People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — TRUE AND FICKLE. [ARTICLE]

TRUE AND FICKLE.

Two Kinds of Populists Make Up the Grand Young Party. Our experience has been that there are two different kinds of Populists in existence. One kind are. brave, courageous and true, instant in season and out of season. They are Populists from principle. They know their belief and are ever ready to combat the enemy wherever found, always alert and aggressive. This is the kind of material out of which patriots are made, and to these spirits come the honors by and: by. The other kind have to be handled with gloves; have to be coddled with honeyed words. They must not be allowed to be “out in the wet” for all their starchiness will be taken out of them and they will appear limp and bedraggled. They can’t stand “the sincere milk of the word,” so to speak, but must be fed on taffy, given warm, in small teaspoonful doses—gold-lined spoons at that—“they are afraid of too much silver.” Now for the latter class we confess to having but very little sympathy. Populism, if it is to gain the ascendancy, must “get there” through the heroic exertions of men able-bodied and strong-minded, who are imbued with the superiority of their principles, and who are willing to suffer temporary defeat, knowing “that truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”—Mankato Journal. It is evident to anybody that has as much sense as an oyster, that the “best banking system in she world” don’t protect the depositors, and the people are thus robbed of millions of dollars every year.