People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Just keep movin’ right along. Push -the "work of organization. The trouble seems to be that the public credit is too good. Grover will not likely issue any more bonds for several months. “If Christ came to congress” it would be the shortest session on record. More money is needed to open up the undeveloped resources of the country. If the free silver men have got anything to trade why don’t they trot out their hoss? There are more uncrowned kings in this country than there are crowned kings in Europe. Send to Gen. Paul Van Dervoort, Omaha, Neb., for instructions how to organize Legions. The Democratic party don’t seem to be in it, any more. The spring elections went against it largely. The most devoted defenders of the two old parties are the ones that are drawing the salaries. Whatever might be the intentions of the one plank men the adoption of that policy would ruin the People’s party. Debt is a species of human slavery j and you can’t make anything else out of it. It involves one human, being j working for another without recom--1 pense. I I The Chicago board of trade and j banking fraternity have invited Cleveland to that city. Grover says he’ll go if he has time. Look out for another ! bunco game. i Another Belshazzer feast is being i arranged by the Chicago board of ! trade, to which Grover Cleveland and hi* "lords” are bidden. This, of course, will simply be a drunken jamboree, and Grover will likely attend. They may not see any handwriting on the wall, but as certain as God rules, the kingdom of the present money power will be taken from it. The People’s party is in favor of coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1, and opposed to banks of issue and interest bearing bonds. That is the platform of the new silver party. Now where is the use of two parties in the fifld and advocating the same things? Why don’t the free silVfcr men join the People’s party? Why? That’s the question, and it is an important one.

With from one to three national banks going into the hands of receivers every day, the Whisky trust and the Cordage trust in the hands of receivers, and one-third of the railway mileage of the country in Uncle Sam’s hospital, it would seem that “paternalism” is forcing itself upon the country in spite of many protestations against government ownership of the natural monopolies. The truth is the men behind the great monopolies are unwillingly bringing forward the very thing they so bitterly denounce as imprac-ticable-government ownership of railroads and telegraph lines. A railroad in the hands of a receiver, for the time being, is practically government ownership, as the government assumes the' management as fully and complete as if it really owned the road. If the government is competent to take hold of a railroad that, under corporate management has been wrecked or mismanaged, and straighten it out, why could not the government operate them as its own property? If you cannot answer this question intelligently and in favor of government ownership it is because you' have not studied the question as you should, or because you are too strong a partisan to consider rationally your own interests, and in either case your judgment is at fault.