People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.