labor of those who may be extremely poor, is eminently right in uttering these words: “1 don't believe in the Lexow committee. How can they blame policemen for taking S2OO or S3OO when the public aliows itself to be robbed of millions by the railroad wreckers? That's what we want—a committee to investigate these wreckers —the railroad companies. Haven't we any Americans With brains who will begin this work? How can the people afford to pay the interest on the watered stocks, which they must do by paying high rates for freight and fares? must be stopped. I wouldn’t hesitate to put them all in prison.”

Cannot the grip of the world's usurers upon the throat of the world's laborers, the limbs of progress, the wings of science, and thought and freedom be broken? We do not advocate a national financial policy founded on usury; a policy which compels usury; which makes usury the cornerstone, the foundation princidle, the heart,and soul and moving spirit of the system. Evidently the final struggle of the race for freedom approaches. The powers of light and darkness marshal their hosts for the contest; the end of the epoch of time prophesied of old is at hand. What is it to be? Is there sufficient intelligence and moral courage yet developed in the race to enable it, through the voice and vote of the common people, to overthrow the system of usury and political infidelity and start the race once more and permanently upon the upward track? That those who uphold and enforce the present financial system anticipate a continuance of disastrous results is evident from occasional droppings from their lips, as in the declaration of Mr. Hewett, a prominent politician of New York, who recently made public declaration that the past and present policy of the government must be a reduction of wages from twenty-five to fifty per cent.

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue. James Yeoman. Rensselaer. * 1 00 Jerry Hess. Pleasant Grove 1 00 W. R. Bull, Rensselaer 1 00 J. R. Cox. Cheney ville. 11l 80 Tom Handle. Valina 2 00 W. H. Reed, Brook 1 00 W. K. Moore. Rensselaer 1 00 A. O. Yeoman, Julia, Kansas 1 00 H. E. Randle Pleasant Grove.; 100 Joe IHuzak Remington 1 00 Abe. Long. Rensselaer .. 100 Amos llavidson. Kniman 1 00 John Scliroer, Blackford 50 Michael Robinson. Medary ville 1 20 E. W. Culp, Remington 2 (»0 I. B. Washburn. Rensselaer 1 00 Geo. Battleday Brook 2 00 Geo. Humphrey Rensselaer 1 00 G. G. Garrison, Rensselaer 1 00 Ella Culp, Rensselaer 1 00 George W. Casey. Fair Oaks 2 00 NEW gRBSCIUUEKS. Ellen Maliany. Scotland. S. 1). 1 00 David Elder, Parr. Linda Long, Medary vi11e.... ..... 20

Deffinition of a Tramp.

A tramp is any rough looking stranger. Set the dog on him. A tramp is any person seeking work away from home. Arrest him. A tramp is any foot sore traveler freezing at your door. Don't admit him. A tramp is any person who asks for bread. Give him poison. A tramp is any person who can't “give an account of hinself.” Ten days and cost. A tramp is always a liar and a loafer. Send him up. A tramp, beirg a stranger, is a professional burglar. Shoot him. A tramp is any person without home, friends or money. Hang him. A tramp, like the slave, has no standing in court. Tar and feathers. A tramp can legally freeze or starve to death if he otherwise escapes. Plant him. A tramp is not a human, the tramp laws, being inhuman, are ample proof of that. Slone him. A tramp never had a mother, father, sister, brother, wife, sweetheart or child. Cat o' nine tails. A tramp never was an honest man, else he would have been dead long since. Death loves a shining mark. A tramp is in fact any industri ous laboring man, because his “visible means of support” are liable at any time to become invisible. Watch him. A tramp is not a bank cashier, though the latter does tramp off with the deposits frequently. A tramp is not a railroad president, the illegitimate father of thousands of tramps. A tramp is not a bond holder but the bond with all the coupons clipped and the face marked paid. A tramp is not a protected manufacturer, but the finished product of unprotected labor. A tramp is not a coal baron, but the over product of the under production squeeze. Tramps cause all the bank failures, no question about that. Tramps cause wheat to sell at 46 cents per bushel with fret soup and beds under the shadow of over loaded mammoth eleva t ors.

There are about as many tramps as there are farmers, Tramps burn down houses to get jobs iu building new ones, but then tramps won't work. Tramps commit all the robberies, murders, outrages, arsons, etc. They are a convenience to have in stock for scape goats occasionally. The recent action of Russia in preparing to use a half billion of silver lias developed the fact that it wll not be possible for the mines of the world to supply and maintain so large an amount in addition to the present large consumption. Silver coinage has to be rest >cked every 17 years, wear and loss consuming it in that time. It is the common people, the men and women of little individual, but limitless community influence, that we must, look to for the power to turn backward the approaching cloud of darkness, and each of us has influence in his or her community.

England has repeatedly asked theUrited States postoffice authorities for an exchange of “parcel post” business, but our express companies have been “so strong as to paralize the action of the United States government.” Russia is to replacd £500,000,000 of paper money with silver. There being no such stock of silver in the world's combined market, Russia will be about twenty years getting what she needs. With 4 cent postage the farmers wife could do her shopping in New York or San Francisco if she desired. If gold were not used for money everybody could afford a solid gold watch, they would be so cheap. The final demonetization of silver is to be followed by the destruction of the remaining greenbacks. Mexico and all the Central and South American nations use silver as the standard money. Fifty-eight million dollars of silver is the annual product of the United States. Demonetize gold and there wouid not be 60 cents’ worth of gold in a dollar. The republicans of Pennsyl vania demanded a circulation of S4O per capita.

Enact Law through the Refbtfendum;

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The Discovery Saved His Life.

Mr. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beaverviile, 111., says: “To Dr. King’s New v Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with LaGrippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s ~ ji New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at F. B. Meyer's Drug Store

Cure For Headache.

As a remedy for all forms of headache eledtric bitters has proved to be the very best. It effects a permanent cure and the most dreaded habitual sick headaches yield to its influence, We urge all who are afflicted to procure a bottle, and give this remedy a fair trial. In cases of habitual constipation electric bitters cures by giving the needed tone to the bowels, and few cases long resist the use of this medicine. Try it once. Large bottles only fifty cents at F. B Meyers Drug Store.

The undersigned has a nice lot of Shropshire ewes that he will put out on the shares, or sell and CQntract the lambs and wool, or sell on time till the money can be made out of them. He also has feeding sheep lambs and wethers which he will sell and contract back when fatted. Parties w islimg an yof above call on A. M cCoy. '' If you are going to set trees this fall, give me a call. I sell H the best stock at very low prices. 5,000 2-year-old grape vines at 5 cents each, ready for delivery after October 10th. Nursery one-half mile northeast of Foresman, Ind. J. A. Woodin. How much will the cause of science, of morality, be advanced by the enforced idleness of millions of our people, as the direct result of the financial policy of this and preceding administrations. Farmers, haul your grain to Hartley Bros, and receive Remington and Geodland prices. W. N. Jones offers his services to tluse who have sales this fall. W. N. is an old experienced crier. Give him a call.

Sheep.