People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — Searchlight's Flashes. [ARTICLE]

Searchlight's Flashes.

Honest men do not leave their parties. Their parties leave them. On every American coin should be stamped “In trusts we trust.” There is good authority for saying that the race isn’t always to the swift, Mr. Swift. Constant reader is hereby informed that George M. Pullman will not vote the People’s Party ticket. Protection and free trade alike mean that the thousands shall be poor that the hundreds may grow richer. Vote the People’s Party ticket and government .of the boodlers by the boodlers and for the boodle will vanish from the earth. It the embargo on the American hog could only be extended to the hoggish trusts and combinations it wouldn’t be an unmixed evil. The boodlers claim to have a “graft” on the two old parties. Show by your ballots that the two old parties have not a “graft” on the people. At a recent costume party attended by the elite society of Washington the servants were dressed to represent slaves. Is there any significance in this?

• It should be looked after that every I Populist takes one or more Populist i papers, and after reading them hand | them on his neighbor who is “on the 1 fence” or disgusted with his party, i The Populist members of the Wash- ■' ington leigslature issued an address advising their constituents ‘to stand by the Omaha platform, and not to “change horses while crossing the stream.” An Indiana judge decided that corporations have the right under the law to dischargeemployes who belong to labor unions. This Ought to be a pointer —not only to labor unionists, but laboringmen generally. The court holds that "under the law” corporations have the right to discharge employes who belong to labor unions.-Laws are made by legislation, are they not? Who make legislators to make legislation to make laws? Why, laboring people, of course. What should workingmen do to undo such laws and prevent decisions of this kind? Ah, cease pleading like cravens and be men! Exercise your rights as American freemen and by your votes make such unjust and arbitray decisions impossible*

A crown that is said to have cost 140,000 was George Gould’s wedding present to his sister Anna. It is said that Anna and her late purchase will reside in this country. Of what use will a crown be to her? .Why such regal adornment? Does it foreshadow what plutocracy is looking forward to in this country—a government under a crowned head? Why all this aping of worthless royalty and the nobility of Europe if in the end it does not mean something? There is nothing surer than the fact that millionairi&n in this country with its despicable shoddy airs is wearying of our republican form of government and is anxiously looking to the time when it will give place :to a more aristocratic and despotic ! form. The man who cannot see this in the signs of the times is blind indeed and has made very little use of his opportunities for observation.