People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]
AFTERNOON. Contest Exercises will Begin at l:3o. Climbing Greased Pole, $2 Foot Race: First, $10; Second, $5 Potato race:—-First, $3; Second, S 2 Bicycle Race: Free For Al], (14 years and over,) Ist, $5; 2d, $3; 3d. §2 Free For All,(Boys under 14 yrs.) Ist, $3; 2d. *2; 3d. $1 Free For All,(Girls under 14 yrs.) Ist, $3; 2d. $2; 3d, $1 Bucking Horse, not over 5 to (Mft enter. First person riding horse to 2K <I receive the purse. Sjr IW
The governor of New Zealand has been compelled to pay a fine for fast driving. In this country he would have escaped arrest, while the poor man would be thrown into prison for treading on the grass to escape the iron hoofs of bis high bred steeds. The People's Pilot is an extremist in economis philosophy; it cannot admit that the wealthmaker is entitled to anything less than all he produces; it cannot justify the monopoly of any natural opportunity or public utility; and in so comprehensive a demand it leaves no place for interest, profit or natural accrument; every man must be a wealth-cre-ator if he is a consumer of wealth; every person must have equal rights and equal opportunities with even- other person, and class laws and special privileges must be abolished. Now note the few simple measures which we suggest; even our populist friends, many of them, are frightened at our wildness, and read the proposition with fear and trembling, but they will not shock your delicate nerves nearly so severely upon close consideration. Head them: Free coinage of both gold and silver at our present ratio of 16 to 1. Pay all the bonds at once in full legal tender non interest bearing-paper money. * • - Abolish the national banks, which are simply issuing government paper money under a special privilege. Increase the currency of the
