People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Page 3

We want more money. More money will make better times. Give us money cheap enough to use. Harvey wiped up the ground with bim. And now Mr. Horr wants “Coin'’ demonetized. The more you think the more of a man you will be. You can’t get free, silver by voting With a gold bug party. That was a bad mixture of candidates and platform in Kentucky. Every man, woman and child can Stand on a platform for more money. Both old parties are opposed to all reform, whether moral, political or social. Now, as a matter of fact, how much gold do you see circulating among the people? Yes, what the silver advocates want is money cheap enough to use in thenbusiness.

. The church deals too much in “futures” to help our present condition yery r much. Reform is a word that scares rascals. That is why the gold-bug conspirators hate the word. Whenever a modern preacher gets converted, to Christianity, he is kicked out of the church. It is safe to say that no other gold bug will tackle Harvey. He has wiped up the ground with two of them. If gold is “God’s money” why don’t "we go to the Lord in prayer for it, instead of going to Wall street in beggary? The government makes a dollar out of twenty cents worth of gold. Why can’t it make a dollar out of fifty cents worth of silver? Loan cheap money and demand payment in dear money is the banker’s idea of “sound currency.” We’ll learn ’em a trick or two. The Harvey-Horr debate interested everybody but the gold bugs. They felt the defeat so much that they don’t want to talk about it. There is nothing to be gained in talking for silver and voting for gold, and that is wliat the democrats have been doing for twenty years.

In their mad effort to confiscate the people’s property the gold bugs are ' likely to force the people to repudiate their debts as they repudiated slavery. We are waiting to see some one point out a free silver country that has to issue $160,000,000 worth of bonds to sustain its credit and meet its expenses. When the masses of the people begin to lose respect for the law and the courts, you may be sure that the law and the courts are becoming unworthy of respect. The only thing a free silver demo- ■ orat or republican can do “inside the ’'party” for free silver is to leak wind. Next year he will have to vote for a * gold bug or get out of the party. It does no good to kick unless you hit something. If you are in one of the old parties and are kicking against gold-bug domination the most effective kicking you can do is to kick yourself out of the party. This will probably be a revolutionary year. There are elections in thirteen states. Thirteen is an unlucky number for people who are opposed to an independent American system of government and finance. The one great inspiring principle of the People’s party is anti-monopoly. The currency question is the most important only because it is the money monopoly is the greatest of all. The People’s party is opposed to all monopolies.

It is a question of cheap dollars or cheap products.' The men who don’t work want dear doll&rd, The men who do work want- cheap dollars— that is, dollars that don’t require so much of their, products to buy. On which side are you? It is stated on good authority that Mr. Horr was engeged by New York gold men at a salary of SIOO a day to demolish Harvey. Now they are kicking because he didn’t earn his wages. He certainly worked hard enough, but didn’t produce anything accept sweat and wind. Since the republican leaders indorse the gold-bug policy of President Cleveland it is strange that they should point to the treasury deficit and bonds issued as an evidence of democratic incapacity. The democrats are simply carrying out the republican policy and that can’t be done without bonds. It may be that the same selfish spirit of greed that demands a better dollar than that of the contract by the creditors, is what moves the people to want to pay in a cheap dollar. At any rate they are going to do it, and have as much right to demand a cheaper dollar as the creditors have to demand a dearer dollar than the contract.

“Let my peep's go!” The treasury is still deficit!:, g. Anti-moncpoi., is the main issue. What are you doing for the cause ot reform ? Free coinage of bonds is what the gold-bugs want. Certainly, let Cleveland be nominated again. Why not? Gold-bug bombast is getting too cheap for the people to pay any attention to. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight promises to become an issue in Texas. The crime of ’73 stands proven. Will the guilty parties be hung, shot or imprisoned? It doesn't require any special legislation to maintain the parity of the two old parties. . Man is greater than “commerce,” If there were no men there would be no commerce. The greater a man’s knowledge, the greater his grief in a world of madness and indifference. If every good law that is passed is unconstitutional, then it is time we had a new constitution. A letter from H. C. Vrooman states they are doing good work in Maryland, and expect to carry the state in ’96. One of the weak points in the examination of banks is that there is no provision made to examine the examiners. The four million homeless victims of gold standard and monopoly rule are not shouting “sound currency” nor “sacredness of contract.”

There is no kick coming from the banks, corporations and trusts against the Kentucky platforms of the democratic or republican parties. McKinley went bankrupt himself — and now the Ohio treasury is empty. Wonder how it would work if he were made President of the United States. It is thought that the republican party will not split on the silver question. Wc think, too, it is rather too tough to be split with a silver wedge. Capital gives nobody employment. Labor pays its own wages by what it produces, and capital simply forces labor to give it a share for the privilege of living on the earth. Now that it is generally admitted that the money question is the most Important issue before the people, it becomes every day more apparent that the two old parties are the same. What hogs these mortals he! It now transpires that the Jackson Hole Indian outbreak is all the work of big cattle barons who want to run the small ranchmen and farmers out of the country. Gold bugs are making efforts to prevent all silver, debate in the future by calling their men off. The results are so invariable in favor of the silver champions that the goldites want to play mumble-peg for a change.. Bryan rung the bell when he fired that shot, challenging Carlisle to show us a free silver country that has been compelled to issue $160,000,000 in bonds to sustain silver monometallism. It requires bonds to sustain a single gold standard —that is why Grover and John issued them. It only costs $162,000,000 a year to sustain a gold standard. That’s only about $4 a head for every man, woman and child. But then it .goes to the rich and the poor ought not to complain. Vote ’er straight, boys, vote ’er straight. It costs like fury, but, then, we can’t leave the dear old party.

There are sixty agricultural colleges in the United States that are receiving assistance in some way from the national government. Of course this is a little socialistic, but, then, as it fits the bees to make more honey for the grabbercrats, the aforesaid grabber - crats are making no kick against it. If the government wants to test the value of free silver coinage dollars, or even absolute money paper dollars with the simple promise to receive, let it start to build a railroad across the country the labor on which to be paid in said dollars. Anybody knows that thousands of people would flock there to work for that kind of money. The size of a man’s salary has a good deal to do with a man’s democracy now. It is only those who are drawing salaries on account of being democrats that are making any great to do over the purity and patriotism of their party. The extreme length of speeches now being made by most of the honest democrats is summed up in the two words “Oh, rats!”

The Best Way.

Make it possible for all the young women in cities, and elsewhere, to get employment at $lO per week and there will be little or no prostitution. And make it possible for all the young men to be employed at fair wages and they will be able to support families and marry all the girls to be found. This is the beginning of purity among the people.—People’s Party Post. Portland. Ore..

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, AUG 22. 1895 *

Letting the Little Fellow Think He’s Driving—When He Isn’t—A National Disgrace.—Fro<n the Chicago Inter Ocean.

BY PATRICK HENRY.

HIS SPIRIT MANIFESTED AT A POPULIST PICNIC. Delivers a Speech and Hurls Fierce Invectives at the Enemies of His Coun--5 try, the Despoilers of Her Honor — The Traitois Within. It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope—and even the spirits of the departed long to see how their cherished hopes on earth have been fulfilled. I once hoped that America was free —with such a delusion I went rejoicing to my grave. And mid all the celestial splendors of the beyond, my thoughts have often fondly turned back to wonder what strides in progress humanity had made under the beneficent conditions which, like the caressing hand of God, lay lovingly upon the heads of the American people at the time I was called away. Finally I have been permitted to spend a few days on earth, so that, as the Father assured me, I should be forever content to dwell in heaven, after seeing the lamentable failure that humanity had made of governing itself. I confess that for a moment I felt offended at Almighty God for insinuating that government in America was a failure. So sure was I of the ultimate triumph in America, that God Almighty himself could not have convinced me what a scene of carnage I should behold where the cradle of liberty was once rocked by the hand of love that rules heaven arid forever seeks to clasp all earth. I have been here for months wandering up and down the land like a lost spirit with no single feature of the surroundings recognizable. First, I went to the capital of your country—once my country—where words of patriotism and love of humanity once fired the hearts of men to noble deeds of valor.

Almighty God! what a change! But I shall not dwell here! You know too well the story. But you can not know the feeling of pity and anger that crushed my soul as I beheld the den of thieves that now control your government and levy tribute on your people. But, thank God, I find many patriot hearts yet among the common people of America. And I have asked of Almighty God the favor of pleading with you who are still striving for liberty, that you do not give up the fight, nor allow yourselves to be led away by the siren song that would lull you to sleep and crush the manhood within you. There is no time to sleep and dream while the whole structure of your earthly salvation is undermined, and men and women are being driven to hell like cattle to the slaughter. You must know the truth and be for--ever vigilant and active in spreading that truth to the world, that you may together provide for it. You have fallen into the hands of a despotism ten million times more cruel than your forefathers ever believed that man was capable of creating. I need not look to the past to judge the present wrongs. They are too glaring to be hidden. They would pale the forked flames of hell, and stand out as a glaring monstrosity even on the turbulent surges of the lake of fire and brimstone, making that place appear as a quiet summer pond by contrast. The future depends entirely upon the action of the people. You know from the past what you can expect from the money power of England and the tories and traitors of New York. I have studied your history, seeing the whole panorama instantly, as only a disembodied spirit can, and I see no hope of relief from your oppressors and the two great political parties which both represent the oppressors. There has been no act upon the pa:U of these parties for thirty years that justifies any hope of relief from thai source.

Their smiles are venomous, and their promises are basest hypocrisy. Trust them not. Do not be betrayed by politicians who have already shown themselves to be enemies. Ask yourselves how their promises compare with their past performances and with the acts which they are at this moment engaged in committing. Are guns, warships and military for-

AN OLD DODGE.

tresses necessary to govern a peopie who are to be given the right of free 3peech, homes and opportunity to earn an honest living at peaceful toil? Have the people resisted the authority of government that they should be shot down, or is it not rather that they have protested against the tyranny of corporations and been answered by ’“God’s whistling messengers of peace”? I quote this last expression from one of your modern military hirelings. Peace, indeed —peace in the face of bullets and bayonets—it means peace for big property holders and death to men, women and children whose labor produced the property. Can force restore patriotism? Can men be forced to love tyrants? The money power is getting ready to fall back upon the last resort of kings. Gentlemen, what means this martial array, these new military tactics, if it be not to force American workingmen into submission? Can you assign any other possible reason for building forts and garrisoning them with rich men's sons; for changing the entire tactics of the army and training soldiers specially for bombarding houses and street fighting, for drilling college students and Sunday school children in the arts of warfare? Has America any outside enemies to fear? Did not onetwentieth as many men as are now in America whip the strongest military nation on the globe? And docs she now fear armed invasion from that quarter? Does she contemplate wasting the cities of some foreign country? Or is it not rather her own cities that are to he .the scene of corporate villainy shooting down American men, women and children who dare to protest against a system of monopoly and speculation that is depriving them of homes and of the common necessaries of life? What means this strengthening qf the army and massing of troops near the great cities? It is meant for you, workingmen, and for nobody else. They mean to bind and rivet upon you the system of wage slavery that enables the money power to appropriate the product of your labor without even the responsibility of giving you a sufficient share to prevent starvation. What are you doing to oppose them? Have> you not tried argument? You have been trying that for twenty years. Will you continue to depend upon strikes? Have not all strikes failed, because the money power controlled the federal army? Y r ou have held the subject up in every light—but it has all been in vain.

Shall petition be tried? Has not every source of petition been exhausted? Do not deceive yourselves. Everything has been done that could be done. Your petitions have been slighted; your strikes have led to blacklisting and further oppression; your leaders have been imprisoned without due process of law; your vote has not been fairly counted in many states; you have been ridiculed, abused and discharged from employment on account of your political opinions. In vain can you hope for consideration at the hands of the money power. If you mean to be free; if you want the rights for which you have been so long contending; if you mean to continue the struggle and to maintain the principles of the jiew Declaration of Independence, you must prepare to fight. I repeat, you must prepare for the worst.

The force of arms and the power of Almighty God on the side of right is nearly all that is left you. Let kings and tyrants rage. They say that you are weak and have no arms. But when shall you be stronger if you continue to submit? Others have captured arms from the enemy, and so can you. The longer you submit the weaker will you become, and the stronger will grow the intrenchments of the enemy that is robbing you and rapidly gaining control of the guns and ammunition. You are not weak if you make proper use of the means you have already, and I say it as one who sees into the hearts of men, that there are millions ready to join you just as soon as you show yourselves men and mean business. You will not stand alone. People need something to arouse them from the lethargy and cowardice bred by the system of slavery under which they live, and once aroused by your aggressive action all the powers, of hell shall not

A STOP-THIEF CRY.

“WE MUST GOSLOW,” SAY THE CONSERVATIVES. Yes, Let America Go to the Auction Block —Her Children Starve. Her Strong Men Commit Suicide, and Her Young Women Go to Worse Than Death. Put yourself in the place of the sufferers; go into the slums and sweatshops; learn and see what is going on around you. Behold the battle for bread, and look coolly upon the scene of miserable poverty on the one side and arrogant hoggishness on the other —yes, look coolly if you can —you can not, if you have the least vestige of a soul in your anatomy. It is a field of slaughter—and for what are they fighting? “Oh!” you say, "go slow; they are not fighting.” Not lighting! Then why does this man cut the throats of his wife and children are these dying of hunger; what means this riot, this calling out of troops; why all this robbery, suicide, murder; these bodies buried in the potter’s field; what means all this new machinery for killing men? You say, Oh! no, they are not fighting, they are only engaged in legitimate competition in the groat economy of supply and demand. They are not fighting, they are only arguing the best policy to pursue. Go slow! Don’t do anything to disturb commerce.

Those people are not starving; thoso men aro not dead, they have only decided to go a little slow In striking. Bless you! there is no quarrel between capital and labor; the country has hired the money loaners to stop depleting tho treasury; there’s no trouble, these men you call unemployed are only tourists In search of recreation; there is no opfression; there Is no crime nor desperaion; no beggary nor selling of virtue; money is plenty. There Is only a lull in business, people are taking a rest. Go slow; don’t disturb them; everything will work out all right in tho end. No use to try any experiments; things have always been this way, and they always will. There’s no use to try to change them. Let us stop and learn to be content with the station In life to which it has pleased God to call us. And this is the way many people would have us talk reform. Continue the system of uncivilization, crime, dissipation, disorder and distress, because the men who profit by it don’t want any better conditions. They are doing well. Who cares what becomes of the balance of humanity? They control the government and have a right, to do as they please. Let the rabble starve and kill each other if they will. But go slow about changing established Institutions. You might make things worse, and you might make them better, but, anyway, you would alarm “foreign investors” by tinkering. This talk about oppression is all sentiment; trade must not ho disturbed by a lot of calamity howlers and follows that don’t know anything about “finance.” Government lias no business Interfering with “financiers.”

What the Money Power Is.

(W. H. Harvey, in North American Review for July.) Money has no patriotism. It has no moral principles. If the life of the government were in danger tomorrow, as it was in 1861-1865, the money power would hold it up by the throat. In fact, it is now strangling the government. It smiles on you when you recognize its power, but will crush you if you antagonize it, just as it induced Pontius Pilate and the officials of that government to kill Jesus Christ and scatter his followers. It is now plainly aroused; if the danger to it continues to rise in this country it will exhibit its strength and it will be terrible! It will seize the government. Official despotism will follow. Men whose characters have been molded and made by the conditions leading up to the present situation, when elected to office, become the servants of this power. Their salaries are not reduced; if changed at all the salaries are raised. The purchasing power of their dollars is raised by the system they defend. Their self interest goes with the money power and they court its favors and look for a soft j spot, financially on which to land at j the end of their term of office. They seemingly become heartless concerning the common masses —the plain people—hence, official despotism. These are the conditions that come with the | breaking down of a government as a , natural result of the absorption of the 1 wealth of the people. I do not mean any one individually, or any number of | men collectively, when I speak of the money power. It is a thing impersonal. It is a grasping, perverse nature cultivated by man, that seizes upon the use of money to accomplish its evil purpose. It is most dangerous because it gives strength and prominence to those who advocate its cause, and has the appearance of being a just and reasonable right under the laws of man for the disposal of property. It is not so easy for men to see that its tendency is evil and its victims millions, when their eyes are blinded by the dazzling blaze of possibilities of wealth for themselves. The right to accumulate unnecessary property and to produce distress among the people is not a divine right, and should not be guaranteed by human laws.

prevail against yon. God Is with yoit The day of judgment for kings and tyrants i 3 near. The war is already begun. Your blood has been spilled on the streets of your cities and In the mining camps; your brothers lie rotting in prison; your wives and children have gone ragged and hungry; every Issue of the dally press records the slaughter of workingmen who dare to ask for living wages; small bodies of your brethren are confronting the soldiers and militia every day. Why stand ye unorganized, waiting for your turn to be slaughtered? Why not prepare to meet the issue, If it come? Will you wear the chains of slavery in fear and trembling. There is no pity for you—why should you spare the enemy? If you will not unite to freo yourselves you should be swept off the earth by Almighty God. He commands it. Will you obey? He calls from on high, “Tell my people, the oppressed and downtrodden, to make one more fight for liberty.” Money and superstition have ruled long enough. Let tho people and God be heard. In tho revolution of ’76 when I dwelt among you as a man I believed that God was with us—now I know it —and I proclaim to you that God meant you to bo free, and you shall bo free. To be prepared is half the battle. As one of your illustrious leaders has advised, “Savo your money and buy a gun.”

Cartoons Galore.

“The Sound Currency” club has got tired of keeping up the “sound" part of its argument, and will try to attract attention by means of a series of pictures, to rest its howling apparatus. We have received a circular advertising a list of 40 cartoons illustrative of goldbug buncombe argument, which are being sent out from G 2 Williams street (adjoining Wall street) N. Y. They are printed on card board and the entire set sold for SIOO. The list is as follows; 1. Two for One. 2. 16 to 1 Locust. 3. Fiat Weather. 4. Coin’s Flying Machine. G. Flat Wheat. 6. Fiat Cloth. 7. Too Much Business. 8. Pig lu the Garden. 9. June Grub of 189 G. 10. What Free Silver Will Buy, 11. The Unjust Steward. 12. Life Insurance and Free Coinngo. 13. A New Way to Swindle Old Soldiers. 14. A Double Standard. IG-10. Choose Your Wago Standard. 17. It All Depends on What You Look Through. 18. Don’t Monkey With the* Buzz Saw, 19. A Mill for the Barons. 20. Wages in Silver Country. 21. After Taking the Silver Cure. 22. Pig Silver. 23. Clothes and Dollars. 24. Rival Jesters. 2G. Dog in tho Manger. 26. Freo Coinage Hatchet. 27. Over the Brink. 28. Coin at School. 29. Light Weight Hypnotism. 30. Beauty of Bimetallism. 31. Up in a Balloon. 32. “Bimetallic” Exercise. 33. The Biggest Hog. 34. The Basis of Commerce. 35. Coin’s Exegesis. 36. Christian and Demas. 37. The Two Yard Sticks. 38". Whom Free Coinage Carries. 39. Nickel In the Slot. 40. Red Riding Hood. We hope the Populists and free silver men may be given an opportunity to see all these cartoons, that they may the more appreciate the counterparts that will from time to time appear in the reform press cartoon service. Subjects for answer easily suggest themselves. For Instance, “Two for One” might represent the two dollars' worth of produce the debtor is compelled to pay where he contracted to pay only one. The “grave-digging machine” of the gold-bugs might be contrasted with “Coin’s Flying Machine.” “Pig in the Garden” suggests “Hog in the White House.” And 30 on. Our special artist is at work making special designs, and finds the gold-bug efTort a great help by virtue of its very absurdity.

Change the Constitution.

Either the constitution needs changing, else we need a change of judges to interpret it. However, as far as it goes, we have no doubt the constitution is all right. The constitution at the time of its adoption was sufficient to cover all emergencies that might have arisen under the conditions of that day. Besides that the right of amending it was left open as a means of adapting it to the growth and development of new conditions. Our forefathers expected their descendants to be capable of governing themselves, and never anticipated that a time would ever come when this country would be ruled by gigantic railroad and other corporations, nor that the original constitution itself would be twisted and misconstrued so as to give advantage to the rich and greedy. If our constitution were amended so as to make plain its bearing on the great institutions upon which our commerce has become dependent, it would probably relieve the millionaires of a great deal of expense in buying decisions of courts, and remove temptation from their benevolent souls. The corporations as they have grown up have been very careful to provide statute law's for their own benefit—but the common people must not have any laws for their benefit. Oh, no that would be unconstitutional. But please tell us of any law advocated by corporations and trusts that was ever declared by lb? courts to be unconstitutional.

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