People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — Champ Clark on Jerry Simpson. [ARTICLE]

Champ Clark on Jerry Simpson.

LO°k C T&ink It over. f; i No compromise. i ! i Clear the track. 2 f l i OgM fMar eyas and look'. f r Hands on your pocketbooks! England’s.Egyptlan slaves threaten a revolt. Spread the moral and social tonic of Populism. Don’t let the iron cool on the anvil. Keep hammering. A radical party has no business to dodge anything. Democrats are becoming almost as scarce as money. The democratic congress has played it 3 hand out, and lost. The minority must be represented as well as the majority. The Rothschilds in the woodpile has been uncovered at last. How do you like being sold into bondage to the Rothschilds? Plutocracy will cut its own throat when it destroys the greenbacks.

The sooner American securities lose their value in London, the better. Every seed sown may not grow—the boat reason for scattering it thicker. Don’t waste any time arguing on the street corners. Shoot books at them. President Cleveland is either the biggest rascal or the biggest fool on earth. Old party friend, please tell us what your party is doing to educate the people. Down with all professional politicians and dictators. The people must rule. The best thing abont Coxey’s plan is that it would abolish ths curse of usury. ———————m An extra session is Inevitable, and the single standard policy will be its program. Straight ahead —no sidetracks on this road. Everything in the way gets run over. Every strike is an eye-opener. The workingmen of the cities will yet learn how to vote.

The farmers of the United States lost $200,000,000 in 1894 through contradiction of prices. The extra session will split the republicans as badly as the democrats are now split. All prices of prpduce are now on a gold basis. Are you in favor of the gold standard? Who made the most profit out of the ];i3t bond issue—Grover Cleveland or the United States. The miners of Ohio starving and the wheat producers of Nebraska freezing, is a national crime. Representatives who work only for party success are not representatives of the nation’s people. Plutocracy wants to teach in the schools and colleges the children, instead of ideas to shoot. The ignorant man may be educatedhut the bigoted fool is hardly worth wasting argument upon. Thousands of books on the money questions and other important issues are being circulated by the Populists. It requires no torchlight procession to circulate reform literature. Quietly but rapidly the nation is being enlightened. Who cares what Europe thinks about our finances. Let us conduct American business fcr the benefit of American people. The influence of hundreds of thousands of reform books and pamphlets is working its way to the hearts of the masses.

Grover Cleveland can spread less sense over more superficial space than any tragic scene painter on the mundane sphere. Patriotism don’t need a band wagon or a tin horn for inspiration—it is greatest under the most adverse and discouraging conditions. The Nebraska idea of lynching bankers who “fail” and steal the people's deposits, is a good one—and should be more generally practiced. The Coxey plan is the “better plan,” which may be substituted for the subtreasury to secure a currency safe sound and flexible, issued by the general government. A Texas paper observes that the present method of keeping gold in the treasury is like a shepherd feeding lambs to a pack of wolves in order to protect his flock. On top of the fact that the troops called out to protect the corporation anarchists of Brooklyn cost the taxpayers <*f the county $200,000, it is discovered that tho treasurer of the county is short in hi# accounts for SIOO,OOO,

More money. Government money only. Help yourself, or you may not be helped. Will the people pay the gold gamble™’ bills? Per cent is the measure of the bankers’ patriotism. Do not neglect your old party neighl- - Lend him some thought stimulant. Without government banking, free coinage of gold and silver won’t do any good. Bonds can be paid only in labor —and are a means used by rich idlers to rob poor laborers. Coxey has devised the plan that w ill supply a safe, sound and flexible volume of currency—and abolish usury. The more Populist literature you circulate the nearer you bring equal rights to all and special privileges to none. Coxey has done more than going to jail. He has a plan that would keep thousands of his fellowmen out of jail. 1 The special session billed for next summer will put the republican party In the Bame hole Grover dug for HIS own party.

If you have not read Coxey’s plan, you shduld write him at once, enclosing a 2-cent stamp, and get a copy of his pamphlet. The Populists are publishing and circulating more books and pamphlets every week than the two old parties have both issued in ten years. Old party congressmen ridicule the Populist Idea of Issuing $500,000,000 more legal tender greenbacks for the transaction of business —but they want to issue twelve hundred million’s more bonds and force the people into perpetual debt slavery.

Whether you believe in Coxey or not you should write him for a copy of the speech made before the ways and means committee of congress. Read It carefully and thoughtfully, it will be a revelation to you. Send a2c stamp to J. S. Coxey, Maasllon. Ohio. With all his sensationalism, Coxey had a great idea—the greatest that has been proposed. His financial plan would provide ample funds for the useful employment of labor, without Interfering with any honest pursuit. It would help everybody and hurt none but thieves. Republicans denounce the bond Issues because they were not In a position to get a part of the “rake-off.” But just wait until the special session, then watch ’em line up for a single gold standard and destruction of the greenbacks. Their god, Mr. Sherman, has full control of the party and Wall street owns him.

* rroB ® ** Funny Paper, Texas Siftiags, an alleged humorous paper, published in New York, j says: The eastern part of our country does not know what Populism is, what it seeks to accomplish and what it has already achieved. To them the Populist leaders seem fanatics from the wild and woolly west, with the wind blowing through their whiskers and their brains rattling in their heads for lack of practical ideas. The Populist ought to have a newspaper organ here in New York, to define their principles and to advocate their plans. Then with the authorized and official facts in print, we should know just what we have to expect and to contend against instead of dealing blows at the empty air, as most of the opponents of Populism do now. Such a newspaper has been projected by B. B. Vallentine, an able, accomplished and experienced journalist, and several of the Populist leaders have given it their indorsement. If it were published it would secure a large circulation from curiosity, even before it circulated on its merits, because what the Populists have to say will make Democrat and Republican politicians shake in their shoes. One effect would probably be to add the whole Prohibition party, which is yearly gaining in strength, To the Populist party, and also to combine in one orgaization all the reformers whom we now call cranks. Sooner or later the Populists themselves will demand such an organ to represent them; but now it is demanded by their opponents, who find the Populists doing all the mischief possible and then flopping back into their holes, like prairie dogs. Let us get them into the open, and then we shall know how to deal with them.

From a recent speech in the House of Representatives: Mr. Speaker— When I came into this house I had the newspaper idea about Jerry Simpson. Finally he got up here and made a speech on the silver question. I listened to the speech, and I want to say now, because somebody has got it to state it to the American people, as Simpson and I are going out together (laughter), that during the whole of that long, able, profound, debate on the silver question there was not a man in thid house on either side who delivered a speech that was pitched on a higher plane of political economy and human philosophy and stuck to it to the end better than Mr. Simpson. They said that “An open confession is good for the souh” And I want to make that statement now. j’.From that day to this, Instead of bavlim the newspaper Idea of Jerry Sltfibson that he is a cantankerous demdgjbflue, I have regarded him as a phllohjjfbher, as a statesman, as one of the of freedom, •' v