People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — Now and Fifty Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Now and Fifty Years Ago.

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 tha 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. Whii.e 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 century. 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. In 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 km and democracy.