People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

Quay, of Pennsylvania, threatened to send some of his old associates to the penitentiary if they did not cease their opposition to him. and not one offered to retaliate. That, it seems to us, was missing what you might call a golden opportunity.— Farmers Voice. Men who cannot accept a new truth are dead. Reformers should remember this. It takes a good many dead men to equal one who is thoroughly alive. — Our Nation's CMsis. A high-priced circulating medium abridges the law of • -supply and demand" and makes it practically inoperative. —Logansport Advance. Building warships and increasing standing armies will not relieve the sufferings of the poor and oppressed. Powder and lead have never been known to relieve hunger, to quench thirst or to hide nakedness.-Nonconformist.

Yes. this is a good year. Crops, interest, mortgages, taxes and political humbuggery will be abundant.—Progressive Farmer. The great wrong of the single gold standard is that prices of all products are tixed in gold, no matter what the price is paid in. This gold price is maintained for the benefit of a few thousand speculators in money, notes, bonds and mortgages, and it robs more than sixty millions of pro ducers. —Progressive Farmer. A populist can look the world in the face with pride and say “I’m a populist.” But a republican or democrat always has to stop and explain which section of his party he trains with.—Kentucky Populist. Mexico is shipping silver to England. America is shipping silver to England. The countries of South America are shipping silver to England. Very little is said about it but England has the contract to raise the #200,000,1’00 in silver which China is to pay to Japan. The United States is not purchasing silver now. ard the silver syndicate has no competitor in the purchase of the white metal. Yet the price is steadily rising.- Chicago Sentinel “A workingman.” says the Coming Nation, “wrote me from Cleveland that he did not want the paper and that he had no use for socialism. So? Let’s see. He doubtless learned to read in a socialistic public school, went to the socialistic letter box over a socialistic pavement or street to mail it, had it carried to the post office by a socialistic letter carrier, and delivered to me by a socialistic postal system. In fact, if the socialist principles were eliminated entirely from our government, he would never have learned to read and write, nor could he have sent the letter by some express contrivance at a big cost.” Those who believe the staple argument of the gold bug press and gold bug orators that the decline in the price of silver is owing to an overproduction of that metal, would do well to read the following statement by the treasury department bureau of the mint, Aug. 16, 1893. The ratio production of gold to silver from 1792 to 1820 was as 1 to 3, and from lb2o to 1840 as 1 to 2. and in 1873 the production of gold exceeded that of silver by #15,000.000, all of which gives the lie most emphatically - to the assertion that the relative production of the two metals has, or ever ' had anything to do with fixing a j ratio between them: has or ever i had anything to do with depreci[atingor debasing silver. That I was done by law—or rather by a trick.—Elw’ood (Neb.) Ci'izen.

Writing for the Farm. Stock land Home a correspondent says i that he has had considerable exi perience in threshing beans and peas. The main difficulty is that | the machine is usually run at too high a speed, which splits the peas or beans. Adjust the govJernoron the engine to run at a J low speed but keep a good head iof steam on to hold the machine up. Remove the concave and i put an iron plate where the concave was. which allows the pea? .or beans to slip easily. Put on all the blast you can. Peas should not be too dry when I stacked: the best time to stack is just as soon as the sap is out of the straw and before the pea is too hard. He cuts his beans with a mower and rakes into rows and stacks them right up. Ferguson & Wilson, will practice in all the courts of the.state. Isaac. Glazebrook employs in his blacksmith, horseshoeing and wagon repairing shop more workmen than any other like establishment in Jasper county