People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Shall America say can’t? t There’s plenty of prosperity for the bankers. Perhaps the goidbugs want another ten days’ debate. The goidbugs will not push the sale of the Harvey-Horr debate. Silver was demonetized in 1573 by fraud, and in 1893 by bribery. Debs is in jail, and tne people have it charged up to the plutocrats. It now seems that all that cry about the "crime of 1573" was political buncombe. Mississippi Populists have a grand platform, and an able candidate foi governor. Calling the silver men liars and lunatics doesn’t prove the wisdom of a single standard. Keep it before the people that the banks seek to secure forever the entire control of the currency. The rich anarchists will overthrow this nation, and all the crowned heads of Europe are backing up the conspiracy. The present attitude of the banks is doing much toward educating the people to adopt a government banking system.

The important question which every man should ask himself is, “why should I vote for either of the two old parties?” Every Populist state convention that has been held this year has reaffirmed the Omaha platform and ignored the single issue policy. When deposits in banks are required to be secured, or limited to the liabilities of the banks, there won’t be so much fun in banking. It makes some Democrats awful mad to have the Republican party endorse the policy of the Democratic administration. Strange, isn’t it? Fifty cents' worth of silver will not pay one hundred cents’ worth of debt, but a legal tender dollar, composed of one cent’s worth of material will. There is plenty of room in the Populist party for all the free silver Democrats. By coming in now they can help make its next natioftal platform. If Horr sustained the position of the goidbugs the “Sound Currency” club ought to help extend the circulation of the book containing the Harvey-Hor debate.

The people are told that if they have something to sell there is plenty of money, but they can’t even sell their land. What have the “sound currency” men got to sell? Keep it before the people that the national banks will not redeem their own money in gold; yet these are the men who are clamoring for a gold stanard and “sound money.” The banks do two-thirds to threefourths of their business on other peoples’ money. All the profits now go to the hanks. With government banks it would go to the people. Only a few more weeks and the bank syndicate will take its shoulder from under the credit of this nation, and then what will happen to the poor, helpless seventy million of people? Let us have enough money to square up our debts and do a cash business—then abolish all laws for the collection of debts, so that there may be no more debt slaves and money lender masters forever. If we had no special laws in favor of trusts and corporations, that is if we had a just system of distribution, the wealth which is now claimed by the millionaires, would be in the hands of the people. There is nothing at all strange in the fact that nearly all the officers of the present administration are in favor of Cleveland’s gold standard policy. “The ox knoweth his master’s crib,” or words to that effect.

The gold-bugs tell us that if we have free silver it will make cheap dollars by inflating the currency and thus rob the creditor of his equity. They also t§ll us that free silver coinage will djive gold out of circulation and contract the currency and make times harder. Now what we want to know is bdw it can do both of these things? Farmers are not the wisest men in the world—if they were they would unite and Smash the old party machines — but thgy have sense enough not to credit either of the two old parties with the abundant crops, this year. It is ffiore than likely, however, that they will credit those parties with the low prices which said crops will sell for. There are only two distinct parties now, the Republican gold standard Pjjfty, and the Populist party, which fpor free silver. The Democrats fforty don’t know just where it is at, Apd by the way it is not much of a party opportunity to prove its inefficiency, Apd it has done it. Free silver Democrats ought to vote with the People's party.