People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — SHERMAN THE SAVIOUR. [ARTICLE]

SHERMAN THE SAVIOUR.

Honest John Comes to the Rescue of the Government. Now that “Honest John Sherman has taken hold of the thorny problem and and kindly consented to save the counintroduced a financial bill of his own, try, it will probably be in order to breathe freely. Sherman has proved such a success heretofore as the financial guardian of the people, and so many blessings have flown from his marvelous performances in the world of finance, it is not too much to predict that his new bill will either cure or kill us outright. Of course no scheme could be expected from the “lean, spare Cassius” of Ohio that did not provide for a bond issue, as the objective point of his whole existence seems to be to get more bonds and bigger ones. His Idea of supreme bliss

stems to be a country plasterel ove two feet thick with interest-bearin mortgages with himself and friends a the manipulators of the coupons attached thereto. A fruitful erop ha been reaped by Sherman & Co. as th result of this policy and it would lx unreasonable to expect him this Into in life to relinquish his hold on so good r thing. Should your Uncle John eve. get to heaven the first proposition be would make to St. Peter would be t. lay a bonded mortgage on the p?are - : streets and adjacent angels ami g v him the sole right of foreclosure. Nonconformist.