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

Old John Bull ought to be spanked. How much prosperity have you got on hand? “Let us ask England,” is the coward’s plea. Don’t condemn a thing you know nothing about. Two years of Democratic rule; how do you like it? Government owmership of railroads is in the near future. Howl away all you want to, but after this vote as you howl. Carlisle is a political jumping-jack Cleveland pulls the string. What the people demand is an equal right to natural opportunities. Bank notes are indorsed by the president, the cashier and the devil. The devil advocates the same kind of “honest money” that Carlisle does. It is a fight of the people against the banks, the citizen against the dollar. The monopolists are all voting the old party ticket. Are you voting with them? Advice offered by men who want office is not worth more than 2 cents on the dollar. If you are in favor of knuckling to England, just keep on voting the old perty tickets. The logic of events is driving the silver wedge deep into both of the old political parties. The biggest rascals in the country are making the most noise about a "sound currency.” Enough fools will bite at* the silver bait in its various forms to retard the progress of real reform. The honest men in the Democratic party can’t step out of it without stepping on to the Populist platform. Don’t pick out one little section of the platform and try to make yourself believe that is the whole of it. The men who demand the most special privileges for themselves are the ones who would deny justice to the people. • About 8,000,000 men voted for what they did not want, in 1892, and now the most of them are kicking because they got it. A public officer is a public servant, hired and paid by the people, but most of them are now assuming to be masters of the people.

Human rights are a thousand times more sacred than property rights, and these are in the scale to-day. On which side are you? It was some of the silver men that told us there was no room for a third party, and now they are trying to organize a Fourth par y. Scratch a banker and you scratch a gold bug who wants to live by loaning his own notes and collecting interest thereon. He calls this “sound currency.” ' ■ I If either of the two old parties had been in favor of free silver we would now be enjoying its benefits; they have had a half-dozen chances to give it to us. The farmer is having a hard time. The landlord splits the quantity of his crop; the lendlord splits its value, and the railroad corporation takes half of what is left. If the Populists would step off their platform now, the two old parties would gobble it up inside of four years. But the trouble would be they would not carry it out. The question now with the two old parties is how to keep up the fight over the silver ques Ln without settling it. They pursued that policy over the tariff question as long as they could. There is only one way to down monopoly, and that is to vote it down. There is only one party that monopoly fears, and that is the People’s party. A vote for either old party is a vote for monopoly. The Government can snatch a man from his home and put him up as a target to be shot at. It seems to us that this is uncensti-too-tion-al—it is. a direct tax on a man’s physical powers. Let us have a decision from the Supreme Court. There may be a few things in the Omaha platform which honest Democrats and Republicans object to, and for that reason don’t like to join the People’s party, but they should remember that there is nothing in the old parties that is worthy'of clinging to. Many Democratic: papers, are praising Secretary Carlisle’s Memphis speech that have always condemned those of John Sherman, yet Carlisle uses the same argument to sustain his position that Sherman has been using for twenty years. This shows the inconsistency of those papers. Both men occupy the same position on the currency question.