People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Organize Legions. Land is the basis of an security. Who committed the crime of ’93? Gold is not money until declerM so by law. ' - Stick to your party and ruin your country. Debt is devilish, dangerous and demoralizing. Why should either old party have another chance? z Any money is sound that the people are willing to receive. Human rights are greater than all other rights combined. Interest represents the product ot some other man’s labor. Gold, bank notes and guns is the platform of the plutocrats. And now the Sugar trust is taking its turn at robbing the people. There’s a "ring” to this “sound currency”—the bankers’ "ring." The initiative and referendum is the only safeguard of the people. If Pharoah don’t let the people go he mhy encounter a Red Sea. There seems to be plenty of confidence but not much prosperity. ' If Grover don’t quit writing letters he wjll give his party the jim-jams. The bankers want to do business on confidence, the people want a cash basis. The bankers are perfectly willing to use flat money if they can reap the profit. "Sound currency” means more bonds and less money; more poverty and less happiness. Aristocracy is devoting more attention to the comfort of the poodle than of the people. The country is not so much in need of "sound currency” just now, as it is of sound statesmen. If the logic of the gold bugs? is good Uncle Sam has never paid the soldiers for saving this government. The men who are trying to stay on both sides of the silver question will likely drop through between. A “sound currency” means a dear dollar; a dear dollar means cheap products; and cheap products means cheap labor, Carlisle’s denial that he ever was in favor of free silver would have more' weight if he'had not always voted for it in congress. The men who buncoed this government out of nine millions of dollars are the chaps who didn’t want Coxey to walk on the grass. We herewith enter a protest against the two old parties occupying the same bed together until the marriage ceremony is performed. All monopolies are based on the power of centralized wealth, and the People’s party Ik the only anti-monop-oly party in existence. . v If silver money was issued by the banks they would take five cents worth of it, call it ten dollars, charge ten per cent interest on it, and name it "sound currency.”

“Is one of the old parties in power in the United States?” asks John Bull “Yes,” says Columbia. “Then let us proceed to ‘skin’ the people,” says Shylock. And the game goes on. , It is not very flattering, but true, that the men who made up “sound currency” convention at Memphis were the same kind that Christ scourged from the Temple in Jerusalem. When our lawmakers become more attached to the opinions and systems of other nations than our own they have grown “too big for their pants” and ought to Ke elected to stay at home. The oqly reason a bank note is good is because the government guarantees it, which is the best evidence that a greenback, or treasury bote, is better, for It costs the people next to nothing to piK it into circulation. The intrinsic value of the silver in a dollar is about fifty cents; the intrinsic value of the paper in a bank note is less than one cent, yet the bankers call the bank notes “sound currency." The reason of this, is they are enabled to collect interest on they owe. One of the most incongruous sight' cn earth is n gold bug .advocate with nine patches on his pants, a-ragged coat, no money, and not more than thirty-five cents’ worth of credit There, are several million of these an« mils that will voti the gold rtug inkcis That nine million dollar “gouge” which Cleveland and Carlisle helped the syndicate make against the United Stites treasury amounted to more than all the money that has ever been stolet from trains by all trainrobbers in the past twenty years, yet the “gang” to •Uli permitted to ran at large.