People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

1776 CELEBRATE 1895 ********* THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1895. RENSSELAER THE GRAND BICYCLE PARADE, 9:30 A.M. Headed by the Rensselaer Cornet Band and Forty Komical Foot Klowns. Best Dress Costume (on Bicycle): Gentleman, $5; Ladv, $5; Girl under 13, $3; Boy under 13, $3. Best Clown to follow parade on foot, $5. Marshals of the Day:—Simon Phillips, Capt. Burnham, Capt Wasson, E. C. Mills and C. C. Seigler.

MORNING. Grand Stand Program Begins at lo:30. Selection by Band. Invocation. Music by Quartette. Music by Band. Ly seap, of ^ c -

A Magnificent display of Fireworks in the Afternoon and Evening.

Our present system of wage slavery crumbles a little every time the military appears at the call of capital. If you don't like the present laws which make the poor poorer and the rich richer change them at the ballot-box. At $15,090 a head $500,000 will buy the votes of fifty-five United States senators. The above is a demonstration in sugar trust problems. The populists will elect more congressmen next fall than either of the old parties, and silver will have 250 friends when the 365 names are called. Some years ago Benjamin Harrison valued the labor of a workingman at $1 per day; upon the same basis his estimate now could not exceed 50 cents. If a poor man wants to know how to use his citizenship all he has to do is to find out what his rich employer wants and then oppose it. He will not miss the mark once in ten times The creditor class is benefited by a scarcity of money and op no>es any expansion that will decrease the purchasing power of the dollar. They favor still further contraction that their dollars of interest may purchase still greater products of labor. The state of Tennessee has purchased 9.000 acres of coal