People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — Page 2

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WASHINGTON.

A message to congress urging im mediate financial legislation has been prepared by President Cleveland. From the results of a canvass made by the internal revenue bureau it is believed the income tax will yield 850,000,000. Sundry civil bill, carrying appro priations aggregating 830,125,71, was hurried through the house Friday. Total gold shipments for the week have been more than 814,000.000. leaving the treasury reserve at 851.500,000. Bill pledging the faith of the Uniter! States for the construction of the Nicaragua canal {Kissed the senate Friday. Secretary Gresham lias suggested to Guatemala and Mexico that the United States will act as arbitrator in t heir dispute. Widely differing plans to meet the currency complication were offered in the senate Wednesday by Messrs. Jones of Arkansas and Smith of New Jersey. JolmG. Woods'petition fora mandamus to prevent collection of the income tax was overruled iti the district equity court. A bill to incorporate the National Ventral Railway company, which proposes to construct a r<i i I way from the Hudson river to New York, was offered in the house. Senator Tornio made a vigorous spi-cch against the Nicaragua canal Lili. which he said had been conceived in fraud. The house passed the Indian appropriation bill and the bill to establish a national military park at Gettysburg. The senate passed the Ute bill and adopted resolutions calling for information on various subjects. President Cleveland sent a message to congress Monday urging prompt action to restore confidence in our financial soundness.

POLITICAL.

Mayor Strong of New York has an nounced that he will appoint women on several of the city boards. Senator Washburn, defeated by Knute Nelson, in Minnesota, declares that he was beaten by the libera! Use of money. Lower house of the Oklahoma Ivgisl..iure has passed a bill making train robbery a crime punishable by death Representative Curley has introduced a bill in the Illinois legislature to pre wul blacklisting of employes. Election of Nelson for senator over V-asliburn threatens to disrupt the re- ] üblican party pel manently in Minnesota. < ulifornia legislature has ordered an investigation of the alleged corruption .< the bar Francisco police caq.ai-l-ment. The senatorial deadlock in Minnesota was broken by the election ot Gov. Nelson, democrats aiding in the esult. Lucien Raker was elected senator fiom Kansas, George E. Perkins was ic-vJeeted in California and in Wyoming Francis E. Warren and Clarence D. < lark were selected. Hounded to desperation by office seekers. Sheriff Williams, elected bv {opnlists at Prague, Wash., resigned t >ie office. Mayor Pingree of Detroit has called a mass m« eting to protest against the attempt of the legislature to place control of local affairs in the hands of the governor. A bill to regulate primary electionss which provides for incorporating political parties, has been offered in I he Illinois bouse. The make up of the standing coran ittees of the Illinois senate was satisfactorily arranged at a caucus of members. Issuing of bonds by the administratration was indorsed by Senator Cullom in an address in the Illinois legislature. In advocating a pension for Gen. MeClernand State Senator Hamer said Grant's treatment of him was cruel a.id unjust.

SPORTING NOTES.

John S. Johnson won the two mile handicap and the three mile scratch race in the skating tourney at Red Ila nk, ■•Bob” Fitzsimmons was arraigned at Syracuse for killing “Con" Riordan. L. pleaded not guilty and gave bail. Nomin; tions to the Horseman stakes, for 5-year-olds, to be run at llawtnuiue, are announced. They number J 1.9. John S. Johnson cut the 100 ya id si h ling record, standing start, to 9 1-5 seconds in a trial against time at Red Bank. Officers of Ihe California Jockey chib have been arrested on a charge of cri elty to animals. The racing was iist 'pped. •At Re.lbank, N. J., Olan Rudd skated two miles in 5:42 3-5, lowering the record made bv Joseph Donoghue nearly eleven seconds. Andrew Freedman has purchased a controlling interest in the New York Baseball club, the consideration being V 48.000 Interstate cocking main closed at Houston. Texas. Georgia won twelve mains and $1,700. Texas birds won five of the mains. On behalf of •■Tommy” Ryan “Parson” Davies has accepted Burge’s challenge for a fight for the welter weight championship. The Western Interstate Baseball association was organized at Peoria by d'legates from a number of Illinois t nd Indiana cities. Charles Johnson of St. Paul Ims been matched tn light fWr Robin in I.on don for 54,00 i. .uudicu is Lacking the America!

FOREIGN.

President Faurc's first message was read in the French parliament An attempt to compel the government to declare its policy was defeated in the chamber of deputies. At a meeting of the Imperial institute in London Dr. Jameson advocated a comm, rcial union between the South African states. In a letter to the army, Em.pero William ordered the guns and standards which took part in the war with France to be decorated with oak leaves.* Trouble is imminent between France and San Domingo, growing out of the seizing by the latter of the funds of a bank. a Teng Chou was bomliarded by the Japanese, who fired in the direction ot the mission over which the American flag waved. Francois Certain Canrobert, marshal of France, and a senator, is dying at Paris. He is 85 years old. M. Ribot has succeeded in forming a new French ministry. An amnesty bill will be introduced in the chambers. President Faure of France has summoned M. Ribot to form a cabinet, and the latter has accepted the task. Catholic and socialist deputies in the Belgian chamber of deputies created a scene and the sitting was suspended in disorder. Government of Guatemala has authorized its special envoy to make concessions to Mexico and u&r maybe averted. Guatemala's answer to Mexico's ultimatum is unsatisfactory and it is believed war will be declared at once. Admiral Carpenter has landed marines at Chee Foo, China, lor the - protection of the American consulate. Investigation shows that the Bank of Wales lias been plundered of 82,500,0(10, apparently the work of the officials. Unemployed persons in Buda Pesth marched through the principal streets and were dispersed after a serious light. Two hundred persons were killed and all of the houses in the village of Kuelian, Persia, destroyed by a recejot ca rthqtiake.

CASUALTIES.

Nine coasters were seriously injured in a collision between a bobsled and a cable car in St. Louis. Mrs. W. S. Tower was killed and thirty persons, including Mrs. Zelda Wallace and Theatrical Manager John W. Norton, were injured by the ditching of a Vandalia train near Coatesville, Ind. A section of the hurricane deck and other.parts of the lost steamer Chicora were found in the ice off Saugatuck. Five men were scalded by the bursting of the valve of a steam pine in a mine at Houghton, Mich. Two will die. l ire in the Hotel Castle, New York, did 8100.000 damage and causeda panic among the 155 guests. American holed, at Elmore, Ohio, and several other buildings were destroyed. Two servant girls were fatally injured. Fire at Pittsburg destroyed the Wilkinsburg Presbyterian church, valued at B’-'5,000. One of the firemen was fa tally frozen. Portions of Alabama were swept by a cyclone, which did great damage. At Albcville a child was killed. At Fennville. Mich., fire destroyed a block- of buildings, including a. newspaper office and a bank. Loss, 830,000. 1-erliliz.er plant of E. Rauh it Sons of Indianapolis was destroyed by an incendiary fire. Loss. 850,000, with no in sura nee. At Franklin Grove, 111., the postoffice and two other buildings were destroyed by fire and other houses Aa ma ged. John Snyder and Bridget Murphy, on their way to church in Coulterville, Pa., were killed by a fast train. At Middleburg, Pa., a sleighing party collided with a train. Two per sons wi re killed and several others injured. Six men were killed, six others badly injured and property worth 8100,000 destroyed by a boiler explosion in a brewery at Mendota, Ilk

CRIME.

Rev. Pen jamin F. Bolton was arrested at 1 indlay, Ohio, charged with foiging the names of his wife and her mother to notes for a large amount. Morris (PConnor, county surveyor, was arrested at Albia, lowa, on a charge of selling whisky unlawfully. Irwin Myers, a prominent farmer, was found dead near Spring-field, 111., and is believed to have been killed by trespassers. Harry Semple, a Philadelphia bookkeeper, who absconded with $1,500, uas captured in Den ve r. Harvey Booth, a wealthy 'Wyoming cattleman, was found murdered in his barn near Evanston. A letter from the Mafia demanding $2,000 has been received by a wealthy Italian resident of New Orleans. Four Mexicans are under arrest at Santa Fe, N. M., charged with murdering a stockman and burning his bodj - .

OBITUARY.

Senator CanrObert, the last of the field marshals of France, who was born in 1809. died at Parts. Mrs. E. R. Schall, daughter of one of the first settlers of Chicago, where she was born in 1845, is dead. John D. Thayer, a state senator of Indiana, died at his home in Warsaw from t he effects of a stroke of paralysis. Memorial services in honor of the late Lord Randolph Churchill were held m Westminster abbey. Christian Bviukmeier, a Chicago pioneer, dropped deyd while on Im way tu cifci. u friend. lie was 71 years old.

♦THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

The executive committee of the Central Traffic association ordered a reduction in Chicago-New York giain rates to 25 cents a hundred. A substitute for the Reilly Pacific rail road l bill, which provides for management by a government eommissi n when default is made, was offered ju the house. Plans for the readjustment of the bonded debt of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad are under consideration. W. 11. Busher of Monmouth, 111., a young poultry dealer, has disappeared, and foul play is feared. Ernest E. Studer of Peoria, HL, eloped with Amanda Heberer, and his father threatens to shoot him on sight. Milwaukee’s charily ball was denounced by Rev. Dr. Eaton in a paper read before the Ministers’ association. Nearly 84,000.000 in gold was withdrawn from the New York subtreasury and 84.500,000 was engaged forexport. Lumbermen of Ashland, Wis.. have formed an exchange, and will adopt a uniform system 61 inspection and measurement. Receivers have been appointed for the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge company of South Milwaukee. Liabilities are 8250,665 and assetsßl6l,B4l. A train load of ore valued at 81.000,000 left the Independence mine at at Cripple Creek, Colo., for Denver. Police officers fired on riotous strikers in Brooklyn, one of whom, Michael Madigan, was probably fatally wounded. A plan to create an Episcopal archbishop, who shall be located at Washington, is being favorably considered. In a pastoral letter Archbishop Katzer of Milwaukee urges obedience to the papal decree against secret societies J. AV. Hoffman, Jr., of Aurora, 111., has begun sv.it to establish his title to most of the land on which Hebron, Ind., is situated. Milton B. Matson, arrested at San Jose, Cal., was found to be a woman and admitted having lived in masquerade for sixteen years. Judge Caldwell has ordered the receivers to wind up the affairs of the Lombard Investment company of Kansas Citv.

Washington society attended the tea given at the German embassy in honor of the birthday of the emperor. Refusal of the tonnage men to accept a cut has caused the shutting down of the Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel Company. Arrival of non-union men at the glass works at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, caused a riot during which thirty shots were fired. Eighteen thousand carpet weavers will strike at Kensington, Pa., if their demand tor higher wages is not conceded. Twelve scows, on board of which are fourteen men, at*e adrift off New York, having been torn from their moorings by the gale. Frank J. Grove, a Springfield, Ohio, jeweler, lias not been heard from since lie went to Chicago three weeks ago. Collieries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre company will bo shut down this week-, tnrowing 8,000 men out of employment. The recent fall of snow has caused renewed activity in the logging camps in .Michigan and Wisconsin. The body of Foreman Seifert was discovered by searchers in the ruins of Ljhe He nry brewery at Mendota, 111. , A mob visited the Baker near Albia. ■ lowa, to *ry to induce the employes to quit. A conference was arranged. Labor Commissioner Morse of Michigan states that farm laborers in the state are poorly paid and oppose immigration. | Bank clearings of the principal United States cities show an increase | for the week of 10.3 per cent. Mrs. Alice Colliding, arrested in Peoria for St. Louis authorities, has I been released on orders from Gov. Altgeld. i Several reforms in present laws were I discussed at the meeting of the Illinois I State Bar association in Springfield.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

LINCOLN’S BLESSING.

THE ADMINISTRATION PLOTTING TO DESTROY IT. The Greenback Which Saved the Union Endangered by the Money Power, of Which Abraham Lincoln Warned the People. President Lincoln wrote to Col. Edmund D. Taylor of Chicago, December, 1864, as follows: (See Pen and Voice, Page 404.) My Dear CoL. Dick: I have long determined to make public the origin of the greenback and to tell the world that it is one of Dick Taylor's creations. You have always been friendly to me, and when troublous times fell upon us and my shoulders, though broad and willing, were weak and myself surrounded bj' such circumstances and such people that I knew not whom to trust, then I said in my extremity, “I will send for Col. Taylor, he will know what to do.” I think it was in January, 18G2. on or about the 16th, that I did so. You came, and I said to you, “What can we do?” Said you, “Why, issue treasury notes, bearing no interest, printed on the best banking paper. Issue enough to pay off the army expenses and declare it legal tender.” Chase thought it a hazardous thing, but we finally accomplished it, and gave to the people of the republic the greatest blessing they ever had—their own paper to pay their own debts. It is due to you, the father of the present greenback, that the public should know it, and I take great pleasure in making it known. How many times have I laughed at your telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. Yours truly, A. Lincoln, President. The greatest Ulessing the people ever had to be destroyed by usurers. Who wants the greenbacks destroyed? Nobody but the fellows against whose encroachment Abraham Lincoln warned the people of America in the following language: “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.” Away with golden calf worship. Let us worship our own wives and children awhile.

Our own country and our own credit. The nation's rulers must be made to hear the the voice of the nation's people. The bankershave better facilities for expressing themselves, as they own the big newspapers and the leaders of congress. No doubt some of the ignorant puppies in congress take the expressions of these men to be the voice of the American people, but that is because the money power monopolizes the floor. Let the people raise tt point of order and put in a few words for themselves, There is not an intelligent farmer or laborer in the United .States who wants the greenbacks destroyed. And yet congressmen are tumbling over each other in the effort to “save the country" by doing just what a majority of the people don't want them to do. The bankers boast of having secured the passage ot the first "resumption" act, which came so near swamping the whole country. And the act they now propose is even a worse one. How long will the grandsons of revolutionary heroes consent to be treated like spoiled children? If we don't rise and make ourselves heard soon it will be too late to settle the matter peaceably. Are #e patriots or calves?

WHY CHRIST WAS KILLED.

He Symathlzed with the Poor and Oppressed. Rev. Myron Reed of Denver, Col., said: ‘’What was Jesus Christ killed for and who killed him? He tramped all the wax’ from Nazareth to Calvary. He was born in a borrowed barn. Rpspeetable sinners he called “whited sepulchres.’’ He walked into a temple he didn't own and drove out some money changers he was not acquainted with, though he was neither sheriff nor under sheriff. * * * Right down at the bottom Christ was killed for his sympathy’ with the poor and contempt for the rich and unjust He was regarded by the respectable classes as an outlaw, a felon, and, if you please, an anarchist!” * F. O. Bennett has started a new People’s paper in Chicago, the “Age.” He will make an eight page daily of the publication, beginning the first of May. The weekly edition shows that editorally, at least, the paper will be a success. The Populists need a daily of national circulation from Chicago, and we hope the Age will be sustained. If all contempt of court were a crime, this country would have more prisons than schools. There is more contempt of court at large nowadays than patriotism in office.

NATIONAL CIRCUS.

CONGRESS TRYING HARD TC PLEASE ITS MASTERS. Mrs. Annie Digras Feels Like Waking Them Up —Would Eike to See a Real Woman lu the White House. [Correspondence. Topeka Advocate.) Plutocratic pirates and gold buccaneers Jiave full control of our once glorious ship of state. The few congressmen who have consciences and souls are perfectly helpless in the clutch of these high handed usurpers. It will never be different. The general public will never be served by the national congress until the two old party machines are broken, and a new element gains control! a new party which will come into power forthe express purpose of serving the people instead of the plunderers. There isn’t the slightest use in looking to congress for anything save that which will enhance the fortunes of the greedy gluttons of fortune. It is a foregone conclusion that whatever legislation gets through this session will be such as will please the privileged class. This state of affairsis so fixed that it is of little interest even to watch the gyrations and listen to the vaporings of the honorables while making grave pretense of serving their country. The currency bill is under discussion in the house to-day. There was a comical performance going on when 1 entered the gallery. A big republican fellow from down east 'was reading his speech in thunderous tones, and it was so evident that he was making that speech to his constituents that no one in the house was listening. I think he must have been trying to “holler" loud enough for his down east neighbors to hear him. He stood first on one foot and then on the other, thrust his hands into his trousers pockets while reading a page of his speech, which was bolstered Up before him on a pile of books. Every few minutes his voice would tie up into a shrill sort of a yell, in order, I suppose, to give extra emphasis to the profound stufl he was getting off on the money question. Here is one sentence which this orator shrilled out in extra high pitch: “Would 1 retire the greenbacks? Yes. I would.”

The old chump! I wanted to throw something at him. If I could have aimed straight at that pile of books which supported the dreary stuff he was reciting to a suffering house, 1 would have been tempted to throw and risk arrest by the sergent-at-arms. Retire the greenbacks indeed! What for, I Would like to know? Is it because they are the best money a nation or people ever hand? Is it because they carried the country through a terrible war? Is it because they are connected with the memories of Abraham Lincoln's administration? Ah! what patriots these latter day repub lieans are. I stood all of this rattling idiocy that was possible without becoming unamiable, then departed for the senate. The show was different there, but quite as farcical. Another down easter (this one a democrat) Was reading his oration on the Nicaragua canal bond steal. Of course, he was iff favor of it. but his speech was in lovely Contrast to the orator at the other end of the capitol. The senator was spick and span just out of a band box, as to dress, lie handled his gold eye-glasses dextrbusly, and spoke in modulate.! tones. Nobody was interested, of eouise. There was not a dozen senators in the chamber. * Merciful heaven! what is a woman made of who can be so heartless and selfish with such boundless opportunity and means to bless and brighten other lives that the President's wife has at her command? Oh, for a woman, a woman of the people, a woman with a soul, such a woman as Mrs. John Davis or Mrs. Simpson to occupy the white house and use the Dower and privilege of her position to make other lives brighter.

Frances Cleveland is a woman 1 after David Overmyer’s own heart (1 11 not say soul —I don't think he has one). Mr. Overmyer’s kind of women are of the selfish, society sort; women who wouldn't do so unwomanly a thing for the world as to go to she ballot box and cast a vote for a better and more Christian order of business and of society. but who would feel entirely delicate, refined and womanly without even an excuse of a dress above her shoulders and not a vestige of a sleeve, submitting to be gazed at and hugged by any drunken loafer who begged for a waltz, provided, of course, that the loafer was titled or rich. Annie L. Diggs.

PATRIOTISM IN JAIL.

Ringing Words of Patriotism From a Victim of Corporate Villainy. From the jail at Woodstock, 111., E. V. Debs has issued the following manifesto to the American people: “In joing to jail for participation in the late strike w r e have no apologies to make nor regrets to express. We go to jail, not like quarry slaves, but sustained bj’ the consciousness that wc have done our duty. No ignominy attaches to us on account of this sentence. I would not change places with Judge Wood*, Mid if it in expected that

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six months or even six years in j'«it "] purge me of contempt rhe punishuifl will fail of its purpose. I “Candor compels me to charaet® ize the whole proceedings as infamal It is not calculated to revive the ril idly failing confidence of the Amefl ean people in the federal judicial There is not a scrap of testimony I show that one of us violated any -fl whatever. And if we are guilty ■ conspiracy why are we punished fl contempt? This question will cJ tinue to be asked with ever-increasffl emphasis. I “I would a thousand times ratherl accountable for the strike than for fl decision. I “The ridicule of the press that I are ’posing as martyrs'will not detrifl the people. We all have homes al loved ones, and none of us is here fl choice. We simply abide by trary action of the courts. There fl higher power yet to be heard frefl No corporation will influence its defl ion. Our cause is that of conscientifl liberty and we have an abiding fafl in the American people. We acefl our lot with becoming patience fl composure. I “We can afford to wait. I “So far as I am concerned I feel til when all the circumstances are efl sidered it would only have been, fl graceful if we had so acquitt&? ol selves as to have kept out of jail, fl enemies are entitled to all the comffl they can extract from our imprisfl roent, and our friends need have® concern. I “Questions of great and grave fl port are up for decision. Great pfl ciples involving the liberty of fl qitizen are at stake. Out ot all fl good will come. There is one fun® mental, bedrock principle that fl American people will never suffer® be sacrificed. It may be menaced® it now is, but when the high eofl ‘We, the people,’ have judgment its enthronement will H fixed and secure for all time. ■ "We are by chance the mere mentalities in the evolutionary jfl jesses in operation through which® dustrial slavery is to be abolished fl economic freedom established. Tl® the starry banner will symbolize, a® was designed to symbolize, social, ■ litical, religious and economic email pation from the thraldom of tyranfl oppression and degradation. I “Eugene V. Debs, fl “McHenry County Jail, Woodsttfl 111., Jan. 8, 1895.” I

American Tenants.

Some time ago a writer in the Nol American Review made the stateml that the United States is the largl tenant farmer nation in the wol Here is a list of the tenant farmerl some of the states as given by I writer: 'I Missouri 39 1 Pennsylvania).. 4.*>l Maryland 13 1 Virginia 34.1 North Carolina 52 1 Georgia West Virginia 121 Ohio.. Indiana 401 Illinois 851 -Michigan lowa 45 1 Nebraska uj Kentucky;* 44 1 Kansas 221 Tennessee 571 Mississippi... 41 1 Arkansas 201 Texas 55 1 T0ta1.7491 Here are twenty-one of our lead! states with more tenement farnl than England, Ireland Scotland® Wales. • I

Government Ownership.

You say it would bankrupt the | crnment to buy the railroads. Ye gods! And has it come to this? Is it a fact that w T e have allowe few thousand stockholders of gi corporations to accumulate eno properly to bankrupt 60,000,000 peoj To bankrupt all the balance of country. Do you know what you are sayi If these few men already cod more than half the wealth of country, for heaven's sake how 1 will it take them to own it all? J Don’t you think it is time to ca halt? If by owning the railroad sys alone it is possible to acquire all wealth of the nation, how easy for government to make railroads pay themselves, and buy in all other g public utilities by the use of this < After the government, the peu became owner of the railroads, easy lor the people, the governm to become again owners of all wealth of the nation. The corporation socialists are J ing the problem themselves. When human nature gets a chi to exercise itself, it shows the p bility of a government and social ganization based on ties of broth love. Behold how people respon the cries of their brothers’ distres Nebraska. What a pity we can have a statute rule of brotherly guaranteeing that no citizen » suffer for food, fuel clothes and sh< as long as he is willing to do his ip the great national industrial w