People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Page 4
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The People’s Pu <> BY F. D. CRAIG. (Lessee.! PILOT PUBLISHING CO.. (Limited.) Proprietors. David H. Yeoman. President. Wm. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook. Sec'y. J. A. McFarland. Treas The People’s Pilot ' s the official organ of she Jasper and Newton County Alliances.and s published every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM Sntered as second class matter at. the post office in Rensselaer. Ind.
People’s Party Platform.
FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES. First.—That the union of the labor forces Of the United States tins day consummated shall be permanent and perpetual; may its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind Second. Wealth belongs to him who creates it. and every dollartaken from industry without an equivalent is robbery. ‘lf any will not work, neither shall lie eat.” The interests of civic and rural labor are the same; their interests are identical. Third—We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the railroads, and should the government enter upon the work of owning and managing any or all railroads, we should favor an amendment to the constitution by which all persons engaged in the government service shall be placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to prevent an increase of the power of the national adt ni-t rat ion by the use of such additional government employes. FINANCE First—We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible. issued by the general government only, a full legal tender for all debts public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations, a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people at a ta x not to exceed 2 per cent, per annum to be provided as set fort:: in the sub-treasury plan of the Farm-er-'Alliance or a better system: al-o by pay: <■ nt- in discharge of it- obligations for publi • improvements W- demand free and unlimited coinage of sii'. ••> n the present legal tat io of Pi to 1. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than *SO per capita. W« demand a graduated income tux. V> e iielieve that the money of the country should lie kept as much as possible in the bauds of the people, and hence we demand that all state and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings bank be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. TRANSPORTATION Second—Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interests of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoftice system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the Government in the interest of the people. LANDS. Third—The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs and ail la nds now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
S U PPLEMENTARY KESOLETI ON S. Whereas. Other questions have been presented for our consideration, we hereby submit the following, not as a part of the platform of the People’s Party, but as resolutions expressive of the convention. Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in ail elections and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without federal Intervention through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot system. Resolved. That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to the reduction of the burden of taxation, now levied upon the domestic industries of this country. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions toex-Union soldiers and sailors. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor and demand the further restriction of undesirable immigration. Resolved. That we cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized workmen to shorten the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the existing eight hour law on government work and ask that a penalty clause be added to the said law.
Resolved. That we regard the maintenance of a large standing army of mercenaries. known as the Pinkerton system, asa menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition and we condemn the recent invasion of the Territory of Wyoming by the liired assassins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officers. Resolved. • That we commend to the thoughtful consideration of the people and the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referendum. Resolved. That we favor a Constitutional provision limiting the office of President and Vice President to one term and providing for the election of senators of the United states by a direct vote of the people. Resolved. That we oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corporation for any purpose.. Nearly every reader of the Pilot has a friend some where who .would like to hear from Jasper county. It costs but 2c a week to send them all the news, beautifully printed; why hot do it? Twenty-five cents for three months including Coin's Financial School.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
All persons who are entitled to j premium books and have not reIceived them will kindly advise us of the fact and they will be sent at once. The People's Pilot. The inequalities of taxation and how the rich escape makes i the blood boil with indignation. The bankers and speculators and money kings will be overthrown and the danger is that I the masses will go too far in revenging their wrongs and. like : Sampson, pull down the temple i and crush all alike.
A certificate of David Gore, the auditor of public accounts for the state of Illinois, shows that all that the bankers and brokers of Chicago had assessed for taxation was only £44,<>00 of money, while farmers of that county were assessed £84,000 for agricultural tools and implements. Think of it! The farmers' tools are assessed nearly twice as much as all the money credits and securities of all the banks, bankers and brokers of that great city. And all the diamonds and jewelry in Chicago were assessed at £17,750, when it is known that single families live there who own diamonds and jewelry ten times that sum in value. The money of these banks amount to hundreds of millions, but through the manipulation of municipal politics the rich control the assessors and escape taxation.
JOURNALISTIC JABS.
Conceding that ‘-Coin" is a fresh kid at best, he asks some exceedingly perplexing questions. —Hammond Tribune. When John Bull takes snuff all Washington nearly sneezes its head off. Mr. Bull has lots of fun with his American puppets and makes lots of money out of it. too. —Farmer's Voice It is stated on reliable authority that Mr. Horr was engaged by the New York Chamber of Commerce at a salary of *IOO per day and expenses to conduct the silver debate against “Coin" Harvey.—Chicago Sentinel.
“Gold is a substance of great changes in value." says the St. Louis Republic. Very true, and an industrial country cannot afford to base its business upon such a substance alone.—Progressive Farmer. If Mr. Horr had known when he entered Coin’s Financial School fora course of study that the schoolmaster was going to flog him everyday, observes the Evansville Courier, he would probably have abandoned the idea of seeking a thorough financial education.
We don’t want a money of the world, a commercial money to be bought and sold like a carload of potatoes, a money of the bankers or a money of Wall street, but the people’s money, issued in such quantities that a few Shylocks cannot corner it.— Farmei’s Voice. The government once more rushes to the aid of a corporation, this time beyond the jurisdiction of the American flag. It is the Panama railroad company, an American corporation which owns and operates the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama. The company is involved in labor troubles, and the Columbian government is not so ready to strike down the workingmen as the corporation desires, hence application for aid has been made to’the government at Washing ton. Secretary Herbert promptly dispatched an American war vessel Jfco Panama “to protect American interests,” of course.Progressive Farmer. The natural resources of this country are not yet half known,
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says the Globe-Democrat, and yet we must be forced to the gold standard of finished old England, and our enterprising people cannot make a single advance in the development of our unknown resources without obsequiously paying tribute to a few British gold kings.—Progressive Farmer. It is said that the New York chamber of commerce paid Mr. Horr £IOO per day to conduct the debate with . Mr. Harvey. From the skmning plutocracy received at the hands of Mr. Harvey, no doubt but this same committee would give Mr. Horr another £IOO per day to stay at home. At any rate the gold bug bankers will never send Mr. Harvey another challenge for a discussion of the silver question. — Logansport Advance. This talk that some people are making that a single standard is better than a double standardise* minds us of the corpulent duck and the quack: “A fat oldduck, becoming too corpulent to stand on her feet, consulted a quack as to the best means of obtaining relief. He promptly advised her to cut off her right leg, assuring her that she could stand on one leg much easier than upon two. ‘Moreover.’ said he. ‘it is the proper caper, and by doing so you will retain the confidence of your neighbors, the foxes.' But no sooner was the leg removed, than she settled down in the mire, and became an easy prey to the quack and his friends.”—Tipton Union Dispatch. A curious sect —the Church of the Co-operators—has been organized in this city. They claim that there is no other means under heaven whereby a man can be saved; that the egotistic competitive system is diametrically opposed to the necessary law that man ought to do as he would de done by. For if it be one's habit of thought, in church or out, to scheme how he can get his neighbor’s job in the big ditch, or shop, or office, or pulpit. or how even he can extract the greatest possible sum from him for the smallest outlay, the tendency is to love one’s neighbor only as one loves a chicken, and if our competitive schemes succeed, the neighbor is sure to get it where the chicken got the ax, which, says this strange sect, is plainly contrary to the great command.—Seattle Populist.
Profits of Banking.
Hon. S. S. Marshall of Illinois, while in congress in 1866, thus described that modern form of brigandage known as the national oanking system: “An association of gentlemen in an eastern state raised $300,000 in currency. They went to the office of the treasury and exchanged their currency for $300,000 in 5 per cent gold bearing bonds. They then went to the office of the comptroller of the currency in the same building, organized a national bank, deposited their $300,000 in bonds, and received for their bank $270,000 in nat. bank currency. They had let the government have $30,000 in currency more than they had received for banking purposes, and had on deposit $300,000 on which they received, as interest from the government, SIB,OOO a year in gold (and exempt from taxation). This was pretty good financiering for these bankers to receive 18,000 a year in gold on the $30,000 in currency which they had thus loaned to the government. But this is not the whole story. They had their bank made a public depository. “They soon discovered that there was scarcely ever less than $1,000,000 of government money deposited within their vaults. They did not like to see this vast sum Me idle. They, therefore, took $1,000,000 of five-twenty bonds with it. In other words they loaned $1,000,000 of the government’s own money to the government and deposited the bonds received in the vaults of their bank, on which they received from the same government $60,000 a year in gold as interest. Thus for the $30,000 in currency which they originally loaned to the government they received annually in all $78,000.”
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DATES FAIRS ARE TO BE HELD.
Following are names, places of holding and dates of state and district fairs for 1895: Platte County, Platte City, Mo.. Aug. 27-31. Tri-State. Toledo, 0.. Aug. 26-31. Canada, Toronto, Sept. 2-14. Illinois, Springfield. Sept. 23-28. Indiana, It dianapolis, Sept. 16-21. lowa. Des Moines. Sept. 9-13. Michigan, Grand Kopids, Sept. 9-14. Minnesota. Hamline, Sept. 9-14. Nebraska. Omaha. Sept. 13-20. Ohio, Columbus, Sept. 2-6. Wisconsin. Madison. Sept. 10-21. Washington, New Whatcom. Sept. 23-27. ' Atchison County. Robkport, Mo.. Sept. 3-6. Berks County. Reading. Pa.. Sept. 10-13. Inter-State. LaCrosse. Wis.. Sept. 2-7. N. M. C. A. & 1., Trenton. Mo.. Sept. 10-13. Springfield. Springfield, Mo.. Sept. 2-7. S. D. Agricultural, Cape Girardeau. Mo.. Sept. 10-14. Stoddard Contuy, Dexter, Mo.. Sept. 17-21. Western Fair, London. Ont., Sept. 12-21. South Dakota. Sioux Falls, Sept. 30 to Oct. 4. Hillsdale. Hillsdale. Mich., Sept. 30 tn Oct. 4. Kansas. Wichita, Oct. 1-6. Texas. Dallas, Oct. 19 to Nov. 3. Following are names, places of holding and dates that county fairs of Indiana occur this year. Others will be added to this list as soon as dates can be ascertained:
July and Aug. Sept. Henry,Madison& Gibson, Princeton .9-14 Delaware, Mid- Huntington,Huntdietown 30- 2 ington 10-14 Putnam,Bainb’ge3o- 2 Jay, Portland 23-27 Ripley Osgood.. .30-2 Kentland. KentAug. land 10-13 Boone. Lebanon. .19-23 La Grange, La Bridgeton,Bridge- Grange 17-20 ton , 26-30 Lake, Crown Pt.. 11-13 Clinton, Frank- LaPorte, LaPorte.24-27 fort 26-30 Miami and Fulton, Dearborn, Law- Macy 11-14 renceburg 20-24 Monroe, Blooming-Delaware,Muncie,2o-23 ton .24-27 Grange Jubile, Montgomery,CrawWirt Station.... 13-15 foidsville 9-13 Grant, Mari0n....27-31 Pike. Petersburg.. 3- 7 Hancock, Green- Porter,Valp’raiso27-20 field 26-30 Rush. Rushville..lo-13 Harris’n.Corvdon26-30 Shelby, Shelbyv.. 3- 7 Henry, N. Castle..l3-16 Spencer. Chrisney 2- 7 Howard, Kokomo.l2-16 Starke. Knox 17-21 Jefferson,Madisonl3-16 St. Joseph, New Johnson, Frank- Carlisle 24-27 lin 26-30 Tippecanoe. LaMaxlncucke<?,Mar- fayette 2-7 mot 20-23 Tri-State. EvansNewton, Morocco.2o-23 ville 16-20 Oakland City,Oak- Vermillion, Newland City 26-31 port 24-28 Jasper.Remingt’n27-31 Vigo.Terre Haute 9-13 Scott, Scottsburg.27-31 Wabash, Wabash.l7-20 Spencer.Rockport 19-24 Warren Tri-county Tipton, Tipton... .19-23 Warren 3- 7 Warren, West Leb- Washington,Salem3- 6 anon 21-24 Sept, and Oct. Wayne. Hagerst’n 6- 9 Eastern Indiana. Sept. Kendallville... .30-4 Agricultural & In- S. E. Mich. & N. dust.. Plymouth. 17-20 1.. South Bend .30- 4 Benton and War- Oct. ren, Boswell .... 2-6 Bourbon District. Bremen, Bremen.. 24-27 Bourbon 8-12 Cayuga,Cayuga.. 16-20 Fulton, Rochester 2- 5 Daviess. Washing- Knox, Vincennes.l4-19 ton 9-13 N. E. Ind.. WaterDubois. Hunting- 100 7-11 burg 16-21 Poplar Grove, PopFayette, Conners- lar Grove 1-4 ville 24-27 Randolph. WinFlora. Flora 23-27 Chester 1-4 Fountain. War and Steuben. Angola .. 8-11 Velmil,Covlngt’n9-13
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ALLIANCE WORK. Directory OF THE IX DI AX A FARMFRS' ALLIAXCE AXD IXD US TH IA L UXIOX. J. W. Apple. President, Oaklandon. Thos. G. l»ay. Ist Vice-Pres., Correct. Lola Vincent, Sec’y-Treas.. Indianapolis. C. Vincent,Lecturer-Organizer, Indianapolis. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE N. W. Webster. Chairman, Cicero. L. A. Stephens. Secretary. Anderson. A. G. Burkhart. Treasurer. Tipton. Degree lodge, n. a. a:. No beneficiary Department F. A. & I. A..) meets on the second and fourth Saturday nightsof each month at the Centre School’ House in Union township, Jasper County. Ind. Drt. Hudson. S. T. Hamacher. Pres. Secretary. fiENTER ALLIANCE. No. 75. JASPER V County, meets regularly every second and fourth Saturday nights at Center School House. Union township. Geo. Casey. Secretary.
Time Card.
The Indiana State F. A. and I. U. will meet in annual session, the second Wednesday in Dec. 1895.
National Alliance Aid
This is the title of the aid degree of the F. A. and I. U., and is the most perfect and economical insurance yet devised. It carries out fully the fraternal features of the order. The expenses are as follows: Membership Fee. 81,0(4) single policy 85.90 82.000 single policy 6.00 81,000 joint policy 7.50 82,000 joint policy 9.00 Registry fee, single nolicy 1.00 Registry fee, joint policy 1.50 Annual dues, single policy, 50 cents per $1,000; annual dues, joint policy, 75 cents per SI,OOO. In all cases where application is rejected all money paid on membership fee and advance assessment shall be returned or held subject to applicant. Joint policies are limited to husband and wife, and loss payable to the survivor. 81.000 Single Policy 81,000 Joint Policy Age. Assessment. Age Assessment. 18 to 25 81.00 18 to 25 81.50 25 to 30 1.10 25 to 30 1.65 30 to 35 1.20 30 to 35 1.80 35 to 40 1.35 35 to 40 2.05 40 to 45 1.50 40 to 45 2.25 45 to 48 1.75 45 to 48 2.65 48 to 50 2.00 48 to 50 3.00 After joining, assessments do not increase in amount with increasing age. Assessments are officially ordered six times a year, viz: Jan. 1, March 1, May 1, July 1, Sept. 1 and Nov. 1 Can I join the aid degree without joining the Alliance? Certainly not. You would not ask to become a 32d degree mason without passing through the lower degrees. Just so, you cannot join the second degree of the Alliance without first becoming a member in tho regular way. Organize an Alliance and
Coin’s Financial School (price 25 c) is given free to every new trial subscriber of The People’s Pilot. Twenty-five cents for three months.
then form an Aid Degree lodge. Parties can write to C. Vincent at Indianapolis or James Welsh at Rensselaer regarding the establishment of a Degree lodge and we hope the farmers will generally engage in this work.
Comparative Cost of Life Insurance.
Official reports show for 1893 the following in regard to the three classes of life insurance in the United States. Fraternal Societies, including the National Alliance Aid, have 1.801,000 members, carrying $3,000,000,000 in risks; paying $31.000,000 in losses, at an expense of $2,413,000, or a total average of $9 for every SI,OOO insurance carried, of which only 62 cents per SI,OOO was used for expense. Ordinary Assessment Companies had 1,676,000 members, carrying $4,170,000,000 in risks, paying $28,655,000 in losses, with $18,305,000 for expense; or total cost per SI,OOO, of $11.70, of which $4.50 went for expenses.
Old Line Companies had 1,167,000 members - , carrying $3,213,000,000 of risks, paying $57,192,000 at an expense of $48,636,000 or total cost of $32 per SI,OOO carried, of which $10.34 went to pay the expense!! You pay your money and take your choice. The expense of conducting the old line company is more than the entire cost of Insurance in the Fraternal Society.
The fraternal orders furnish the cheapest kind of life insurance in the world, and the farmers live longer than other classes, accordingly the death rate is lower than in other occupations —therefore, it naturally follows that life insurance furnished in our own order will be cheaper than in any other order—the cheapest in the world. The following counties in Indiana are now represented in the Aid Degree: Boone, DeKalb. Green, Hamilton. Henry. Madison, Marion and Tipton.
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