People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — The National Uprising. [ARTICLE]

The National Uprising.

On every hand the signs are rapidly multiplying, showing that the American people are moving grandly forward, highly resolved to effect their own deliverance. The light is spreading in all directions. The change in public sentiment during the past few months has been marvelous. There is an imperative demand for facts, with which to confound the false prophets of a ruinous financial and industrial system, who have so long led the multitude astray and held them in helpless bondage while they have been plundered by the Shvlocks of the Old World and their American allies. There is a cry for help going up from Wall Street. It is suggestively declared that the “silver heresy” is gaining ground so fast that stern measures must be taken at once to prevent an early return to Constitutional principles. The cowardly gold press can no longer conceal the truth. The field, it is said, must be repossessed, at any cost. The resources of the enemy are boundless, but the spirit of an awakened national patriotism cannot thus be quenched. The public conscience cannot thus be debauched. As the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, so the price of national redemption and safety is the repudiation of the tempter. Whatever disguises he may assume he will speedily be recognized and firmly rejected. Let the friends of a true national policy take courage and renew the assault along the whole line. Heretofore, in all contests with the money power, the. people have been fatally divided. The way to success has been blocked by class clanishness, misunderstanding, misrepresentation, prejudice, and short-sighted selfishness. The great army of wageearners has been at war with itself, the ready victim of the common foe. The agriculturists have been sadly deceived. They have strangely stood in their own light. The race issue- has served to hinder the cause of humanity and justice. Political Bourbonism has kept a“solid South” as a standing menace to national reunion and prosperity. Sectional feeling has baffled the efforts of broad-minded patriots. Statesmanship has been dwarfed and the rights of the people have been mocked. To-day the men who toil, whether in shop or field, in counting room or on the rail, in mine or factory, the small property owner especially, in town or country, the manufacturer and the merchant not in league with defiant and plundering trusts—all classes, indeed, in all sections of the land—ex cept professional money-lenders and their agents—painfully realize that they have been foully dealt with, that their interests have been sacrificed, that a continuance of the present downward tendency means for vast numbers absolute ruin and life-

long poverty, and for all others irreparable loss. The average citizen may not be able to comprehend all the intricacies and mysteries of finance and political economy, but he knows when he has had enough of the blithing, blistering process of contraction, which reduces his resources, saps his strength, paralyzes his energies, crushes his hopes, and brings him face to face with want and dispair. He might bear it all with fortitude. but thoughts of his family and those dependent upon him render him impatient of the hateful sophistries which have so long made the promise to the ear break it to' the hope. He is aroused at last, and no power kown amongst men can again put him down. The spirit of true Americanism is sweeping over the country like a mighty wave, growing higher every hour. One of the most inspiring things to be noted is the patriotic outburst in the South. Leading journals in that section are battling for national principles and honor as they have never done before. Their hot denunciation of what they justly term Toryism of to-day, and their demand for a new declaration of American independ-

ence, is sublime. Such work on the part of the recognized leaders of an impulsive and brave people will do more to cement the Union than all the efforts of partisan statesmen during the past thirty years. On the supreme issue of the hour the South is to-day teaching a most impressive lesson of intelligent loyalty to the men of New England and the Middle States, who are still chained to the chariot wheels of the British money kings. There is a coming union of hearts, heads, and hands and ballots that will usher in a new era of national prosperity ar.d

greatness. Old party lines everywhere are snapping like rotten cords. Truckling, unprincipled politicians are being thurst aside. Would-be leaders, without the courage of honest convictions, are being sent to the rear. It is a day of judgment. especially for Presidential aspirants who do not own themselves and are afraid to speak the truth; who say one thing today. in one section, and something else to-morro]v; in another section. The people are leading themselves, and in due time they will place the standard of Americanism in able and trustworthy hands. The next Chief Magistrate of the Union, as well as the men who wi!! o-operate with

him in carrying out the popular will in the conduct of the national government in all its branches, will come up from among the people, as in every other crisis in the nation’s history. The great uprising of 1896 will eclipse that of 1861. This is the hopeful and inspiring sign of the times, written in letters of living light across the national firmanent. —The American.