People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — A SIGN OF THE TIMES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

Democracy pleads guilty. Did somebody say tariff? Shall we surrender to the banks? The probabilities of repudiation are increasing. Has the democratic party forgotten all its promises? Bonds do not employ labor—but greenbacks would. • ■ I I . I .1 .1 . Grover Cleveland has proven himself an ideal republican. The Rothschilds are still in the hastiness of crucifying Christ. Bonds are issued to contract and not to expand the circulation. The more bonds are issued the less money will be left in circulation. The democrats seem to have no hesitancy about going to the bottom of tho situation. The people have Hie right and the power to control the government and the hanks. N'o wonder Christ was crucified when he tried to convert the ancestors of Rothschilds. Is taxing the unborn with gold bonds taxation without representation? Don t all speak at once. The contract slave system practiced hv the factories is as bad as chattel slavery ever was. It is folly to strike while t he corporations hold the military, Vote the suns out of their hands. ■The sugar trust coating don't seem to improve the bitter pill of the democratic administration. Wo can’t stanu on the platform with one foot and on tlm line of concessional policy with the other. Even workingman who is enlisted in the militia should get out trf it before he is ordered to shoot his brothers. The first is, they must get an the platform with us, or, secondly, we must get off the platform and stand with them. There is a rapidly growing sentiment that there is fraud in the issue of bonds to buy gold—aad that they should be repudiated. Congressmen are apparently begunning to tumble to themselves— when they familiarly caR each other “liana” and “impertinen-tr scoundrels.” Too much credit with the bond sharks is what is the matter with the country. Abolish tho gold reserve and restore the credit of the government wit h the people. If the militia is to he used solely for the protection of the rich, let them do the lighting themselves. Workingmen should not join the militia to shoot down other workingmen. The secretary of the treasury admits that there is a surplus on hand, more than enough for current expenses of the government—and yet Grover says we must buy gold from Rothschilds to sustain our credit.

We have long been accused of favoring repudiation—we now accept the challenge and invite the financiers to put us down in their blacklist book as ..ivoring the repudiation of every kioini issued during the reign of King t; rover. the very men to whom we made this concession would be the first to declare to the world that we ad abandoned our platform and organized a free silver party. Thus we would be forced no. defend both our conduct and our principles. Those men say that they can’t stand on the Omaha platform, yet they want to stand with us. For this ourpose we are appealed to by some of our own leaders to make the silver question the great issue and stand with those men, and prevent the formation ol' a new party. What would be the logical conclusion of such action? ) ■ ■ “Fly to the life"VoatsfThe ship is sinking!” was the cry of alarm on the doomed Elbe, “(let out; you are a calamity howler,” was the response of a pompous and self-satisfied passenger, v.ho turned over in his bunk, and was drowned with the rest of the-victims.— The Age. They shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold shall be removed. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their souls, neither fiull their bowels—because it is the stumbling of their iniquity.—Ezekiel 7:19. There seems, to be a persistent effort on the part of some to push the currency question to the front and then make free silver the issue. It is urged that such men as Senators Stewart, Jones and others holding similar views cannot join us unless we do this. This v/e are told is an occasion to exercise some sense as practical politicians. We must have a policy, it is said. Very veil. Now, let us announce the logic of such a proposition, ;n the light of the situation.

We are a party nearly two million strong. We' have built up this strength through a straight fight on the lines of the Omaha platform. Our motto has been to “keep in the middle of the read” —that is to,stick to the platform. Senators Jones and Stewart knew this, and knew what the Omaha platform was when they joined us—or. at least, when they were said to have joined us. Now, if Joaes and Stewart, and others r r their way of tbiuktng want to go with us and we want to go with them t! are only two courses to pursue by v,....!: e tan s cmyiish such a union,

There is no middle ground. Hunger, is more dangerous than dyni amite. Do you want to give ’em another i change? ‘Policy is all right if it is in line with tj inciple. i Don’t get discouraged—God is on the side of the people. j Gold is the rich, man’s god and the j poor man’s devil. Support your reform paper; they are ! fighting your battles. ! Shylock has put up the black flag on the temple of liberty. Coxey’s currency and public improvement plan is a good one. Banks of issue and liberty cannot Alive long in the same country. Ou what meat doth this, our Caesar :u-j i that he'has become so great? The gold conspirators have got the preserve down to about $40,000,00b. John Bull-hc-adedness is what is the -matter with old party administrations. Organize in every - state for r.ue campaign of IS3G, and push the work of education. The abolition of interest would bonetit all poor men and do no injustice to The rich. The logic of events is solving 'he ■roldem of government, ownership of railroads. And now how does the honest demo- '• feel who expected so much from is party? I a proportion ns you get people to a 1, you will increase the Populist vote in IS3G. The People’s party will continue to island on its platform until another one is made by the people. Don’t depend too much on leaders—hoy may deceive you. Go to work, think and act for yourself. The “parting of the way?” is still ■•p a. but there are not many democratic leaders leaving the main road. It rooms that Springer has lost his elasticity, and the President had to act Wilson to spring the new bond -i'The main question now seems to be -■aether the people have any rights t all that the plutocrats are bound to aspect. Push the work of education on the 'hates of the Omaha platform, em!phasing the importance of the currency ... uostiou. Grover Cleveland’s message is as full if A diabolism as the one which the devil bore to Mother Eve about the forbid!o:i fruit. Take away the power of government 'from the batiks, and let them hustle aider the same kind of protection the laborer gets. The Missouri legislatures, instead of purifying society, is to prohibit high .bats at the theatres, and appoint a state watermelon inspector. The plate glass manufacturers have ■ j urt formed a trust, capitalized at ten ''.Million dollars —and yet it is conspiracy for laborers to organize. With begging prohibited, stealing punished with imprisonment, and no work, what can a man out of employment do but become an outlaw.

If wo must have bonds, why not pass Cuxey’s non-interest bearing bond bill? J Ask the men who want to draw ar.d Jive on interest, and their tools. The new emperor of Russia announces his intention to uphold autocracy—- : Mid the boss of the United States is pledging the country to plutocracy. Good roads would benefit the whole . country. Why not put the icfle to work •on them and pay them in legal tender paper money, issued by the. govern..nent? Fifty-year bonds, interest and prin • upal payable in gold, non-taxable, and the destruction of the greenback! This is the program. Who sass silver is ■the main issue? There is some discussion going on .among reform papers as to what course is best to pursue in the campaign of lS9(i, which, as a matter of fact, all isoem to agree ought to begin now. Think of the terrible storm that lately swept the country—then think of the homeless and hungry—and again, ask yourself if it is right that the idle rich should feast upon the toil of tjhe poor. The czar of Russia has invited the. bomb throwers to turn on the music.. He wants to have the same kind of a his daddy had, so as to become accustomed to the tortures of hell before ■ he goes. Study the initiative and referendun i. It is simple, direct and would tak » way the power of congressmen to sc 11 out to the sugar trust, Union Paci 3c funding swindles or any other edrpor ation of thieves. The destruction of the greenbacks i* the next thing in order. The Presidi mt recommends it in his message. Go .14, and paper money issued by the bar ike is the order of the day. Tnii mean s a double rate of interest- interest on die bonds, and interest on the bank c urrency. Add to this interest on the deposits loaned and we have the ”p »st tanking system in the world”—for the banker. * t