People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Shadow Box Social. [ARTICLE]

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.

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