People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — Page 1

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Advertised Letters. Letters addressed as below remain uncalled for in the post office at Rensselaer, Jasper county. Indiana. Those not claimed within two weeks from the date given will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, Washington. D. C. Persons calling for any of the letters in this list will please say they are advertised: First Advertised March 23rd. Mr. Chas. Sprugal. First Advertised March 39. Wm. Shaw, Mr. Lem Paterson, Hoary May. Miss Ella Owens. , E. P. Honan, P. M. | At Surrey Postoffiee. First Advertised March 30. Chas. Payton, Felix Parker, D. W. Dragoo. G. M. Wilcox, P. M. Frank Leslie’* Pojjular Monthly for April. The April number of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly contains a beautifully illustrated article, replete with personal inter est and of real practical value, entitled ‘ -How to Become a Prima Donna.” This paper, written by W. de Wagstaffe, emboiies actual talks with four of the reigning operatic stars of the present season namely: Mmes. Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Zelie de Lussan and Jessie Bartlett Davis. Other pictorial and literary features of this number are: a biographical sketch of Count Yamagata, the contemporary Japanese VonMoltke, written expressly for Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly by Teiichi Yamagata, a near relative of the great field marshal; a charming and seasonable ac count of the legendry of “Easter Eggs,” by Mrs. Leicester Addis; an authoritative account of “The Eistedfod in Wales and in the United States,” by ex-Postmaster General Thomas L. James; entertaining reminiscences of some “Eccentric Dinners,” by Howard Paul; “The World Awheel.” being a chapter on the evolution of the bicycle and la Reine Bicyclette, by HenryTyrrell; “Homes in Japan” by George Donaldson; “New York Newsboys ’ by Kathleen Mathew; “The Natural History of Cockfighting,” by Ernest Ingersoll; and “Taxidermy as an Art,’’with illustrations by W. H. Drake, written by Frank A. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History. There are also a number of good short stories and poems by distinctly popular writers. Tom Watson’s paper and the Pilot, both one year, for 11.50.

FOR THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER AND GOLD AT THE PARITY RATIO OF SIXTEEN TO ONE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

IN MEMORIAM.

THE LAST SAD OBSEQUIES ARE OVER. Plucky Tom Watson of Georgia Preaches the Funeral Services of the S3d Congress—Full T«ZJi> of the Sermon as Delivered. By request: The 53d congress is dead —thank God! It died of old age at noon, on Monday last, to the profound sorrow of all professional boodlers, and to the intense relief of every honest man and woman in America. Before giving up the ghost it had cleaned out every copper in the National treasury and had looted the people with every species of rapacious legislation. Its ante-election pledge of “more money,” became an after-election reality of “less money.” Its campaign promise of free silver became an extra session performance of no silver at all. Its stump speech and editorial bimetallism became, by some swift and subtle transformation, a most rigorous and ruinous single gold standard. Its yearnings for retrenchment and economy, somehow co-habited with the wrong mate, and the offspring of the mysterious error was a most prodigal and lawless extravagance. Its efforts in the direction of lowering the taxes led, by some blunder on the part of the steersman, to the heav- i lest burdens ever laid upon any nation in time of peace. i Its tariff reform, though the cries of birth-houk were somewhat unusually loud and prolonged, is a brat for whom nobody will stand sponsor, and whose only certainty of living lies in the fact that no republicans can be found who will make war upon it. Its campaign war cry against trusts and combines was a calculated discord, artistically introduced, as a prelude and contrast to the harmonies of sugar trust, whisky trust, and standard oil trust legislation. Its denunciations of Wall street, plutocracy, and class laws, turned out to be an effective screen, cunningly contrived, behind which Cleveland, Stetson & Co., were to conspire with Rothschild, Belmont, Morgan & Co., and were to manipulate the most gigantic swindle we have known since the palmy days of Jay Gould. Everything it promised not to do, it has done. Everything it promised to do, it has left undone. On every vital issue it has reversed its record, contradicted its words, gone opposite to its chart. With a record which seemed to promise an enlarged currency, it has earned the patewial smiles of old John Sherman by retiring more than one hundred millions of our paper money, shutting off the coinage of silver, and giving to the debt-holders twice as much cotton, wheat, labor and land as his dollar ever commanded before. With a history which embalmed democratic hostility to national banks and bonds, it has slavishly marched and countermarched as the bankers ordered and has about worn out Charles Foster’s republican plates in engraving democratic bonds. With a traditional motto of “equal snd. sxaqt justice to all men.” It h««

An Illustration of the Methods Which Have Reduced This Country to Wage Slavery.—Denver Road.

RENSSELAER, IND., SATURDAY. MARCH 80 1895,

stripped tne wool-grower of all pro- | tection on his wool, in order that the i manufacturer might enjoy cheaper . raw material; and it has left the lum- - ber mills of the South and West to | compete with Canadian dealers for i Eastern and Northern patronage— ! while those same Eastern and North- j ern customers are themselves abso- I lutely protected in their lines of busi- 1 ness from any competition whatsoever. ! Jefferson’s distrust of a military and naval establishment finds itself indorsed, in this congress of Jefferson’s alleged party, by the most extravagant naval bill ever passed—passed too at a time when the people who vote the democratic ticket are not clamoring for guns but for bread! Jackson’s silver law of 1837 finds itself enacted into L policy which honors naught but gold. Benton’s theory of sustaining public credit by having the government live within its means, finds itself lonesome and old fashioned —discarded for the Cleveland practice of giving us more debts to pay. Stephens’ conception of state’s rights has dwindled down to a point where a democratic governor may protest against the armed invasion of federal troops, and finds *his protest whiffed aside with contempt—if some corporation will but hang a U. S. mail sack on one end of a freight car, and declare that the federal army is needed to pilot the mail sack through a mob. “Entangling alliances with none,” said the statesmen of the past, when referring to foreign nations; yet this administrations has dabbled in every international muddle, or by its policies of ambassadorships, and its leanings to protectorates and annexations, has done its utmost to commit us to the entangling alliances which will draw us into the whirlpool of foreign politics. Dead? Yes, its dead, this 53rd congress; and the American people will ever hold it in vivid memory. The homeless farmer who lost his roof-tree and his acres in the tremendous drop of cotton or wheat in 1893 or 4 will remember the 53rd congress—and will curse it. The bankrupt merchant, frantic over the loss of the accumulations of a lifetime of toil, will ever remember the 53rd congress—and will curse it. The countless unemployed, drifting from street to street, from tovzn to town, and from woe to woe, bitterly recalling the days when there was an enterprise to plan work and money to pay for it, will remember the 53rd congress—and will curse it. And in years yet to come, the tax- i payer bending beneath the load of Cleveland-Rothschild taxes, and finding it harder every year to get the dollar to satisfy the gold standard tax,; will remember the 53rd congress—and will curse its hideous record of guilt.— j People’s Party Paper.

Notes and Comments.

The city of Glasgow, Scotland, purchased the gas plant of that city from a corporation twenty-five years ago at a cost of $3,000,000. The municipal management gives entire satisfaction The private corporation charged $1.14 per 1,000 feet; the city charges 60 cents. The quantity of gas consumed has increased over 175 per cent Object les sons of this kind along the lines oi "fraternalism” knocks the stuffin’ put of corporate "infernajism,”

THE POWER OF WALL STREET.

According to the census reports over one-half the families of this country are living in rented homes—s2.2o per cent, to be exact, while 27.97 per cent of the owning families have mortgages on their homes. Here we have more than one-half the people without a country, and yet if the country was involved in a foreign war these homeless people would be expected to do the fighting. Queer country, this. * ■> * Common sense would seem to lead the wiseacres and savans to see in the popular discontent and restlessness evidences of a smoldering revolution, and that the old isues are worn out — that old political ties no longer bind as once they did. ♦ ♦ * The democratic party seems to have lost all clues that would lead to the discovery of prosperity and have about abandoned the search. In the light of this party’s most signal failure where is the intelligent democrat that can assign a single reason for that party’s pretended existence? « • * Glasgow, Scotland, owns its oiwn water works. The system has been gradually duplicated, and in the course of a year the capacity will be 1,000,00 C! gallons a day, sufficient for a populn-I tion of 2,000,000. The old company charged 14 pence of rental value, while the city’s charge is 6 pence, and at this rate the income last year was 1800,000 and the expenditure was $600,000, yielding a net revenue of $200,000 This is called “paternalism” in thicountry by a class of people who sustain corporate infernallsm. * ♦ * The war between labor and capita' will continue to be waged so long as present conditions remain—labor demanding better pay for work, and capital wanting more work for less pay Strikes will continue, but these wil' not bring relief until labor makes a grand strike at the ballot box. One grand united strike on that line wil’ settle the question at once and for al time. * • * Are you surprised at the great number of train and bank robberies, holdups, burglaries, the*ts and crimes generally reported daily in the papers': You ought not to be when you properly consider conditions that environ men to-day in this country. When k is admitted that there are 3,000,000 men in enforced idleness, it must also be admitted that not all of these men will starve in the midet of plenty, and that some of them are bound to become criminals. Last year there were 9,800 murders in this country against 6,615 for 1893, or an increase of over 30 per cent. The record for suicides for 1894 is higher than any previous year, the number being 4,912, nearly one-half of which were due to despondency. The destruction of life from suicides and murders amounted for the year 1894 to 14,712, making the record the darkest in history. * ♦ <■ A traveler tells how he sent a telegraphic message of twenty-six words from Algiers, in Africa, to Dijon, France, 50i| miles by cable and SCO miles by overland wire, for only 52 cents, or only one cent a word. Both of these lines were public property and that explains it. We could easily have as cheap rates in this countiy if the people would quit bending the supple knee to corporate power.

Machinery is rapidly driving men out of employment, and the question arises, where will we as a people bring up in a few years? The reaper of today does the work of nearly one hundred men fifty years ago. Typesetting machines do in one day what it would take six or seven printers to do in the same time, and so all through every department of labor. Does it ever occur to those who treat with lofty contempt every, proposition for reform that there must eventually be a radical change In social conditions to conform to the constantly broadening of the field of inventions? • * * A short time ago a horse was killed on a trestle near Spring Valley, 111., by a train. The starving people In the vicinity seized the dead animal, cooked and ate it. At Peoria, 1)1,, a man stole a sack of flour a few weeks ago, took it home, and without waiting to cook it, the starving family surrounded the sack and ate the dry flour. Scenes of a similar character are reported in all sections of the country, but how long will the people endure conditions ot this character? That’s the question. ♦ ♦ * It Is said that George Gould has exI pended several hundred thousand doli lars in the effort to break into the j charmed circle of English aristocracy, i while a brother-in-law with a French | title, cost, over $3,000,000. I

What Would You Think?

What would you think of a farmei with broad acres of the most fertile lands, with all -the buildings, machinery and stock he wanted, and each year producing so much of everything that it burdened him. I say what would you think of such a farmer con tinually going into debt to anothe: farmer who had only a measly smai farm, mostly noted, for its rocks and worn out soil—getting into his debt t< such an extent that all the produce o his farm was absorbed in interest an nually? You would say such a bi; farmer was a fool or insane, wouk you not? So say I. Well, that is jus exactly the relation of Uncle Sam an his big farm to John Bull and his olt worn-out island. It does not chang> the relation because the number is in creased—not at all. The American: are just as ignorant, just as ere.. dupes, as the great farmer would be The Americans are so “stuck” on them selves and their institutions, that the, believe the gods could make no improvement in them, and they arc therefore as easily skinned as schoo children. —The Coming Nation.

The Silver Party.

The new silver party thinks it it born. The midwives have sent forth an address iff its name. The midwives are the executive board of the Bimetallic league. Now we will work day and night, in season and out of < ' season for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; but wo stand on the Omaha platform, and will fight for every plank therein. Not one jot or tittle will we abate. No party can ever win on the single issue of silver. If silver men want free crinage let them come to the party that has done more than all others to educate the people on the silver question—the PopuHst party. Populists will not go to the silver party. — Ogden Review.

“COIN’S FINANCIAL. SCHOOL.”

It Is the “Uncle Toni’s C abin” jThat Will Set Silver Free. From The luter-Ocean. York. Neb , Feb. 18.—To the Editor.—No national issue has been boiled down, leaving only the double extract,since the days of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” until Coin presented the question of silver slavery. The little book is finding its way into thousands of homes in every State. It is loaned to the neighbors until it is worn out. The creditor class is reading the book to find weak points that can be attacked. The only criticism yet made is a surface one. It is said that Coin did not have a school al all. The men referred to are men of “straw,” raised up only to strike them under the belt. They say it is an imaginary school. The average reader of the book does not care whether Lyman Gage or any other one named was at the school or not. When they read “Uncle Tom's Cabin” not one thought or cared a tig about Eliza, Eva or Uncle Tom. When these same enemies of silver say to their boys, “If Henry has six marbles and James has four, how many have both?” they do not expect the boys to ask whether or not Henry was the fellow who had the four marbles and James six, or as to whether, in fact,Henry and James existed at all. The juice of what they want to impress on the boys’ thought tanks with straw boys and straw marbles is the fact that six and four are ten. So with Coin. The problem is stated, and every pupil in its great American school must in the near future write his answer and drop that answer m the ballot box. The struggle is now on. It must be met the same as was the owners of slaves. Those owners had only a personal interest in that question. The owners of the debts the people owe have only a personal interest in the slavery of silver. The question of vested rights is the only tightirg giound ike "old men have left. That was the shield the owners of men and women raised between their property and freedom. The Nation said, instead of a vested right, it was a vested wrong. The Nation today, by a majority in both houses of Congress, says that silver slavery is not a vested rn lit, but a vested wrong, and that vested wrongs must be abolished, even though it causes loss to the comparatively few personally interested. America believes first in the rights of man, then in the rights of property. M. C. Frank.

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