People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — URNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

URNALISTIC JABS.

C ops, interest and railroad charges promise to be good.— Farmer's Voice. The railroads are expecting to make a strike in moving the large crops. Farming pays—the railroads. —Farmer's Voice. “I am for sound money,” shouted a democratic orator. “Yes." shouted an old strawhatted American on a back seat, “and you only want to wait until European bosses tell you what sound money is to do their bid ding." He about covered the ground.—ln ter Ocean. It is estimated that the very wise men of this country feed 20,000,000 people in Europe. But then they are not slaves who feed their master. O. no! They are the greatest, strongest, wisest, and becoming the most war-like people on earth! And the boot-black around the corner felt so proud he was an American that he thanked a man for giving him a job cleaning shoes.—Way land's Appeal to Reason.

A wave of genuine democraticrepublican “prosperity" bucked up against the Bank of Tacoma, Washington, last week, and caused it to make assignment. Its liabilities were only $379,000. Lucky depositors hold the sack for £IOO,OOO and the remainder, £279.000, was city money. Grand and glorious banking system we have. The president, officers and directors of this bank will live the balance of their lives, without a doubt, in brown-stone fronts, hire tine liveries and pass the heat of summer in favorite watering resorts. while the cheated depositors can keep on voting for political partiesand men who will perpetuate these glorious conditions. Logansport Advance. W hat a grand thing it is to be a workingman in a “free country! A free and independent sovereign in a “republic!’'A wage slave in a land of “liberty." where, if you can’t live on the wages a gluttonous corporation chooses to offer you, you can “go to the devil the soup house or the grave! Hurrah for humbug, can't and hypocrisy! It's a glorious thing to be a slave, with the liberty to steal or starve. -Coming Nation.

There are supposed to be £346.000,000 of greenbacks in circulation, the result of the greenback agitation of the early seveties, which called a halt to the destruction of all non-interest-bearing obligations of the government and the establishing of an interest-bear-ing burden in their stead. Now the question is, where are the greenbacks? Do you ever get hold of one? Please give this statement your attention.— Thornton's Monitor. Goldbug Cleveland has announced that the greenbacks must all be destroyed to give room for more government bonds and national banks, and says that if the next democratic national convention don’t make that kind of a platform he will vote the republican ticket. How do you like that, you democrats who are opposed to national banks and government bonds and who believe in greenbacks? —Tipton Union Dispatch. Most of the presidential candidates are keeping mum on the silver question. It makes a political trimmer as uncomfortable ds green apples make a boy in mid-summer.—Farmer's Voice. Judging from present indications, the attitude of democracy in the six states where elections will be held will be about as follows: Silver candidates on goldbug platforms. That is a good, straight, consistent democratic straddle—one that won't elect anybody worth mentioning, nor interfere with the national platform to be adopted a year hence. —Chicago Sentinel.

In this country we possess a wealth of <26 per head more than any other nation except France, Rockefeller has $200,000,000 for his head and several millions of people have not a bungtown copper per head. But it looks w’ell on paper to tell how rich we are as a people. It is uplifting to a starving man to tell him that the country has more wheat than it knows what to do with, even bushels for every man woman and child that there is in the country.—Farmer’s Voice. Benj. F. Tracy, Harrison’s secretary of the navy, is visiting one Andrew Carnegie in •Scotland. They seem to be 1 close friends. Carnegie made our buttle ships and plated them with defective plate.-. so that

the work had all to be done over again. But Tracy “O. K.”-ed the bill and Carnegie got his money, and both are now in Scotland spending it. Of course, they are close friends. Why shouldn't they be'? —Chicago Express. The St. Louis Republican says. “One of the many good results of the democratic state convention in Ohio is an increase in wages in manufacturing establishments." If the goldbug convention in Ohio caused a raise of wages, what about the silver convention in Missouri? They were directly opposites: were they both good?

This is apparently a very good year for the political bosses, especially those who have bad odors about them. The republicans of Pennsylvania, in a tit of temporary honesty, sough to overthrow Senator Quay, but everything indicates that Quay is on top. The democrats bow to Brice and Gorman, and the republicans have their hats off to .1/at Quay. The parties are reforming with a whiz.—Progressive Farmer. The world breathes easier. A British oracle has spoken just a few words only—on the subject of bimetallism. Lord Balfour. first lord of the treasury of Great Britain is reported as saying: “I am in favor of an international agreement but I do not believe that an international agreement would result from an international conference." And the London Daily News interpets this as meaning that Mr. Balfour is opposed to bimetallism, and rejoices greatly thereat, believing that “bimetallism spells ‘ruin' for the great creditor nation of the world.' Chicago Sentinel. The Evansville (Ind.) Courier calls it “the crazy fiscal policy that has made the treasury department the victim of the most powerful and accomplished bunco-steerers in the world.” The drain of gold out of the treasury promises to continue' until another issue of bonds will be necessary. All this talk about the patriotism of the Shylocks is the merest rot. If they intend to produce another panic let them do so at once, as nothing will educate the people to the true cause of panics as will a repetition of the experience of 1893. By all means let us have another genuine Simonpure panic.—Nonconformist. We have yet to hear of the first attempt to enact a Sunday closing ordinance against the usury mill. It grinds on Sunday as well as on Monday and never stops for repairs. Interest eats continually and never sleeps. Its action is one of perpetual motion. -Chicago Express. J. Sterling Morton has been named in connection with the presidential nomination. And now since the nomination has struck that level, we propose the name of George Francis Train.—Farmer’s Voice.