People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

The $100,000,000 the secretary is pauperizing the people to keep in treasury to redeem $346,000,000 of greenbacks is without law. There is no law requiring this gold reserve. To tax the people and bond posterity to maintain this $100,000,000 in gold is plain robbery. Why do the people submit to it? There is just as much law to keep a billion idle dollars in the treasury as a hundred million. vVhat is this gold reserve for. any way? Secretary Carlisle says it is to redeem the greenbacks, when, in fact, he redeems every other sort of money with it, No merchant, mechanic, farmer or laborer ever presented a dollar of greenbacks for redemption. Who does? The English gold gamblers. Then who is the government run for? Plainly for English money power and not for the people of the United States. Who’s country is this any way ?—Exchange. We doubt if there ever was a cabinet minister who brought himself into such frequent ridicule as does Secretary of Agriculture Morton. He imagines himself exceedingly funny, and as a master stroke of “funnyness,” he recently ordered the salary of statistician Robinson paid iri silver dollars. Mr. Robinson is opposed to the gold standard, and Mr. Morton though thus to spite him. But not a bit of it. Robinson understands a principle, a thing Morton has never been accused of. and now all Washington is guying Morton. Progressive Farmer.

The gold-bug press is prating about the deposits in savings banks and asking the “poor people’’ whose savings are in the banks if they wish to be paid in “58-cent" dollars?” Well, if the gold 200-cent dollar is to be maintained, let these “poor people" try to draw’out their money in the 200-cent dollars, and see how quickly the banks will close their doors with a bang.—Exchange. It is strongly' intimated from Washington that, in the approaching elections the administration will favor republican candidates in preference to antiCleveland democrats. It is j pretty clearly in evidence that this course was pursued by the administration in 1804. —Progressive Parmer. It is really amusing to see the way in which the goldbud papers are suppressing Mr. Harvey’s part of the Horr-Harvey debate, although it is exceedingly encouraging to the friends of free and unlimited coinage of

both silver and gold, for it shows all of them are afraid to let their readers know’ the truth. —Evansville Courier. Until those who are being robbed get together and wipe out all the laws and constitutions that sanction robbery, the toilers will groan under the burdens the idlers lay upon them. —Star and Kansan. The gold bugs say silver dol lars are unsound money. We admit it. Silver dollars as recognized by the laws now. are only token money. Mr. Carlisle even redeems them in gold, they j are so valueless! What he does ' with them after they are re j deemed no one knows. When ' silver dollars are coined free, and are a full iegal tender, and gold redemption is knocked out, silver will be sound money, and not until then. —Fort Wayne Dispatch. Mayor Pingree’s potato patch on ground belonging to the city

of Detroit, promises to yield handsomely this season. It is estimated the yield will be from 100 to 150 bushels per acre. Employment is given to nearly 200 men, women and children who otherwise would be vagrants. Recently, while paying a visit to the city’s potato field, some of the Polish. women employed there left their work and kissed the mayor’s hand in gratitude for the opportunity afforded them of making even a scant living by working for the city. It will pay any student of reform to keep his eye on Mayor Pingree’s “potato patch.”— Chicago Sentinel. Readers of history cannot fail to note the similarity of the reports of movements in Cfuba to those sent out by Great Britain along about 1776 to 1781. If the Cubans do nothing more than to forever ruin the credit of that effete old monarchy they will confer a lasting favor on humanity; but all lovers of liberty hope to see them succeed in gaining their liberty.—Nonconformist.

“Labor runs ihe bakery, but capital takes the cake.”-Logans-sport Advance. In the bank of England hangs a picture of Senator John Sherman, which cost the bank $6,000. There are a few distinguished Americans who belong to the democratic party who should have pictures there at a greater cost —i. e.. John G. Carlisle and Grover Cleveland. Mobile (Ala.) News. Keystone Corn Husker and Fodder Shredder. Sold by Robt. Randel.

Commencing Sunday, July 28. and continuing every Sunday therafter until further notice, round trip excursion tickets will be sold between any two stations on the L.. N. A. & C. railroad when the regular one way rate is not less than 25 cents or more $3.50 at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets sold only on Sundays good returning on date of sale. Half of this rate for children between five and twelve years of age. W. H. Beam, agent.

Isaac Glazebrook employs in his blacksmith, horseshoeing and wagon repairing shop more workmen than any other like establishment in Jasper county.