People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Motes and Comments. [ARTICLE]

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.