People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

No democrat is anxious for the presl- * dential nomination. Virtue is not dead, but she is sleeping in dangerous quarters. “Harmony” seems to be the main issue with Loth old parties. "America for Americans” means drive out the alien landlords. It makes a banker mad to mention populist to him. It makes the devil mad also. The populists seem to be the only ones who are fighting the republicans in Kentucky. Why not have an international convention to restore "harmony" in the Democratic, party? The next congress will probably make greater efforts to do nothing than any of its predecessors. The only issue between the politicians of the two old parties is which shall be clothed and fed by the people. A keg of nails now costs $1.60 more than it did two years ago. Prosperity and the new democratic tariff is what did it. That man Holmes is developing a character that is liable to class him in history with Grover Cleveland and John Sherman. The parity of the two old parties is based on the international agreement of the money power to maintain a single gold standard. It requires a great deal of cheek for the democrats to make any new promises, or to repeat the old ones, but, then, they have got the cheek. The inflation of the state democratic committee is about as far as the free silver democrats of Missouri will get toward their cherished object. One of the beauties of the gold standard system is that it drives women and children into the field to work, and men on the road to tramp.

The gold bugs that have been engaged in calling Coin's Financial School an allegory, no doubt wish that the great debate also was merely an allegory. The only reason any Populist can give for fusion with either of the old parties is that it is a short cut to the flesh pot. But it don’t benefit anyone but the flesh-potters. The more the free silver democrats say against the gold bugs now, the more they will have to take back next year when their party decrees that they shall vote for one. The silver men in the old parties are like a lot of fish-worms, wriggling around in their discontent and becoming all the time worse tangled in a helpless knot. Crawl out. Talk about paternalism—what is that great gold reserve in the treasury? It is held for the accommodation of a few big importers and speculators, subject to their order for shipment to Europe. Th main question with the Cleveland administration is how to put off another bond issue until after the fall elections. It is rather unfortunate that the syndicate will take its prop out from under our credit on October Ist.

In San Francisco over three thousand able-bodied men out of employment registered at relief headquarters. And this is the way the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by the gory sons-of-guns of York state. The lowa Democratic convention shows how “reform inside the party” works. The free silver Democrats in that state were in the majority. Nevertheless the gold-bug element controlled the convention, and made the ijatform. The gold bug orators assert, with great big briny tears m their eyes, that they want to save the workingmen from cheap dollars, and all that. But they do not explain why the present gold standard has knocked three million workingmen out any kind of dollars at all. The gold bugs, having had their* champion defeated by Harvey, are now trying to detract from the force of his argument by the charge that he wills make lots of money out of the sale of the book containing the debate. Harvey makes nothing out of it. He donated the proceeds from the sale of this book to the silver cause before the debate took place. He don’t get a cent of it.