People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

“More bonds inevitable." “No Fusion" is the populist slogan everywhere this fall. There will be plenty of 20c corn and another gold bond issue. The tight in lowa is wholly between the populists and republicans, the democracy being dead. Cleveland’s wealth is estimated at $15,000,000. What will it be after the next issue of 8100,000,000 of gold bonds? President Cleveland will ask ‘his republican brethren of the next congress to burn up the last of the greenbacks, and they’ will do it with alacrity. Strike, brothers, strike while the furnace tires burn to a white heat the iron of political truth. Strike the truth of currency reform home deep into the understanding of your neighbors. The next message of the president will ask congress to burn up what remains of the $346,000.000 of greenbacks, thus still further reducing the circulation and forcing values still lower. Let the good work go on. Everywhere the watching, working, waiting, faithful wheelhorses of reform are jubilant over the disruption of the rank and file of both the old parties, and only reports of rapid growth of the people’s party are heard.

The action of so many democratic state conventions in declaring against silver has completely discouraged the party in Texas and they are coming to she populists by thousands. Texas will be in the populist column in 1896 with a tremendous majority. The American Tramp is the name of another new populist paper at Atlantic. lowa, edited by W. B. Emerson and H. Blumler, two bright reform speakers, whose advent on the stump during the past summer earned them a wide reputation as the “tramp orators.” Now that Mr. Sovereign’s boycott of national bank notes has gone into effect, the Pi'ot desires to announce that it will receive corncobs and pumpkins in payment for subscription if the government will authorize the coinage of these commodities into a circulating medium.

The lowa democrats are making absolutely no tight at all. The gold pugs captured the state convention and will now heartily support the republican ticket, while the free silver democrats are quietly sawing wood for the populists, who are putting up the greatest campaign ever seen in that state. Maryland. Kentucky, lowa and Ohio, have all declared for the gold single standard through their democratic state conventions, and Tennessewill do likewise. How do you like it brother, you whose head is peep ing out through the feathers of Mother Democrat's free silver wing? And still there's more to follow. Judge Elwood of the lowa district court at Carroll decided last Saturday that national banks are not amenable to state laws, and consequently not under the jurisdiction of state courts. The question was one of usury. In plain English it means that a national bank can charge any interest it pleases and can use the state courts to collect its debts, but its victims are barred from redress for its criminal practices. Will some one give a good reason why national banks exist?

Fifty cents pays for a copy of “The Great Debate” between Horr and Harvey. For sale at this office. At last the marriage ceremony is taking place, after many long years of clandestine courtship: it is the wedding of the harlot. Miss Goldite Republican, to the libertine. Mr. Singlestandard Democrat. The bells ring out glad peals in mockery at America’s boasted freedom and “Old Liberty." from shame, is thankful she is dumb. If the president concludes to wait until congress meets before he orders another bond issue, it is because he contemplates forcing that superfluous arm of the government into the retirement of all the remaining greenbacks. Take note now that the Pilot predicts a threat of a stupendous bond issue unless congress orders the greenbacks burned, the only honest money of this country.

Senator Harris, head of the democrat silver section of Tennessee. says he will follow the party’ regardless of its attitude on the silver question. All right, Senator Harris, you can, but you can not take the free silver democratic voters with you, and you can just pin this living prophesy in your silk tile, you won’t warm a seat in the senate chamber a minute after your present contract with the people of Tennessee is completed. There is not a doubt of the political status of Texas: she will give a tremendous populist majority in 1896; old party ties are completely .dissolved in the Lore Star state; men of prominence everywhere. old-time leaders. openly’ embrace the new faith: this grand old legacy of Sam Huston will lead the galaxy of southern states in the general stampede that another year will see inaugurated from democracy’s tattering ruin to the magnificent rcck builded edifice of populism.

The statement is officially made through the press of the money power that another issue of 850,000.000 or $100,000,000 in gold bonds is soon to follow the other big issues of Mr. Cleveland. This is to be done to replenish the rapidly vanishing gold reserve, which the administration is so vainly trying to maintain at the 8100.000,000 mark. When Mr. Cleveland sold the last batch of bonds his apologists said he discriminated against the higher bidders, who offered 81.19, in favar of the Rothchild - Morgan syndicate, who paid but 81.04, because they privately agreed to maintain the treasury reserve at 8100.000,000. The outcome proves that the president was either deceived or he tried to deceive the people, and in either case he appears utterly incompetent to manage the nation affairs. The most rational conclusion for an intelligent people to arrive at is that Mr. Cleveland found it convenient to increase his fast accumulating millions by the transaction, and it is fair to suppose that he will be liberally provided for in the next unnecessary bond sale, which must go to the same syndicate at the same price.

Young man. the one who was around to see the political proph esy editor last week, here is what you wanted to know: There is no chance on earth for any honest man to get to the front in either of the old parties, and there isn't even standing room for thieves. If you want to win the honest plaudits of your fellowmen, put your shoulder to the wheel and help to better their condition. To doit you must understand the canse and cure of existing evils, acknowledged by both parties to be threatening the nation's very life, and make yourself a medium of enlightenment for those w T ho are still misinformed or suffering from that prevalent disease, political prejudice. And further remember; young man, that your reward awaits you in heaven, for a consistently ungrateful people will forget all about you, and your noble work, ■when it comes to nominating a county ticket, unless you get there and stay there. However, it is certainly good business discretion for an ambitious man. who is just entering political life for the emoluments only, to se lect the giant young party that has not an error to appologize for or a stain to disgrace the clean record of its beginning, and which is soon to become the dominant power in the nation’s politics in the very near future.

J. P. Morgan is the uncrowned king that rules all the railroads from St. Louis. Peoria and Chicago to the seaboard. He is the personal representative of a majority of the stockholders of the eastern lines. But a few weeks ago he called a meeting of eastern railroad presidents and plainly told tljem that their jobs depended upon a strict maintenance of rates; all argument that such a course meant ruin to some of the roads was forbidden utterance; he declared that the salvation of the eastern roads depended upon the maintenance of rates at all hazards and if it pinched some of the roads the final result would be satisfactory. He fully’ convinced them that he was in a position to demand the instant resignation of any presi dent, and that any failure to comply with his instructions would not be tolerated. Every reader of the above should realize the meaning of such a , kingly power. It means that the time is arrived when there is but one railroad corporation and that competition is at an end. Gradually the rateswill be adjusted to the highest possible point, where lines parallel each other one will be dismantled, unprofitable feeders will be torn up. the fewest possible miles of rail will be maintained, operating costs will be reduced to a minimum, labor unions will be discountenanced everywhere, and in case of strikes the roads will quit running and quietly wait until the strikers get hungry. very hungry, in fact the roads are in a position to dictate terms to the government itself through the mouth of one man. This thing may be overdone. It is possible that sleeping freedom may assert herself some fine day and try this railroad business in the name of the whole people.

When a goldbug tells you that silver coinage will drive gold out of circulation, ask him about how much gold he has seen circulating for the last two or three years.—Chicago Express. Lorillard. the tobacco king, has made all the money he needs out of the Americans and is now going to make his home in England. The press dispatch which makes this announcement says: “Mr Lorillard will be a welcome addition to the fashionable American colony in England." Thus one by one they are gathering home.—Chicago Sentinel. Debs, the great American Railway Union labor leader, who is now being confined in jail at Woodstock, Ills., without having been proven guilty of or charged with commiting any crime, on labor day received thouands of letters and telegrams expressive of sympathy, good will and confidence from prominent leaders of all kinds of labor organizations and other people of high rank from all over the United Stttes. —Progressive Farmer. Judge Tiffany, one of the greatest legal authorities in the United States wrote; “There is no such thing as gold or silver money or paper money. Money is the sovereign authority impressed on that which is capable of taking and retaining the impression. The coin may be metal, parchment or paper. The value is in the stamp, and not in the metal or material.—Logansport Advance. It would be interesting to know what the 200-cent gold dollar people suggest as to the means of getting the country out of the “slough of despond.” They have had their own way right along and things have been getting worse all the time. If the free coinage of silver is not a remedy, what on earth can be? Are we stuck in the mud for eternity?—Farmers Voice.