People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — It Rain in Four Days. [ARTICLE]

It Rain in Four Days.

In the department of Castaneras in .San Salvador there had been no rain for nearly a year and the people were brought to such a pass that they were actually dying of thirst, to say nothing of the total destruction of all crops and other agricultural industries. El Pueblo Catolico of San Salvador prints a decree promulgated by the alcalde of the principal town in that department It is as follows: “Considering that the Supreme Creator has not behaved well in this province, as in the whole of last year only one shower of rain fell; that in this summer, notwithstanding all the processions, prayers and praises it has not rained at all and consequently the crops of Castaneras, on which depend the prosperity of the whole department, are entirely ruined, it is decreed: “Article 1. If within the period of eight days of date of this decree rain does not fall abundantly no one will go to mass or say prayers. “Art. 2. If the drouth continues eight days more the churches and chapels shall be burned, and missals, rosaries and other objects of devotion will be destroyed. “Art. 3. If, finally in a third period of eight days it shall not rain, all the priests, friars, nuns and saints, male and female will be beheaded. And. for the present. permission is given for the commission of all’sorts of sin, in order that the Supreme Creator may understand with whom He has to deal.” The most remarkable feature of this affair is the fact that four days after the decree was promulgated the heaviest rainfall known for years was precipitated on the burning community.— Chicago Times. The solid populist delegation in congress held the balance of power and vote 4 against wild pat currency.

Squeeze the water out of the railroad bonds and stocks and one cent a mile would amply re-' ward capital for every dollar actually invested. Suppose the United States supreme court decides that Judge Woods and not Debs is the lawbreaker, who then is the anarchist? The supreme court of the United States will reopen the whole Debs case, the strike, injunction, federal troops and contempt. Debs will never be required to finish his unconstitutional sentence, but the judge may tah& his place before the supreme court gets through with this case. The Brooklyn streetcar strike drives another nail in the coffin of private monopoly of public institutions. Vote, men, for municipal ownership, then there will be no cause for a strike. •