People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Vote your sentiments llk< a mu. The courts are now need to thwart histice. No money is honest that robs labor of its products. Every bank note represents a double rate of interest. Poverty is a badge of party fealty. How do you like it? Usury is interest and interest is a robber. This is Scripture. Lodging the power in the hands of the people is not centralization. It is about time for the Duke of Buzzard’s Bay to write another letter. The gold bugs are running this government on the European plan. The people have little respect left for law, law makers, and law judges. The less manhood and independence a man has the easier it is for him to stick to his party. The Church must wake up and espouse the cause of the poor, or it will die, and it ought to. “The tariff question is settled.” Yes, and it ought to make the cows laugh the way it was settled. A man who opposes banks of issue and votes the same ticket the bankers do is too green to burn. It is said that prosperity is here now We can’t vouch for the truth of the report. We haven’t seen it. This seems to be a period of soft silence with the Republican party. Their trouble is in the future. The free-silver Democrats are indebted to the Populists for most of their education on the silver question. The monopolists are all in the two old parties. Did you ever think of that? Well, the devil is there, too. It takes manhood and courage to stick to principle, but any slave and craven coward can “stick to his party.” When the rich want a court decision they get it, even if it cost $200,000 for a lawyer fee and other outside trimmings.

Free silver is one of the demands of the Omaha platform, but all who advocate it are not Populists—not by a jug-full. If Kentucky goes Republican this year, we see no reason why the Democratic corpse should not be covered up out of sight. Report says'that Carlisle’s speeches in Kentucky turned the tide against silver. The tide certainly wasn’t very hard to turn. Since the Democratic and Republican parties have got publicly on common grounds, what’s the use to keep up a sham fight between them? That pant of the constitution that guarantees a government for the people, of the people and by the people is, of course, unconstitutional. That silver convention at Memphis so far eclipsed the gold bug and noteshavers’ pow-wow that it is giving them the political jim-jams. It is reported that Cleveland will recommend to Congress the passage of a stamp act. That is just what the other tories did, and it precipitated a revolution.

The British Admiral who invaded Nicaraguan with his brigands, now claims that he has forever settled the Monroe doctrine. And this is great America! The financial problem is the paramount issue, and the question as to whether the banks or the people shall issue the money is the most important phase of it. The Chairman of the Rer’’blican National Committee thinks the free silver question ought to be the paramount is«ue. He would hold the “balance of the Omaha platforn n abeyance.” There are two men in Cleveland’s cabinet -who are regularly drawing salaries from corporations—Olney and Harmon The balance" of them manage to eke out an existence on >IO,OOO to $40,000 fees. Times will likely keep improving up to the election in 1896. The banks have it in their power to make better times, and this is one of the baits they will throw out to the people, in order to fasten the gold standard on- this country. Everybody is supported by labor. As some do not labor, they are, of course, supported by those who do. In other words, they are paupers. There are two, classes of these paupers—the rich and the poor. “The poor ye have with ye always,” but the rich —well, wait. John D. Rockefeller, having made another big steal by raising the price of oil, is now preparing to divide it up with the Lord by endowing another church or college. These plutes have acquired the habit of bribing people to ■uch an *extent that they evidently think they can bribe the Lord.