People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

More bonds mean more bondage. Laws must come from the people. Gold bugs unite and silver men fight Slaves are cheap when dollars are high. The cry is now to crucify the greenbacks. Debt is the thorny path to the hel! of poverty. Labor is - boycotting the National Bank notes.. Banks of issue are the pawnships of American liberty. The boycott against National Bank notes is on in earnest. Why doesn’t England take National Bank notes instead of gold? The bankers say that the boycott ain’t hurting them. ' Whew! Did your party do as it promised? Then why don’t you leave it? All history proves that nothing is settled until it is settled right. Brice lives in New York, but his spirit lives in the so-called democracy of Ohio. When a nation is pursuing a suicidal policy its citizens follow the example individually. Human rights are more sacred than property rights, but they are not in it with plutocracy. National Bank notes are no better than the promissory notes of a man whom you do not know. Populist votes are the only thing the gold-bugs fear. They are not afraid of either of the old parties. The most effective work of the silver men would be to vote with a party that is in favor of free coinage. Have the American people lost their courage that they dare not throw off the financial yoke of England? Hungry men can be shot down but their blood will cry to heaven and “vengeance is mine saith the Lord.”

Justice Jackson’s death make room for another cuckoo gold-bug corporation lawyer in the supreme court. The Texas Populists are now claiming 75,000 majority at the election in 1896; and they are in the middle-of-the-road, too. It is said that Wall street paid Ho'rr SIOO a day to attend Harvey’s School. And then they would not publish what he said. Is life or property more profitable to a plutocratic government? Naturally that kind of government protects what it finds most profitable. The gold-bug papers continue to write obituaries of the populist and free-silver movements —but there are no tombstones for them. Sherman, Cleveland and Carlisle seem to be the three balls which represent the Jew pawnshop in which the credit of this nation is now at soak. It looks just a little funny to see the democratic party striving to heap glory and honor on the policy of the republican party after all these years of hard fighting. “The way out” is for the people to get out of the two old parties and vote for their own interests instead of merely to save the party or give some politician office. National Bank notes form a part of the lash with which capital wrongs labor. The laborer who helps to continue them is either a traitor or he is grossly ignorant. The street railways are capitalized at $985,000,000, but they only cost $300,000,000. According to this the franchises which cost them but little are worth $685,000,000. If the free coinage of silver will give the silver mine owner a dollar for fifty cents worth of silver why won’t it give the laborer a dollar for half as much work? These gold-bugs are so funny. The milk dealers in Chicago are adulterating their milk and poisoning the babies. But then it is a private affair you know, and it is not right to limit the amount of money a man can make. Gold is at a premium and seems to go to Europe regardless of the single standard. Talk about the danger of gold being driven out by free coinage of silver! Why, without silver we shall soon have no money at all. The main fact, without considering any of the elaborate arguments on either side,is that the people do not use gold in their transactions, and the bankers want to force the people to use bank notes instead of government paper and silver. The gold-bugs in the democratic party of Mississippi now insist that the state convention had no right to make any declaration on the financial ques-tion—-that it should be left to the national convention. Great idea—and very practical from the old party view.