People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Page 2

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*|kve him no satisfactory explanation. Another item in your course of action must not be neglected. At first you merely _aime& at “specie resumption;” that is, coin redemption, using both gold and silver coin as the money of ultimate payments. _ But, as if in the very wantonness of cruelty, prompted by the greed of your land bolding “constituents,”] ycu joined in the war on silver, resulting in its depreciation as a money meta'. You determined on gold redemption at, all hazards, and did not cease your efforts till that unheard of scheme of financial cruelty had been accomplished, in 1873 tie bullion value of the silver dollar was three cents more than that of tliH gold dollar, and silver] was one of the inumys olfiiuli redemption in al! the world ex-; cept England. The warlareof' yourself and your party has] changed this, making “specie resumption” wit.i a single gold standard twice as burdensome to the people, and twice, as profitable io the bond holders as with the doable standard of gold and ’ silver. As an indication of what • lue people ol this country suf-i sered under your manipulations, J I quote the following from one! of your ablest partisan leaders | ami co-workers in your null »iy i seneme. ' Col. R. J. Ingeisoll < -.. rioed the sufferings of the | people from the time ol the de I monetizatiofi of silver in l -, 73l tin its partial restoration in 1878, as loiloWs:

“No man c: n. imagine; all the languages of me world cannot cxrress. what the people of the United States suffered from Uud to 1879. Men who considered themselves millionaires found i I vm»eive.'> beggars; men living i.i p.liases, supposing they had t-uuiuu vj give sunshine to the their age, supposing they had enough to leave all trey loved in ■ ffiueuce and c.onii’ori, suddenly found that they were mendicants, with bonds, s >c,k», moriguges, ah turn* d to asnus in their aged, tremblin'.' bauds. Toe chimneys grew cuid, me fires in furnaces went the poor families were turned adrift, and the highways ol the Uneed Stales were crowded will) tramp-.’’ Prior to the beginning of your eifor.s for specie resumption, when the people had plenty ol money to do business with, the same able writer described the condition of the peop.e of the United States as follows: ••On every hand fortunes were being made, a wave of wealth swept over the United Slates, huts became houses, houses be came palaces, tatters became garments.and rags became robes, walls were covered with pic lures, floors with carpets, and for the first time in the history ml the world the poor tasted o: tue luxuries of wealth. We be gan to wonder how our father.endured life. Every kii d of business was pressed to the verj sky-line.” That was the condition of this country at the close of the Wai of tue Rebellion, before the s. moon of specie resumption struck it. Since then the sufferings of the people have been greater than human tongue can tell. Senator Ingalls, another leading Republican, described the situation in 1891 os follows: “A financial system under which more than one-half of ihe enormous wealth of tue country, derived from the bounty of ua lure and the labor of-all. is own ed. bj a little more'than tnirl.. thousand peop.v, .whde one mhl on American citizens, able an willing to toil, are homeless tramps, starving for bread, re quires readjustment. A social system whicn offers to lender, virtuous and dependent women the alternative between prostitution and suicide as an escape from beggary is organized crime, lor which some day unrelenting justice will demand atonemen and expiation. . . . So it hap pens. Mr. President, that on society is becoming stratified, almost hopelessly >tratified, mic a condition of superfluously rich and helplessly poor. We are accustomed to sneak of this as the land of the free and the home of the brave. It will soon be the home of the rich and the land of the" slave.” There, my dear sir, is the result of your “grand and crowning” life w’ork, as described by one your wisest and ablest po litical fr’ertcls. and as' known by every intelligent man to be true. And in ordfer to-maintain the present states—in order to pre■’vent matters going wois-y still faster—it is now necessary to

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continue to load the American people with new issues of goldbearing bonds; and the general of the army recommends an increase of the regular army in order to hold in check the suffering thousands of “organized hunger.” Sir, these are the results of your own “grand and crowning work.” To show, still further that you have entirely changed front as to the personnel of your “constituents,” I now desire to prove that in the seventies you were jin favor of an income tax to be levied on men of wealth. In the nineties you are not. In your speech .of Jan. 13, 1871. you ar-’ gued ably and earnestly in favof of an income tax. You said, “It is the only tax levied by the United States that falls upon property;” and you argued most justly that such a tax should not be repealed. As to objections ] against this tax, you said: “What objection can be made ;to the income tax that does not ! ipply to any tax, except one, laud that is, that the income tax is from its nature a tax of espionage, while the tax on tea, coffee and sugar is not? But the tax on tea, coffee and sugar takes from (he little lump of su- ' gar dealt out in charity, or to penury, as we.l ns from the conj sections of the rich. There is no I argument of injustice or hardship that .can be mentioned I against the income lax to be com- ! pared to the tax upon tea. coffee I and sugar. Take also, the tux lon salt, an aiticle of prime neIcessity; and yet we levy on that Hiriic'e *2,009,000. So upon luni- | ber. So on the stamps which reach every man’s business transactions, and yet nobody proposes to repeal the stamp tax ”

?is to the inquisitorial nature of the income tux your arguments in defence were unanswerable. The espionage into a man’s business required by this tux, you conclusively showed is nothing to that required in collecting the lax on whiskey or in collecting duties on imports. On the lat ter subject you said: "On lauding at the city of Xew York, as I have done once or twice, what is the first thing you meet? A custom house of--11 ;er. What do s he demand? Lie wants to look at your trunks; he wants to spy into your baggage The first feeling is one of resentment. I think no man. can ai rive at a port from a foreign country where he first meqts ihe custom house officers without feeling angry that the law authorizes a private inspection of his coats and and pantaloons. But no customhouse laws can be enforced unless this espionage is allowed. It is not allowed for ihe purpose of interfering with men or women engaged in ordinary travel, but the espionage •oust extend to them in order to reach the fraudulent importer or >i.i uggler. Further arguing this point you said: “There is not a state in this Union which does not authorize m »re espionage into a man’s pri vate affairs than the income tax law of the United States.” Respecting the claim that the income tax is odious aud unpopular, you very properly replied: “I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.”. As to the equality of the income tax, because it falls only upon men of wealth, you replied most truly: "If you leave your system of taxation to rest wholly upon iconsumption, without any tax upon property or income, you do make an unequal and unjust Isv.s'.em.”

It was claimed that the income tax was a war measure,, and heuce.should continue only dur iug the war. To this you replied to Very fully by saying: "This income tax is just as : i t h a war tax uow as' when 1; ’.•;is during .tfie wai, be a.ise it is now .levied to pay ex, penses incurred during. . t.hc a tr. J’hat sialpment being true, the -.ame lax is just as union. <1 war ax in 1894 as .in 1871, as the ciiarees for .pensions, for'war claims of various sorts, and to pay mterestv. xm the War debt, siill continue. • .-■ . Now, sir, in contrast with your position in .1871, I desire 4« call attention to your position in 1894. In 1894 you still lav,or an incom • tax, but not to be' levied by the general government. You say, “This tax ought to be left to the people of the states.”* And lurtber along in the argument you add the following statements: “I shall vote against this incmre tax -simply because it is unnecessary. . . . Then, besides, to levy an income tax is

an invasion of the rights of the states. . . . But there is another thing. The terms and conditions of this income tax provision, it seems to me, are utterly indefensible. Why should we levy a tax upon the incomes above $4,000 a year, and not levy upon the great mass of the incomes from SI,OOO up to $4,000? . . . Mr. President, this making a line of demarcation on incomes of $4,000 or $3,000, is a low, mean form of socialism. Why should a man who has been prosperous, who is a property holder, be aimed at, struck at for special taxation? ... In a republic like ours, where all men ate equal, this attempt to array the rich against the poor, or the poor against the rich, is socialism, communism, devilism; it is the foundation of all the fears that now disturb many of the European governments. I have no sympathy with it whatever.” That, sir, was your opinion of the income tax, June 22. 1894. How changed since 1871! Then you were not so rich as now, perhaps. On June 23, 1894. you renewed your fight, and, among many other things which I have no room here to quote, you say: “A tax of two mills on a pound of sugar would yield more revenue than this boasted income tax. It will be looked upon as a discrimination against the few, as a blow aimed against people who have been industrious, vigilant and careful, who have husbanded their resources, and it will not yield you the revenue you demand. In my judgment it will be the most unpopular and the most unproductive tax that has ever been levied in the United States of America.”

And are you the same John Si erman, who, in 1871, replied to that view of the case by saying, “I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.” Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the effete monarchies of Europe, that our most famous American statesman would rather tax the poor man’s moiety of sugar ihan the rich man’s surplus income! And this is modern republicanism! How unlike the •good old Lincoln variety! In closing, sir, I beg to suggest that great men who cannot escape history should be careful of their actions, that posterity may recount their deeds with pleasure and not with pa’n; and .that their h a Is may swell with .grateful joy, rather than their cheeks be fevered with the blush of shame.

Farewell Reception.

Aout twenty-five young people gathered at the home of the Misses Agnes and Alta Smith last Monday night in anticipation of their approaching departure. Those from town went in a big slei'Mi, and all had a delightful 1 ime.

Civilty Engineered.

Miss Frances E., daughter of James W. McEwen, editor of the Sentinel, was married at the home-of her parents, to Lathrop A. Bostwick. Tuesday evening, by Rev. M. A. Paradis. The affair was quiet and modest and witnessed by only a few immediate friends. The happy couple are among the most favored in Rensselaer society and a host-of warm friends wish them well indeed.

Shadow Box Social.

There will be a Shadow box social at the court' house, Saturday night. Feb. 9. given by the ladies of the F. W. Baptist church. One third of the proceeds goes to the Nebraska sufferers. Everybody invited. Ladies come and bring a box. Gentlemen come ami buy.

Advertised Lett*. »•*>. i Letters ,:><!<’«r;ssod ns below remain uncn.Ued for in ih.' office at llensse!n Jasper cetujly. Indiana. Those not ■ claimed «• Itbin* t wo.' weeks from the'date '■ u'iven will !:<■' sent-'to the Dead Letter l?>:Hee. Washington. D. C. Persons; railing : fir any or ibe iet.tris In this list will please say they are advertised: First advertised Feb. 0. '<:• IL alley. • .Mr. Henry Spann. ; Air. Anson L'liupp, Miss Mary Jones. ; Miss JeA-dc Phelps. : Levi Milnnn. E. P. Ho.xan, P. al. Austin & Co. have unlimited j. facilities for placing farm, loans iti .iiie lowest rates of interest '.and coinmission. There is no ' red tape about these loans. If j your title is good you can get ! your money in 48 hours. Address Austin & Co.. Ra»ifl«alaer, Ind. Edward Harris of Mt. Ayr was in town last Tuesday looking after some horses. Lakey, the baker, makes the finest of pies and cakes.

We’re after them We’re onto their gams. Keep the enemy on the rum Save the money that saved the Union. There’ll be “another county heard from” in 18S6. Who is there will call himseii a democrat? Wonder If Judge Ricks is the only one of the kiniL Prize fighting and private banking should be prohibited. The “robher-tarrffTlsn’t - in it with the robber gold dollar. “Prosperity” is still wearing a linen duster for an overcoat. ' Wonder if Grover Cleveland still believes in "legislation behind glass doors.” The banker without a new currency scheme of his own to propose is now a curiosity. The money question is not the only one that demands a solution —but it is the greatest. Shall gold, the base coward and deserter take the place of the loyal soldier greenback? Who will erect a monument to Grover Cleveland —and O, Lord, how long before he is ready for it? Wonder if Carnegie reduced the wages of his employes in order to make better steel or to steal better. The whole policy of the money power is “control or destroy”—but it will do neither with the People’s Party. The gold reserve is vanishing like dew in sunshine. Another shower of bonds may be expected any day. The “blood-stained greenback” must not be crowded out by the men who deserted the country in time of need. The panic could be settled in 30 days by the issue of government money to employ idle labor upon needed public work. Thousands of bushels of wheat fed to bogs, and thousands of people without bread. Verily, the hog is in it all around. Abolish the gold reserve, and the greenbacks will no longer be an “appalling menace” to any honest man or institution. Democracy must be in a terrible tangle when it has to ask the aid of John Sherman to lead it’ through its own financial woods. The greenback is sprinkled with the benediction of America’s most loyal heart blood. Shall it be destroyed by bushwhacking bankers? If farmers would stop sending manure to congress and use a little more on their farms they might raise better crops and get better prices. The government should issue enough more legal tender greenbacks to force the bankers to earn an honest living at legitimate business on productive labor. The Napoleon agitation through the newspapers and magazines is an effort of plutocracy to educate the children of America into military hero worship. Away with all such baabarism. Instead of voting bonds for the Nicaraugua ditch, it would be better to take up Coxey’s good roads scheme, and do some improving at home where American workmen could be employed to do the work. The south will be fully emancipated when the voters of that section divida on economic issues irrespective of any question growing out of the war, and it seems to be reserved for the Populist party to hasten that day.—Kansas City Star. ■■ The tax necessary upon the people of each and every congressional district of the United States for the retirement of the greenbacks would be about one million dollars. Watch and see if the congressman of your district is working for a measure that will impose a million dollar tax upon your district.

The only way to escape trouble with the gold reserve is to abolish it, and let it go into circulation. Let the bankers and “balance” men send their own gold to Ettrope, and the government issue legal tender greenbacks for use in internal commerce with the common patriots. ■. By all odds, the most able document in the way of governor’s messages is the one sent in by Governor Altgeld. No better Populist article is in print today. It should .be given extensive circulation. Bunco federal judges, corporation tools and tiie General Managers’ Association get a terriffic scalding while Pullman and Cleveland are just ripped up the back and skinned alive.—Denver Rond. We wish every one of the great plaii people could spend two or three days ir this city watching the rpo.emonts o congress. Two days would be' amp] time to convince the most' ’Skeptics that the power of so f-go eminent n longer obtained in this country. \ believe the time is near at Ir nd w'.c' a visit of this charac er ? . i,: be 'f i things the most ap>v rw tend i; cessary.—National '< Just suppose that a P *■ troduced the Carlo's i «. 1 • have been denorr : - San Francisco to treated by the oi. with all respect • time-honored hv advocated by h ,s by twin tumble

A PEICE OF NEWS.

IqUvd OW I have a piece tJa a of sews that I guess will make Tb that Mias EveriZL dale wince when 1 she hearsof it!”exI claimed a young lady, coming up Y to a group of \/u\ ll me n and women seated on the ver- ■ /// | anda of' a hotel 1/ at one of the fa sh- / ionable watering L places. “Well, if there is anything that will make M.ss Everdale wince I

declare I do hope she will bear of it,” replied a young woman! with a fair round face, but whose black eyes flashed unpleasantly as she spoke. “Sh!” said her husband, “I don’t like to bear you speak that way, Elsie. I don’t see why you all have taken such a dislike to Miss Everdale. She is as fine a woman as I have met this season, and if she has the good luck to Claim all of Roy Gilbert’s attention that is no reason why you all should hate her.” “Oh, yes,” answered his wife, “we all know that you men, married and single, have adored the ground she walks on, and the rest of us have been nowhere ev«r since she came. Not that I r‘--c. >nt I do hate to see a woman •-<> f .• ■■ v.>- 1 and bold.” “Well, n. ■< : just wait and hear what I I. . io tell,” said Miss Weston, the iii.-.t speaker, and the group turned attentive faces to her.

“I have this straight from Will,” she began. “You see XVill was down in the office quite late last night with a few of the other men, and among them .was Roy Gilbert. He became very much interested in relating some of his adventures, and before bo thought—as his manner showed afterward—he mentioned his wife ” “His wife!” they all exclaimed in one breath, and horror was visible on some countenances, while others wore a malicious triumphant expression. “Yes, his wife,” went on Miss Weston, evidently delighted that she had awakened so much interest. “And Will said some of the men looked kind of queer, and as though they pitied him, for he flushed as red as a schoolboy, and then Will said to him: ‘Why Gilbert, old boy, we didn’t know you had a wife. Will she be with you this season?' “You know Will was awfully in love with Miss Everdale before Gilbert came, and I suppose he felt as though he could forgive him anything after he learned that there was no chance of Gilbert’s haying her.” "Well, what did Roy say?” asked the black-eyed Elsie. “Say, why he was as cool as you please after the first second and said: “ ‘Ah, yes; I have a wife. She is visiting her old home this summer. She may get around here before the season is over,’ and went on as unconcerned as could be with what he was telling. “Now, what do you think of that?” The men looked at each other '•nd winked and one sour-visaged chap remarked: “There always was something queer about Gilbert—seemed as though ho was trying to hide something!” , “Oh, come, now, Carter, that’s too bad. If ever there was an honest,

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free-hearted, open-faced fellow, that one is Roy Gilbert He’s only having a little fun, that's all, but it's mighty rough on Miss Everdale.” ‘‘Well, Miss Everdale shall know it before she goes to bed to-night, if I have to tell her myself,” and the look in the e.Ves of the speaker told what pleasure it would afford her to be the informant. ■ ‘‘Now, I'll tell- you what let's do,”, she continued. ‘VVfter supper we will all be out hete- on the veranda, and Miss Everdale will be sure to come out; we will call her to us, and tell her here before us all! We all want to see what she will-do and say;*’ ‘‘l guess it will take her down some,” remarked a rather old-young lady, “and it will be good enough for her.” ■ And what of Miss. Everdale, .upon whose head was to descend such a blow. • - ■ - A beautiful woman of 30, beautiful in manner and winning w iys rathfer tnan in features, although the soft dark»eyffs called attention away from the ryither, too large mouth;, wavy dark -.hair floated about a full white brow. Her figure was pleasing to the eye, although not perfect. This was the' first season she had spent at C , and-"little was known about her, except‘what'’-they had observed. They bad observe4-.,that although Miss Eyerdale 'was very pleasant to .all the young riien who thronged about her, she seemed’ to care for ' none until the day ll<jy Gilbert came,

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had since that time a fierce flrttfl had been going on them. Boy Gilbert was a handsome mai thirty-five, had money, no one ki how much, but was consider© I by men to be a fine all-around fell The women—well the women thon he Was just a darling nut.l he i so taken up with Miss Everdale 1 all the others could get from him • an occasional chat, or a smiling g night or good morning. And npw something had happe more than they had ever dreau and although they knew that now them could ever have Gilbert, t were glad to know it was equally possible for Miss Everdale to do s So they anxiously waited to see 1 she would bear up under the infon tion, nor had they any desire to bn it to her gently. Their time had come; for every was now returning from the suj room, and, with the others, came 1 pair they were waiting for. Roy Gilbert’s haudsome head I bending low over Miss Everdal and the earnestness of his man] and the lovelight in his eyes sb plainer to the waiting group than] words could have done. | As he turned to leave her to go] the smokin ' room he passed his I around her waist and drew her cl to him for an instant. I The indignation of the wail watching group could hardly be I pressed. | Miss Everdale came slowly up I veranda alone and as she drew I the group of women turned to ■ with a smile on her happy face. “Isn t this a fine evenil she said, addressing fl all, but they simply | themselves up and looked at her I haughty frowns. 9 “Miss Everdale,” said the volnl informer, “we wish to speak witfl a moment,” and, without waitin J any reply went on: I “What we are about to comrfl cate to you we know to be the tl and can prove it to be such. I friend, Mr. Gilbert, has a wife!” I They all stood breathless, loci at her, expecting to see her cl grow angry and deny it or tol with confusion and shame, butfl did neither. She did not even ell color, but the smile deepened il dark eyes as she said quietly: I “Oh, yes, indeed, I know he hfl has been speaking to me of hetfl expects her here before the seafl out I hope we shall all likfl She was a fortunate woman tfl come the wife of such a man <fl Gilbert” I The smile faded from her fatfl she gazed out to sea. She eithfl not or pretended not, to see the fl expressions on the faoes belorfl and, after a few commonnlafl marks, turned away. fl After she was out of hearinefl Weston exclaimed: fl “Did you ever see such afl brazen-faced thing in all your lifl The next day the couple wel talk of the whole place, but it dfl seem to disturb them any. Tifl tation still went on, and the retfl making was more open and appfl Now and again the men woultfl Gilbert about his wife’s finding him out, but he swered them good naturedly. fl| They all liked Gilbert, and tfl men, although they called him ster behind his back, were ready to chat with him. Everdale they were more and always looked upon her thing to be shunned.

Such was the state of affair; one morning the hotel carriag tb the door and took away Mis dale, bag and baggage. What it mean? All day long was parture the subject of specr but in the evening the myste solved. Mr. Gilbert came into the with an open letter in his ha. said:

“I have just received a lette my wife. She says she will b me to-morrow evening, as it tenth anniversary of our mt and wherever -we are we alwa to spend that day together, be pleased to have hgr mt friends and will bring her to meet you to-morrow evenin Good nature was at once re and all Mr.'Gilbert’s former si at once forgiven. The next the whole party dressed for casion, assembled in the < room. They were chatting, about, wondering what th comer would be like, sound Gilbert's praises and kindness the door opened and a serv nounced Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gil The servant moved aside, a Gilbert entered the room, and arm was —Miss Everdale. He bowed to them and said: “Let me introduce you to r this is the tenth anniversary marriage. You should remerr friends tjafe.t 'i appearances ai deceitful/’'

Consanguinity in German

Despite the warnings of authorities, marriages betwei relations continue tp an alart gree in Germany. year there, were upwards such marriages, 1,423 being first and second cousins. 111 uncles and nieces attd 16 nephews and. aunts. The pr of these consanguineous alii; the total of'marriages record each 149 matrimonial unions.

The First Patent.

The>patent office recently a valuable acquisition to its in a fac-sjmile copy of the firs of an invention issued in Am was granted by the general Boston, March 6, 1846. Jose was the patentee, and bis ini water wheel.