People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Whose Fault Was It? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Whose Fault Was It?

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.

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.

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.