People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

England dictates our finances. More money will bring better times. Push the work of the Industrial Legion. • vr 4 * Nothing is settled until it is right. pi.» ; All kinds of .money should, be issued by the government. • ■ - Neither laws nor constitutions can prevent revolutions. ' Organization is what we need, and not platform trimming. What are you doing to assist your neighbor to see the truth? The People’s party headquarters ought to be in the Mississippi valley. What are the chairman and secretary of the People’s party national committee doing? The Supreme court exempts the British landlord, and bondholder from paying au income tax. The people made the courts and legislatures, and it now looks like the people will have to unmake them. The Standard Oil company has raised the price of oil. That’s right, sock it to ’em! That’s what they voted for. The Supreme court has not “guessed” r.t tiie toed sale, but it is, doubtV.ss, in their opm.on, perfectly constitutional The trouble about the Republicans redeeming Kansas seems to be, there were not enough offices for the redeemers. Enforced idleness and hunger make ‘ anarchists, and the men who are responsible for these conditions are worse than the anarchists. They are having more fun than a box of monkeys over in Illinois about the Democratic convention called there to declare for free silver. The Globe-Democrat remarks that Cleveland’s letter to the Chicago bankers “reads as if he had been taking another ride with John Sherman.” There is nothing new in Coxey’s plan for the governmeht to build public roads. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun advocated this idea in their time. If there is one legal way to stop the depredations of the Standard Oil company, they ought to be treated as any other set of thieves when caught stealing.

The million and a half of Populist, voters in this country say emphatically that “a government for the people, of the people, and by the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.” The Supreme court having decided that direct taxes are unconstitutional and that’the income tax so far as It relates to incomes .on lands and bonds is a direct tax, why not decide that it is unconstitutional to pay the sugar planters a “direct” bonus on the sugar they raise? Miss Kate Field speaks of the Populists as the “disgruntled tailings of both political parties.” But then Miss Field lives in Washington, and Washington is the gable end of hell. By the way, there are some tailings in the Field family, and they are not Populists, either. The railroad companies and the Standard Oil company are claiming that their incomes are from land, and under the decision of the Supreme court they will not pay the income tax. It seems like this farce has gone far enough. Here are the seeds of revolution. “Sow to the wind and you will reap the whirlwind.” “Business is looking up,” says the plute press all over the country. Of course it is. It cannot look in any other direction, being flat on its back, and too weak to turn on its side. It is in feebleness trying to view its- surroundings in the hope it may yet have a chance to rally its remaining strength for a final struggle with the money barons that struck it down.

The parity parrots prate continually about honest money and the parity of gold and silver, but why do they not admit both of these metals to the mints on an equal footing, and settle at once and forever the question of parity? For a very simple reason, and because there is no sincerity or honesty in all their talk. They are simply dissembling and shamming for the express purpose of deceiving the people. These parity parrots are simply croaking frauds. Electric lights are enabling people to see more clearly many things in the dark than they have ever seen before. Most conspicious of all is the fact that municipal ownership of this and other conveniences reduces the expense to the people from 100 to 300 per cent over the rates maintained under corporate control. In the 400 or 500 cities where municipal ownership of water works, electric light and gas plants has beeen tried not a single failure has been reported, but on the contrary the people have had a more efficient service at rates from 100 to 300 per cent cheaper than when supplied by corporations. If these conveniences can be managed so well under municipal ownership, why not apply the same principle to railways and telegraph lines and have government ownership of these conveniences and natural monopolies? Would it not be a political application of the same principle es the municipal ownership of water works, gas and electric lighting plants? If not, why not?