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

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

It can be said in truth that the last end of the democratic party is w’orse than the first.-Charlotte (N. C.) People. The United States is the only nation on earth that is begging money from foreigners to keep itself alive.-Farmers’ Voice. The ratio betw’een Grover’s boys and girls, if universally adopted, would be almost as fatal to the country as his single gold standard. —Erie (Pa.) People. The Tory editor is a queer mixture of cuss it and take it. Subscribers should not tempt those Tory gentry with any more nasty silver dollars.— Lynn (Minn.) Leader. Is it the irony of fate, or is it simply retributive justice, that the wind is petering out of the democracy at an even pace with the exhaustion of the national treasury?—Ex. There will be no dissensions in the ranks of the people’s party. The traitors w’ill be kicked out and the fools reduced to the ranks; that’s all there is about it.—Butte (Mont.) Bystander. After the holding of the next national democratic convention it w’ill be discovered that there w T as an overproduction of free silver resolutions by democrats this year.-Aniston (Ala.) Leader. Judging by the strife in the old political parties over the silver and other questions, it looks as if the devil had lost his shrewdness. by overstepping the mark.-Manchester (N. H.) Enterprise.

Free silver carried the primary elections in Louisiana ten to one. but the only reference to the event in eastern papers is in the editorial lines, “the free silver craze is dying out."—Brockton (Mass.) Diamond. Notwithstanding the promise of the English shylocks to hold the American eagle up by the tail until October the sacred gold reservS was “touched” last week to the amount of 84.000,000 in one day.—Murphysboro (ill.) Journal. It actually is tiresome to hear a fellow sit down and argue that this country cannot act independently of Great Britain. In olden times such Tories as these were used to ornament the limbs of the stately red oak.—Reynolds (Ga.) Watchman. Financial reform is the great central issue. On it the next campaign will be fought: no other issue can be forced into the fight; populists, stand unflinching by your whole financial blatform. w 7 in that tight, and we will be in better shape to continue our good work.—Ripley (Tenn.) Advocate. The banks have on deposit of the people’s money nearly 85,000.000,000. There is only about $1,500,000,000 of all kinds of money claimed to be in circulation and in fact only about onefifth of it is really in circulation. As to gold there is very little, comparatively speaking, but these bankers want a gold standa.id. Now suppose everybody would demand their deposits in gold. Wouldn’t the drones howl? Or even if money, just plain, everyday, any kind of money, should be demanded, what are the usury absorbers going to do? They could not pay one dollar in ten. And they are the fellows who dictate our financial laws’ Are we fools?—Fort Wayne Dispatch. When the United States gets to the point where it cannot protect its own credit without the aid of a syndicate of bankers, isn T t it about time for the people to take charge of the government for a spell?—Tip ton Union Dispatch.

«• The London Times comes out for ex-President Harrison and says he should be the republican nominee next year. This is the greatest boom “Grandpa’s hat” has yet received. If the financial pirates of Europe so determine his nomination is secure. European influences will dominate both old party conventions. The ordinary honest democrat and republican may not know it but as a factor in politics they are “notin it.” They are plaint tools voting themselves and posterity to wage slavery of the meanest kind.—Logansport Advance. A national bank note is not money. It passes as money because the man receiving it be- ■ lieves it will be taken by the man to whom it will be offered. That much might be said of a good counterfeit.—Chicago Express.