People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Affidavit of Circulation. [ARTICLE]

Affidavit of Circulation.

State of Indiana. County of Jasper, ss. Francis D. Craig. Editor of the People's Pilot. does solemnly swear th at the actual number of bonatide subscribers to the People’s Pilot is UflO. exclusive of 603 subscribers to the Mt. Pleasant, Referendum, which list has been combined with that of the People’s Pilot, and that the regular edition of the People’s Pilot printed during the past three months has been 2.000 copies, and that the number of new subscribers received for the People’s Pilot since the Ist day of January. H&. exceeds 300. F. D. Craig. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of May. 18S5. Dav id W. Shields. • Notary Public.

The Iniatiative snd Referendum should become a fundamental part of every municipal charter. The prestige of being a city is a matter of importance to a town the size of Rensselaer. It has weight with men seeking investments in lands, manufacturing or homes. Unless the aggressions of the rich are checked and their present power to rob the masses of the product of their labor is taken from them, it isbuta question of a few years when the national structure will fall of its own innate rottenness. Reader, if you are pleased with the Pilot as it now comes from the new press, won't you ask that neighbor of yours to take the best paper printed in Indiana. Remember a copy of “Coin’s Financial School” is given free with each subscription. The effect of such decisions as the supreme court has just given in the income tax and Debs cases, is to impress upon the minds of the people the hopelessness of justice from that high tribunal, and to deaden in their hearts the spirit of patriotism. Chief Justice Harlan has endeared himself to American people by the masterly dissenting opinion in the income-tax case, in which he denounces the wealthy classes in Websterian words for their effort to saddle un just taxation upon the masses. The Negro Building, under ihe skillful hands of the negro contractors, Messrs. King and Smith, is nearing completion, and attracts the inbrist of all visitors to the grounds. Upon this building are employed fiftyfive men. all of whom are colored.

Justice Harlan and his three colleagues are bitterly denounced by the opponents of the dead income tax law. and called anarchists for their dissenting opinion, but when the friends of labor cri.ticise the opinion of these same judges in the Debs’ case the case, is different, and it is the critics who are d d anarchists. The decision of the supreme court pronouncing the income tax law unconstitutional by a vote of five to four, reverses the previous holdings of this tribunal for over one hundred years, and is only another evidence of the decadence of the “empire,” as history records of falling Rome. It proves that, the wealthy classes have corrupted and control the decisions even of that reverenced factor of the national trinity, the branch of government that was designed as the Gibralter of Freedom.

The committee on concessions of the Cotton States and International Exposition has chosen a name for the Atlanta midway. It is to be called “Pleasure Heights,” or, for short, “the Heights.” This name is very appropriate, as the long street along which the amusement features will be distributed occupies a commanding position behind the Minerals and Forestry Building and the Machinery Hall. The attractions to be presented on the Heights bid fair to rival any exhibition of this character ever seen at an international exposition.