People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — NOTES AND COMMENTS. [ARTICLE]

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| The old party papers are not saying much about many Populist victories iq ■ cities and townships at the late spring elections. The returns, however, are j coming in by slow freight. Pueblo, Colo., city of 25,000 population, elected Populist mayor, while Leadville, • with 11,000 population, elected a Populist city ticket. Moline, 111., with a population of 12,000 elected a Populist mayor by 400 majority. In Illinois the ' Populists elected a large number of county supervisors throughout the ■ state. Many small towns throughout the country were carried wholly or in part by the People’s party. These are ( straws. * ♦ ♦ 1 The late municipal and townslip elections throughout the country hive demonstrated in many placer, a surprising strength to the cause of Populism —the People’s party carrying many towns and cities, where the Populist vote was light before. This is most encouraging to the old parties. * * ♦ The average earnings of labor in 1892 was $250; in 1894, it dropped to $195, and the prospects are that the average for 1895 will be still lower. On the other I hand, millionaire incomes are increasing, and official salaries climbing. Are 1 you going to be foolish enough to vote ! for a continuance of a system that makes such conditions possible? * * « It is said that nearly 17,000 children are unable to attend school in San Francisco. How can the so-called humanitarians of to-day, who shut their ' eyes to the environments of the poorer . classes, expect to build a noble manhood and womanhood where the great majority of the children are denied proper education? * * »

It is estimated by Superintendent Byrnes and Elbridge T. Gerry that there are 40,000 prostitutes in the city l of New York. It is safe to say that a j large per cent of these unfortunates , are driven by poverty to a life of : shame. What a fearful responsibility ‘ , is resting upon those who are forcing present conditions upon this country. Poverty, such as is forced upon one-half the American people to-day, can have no other than a demoralizing effect, the worst features of which are to be realized. i♦ * e At a late delegate convention held in Chicago of German labor organizations, seventy-live German labor unions formally adopted the People’s party platform. That is wheeling into line by battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions. * * * The tariff question has gone glim-mering-given way to the universal cry of “money!” “money!” “money!” The persistent demands of the People’s party and continued agitation of the finance question Anally forced it to the front, in spite of the sham fight between the two old parties on the tariff. Truth and justice will prevail if we are faithful to the cause of reform. i * * » i The effort to side-track the People’s party on a single plank platform has been met with such a storm of opposition and condemnation all around the country as to paralyze the, schemers, and has had the further effect of uniting the People’s party forces more strongly than e-, er before. ♦ ♦ » Bad eggs were thrown at Carl Browne at Massillon, 0., recently. Browne is Coxey’s lieutenant, having charge of the headquarters for the distribution of the good roads literature arid the organization of good roads leagues. When men resort to rotten eggs as an argument they prove conclusively that they are without any others.