People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — BALANCE OF POWER. [ARTICLE]

BALANCE OF POWER.

fHE POPIJLIST PARTY A PbWER IN THE LAND. If the VstM Cast for Its Caadldatoa Were Thrown to Any On# of the Old Parties the Other Would Go Into Oblivion —Will Keep On Growing. The Minneapolis Tribune to off set the wonderful gain of 600,000 votes which it now admits the People’s Party made in two years has the following to say: But the probability of continuing such a percentage of gain is as tenuous am moat of the Populist theories There is much less significance in a large percentage of gain by a new and small jparty than oar Populist frienda imagine. If a newspaper s’arts out with one subscriber and .m i. -mother, its circulation has incised 100 per cent, at the same time it has not receved no positive addition. A gain of 600,000 votes iu a great country of about 70,000,000 inhabitants is a mere bagatelle; it cuts very little figure. It thows up well in the vote of a party that had only a million votes all told in 1592, but as a positive gain it is not important. Six hundred thousand votes might be taken off or added to the aggregate of republican ballots without producing any more effect upon the aveaire retulta than a single fly bite produces upon a cheese. The returns are not in sufficiently for us to note what changes 600,000 taken from the republican vote wou'd have had this year. But a few figures on the election of 1892 aa to the effect 600,000 tak»n from the democratic or Populist column and added to the republican column would have had. The electorial vote as cast Btood rep. 145, dem. 277, Pop. 22. Change I Would have given | Electorial of votes I the republicans | rotee 20 4~6 ” ” Arkansas with 8 20 ” ” California ’’ 1 7 480 ” ” Colorado ” 4 2 685 ” Connecticut” fl 2 0 ” Delaware ” 8 12 651 ” ” Florida ” 4 961 ” ” Idaho ” 3 18 497 ” ” Illiuo’s ” 21 3 :.63 ” ” Indiana ” 15 2 988 ” ” Kansas ” 10 20 011 ” ” Kentucky ” 18 10 565 ” ” Maryland ” S 14 953 ” ” Mississippi ” 9 21 740 ” ” Missouri ” 17 2 270 ” ” Nevuda ” 3 7 488 ” ” NewJen-ey’’ 10 27 760 ” ” New York ” 16 305 ” ” N.Carolina ” 1 119 " '• N. Dakota ” fc 81 674 f f ’* H. Carolina ” 9 19 272 7Z3 ** ” Tennessee ” 1> 29 858 * Virginia ” 1 2 088 »• * W. Virginia” t, 8 273 *» ” Wisconsin ” 1 69 731 »' •” Texas ” 1 26 480 ” ” Alabama " 1 4n 580 ” ” Georg'a ” 13 29 860 ” ” Louisiana ” 8 540 »• ” Ohio ” 1 Or a change of 427,0*0 to the republican tickets would have given them the entire vote in the electoral col e re, tnd yet the Trib' ne editor ass«rts that the change could be made “without producing any more effect upon average results than a single fly bite produces upon a cheese. I’he meant average results to the par tv he is away off. If average results to the people then he is no doubt right as between the republicans and democrats.—Dakota iluralist.

COUNTERFEITING. England Find* Our Cheap Silver a Veritable God*en<l. Some time ago we published tut anonymous letter from California, claiming the writer held indisputable evidence that American dollars were being coii e l in England At the time we placed very li tie •onfidence in the storv but since then vlr. Grrdon C'srk of Washington, who tas lived in England and has friends there on the inside of affai-s, has ately received a confidential comnunication stating that “certain Lonlon banking houses are striking off Amer'can and Mexican silver dollars ■nd sending them abroad The Mexian coins go chiefly to As ? a and the American dollars to the We*t Indies. From there the latter goto the Uni ed States in place of gold, to settle balances between the West Indies and the United States.” Thus counterfeit ini? has become a regular part of ti e monetary war which England has been waging against this country since the d moneti/.ation in ft 73. But the Loud n counterfeiters c.m not be punished for buying American silv> r at its commercial value and turni g it into full lecftl tender dollars equal to gold. Sherman, Cleveland sod our other statesman (?) have arranged things in that way. P. S. As lam well acquainted with Mr. Clark —*t one time acting editor of the North Am ric n Review, and whose recent book. *’Shyloc<-,” has caused such a stir—entire rndencc is given here to hi« statement and to that of bis correspondent H. E Tai bkn- ck, Chairman National Committee Peqp(e’s iWyThe banks offer to pay only one-half of 1 per cent interest for the privilege of destroying the greenbacks and issuing bank notes to loan. The people are willing to pay 2 per cent direct to the government to destroy the bank notes and issue more green backs. Go to Hartley Bros, with your grain.