People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Keep hammering. Banks are only pawnshops Now is the time to educate. Prosperity! Where art thou? The way to win is to keep a-movin'. The old parties can^dodgo any longer. The gold maniacs must be suppressed. A money despotism is worse than au absolute monarchy. No more gold monomaniacs should be sent to congress forever. You can’t make things better by voting for the fellows that made them worse. Tii.io is not to be considered, but the truth, which is eternal, must triumph in the end. The- republican party will split on the s ‘.me rock that shattered the democratic party. Straddling will no longer fool the people. Radical reform alone will prevent revolution. The gold lunacy can be cured only by free exercise of the people’s right to govern themselves. The republicans laughed at the democrats, but they seem to be afraid to tackle the job themselves. Under the present system the United States assumes the responsibility of furnishing the world with gold. The trouble with the democratic party is it has the dry rot. The republican party has a bad case of the itch.

New York has reached the hanginggarden period in the repetition of Babylonian history. Its fall is approaching. There is no longer any doubt that the leaders of the two old parties are the same—and that both get their instructions from London. The year 1896 will be the most critical period in the life of the American republic. The people must be prepared for the crisis. Educate them. With the increase of population the day is not far distant when the oeople will discover that they have put off the land Question too long for .heir own good. Secretary Morton says: “The plow has outlived its usefulness.” In that it differs from Mr. Morton, who cannot be said to have ever reached a period of usefulness. The Illinois Supreme court has declared the eight-hour law unconstitutional. The next thing we look for is a decision that it is unconstitutional to eat more than twice a day. The postage stamp represents labor —service is not based on gold or silver, and the government will not redeem them in either, yet postage stamps are always worth their face value. Until every dollar of foreign capital is withdrawn and not a single acre of American land is owned by aliens there will be neither freedom nor prosperity of the whole people in America.

One of the silliest objections to government loans is that it is not safe to loan a farmer money on land at the rate of 2 per cent, but a bank or loan company will do it and charge him 10 per cent. Bonds issued by the democrats through republican law are just as fraudulent as if they were issued by republicans through democratic law. Both parties are guilty. The two old parties are the machines through which the corporations, trusts, and banks rule this country. The People’s party is the only party in the field that is being fought by the corporations, trusts, and banks. It is the constitutional duty of congress “to coin (create) money and regulate its value.” It is not doing it when it delegates to the banks the power to issue their own notes to be used as money. A bond is a debt; a greenback or treasury note is a debt. The bond draws interest and absorbs the profits of productive labor. The greenback draws no interest, gives labor employment, develops the resources of the country, and brings prosperity. Bonds bled the country; the greenback saved it. The bond is a robber; the greenback is a patriot and a blessing. The two old parties represent bonds; the young and growing People’s party represents greenbacks.

We saw a cartoon recently representing a congressman returning home to his constituents after the adjournment of congress which was significant. A crowd was awaiting Mr. Congressman just around a corner, anmed with clubs and baskets filled with eggs, anxiously anticipating a “reception of the gentleman who had just alighted from a palace car with grip in hand. There’s mere in a cartoon of that kind than the mere poking fun at the average conjrreseman. It is significant of a time possibly when of these fellows will he received with a rope.