People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Farm Loans. [ARTICLE]

Farm Loans.

Government banks. Pay the bonds in silver. The Omaha platform or something better. A substantial gain this fall means success for the people's party in 1896. The free silver men cannot hope to win without uniting with the populists. Lyman Trumbull, the great jurist and economist, wants fortunes limited to §1,000,000. People's party speakes are having immense meetings in all states where campaigns are in progress. Fifty cents pays for a copy of “The Great Debate" between Horr and Harvey. For sale at this office. There is nothing in the platform of the people's party that is offensive to a sensible free coinage man. The voting strength of the people’s party last fall was an even 2.000.01’0; it will be over 3.000.000 this year. Every form of debt, public or private, should be made payable in lawful money of any kind, gold silver or paper.

If the elections this year indi- : cate 2,500.000 populist votes in the United States that party will elect the next president. Just laws would rnaks it im- | possible for an honest man to| accumulate more than the equivalent of his own actual product. - - - No truer populist lives than I Senator Peffer. Read his letter I in this paper; may his recent injuries prove as harmless as the recent vile slanders of the plutocratic press. Senator Peffer of Kansas was badly injured in a railroad wreck on Lookout Mountain last Friday. but was able to be taken home the next day, though his face is badly disfigured. Give the people the government bank and a chance to borrow 7 money on such security as private bankers accept, and let the interest charge be based on the actual cost of running such a system. There will be but one party opposing the two old parties in 1896. There will be a union of the populists and free coinage men, and the Omaha platform will be preserved in every essential respect. Jerry Simpson is waking Kansas to greater political activity than ever before. The people turn out by thousands to hear his brilliant summary of the living issues. He favors the payment of the bonds in silver. Read Senator Peffer's letter in this paper refuting the charge made by the lying old party newspapers that he had quit the people’s party, repudiated the Omaha platform and would oppose the free coinage of silver.

The issues of gold bonds by President Cleveland were illegal and the people should repudiate the agreement to pay them in coin, which means gold under the existing treasury ruling, and pay them in silver or gold as is most convenient to the government, and pay them at once with the coin now in the treasury, and stop the burden of interest. It was the result of a conspiracy between the bankers of England and America, and was done in notorious defiance of the sentiment of congress and the will of the people.

The Omaha platform is rightly called the second Declaration of Independence. It is the embodiment of the best understanding of political truths of earnest, patriotic men. The subsidized press places the net profits to the syndicate on the big bond sale steal at only §4,000,000. Only four million dollars, but then perhaps they will make more out of the next deal. The “something better" of the Omaha platform is clearly public banks, wherein money may be deposited with absolute safety and loans made to the general public upon the same property security that is now satisfactory to private bankers. Walk right along, brother populists, on the right side of the middle of the road; don't let the procession stop because of any old party blockade; every fort you capture this year you will not have to storm next year when it is more strongly defended. There is plenty of sport ahead for the managers of the old party campaigns next year. Harmony will prevail of course in all the conventions and conferences, though it be necessary to have half of theparticipants “knocked down and drug out.” Oh. there is music in the air. Ohio populists are rallying to the support Coxey with an enthusiasm that is a revelation to the old party managers; it may be a landslide to the great commonweal leader. The unanswerable truth of his propositions is captivating the masses without distinction of party. Silver will be restored to its coinage rights by the elections of next year if the free coinage advocates.the exclusive silveites, are sensible men and join the populists in their grand tight for reform along all essential lines. The populists are for silver but not for silver alone.

Peffer and Watson; how would that look at the head of the ticket next year. Senator Peffer I of Kansas and Tom Watson of Georgia? That is the suggestion of George C. Ward, one of the brainiest writers and clearest advisers in the populist party. It would make a humming ticket. The bond syndicate has withdrawn its protection of the treasury reserve and divided the final profits on the big transaction, which amounts to nearly $lO,000,000. It would be interesting to know’ just what part of the stupendous steal was given the Judas w’ho disgraces the American presidency. Fusion is the order of the day in old Seward county, Kansas, but it is the two grand old parties that are fusing. The union was consummated last Saturday.both the old parties holding their conventions at the same place and dividing the nominations. The county is strongly populist and the fusion will be defeated. The democrats of Union county, lowa, held their county convention at Creston last Saturday and adopted a “sound money” platform by a close vote after a bitter fight. No one would accept a nomination and there will be no democratic county ticket in the field. The democratic votes will be divided between the republicans and populists, in fact there is a practical fusion between rhe gold bug democrats and the republicans.

Fusion between the democrats and republicans in Union county, lowa, and Seward county. Kan. “The common enemy must be met, brother, and come to think about it we democrats and republicans agree perfectly on about every point; we both want ‘sound money,’ which means gold; we both oppose silver because that is not ‘sound money;’ we both oppose greenback money and favor a continuance of national bank money; we both oppose government ownership of the electric wires and the railroads; we both oppose the crazy Jeffersonian-Lincolnisms in the populist platform those old fools were as big lunatics as the pops are; we both want two great parties so we can swap around and watch each other and see that the other does not steal more than we do. The tariff? Well, that will keep; just put it on ice for a little while.”

Indiana populists should conduct a campaign of education from this date on till November, 1896: circulate books on economic philosophy and see that your neighbor has red hot papers occasionally. y The next people party national convention will exceed in importance any previous convention held on American soil since this country declared its autonomy. It will be composed of the best brain and truest manhood of America, and more people will feel personally interested in its deliberations than can be said of any previous convention of any party. The Inter Ocean concedes 40.000 votes to Petitt, populist candidate for governor of Kentucky. Weavers vote was 23,500, and when it is understood that immense gains are coming from the republican side as well as from the disrupted democracy, it is certain he will far exceed any old party estimate made now. The whole populist ticket is strong. Here is a tip. You free coinage democrats and republicans who want the populist platform changed to meet your conservative views, just read the platform once yourself. Perhaps you don’t know that it is very much like the platforms made in Jefferson's time, and is marvelously close to a plaguarism on the the republican platform upon which John C. Freemont ran for the presidency in 1856. When the people’s party again meets in national convention it will adopt a platform of principles. It may conclude that the Omaha declaration of principles is all right, but in all human probability there will be some alterations. An attempt will be made to better it, and what the majority conclude upon will of course be the platform the party will put before the people for their verdict. It is certain, however. that there will be no dodg ing of an issue by ambiguous words; what is said will be so plainly stated that no one can misunderstand the meaning.

What is the matter with giving Independent Cuba a lift? What reason is there for allowing any European country to control even one foot of soil on this hemisphere? The United States could now. in perfect conformity with international law. recognize the independence of Cuba and stop this most desperate struggle for liberty. No people ever fought more desperately and showed greater self-sacrifice for their country than the Cubans are doing. It is impossible to conceive of a more dispicable enemy to combat than Spain. Cruel and barbarous even beyond the atrocities of the Orient. And still our government is using its strenuous efforts to prevent private aid from this country being extended to those struggling freemen. A fine, new 7 house for sale on corner of Ceader and Scott streets—44x26—s rooms and closets. 3 poarches, summer kitchen, wash house, w 7 ell and cistern. This property will be sold at a bargain as the owner leaves city. Call at this office for further information.

We are prepared to make farm loans at a lower rate of interest than any other firm in Jasper county. The expenses will be as low as the lowest. Call and see us. Office in the Stockton & Williams Block, near the Couft House. Warren & Irwin.