People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Page 3

SURPLUS AND DEFICIT

TOM WATSON SCORES CLEVELANDISM. W»U Street Is I«utis| on the Deficit M It Did on the Surplus —Grover's Nefarious Schemes Brought to Liffht. During the first administration of tttariah Halpin’s man Cleveland, this country, was told in ponderous sentences all about the awful havoc that •he surplus was making with the prosperity of the people. The Surplus became a nightmare, a soar e-crow, an old Man of the Sea; And we got to the point where we | Could hardly go to bed in confidence . and comfort unless we first looked under the bed to see that the surplus Was not laying in wait to murder us in our slumbers. Cleveland had kept talking about * Surplus, Surplus, Surplus, ufrt.il lots of us began to have the same feeling toward it that a negro used to have toward the Ku Klux Klan. So seriously disturbed were we in our minds about the dangers and the 4»adfalls, the snares and the man■paps, the deceits and the betrayals, Which Mr. Cleveland assured us forked in the inner caverns of the •urplus, that we implored him to save tte —to save us by any merthods whatever from the armed enemies of our Rational welfare which crouched concealed within the insides of this modern Trojan Horse of a Surplus. After our scare was over, and the Surplus had been met and conquered *y the hero of Buzzard's Roost, v. r e pro v; calm raough to listen to a cold Recital of the facts, and to realize the 4x«tct nature of the perils we had escaped. The Surplus, it seemed, was a pile -of money which had been collected from the tax-payers, over and above the needs of the Government, and "touch the office-holders absolutely • oould not spend. This was 3/wful indeed. It is . divbiult to exaggerate the

mental agon es of two or three hundred thour. ind office-holders who have to stead in sight of a big pile of public money day after day, week after week, month after month, and not have the power to lay their feverish fingers unon it. ' It is the unwritten law of this blessed Republic that the Government must spend at least as much as the taxpayers can be made to pay. By an oversight, Congress had failed to increase the expenses in proportion to the increase of the Tariff and Internal Revenue Taxes, and hence, to the disgust and dismay of Cleveland and his tribe, the taxes far exceeded the expenses Congress had authorized. No wonder the disturbance in official circles was so great. No wonder Mr. Cleveland made the continent tremble as he heavily held forth on the dangers of a Surplus. What was to be done with the money? Andrew Jackson had, under similar circumstances, divided the Surplus among the states —'thus sending the money the Government didn’t need back to the people to whom it belonged. Jackson, however, and his kind of Democracy being deader than Pharoah, Mr. Cleveland never once thought of getting that Surplus money back into the pockets of the people to whom it belonged. As is well known, he made a gift of about sixty million ddllars of it to the Wall Street bondholders, by way of premiums, for the privilege of paying Government debts which were not due. Another sixty million dollars of it was given to the national bankers, free of interest, to lend out at usury to the poor devils to whom it belonged. These little palliatives eased the pains of the Surplus very considerably, and held its fever under control until Congress met again. As soon as that able body of Sunday-smashers and

law-despisers met, they promptly ran the expenditures up to the full limit of the taxes, and thus we have never Buffered since from the painful colic of having too mucih money for our digestion to cope with. Mr. Cleveland’s brilliant statesmanship never shdwed to better advantage than when he struggled with the dangers of tht Surplus and came forth from the contest covered with victory. He got rid of the Surplus by giving it away. The Government had squeezed it out of the tax-payers, and the President made a gift of it to the Privileged Class which pays no tax at all. To rob Peter to pay Paul is commonplace rascality; but to rob Peter, the tax-payer, to make a gift to Paul, the bondholder, is an average sample of latter-day statesmanship. In pushing expenditures upwards to head off another possible Surplus. Congress rather over-did the thing. The tax-payers began to be exhausted, and the stream of national revenue did not run so bounteously as of yore. The Bill'ion-dollar Congress of the Republicans scraped the bottom of . Uncle Sam’s cash-box, and a Deficit began to be a small cloud upon the horizon —no larger yet than a man s hand. Ohas. Foster prepared Republican plates for the issue of Republican bonds in order to get more money. The in-corning Democrats indignantly stopped the plan, and sternly rebuked the planners. The Democratic Congress even used lippy language to Charles Foster about daring continue 4% per cent bonds at 2 per cent. I recollect that Jad"2

Turner, foe able Democratic statesman of South Georg 5 1 who has so nimbly boxed the -ratire compass on the financial quest in. v ;3 seriously displeased with said Foster for venturing to renew national d; >ts which Democrats were ready to pay. Then came the BillKm-doli&r Crisp Congress No. 1. And then the Billion-dollar Crisp Congress No. 2. But before the Democrats had been on deck long enough to get the pieoounter questions adjusted, the Deficit was upon us—a gigantic, remorseless, and devouring Deficit. Wall Street is feasting upon the Deficit just as it did upon the Surplus. In Cleveland’s first administration they fattened upon premiums and free deposits. In his second, they fattened on nontaxed bonds, and ten million dollar private deals. Foster’s plates are doing heroic duty grinding out 5 per cent bonds —and Judge Turner saying nothing. The dangers of a Surplus brought pie to the bondholders. The perils of a Deficit bring pie to the bondholders. They plunder us when we pay too much, and they despoil us when we pay too little. A Surplus hurts, and a Deficit destroys.—People’s Party Paper.

“Paternalism” in Toronto, Canada.

Toronto, Canada, has a population of about 200,000. It sells its street railway privileges—not for boodle, as our American cities do, but to the highest bidder at public auction, and as a result that city is deriving a large income from the street railways, and enjoys cheaper fares and a far better service than under the old system. No long-time franchises are granted, but periodically the companies are compelled to bid for the privilge of 1 using the streets, which, as can be easily seen, compels companies to operate their lines for the accommodation of the public. At the last letting, despite the stringent conditions imposed by the municipal authorities, three companies submitted bids for the privilege of using the streets, and as a result the city receives $1,600 a year for each mile of double track operated, and a graduated tax on the gross earnings of 8 per cent on the first million dollars, on the next five hundred thousand dollars 10 per cent, and so on in a progressive scale, the rate going as high as 20 per cent on all receipts over three million dollars. The city determines the rate of fares, ordinary tickets being sold six, for 25 cents, or 25 tickets for sl. Tickets for working people, good morning and evening, are sold at eight for 25 cents, while school children ride for two and a half cents. The revenue derived by the city from this source is $125,000, a s-m four times as large as f'e r n vcn”e Arrived by the city of Chicago from its street car lines, and yet Chicago has ten times the population of Toronto. When it is suggested that it is possible to have such things in this country we have a class of people who are at once seized with spasms of “paternalism,” who lift their hands in holy horror at anything that would have a tendency to relieve the people of monopolistic burdens. In spite of the fact that hundreds of cities in this country ovu their own water works, gas and electric lighting plants, and in every single instance entire satisfaction being rendered, you hear foolish people saying every day: “That won’t do; that’s paternalism,” and nine out of every ten of these people who are having the shivers for fear we may have a little paternalism in this country, wouldn’t know it if they should meet it in the road.

Farmors Do You See It?

Mr. Brown loaned Mr. Smith in ISBB SI,OOO at 10 per cent interest. Each year Mr. Smith paid Mr. Brown SIOO interest. To pay his interest at that time Mr. Smith sold: 60 bushels of wheat, or 250 pounds of butter, or 165 bushels of oats, or 125 bushels of corn, \ or 500 pounds of pork, or 250 pounds of wool, or 500 pounds of cotton. In 1893 the mortgage was renewed and the interest cut down to 7 per cent, but poor Smith found, even at the reduced rate of interest, he was obliged to sell in order to raise the S7O interest; ' 135 bushels of wheat, or 300 bushels of oats, or 265 bushels of corn, or 5?-5 pound l of ■ utter, or 1,100 pounds of pork, or 450 pounds of wool, or 1,000 pounds of cotton. Smith may hot know it was Cleveland’s gold standard that did him up. —Ex.

The would-be leaders in the People’s party are learning a lesson they ought to have learned years ago. The men and women in this great reform movement recognize the leaders in the ordinary acceptance of that term. While they may recognize men and women in our ranks as advanced thinkers and zealous workers, the rank and file are thinking and acting themselves Independent of would-be leaders, and in proof of this we have only to refer to the storm of indignation aroused all over the country by the efforts of a few fellows at Washington who sought to side-track the People’s party on a single-plank issue. The non-conformist says that a party with one plank would resemble a sandhill crane standing on one foot by the side of a pond waiting for a minnow to come along.

THE PEOPLE'S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1895.

MYSTERIES! The Nervous System the Seat of Life and Mind. Recent Wonderful Discoveries. I*o mystery has ever compared wit;* that of Human life. It has been the leading subject of professional research and study in all ages. 3ut notwithstanding this fact it is not £tenerally known that the seat /rfl *-i TX 7SX of life is ioea/AA ■ , i ~ted in the up- /(/, <LC A VTrW per part of the / m vtl/VyA;jLJ VkQ \ spinal cord, ) V'lkJ?*' J —' r ir~~rx- 1 I near the base f\lot thebrain, / ) J and so sensi- / Y / tive is this / portion of the Y / nervous sys- \ / tem that even \ / the prick of a \ I / needle will 1 I I cause instant ] J I death. Recent discoveries have demonstrated that j,: ii** organs of the body are under the control of the nerve centers, located in or near the base of the brain, and that when these are deranged the organs which they supply with r. '-rvetiuidare also deringed. When it is remeraijered that a serious Injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis of tne body below the injured point, because the nerve force is prevented by the injury from reaching the ■ ralyzed portion, it will be understood how ..-;e derangement of the nerve centers will 'ause the derangement of the various organs t!i: :h they supply with nerve force. Two-thirds of chronic diseases are due .o Mie imperfect action of the nerve centers at the base of the brain, not from a derangement primarily originating in the organ itself. The great mistake of physicians in renting these diseases is that they treat the organ rather than the nerve centers which ar > the cause of the trouble. l>rt. Franklin Miles, the celebrated specin'lsr .has profoundly studied this subject for over 2) years, and has made many important 3U • ivories in connection with it, chief among r , icm :>eing the facts contained in the above tenement, and that the ordinary methods of ireatment are wrong. Ail headache, dizzidulluess, confusion, pressure, blues, uinia; melancholy. Insanity, epilepsy, St. Vitus dance, etc., are nervous diseases no m u ,er how caused. The wonderful success of Dr Miles' Restorative Nervine }s due to the 'ar that It is based on the foregoing principle. Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine is sold by ;i uriiggists on a positive guarantee, or *ent iir v by Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, 'ml., on receipt of price, $1 oer bottle, sin ottlesfor $5, express prepaid. It contains »"ith“r opiates nor dangerous drugs.

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THE MYSTIC CYCLE. Highest Grade Bicycle. \ \ \ If \m\ \ f / / \ \ \ \ / / M I / X R ! / M V /./ / / wjL • Descriptive In presenting our ’95 model to the public, we wish to impress the fact that the Mystic is not one of the many diamond frame bicycles with which the market is now flooded, and which cau be bought at almost any price. On the contrary, the Mystic is one of the finest lined, most symmetrical and highly finished machines at the disposal of intending purchasers. THE FRAME, in general appearance, is very pleasing and perfectly constructed on the latest and approved models. LARGE TURING , of light gauge, is used throughout, and every joint reinforced. EVERY PART is made of the finest steel. OUR MECHANICS are the best in the world. OUR MACHINERY is perfect. OUR STOCKHOLDERS are men of integrity. THE HEAD is inches in length, of large diameter, light and rigid. WHEEL BASE, 44 inches. Depth of frame, 23 inches (unless otherwise ordered), which is the standard depth for the average rider. This brings the top tubes and rear fork tubes on a level and parallel with each other, which is a pattern of neat appearance. r THE TUBING is of the very best cold drawn seamless steel stock, produced from the finest quality Open Hearth Crucible Swedish Ingot. ALL SOLID PARTS are of the best quality steel, accurately machined and fitted. THE BEARINGS ate the best procurable. Bearing cases and cones are of highest grade steel, perfectly hardened and accurately fitted. THE BALLS are of the best, made by the latest Rolled Forged Method, and are the most perfect produced. THE SPOKES are the best Swaged Piano Wire Steel, capable of .sustaing an enormous high tension. 7 HE SPROCKETS are of the highest grade Drop Forgings, accurately machine-milled to fit chain. Front sprocket is light, yet very strong and rigid. BEAR SPROCKET is detachable. FINISH consists of three coats of best jet black enamel, baked on at a high temperature, all brush work (not dipped). Each coat, except last, is carefully rubbed down with felt and pumice stone, which imparts to the last coat that handsome iridescent finish so greatly admired. ALL BRIGHT PARTS are highly polished and given a heavy copper-plate, then repolished and nickle-plated. This prevents rustings and gives an elegant ’’solid” finish. WOOD RIMS. Our cycles are furnished with wood rims, unless otherwise ordered. These rims are proved and guaranteed. Ste’el rims, either nickel-plated or enameled. TIRES. Morgan & Wright.Vici, Webb or Dunlop. Other makes if purchaser so orders. HANDLE BAR cart be furnished in either drop or raised pattern and in two widths, 16 and 18 inches. FORK. Our Improved Fork is a design of our own, and is light with great strength. This is considered so great an improvement that we give a special drawing showing its construction. CHAIN. This is the great improvement of 1895, and -we devote two pages to its description. Unti 1 you see this chain you cannot appreciate its merits. Our Improved Fork. THE CONSTRUCTION of our Fork is very light, yet exceptionally strong and rigid, being built in such a manner as to distribute all strain equally on the different parts. FORK SIDES are all reinforced. The Morse Chain IS THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF 1895. THIS CONNECTION IS TO A CHAIN WHAT THE PNEUMATIC TIRE IS TO THE WHEEL. Just stop and think: No Oiling, No Binding, No Stretching, No Friction, and of course much less power to propel. Actual tests of 1894 show that in running 2,000 and 3,00 t) miles these chains did stretch only one-twentieth of an inch, and when put on factory machinery and run 5,000 miles the elongation was only one-eighth of an inch. Do you think this is a pretty large story? Well, examine the cut and see how it works. It does not revolve around a pin, but works from the center and rocks in the pin, thus overedmitig that great obstacle found,in other chains. Use this chain once and you would not go back to the pin friction for half the cost of a wheel. You get a Mystic and you get this chain. Before you buy a wheel see the Morse Chain. We do not say of this chain thai it'is just as good, but that it is better than any other chain made, and is worth #15.00 more to any wheel. Join the Club and get an SBS for $65. For particulars call on or address F. D. Craig, Pilot office.

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