People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Page 6

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The silver erase is still a "crazing.” A few one-plankers are left standing alone. The tin rooster industry has collapsed. The People’s party is an anti-monop oly party. Prosperity is still lingering in the dim distance. The democrats are howling for another chance. The Declaration of Independence was no one plank affair. It is funny that the many submit to the exactions of the few. The fate of the income tax is equal to the Dred Scott decision. There are no pleasant memories connected with the tin rooster. The income tax came from the Supreme court pretty badly scarred. The politicians farm the'farmers and the usual result is a crop of fools. Remember that the People’s party is an all round anti-monopoly party.

The Indiana legislature opened with prayer and broke up in a disagreeable row. The Omaha platform with the currency question paramount—that’s the plan. The President says he don’t get drunk. We give this as a matter of news. The National Watchman has conjured up a ghost—its name is H. D. Lloyd. Almost anybody ought to see that a one plank platform won’t go with the people. If the single plankers would march in single file the procession would not be very long. It is a wonder that the Supreme court does not decide that irrigation is unconstitutional. The sound money men invited Grover to Chicago, but the vote of the people vetoed the invitation. The government is supposed to punish criminals, yet it is the greatest criminal in the puddle. The free coinage of silver is an assured thing, in the near future, if the people vote as they talk. The Referendum is the shortest cut to get things right. More light should be thrown on this subject. Watch every effort to put delegates in Populist conventions who do not indorse the Omaha platform. One would think from the decisions of the courts that the constitution was made on purpose for the rich. “Avarice is a weed that will grow in barren soil”where nq trait of humanity exists. It thrives best there. It is strange that the unconstitutionality of the income tax was not discovered in the days of honest courts.

, The single plankers will find that they can neither dictate the platform nor the candidate for the People’s party. The south Is about to be invaded again; the “sound money” advocates are going to hold a convention in Memphis. A man who thinks more of his party than of his wife and family, and his country, might properly be called a tin rooster fool. The National Watchman says “there’s no use fooling away any more time in the cities, the workingmen won’t vote as they march.” We beg to remind the "Watchman-that about the only support the single plank “policy” has received yet is from men “in the cities.” It will be a hard matter to make the average intelligent citizen of this country believe that an income tax law that stood the constitutional test during the late war would not be a good law now, notwithstanding the assaults of the money bags and the disposition of the courts to sustain every demand of plutocracy.

Gen. Weaver is out in a letter advocating alliance with the new silver party and the indorsement of Joseph Sibley as the People’s party candidate for President. Not satisfied with dictating the platform, the single planners now want to dictate the candidate. Sibley is not a Populist—never was, and people will not be caught in this trap simply because he is a millionaire and opposed the Cleveland administration. The London News says, “bimetalism would be fatal to British supremacy.” Of course it would, and that is why silver was demonetized in this country, and in turn “British supremacy” in the United States prevents the remon"etization of silver. It is humiliating itb . be/compelled to make this confesaloxk.hut) it fs nevertheless true. How any loyal Amarjcan citizen can see this country run as It is by British capitalists and not make his blood boil passes comprehension. British toryism is more rampant in this country than it was before the American revolution.

Where’s your prosperity? How are you going to vote next time? The government must be restored to the people. The “deadbeats" are still fighting the Income tax. Jerry Simpson is mentioned for governor of Kansas. Why not turn the whole thing over to the bankers? We must educate for after the storm, as well as agitate for its coming. The country was “redeemed” by thq republicans in gold standard men. Finance, Land and Transportation are the trinity of industrial salvation. Plutocracy seems determined to have the bonds paid either in gold or blood. Workingmen have no business in the militia. Let plutocracy do its own killing. More money without more justice to the common people won’t solve the problem. The leaders of both old parties are in rebellion against the government of the people.

The Populists in congress stand solidly united against the golden serpent on every occasion. The union of all the working people at the ballot box is the only union that can succeed. Populists in congress don’t vote to secure the Indorsement of old and New England bankers, A single signature with a stub pen will enslave a nation—and Grover Cleveland stands ready to sign. A labor saving machine that is not owned by the laborer himself, or the general public, is a labor starving machine. Boys, don’t let your congressmen remain in ignorance of the situation among the comon people. Write them every week. What Grover and the bankers want is a perpetual debt, a means of forcing producers to support idle and useless blood suckers. ' The difference between the world now and the condition of the elements! before the creation is that now it is all form —and still void. And now it cfevelops that Liliitokalani is an anarchistess—and probably Grover knew it all the time. This is a pretty “how are you.” The republican congress is pledged to the policy of Grover Cleveland, and the whole country will be pledged to Europe with gold bonds. Populist papers should not advertise, club with, or send in subscribers to plutocratic papers, at any price, daily weekly, monthly, or any other way. Let the millionaires handle their own killing machines. Workingmen should keep out, and be prepared to defend themselves in case of emergency.

Redeemed —yes; Kansas was redeemed, by electing a banker governor and sending a railroad attorney to the senate —Colorado was redeemed and sent Wolcott. Even Breckinridge was disgusted with President Cleveland’s financial bill and voted against it. But that only proves the bill worse, and won’t, save Breckinridge. Congress has voted a halt million dollars to lay a cable to Hawaii, qo that an anxious public in America can always have fresh news of how the rohber Spreckels Is treating his victims. It is intimated by the boss financiers that the syndicate which handles the last issue of bonds will clear six million dollars, on negotiating the sale alone. Wonder how much King Grover, gets. ■ In Nebraska, a few days since, a bank cashier attempted to go republican—that is to fail —but the inhabitants of the town in which he resided objected. He went to kingdom come, via. hemp.— Dawn. A Minnesota “roaster” by the name of Foster has “cornered” the egg market of the United States, and proposes to run the price up to 50 cents a dozen to city consumers. May he live on rot-’ ten eggs the balance of his life. Every patriotic hen in America should have a peck at his eyes.

Bob Ingersoll pops up and says “Populism is insanity”—and yet the sensational ass writes letters once in a while about the wrongs of the people that are thoroughly Populistic. The only sure thing about Bob is that ha prefers notoriety to a consistent course of seeking the truth. The professional tramp and the idle rich belong to the same class morally—one living in the filth of beggary, the other in the corruption of dissipation. If there is any difference, it is in favor of the tramp, who does not murder and Impoverish others in his selfish laziness as does the rich idler. King George and all his hired Hessians could not make our patriot forefathers pay 6 cents a pound tariff on tea to support the government, but W. W. Astor lives in Lunnon and draws $5,000,000 a year off the American people in the shape of taxes and they pay it and don’t say a word. Truly the lines of rich men have fallen in pleasant places in these modern days of asinine Americanism. —Coming Nation.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1895.

Vote the guns owt of plutocracy'; hands. Give the republicans a chance. Of course. The trouble with the democratic party is, it can’t be democratic. Another fool has been found in congress who says God made money. The democratic party has had its chance and now it has its record. The boss financiers are talking of calling another international farce. The idea of people petitioning, where they have a right to demand—absurd The gold standard don’t' appear to restore "parity,” “confidence” nor prosperity. The democratic party committed suicide —and, of course, the whisky trust busted. • Congress has turned it all over to Grover, and he will “soak” the country to Rothschild. That man Sovereign of the Knights of Labor is a fighter. Success to him and his followers. Let us abolish bank government, and institute government banking and a people’s government. The currency question can be made the leading issue without abandoning the Omaha platform.

He who says the greenback is not good money is not a good man, nor a good American citizen. a Why not issue some more bonds? Go deeper in debt and save our credit Where is the foolkiller? King Grover is despondent. His house of lords and sleight-of-hand performers refuse to perform. President Cleveland’s patriotism seems to be of the same brand as democratic prosperity—non est Government ownership of railways is foolish unless private ownership of government be first abolished. Wonder if Rothschild gold will stay in the treasury any longer than any other brand of the cowardly stuff. The present gang of rulers’iri - this country would have the national financial policy dictated by Rothschilds. Coxey’s plan is better than any or all of the currency plans proposed by the bankers and their tools in congress. Suppose that machines performed all the work and capitalists pocketed all the profits—then what would workmen do? When free silver men want to vote with a free silver party there is only one way to do it—that is to vote with the People’s party. All money held solely for speculative and lending purposes, is in enemy of and a constant drain on all the useful people of the nation. The enormous sum of 12,500,000,000 worth of personal property, owned by residents of the state of New York, annually escapes taxation.

The process of starvation always makes a man feel like fighting. It’s a dangerous thing to have thousands of men in a rich country in a fighting humor. You said you would give them a chance and if they did not do something you would never vote the ticket again. Were you lying or were you in earnest? If it is true, as the learned oracle of Yale College announces, that “the social classes owe each other nothing,” why not abolish the law and have a reign of "dog eat dog ” Just think of Bill McKinley making a speech in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln. That is just what he did at Albany, N. Y„ on Lincoln’s birthday, Feb.’ 12. What a mockery. The manufactures have met together at Cincinnati and organized for the express purpbse of fighting labor organizations, acording to their own statement. Laborers should prepare for defense. Tom Reed wants the republican nomination for President in 1896, and he has just put himself on record by voting for goli tooc’s. The Populists are in favor o’ lua uominarion and everlasting defeat. Duke Pullman seems to have a supreme contempt of court, notwithstanding the services it has rendered him in the evasion of justice. He refuses to appear as a witness and should be sentenced to jail. The Knights of Labor, notwithstanding their defeat in an attempt to enjoin the treasurer from issuing bonds, are still on deck, and have employed eminent legal talent to test the validity of bonds already issued.

Working men! let us ask you a question: Who beat you in the Brooklyn strike? Was it the militia or was it your own kind of people who took the places of tlje strikers? Think this out and then tell us you are not a set of. idiots. Why don’t you all get together and vote together? Don’t you know corporations will continue to be on top so long as the ranks of labor are divided? There is no better way to keep labor divided than on union and nonunion lines.—Denver Road.

Whose Fault Was It?

The democratic party hu concluded to remain in business for a while yet. Hereafter it will do a sort of job-lot-racket-store business. A court is said to be the last resort. When the people, having passed a law, are denied justice in the courts we are on the brink of revolution. About the only good thing that congress did was the passage of the income tax, and now the Supreme court has spoiled the best part of that If Gen. Weaver and others are to say what is to be the platform and who the candidate of the People’s party, what is the use of holding any national convention. We haven’t heard of any Populists breaking their neck trying to get into the new silver party, but we know of several who have “cooked their goose” by advising it. The National Watchman publishes the constitution of the United States, but it’s no one plank affair. Perhaps that is the reason we see no editorial indorsement of it in the Watchman. The single plankers are hedging. They claim now that they don’t want the Omaha platform “broadened.” It’s funny how the people can bring the would-be bosses to time when they stick to the text. If the courts keep on showing up the defections (?) in the constitution as they have been doing there is a bare possibility that the people will rise up some day and overthrow both the constitution and the courts. The new silver party is ready to hitch on to either one of the two old parties that will give them free silver, and some people are foolish enough to want to turn the People’s party over to the new silver party.

Hector D. Lane, president of the Cotton Protective association, says he has no confidence in these third party movements —that they never accomplish anything. Mr. Lane seems to forget that it was a third party that licked the stuffin’ out of the slave oligarchy. You can send one hundred pounds of newspapers from New York to San Francisco by mail for one dollar; that is socialism. If you send it by express it will cost you ten dollars; that is “private enterprise” controlling a public utility. Is Joseph Sibley a Populist? If not, why are some pretended Populists booming him for President? Is it because he has a “bar’l?” Come gentlemen, “fess up.” Joseph Sibley has never made any professions of being a Populist. Then why should the People’s party suppport him? Cleveland’s salary as President, as well as the salaries of the judges of the Supreme court, are said to be exempt from the income tax. In fact, it is said, the Supreme court has made so many rents in the law by its late decision, that many persons will easily slip through the meshes. As other suits are pending and others will be brought to test the law, and the fact that the ultimate fate of the law tremble in the balance. Is it not a grand government that permits four or five men on the Supreme bench to over ride congress and the people?

In the argument of James B. Carter before the Supreme court of the United States in support of the income tax law he made the remarkable utterance that if this law of congress was not sustained it might precipitate a social revolution in this country. This utterance on this occasion is significant of several things—prominent among spread feeling of disrespect for or a which is the fact that it reflects a widelack of confidence in that august body called the Supreme court, and the fact that the audacity of the attorney who dared give utterance to what was, intended as a threat or intimidation of the court was not rebuked, shows the lack of dlgpity that once characterized that body, and that its present members share to some extent the feelings of the people in their opinions of themselves. The people are coming to look upon our present judicial system as altogether farcical. Take the legal tender decisions and the late decision of the Supreme court on the income tax law as samples. In less than one year the country was presented with two decisions upon the legal tender qualities of the greenback by the Supreme court of the United States—the first against and the latter sustaining the greenback as a legal tender. The income tax law during the war was sustained as entirely within the scope of the constitution, but in the late decision upon the new income tax law, it is torn in shreds and many provisions rejected on the grounds of being in conflict with the constitution. The late decision came from an evenly divided court. Justice Field rules against the whole law as unconstitutional, while Justice White sustains it as a whole. The court stood four to fourjustice Jackson’s health not permitting him to sit in the case. “When doctors disagree who shall decide?” is an old saying that will apply to our Supreme court.

More Wheat, Lean Sugar.

A bushel of wheat bought twenty pounds of sugar under McKinley protection. It buys only ten pounds of sugar under the first step toward free trade. How much will it buy wtih the absolute free trade that is promised to the farmer?

LOUD CALL FOR HELP.

EVERY PpPULIST SHOULD GET INTO LINE. Commander Vandervoort Haa a New Plan for Aldine the Party—Get a Certificate of Honor That Yoor Children’s ChlUren Will Be Prond te Own. The Peoples party national committee has indotsed the legion five times and presented no other plan. The following was adopted at a meeting at St Louis, Dec. 29, and incorporated in legion constxution at Kansas City, Feb. 22, 1891: “Resolved, That, while we do not attempt to dictate to any state as to the plan of organization it shall adept, we renew the recommendation c! the national committee in favor of the new organization of the Industriil Legion in every precinct in the land and further recommend that no duei shall be exacted, except from legion that operate the rebate plan, and th t in all cases where members are ab», they be urged to send 10 cents pei annum to headquarters; that all club or other orders that wish to change i .to legions shall send 20 cents for and that original legioi s shall send 50 cents, but th it no legion shall be denied a charter w r hen it is unable to pay for it, an I that these organizations shall be callsd People’s Party clubs, People’s Partr legions, or Industrial Legions, in older to suit the condition in each state,, and that rule 15, of instructions of the Industrial Legion be dropped, and that all People’s Party clubs or legions shall report to the same headquarters ia order to avoid confusion and to perfect a systematic organition.” The following is the cordial indorsement of the National Reform Press association at Kansas City, Feb. 22: “Whereas, The National Reform Press association recognizes in Gen. Paul Van Dervoort one of the most earnest, efficient and enthusiastic organizers of the reform forces of the country, and we believe that the comrades associated with him in the work are zealous Ropullsts whose hearts are in this great work; therefore, Resolved, That the National Reform Press association indorse the Industrial legion, and pledge its hearty co-operation in the movement.” Just call the people together, elect officers, either a captain, adjutant or quartermaster, or president, secretary and treasurer, and send names and 50 cents to me at once. Don’t delay. The enemy never sleeps. People’s Party Alliances and all other farm and labor orders chartered for 20 cents postage. All are urged to contribute 10 cents per member, in advance if possible. It is used to push the legion work, and we can hardly get stamps to answer correspondence.

Circular No. 2.

All the committees of the People’s party have been called upon five times by the national committee to “organize the legion in every voting precinct in the land.” The Reform press, at the largest meeting they ever held, on Feb. 22, indorsed the legion and pledged their support. There should be no further delay in organization, no toleration of sideshows. Whatever non-partisan orders we may belong to, we should all join the legion for partisan work. It stands on the Omaha platform, and each member must take a pledge to maintain and defend it. There is absolute need of this, for the men who mean to switch our party are openly boasting that they will control the convention of 1896, and are setting up their plans in every state to do it. We cannot hope to gain the four million votes we need unless we are thoroughly organized, and if we had a legion in every precinct we could guard the ballot box, force an honest count, and combine all the energy of all our people in superb missionary work. Our committees are too slow. They will wait until we are dead. While we have many zealous members the great mass of them are not doing efficient work. Many jmve good reasons. They are true and loyal almost to a man, but not active; they are sentinels on the outpost. A > holy trust has been con-' sided to them and they should either do their duty or give place to men who can and will. They number a mighty army, and should be on the alert, but how few respond to the calls we make, and yet we depend on them to organize or recommend live recruiting officers to do so. We need wide-awake and zealous men, and every county, city and town committee ought to meet in the next thirty days and put such men on guard. I would urge this as a matter of vital importance, and observe the maxim, “Old men for council and young men for war” to a certain extent. A live army must have mighty men of war. If we wait until we put in a crop we will wait until after harvest. If we wait until harvest is over and summer ended it will be too late. We must organize in every state in 1895. If we slumber on we deserve to be trampled under foot. We have submitted tamely to a hundred times the indignities from Great Britain that were heaped on our fathers. I would keep every foreign influence off of American soil and scourge foreign governments from every island near our shores, and yet because we are an unorganized army, we cannot even capture and hold a state. Our people contribute thousands to orders that do our cause no earthly good and let every worker starve. If all the members of our committees would act, we could have ten thousand legions in sixty .days. They can organize at home and send names here for charter without delay. Then recommend live, wide-awake men and worn-

en In every county and town for active we cannot furnish them free and pay pastage too.- People’s Party clubs should send for charters with names of officers and members and 20 cents, and thus become a part of the great national army, whose legions are farming in line from ocean to ocean. Let the rank and file, the noble, zealous men and women wake up their committees, until they put their whole vigor in the work. They need the live support of all dur people. Many cannot work because you do not give them the means. We want one thousand brave, faithful, unselfish, loyal men and women to go out into the field as legion scouts, to organize, sell books, take subscriptions, distribute papers and hurry the glad tidings to all oppressed people that the millions are waking up. Write for plan, inclosing stamp. We must have money for postage, printing and clerical work, but we will not beg and beseech the people, who expect everybody to work for nothing, pay expenses end board themselves. Therefore we have decided to issue a certificate of merKsership in th legion and People’s party, handsomely gotten up, suitable for framing and preserving in the family, at the low price of |l. With it we will send Kansas City address, with picture of commander, case for bimetallism and a legion button. Every dollar of this money will be used to organize the People’s party. In order to pay expense of printing these certificates in quantity we want one hundred orders before May 1, and to the above will give in addition Senator Peffer’s great report. Any person sending in five orders will be given a certificate free. We can save liberty and bring back prosperity if we band together in one mighty army all who believe in our principles in 1895. We dare not wait until ’96. Delay will postpone the victory and give the enemy time to rivet the fetters stronger. They have now captured the citadel and the Supreme court has announced the surrender, and the Goddess of Liberty* and Uncle Sam have fled from the capital of the nation. PAUL VAN DERVOORT.

How Public Servants Are Ser ed.

Mr. Carlisle, the secretary of the treasury, is a servant of the people. In his position as servant he sells bonds and creates debt that must be paid by the people without any law authorizing him to do so. His household servants are paid by the people, and his horses and carriages stabled by the government. His coachman, Reynard Green, draws SB4O annually out of the public treasury, and all he does is to act as coachman for Mr. Carlisle and family. Charles Edmonson and Charles Morgan are Mr. Carlisle’s butlers. They look after the secretary’s laruer and see that the family table is properly supplied. They are also footmen to b.'s secretaryship. They draw from the public treasury $720 and $660 respectively per annum, and render no public service whatever. Their names appear on the pay rolls as’, messengers. So it is with all the cabi-7 net officers. They are supplied with servants at the people’s expense. The 4 cent cotton raisers help to pay for this snobbery at the people’s capital. When Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated he rode into town on a mule and hitched it to the fence around the corner and walked to the capitol steps and took the oath of office. That was democracy, pure and simple. We see no such democracy now. it has all passed away, and the customs of English snobbery have taken its place. The taxpayers furnish the President a grand equippage to ride in down the avenue, with four white horses to pull It, and an empty-headed English coachman, with a feather in his hat, to do the driving. How do Texas toilers like the change from Jefferson to Cleveland? —Southern Mercury.

The Bryan Free Silver Faction.

The Bryan faction of free silver advocates who propose to fight for free silver, 16 to 1, within the ranks of the democratic party will meet disaster. The democratic party is not a free silver party. It has a few free silver adherents In its ranks, but they are nort of the class that control. v .,.1f Mr. Bryan goes to the next democratic national convention with the hope of having it pronounce for free silver, he will be defeated and humiliated. There is a money influence that controls the democratic’ party, and it will as surely rule the next national convention as it assembles. What can a handful of free democrats do with an organized body of subservient tools, backed by the money power? Mr. Bryan will probably take a hint when he is kicked out of the party that he is not wanted in, and by which hia free silver ideas are not to be indorsed. —Southern Mercury.

Send It to Secretary Carlisle.

If Keely has really discovered, as has been stated, “a sympathetic force of outreach representing, in tfie full receptive circuit, an accumulation of polar sympathy of more than twentythree tons when under rotation, to be distributed to the polar and dipolar circuits,” he ought to find a ready sale for it at Washington, as the administration needs something like that in its business.

Gold Standard.

Ignorance and greed of the lawmakers of the leading nations has furnished willing tools to carry out the plans of the money syndicate which now have established the debt of nearly all civilized nations on a gold basis, giving the-bondholders a fixed income of which each dollar to-day will buy two dollars worth of land, labor or products of labor.—lndustrial News.