People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

• 'Where ts prosperity? x. "Save your money and buy a judge,” Don’t forget to boycott national bank notes. The Nebraska Populists are done with fusion. National bank notes are not legal tender. Quay is still republican boss for Pennsylvania. Demand good American money in payment of your claims. The Lord is warning the eastern gold bugs by earthquakes. Get even with the national banks by refusing to take their bills. The national bankers are organized against labor. Don’t take their notes. Sixteen to one and the mints in full blast at once—that is one thing we want. The democratic ruin is too new and barren to be picturesque in the moonlight. The reform is incomplete that does not embrace the abolition of banks of issue. You say you don’t like these hard times. Well, why did you vote for them? Tell all your acquaintances how hard it is to pass a national bank note at the store. Don’t “cuss” the corporations and trusts and then vote with a party that fosters them. The Kentucky democrats are trying to switch off the currency question onto a negro domination track. The only way you can tell republicans from democrats now-a-days is to hear them denounce each other. “The duty of democrats is to stand by the ticket,” is the way the committee in Kentucky puts the order. Boycott the bank notes and get even with the fellows who are engaged in boycotting, the greenbacks and silver. Grover has a lot of “sound” speech makers under his command —but they are not “good in Europe,” nor anywhere else. Speaking of a “vigorous foreign policy,” why not use such a policy in declaring American financial independence? The scarcer the money is the “sounder” it is for the gold bugs. “Sound money” means nothing but low prices.

A man has to disagree with the world in order to accomplish reform. If he didn’t disagree with it, he wouldn’t be a reformer. Next year the democrats will be marching to gold bug music—sold and delivered, hoof, hair and hide. Boys, get ready to take your medicine. All the Populists are for free silver — not one of them opposed to it. This cannot be said of any other party. Then why not join the People’s party? The banks have “got money to burn” —that is, they have a lot of U. S. legal tender greenbacks that they would like to have destroyed—at government expense. The administration makes use of the postofflce department for distributing goldbug literature free of postage. This is a great saving to Wall street and Englaiid. Labor commissioners get out some interesting statistics in regard to the number of men out of employment—but none of them are figuring much on how to put them to work. No wonder money is scarce—all kinds of money except gold is npw boycotted. The money-lenders are boycotting greenbacks and silver, while the laborers are boycotting bank notes. Where are the free silver democrats of Ohio at? Curled up on the floor‘at the feet of millionaires and corporations, just as the free silver democrats in every state will be this time next year. Spain seems to have, dug up snore snakes than she can kill. There is a strong socialist republican sentiment in Spain that not only sympathizes with Cuba, but threatens to make a republic of Spain. In placing the credit of the government, Cleveland and Carlisle made official acknowledgment that the people of this country are practically at the mercy of a set of foreign and domestic financial brigands. A national convention will be sufficient for settling the parity of the leaders of the two old parties—but it looks as if it might require an international convention to settle the quarrel in the Democratic party. The Republican National League appears to be on the wrong trail. It has issued an address denouncing the “unAmerican blunders of President Cleveland.” Yet the highest republican authority, John Sherman, and the great republican daily papers endorse Grov- I er’s policy.. The league is barking at its own shadow.