People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — From Iowa’s Hustings. [ARTICLE]

From Iowa’s Hustings.

Mt. Pleasant, lowa, Jan. 31, 1895. —F. D. Craig, Rensselaer. Ind. My esteemed friend: As the Lord liveth and directs the destinies of the faithful and true patriots in the cause of the down trodden and sorely oppressed people, so comes the 'People’s Pilot’ of Rensselaer, Ind., announcing the lost found, flat footed upon another oasis, in the great desert of ignorance, (pslitically), into lyhich the masses are dumped like so much garbage to do service for a designing few, upon which to do battle for the people’s cause. Cheer, cheer, all cheer the glad tidings, and pray that the People’s Pilot under the new management will live to see and fully realize the consumation of honest energetic effort rewarded.

The battle waged for negro freedom by William Loyd Garretson and Wendle Phillips was an afternoon affair compared to the present campaign of freeing the conquerors, the conquered and the freed of 1865. The bands forged and firmly fastene d upon 65 millions of whites and black alike, in the tend of the free and the home of the brave, are there to stay until ignorance of cause, prejudice and party blindness can be dispelled by cool dispassionate reasoning to cast them off. 25,000 people owning 75 per cent of the wealth of the country, the farmers of the United States owning less than 20 per cent of the wealth and paying 80 per cent of the taxes, ought to lead the average farmer to the cause why "farming don’t pay”. With 52 per cent of our population homeless, as the humble Nazarene, and the class fast increasing under the palm and fig tree of ‘ ‘Protection to Labor”. ‘ ‘Bonds, bonds, more bonds,” in time of peace, is the patriots cry. The press of the country is subsidized and muzzled to damn every body that will not cry "more prosperity bonds”. Mrs. Gheen joins me in best regards to Mrs. Craig. We have about one foot of snow and 20 below zero. Nearly cold enough to freeze an Ottumwa Judicial caucus or a First Congressional fight. Your friend for equal rights and special priveleges to none,

E. GHEEN.