People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Life Judges are kingx All interest is extortion. ■ , I Nov/ is a good time to think. The people must govern themselves. A nation of tenants is a nation of slaves. Don’t mention prosperity to the democrats. Every Populist shculd be an organj for 1896. The Fifty-third congress is worth more dead than alive. There can be no good government except by good people. The “silver party” wants a rich man nominated for President. If you keep in touch with the people you will not be far wrong. Carnegie has closed his steel works —but has not quit stealing. ♦ Every banquet at Washington drives a nail in the coffin of liberty. The old party silver bait conceals a plutocratic hook. Don’t be a sucker. Wage and debt slavery must be abolished. and labor given all it produces. Free coinage through the old parties means destruction of the greenbacks first.' Where machines take the place of men, they should be owned by the public. Senator Plumb said that the glory of Gen. Grant as a warrfor was that he opposed war. Every ship of war fchut floats costs more than a well endowed college.—• Charles Sumner. We have ro.t heard of any Populist going into Warner’s new silver party—none to speak of.

A solid front and an active, educational campaign, will bring a victory that is permanent. Every interference with free thought and free speech, only makes the next utterance of the speaker more bitter. Wouldn’t the politicians of the old parties be happy, if they could sidetrack the Populists on a single-plank platform. Do you ever talk over these things with your old party neighbor. He may be a man hungering |and thirsting after the truth. There has been no suggestion to erect a monument to the memory of the Fifty-third congress—no use, we’ll all remember It. If you desire to see the People's party win go to work and induce some disgusted democrat or republican to vote the Populist ticket. Bland has had a great many opportunities to take the “parting way,” but he now comes out and certifies over his own signature that he won’t. The republican party seems to be lost in the exuberance of its exuberance. The question now is what was the republican congress elected for? The democratic congress appropriated $5,000,000 to send people to heaven with battleships—but not one cent to keep men, women and children from starving to death. A day will come when a cannon will Be exhibited in public museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. —Victor Hugo.

There is some consulation in the thought that “labor-saving” machinery can neither vote nor shoot. But its a poor consolation to a man who is already starving. He has no time to wait for the process of reform. It depends altogether on what congress ■would do, whether an extra session would be beneficial or not. If It is to be like the Fifty-third congress, it should be postponed for a thousand years. That great republican daily, the Globe-Democrat, says this “ought to be a happy nation, because less than half the farms are mortgaged.” If that is true why shouldn’t it be happier if there were no mortgages at all? Trial by jury is rapidly becoming a farce. It has reached the point where a judge can instruct the jury w'aat verdict to return —and if they fail to agree with his instructions can fine the jury for contempt of court, and still go unhung. The average common school history is devoted principally to war, with a few pages in the latter part of the book summarizing the progress of the world. Examine the text book your boy studies at school, and see if it isn’t so.

Luther began to preach the sain e year that Copernicus discovereil the true system of the universe. Since that time both science and refiigio, ■ have progressed—so has government . and yet the possibilities of progress an 3 not exhausted. Gov. Tillman is a very good man, but he should revise his vocabulary and not apply the word “craalr” sooften to the Populists. Tine ve« men i he calls cranks saw far enough ahead to prevent what he helped to bring tbov-t by remaining so long with the temoeraUc