People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Page 1

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MONON TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. Jo. 5 ’. 10:52 A. M. #O.B 11:28 P.M. No. 30 8:21 P. M. N0.t45 ..3:25 P.M. NORTH BOUND. ,*No.6 3:25 P. M. ■ No. t 4 4:45 A. M. No. 40 7:39 A. M. No. 1 40 10:00 A. M. , .No. 74 9:58 P.M. tstopon signal. ♦ daily except Sunday.

THE POST OFFICE.

Money Order Fees. The postoffice is an institution 3 run upon the principle of the very best service at actual cost. Money sent by its order system i is the very safest, most conver. * ient and the cheapest means of transportation. Every cent that is paid for stamps, or for fees is .that much of the nation’s taxes paid. It is the duty of all good citizens to patronize the post- ■ office in every way possible. The following are the rates: Orders not exceeding 12.50 3c. ■ Orders not exceeding #5.00 sc. Orders not exceeding SIO.OO Bp. j Orders not exceeding $20.00 10c. ’Orders not exceeding #30.00 12c. iOrders not exceeding $40.00 15c. Orders not exceeding #50.00 18c. 1 Orders not exceeding #60.00 20c. .Orders not exceeding $75.00 25c." }Orders not exceeding SIOO.OO 30c Bates of Postage. Merchandise, for each oz. lc Books, printed matter, 2-oz. lc Newspapers, 4-oz. lc (by publisher) lib lc Letters (Canada, Mexico) 1-oz 2c Letters, Foreign, oz. 5c ■Registering fee, additional, He Arrivals and Departures. Mails arrive—7 a. m., 10:52 a. m., and 3:25 p. m. Mails close—lo:22 a. in,., 2:55 p. m. and 7 p. m. Office hours—7 a. m. to 7p. m. Star Route Mails. Leave for .Blackford and Aix Tuesdays and Saturdays at 1 p m., returning same day. Pleasant Grove and Valtna daily a* $12:30 p. m. Collegeville daily at 8:15 a. m. Call on Melvan Kenton at Surrey for gas burnt tile. Any size, good, quality and reasonable.

Xurserj Stock for Sale, I have a full line of fruit trees at Iliff’s liverjr barn. Will sell sheap. Apply to J. F. Iliff. ; J. A. WOODIN. An Unexpected Cut. Best. galvanized barb wire, *2.35 per 100 lbs; staples to accompany wire, at same price. G M. Wilcox, Surrey. Agents ’Wanted* To handle the Fountain Rub>er Scrubber, also the best rubier window washer and dryer iver made. If you mean busiless send stamps for circulars tnd terms. Fountain Rubber Scrubber Works, Fort Mandison, lowa. - Short Order Restaurant, T- H. Robertson has opened ip a first .class restaurant next o Huff’s jewelry store in Renslelaer, where he will swerve meals bs ordered at all hours. He soicits a share of,the public's patronage and assuring all that they rill be given the best of service md courteous treatment. BUCKLIN’S ARNICA SALVE. | The best salve in the world or cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, alt rheum, fever sores, tetter, happed hanps, chilblains,‘corns .nd all skin eruptions, and posiively cures piles, or no pay retired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money efunded. Price 25 cents per >ox. For sale by F. B Meyer. Roney to Loan. The undersigned have made irrangements whereby they are -ble to make farm loans at the i>west pssible rate of interest, rith the usual commission. Invest payable at the end of the ear. Partial payments can be jade on Jan. Ist of any year. !all and see us before making our loan; our money is as cheap hd easy as any on tne market, information regarding the loans lade by the Atkinson & Rigier &6ncy at Wabash, Ind., can be S 4 at our office, up stairs in Pilliams-Stockton building, oposite court house. Warren & Irwin.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

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.

FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.

THE FINANCIAL PLAN OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES. British Interference*—Robbed of Gold and Silver by Taxation the People Devised a Monetary System and Enjoyed Unequaled Prosperity. The fallowing interesting article concerning t)he money of colonial times is from the pen of Hon. John Davis of Kansas: “The currency of Pennsylvania was both a suocesß and a failure, and deserves special attention. It succeeded as long as it possessed the quality of legal tender. IL failed when the British government forbade it having that quality. Its use was compelled by the absence of coin, which had been drawn away by the British trade. Coin money being an exportable article, was always a fugitive in those colonial days. If could not be relied on as a basis for non-legal paper. Having no coin, Pennsylvania adopted a legal tender paper in 1723. It came to ah end through an act of the British parliament depriving It of the quality of legal tender. Being called before a committee of parliament, Dr. Franklin described the Pennsylvania money system as fellows: “Pennsylvania, before it made any paper money, was totally stripped of I its gold and silver, though it had from (: tkns to time, like the neighboring colonies, agreed to take gold and silver coins at higher nominal values, in hopes of drawing money into and retaining it for the internal use of the province. During that weak practice, sHver got up by degrees' to 8s 9d. per ounce—long before paper money was made. The difficulties for want of cash were accordingly very great, the chief part of the trade being carried i on by the extremely inconvenient | method of barter, when in 1723, paper • money was first made there (in Pennsylvania), which gave new life to business, promoted greatly t/he settlement of the new lands (by lending small sums to beginners, on easy interest, to be paid by installments) whereby the province has so greatly increased ini] inhabitants that the export from thence 1 hither (to England) is now more than ! ten fold what it then was.’’ Gov. Pownall, colonial governor of 1 Massachusetts, discussing the subject \ in hand, said: “I will venture to say that there j never .was a wiser or better measure— *] never one calculated to serve the in- i threats of an increasing country; that/' there never was a measure morel steadily pursued or more faithfully ex-i ecuted for forty years together than the loan offlee in Pennsylvania, founded! and administered by the assembly of thfU .province,"

He don't seem to enjoy it, but on election day he votes for a continuance of the National Game.

RENSSELAER, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895.

Rev. John Twells of London, an able English writer, speaking of the American colonial finances, said: “This was the monetary system under which the American colonist prospered to such an extent that Burke said of them: ‘Nothing in the history of the world is like their progress.’ It was a wise and benefloial system, and its effects were most conducive to the happiness of the people. Take the case of a family, industrious and enterprising, driven by persecution or misfortune to seek a refuge in the wilds of the new world. With their scanty means they purchase a tract of land. Many years of hard labor, privation and anxiety would have been necessary to bring that family into a state of decent competency, had they been required to purchase geld and silver by labor and by the produce of labor, before they ceuld effect t l '-> improvements of their property. But half the yalue of his land was advanced to the head of the family in note 3, which circulated as money. With these notes he oould hire labor and purchase implements of huabanrjgy and cattle; and thus, where without these notes one acre could be cleared, cultivated and stocked in a year, ten would by the assistance of the paper money advanced, be reclaimed from the fewest and rendered productive. Thus hope entered the dwelling of the poor emigrant. “Ten years found him with the whole

of his debt to the government discharged, the proprietor of a happy home. And the kind hand of paternal government was stretched out still, to advance him again one half the increased value of his land and thus enable him to clear more of the forests, and to settle his children in new homes. Such was the system by which a set of miserable outcasts were converted, in a short space of time, into happy, ( contented, and prosperous colonists. “In an evil hour the British government took away from America its ‘representative money,’ commanded that no more paper bills of credit should be issued, and those out should cease to be legal tender.’ and collected the taxes in hard silver. This was in 1773. Now mark the consequences. This contraction of the circulating medium paralyzed all the industrial colonies; the most severe distress was brought home to every family; discontent was urged on to desperation, till, at last ‘humnn nature’ as Dr. Johnson phrases it, arose and asserted its rights.’ ” This is a truthful and fair description of the money which served the people in time of need, when coin had fled beyond the sea, or was locked up in the miser’s till. It will be observed that it rested entirely on the quality of legal tender, and it remained good and sound until that quality was withdrawn by the British government on purpose to destroy it, and thus to render the ooiony dependent for money on the usurers of England. The Penn-

syivanla currency did not depend on the land for its value, as some suppose. Ishe lands were merely security for the loans.

Motes and Comments.

At the election last fall the Populist vote in Ithaca, N. Y., was 47. At an election held a few weeks ago the Populists polled 897 votes. Vineland, N. J., a city of 5,000 population, came within 17 votes of electing a Populist mayor at the recent election. Creston, la., with a population of 8,500, was swept by the Populists recently. Ah, tlgese are straws—'big straws, too, that show which way the political winds are blowing. * • *

It is shown by statistics that In the ! state of Ohio alone the farmers are j worth $50,000,000 less than they were : January 1, 1894. The farmers in every , state in the union have suffered losses I proportionately, beyond a doubt, which : gives rise to the inquiry, how much i longer will the farmers sustain by their ! vote and influence systems that Impose i such conditions. “Oh,” says some : one, “legislation has nothing to do with the conditions of the people; you can’t vote money Into people’s pockets." In this you differ, friend, with Jefferson, vltio said: “A nation may legislate itself into prosperity or adversity." * * * "The price of materials of ail kinds entering into the repairs of the roads has decreased, the only exception bej ing that of labor, which has not dej oreased in its proper proportion,” is i the way George Gould concludes his j annual report as president of the Missouri Pacific railway. This coming from a man who has just recently paid $2,000,0Q0 for a worthless French count i as a husband for his sister sounds well, I and ought to be a wonderful incentive to the employes es that and all other ! railroads to rush frantically to the support of the two old parties, controlled by corporate influences, that make it possible for this upstart to insult every honest American working man in the country. • * * The only fellows in this country who are not studying economic questions are the fellows filling the offices. They are like rotten chunks —floating with the current, without enough energy to pull out of a dead eddy. They are the fellows who, if Cleveland should declare the moon is made of green cheese, would join in chorus, “I know it, I know it.” * * * I An English duke has imported 2,0 v0 j frogs from our American ponds to get j rid of the parasites in the ponds on his ; estate. If they could serve him and his people as the pesky English sparj row has served us honors would be j even, but the frogs can only croak, while _the English sparrow, together

with the English gold bugs, are running this country. * * * A bill before the legislature of New York provides for military instructio’n in public schools, and appropriates SIOO,OOO to carry out' the measure. This spirit of militarism seems to be cropping out among the wealthy classes all over the country, even in the churches. Why is this? Are the ao-Cfclled aristocratic classes having visions of trouble ahead, and are being seized with Belshazzar shakes? Where is a surer sign of the deoadence of our institutions than this attempt to enoourage the growth of militarism among our people?

The suit brought by the state of Texas against the Standard Oil company for $109,500 damages and the forfeiture of its permit to do business in that state will be watched with considerable interest by the victims of that great robber trust all over the country. Having absorbed by the "{reeling out” process about all of its competitors, It now turns its attention to new oil fields, and is riding rough shod over the small operators. If Texas can check the trust in that state, possibly other states Will take up the cudgel against this one of Che most gigantic and powerful trusts in the country. • • • The recent demonstrations in Germany In honor of Prince Bismarck’s 80th birthday smack largely of “enthusiasm made to order,’’ as an effort to counterbalance the refusal of the German parliament to tender a vote of congratulation to the ex-iron chancellor. This action on the part of the socialists caused the young war lord, Emperor William, to eat humble pie by personally visiting Bismarck and tendering congratulations to the man he summarily banished when he came to the throne. The burden of Bismarck’s responses to the different addresses was to stand by the empire, which, considering the gidnt strides socialism is making in Germany, is more significant of internal troubles than from foreign foes. .The crowned heads of Europe today fear their own subjects more than foreign foes. * * * The total value of live stock on farms, according to estimates for January, 1896, for the entire country, is $1319,446,406, a decrease of $351,370,448 from the total value of 1894. Economically administered, here-is a loss In the one item alone sufficient to run the government a whole year. Our financial s/stern comes high, but money-foolish people don’t seem to want any other. Beautiful line of 5c and 10c glassware at the Emporium. Strictly Pure White Leads and Heath & Milligan's house paints, at Meyers’ Old Reliable.

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NUMBER 44.

THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM EXPLAINED.

Uutll the I’popln Kul*? — Ad Important Question Illustrated —Representatives^ Instead of Making Laws for the F«<k pie, Make Laws for Themselves. I have wondered many a time why the rank and file of reformers do not pay more attention to the Important sublet of direct legislation— In other words, the initiative and referendum. My dear friend, do you want free ailrar? Do you want government banks? Do you want fifty dollars per capita? Do you want a decrease la your taiaMon, or government ownership of railroads? Well, how are you going to get these reforms? You have been hinting to your rulers for some time that jfo* wanted these things and have not made mudh headway. The trouble is that Instead of going in quest of the treasure yourself, you sent some one else. Miles Standish sent John Alden to court Priscilla for him. John forgot that he was a representative and oourted the girl for himself. Milos Standlsh should have done his own courting and the American people should make their own laws. The initiative is the right of petition. Under the system of direct legislation a given per oent of the people can petition for atty desired law, and when their petition Is received the legislativo power, congress or the state legislature as the case may be, must prepare a bill containing all the provisions asked for in the petition and submit the same to the people at the next regular election. This submission to the people is the referendum. The people vote the bill in or vote it down, the majority of the actual people thus saying what laws they will have. Under this system all laws originate with tha people and are approved by the people. Suppose that at the coming national election the populists should eleot a majority of both national houses of congress and also get their man safely seated in the presidential chair. They would no doubt institute * -'umber o£ grand reforms. But if they leave the people lit their present powerless condition, succeeding administrations could in a very few years kill every good law they have made and wipe out all traces of their reforms. The American people are to-day practically powerless. They have handed over their power to their socalled representatives. These representatives can make just as many bad laws as they please, and the only redress that the people have is to vote them down when they again present themselves as candidates for office. This ia rather poor redress when we consider that if we vote a guilty officeholder dowu, the man we put in his place haa the same power and opportunity to do mischief that he had. The referendum i 3 the remedy.

The agitation and education upon this section of the Omaha platform, or more properly its appended resolutions, can not be too thorough or reach too far. If the people are fortunate enough to elect the officeholders of the next administration this is one of the very first reforms they should establish. For direct legislation means the tri*urnph of ail other reforms, just as rapidly as the people can comprehend them. It Is not only the instrument for procuring every desired‘reform but ia also the most direct means of repealing •very undesirable law. It will forever put a stop to the legal steals and bunco games that now make up about ninetenths of the work of the average legislative body. It will not only decrease the number of salaried officers but It will also reduce all the expenses of the government. When she enjoys this system America will cease to be a representative oligarchy and will become n real republic in which the people actually rule. If then a bond issue is proptsed the people will have a chance to vote as to whether they desire to be robbed in this fashion. And the best part of it all is that it will bring the actual facts of government before the people and compel them to consider, think, and reason. They will thus learn to vote for measures instead of screeching themselves hoarse for individuals who would not, in many instances, pick them up out of the ditch.

Why Europe Demands Our Gold.

Mr. A. S. Heidelbach, witting in The Forum, gives the following figures as the reason why Europe demands odr gold, answering the inquiry, "Whence comes this unsettled debt which keeps clamoring for payment in gold:” Money spent by American travelers $190,000,000 Freights carried in foreign dhiipe 100,000,000 Dividends and interest on American securities held abroad 75,000,000 Profits of foreign corporations doing business here, of investors, Ac 76,000,000 Total $350,000,000 Mr. H. says these figures "have been carefully gone over, and rnprssnni a very conservative! estimate.”