People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Page 3

Equal Opportunities for All.

Where’s your prosperity? ■■■ How are you going to vote next time? j The government must be restored to the people. The “deadbeats” are still fighting the income tax. Jerry Simpson is mentioned for governor of Kansas. Why not turn the whole thing over to the bankers? We must educate for after the storm, , as well as agitate for its coming. The country was “redeemed” by th<^, republicans in gold standard men. Finance, Land and Transportation are the trinity of industrial salvation. | Plutocracy seems determined to have ■ the bonds paid either in gold or blood. Workingmen have no business in the militia. Let plutocracy do its own killing. More money without more justice to the common people won’t solve the problem. The loaders of both old parties are in rebellion against the government of *the people.

The Populists in congress stand solidly United against the golden serpent on every occasion. The union of all the working people at the ballot box is the only union that can succeed. ‘ Topulists in congress don’t vote to secure the indorsement of old and New England bankers. A single.signature with a stub pen will enslave a nation - and Grover Cleveland stands ready to sign. A labor saving machine that is not owned by the laborer himself, or the general public, is a labor starving machine. Boys, don’t let your congressmen remain in ignorance of the situation r.mong the com on people. Write them cry week.

, What Grover and the bankers want fin n perpetual debt, a means of forcing dproducers to support idle and useless |l Lined suckers. v i The difference between the world [ now and the condition of the elements I before the ere-’don is that now it is all [form— and still void. [| And now it develops that Liliuokal|e.ni is an anarchistess - and probably ■Grover knew it all the time. This is la pretty “how are you.'’ I The republican congress is pledged ■to the policy of Grover Cleveland, and Else whole country will be pledged to ■Europe with gold bonds. ■ Populist papers should not advertise, ■jlub with, or send in subscribers to fclutocratic papers, at any price, daily ■weekly, monthly, or any other way. BJ Let the millionaires handle their Bpwn killing machines. Workingmen Should keep out, and be prepared to ■efcad themselves in case of emergency.

Redeemed—yes; Kansas was reeemed, by electing a banker governor tad sending a railroad attorney to he senate —Colorado was redeemed and pnt Wolcott. I Even Breckinridge was disgusted Ijth President Cleveland’s financial ill and voted against it. But that lily proves the bill worse, and won’t live Breckinridge. ■ Congress has voted a half million lllars to lay a cable to Hawaii, so that l anxious public in Americ' .s’liys have fresh news of how ie. v>»Ir Spreckels is treating his vi Tv. 3. lit is intimated by the boss fi-mclc 3 ■at the syndicate which hand!: 3 ■■ issue of bonds will clear six m. • ■n dollars, on negotiating the sale ■me. Wonder how much King Grover, Is. In Nebraska, a few days since, a bank Ihier attempted to go republicanlit is to fail —but the inhabitants of I town in which he resided objected. ■ went to kingdom come, via. hemp. — Hwn. ■ Minnesota “roaster” by the name ■Toster has “cornered” the egg mar-. ■ cuf the United States, and proposes lun the price up cents a dozen ■ity consumers. May he live on rot-'

Peggs the balance of his life. Every riotic hen in America should have a k at his eyes. lib Ingersoil pops up and says “Poppa is insanity”—and yet the senfcnal ass writes letters once in a ■e about the wrongs of the people I are thoroughly Popuiistin. The I sure thing about Bob is that he fcrs notoriety to a consisceut course ■eking the truth. ■e professional tramp and the idle ■belong to the same class morally—living in the filth of beggary, the I in the corruption of dissipation, ■ere is any difference, it is in favor le tramp, who does not murder ■impoverish others in his selfish Hess gs does the rieh idler. Bg George and all his hired Hes- ■ could not make our patriot fOrel's pay 6 cents a pound tariff on B support the government, but W. Bstor lives in Lunnon and draws 1,000 a year off the American peo- ■ the of taxes and they pay ■ don’t say a word. Truly the lines Bh men have fallen in pleasant B in these modern days of asinine Bcaniam.—Coming Nation.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH 9,1 R° 5 WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

Vete the guns out of plutocracy’: hands. Give the republicans a chance. 0 course. The trouble with the democrat!, party is, it can’t be democratic. Another fool has been found in con grecs who says God made money. The democratic party has had its chance and now it has its record. The boss financiers are talking of calling another international farce. The idea of people petitioning, where they have a right to demand —absurd. The gold - standard don’t"appear to restore “parity,” “confidence” nor prosperity.

The democratic party committed suicide —and, of course, the whisky trust Lusted. Congress has turned it all over * Grover, and he will “soak” the co. to Rothschild. That man Sovereign of the Knights cf Labor is a fighter. Success to him and his followers. Let us abolish hank government, and institute government banking and a people's government. The currency Question can be made the leading issue without abandoning the Omaha platform. He who says the greenback is not good money is hot a good man, nor a good American citican. Why not issue some more bonds? Co deeper in debt and save our credit. Where, is the I'oolkiilcr ? King Grover is despondent. His house of lords and sleight-of-hand performers refuse to perform.

Fre3'i lent Cleveland’s patriotism seems to be of the same brand as democratic prosperity—non est. Government ownership of railways is foolish unless private ownership of government he first abolished. Wonder if Rothschild gold will st-y in the treasury any longer than ar.y other brand of the cowardly stuff.

The present gang of rulers in this country would national financial policy dictated by Rothschilds.

Covey’s plan is tetter than any or all of the currency plans proposed by the bankers and their tools in congress. Suppose that machines performed all the work and capitalists pocketed all the profits—then what would workmen do?

When free silver men want, to vote with a free silver party there is only one way to do it —that is to vote with the People’s party.

All money held solely for speculative and lending purposes, is in enemy of and a constant drain on all the useful people of the nation.

The enormous sum of $2,500,000,000 worth of personal property, owned by residents of the state of New York, annually escapes taxation.

The process of starvation always makes a man feel like fighting. It’s a dangerous thing to have thousands of men in a rich country in a fighting humor.

You said you would give them a chance and if they did not do something you would never vote the ticket

again. Were you lying or were yen in earnest:

If it is true, as the learned oracm of Yale College announces, that “tae social classes owe each other nothing*’ why not abolish the law and have a reign of “clog eat dog ”

Just think of Bill McKinley making a speech in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln. That is just what he did at Albany, N. Y., on Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12. What a mockery.

The manufactures have met together at Cincinnati and organized for the e •- press purpose of fighting labor ergr 1izations, acording to their own statement. Laborers should prepare for defense.

Tom Reed wants the republican nomination for President, in 1816, and he lias just put himself 011 record by voting for goM tool’s. The Populists are in favor of Jus nomination and evvr • lasting defeat. Duke Pullman seems to have a supreme contempt of court, notwithstanding the services it has rendered him in the evasion of justice. He refuses to appear as a witness and should be sentenced to jail. The Knights of Labor, notwithstanding their defeat in an attempt to enjoin the treasurer from issuing bonds, are still on deck, and have employed eminent legal talent to test the vuli .ity of bonds already issued.

Whose Fault Was It?

Working men! let us asu you a question: Who beat you in the Brooklyn strike? Was it the militia or was it your own kind of people who took the places 01 the strikers? Think this out and the \ tell us you are not a set of idiots. Why don’t you all get together a id vote together? Don’t you know corporations will continue* to be on top so long as the ranks of labor are divided? There is .no better way to I c'w labor divided than on union and j-cn-iwlon lines.—Dearer Road.

Railroad President (to Clerk of Weather) If you do not at once prevent this weather from obstructing the United States Mails, I shall instruck the Government to call out the Federel Troops.

TREASON IN HAWAII.

THE IGNORANT NATIVES OBJECT TO BEING ROBBED. They Do Not Appreciate the American Style of Civilization Which Makes It a Crime to Resist Wholesale Robbery. We haven’t yet got sense enough to comprehend that the morals and conduct of those who represent a nation ought to be rather better, Instead of worse, than the morals and conduct of a decent, private individual. Should we ever arrive at that creditable point of perception, the first thing we shall do will be to hang our heads in shame ever the Hawaiian business. Some years ago the Hawaiians were simple, happy children of nature. They were in splendid physical health, had abundance of food —without working ten hours a day—and got on beautifully without the nuisance of clothes. Their

morals would stand a tolerably fair examination even among people of our superlative excellence. They had no almshouses, because they had no paupers. They had no jails, because— I everybody having enough to eat aud : drink and needing nothing to wear—nobody stole or killed anybody to get their possessions. In an evil hour, one American, the forerunner of the modern serpent, landed in that paradise. And the serpents that came after him were a great host, j The simple natives, unfamiliar with Christian politics, recc. ed these serpents kindly. They gave them food and drink and a little land, then rnoie land, and then yet more land, and we e J quite overcome with delight at the wonderful visitors who proposed to teach them United States civilization

and pure ethics. They even put cn clothes, as a concession to the lofty j morality of the good sernents from tlus great and gloriou rountr'. And , mealtime, the serpents were busily grabbing land; buying over natives to t’peir service; poisoning the minds of the people | against their own form of self-gover 11 ment, and intriguing at Washington to prepare a strong backing for their grand coup d’etat of stealing Hawaii. They adopted a truly serpentine method for inducing the United States to ' countenance their steal —slandering the character of the natives a.id traducing their queen—and finally suc--1 ceeded in triumphantly installing themselves as owners and rulers of poor Hawaii. " We good people felt a ; trifle uneasy over the job for a little while, and were doubtful about recognizing the robbers as equals of decent folks; but, when we heard how' shocked the robbers had been about the improp- | er conduct of the queen, our doubt wos at an end. Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Carlisle, and the rest of our representaj tives, couldn’t he expected to object to j stealing from a lady whose reputation j was in question.

| So we have sent a national greeting to our snakely brothers in Hawaii, who ; are now keeping house in great style with their stolen goods. They are rehabilitated, and are now received | among the elect sovereigns of this I amusing world. But the natives are be- ! having very badly. They, with their ! queen, have actually tried to get back i what belonged to them! It is pleasant | to learn, by cablegram, that the rob—--1 leg pardon! the new government, has shot three of the insurgents for high treason, and has arrested the queen tor \ complicity with the traitors. (Insu:- | gents, treason and complicity are very | effective words —on occasions).

Better Stop Bragging.

Twentieth Century,—ln boasting about our liberties hereafter it would be well to use a moderate instead of an aggressive tone, and not wear such a rmpenor smile as has been our wont. The war between labor and capital has let the people in Europe into tne secret that we are not as tree as we pretended to be and that vhile a mo a *rchical form of goverment may have im advantages, we have yet to p-ove that happiness is to be found under a republic. Speaking of the trolley strike the London Spectator says: “ Fhe contest between labor and capi. 1 in the United States is more bitter tnc.r. it is in England and always ends in only one way. In the contest between the militia and the strikers thirteen casualties are reported. In this country thirteen casualties would be a subject for parliament, but in New York life is cheap, and ia Chicago the railwaykill that number every few days out of pure lodtfference and burry,”

THE NEW BOND ISSUE.

The President Depend.* Upon the New Congress to Kndorse It. President Cleveland, according to all the dispatches from Washington, has resolved, on his own respons.'ilily and that of his clerks in the cabinet, to issue bonds for the largest loan that in time of peace the United States gov- ! ernment has ever attempted to negotiate. Congress is in session—the Congress Of Mr. Cleveland's own party. Has It been consulted on this question of grave national import? No. Have the people, through their representatives, been asked to pass on the wisdom or the folly of adding the enormous sum of $500,000,000 to the national debt? No. I Conceded that the national treasury is in a bad way, is this autocratic method of relieving it the proper course to pursue? Have the people no voire i.i the matter? Are they dumb cattle, to be chaiued at the chariot wheels of foreign bankers? For it is to foreign bankers and not to the peopie that Mr. Cleveland is appeal _ O . There is no sacrifice the people will not make to preserve the ,v !t and the honor o* the repu! lie. : hey will give the last drop of them blood to maintain the one and the other, u the fundamental principle and theory of our institutions is that they should lie co isulted through their ehei.eu represe itatives in every great erit is, such as this one is. The glib gabble that the next Congress will endorse the action of the administration on this question has no foundation in fact, it in mere surmise and speculation. Before Mr. Cleveland launches his iive-hu ulred-raillion dollar loan, why does he not call tlie next Congress together an 1 see what it will do? The tre; ury v. ul not suffer in the meantime.- New York Recorder.

Too Deep fop You.

Wheat is 50 cents a bushel. Farmers should stay out or’ politics—it is too leap for them. Cattle bring 2% cents a pound. Stock raisers shot-Id stay out of politics—it is too deep for them. Cotton is I cents a pound. Planters should stay out of politics—it is too deep for them. Taxes are higher. Taxpayers should stay out of politics it is too deep for them. Carnegie manes $2,000,000 on a go wrnment contract. The people should stay out of politics—-it is too deep for them. Coffee is selling at 35 cents. Consumers should stay out of politics- it is too deep for them. Sugar Kings made millions last year. Sw\mt William should stay out of politics—it sis too deep for him. The oil monopoly took in millions. John 4 Henry should stay out of politics—ft iSTtoo deep for him. The railroad monopoly did equally \ li. Ye passengers should stay out of politics —it is too for you. The whisky trust made a million net. John Barleycorn should stay out o f ’ politics —it is too deep for him. The express combine squeezed out a kingly profit. The victims should stay out of politics —it is too deep for them. lie banks gobbled $16Q,00t,000 last year. The debtors should stay out of politics —it is too deep for them. Vhe street car lords took in a few million. The sufferers should stay out ol politics—it is too deep for them. I might carry out this list ad infinituVn, but when it is so very plain that politics are too deep for you, that they are something that only the selectfew can understand, those who are gifted by some mysterious faculty, it is not necessary 'to bere you longer. All you Lave to do is to work and take any price you can get, never kick at the price v ,ed you, and vote just as you have men, and these parties will take care v the politics. Don’t you think the.. :.re very kind to act as your guardian and r. n the nation for you and not charge you a cent? I do.—Coming Nation.

Money Not the Only Question.

If this country had |SOO “per capita” in circulation, beside having free coinage of silver, it would avail hut Tittle to the public welfare so long as all ihe land and minerals and other natural sources of wealth were subject to monopolization. It is that which enslaves a people, because home and liberty are synonymous terms. A people without i ome must pay rack rent for the privili ;e of living, and the monopolist fixes tl. 1 price, no matter how much money there may be.

Oh! bn* *l«jn't the* little merchants of the cities sq ;;al? They are beginning to feel the givp monopoly iu”thd big department -torea. And jeL

IN A PREDICAMENT.

COLD USED TO PAY CURRENT EXPENSES. While an Enormous Surplus of Other Money Lay In the Treasury —The Ool«l | Reserve Myth Exploded—Bondholders on Top. | Although the administration ob- . tained by tho sale of bonds during last year $117,380,282 for the alleged pur- ' pose of redeeming greenbacks and treasury notes, yet Mr. Carlisle Is now j forced to admit officially that with tho j exception of $12,378,451 every dollar of ! that gold tv as used to pay the current , expenses of the government. The exact : amount of gold used for meeting current expenses was $105,002,143. The report of the treasurer further shows that on July 1, 1894, the unexpended balances of appropriations aggregated $78,291,105, and the total I amount available for expenditures on | that date was $364,510, !11, making the total available appropriation on July 1, ! 184)4. $442,907,520. The expenditures during the six- months ended December 31, 1894, amounted (o $168,952,480, Delving an unexpended balance on January 1, 1595, of $255,955,059.

You see the bonds were issued to keep up the gold reserve. Wonder why the proceeds were used for current expenses. The republicans like Reed, say because of lack of revenue. Somebody has surely lied. With $250,000,000 of surplus in the treasury, it is strange that the goldworshiping administration should have allowed the sacred gold reserve to be spent, for anything else except to maintain the parity of gold and silver. Funny government, anyway, that mortgages the country to buy gold to pay current expenses when it already has a surplus that it can’t appropriate fast enough to keep it from crowding the vaults. This is an awful conditfon that so much money should gal. piled up In the way of the, policy of the administration to issue $500,00:),€00 of bonds. This is a predicament. Why don’t Congress at. a hustle on itself and appropriate money to t; :y more gun ? Clear um uetm—get this base money out of the way. so that tho hk t can store up the gob: he is buying. Money must not be allowed to ne tmulate when all the noney lenders of the world ore clamoring for a chance to lend us gold on fifiy-year bonds. They must be accommodated, or t.l ey will bust—and great will be the b .at thereof.

The parity of gold and silver must be preserved if we have to buy all the gold in the world to do it. Just as soon as we get. all the g: d, then the money lenders Will restore f Iver and we ean buy that at the sa io price. We must save the money lenders. If we don’t Grover won't get his i iy from Mr. Rothschilds. Here’s all hi) confounded money piled up here, r id when the people pee i they are lb) le to kick us off the continent for borro trine more We must appropriate or perish. The gold r Mm-•• e was r :: o 1 scheme but now we’re in a pretty mess of bugs. The papers have been prying into the private afTa’re of the government, and found that we had plenty of money all the time. The bondholders are losing confidence and some of them are getting scared. They have awful dreams at night of dynamite and wet elm clubs .. 4 hemp, and “death to inter* at bearing bonds.” The President now has a hundred policemen to guard his palace, and he gets letters every day from workingmen asking where they can find a job. He actually waked up right in the middle of the night ore time lately and wondered what the people were kicking about. He Is p'oravous isn't that what they eh tod Ilm ‘‘or? Even the fossilized old mu- any show in the Senate is■ stank d to think t.l t the people sho :ld r ‘to 1 now what the government is domg.

INTRICACIES Of BANKING.

Convert the Kxpcrt l>;mk Ofll'btlH Into Itomlful do vomment Kniployen. In the course of an editorial on “The Government, and Banting,” Harper’s Weekly says: “Long experience has demonstrated that, with few exceptions, the politicians who are sent to Congress or who become members of the cabinet are not capable of mastering the intricacies of the banking business. 1 ’ Something occult about the banking business, isn't there? Ordinary mortals can’t comprehend this idea of getting in debt for thousands of dollars, and then drawing interest on your debts while you pay none on what you owe! This business of cornering money and compelling people to pay you a big rate for the loan on your credit or your promissory notes, is indeed a puzzle. Yes, It is a very peculiar and “intricate” business —almost as hard to understand as three-card monte or the shell game. As politicians and representatives of the people are incapable of comprehending it, the only safe course Is to give the bankers the power to frame our currency laws. As they are now, the money power is able to control about everything; but there may be some points In which thr bankers could improve these laws, cad make it easier to rake In the frurm of otherfe’ labor. ’•'How nice if th:; common people could only be mad L o believe such stuff - that it matter utterly beyond tb*K. if wmpiebfcnsiori, and It wtJuh*be safer for them to try to legislate cm the Ud«i and the law of gr&vlutldn Utou

Suff ra* • »> r*'tizens.

“m tamper with the currency. Wouldn’t the fellows on the inside who under?tand all the “intricacies” of getting something for nothing by hocus-pocus-ing the money supply have a picnic? if money were something the people could take or let alone; if the law didn’t make it a legal tender and compel them to pay their debts in it; if it. wasn’t the only means by which they can conveniently and economically effect the exchanges of their products, then it might be safe to pass the subject by as too intricate for ordinary mortals. But, as it is largely by means of their manipulation of the money supply that the few are able to rob the many of the fruits of their toil, it behooves every man to study the money questions and understand all the devious and “Intricate” method’ by which wealth uses money to oppress and defraud labor. And about the first question to ask these masters of the “intricacies” of banking is: Why should one man’s debt circulate as money and draw interest rather than another’s?—Star and Kansan.

Bread and "Hell Juice.”

The "sub-treasury” plan of the Farmer’s Alliance has received tho scorn and ridicule of every politician land cross-roads demagogue in the Unitjed Stales, it provided that the larmiers might have the privilege of storing their grain and farm produce in a government warehouse ami borrow money lon the warehouse receipt: and thus hold choir grain until a fair price could It oh.: net! for it. Tills was “lnm • v.” But hold. After it. is sold at 1 . thru cost of pr< mciio.i. i .• .* the faro or ; eat home to freeze, and loco his home trader a mortgage force!."'.op hia crop gets Into the hand: of the whisky trust. Ninety million bushels annualI ly are used in this way, enough to lord ! 250,000 freight cars and making otto continuous railway train over 1580 miles long.! And after tin: 1 err* is turned into hell-juice to poison men witli and turn the world into a pandemonium of crime and woe, tin government lets the whisky trust, store its said hell juice in a government warej house, and take care of it for the trust for nine years, allowing the hell juice to go untaxed ull that time until it getß good and hellish! And there Isn’t a little crawfish newspaper in Afkan- | s:v . ' , :;L t r.taii hm, upholds 1i,...» J aoomluation, and would no more dare 'to attack it than they would any other I great infamy that is practiced by poll- ; tical scoundrels. —Fruit Farm, Rogers, : Ark.

Hope and Despair.

Let a whirl of mania forestall the final outlet of the whirl of evolution, and the Insurrectionary explosion m: y flash across the continent, irom senhoard to seaboard, between the rise and set of the sun. Then the re! 0 j the prudent wise of the multitude is lost in the reign of terror. Mania, the Infernal goddess, whose baud brandishes the torch, may show by it t :e road to the guillotine. For the cut j quarter of a century we have idh p the land with the discontented n yriads of the old world; they came expecting freedom, but have found new servitudes; they came, led on by hop;:; !’-■ y sit down brooding*and sullen with pair; the skier- do rot brighten to t i, they darken and darken on. Socle' nationalism and the kindred prepare' ry movements, by instilling hope an ; patience into the oppressed, mas -.0r., hold in suppression the explosive forces; hut these forces are approaching jter.cJy near the surface; the limits of the ; duty line are very nearly overpass !. - The New Republic.

What Fools These Laborers Be.

A few days ago 100,000 laborers paraded the streets of the City of Mexico, with banners and music, demandii ■ to be led against Guatemala. There i a dispute between Mexico and G us# mala about a piece of swamp wh h probably isn’t worth 10 cents per u:;re, and whose ownership could easiL be settled by resurvey or arbitration !t has never done the laborers of e ' r country any good, and never vyill. 'ct these 1(0,000 Mexican laborers pa da the streets, clamoring ‘or v.r! .. ii any wonder that tyrants, i; so m. ay shapes, rule the people wli ve that the people thomsolve;. are ; < h fools? The king’s quarrel, and i.he pie do the lighting—that.’s t.r> hi: ry of man l ind. Here we are preieu 'rng to be civil Led. Almost 1,900 years of Christ and his gospel of peace have been our teachers, and yet we turn out, 100,000 strong, with bo.: cr. ilyc e, drums beating, and horns to-, mg - demanding to bi( led against bayonets and bullets to settle the boundary line, of a wretched wilderness of swamp! No wonder our masters despise us —Tom Watson.

How We Soar.

Six years ago this menth August Belj mont stood in the sawdust of Madison Square Garden and awarded ribbons to stump tailed fox terriers. At that time his fame rested on the ownership of the champion brace of the gamy bread which was the height of canine vogue. As bench show judge and president of t}re American Kennel club he gradually I acquired national reputation. To-day | he designates to the United Stales government the terms i non which gold jby the hundredweight shall b$ Vur- ! nished .or redeeming currency notes-' , lie negotiates with a president and n j secretary of the treasury in set etymon the f. to 'o'. ration's contracts.. That | Is the beauty of n .roc couniry. ‘ You can’t ,-n- . Vp" the man . . !c----neaf. .. _v.i .ae vyitt \ve a j big slice of the cur 4" stnVu %j n j i name, —St. Louia . • .t. 1 i The constitution says: “ton . u . shall l ave power tu horuo'v money on 1 the '“re lit of the Unit'd Stales.” N w ! arises the Question how K » Ur n*r i and Lotd C&tUa 9 acquired i> • <r.

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