People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — A FEW QUESTIONS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW QUESTIONS.

Specially Directed to the American (Slave) Wage-Earner. So you think politics has nothing tc do with your wages or chance of getting employment, or your debts or poverty, eh? The banker tells you so. The politician tells you so. The monopolist tells you so. The people who live well and do nothing tells you so. Isn’t it funny that all of these people are al! of one mind? All these people live off of somebody. Do you know who that somebody is? All these people are very anxious about the elections. Do you ever ask yourself why? If politics has nothing to do with you why are they so interested? Do you think they are fools to spend their time and money on something there is nothing in for them? And if there is something in it for them, who pays that something? Why cah’t you see a little bit under the surface? Have they trained you like a soldier so you can’t think but obey orders? Why are they so anxious that you don’t vote with the cranks? Why all this solicitude? Politics has everything to do with your wages and employment. It can render millions of you idle, so you will have to work cheap, or it can have all of yelp busy getting big wages. They don’t*'- want •you’ to find this out. They wafit you for a voting machine to help them Uye In luxury and power. And you’ve bee> doing It. Do[4’t read up on the money' problem—yoti might learn something and not be so docile as a slave.

No, don’t endeavor to solve the “money problem,” for if you do you will get lost in the maze of fog and cannot extricate yourself. Just keep on thinking that the “problem” is so difficult of solution that only profound schoars can solve it, apd leave it to the shylocks to solve and carry out as they have been doing, for they know all about it, you know, and you are only a poor fool of a voter king anyway. You cannot act only at the dictation of those who are manipulating the party machine in their own interests and whose actions as well as words say “damn the people.”—People’s Press. .