People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Farmors Do You See It? [ARTICLE]

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.