People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ask for silver money. Steer clear of National Bank notes. The National bankers are wincing, just the same. Don’t be buncoed by accepting National Bank notes. If the greenbacks are destroyed the people ought to revolt. The Campbell won in Ohio against the old war-horse, Thurman. Clevelandism and McKinleyism are the same on the main question. Grover Cleveland will recommend the destruction of the greenbacks. Men can be supported cheaper at work than in jail—besides its safer. Every time a millionaire is made a million other men lose a dollar apiece. The money power will never stop short of the destruction of the greenbacks. The gold-bugs will be thoroughly united next year. Will the silver men also unite? The two old parties are the business agents of the corporations, trusts and the money power. What is the use of a man talking free silver this year if he don’t intend to vote for it next year? If a man insists on giving you a National Bank note in payment for debt, you know what to do. Government by the people and for the people is impossible without money for the people issued by the government only. The French people designed and built the Suez canal—but British capitalists own it —owing to the beneficent bond system of robbery . Any system of banking by which the banks issue their own notes and charge the people interest on them as though they were money is a fraud. You don’t hear much more about “McKinley tin” since the people have learned the truth. Every tin mine in America is owned by English capitalists.

If the democratic party can’t nominate a free silver man next year it will be because it is not a free silver party. And right here we predict that it won’t. Government, can’t, help the people very much in the present situation. But if the people will they can greatly improve the government and thus help themselves. If the silver democrats are talking this year with any other object in view than to prove how foolinsh they will act next year, it is not apparent to the general public. Secretary Carlisle was a poor man when we went into the cabinet. Now it is announced that he is a millionaire. He stood in with the syndicate that is protecting “our credit.” Things are getting to such a point in this country that dissensions in the party can’t be settled by a letter from the president nor a conference at Memphis, Washington or anywhere else. If the masses of the people only knew how this country was being run and what a bunco steering game was being made out of the United States treasury, there would be a revolution inside of 48 hours. What is sound money. The banker’s answer would be: “Loan the people our own notes and charge them interest on them.” This is the bunco game which Cleveland and Carlisle are trying to steer us into. Governor Morrill of Kansas, who wants the republican nomination for vice president, has been back east lately and announces that Kansas republicans are recovering their courage and standing up boldly for sound money. The National bankers laugh at Coxey’s money idea. Yet the government would be behind the Coxey legal tender notes. On the other hand, a lot of irresponsible, non-producing dead-heads are back of the National Bank notes. No wonder they laugh at Coxey’s plan. The trouble with the platform which P. Wat Hardin of Kentucky is trying to stand on and the one he wants to stand on are so far apart that he is compelled to construct a false work under him in order to prevent the ripping of his political pants. Hence he brings up the negro issue. Some things never die until they are shot to death. Chattel slavery was one of those things and it looks now like debt slavery wrnuld only be settled in the same way. “Give me liberty, or give me death” is as patriotic a sent!-’ ment to-day as it was one hundred and twenty years ago. The Democrats at Eminence, Kentucky, howled down Bradley, the republican nominee, in his effort at the joint discussion at that place. The party should not be held responsible for what the ruffians do, but if there are not enough decent men in it to enforce the law against the ruffians, it ought to go out of business.