People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — ARE YOU AN HONEST MAN? [ARTICLE]

ARE YOU AN HONEST MAN?

Then Join the Party of the Common People end Let V» Work Together. We believe the voters of both old parties are honest and will not be found voting with dishonest parties any longer than the time when they learn the truth. The People’s party has heretofore been largely built up from the repub licau party. That party being in power its dishonesty was more apparent than that of the democratic. Hut now that the democratic party has had a chance and its leaders have shown themselves even worse than the republican loaders, the people are leaving it. Honest men will not longer vote the ticket, and they know that the republican party is against the people, so that they can not honestly turn any way except toward the new party of the common people. The People’s party has no prejudice or grudge against a man for having voted with a party that he thought would serve the interests of the people. Hut now that he knows the true disposition of democracy, if he does not cut loose from it, he deserves not even sympathy in his misery. As men, we receive you into the People’s parly. If you believe in our principles, work with us. 1 hat is all The party does not reward you for this; you reap the reward yonrself, and we shall all be benefitt d together. It is as much to your interest as to ours that you should join us If you are not honestly seeking the good of the whole people, you aro not worthy of our consideration. The general good is the object of tbe People’s party. If you are an office hunter, better stay in the old party a little longer, until you become humble enongh to accept a place in the ranks as a worker. Workers are what we want We will make officials of some of them, of course, but if we could secure the enactment and enforcement of the principles of the Omaha platform into law, without electing a single official our purpose would be served. We invite you for justice and humanity—not for spoils. If you are an honest man you can not take offense at the terms of enlistment