People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — ALONG THE LINE. [ARTICLE]

ALONG THE LINE.

The man who begs for work is as much a beggar as the one who begs for a crust to eat. And the able bodied man who works for a dollar a day is as much a slave as was the negro who worked for his board and clothes. The New York bankers have asked President Cleveland to remove Secre. tary Carlisle from the cabinet. He is getting bull headed and won’t tell them in advance what the administration proposes to do. It’s amusing to read in democratic papers about the Populistic setback in the recent election, when the democrats throughout the nation met a defeat that mpans annihilation, while Populists added over a million votes to their vote of two years ago—New Charter. What is the matter with getting right down to bottom principles and demonetize both gold and silver and have a paper money controlled by the government and have done with the whole robbing crew of usurers at one fell swoop? Oklahoma State. We have seen men who have not a change of raiment, sneer with maligna rit rancor at those who are laboring to better their condition. Such intellectual dwarfs are on a par with the cur that bites the hand that befriends him, and by reason of thp low state of existence to which they have fallen have no place either in heaven or hell. —Friend Herald, lola, Kan.

Tue plutocratic press is trying to ereate the impression that American tnonoy is going to Europe for investment. But the fact of the matter is that plutocracy is frightened at its own rashness, and some of the millionaires are depositing their gold in Europe, so that if they get run out of this country, they will have something to start into business on the other side. Chattel slavery, cruel and wicked as it necessarily must be, still possesses elements of mercy. There are other forms of slavery that are merciless Yet men have analyzed the subject so little that some of the most wicked ind oppressive systems are utterly ignored. Even f»ie enlightened British people. while moving the heavens and .he earth, so to speak, in order to abolish chattel slavery and the Aftican slave trade, have actually nurtured and still nurture in their own islands the jo\nt systems of wage and tenant slavery, which have paved the bed of ’.he Atlantic ocean from Cork, Liverpool and Belfast to New York with the ■skeletons of human slaves escaping from their chains. And America—our boasted free and liberty loving America—whose people have poured out blood and treasure like water for the abolition of ehattel slavery, Is, as Hst as time can move, suffering and siding monopolies to grasp the means of life, through which to establish and compel the merciless slave systems es the old world. —John OnvU, M, _j