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

country to at least SSO for each of our 70.000.000 of people. Establish government ownership and operations of railroads, telegraphs, telephones, express, highways, ship canals, irrigating ditches, stock yards, elevators. produce warehouses, commission houses, coal mines, etc. Make government banks upon a basis of operating cost only, as is the postoffice. Establish the initiative and referendum system, and let the people ratify every law before it becomes a fact. Provide an income tax so graduated that it will effectually prevent the accumulation of wealth beyoud a certa’n limit. Limit the ownership of land by a system of taxation that will make lhe holding of idle acres impossible; exclude alien proprietorship, and make access to land practically free to all. Abolish the right of succes sion to the land. What objection do you see to any of these propositions, you who are giving your labor to the world for a miserable living—you who add to the nation's wealth ¥lO and receive but $1? The question is not asked of the rich who thrive on the right of property, living in luxury and sensuality at the expense of the masses. Their lascivious indolence answers “No’' to every Christian heart-throb and has no standing in God’s just Court. The question is only for you who bear the burdens, who compose the nation’s industry, intelligence, enterprise, honor, purify and hope.