People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — NOTES AND COMMENT, [ARTICLE]

NOTES AND COMMENT,

One of the despicable features about plutocratic journalism is that it is all a one-sided affair. . Recently, when Carlisle, who Is the representative of plutocracy, spoke at Memphis and Covington, his speech was printed in full by both the St. Louis morning dailies, occupying some six or seven columns of closely printed reading matter, but when Bryan spoke the next day less than a column in space was given to his speech. Mr. Bryan’s speech was a reply to Mr. Carlisle’s, and represented, in fact, the popular side of tbe question, but neither the Globe-Demo-crat (republican) or the Republic (democratic) was fair enough to give the people both sides of the question. ♦ * • Along back in the thirties (about 1836-37), congress having refused to extend the charter of the United States bank and there being an honest administration in power which had no use for the $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 then in the treasury, about $28,000,000 of it was deposited with the twenty-six states of the union in proportion to the population of each. It seems as though there 'has never been a demand made for this money and now the question is up: Shall the states repay it? We want to say right here that some of this money has been turned into the school fund and used to educate the youths of the land, which is the rankest kind of paternalism and ought to be denounced by every plutocratic, lying newspaper in the land. My, what a blessing Coxey did not make his raid on the national capital at that time, when there was not only some money in the treasury, but some men in Washington that had some sense. Some of it might have gone, as some of it did go later on, to build the great national prike, to build good roads. Coxey has lost the opportunity of bls life time by not.being born sixty years sooner. Had he gone to Washington in Jackson’s day he could have grazed his horse on tbe capttol gras*' without exciting half the furore he did by simply stepping on it last summer.