People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — Page 5
Graduated Income Tax.
To ths work. IVK mwt win in ‘O<J. A bond is simply a mortgage on labor. _ How long since you have handled any gold. ABOLISH the geld reserve and let it stay abolished. Everything for the bankers, and nothing for the people. The money that patriotism fought and Lied for must not be destroyed. The gold is not in eirculktion. It is handled in the banks to buy bonds. The rich anarchist is as much worse as lb i is more powerful tnan the poor anarchist. It seems to be no trouble at all foi Congress to pass appropriation bills for the standing army. United States legal tender greenbacks and patriotism vs. European gold and-the banker’s rebellion. SUPPLY and demand, applies to the amount of money in circulation as well us to the amount of wheat produced. Until every man has an opportunity to earn a living, and get what he earns, the labor question will not be settled-. „ AdaAi was the first mah, and the man who don't care A-datn for the people is still first man in the councils of the nations. New we see tiiftt the issuing of bonds to keep Up a gold reserve was a part of Ihe conspiracy, to scare congress into destroying the greenbacks. Whatever plan of currency the present or the coming special session of congress adopts, .it will be, for the benefit of the bunkers only, The People’s party is the one th:? .stands oetween rich tu'iarchy and poo;* unaiv,iy» Xh.o only eoUseuthitor of the, ’nation.-; equilibrium is Populism. The royalists ' are”planning to put stt g-.a kipgUn i-Tanqc—gtidd plutdcraey ah«s catlike object- in > Atq. rica, with tibbttt the shine prospecteLsueccss. ' ’* ' i -r—: . Sl'lLifiA iTb-iing catled-out iigain ’it • the-easU^,. lt seems ,t.»'fcq’ui're lots jightlhg tO.keep pence .in tnis gloriou. land of freedom; tqua ity and.justice. In .every point where - (1 rover Cleveland is opposed by his own party he i. ,supported by the. • leaders of .-the republican party. Can you see a l.iio' hole? .- . . ’ If ±ile congress don't declare its independence of the eastern bunkers the people will declare themselve' independent of the republican flirty forever. The average American laborer doe not receive as much for hisentire Tfe'labor as Grover Cleveland has spent <>i fishing excursions since lie was electee president. The idea of sacrificing the d tuglite . of one man to save the daughter o unother is the refuge of the man wh: proclaims the bawdy house >a tafet;. valve. Rot. The constitution of the United h • is good—but the fellows Who 1. monopoly of misinterpreting - benefit of plutocracy need r, ... and a general beating. If the Nicaragua canal would be o. nny benefit to the United States le the government issue money and build it and reap the profits. No bonds, nc subsidies, no “cahoots.” Poverty coaxes e imand logisln tion in th? interest of the money power Van, <•■> poverty. About twe thirds of nil’ crime i - « this comili, should be charged to legislation. IsTtiKi::: any belter reason for help ing gold mine owners than silve: mir owners? Give Its government leg tender greenbacks, redeemable na . useful comnn.di-y that tl.e r.ati-. a p.-u duces. ■ ■-W II -!■■■■ —II , Since <nr A met i an govern -icrt i interested in th >. Armenian aiitriip“sim'piy o.i groin t oi' hum mi: v," uh', c in't iv master upcn.i-.’ch grounds i,-. l.mrunity to lake a friendly interest in the oppressed wage c;::i> rs c! America. The republicans will support an-, measur.e that is O. i-."d by John Sher man- —ami John .will (». K. anythin; that Gtover Cleveland proposes, am, Grover will 0. K. anything that, bankwant. Of course ti e. President wjj call the republican <■< ngr< s in .-■f.cclui session to destroy th-.- greenbacks. Every Ih.-.miist piper should l>>? lead by the preachers. ' They are tr---ing to preach the gospel, and :f study’ of. •.he Populist paper; would help them to understand the meaning of practical Christianity. Send your local paper to your local preacher.
THE PEOPLE'S PILOT, RENSSELAER. IND., FEBRUARY 9, 1895, WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
DEMONETIZE gol-L Ye slaves of Vatnmon, would ye be free? Ye must tree yourselves. Co-operation of laborers at the ballot box will bring co-operative business. ‘‘money la the root of all evil "- 30 - what makes evil so much worse wheil money is scarce? The Havemeyers are in politics purely for business— but cf course th« bankers are in it for the gbod df the people. Since Debs wds imprisoned for an Alleged conspiracy agaiiist interstate commerce, why not imprison Cleveland, Carlisle and the bankers for conspiracy against United States commerce? The three messages of Govern- r White, Levelling and Aligfild Will (?“ into the history of the present struggle for American industrial freedom, and be quoted by the orators of the future years. The republicans need not worry about the Populists approving anything Grover Cleveland does—unless he should fall in BuZzard bay iiild get as tvei as Metiiiity did whed hfe Went to the bottom of the sea. Now Gp.oveh is to offer a substitute for the Carlisle-Springer- Balt’more Currency bill. Grover should hire a substitute to do his fishing and g-o up in a balloon timed to explode at the height of sttVen liliids in.the air. There i almost ar, much sense in a farmer refusing to own more than six hens because l.e is afraid they will lay too many eggs, as being gs-aid tha> free coinage will flood the country with too much money.—Nonconformist. * ■
Now that Dr. Parkhurst is on the popular sid« all the great dailies of the Country are lauding .him to tin skies. Put it will be remembered that they denounced him a futia ie when he his Investigaticn, an Nev York. .< .
.NoT-wrnigrANiHNG the fiiei there lisa great’natural demand far: wheat in this- .'country—tljov, .ends of people starving for Lrca.l-ythe price does not. pgy the-yost of pi - < dr.cimn. Scarcity ib£ mom y ft tbe trouble, ’ BlVCis everyth lag’ -is ■ stagnated irf 'Ambriva. ho doubt Presidon tUldveland'. "will be.plcj.ised t'> know that there, 4 is another uprising .in .Honolulu., Thiswill givediim an opportunity .to exercise his ext raord''h:i.i-y diplomacy, aiid thus preserve it from ro’ting.
. It costs the people of the United States $25,000 a year to have cannons fired to salute the ris’pg and bid the setting suit good by in tile military camps bt the country. A s‘aid old custom that miist not be disturbed, though it cost half ns much as the : salary of the automaton hi the President’s chair.
The telegram from Washington today'deinonstriites the fact that Bill Springer is a fit sulject 1-r a lunatic asylum. He prates about Jefferson <-nd Jacksoh. The e .ur-e he is pursuing would cause thvin to turn over in their graves, lie makes the Americah eagle scream in piiih, and Unde Sam looks on in amazVinellt SLl'd Wonders if it’s not ini Bn'gil-.1. man he hears Springer is advocating a measure opposed by. nine out of t n of Lis Con.iluents.—Li‘tle Rock Press (Dem.)
NOT SERIOUSLY AFFECTED.
The New York state railr >ad commissioners' rep >ri shows that the per eentage of dividends dech red during the year IS'.U rema ins 2 Ur. he same as in lb'J.l, no: witiist n.liag ti e fact that the capital stor e has Leon -.atered to tl.e extent oi S 'I.'HM o'sa. ail of which earns a dividend the sum ■ a ; though it represente I actual capi al. it seems that white busme.s ian u : sh *>. In some lines, the Ne v Y raltr >.t.l . are not -er.ously affe •ted.
GOVERNMENT SAVING BANKS.
If private cor oration w<ti-engaged 'in carrying the m lit-, aii.i a' large proportion of il.e. letters were lost, it woman t lais.- <n r o get a go xl petition askir.gtna- they vern:., ent take charge of the pos'd seiv.ee ar.d condu -L -l ill til • later, , < ■ the ; eople. X'li'-n the kisses sus.a.iaed by bank depositor - u e <.-<>.is'derc-1 am! the way Noint -d <>ii: Ly v i.ichlhe ivil is so asii . i-i ifiv.ii --I. th.-re ought tn be five iiiiiiaiii i.ett loners for go\ rnnient savrugs bank-fc I Jiicag <Ex •ress.
WAYS OF M[?] IDNAIEES.
< has. I’. \ erk.es. :-h< street railway sing oi Ckicazv. las bun ■ ue-.l for <re?‘ch of contract Ly a man whe aiiiiirs to' h<v.- piirciiased land on whivtithe Masonic emi.le nowstands, .ur. erkes na-, been repeatedly oroeriM t.> appear i n cour. and produce :he contra-t but repeatedly fails to a ppear. '1 he ease has come up last week with the usual result. It has been before three different judges in pji cessien and if \ erkes was a poor i an it i- saf. to say he would have been committed for ccniCßipt ago.—Chicago Express,
T.i«» Spaces hi the C.r.les Shew the Natural and the Itlmwy Wealth of the t'niled tfH c» e« Cofnpared With all Othor Nations —A Strong Arguuteat in Favor of Kure ’lunflf I's?
ITS STEADY GROWTH.
HIE HRIN’CIPLE3 of populism’ ARE NOT EPHEMERAL; ■The Principles It Advocates Are Euoagh to liuild Upon as Long as Hnmanity anti Civilization Exist,-E-Figures Never Lie. The greftt plutocratic newspapers are somewhat alarmed to sOe the steady increase given the Populist party by the official election returns. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, a hewspaper of national reputation, an Independent support er of Grover Cleveland, though republican iff polities, inakes the following bomineiit! “This is a remarkable and in -many ways a disturbing demonstration of radicalism. The Populist party was started in a flush industrial period, and the fact that it has held on so long and grown ne less slowly and steadily in bad times than in prosperous times is not the least significant features of its development. Were; it based upon elements of ephemeral •strength met-ely we should probably by this time stave seen either the collapse of the oi gahizatioti oF a suddeti bound to a high’er level. That neither event has resulted would .seem to offer proof of the existence of sb-ong basic material. As a matter of fact the-anti-slavery the lime it be-gan‘-to put a Presidential banllidate in the field in 1841 dolin'to the breaking up. of the whig papty .H), 1852.. never exhibited a more pbrsistrnt and grow Ing 'strength t£afi tfie' Tc’opW.s part) has ■so far shown.” - . / . " Radicalism-nlways has a basis.. And the Populist party has even, a strdnger IxiSis “tlia’n had tile antislavery party. *• The slavery we c<ppose is that of a class of men to. whom lhe,nation owes its great progress, in the development of wealth, invention and all material growth.. " " ‘ Opposition to wage and debt slavery are t’- e cardinal principles oi the People’s party.' Asa basis it has th 6 religion of Jesus Christ,, the brotherhood of man and the foundation principle of justice, equal rights to all aud special privileges to none. Every man in the People’s pfirty has his feet firmly on the basic principles. It is not buoyed up like a balloon, with gas; nor is it a party of sorehead politicians kicked out by the struggle of ambition from the old parties. The People’s party has ooine to staj‘, bec:> ■ se the principles it advocates are permanent—firm enough to build upon for the future as long as humanity an I civilization exist. That there was a reason for its birth during flush times very strongly that general injustice and not mere local discontent was tbe Cause of the organization. The People’s party is not an organ- | ization of malcontents, howling and i rending itself in the dark. Its organization Was due to broad ! comprehensive study of the principles ;of the government of the people, by the people .and for the people. When the nation and the money loaners were prospering, all the people iof the nation should have been prosj pering in proportion to the work they ’ contributed to the general prosperity. That farmers and laborers were de- | pressed while idlers spent the summer in Europe anti the. winter m dissipation. arotlsed the people to a study of the eternal principles of equity. The oppression has been felt worse during the past two years, but the peo- ' pie were not made wild anxl fanatical. I They had coolly reasoned out the cause of the trouble and many of them ■ had prophesied the climax. | They have reached the point in reason where they see that monopoly must be allowed to run its course for the present, while the people are being 1 educated to take charge when the course of the money power' has become unbearable to the whole nation. ! The great trhsts are testing the 1 principles of cornoration, and when Droven successful and all powerful the nation will find it necessary to assume functions that have been before delegated to private individuals.. The People’s party is looking confi<k*ntly forwai-l to the consummation <»» it eVery demand. Not party success, br.t a better national industrial sysieig m tlje übje-'t ot this movement,
OUR WEATLH AND OUR MONEY.
THE ALMICHTY DOLLAR.
Stepfather of Labor artet Wo Nurse of Infant Industries. Tiic dollar is “the substance of thing’s hoped for, the evidence of thirfg.s fiol iMwn.’’ It is not just wow very much in evidence, neither is hope* furnishing a very substantial bill of fare'. The dollar is the measuring rad of things material, and when it goes into hiding, things not only go unmeasured, but don't go at all. Ths dollar is made by the government and controlled by the bankers. "• It <is the stepfather of' labor, born of mother jarth, wedded by legislation, and refuses to recognize the natural children of the mother. ( Those born of the second marriage are rieli beyond the dreams of avarice, while the ctykiren who created the estate, are homeless, ragged and outcasts.- » • * An honest dolltif is the ftoblest work of honest mm—and about the' sear/>est. God never made any dollars. If he had> they would ha ve been j based on his promise, ijnd would be , good as long as the pepple who used them were faithful, patriotic, industrious and peaceable. I •
God's pfOiplses are not ma le good by being writteh oil gold oif -Trur, but bv. honesty, and the riches of-dll- jt<r«aiio»j. • behind them.So it is in material tliiYigU with a’ nation. \¥hen al) the p*<ajle. of a great nation pledge thotji selves to ry?deem their promises in food, labor awfit clothes, the power of redemption IT almost . ■- While the nimpHct.-lasts the property, lahqr and produce ttf the whoffe : natfim is:behind its proMtJtdn, and if th'e' compact be broken, the debt would be. repudiated anyway. ,•. _. • As long as hariuoqy apd iru dus*ry thrives pledc-es.ir’ gull..and sfi-' 1 ver are as so iu'q.ig brass, 'irritating every drop of patriotic blood ifi the hearts of all the loyal people of tbq natioil. • ■ - -•< • ■ •» The Kijfjds of t’roperty, ’ There is a deal said abotft property rights. It is time th a it came to be. understood that property has no nights. As well talk of the rig|itM of the stope, the tree, tbe river, the rights»f property. The on y fighu. are btiman rights-<-the rights cf'man. The fundamental law of < ur government recognizes this and ibe deijkiration out of which all elt*e of our government evolved savs men are ‘‘‘endowed with certahi inalienable rights’ and enumera’es among them the ‘■Right to life, lib Tty and the nursmt of huppinflss.” These are the rights of men. No properly rights are thought of. The question arid the only question that can arise is. what are man's ■ rights to propertv? Hi ••right to property mu t be t’ at right *th:it is in perfeet harmony with everv other man’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Any claim to pro; <Tty that inteiferes with the life. :li'- liberty of any other man is a false cla’in It is time the courts axui In- legi latures con e down in their h-gislatioii and discussions to the preamble to thj •constitution ahd interpre. a.i the rest of thai document and decide upon ad laws im harmony with that. Let a J this cry about the rights of property cease and let the rights of men now be heard, as it was heard in those political thrones throughout the world, out of wh'.ch this republic was born. That claim, made by whomever it may, that interferes with the rights of men to life and liberty, is a<• im .subversive t<| the very ha ac ■ rh< pie of a free government. The right . > life includes the right to labor to prod: ce the food, clothing and sh-I er that maintains life. This incruses whitever- is necessary for him to labir. Life and labor are the two si les of < ne fact, deny the last, and the first is denied. Up with human rights. H. H. Brown.
If we should attempt to ex ress the feelings of the old soldier who fought for the Union when he thinks of the effort now being made to de.troy the greenbacks, this paper'would be excluded fiom the mails. No mild language can express the indignation ; that makes the blood of patriotism boil when such a measure is proposed. Dok’t forget that the new currency scheme under discussion gives the tuckers mor • • - vo- tn contract than to expend th.. cam ney —and that it is. more profitable to the bankers to con* I track
Shot and Shell. This is one of the documents for distribution at this season of the year. By all means include it in your order for literature. Price single copy, 10c., per dozen; 75c., at the Pilot office. The Searchlight — Henry Vincent’s powerful reiorm weekly, the up-to-date populist campaigner—than which there is no better published—always full of forceful argument, doubly clinched points and the latest news from the front—never camped but marching in the procession—price sl.oo—clubbed with the Pilot both for $1.50. / For sale at this office; paper cover 25c; cloth 50c. Shylock’s Daughter. By Margret Holmes Bates. Illustrated with eleven drawings by Capt. Rowley. This book is, to begin with, a thoroughlo well written love story, with an interesting plot and life like characters. Whoever begins it will read it through. When he has road it, if he is already a Populist, he will overflow with enibusiasm, while if he was a Republican or a Democi at he will have many things to think over. t . The Referendum Movement. Parties who are interested in the subject of the Initiative and Referendum, as now in operation in all the cantons of Switzerland, should read ’’Direct Legislation,” a 25 cent pamphlet which can be had at this office. It is a subject of vital import to every one and should be carefully considered before . it is condemned It is exceedingly simple in its application to American slates and should be treated with the same nonpartisan spirit that was given the Australian ballot. Through it every man would be a law maker direct, with as little expense to the stale as any election of officers now is. 1 i” . 4 ' . . < POpU 11 is’a 1,6-pa■ e publication, and more than half of each i'ssffe is given t<> picturesiand stnikipg captoons. T-ne statistical matter of-each single number is worth more than, the subscriptipt price Ipr year (SIJ'O).,. The circulation of-Vox. Populi i- general-throughout the United {States. Every leading populist takes if* In the campaign of 1895-6 it will appeal to th** eye and the intellect of ‘more •people than any other jouri al.in the nation. ..."Whether poor or well off, you cannot affo/d to do without Vox PdPUKT. Single-copies are sold at 10 cents, but any subscriber to the People’s Pilot who wishes a sample copy, can get the same by stating that they are subscribers and sending 4 cents in .stamps to coyer postage, etc., to Vo’x Populi, ISt. Louis. Mo. VoY Populi will be clubbed with the People’s Pilot, both papers for $1.65. All Pilot subscribers who are already paid up will be supplied with Vox Populi for 65c. at the Pilot office. t.. ■ ■ M ' 1 he Baltimore Plan, now practically endorsed by President Cleveland, is attracting universal alien ion because it is based on the evident fa<-t that the currency and banking systems of the country must be reformed. But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It give the associated I - nits the power to < xpand the currency and relieve the country. Italso gives mem the power to contract it at will and create widespread distress for their own private gain. It puts the credit of the government behind every bank note. It donates all but half of one per cent of the potit on the note issue of the banks, and it leaves plenty of <»| por tun it ies fora Napoleon of Finance to wreck a batik and leave ti e government to pav the note*. It leaves the banks free to demand the highest interest that the several states will allow, and afford no relief to farmers and business men of moderate capital. Contrast with this THE HILL BANKING SYSTEM. In “Money Found,” an exceedingly valuable and instructive book. Hon. Thomas E. Hill proposes that the govern ment open its own bank in every large town or county sea in the United States, pay 3 per cent on long time deposits, receive deposits subject to cueck without interest, and loau money at the uniform rate as 4 per cent to every one offering security worth double the amount of the loan. This plan’is not an expense to the government, but a source of large revenue. It secures the government amply, which the Baltimoie plan does not. It relieves the distress of the common people, which the Baltimore plan does not. It protects not only note holders but depositors, who are unsecuted now under the Baltimore piun would be still worse off. * In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the bankers, the Hill Banking System is iu the interest of the people. Consider them both, and Luk your' congressman to vote for the i- uo you believe in.
Graduated Inheritance Tax.
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