People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Denouncing Cleveland and voting for another gold-bug won’t reform either inside or outside of the party. Trying to reform the old parties is lj&6 trying to cure the measles by driving them in on the patient. NJoney is now a power to oppress. Abolish interest and make it plenty and it no longer possesses that power. Alabama populists have got enough q| fusion, and propose to stick to the principles of the Omaha platform. The big debate, instead of demolishing “Coin's Financial School,” will only make the book circulate the more. The kind of 16 to 1 the money brokwant is 16 cents in circulation for every one dollar loaned by the brokers. The gold-bugs are great straddlers. They have one foot on the Democratic party and the other on the Republican party. That Democratic silver convention at Washington ought to settle the question whether there was any “crime of 1873” or not. Now, who says the gold-bugs are not cowards and deceivers? Their papers suppressed the argument in the Har-vey-Horr debate. It is absurd —the idea of the money power wanting a monarchy in this country. It has a much better grip on the present rulers. If America can’t maintain an independent financial system, she had better throw up the job of trying to run an independent republic. A “conservative” is one who wants to prevent evil being destroyed too rapidly. That is all he is—a coward, lazy and in doubt as to what to do. Secretary Morton seems to think the Department of Agriculture a useless expense, and since it has fallen into his hands perhaps he is right. The men who live on interest and taxes—the bankers and bond-holders—-are the fellows who compose the bulk of the gold standard army. See? Gold is still going to Europe—and so are the gold-bugs. If both would stay on that side of the ocean the American people would get along better. “Napoleon” McKinley will stick in the mud just as Bonaparte did at Waterloo. Blucher, with his army of silver men, will reinforce the Populist army in ’96. The silver question will not be properly settled until the people have learned the whole multiplication table whereby millionaires multiply, and the people are forced to divide up. The free silver Democrats in Georgia held their little convention and resolved that we ought to have free silver, but omitted to pass a resolution pledging themselves to vote for it. They have suspended the manufacture of whisky in Kentucky. The plat-1 form is so hard to swallow that thel Kentucky colonels have concluded! they can make out with less whisky. It only costs four cents to mine one dollar’s worth of gold from some mines in Colorado. It looks a little like the free coinage of gold was enriching the gold mine owners. Better demonetize it, hadn’t we 7 Down in Mexico the farmer receives twice as many dollars for his products as the farmer in this country does. And his dollar will pay as much debt, too. I In Mexico they have free silver and J cheap money. The leaders, managers and owners of both old parties occupy exactly the same position on the money questionand as that is now the paramount a man can’t belong to either old party without indorsing both.