People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Only a Few Matters. [ARTICLE]

Only a Few Matters.

1. The indebtedness of the country, national, state, corporate and private, is upwards of thirty-five billions bf dollars. • • 2. ‘This vast indebtedness is held by cent of the people. 3. Fuljy two-thirds of this debt is wat -r —rank, unmitigated fraud. ♦ The transportation lines of she encountry are owned by about one- • ! * h of 1 per cent of the people. 5 All the telegraphs are owned by a much smaller number. 6. The money of the nation—that indispensable agency .of commerce and exchange, is . controlled by about three thousand national bankers. 7. All the chief staples of life are id the hands, of trusts and combines. Over all this Congress wrangles, presidents , and combines smile, judges wink, devils grin, and the people—shut -their eyes and vote for party.—The Van. W. Va.