People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

Cleveland, Carlisle & Co. have made a failure in their attempt to muzzle Senator Blackburn in the Kentucky campaign. Mr. Blackburn says he will speak for silver all over Kentucky without anv regard to what the goldbug crowd may say.—Tipton Union Dispatch.

The business of the country is on a gold basis, but the business is not done with gold—it is done with bank notes, checks and drafts, every use of one of which pays a tax to a Rothschilds If we must do business with these makeshifts, let the government furnish the makeshifts, instead of driving the people to foreign plutocrats for them.—Progressive Farmer.

Senator Sherman says when he became secretary of the treas ury, which was during Hayes’ administration, a contract existed between a syndidate of bankers in this country and Europe for the sale of $300,000,000 bonds. “I wrote a letter to the Rothschilds shortly after I became secretary,” said Mr. Sherman. So the Rothschilds had financial control of the country as early as the time of President Hayes!—Progressive Farmer. Money is the creation of law. The legal-tender stamp of the government whether on metal or paper constitutes money, and any money which the government accepts for taxes is always good money and never below par.—Chicago Express. The government can make money “sound” enough for the banks to loan, but has not got the power to make money for the people. Lots of people believe this.—Wheattield Sheaf.

Quite a number of free-silver democrats and republicans have their eyes opened since the Kentucky democrats nominated a free silver candidate on a gold standard platform, and the national meeting of republican clubs at Cleveland ignoring the silver questions, and are talking populism in true style. By this time next year the issues will be fairly on and the landslide to populism will be immense. There will be no sluggishness in the campaign of 1896. The straddlers will be snowed under.—Logansport Advance. The gold dollar continues to sell for about two bushels of wheat and maintains its price stiffly.—Farmer's Voice.

The Emperor of Germany applauded President Cleveland, whose praises were sung by a speaker at a banquet. That is proper. If the Emperor of Germany and the Queen of Great Britain cannot applaud the President of American Republic, we should like to know who could. —Farmer's Voice.

Harvey, of Coin’s Financial School, has been downed by Horr, in the silver debate. The Tribune says so. Horr asked him if his book was not an allegory? He said it was, and the Tribune says that settled the debate, from which we have another evidence of the powerful arguments with which the goldites batter down opposition. —Farmer's Voice.

It seems strange that Senator Voorhees. after an early proclamation that he w r as in favor of free silver, withdrew from a further discussion during the present year. Perhaps the Senator thinks the times are changing, and sagacious politicians in both parties appreciate the fact. Senator Voorhees is a candidate for re-election in 1897. The legislature will be chosen next .year. It is superlative wisdom to let next year take care of next year’s issues.—Delphi Citizen.