People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Organize Legions. There is plenty of money—for the bankers. Hold on to your gold; don't let it go to “Yurrop.” The free silver Democrats are cooking crow to eat in 1896. Plenty of prosperity for the banker and bondholder —no one is doubting that. The masses are coming to the Peoples party, and the politicians we don’t want. ' The “sound money” cry “sounds” like slavery to a man who knows just a little. The people demand money, it is only the usurers and speculators that demand gold. The devil and the two old parties have been having a picnic making people hungry. The Democratic party now represnts both a condition and a theory—a bad condition and a worse theory. “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” Putting Debs in jail will not settle the question. The democrats are now so busy fighting among themselves that they have no time to fight the republicans. The democratic and republican state platforms of Kentucky are almost exactly alike —the contest is for spoils. The country is getting in a bad way when its policy is dictated by liars and libertines like Cleveland and Carlisle. Thirty years of old party rule —thirty thousand millionaires and three million of tramp—the trinity of political prejudice.

There is a good deal of talk about Cleveland’s backbone. The trouble with it is that the stiff part of it is on the wrong side. The Standard Oil company is reaching out for the gas privileges in some of the great cities. It wants more worlds to conquer. The Supreme court of Illinois has rendered a decision which will result in breaking up the whisky trust. Give the court a button. The best thing about the Memphis silver convention is that it was more largely attended than the gold bug convention at that place several weeks ago. A speech by a free silver Democrat or Republican is a sort of “Walk into my parlor said the spider to the fly” affair. Both old parties are spiders’ dens. President Cleveland keeps a guard over himself and his family which is additional evidence of the scriptural phrase, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth.” The best reason we have for believing that the Democratic party will not give us free silver is that it has had not less than eight chances to do it and failed. It is growing plainer every day that most of the silver conventions being held over the country are for the purpose of keeping the Democratic party from going to pieces. The victory of Cleveland and Carlisle in Kentucky ought to convince the democrats who are trying to get free silver “inside the party” that they are barking up a gold bug tree.

Why not have an international convention with Great Britian with a view to changing the national holiday from July 4th to the day of the year on which silver was demonetized? A New York paper recently sent out questions to the governors of the southern states wanting to know how they stood on the silver question. Only two replied. They seem to be afraid to monkey with it. And now the militia of Missouri are asking for an armory. It seems as though we are bound to have peace if we have to fight for it. The more civilized we become the more soldiers it takes to protect (?) us. The People’s party forced the financial issue to the front and the People’s party will settle it. The two old parties are compelled to meet it but they will hedge and dally just as they did with the tariff question for 20 years. During the eleven months ending with May our exports decreased to the amount of $74,000,000 and our imports increased about that much. The new tariff law seems to be working the wrong way—increasing the trade of other nations instead of ours. At the recent meeting of the Republican National league the discussion of the silver question was suppressed. The delegates were afraid to tackle it. The next meeting of the league was also put off until after the holding of the national convention. Trouble is in store for the republicans as well as the democrats. The People's party is a unit on that and all other important issues, and presents the only refuge for dissatisfied and disgusted voters in the two old parties.