People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — DEMOCRACY A MERE FICTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRACY A MERE FICTION.

Grover a Mere Figure Head of the Money Power. From Mrs. Diggs’ Letter from Washington. The fiction of self-government is revealed' in all its threadbareness at Washington. There was never an absolute monarchy more governed by men of royal blood than are Americans by plutocracy. And fat, stolid Grover is plutocracy’s pliant tool. Whatsoever the gold bugs desire of Grover that will he do, and all in the name of “the constitution.” If the tattered American sovereigns cannot get a glimpse of the great Grover, the next best thing is to see Lady Frances or Princess Ruth. Then how thay do shout and rave. The sight compensates for the fact that their own wives and little ones haven’t decent clothes to go to church in, and no expectation of ever in their lives being able to earn enough to enable them to buy the humblest sort of a cottage | home. God grant that grand old Abraham ! Lincoln spoke truly when he said: ] “You can’t fool all the people .all the time,” for then there is some hope that j the next four years will teach the Am- ! erican sovereigns that their chief ser- | vant Grover is not theirs at all, but merely the figure head of the money power of Wall street and universal gold buggery.