People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — Page 6

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LOUD CALL FOR HELP.

EVERY POPULIST SHOULD CET INTO LINE. Commander Vandervoort Has a New Plan for Aiding the Party —Get a Certificate of Honor That Yonr Children’s Children Will Be Prond to Own. The People’s party national committee has indorsed the legion five times and presented no other plan. The following was adopted at a meeting at St. Louis, Dec. 29, and incorporated in legion constitution at Kansas City, Feb. 22, 1595: “Resolved, That, while we do not attempt to dictate to any state as to the plan of organization it shall adopt, we renew the recommendation of the national committee in favor of the new organization of the Industrial Legion in every precinct in the land; and further recommend that no dues shall be exacted, except from legions that operate the rebate plan, and that in all cases where members are able, they be urged to send 10 cents per annum to headquarters; that all clubs or other orders that wish to change into legions shall send 20 cents for supplies, and that original legions shall send 50 cents, but that no legion shall be denied a charter when it is unable to pay for it, and that these organizations shall be called People’s Party clubs, People’s Party legions, or Industrial Legions, in order to suit the condition in each state, and that rule 15, of instructions of the Industrial Legion be dropped, and that all People’s Party clubs or legions shall report to the same headquarters in order to avoid confusion and to perfect a systematic organition.” The following is the cordial indorsement of the National Reform Press association at Kansas City, Feb. 22: “Whereas, The National Reform Press association recognizes in Gen. Paul Van Dervoort one of the most earnest, efficient and enthusiastic organizers of the reform forces of the country, and we believe that the comrades associated with him in the work are zealous Populists whose hearts are in this great work; therefore, Resolved, That the National Reform Press association indorse the Industrial legion, and pledge its hearty co-operation in the movement.” Just call the people together, elect officers, either a captain, adjutant or quartermaster, or president, secretary and treasurer, and send names and 50 cents to me at once. Don’t delay. The enemy never sleeps. People's Part}’ alliances and all other farm and labor orders chartered for 20 cents postage. All are urged to.contribute 10 cents per member, in advance if possible. It is used to push the legion work, and we can hardly get stamps to answer correspondence.

Circular No. 2. All the committees of the People’s party have been called upon five times by the national commir fee to “organize the legion in every voting precinct in the land..’ The Reform press, at the largest meeting they ever held, on Feb. 22, indorsed the legion and pledged their support. There should be no further delay in organization, no toleration of sideshows. Whatever non-partisan orders we may belong to, we should all join the legion for partisan w T ork. It stands on the Omaha platform, and each member must take a pledge to maintain and defend it. There is absolute need of this, for the men w r ho mean to switch our party are openly boasting that they will control the convention of 1896, and are setting up their plans in every state to do it. We cannot hope to gain the four million votes we need unless we are thoroughly organized, and if we had a legion in every precinct we could guard the .ballot box, force an honest count, and combine all the energy of all our people In superb missionary work. Our committees are too slow. They will wait until we are dead. While we have many zealous members the great mass of them are not doing efficient work. Many have good reasons. They are true and loyal almost to a man, but not active; they are sentinels on the outpost. A holy trust has been confided to them and they should either do their duty or give place to men who can and will. They number a mighty army, and should be on the alert, but how few respond to the calls w r e make, and yet we depend on them to organize or recommend live recruiting officers to do so. We need wide-awake and zealous men, and every county, city and town committee ought to meet in the next thirty days and put such men on guard. I would urge this as a matter of vital importance, and observe the maxim, “Old men for council and young men for war” to a certain extent. A live army must have mighty men of war. If we wait until we put in a crop we will wait until after harvest. If we wait until harvest is over and summer ended it will be too late. We must organize in every state in 1895. If we slumber on we deserve to be trampled under foot. We have submitted tamely to a hundred times the indignities from Great Britain that were heaped on our fathers. I would keep every foreign influence off .of American soil and scourge foreign governments from every island near our shores, and yet because we are an unorganized army, we cannot even capture and hold a state. Our people contribute thousands to orders that do our cause no earthly good and let every worker starve. If all the members of our committees would act, we could have ten thousand legions in sixty days. They can organize at home and send names here for charter without delay. Then recommend live, wide-awake men and wom-

en in every county and town for active we cannot furnish them free and pay postage too. People’s Party clubs should send for charters with names of officers and members and 20 cents, and thus become a part of the great national army, whose legions are forming in line from ocean to ocean. • Let the rank and file, the noble, zealous men and women wake up their committees, until they put their whole vigor in the work. They need the live support of all our people. Many cannot work because you do nGt give them the means. We want one thousand brave, faithful, unselfish, loyal men and women to go out into the field as legion scouts, to organize, sell books, take subscriptions, distribute papers and hurry the glad tidings to all oppressed people that the millions are waking up. Write for plan, inclosing stamp. We must have money for postage, printing and clerical work, but we will not beg and beseech the people, who expect everybody to work for nothing, pay expenses and board themselves. Therefore we have decided to issue a certificate of membership in tb legion and People’s party, handsomely gotten up, suitable for framing and preserving in the family, at the low price of sl. With it v.e will send Kansas City address, with picture of commander, case for bimetallism and a legion button. Every dollar of this money will be used to organize the People’s party. In order to pay expense of printing these certificates in quantity we want one hundred orders before May 1, and to the above will give in addition Senator Peffer’s great report. Any person sending in five orders will be given a certificate free. We can save liberty ami bring back prosperity if we band together in one mighty army all who believe in our principles in 1895. We dare not wait until ’96. Delay will postpone the victory and give the enemy time to rivet the fetters stronger. They have now captured the citadel and the Supreme court has announced the surrender, and the Goddess of Liberty and Uncle Sam have fled from the capital of the nation. PAUL VAN DERVOORT.

How Pnblic Servants Are Ser ed.

Mr. Carlisle, the secretary of the treasury, is a servant of the people. In his position as servant he sells bonds and creates debt that must be paid by the people without any law authorizing him to do so. His household servants are paid by the people, and his horses and carriages stabled by the government. His coachman, Reynard Green, draws SB4O annually out of the public treasury, and all he does is to act as coachman for Mr. Carlisle and family. Charles Edmonson and Charles Morgan are Mr. Carlisle’s butlers. They look after the secretary’s larder and see that the family table is properly supplied. They are also footmen to bis secretaryship. They draw from the public treasury $720 and $660 respectively per annum, and render no public service whatever. Their names appear on the pay rolls as messengers. So it is with all the cabinet officers. They are supplied with servants at the people's expense. The 4 cent cotton raisers help to pay for this snobbery at the people’s capital. When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated he rode into town on a mule and hitched it to the fence around the corner and walked to the capitol steps and took the oa'.h of office. That was democracy, pure and simple. We see no such democracy now. It has all passed away, and the customs of English snobbery have taken its place. The taxpayers furnish the President a grand equippage to ride in down the avenue, with four white horses to pull it, and an empty-headed English coachman, with a feather in his hat, to do the driving. How do Texas toilers like the change from Jefferson to Cleveland?—'Southern Mercury.

The Bryan Free Silver Faction.

The Bryan faction of free silver advocates who propose to fight for free silver, 16 to 1, within the ranks of the democratic party will meet disaster. The democratic party is not a free silver party. It has a few free silver adherents In its ranks, but they are not of the class that control. If Mr. Bryan goes to the next democratic national convention with the hope of having it pronounce for free silver, he will be defeated and humiliated. There is a money influence that controls the democratic party, and it will as surely rule the next national convention as it assembles. What can a handful of free democrats do with an organized body of subservient tools, backed by the money power? Mr. Bryan will probably take a hint when he is kicked out of the party that he is not’ wanted in, and by which his free silver ideas are not to be indorsed. —Southern Mercury.

Send It to Secretary Carlisle.

If Keely has really discovered, as has been stated, “a sympathetic force of outreach representing, in tfie full receptive circuit, an accumulation of polar sympathy of more than twentythree tons when under rotation, to be distributed to the polar and dipolar circuits,” he ought to find a ready sale for it at Washington, as the administration needs something like that in its business.

Gold Standard.

Ignorance and greed of the lawmakers of the leading nations has furnished willing tools to carry out the plans of the money syndicate which now have established the debt of nearly all civilized nations on a gold basis, giving the bondholders a fixed income of which each dollar to-day will bny two dollars worth of land, labor or products of labor. —Industrial News.

THE PEOPLE S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND , SATURDAY, MAY 4. 1895.

A GOVERNMENT LOAN.

BUSINESS wHEN LOANED TO A BANKER. Paternalism When Loaned to a Farmer —Reasons Why the People’* Party Is Beroiuin? the Greatest Factor In National Polities. The national banking law is class legislation. Those having $50,000 can invest in that amount of non-taxable, interest-bearing government bonds. Then they can organize a banking corporation, and upon depositing these bonds with the government as security, Uncle Sam will indorse $45,006 of the corporation's notes, printing, and supplying them at a tax if one per cent. These notes the corporation can use the same as money in their banking business, loan them cut to the people at usurious rates of interest, etc. The bonds keep right on drawing interest, however, and are non-taxable —a good investment in themselves. This privilege of depositing money (bonds) with Uncle Sam, then draw out 90 per cent, and still draw in.erest upon the whole of the original deposit, is one which is not granted to the poorer classes of our people. It would, indeed, be a grand thing for our farmers if they could sell their crops, invest their receipts in bonds, draw interest upon the bonds, and the government indorse their notes to the amount of 90 per cent of their investment in bonds, these notes to pass current as money in liquidating debts and buying machinery, provisions, clothing, etc. National bankers go into spasms whenever the subject of government loans to the people is broached, but what in the world would they go into if it was seriously agitated that the farmers should have the same privilege of investing their one hundred or five hundred dollars in government bonds as Shylock has investing his $50,000? And why shouldn’t a farmer’s note of $lO, indorsed by Uncle Sam, be just as good as the national banker’s $lO note, being secured by interest-bearing, nontaxable bonds deposited with Uncle Sam? There would certainly be no difference in the value of the two; one would have just as much “basis” and “backing” as the other. The only reason why we can’t buy a $lO government bond and deposit it at Washington, and have Uncle Sam indorse our note for $9, is because thi3 is not a government of, by and for the people, but of, by and for the few; because we have class legislation whereby the rich are made richer and the poor made poorer, by being taxed and robbed to make the rich richer. Let a poor man go to Washington and importune Uncle Sam to give him the privilege (in proportion to his means) as the rich man has, and the associated press wires would fairly laugh as the message sped over them to the four quarters of the earth that a fool “crank” called at the treasury department and wanted to buy a $lO bond, stating that he wished to deposit it with Uncle Sam to indorse a $9 note for him, so he could pay off $9 of his indebtedness and still have $lO left, safely invested in an interest-bearing, non-taxable bond! He would be a “crank,” indeed —about as “cranky” as any “crank” ever gets to be—to expect a privilege from the present monopoly government, which is only intended for the favored few and not for the many; which is only intended for the non-pro-ducing shylock and not for the producing masses. No wonder millionaireism is increasing upon the one hand and pauperism upon the other.—Free Trader.

It is disgusting to hear men who seem possessed of ordinary sense and judgment make the assertion—so* often heard —“Men can get’work who want to work,” or “No man need to be idle.” Men who make such assertions are either wofully ignorant or find it necessary to advance such argument as an excuse for candidates forced upon an excuse for conditions forced upon the country by their party. Suppose a man starts out to find employment, how many farmers could he find who could give him employment— except during harvest, or at most for a few days or weeks? Take the country over, and we venture the assertion that nineteen out of every twenty would not be able to employ a hand the year around, while eight-tenths could not employ help six months of the year—many not three months, and one-half of all of them could not employ any wage help at all. Then strike the trades and manufacturing industries, and the idle man would fare no better. And yet we hear the silly twaddle, “Men can get work if they want it.” Young men who would, under proper conditions, be working for themselves on farms of their own are staying at home helping father and mother make a living, and in many cases the combined efforts of the parents, several grown sons and daughters are necessary for the existence of the whole family. This ought not to be so, and would not if there was an equitable distribution of the fruits of toil, if every man and woman who are willing to labor were receiving a just recompense of reward for their toil.. There are causes for these anomalous conditions, and it is the duty of every man and woman to study them and properly apply the remedy. We have been legislated into this condition, and the remedy is an intelligent use of the ballot.

Diplomacy Versus Ducks.

There was a doctor who claimed i that he was not much on smallpox, but was great on fits. The administration may not be much on diplomacy, but nothing can beat it in duck hunting. Its deeds in this line are still being sung by the cuckoos.

It Is Disgusting.

Vote the guns oat of plutocracy’s hands. ■—■i——— Give the republicans a chance. Of course.' The trouble with the democratic party is, it can’t be democratic. Another fool has been found in congress who says God made money. The democratic party has had its j chance and now it has its record. The boss financiers are talking of | calling another international farce. The idea of people petitioning, whore they have a right to demand —absurd The gold standard don’t appear to | restore “parity,” “confidence” nor pros- : perky. I The democratic party committed sui- : cide —and, of course, the whisky trust ; busted. Congress has turned it all over to Grover, and he will “soak” the country to Rothschild. That man Sovereign of the Knights of Labor is a fighter. Success to him and his followers. Let us abolish bank government, and institute government banking and a people’s government. S The currency question can be made the leading issue without abandoning the Omaha platform. He who says the greenback is not good money is not a good man, nor a good American citizen. Why not issue some more bonds? Go deeper in debt and save our credit. Where is the foolkiller? King Grover is despondent. His house of lords and sleight-of-hand performers refuse to perform. President Cleveland’s . patriotism seems to be of the same brand as democratic prosperity—non est.

Government ownership of railways is foolish unless private ownership of government be first abolished. Wonder if Rothschild gold will stay in the treasury any longer than any other brand of the cowardly stuff. The present gang of rulers in”thii country w r ould have the national financial policy dictated by Rothschilds. Coxey’s plan is better than any or all of the currency plans proposed by the bankers and their tools in congress. Suppose that machines performed all the w’ork and capitalists pocketed all the profits—then what would workmen do? When free silver men want to vote with a free silver party there is only one way to do it —that is to vote with the People’s party. All money held solely for speculative and lending purposes, is in enemy of and a constant drain on all the useful people of the nation. The enormous sum of $2,500,000,000 worth of personal property, owned by residents of the state of New York, annually escapes taxation. The process of starvation always makes a man feel like fighting. It’s a dangerous thing to have thousands of men in a rich country in a fighting humor. You said you would give them a chance and if they did not do something you would never vote the ticket again. Were you lying or were you in earnest?

If it is true, as the learned oracle of Yale College announces, that “th* social classes owe each other nothing," why not abolish the law and have a reign of "dog eat dog ” Just think of Bill McKinley making a speech in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln. That is just what he did at Albany, N. Y., on Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12. What a mockery. The manufactures have met together ,at Cincinnati and organized for the express purpose of fighting labor organizations, acording to their own statement. Laborers should prepare for defense. Tom Reed wants the republican nomination for President in 1896, and he has just put himself on record by voting for gold boi'c’3. The Populists are in favor of hia nomination and everlasting defeat. Duke Pullman seems to have a supreme contempt of court, notwithstanding the services it has rendered him in the evasion of justice. He refuses to appear as a witness and should be sentenced to jail. The Knights of Labor, notwithstanding their defeat in an attempt to enjoin the treasurer from issuing bonds, are still on deck, and have employed eminent legal talent to test the validity of bonds already issued. Whoge Fault Wag It? Working men! let us as>: you a question: Who beat you in the Brooklyn strike ? Was it the militia or was it your own kind of people who took the places of tb,e strikers? Think this out and then tell us you are not a set of idiots. Why don’t you all get together and vote together? Don’t you know corporations will continue to be on top so long as the ranks of labor are divided? There is no better way to keep labor divided than on union and nonunion lines. —Denver Road.

Where’s your prosperity? How are you going .to vote next time? The government must be restored to the people. The “deadbeats” are still fighting the income tax. Jerry Simpson is mentioned for governor of Kansas. Why not turn the whole thing over to the bankers? We must educate for after the storm, as well as agitate for its coming. The country was “redeemed” by thq republicans in gold standard men. Finance, Land and Transportation are the trinity of industrial salvaTion. Plutocracy seems determined to have the bonds paid either in gold or blood. Workingmen have no business in the militia. Let plutocracy do its own killing. More money without more justice to the common people won’t solve the problem. . The leaders of both old parties are in rebellion against, the government of the people. • The Populists in congress stand solidly united against the golden serpent on every occasion. The union of all the working people at the ballot box is the only union that can succeed. » Populists in confess don’t vote to secure the indorsement of old and New England bankers. A single signature with a stub pen will enslave a natiou- and Grover Cleveland stands ready to sign. A labor saving machine that is not owned by the laborer himself, or the general public, is a labor starving machine. , Boys, don’t let yojir congressmen remain in ignorance of the situation among the comon people. Write them every week. What Grover and the bankers want is a perpetual debt, a means of forcing producers to support idle and useless blood suckers. The difference between the world now and the condition of the before the creation is that now it is all form —and still void. And now it develops that Liliitokalani is an anarchistess—and probably Grover knew it all the time. This is a pretty “how are you.” The republican congress is pledged to the policy of Grover Cleveland, and the whole country will be pledged to Europe with gold bonds. Populist papers should not advertise, club with, or send in subscribers to plutocratic papers, at any price, daily, weekly, monthly, or any other way. Let the millionaires handle their own killing machines. Workingmen should keep out, and be prepared to defend themselves in case of emergency. Redeemed —yes; Kansas was redeemed, by electing a banker governor and sending a railroad attorney to the senate —Colorado was redeemed and sent Wolcott. Even Breckinridge was disgusted with President Cleveland’s financial bill and voted against it. But that only proves the bill worse, and won’t, save Breckinridge. Congress has voted a half million dollars to lay a cable to Hawaii, so that an anxious public in America can always have fresh news of how the robber Spreckels is treating his victims. It is intimated by the boss financiers that the syndicate which handles the last issue of bonds will clear six million dollars, on negotiating the sale alone. Wonder how much King Grover, gets. In Nebraska, a few days since, a bank cashier attempted to go republican—that is to fail —but the inhabitants of the town in which he resided objected. He went to kingdom come, via. hemp.— Dawn. A Minnesota “roaster” by the name of Foster has “cornered” the egg market of the United States, and proposes to run the price up to 50 cents a dozen to city consumers. May he live on rot-! ten eggs the balance of his life. Every patriotic hen in America should have a peck at his eyes. Bob Ingersoll pops up and says “Populism is insanity”—and yet the sensational ass writes letters once in a while about the wrongs of the people that are thoroughly Populistic. The only sure thing about Bob is that he prefers notoriety to a consistent course of seeking the truth. The professional tramp and the idle rich belong to the same class morally—one living in the filth of beggary, the other in the corruption of dissipation. If there is any difference, it is in favor of the tramp, who does not murder and impoverish others in his selfish laziness as does the rich idler. King George and all his hired Hessians could not make our patriot forefathers pay 6 cents a pound tariff on tea to support the government, but W. W. Astor lives in Lunnon and draws $5,000,000 a year off the American people in the shape of taxes and they pay it and don’t say a word. Truly the lines of rich men have fallen in pleasant places in these modern days of asinine Americanism.—Coming Nation.

IT BEATS COXEYISM.

WRITE A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY. They Should Be Kept Informed A» to the Feeling of the Common People— They Are * Listening Too Much (o Banker*. This nmy be called a conspiracy and some judge may get out an injunction to stop it, but there is no deception about it. It may not do any good--but there is nothing like trying. Secretary Carlisle says: “That the amount of money in the country is greater than is required for the transaction of business is conclusively shown by the fact that it has accumulated and is still accumulating in the financial centers to such an extent as to constitute a serious eruhurra ssment to the banks in which it is deposited, many of whica are bolding large sums at a lo? 3. Tbir excessive accumulation of currency at particular pc-ints is caused by the fact that there is no such demand for it elsewhere as will enable the banks and other inst;tutions to which it belongs to loan it to the people at remunerative rates.” Now what I want is to have the farmers and laborers throughout the country write and tell President Cleveland that his secretary of the treasury don’t know what he is talking about—or if he does know better, he is a liar. Tell him that you and your neighbor haven’t half enough money to transact your business. Tell him that the great accumulation in the banks and money centers is the reason farmers and laborers have none in their pockets.

Tell him your condition, and if you . have only one cent to buy a postal card, tell him that you have spent your last cent that he might not remain in ignorance of the true condition of some of the American “sovereigns” who have him hired at a salary of $50,000 a year to serve his country. Tell him of little Teddy who is sick, and little Mary who can’t go to sdhool because you are unable to buy clothes and books —tell him of your poor, tired over-worked wife —tell him what wages you reeeive, or if you are out of employment ask him if he knows where you can find a job. Tell him that it is a mistake that there is no demand for money, that people are talking about the scarcity of money in every community of this great and rich nation. Tell him that the bankers are not the only people in the United States. Tell him that better,, citizens starve to death every day than the bank cashiers who exUe themselves in Canada. Tell him that all the money does not belong to the banks —and that the people want what belongs to them. Tell him that greenbacks are good enough for the people and that they would as leave have new ones as old ones. Tell him that the people don’t want what few greenbacks there are now destroyed—unless the bankers and money loaners are destroyed at the same time. Tell him that in that case the people would consent to the destruction of the present currency, knowing that they, themselves, the government, could get along very well without the paternalism that makes congress father of the banks and enemy of the people. Tell him that you are tired of living on national dignity, and would like a little corn bread and “sow belly” for a change. Tell him that the people are not worrying much whether the money sharks get 2 per cent, a month or 30 days in jail. Tell him that the people want government banking. Tell him that the money spent for warships, torpedo boats, fortresses and military barbarism would keep the peace better if it were expended for food, clothes and shelter for the poor, helpless and unemployed in this country. Tell him about the “charity” soup house in your neighborhood—and tell him about the men who commit crimes to get into jail. Tell him it is not “charity” but justice and a chance to earn a living that the common people want. I mean all this seriously. This article will appear in about 900 papers this week, and will be read by nearly a million people. I hope that every reader will at once write a letter to the President. If you can afford it, write every week regularly. Write whatever appears best to you. It will only cost you- two cents for a stamp and that is cheaper than walking to Washington to be clubbed off the grass or sent to jail. If you don’t feel like wasting two cents on him., buy a postal card and send that. We can have a car load of such mail there in two weeks. Tell the President that the people would rather have things remain as they are than to have a special session of a gold-bug congress. This should he copied by every reform paper in the country, and their readers urged to write at once. No more bonds forever. Yours for God, humanity and America. GEO. A. PUCKETT. Hardy, Arkansas. Hard Lines. Judge (to witness on the stand)—Can you wr*te? Witness (indignantly)—Write? Why, I am one of the charter members of the Author's Club. Judge —Very well, make your mark then. It holds in law just as well as If you could.