People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — Banks in Politics. [ARTICLE]

Banks in Politics.

(Farmers and Laborers’ Journal.) The banks are running the country and running it in the ground. , You cannot pick up a newspaper but you will read of a meeting of bankers, here or there, to dictate to 'fongre s—or of President Blank of the Blank National bank drawing a series of resolutions to instruct members of congress. Are the bankars philanthropists? No; their business is to lend money and collect interest upon it. As a class they have no connection with the people, except to suck the substance out of them and leave them poorer than they were. Are they looking out for the welfare of the masses? No - G.cy are simply trying to concentrate the wealth of the masses in the coffers of the banks. You can’t blame them. That is their business. But to govern a republic so that the many may be prosperous and the gree ’ ’ the few be restrained should be the alm of all true representatives of the masses of the people. Say, friends, you hove been petitioning congress for years to do this and do that, asking your servants to do what they premised to do and what you have all the time had the right to command them to do as your public servants, but what good have you accomplished? Isn’t the petitioning business getting old—a very much of a back number? Doesn’t it make you w'eary to think of the petitions you have signed and the “hearings” you have read about? Why not end this sort of nonsense by electing men who will go to congress or the legislature and do what they were sent to do? You can do It, but you must get away from the rotten politicians, the caucus, and the "machine,” and elect men whose interests are identified with your interests —not jackleg lawyers and professional politicians. Peter H. Vander Weyde, the scientist, musician and painter. Who died in New York recently at die advanced age of 82, was th* omner rs over 200 patents, mostly of siecurtMl InvsatlOM.