People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — Page 4

E . ual Opportunities for All.

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“Keep in the middle of the road.’* The panic was caused by the banks. “Sound money” is a hollow mockery. Can anything good come out of Washington? Go to work and organize Industral Legions. The last bond issue ought to be repudiated. Oh, yes, the democratic party is for free silver! The Reform Press is loyal to the Omaha platform. Men of brains and men of courage is what is needed now. Government ownership of the railroads is coming fast. Thirty-year bonds is a mortgage on a generation yet unborn. The monopoly of money is the worst monopoly of them all. The practical side of all issues is the condition that makes them. The main question is, shall money or manhood run this country? Bland is still at the forks of the road trying to go both ways at once. If God and the Reform Press is with ! us who can stand against us? The attack on the greenback is concentrating and gathering energy. Don’t be in a hurry to swallow the old party silver bait. It is a fraud. The old parties have at last confessed that the money question is paramount. The hard times were brought about ■ by the banks and those who control the I money. The democratic party is agitating the question of appointing free silver receivers. Cleveland and Carlisle permitted an English syndicate to make $8,000,090 out of the last bond deal. A leader who has not the courage to say where he wants to lead to. is not to be trusted.

If you want t > be a genuine democrat you must get out of the party that goes by that name. The fifty-third congress was democratic, but it was a billion-dollar congress, all the same. Gold lunacy is the worst insanity on earth. It has destroyed great nations, and notv threatens ours. The question now troubling the democratic politicians is, “what will we lie about in the next campaign?" Grover Cleveland is as much a democrat as the other men who persist in staying with the democratic party. Over seven hundred million dollars was subscribed for that last bond issue of $02,000,000. Oh. how our credit is suffering. "I resent the dictum, that because a man stands by the platform, he is a traitor to his party.”—Gen. Paul Van Dervoort. Two years of unrestricted democratic iule and—well, how do you feel about it, anyway? Where, oh where, are the good times promised?

The republicans are not anxious for an extra session or congress—in fact about the only thing tli?y are anxious for is their salaries. ‘ What will the republicans do to relieve the situation?” is a question which they don’t seem to be inclined to answer themselves. Prom all points c>me expressions from the peopia that in their humble opinion the Omah<j platform was made to stand upon. The democrat who don’t indorse Gro ver Cleveland should get out of his party. That party has already indorsed Grover three times, and that is evidence enough that he is the party ideal. The leading republican (Sherman) and the leading democrat (Cleveland) stand together on the financial question. It is time for the followers to get together and lead themselves into the People’s party. j Toward the close of the session the fifty-third congress voted to appropriate over $5,000,000 as bounty to the sugar planters. It is charged that the lobby for the planters spent $250,000 within a few minutes to secure the passage of the measure. Of course we will meet the enemy on Jhe money question. We have always met him. What’s the use to issue addresses appealing to the people to do what they have always done and wall continue to do? “I cordially thank the People’s party press everywhere; they represent a gallant band whose sacrifices will never be known, who cannot be bought, sol i or bartered, and whose unselfish and unrewarded labor for our party is beyond all praise.”—Paul Van Dervoort. • C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins built the Central Pacific railroad—that is, they furnished the cheek and about $25,000 in money, got the government to build it, made about $150,000,000 out .it. and now it is proposed for the ■' -sment to donate some $40,000,000 • • uliit >. paid n rail- • b'”. o the contpan.'. A very qu -n and net 1 bi I • *l..

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT. RENSSELAER, IND.. MARCH 23, 1895, WEEKLY, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

That chance is gone. No bartering for votes. The “chance” has petered. Down with banks of issue. Banks of issue must be suppressed. Go to work for the campaign of 1896. It makes a man sweat to be a democrat now. The issue of bonds is a result of the bank conspiracy. A silver party Is all right as tar as it goes, but it don’t go far enough. Everybody seems to agree that the last bond deal was a bunco game. The record of the fifty-third congress is so loud that everybody can smell it. The fifty-third congress came in like a lion and went out like a sheep-killing dog. The People’s party will help to administer upon the estate of 'the democratic party. John Sherman says he believes Cleveland is honest. The devil has not been heard from. A new silver party would give every southern state to tfiie Populists. Let it be organized. The only credit that has ever suffered seriously in this country was that of the banks. The “give us a chance” congress appropriated $12,000,000 to build some more battle ships. Nothing short of government issue of money will correct the evils of our rotten financial system. It is in bad taste for the men who have voted for Grover Cleveland three Times to say now he is not a democrat. There is no consolation in the thought that when Grover goes out a republican of the same political stripe will come in.

Miss Gould gave $3,000,000 for her husband, and, it is said, she got full count. And, of course, the count will get full, too. The democratic party is bankrupted to such an extent that it can’t even furnish a possible candidate for the presidency in 1896. Debs says the judicial nets are so constructed as to catch the minnows [ and let the whales get through, and we think he is about right. All the great republican papers are defending President Cleveland’s financial policy. Who says the republican congress won’t carry it out? True Populists may differ but they will keep their hands off the Omaha platform until the people assemble in another national convention. If there is a professed Populist in the United States in favor of sacrificing the Omaha platform for silver only he should go back to the old parties where he belongs. | If both old parties are in favor of free silver why don’t we have it? They have the power to give it. to us. Somebody is lying, and somebody else is swallowing the lies, although anyone ought to see them. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, one of the great leaders of the republican party, complacently pronounces Alexander Hamilton “one of the greatest finance ministers the world has ever Seen.” It is a difficult feat to perform, to talk for free silver and vote for a gold standard, but the two old parties have accomplished it, and a lot of foolish voters are getting ready to say that it is , all right.

The net profits of the railroads for 1894 was over four hundred million dollars. This means about $7 for each and every man, woman and child in the United States. This, and more, could be saved by government ownership. There is a great deal of talk now about socialism. Before you commit yourself get a standard dictionary and see what it means. Some people make fools of themselves by using words of which they do not know the meaning. Don’t let the glitter of silver in the old parties blind your eyes to the atrocities of the railroad and bank system, which they favor. They would willingly concede free coinage if they were sure that thereby they could stop agitation of the railroad and bank questions The record of the fifty-third congress as reviewed .by democratic papers appears to be considerable of an apology —the republican papers call it a failure and the Populists give it credit for proving that the two old parties are led by the same class of highwaymen. It has opened the people’s eyes, if nothing more. If railroad companies were held reI sponsible by law for all accidents ! wherein passengers are killed or injured, such slaughters as that which ocI curred a short time ago in Mexico would ' not be so common. Corporation murderers should be punished the same as individual cut-throats. It would be Interesting to know why the President’s “former law partner” engineered the late bond deal with the English syndicate—a deal on which the syndicate realized $8,000,000. It would abo be interesting to know what the President’s ’’former law partner’’ .realized out of the deal

©V * / all \ [ £MPJ- oVE-D ’ | A LESSON IN NATIONAL FINANCE.

WE WILL STAND FIRM

LET TIE NEW SILVER PARTY GO ON. It Will Take No Votes from the Great People's Party—Will, However, Rip Up the Old Parties Up the Back Keep Step to Their Mnslc. The dispatches from Washington indicate the formation of a new silver party. The agitation of this movement began several months ago, but has only •ecently attracted any serious attention from the politicians at Washington. It is reported that Mr. Bland and Mr. Bryan will not join the movement, but propose to continue the fight for free silver within the old party lines. A Washington dispatch to the St. Louis Republic of March 2, says: “The action of Mr. Bland in throwing cold water upon the movement, and starting the manifesto which has kept the democrats within the lines of their party, has had a depressing effect upon the extremists. Senator Stewart, Gen. A. J. Warner of Ohio, and the Populist members of both houses are the active spirits of the Bimetallic league. They have established a connection with Taubeneck’s Populist machine, and there will probably be a merging of the two new parties in a short time. The Bimetallic league is not taken seriously here by serious politicians, and since Don Cameron has discountenanced the idea of a new party, the power of the league for good or evil has very much diminished.” Whatever of truth or falsehood there may be in the above dispatch, it is well known that efforts have been made to unite the silver men with the Populists for the campaign of 1896. This union of forces looks plausible on the face of it, but we may well stop to inquire what is to be the nature of the basis of the union. The People's party has fought its way to the important position of a factor in the politics of the nation. It has got its case in court, so to speak. The silver men have no organization, save the Bimetallic league, which has spent great sums of money and accomplished nothing in the way of legislation. It has, however, done some good work in the line of education. The silver men, we are informed, want to make this union of forces, but will not. do so on the basis of the Omaha platform. Certain Populists seem to be willing to make the union, but when pressed and confronted with the charge that they want to make it on the basis of an abandonment of a portion of the , Omaha platform, they deny it. Then i how is this union to be effected? If the silver men won’t stand on the Omaha platform, and the union of forces is made, the only alternative seems to be that the Populists will have to stand off of their platform. This is the only : logical conclusion. There is a large number of voters in the People’s party who believe that the transportation and land questions are of equal importance with the currency question, but are loyal to the whole platform.

, The silver men do not indorse our posi- , tion on either of these problems. The I abandonment of these two features, I to please the silver men, would lose us thousands of votes that are loyal to the whole platform. Would it be policy to take this step? What is to be gained jby such a coalition? We have no as- ■ surance that all, or even a considerable portion of the silver democrats and republicans would join the new party. Bland and Bryan already refuse to do so. What have they got to offer us? Would it not be better to wait until they ‘ have marshaled their forces and gone 1 through at least one campaign, and ■ won their spurs, before closing terms with them? The formation of a new party is held up to our eyes as a great bugatoo. What have we to fear from the organization of a new party on the basis of the currency question? The ■ People’s party covers every phase of currency reform which this new party would. Then why should any one leave the People’s party and go to the new? On the other hand, a new party would draw its strength from the two old parties, thus weakening our adversaries. A new party will cause a hopeless split in the democratic party—a split that , will insure its defeat in nearly every I southern state. When this is done thousands of republicans and democrats ; who have only been kept in line because of fear that the other party would win would join the People’s party. The best thing that could happen the People’s party would be the formation of a new party. Many voters have been kept in line because such leaders as Bland and i Mills and Teller and Wolcott have adI vocated free silver and currency reform within the ranks of the old party. If , thess men form a new silver party many of the rank and file will follow them. With such a split in the two old parties and the People’s party standing firm and unwavering, our chances of success would be as good as was that of the republican party in 1860. By all

means let the new silver party be organized. It would be one step toward Populism, and eventually the movement would gravitate into the Populist party. But any union of forces on the basis of an abandonment of any part of the Omaha platform would be a step backward, create dissension in our ranks, and discourage those who have stood loyally by the platform and contributed to build up the party to its present magnificent proportions.

THE GREENBACK IS MONEY.

It Is a Representative of ' Value, and Is Not a Debt. Was the greenback a debt? “Answer yes or no,” said the challenger. Well, then, we answer no. And by the answer we propose to stand. 1. A debt paper is given to some definite party for value received, and is not in itself value received. The greenback was not such a paper. It was not issued to any particular person for particular values received. 2. It was in itself, payment in full for values received, and therefore there remained no ordinary cause for its presentation at the place of issue. 3. The time of payment is unlimited or indefinite, making it, at law, nonsuit. 4. It draws no interest, which leaves no inducement on the part of the maker to hasten the day of its payment in other forms of mony; and what is never payable at common law is not a debt in form or fact. 5. Those for whose special benefit the money was made never wished it paid in any other form than in its currency use, and what the holder of a note chooses is probably allowable at law. 6. Payment in currency use is payment in full and no one is wronged thereby, 7. The possible presentation of a very limited number of greenbacks for the purchase of coin for legitimate use, as provided for on the “note,” does not throw the mass of such "notes” into the debt calendar. The representation of any large volume of such currency for the purpose of abstracting coin from the treasury, and that for no business need, should be regarded as a misdemeanor and not an obligation on the part of the government to honor; since the well-known purpose of the issue was to provide currency; while the well-known purpose of the demand would be to depreciate its value and unsettle the concerns of the people. 8. A debt that never wrongs the hoi .1er of the note in case he receives nothing but market property for it, cannot be regarded as a debt in common phrase. Gold and silver both could be purchased in the common market and at a lower rate, indirectly, or even with the greenback, cheaper than by the method of presentation at the treasury; because that permission, unlimited, soon drains off the gold and allows it to be appreciated in value, till “suspension” is announced and the first come only are first served. 9. Therefore, a form of currency that does not provide equitable cancellation in any other way than as currency, is not properly to be considered as any- , thing else than currency. Or, I 10. A debt extinguished every time it is passed to other hands, and made a debt-extinguisher by law, cannot claim J any special advantages as it lies in the ' hands of the last receiver, w r ho may ' wish to speculate on the customary (but ; very unnecessary) words that are print- ' ed on the face of it. | 11. The government is competent to do what cannot be done by the individ- . Mai person or corporation—make cur- | rency in the very process of making a purchase, and give the whole people a consideration in the currency value of : that form of their own law. Strictly ' considered, the people, in their government promise to receive and they mu- , tually pay themselves in the use of their I own legal tender. A. J. CHITTENDEN. Mill River, Mass. I History will record the proceedings of the last congress by a marginal reference stating that “while Dictator Cleveland was perpetrating these outrages, congress was in session, but its proceedings being unimportant, have no relation to this history.” Cleveland and Carlisle either sold themselves in that last bond deal or put $8,000,000 into the pockets of the syndicate. Silver and greenbacks are a legal tender for everybody in this country but the rich bondholder. The three-ball men are in clover. The whole country is to be “put in soak” to Rothschilds. ■ It still grows more difficult to explain who or what or where is the demoI cratic party. Grover will henceforth deal directly with Europe, so as to get all the commission

IT IS A NEW DANGER.

LESSON FROM THE GOULDCASTLLANE NUPTIALS. Plutacraey Meant to Establish a Monarchy on the Raia* of the Republic— Menace to Liberty and Popular Government. A wedding occurred in New York the other day, the account of which filled the daily papers. Great scare headlines announced it, pictures of bonnets, dresses and faces Illustrated it. Congress and its adjournment were forgotten; ( business was suspended and a nation of jays held their breath until the ceremony was over. Who were the high contracting parties, whose wedding could thus bring everything to a standstill in a republic? A profligate foreign count and the giddy daughter of a railroad wrecker. Anna, daughter of the deceased Wall street gambler, Jay Gould, a boodle heiress with her bloodstained money, coined out of the hearts and lives of her father’s victims, buys a title and pays $15,000,000 for the privilege of being called Countess de Castellane; yea, she gives also her life, her flag, and her country, that she may gratify this ignoble ambition. Just as her father sold his soul for dollars, so she, with barter in her blood, sells herself for a title. The most sickening phase of this un-American affair, is the truckling, servile attitude of the great dailies, in levoting columns of space to the minutest details of this nauseating event Had there been any exhibition of patriotic feeling, the press would have remained silent; but because a bag of gold and a title of nobility were to be joined in “holy (?) wedlock,” these cringing dailies applaud. In 1893 Anna Gould went to Paris title hunting, chaperoned by Mrs. Paran Stevens. Her errand was known and a number of titled paupers made bids for her money, but without success, and the heiress returned to New York. The Count de Castellane, with an eye single to her millions, followed her home, and being a sport like her brother George, they became chums and he secured the consent which won him the prize. The transaction was as deliberate, and as successfully carried out as any which have rendered infamous, the cruel father. There is little to be said for the worthiness of either party. The bride’s only distinction is the fact that she is the daughter of the man who earned infamy by precipitating Black Friday, which caused the greatest panic this country ever knew. His life, in fact, was spent in bringing misfortune on others. Broken homes, shattered fortunes and suicides mark his entire path. If there is such a place as hell and one corner in it is hotter than another, then we know where to find Jay Gould, tortured by the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the “lambs” he fleeced and sent to perdition. His pathway on earth was watered with the tears of widows and orphans. Mechanics, merchants and farmers were alike devoured by this insatiate monster, making a dismal contrast to the $67,000,000, his cruel grasp wrung from them. To avoid taxation and rob the state, these greedy ghouls change their residence to New Jersey, and escape the income tax by transferring Anna’s share of the paternaf plunder to France, through the pockets of a spendthrift count.

The ether party to this nefarious trade, is a titled nonentity, devoting his time to fortune hunting, seeking his prize as a hunter does his game. The great dailies searched frantically for his redeeming virtues, but in vain ind were finally forced to applaud him for what he had not done; no scandal had stained his name, he was not known as a professional gambler and had industriously applied himself for many years to the “manly sports.” What an astounding array of virtues! Strip this dude of his title, and turn him loose to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and ten to one, he would turn tramp. Without this title, thousands of bright American working girls would spurn his attentions. But he is the son of his father and the title went with the transfer; and because of this, a nation stands breathless to see this adventurer capture his prize and return with his booty to France. There the pair make their permanent residence, she renouncing the land which gave her birth and fortune. Brought up a Presbyterian, she takes up the church of her husband, abandoning her own faith. This wedding in itself amounts to nothing, but for the tact that it is an evidence of what is taking place all over the country. It shows a trend that is becoming a danger and a menace to our republican principles and our liberty. I refer to the feverish anxiety of American plutocrats to marry titled foreigners. This craze is spreading with frightful rapidity, and while it magnifies the value of monarchy, it equally depreciates and belittles the spirit of republicanism, and entails upon our producers the idditional burden of supporting a titled aristocracy abroad, as well as a codfish aristocracy at home. For a smaller offense than this, our forefathers precipitated a revolution refusing to pay a tax to monarchy in England; but now we shamelessly permit a drain of dollars to flow continuously into the pockets of a pauper nobility. The majority of these titled jackanapes are bankrupts in fortune, profligates, with all the vices and none of the virtues of the ancient nobility. Tne intermarriage of throne with throne and title with title Jias vitiated this blue blood till ’tis little thicker than water; and with neither fortune por manhood left, nothing remains to.

fiquskl Suffrage to all Citizens.

these puny bearers of great name-i but their titles. Incapable of self support, these silly drones must tradf them for the boodle of American heiresses. But while their race was thus de generating in Europe a strong new race of nature’s noblemen was a' work in America, turning the wilderness and the desert into gardens ol gold, and building great towns ant cities. Their muscle and manhooc made the greatest nation on earth, anc the untold wealth they produced became the wonder and the envy of al the world. Then the fearful insanitj for vast fortunes brought to the fron' such monsters as Jay Gould. Mer capable of robbing their fellows a< wholesale, graduated from collegei into society and sin, their sons and daughters, who receive the legacy ol wealth with none of the spirit ant dash of their ancestors. These worth less, enervated parasites having noth ing to do, devote themselves to apinj royalty in all its disgusting uselessness. And having reached this point the hungry buzzards of the old world scent the carrion, and marriages suet as this of Anna Gould are the result Now the danger lies in the fact that it is this very class of Americans whe possess the great bulk of the nation’s wealth; with power unlimited, they shape legislation to suit their purposes and not only own congress, but th< president is their willing tool as well These empty-headed devotees of monarchy, having accomplished the ruin ol their country, with fortunes great be yond computation, spend their lives in ease and luxury. With nothing else -to do, they become morbidly desirous of an American monarchy They want a coat of arms and an aristocracy, and while the chivalry ol Europe were supposed to win theii titles through merit, these titlehunters seek to buy theirs and would willingly build a monarchy on the ruins of the republic for the sake of connecting their names with royalty, but, until that can be done at home, they can buy tf.les abroad. The masses here are but machinery to sustain this privileged class, and in return these parasites look with contempt upon the very people and conditions from which they themselves sprung, and would be glad to place over this nation a dictator, of which Cleveland is but the forerunner. To deepen this desire, Napoleonism is revived, and the martial spirit encouraged among the young. A “blue book” of royalty is published in New York which gives the names, estates, titles, ages, etc., of all titled paupers of Europe. This book is sent to the millionaires of the land that a selection may be made by ambitious mammas with marriageable daughters. The plutocrats of the nation are steadily taking tfee dollars from the farmers and mechanics to be accumulated in great piles only to be transferred to a foreign land to support a half-breed and worthless nobility. Is this not worse than maintaining one at home? Who can doubt that these families having once tasted the royal draught will seek to have a monarchy in America? They are already out of touch with our institutions and have no sympathy with the misery of the many who toll for them. They may at any time force a conflict to establish themselves as the royal rulers of the people. I hope we shall correctly measure the terrible menace which threatens us in this direction. The groveling in the dust of the great dailies during this last exchange of boodle for title, shows that they will be found sustaining the idea of monarchy, should such an attempt be made. In this recent alliance, we see an additional reason for arousing to the grim necessities of the hour. It is becoming a struggle for actual life and liberty; and if we fail to find and apply a remedy for this evil we shall merit the curses of coming generations. I have material enough for a dozen articles on this point and in my next will bring to light the names and addresses of some of these “noble” paupers gleaned from this “blue book” of the aristocracy. GEORGE F. WASHBURN. Boston, Mass., March 9.

THE DEPENDENT DAILIES.

Sometimes Called Independent, but .'.l together a Tool of Money. Let it speak for itself. The following are the words of John Swinton delivered before the New York Press association in response to a toast, “The Independent Press:” “There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $l5O per week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I ’am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should permit honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper like Othello, before twenty-four hours ’my occupation would be gone. *he man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets hunting for another job. The business of the Nev; York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and race for his daily bread; or fur what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an ‘independent press.’ We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Gar time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are Intellectual prostitutes.” And these papers pretend to lead the thought of an intelligent public