People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Bank notes are dear money. The function of money is to circulate. Paper money is the breast plate of civilization. Government paper money is more reliable than coin. This country is a rich pasture for English capitalists. Not a week passes that depositors do not lose money by the failure of some bank. The law of suppy and demand applies to money as well as to other things. Bonds and bondage mean the same thing—vote for the first and you vote for the other. Coin's Financial School must be doing good work the way it is making the plutocrats wince. The men who are crying “sound money” and “honest dollars” most are the biggest thieves. Dear money robs the man who is compelled to part with the products of his labor to obtain it. Money is not property, and the fact that it has intrinsic value in it makes it unreliable as money. The many are robbed by the few because they haven’t got any more sense than to submit to it. Money hoarded is the same as no money at all—that is, it must.be in circulation to fulfill its function. All other questions resolve themselves into this: “Shall the citizen or the dollars rule in this country?” When the devil wants to rob a man he puts on the face of a saint. His watchword now is “sound currency.” Cornelius Vanderbilt’s fireplace cost $75,000, but this item is not as interesting as the question, “Who paid for it?” The Beef trust is a private enterprise and of course it has a right to starve the people or rob them when they buy beef. In any transaction wherein England’s interests are concerned it is always safe to put Grover down on England’s side.

A silver dollar will buy two bushels of but it is not “sound” enough yet for- the bankers who seem to be running this country. The man who wants to wait for an international arrangement, or who wants to change the ratio may be safely put down v/ith the goldbugs. England can do just what she pleases where the interests of the United States is concerned, while Grover Cleveland is president. Sibley may be a good man, but he’ll have to be nominated by a bigger crowd than a few silver men before he gets the support of the People's party. The Democrats want a man “with a military record” as a candidate for president. Why not send over and get a Chinaman who participated in the late unpleasantness with Japan?, Monopolies have grown up under both parties. They have been fostered by both. They support both old parties. The only party they fight is the People’s party, and that is because it is the only anti-monopoly party in existence. The vast majority of the people are in favor of free silver, and have been all the time, but they have so far, since 1873, failed to get it. The reason is that their will has been thwarted through the two old party machines. The machines have proved to be stronger than the people. The way to restore this government to the people is to smash the party machines and keep them smashed for all time to come. <

For twenty years prices have been getting lower and times harder. During all these years the politicians have promised in each campaign to enact measures of relief and to stop the aggressions of trusts and -corporations. Not a single pledge have they evej- ijedeemed. Their record —both old ties—is onb continuous line irf broken pledges i( gnd repudiated promises. Trusts, epmbines .and corporations have, been fostered and expenses: increased. How long- will the people stand it to be thus sjwyidlgd.