People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — Page 6

Postal Telephone.

More greenbacks. Stand by your home paper. More greenbacks and less bonds. Down with the banker’s rebellion No more bank notes or bonds forever. Greenbacks are true American money. More greenbacks and less monkey business. Where there are so many wildcats, there must be a rat. So in i) the alarm! The bankers are advancing on our homes. The eighth financial conspiracy is worse than the other seven combined. Perpetual prosperity is what the principles of the Omaha platform provide for. Twist it and turn it as much as you can —still the banker's plan i- one of rebellion. Plutocracy will pull the other leg as ,soon as the republican congress convenes. Let us have more greenbacks, without any exception, ands, ifs, buts or bank notes. INDEI’KNI)KNT free coinage of both gold and silver, and independent issue of legal tender greenbacks.

The life of the nation is threatened. The bankers are about to capture the most sacred right of government. While putting down the rebellion of bankers against government money, let us free the debt slaves of the country. The rebellion against government money must be put down—and the only way to put it down is to issue more greenbacks. The present banking system may not be the best in the world —but the one proposed in the lialtimore plan is certainly the worst. The bankers’ plan is too outrageous for cool argument. It must be denounced in the hardest words the English language affords.

China is about to jump out of an elegantly .Japanesed frying pan into the fire. She contemplates borrowing money from the Rothschilds. Of course the green backer’s tulle is all “fiat lunacy"—and yet the bankers can't issue money even under the Baltimore plan without the aid of government fiat. The attempt of the democratic President, aided by the republicans, to destroy the greenbacks, will drive lots of honest workingmen oat of the old parties into the new. Nobody will now deny that the money question is the important one. A plan is proposed by Grover and John a:;d the bankers to destroy this great fa action of the government. We believe in paying all honest debts—and do not consider it inconsistent to suy that the first, and the last, and the next issue of bonds to keep up a gold reserve, should be repudiated.

It is all right for the government to f amish money to the bankers without interest on :>> per cent security. But it would be awful to furnish money to t:.e farmers on 125 per cent security at a low rate of interest. The bankers will force congress to P'tss the new currency bill by drawing all the gold out of the treasury, while outwardly pretending to be opposed to the bill—fooling the people with one hand and forcing congress with the other. A bill has been passed by the house allowing all the railroads to pool thenprofits, thus making them practically one corporation. Whoop 'er up! The next step will force the government to take charge. Corporation socialism hath a tendency. There would be no currency at all under die Carlisle plan. There would be a worse panic than the world ever knew-. The “safety fund" is to be accumulated gradually on a small percentage, and it would be ten years before the fund would be large enough to issue the bank note proposed. Article I, section 3. clause 5 of the constitution, says: “Congress shall have power to coin money and regulate the value thereof." Will some one please point out a clause in the constitution authorizing congress to delegate that power to the bankers? The opposition to free coinage of silver is that it would increase the amount of mouet- in circulation. Do you think the fellows who want to demonetize silver will expand the circulation under the Baltimore plan except for temporary advantage to the tanker; .v get noitj of more to

While there is a starving family in America every bushel of wheat exported is stained with blood and tears. ========= That b right, increase the army and navy, and when you get ready to fight we’ll come and get it for use on our side. The soup houses will furnish the philanthropists more “slumming” and charitable amusement this winter than usual. Carlisle dictated his new currency scheme “hurriedly to the typewriter” and it will be passed hurriedly by machinery. Now that the republican party has turned down McKinleyism, what difference is there between the two old parties? A congress which has its walking papers is just the kind of a body the money power delights to toy with. Gen. Weaver. Ik hope were confidence, and “confidence” were hope—but there is too little confidence in hope and no hope in “confidence.” This country lacks just 3 per cent of being half way what American patriotism demands—s 3 per cent of our population are tenants. , All business that is not directly a factor in production and distribution, is only of educational, religious, or imaginary benefft. Now is the time to issue more legal tender greenbacks, redeemable in food, clothes and shelter for the homeless, ragged and hungry. Instead of buy ng British gold with our wheat to pay interest, why not let foreigners buy our wheat with silver, and use the silver at home. The two old parties are the same. “It is a shame, Sam; these are the same, Sam. Tis all a sham, Sam, and a shame it is to sham. Sain. As long as there is plenty to eat and wear in this country, laziness is the only thing that should force any person to go ragged and hungry. Depending on men who make a living by creating emergencies to relieve the country in cases of emergency would be funny, wouldn't it? M high would you rather have, a legal tender note, which is a lien nron the whole nation, or a bank note which is a lien upon the property of a corporation. If the rich men are really worked so hard as they say they are, there are lots of idle men in the country who would gladly do their work for less wages. Combination of the few will finally force combination of the many. The great trusts are unconsciously and unintentionally educating the people for co-operation. The agricultural department has figured out that “we cat too much”— and yet there are thousands of people in this country who don't get one square meal a day. Tiie gold reserve is useless, foolish and ephemeral. It should be profitably, wisely and eternally abolished, 'ihe wealth of the nation is enough guarantee for its credit.

Tins thing of going east to go into politics is ruining many a good western man. Move the capital west, and let the eastern fellows go west and grow up with the country a little more. The conviction of Debs may serve to open the eyes of labor unions to the fact that political action is their only hope. They must put men in office from whom they can expect justice. Alt. we have previously said against the Carlisle-Baltimore currency plan is hereby repeated against the Springer substitute, and multiplied by ten million volts of righteous indignation. A l.l, wealth, that labor lias not produced. is the gift of God to his children equally. Itut laborers not only fail to get their share of what God gives, but lose part of what they earn as well. Even during the civil war Abraham Lincoln refused to have a body guard —but a democratic administration is so much w-orse tnan war that President Cleveland finds it necessary to have a guard of armed soldiers about the house where he stays w-hen he isn’t fishing or duck hunting. But, you inquire, can this great government come down from its high perch to look after the prosperity of individual man? In the name of God what is government for, then? Is it a government to p-otect property exclusively? Is property everything and man nothing?—ll v. J. D. Botkin. Mr. Bayard, embassaordor to the Court of St. James, thinks that the United States ought to pay its diplomatic corps better salaries, so they can live in such a manner as to sustain their dignity. Better abolish the whole thing and use horse sense instead of dignity in foreign relations.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., WEEKLY, ONE DOLLA& PER YEAR.

DECISIONS ARE LAW.

BUT MIGHTY POOR LAW AND WORSE JUSTICE. Whole Fault Was It That at the Same Time the A. K. C. Went Oat on a Strike Some Other Follows Had a Grievance of Their Own to Settle?

In speaking of the sentence of Debs, ' Attorney Darrow said: “The dicision is bad law, but the ' sentence is remarkably lenient. ” Unjust, but lenient. A remarkable combination of right j and wrong. Robbing a man of his liberty, then consoling him with the thought that ; he might have been treated much I worse. After atl, it is “remarkable leniency” ; on the part of a plutocratic judge, when he had a chance at such a power- j erful leader of labor as Debs, not to have sentenced him to prison for life. Might just as well have sentenced ; him twenty years as six months for ■ nothing. This thing of decisions of judges taking the place of law is worse than j “bad law.” Bad law is bad enough, j but bad decisions without any law at all to support them are worse than j anarchy. These things breed revolution. Since the Judge reasoned back to ! Debs as the cause of the riots, why not ; reason a little further back to Grover Cleveland and George M. Pullman. ! They were causes prior to Debs, and I and should have suffered the penalty, j Or perhaps the thirty years republic I can rule is responsible, since it built ! up Pullman and the railway corporations and forced the laborers to either j work at starvation wages, or be shot j down for a “change.” Either the republican party or the j change ought to be sentenced to : prison. Or perhaps the judge who issued the j injunction, interfering with the legal j rights of Mr. Debs ought to be im- j prisoned. Or perhaps the Railway Managers association that decided to support Pullman before the railway strike was ordered, was the original cause of the trouble. And perhaps the booby soldiers who blew up a cannon Vhile trundling it ; about the streets, killing innocent | women and children, were the cause j of some rioting. Or perhaps the fool people of the I United Statos who submit to such out- | rages all ought to be imprisoned. Or perhaps the producers of the country are guilty of overproduction, forcing the capitalists to increase their faeilties for gobbling to such an extent that they produce riots. Or perhaps it was Columbus who discovered America thus opened the field for the creation of this free American spirit j that opposes plutocracy. Or perhaps i it was a mistake that the world was j created at all, since the fact that it exists has made room for anarchists. Or perhaps the A. R. U. ought to have waited until the coming of the millenium before it struck, so that nobody else would have had a grievance to settle at the same time. i'liey should have waited until all the other unemployed people of Chicago starved to death, so that they could not have taken advantage of the disturbance to wreak their vengeance upon the greedy corporations that rob them of a chance to ea n a living. “Contempt of court.” How can we have anything else but contempt for such a contemptible court?

Resolved; That congress has no power to charter a United States bank; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the law interests of the people. This is plank from the democratic platform of fifty-four years ago. Now the blind leaders of this blind party are trying to lead it into turning over one of the most important constitutional and just powers of the government to the banks. There is quite a difference between the democratic party of now and then. Perhaps you have noticed it. While congress is talking about “refunding” the greenbacks, it should also make provisions for refunding what has been stolen from the producers of this country during the last quarter centnry. Well, congress has decide to “revise" Carlisle’s hurried scheme for revolutionizing the currency—to make it a little more revolutionary and a little more republican to please the next congress. Ix the same issue of a great daily paper that recorded the conviction of Eugene V. Debs at Chicago for forming a labor organization, we notice that the whisky trust was in session at Peoria and completed a plan of reorganization. Voltaire said that originality is nothing but judicious imitation. But where two parties imitate each other and both are shams, that is republican ism and democracy.

Now and Fifty Years Ago.

WASHINGTON.

In the senate Mr., Ransom was elected president pro tem. and Mr. Mitchell replied to Mr. Turpie's critii ci.sms of the Nicaragua canal bill. Both house and senate adopted reso- , lutions of respect to the memory of Gen. Post and appointed committees to escort the remains to Galesburg, Hi. The house ordered investigation of ; charges that Judge Ricks prostituted | his office to further a conspiracy by which S. J, Ritchie was robbed of ; $«, 000, 000. The caucus of house democrats in- , dorsed the substitute for the Carlisle ; currency bill by a vote of 81 to 59 ! after a spirited debate.

The district Court of Appeals upheld Judge Cole’s decision that the senate sugar investigating committee had the power to compel witnesses to testify. Secretary Smith held a conference with Indian agents regarding the best means to better the condition of the red men. A bill intended to take the distribution of seeds out of the hands of congressmen has been prepared by Secretary Morton. At an informal meeting of the republican steering committee it was agreed there should be no tariff legislation at this session. The currency bill willeometo a vote in the house this week. Prospects for its passage seem brighter. Gold reserve of the treasury %vas reduced to 551,004,033 by withdrawal of §3,350,000 for shipment to Europe. A resolution was adopted by the senate asking whether ex-Secretary Foster, who goes to China, has any official relations with the United States. Austria - Hungary has protested against tlie discriminating duty on bounty paid sugar, alleging it to be a violation of the existing treaty. Debate on the currency bill was continued in the house Friday. Banker Ilendrix of New York made a vigorous speech in opposition to the measure. The military academy appropriation bill was passed by the senate Friday and the pension appropriation bill taken up. Mr. Lodge's resolution of inquiry as to why American war ships were withdrawn from Hawaii caused a warm debate in the senate Friday. At a conference of senators of both parties it was decided to make no attempt to correct errors in the tariff law. In a report to congress Secretary Gresham states that Americans were properly protected at Bluefields. Commissioner Miller, of the internal revenue bureau, is making active preparations to collect the income tax. It is believed an effort will be made to repeal the tax of one tenth of a cent per pound on sugar at this session.

POLITICAL.

The Tennessee legislature convened at Nashville. Senator Harris was renominated by the democratic caucus. Senator Pettigrew was unanimously renominated by the republican legislative caucus at Pierre, S. D. Pills for the relief of drouth sufferers were introduced in both houses of the Nebraska legislature. Gov. Upham was inaugurated at Madison, Wis., many prominent republicans witnessing the ceremony. The contest between Washburn ana Nelson for the Minnesota senatorship is said to be developing a great deal of bitter feeling. Gov. Nelson of Minnesota has created a sensation by announcing his candidacy for the senate. Deadlock in the Colorado senate was broken, the populists gaining .enough republican and democratic recruits to organize. Henry B. Cleaves was inaugurated governor of Maine for the second time and made a strong plea for protection. Illinois senatorial apportionment law of 1803, contested from Lee county, is to be tested by the Supreme court. Nelson Whitaker, the million aire iron manufacturer of Wheeling, W. Va., has announced his candidacy for the senate. J. C. Burrows of Kalamazoo was chosen for the short term senatorship by the Michigan legislature on the second ballot. James McMillan was renominated for the long term senatorship by the Michigan republican legislative caucus, Both branches of the Colorado legislature met at Denver. The democrats, who hold the balance of power in the senate, have not indicated what course they will pursuS.

OBITUARY.

Gen. Philip Sidney Post, member of congress from the Tenth Illinois district, died suddenly in Washington. Gen. H. B. De Bray, who commanded a brigade in the confederate army, died at Austin, Texas. Mrs. Susan Rowe expired while attending services in Woodward Avenue Baptist church at Detroit. She was 74 years old. Alfred McClure, United States vice consul general at Belgrade, Servia, died after a lingering illness. Jonas M. Walker, a pioneer of Nevada, at one time worth millions, died in poo-r circumstances at San Francisco. Mary T. Lathrop. a well-known poet and lecturer, died at her home in Jackson. Mich., of neuralgia, aged 56years. Funeral services over the remains of the late Sir John Thompson, premier of Canada, were held in Halifax, N. S. Dr. William A. Elder, the pioneer physician of Bloomington, 111., dibd after a lingering illness at the age of Cl) years. Mrs. Sarah Bryant Reeve, a niece of William Cullen levant, died at her home in Princeton, UL, aged 73 years.

CASUALTIES.

Fonr lives were lost by the unking of the pilot boat D. J. Lawler No. .1 by a fishing schooner in the fog off Minot's light. The office of the Toronto Globe was destroyed. One fireman was killed and six injured by falliug walls. Fire near Baltimore, which destroyed a Standard Oil plant, acid and fertilizer works, caused a loss of $200,000. Fire originating in the Eagle flour mills destroyed the business portion of Hamlin, W. Va. A wing of the state asylum for imbeciles at Columbus, Ohio, was burned. The inmates were at supper in another part of the building and escaped. An explosion of fireworks in Delorme <fc Quentin's store, at .Milwaukee, originated a tire which caused SIOO,OOO damage. Residence of P. P. Mast, the millionaire manufacturer of Springfield, Ohio, was partially destroyed by fire.

CRIME.

A Freeport, 111., jury found Thomas Beverly guilty of killing August Altemeyer, and fixed the penalty at death. Otto Ilerbig was convicted as an accessory. On the pretense of examiningthe gas meter a thief secured access to St. Joseph's hospital at Omaha and robbed Father Baxaclier of $0,250 in notes and money. Burglars carried off $1,500 worth of merchandise from the stores of F. A. Barr and A. J. Atliay at Sparland, 111. Louis Galloway and wife, who lived near Edwards, Miss., were murdered by unknown thieves. Kidnapers of little Ray Wickham of Thorntown, Ind., who were surrounded in the woods, eluded their pursuers. An agent of a gang of New York counterfeiters was captured by a deputy United States marshal at Torrent, Term. Omaha police have arrested three men who : re alleged to have robbed Sandow and other hotel guests of several thousand dollars in money and jewelry. Mrs. William Flint of Utica, N. Y., shot her husband and his mother because of the latter’s interference in her aft'a irs. Dr. F. L. Ilarrod of Ilarrodsburg Kv., was killed by Sheriff Van Arsdall, whom he is alleged to have maligned during the campaign. Vigilantes came up with a band of horse thieves near Cantonment, 1. T., and capturing three of their number hanged them to a tree. Four of the alleged lynchers of exCounty Treasurer Barrett Scott are under arrest at O'Neill, Neb. Murderer Lambert, who was to have been hanged at Camden, N. J., has been granted a respite by Judge Shiras until March 4. George Lampkin, a meat seller, was killed on a street in St. Louis by J. S. Reap, whose daughter I ampkin had wronged

FOREIGN.

Boilers of the steamer Port Nichtheroy exploded in Rio harbor, causing the death of 1.30 persons, mostly excursionists. Fifteen Armenians charged with political crimes escaped from jail at ShabinkarahLssar. Troops pursued them and killed five. Ex Premier Gladstone gave expression to a wish for a reunion of the Irish party in replying to an address from the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of New York. Sir Henry Ponsonby, the private secretary of Queen Victoria, was stricken with paralysis. His condition is critical. Avalanches have overwhelmed a number of small hamlets in the mountain districts of France. At Razerques three persons Were killed. Turkish newspapers deny the reported assassination of Tahsin Pasho, governor of Bitlis, by an Armenian. The Belgian government has decided to propose to parliament the annexation of the Congo Free utate. Mexico is actively preparing for war with Guatemala. An invading army of over 5,000 is awaiting transportation at Acapulco. Turkey has requested the signatories of the Berlin treaty to use their good offices with a view to moderating the demands of Russia and England with regai’d to Armenia. The mail boat Empress was wrecked while entering Calais harbor. Her passengers were rescued by the life saving crew.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Eastern lines will be forced to adopt measures to give Chicago a fair share of east .bound traffic. Chicago merchants adopted the new rate basis proposed by Commissioner Iglehart and will submit to Illinois roads. Milwaukee Methodist ministers passed resolutions upholding the Oshkosh divines in their war on the charity ball. Temperance workers from many points were present at the funeral of Mrs. Mary T. Lathroy at Jackson, Mich. Floods in the Ohio river and its tributaries have already caused g’reat damage and the loss of one life. John W. Goff took his seat as presiding judge of the court of general sessions of New York. Ralph S. Spriggs, mayor of Chester, 111., who disappeared about a month ago, is in a St. Louis hospital. He had been on a spree. Miners of the Massillon district rescinded their action in rejecting the arbitrator*' award and will resume work.

Postal Telegraph.

Appraiser McClure of New York re* ports the value oi the Gould estate for purposes of taxation at $80,934,580.70. The Royal Yacht squadron conceded the point in dispute, thus assuring a race for the America's cup. Judgment for 51,440,190 in favor of the Central Trust company has been entered at Denver against the American and the City Water companies. The Pittsburg Railroad Coal Operators’ association refused to arbitrate the wage question and declared a rate war. Massachusetts’ Supreme court decided the sale of oleomargine colored in imitation of butter to be illegal, even though no attempt were made to hide its character A syndicate composed of New York and Boston men has purchased 800,000 acres of timber lands in Nova Scotia. The Kempster investigating committee of Milwaukee council threatens to punish several newspaper men for contempt. General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor declares the statement made by Secretary McBryde of the mine workers to be false in every particular. An investigation of the charges of ill treatment and illegal detention of laborers at Navassa island is being made at Baltimore. Bank clearings of the principal cities show a decrease for the week in comparison with last year of 4.5 per cent, while the total for 1894 is lo per cent < less than in 1893. The Ainerica'i and United States Express companies fought for the business on the Findlay, Fort Wayne & \\ estern and the former was forcibly dispossessed. Owing to the position of the Canadian Pacific and the “Soo,” there is little hope of settling western passenger rate troubles. On the strength of a report on civic boodling in Toronto two ex-aldennan were arrested and many others ar« fugitives. New public library of Galena, 111., was opened with appropriate ceremonies, Rev. Frank (lunsaulus of Chi- f cage, delivering the address. John A. Creighton of Omaha, Neb., has been given the title of count by Pope Leo for aiding the Catholic church. Secretary Meßryde of the United Mine Workers lias issued an address to miners, urging them to shun Sovereign and Hayes. Father Stick, whose denunciation of Protestant organizations brought him into notoriety at Pana, 111., has been assigned to another pastorate. In a speech at a farewell reception in New York John Burns, the English labor leader, said America had a grand future. k Cardinal Gibbons, in a sermon in defense of Christianity, made a distinct reference to Col. Ingersoll, though not by name. Rev. Newell D. Ilillis, D. D., ” preached his inaugural sermon at Central church, Chicago. Lyman J. Cage delivered the introductory address. Christian Scientists from all parts of the country were present at the dedica- , tion of the “mother church” in Boston. \ Ray Randall, 7 years old, of Decatur, 111., and Charles Barnes, aged 8, of La Harpe, 111., died from hydrophobia. Mrs. Clara Pannell of Clinton, lowa, kidnaped when a child by her father, * was reunited to her mother at Rockford, 111. Snow slides blocked traffic on Erie near Lock Haven, Pa. A freight train was submerged and the fast mail had a narrow escape. Two inen were killed and four in’ jured in a collision between Lake Erie freight trains near Norwalk, Ohio. A vicious tiger attacked a horse during an exhibition at Cincinnati and a panic was narrowly averted. W. K. Vanderbilt has been awarded $224,827 damages for the sinking of his yacht by a metropolitan steamship company vessel. Judge Parker of the New York Supreme court decided the new tion did not prohibit state officials I using railroad passes ■ A receiver has been appointed for 1 the Jefferson iron works of Steuben I ville, Ohio. Its indebedness is SIBO,- I 000. I

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