People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The silver erase is still a "erasing." A few one-plankers are left standing alone. The tin rooster industry has collapsed. The People’s party is an anti-monop-oly party. Prosperity is still lingering in the dim distance. The democrats are howling for another chance. The Declaration of Independence was no one plank affair. It is funny that the many submit to the exactions of the few. The fate of the income tax is equal to the Dred Scott decision. There are no pleasant memories connected with the tin rooster. The income tax came from the Supreme court pretty badly scarred. The politicians farm the farmers and , the usual result is a crop of fools. Remember that the People’s party is an all round anti-monopoly party. i The Indiana legislature opened with prayer and broke up in a disagreeable row. v The Omaha platform with the currency question paramount —that’s the plan. The President says he don’t get drunk. We give this as a matter of news.

The National Watchman has conjured up a ghost—its name is H. D. Lloyd. Almost anybody ought to see that a one plank platform won’t go with the people. If the single plankers would march In single file the procession would not be very long. It is a wonder that the Supreme court does not decide that irrigation is unconstitutional. The sound money men invited Grover to Chicago, but the vote of the people vetoed the invitation. The government is supposed to punish criminals, yet it is the greatest criminal in the puddle. The free coinage of silver is an assured thing, in the near future, if the people vote as they talk. The Referendum is the shortest cut to get things right. More light should be thrown on this subject. Watch every effort to put delegates in Populist conventions who do not indorse the Omaha platform. One would thiDk from the decisions of the courts that the constitution was made on purpose for the rich. “Avarice is a weed that will grow in barren soil”where no trait of humanity exists. It thrives best there.

It is strange that the unconstitutionality of the income tax was not discovered in the days of honest courts. , The single plankers will find that they can neither dictate the platform nor the candidate for the People’s party'. The south is about to be invaded again; the “sound money” advocates are going to hold a convention in Memphis. A man who thinks more of his party than of his wife and family, and his country, might properly be called a tin rooster fool. The National Watchman says “there’s no use fooling away any more time in the cities, the workingmen won’t vote as they march.” We beg to remind the Watchman that about the only support the single plank “policy” has received yet is from men “in the cities.” It will be a hard matter to make the average intelligent citizen of this country believe that an income tax law that stood the constitutional test during the late war would not be a good law now, notwithstanding the assaults of the money hags and the disposition of the courts to sustain every demand of plutocracy. Gen. Weaver is out in a letter advocating alliance with the new silver party and the Indorsement of Joseph Sibley as the People’s party candidate for President. Not satisfied with dictating the platform, the.single planaers now want to dictate the candidate. Sibley is not a Populist—never was, and people will not be caught in this trap simply because he is a millionaire and opposed the Cleveland administration. The London News says, “bimetalism would be fatal to British supremacy.” Of course it would, and that is why silver was demonetized in this country, and in turn “British supremacy” in the United States prevents the remonetization of silver. It is humiliating to be compelled to make this confession, but it is nevertheless true. How any loyal American citizen can see this country run as it is by British capitalists and not make his blood boil passes comprehension. British torylsm is more rampant in this country than it was before the American revolution.