People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Boycott national bank notes. Down with national bank notes. Dull times are harvests for the speculators. Do you vote the same ticket the corporation thieves do? Demand United States money instead of national bank notes. Demand silver or treasury notes in payments of all debts. National bankers are against high wages. Don’t take their notes. National bank notes are being boycotted by all true Americans. Mind your own business by voting against corporation robbery and gambling. No true American will receive national bank notes. They are English money. Compel the national bankers to pay you in gold. Don’t take their paper promises. When writing out checks be sure they read: “Not payable in national bank notes.” J No man who has not himself suffered, can truly sympathize with his fellowman in distress. Working for free coinage through the old parties, is like betting 16 to 1 against a pool room. God created man and man created money—yet human life is considered cheaper than money. Lots of federal soldiers are reading reform papers. They will not always obey the orders of tyranny. Labor is of divine origin, but one ■would not think it by the way it is treated at the hands of capital. What good will that Horr-Harvey debate do the gold bugs if they don’t circulate it? Are they ashamed of it? Storekeepers are putting up signs like this: “National bank notes not received here in payment of debts.” It brings lots of custom. When you hear of a “sound money” speaker taking the stump just ask what corporation he is attorney for. Catches them every time. If, by chance, you should get a national bank note send it to the bank for redemption in gold. By doing so the boycott is made more effectual. “Neutrality laws” to the contrary notwithstanding, it is the patriotic duty of the United States to recognize the Cuban people in their struggle for liberty.

The average earnings of productive labor is about $8 per day for each workman. How much of it do you get? Have you the liberty to get what you earn ? “If Christ came to Chicago,” and “If Christ came to Congress” are books, that suggest the question “If Jefferson came to Kentucky” or “If Lincoln came to Ohio”—what? It is worthy of note that the portraits of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln do not adorn the parlors of the bank of England. Only traitors to America are thus honored. Every man is entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You have life and the liberty to toil every moment of your time. No time to think about the “pursuit of happiness.” The people of this country are feeding millions of people in Europe. We get our pay by canceling the interest on the bonds they hold against us. In other words we are their slaves. The John Sherman democrats will have their way in the next national convention, and the Jeffersonian democrats will have to indorse republican principles or vote the Populist ticket. If there are more free silver democrats and republicans than there are Populists, let them come into the Populist party, and, being in the majority, they can make the platform to suit their ideas. One of the worst features in connection with the low price of horses is that it threatens to ruin the meat canning industry. They are buying up old broken down horses and killing and canning them. President Cleveland is willing to have the United States interfere to restore a cannibal queen—but to recognize the Cuban patriots who are struggling to establish a republic—oh, no! He shows himself in favor of monarchy. A Tacoma (Washington) bank with a capital of $120,000 failed recently with less than SSOO in cash on hand. It owed depositors $228,000. Greatest bank system on earth! Ought to be a law passed to hang people who rob banks, and bankers who rob the people. The democratic party has denounced every policy which the republicans ever embraced and then stole it. It has even taken the negro to its bosom and extended over him the protection of counting his ballot—as it was not voted. The negro is no longer a factor in politics. The republicans don’t care to take him up, and the democrats can't spare him in the construction of their majorities.