People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Coin's Financial School (price 25c) is given free to every new trial subscriber of The. People's Pilot. Twenty-five cents for three months. Shall Cuba be free? Sign the petition for Cuban liberty. On with the campaign of education. The work being done this fall toward spreading political truth is part of the campaign of' 1896. Shall the Cubans be free? Sign the petition in this paper asking congress to recognize their belligerent rights. The government bank -will probably find favor with the framers of the next populist platform and take the place of the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance. There will be changes made in the next populist platform. There are new conditions to meet and new propositions for the corrections of public evils. The essential fundamental principles. however, will not be changed. The money question in all its bearings will be the pivital plank.

Don’t wait till 1900 to drive the money power out of the temple of state. It can be done next year. Put your shoulder to the w’heel now and keep the reform wagon rolling. Keep it rolling in the "middle of the road.” if you please, but in doing so remember that the common courtesy requires you to give your fellow travelers a chance to pass you if they desire. It is reported that Mexico is about to recognize the belligerent rights of the Cuban insurgents. Hurrah for Montezumas, and may the spirit of liberty which woke their sires seventy five years, when they threw’ off the galling yoke of the ever barberous Spain, again assert itself in the hearts of its freemen for their cruelly oppressed brothers pf Cuba. The whole history of Spain, at least in America, has been one of shameful barbarity and robbery. Without other excuse than the sword to force, shehas transgressed eyery law of humanity, as well as those of civilized nations, from the dispoilation of grandly peaceful Incas and Montezumas down to the present day, when of all her rich dependencies in the new’ world but Cuba remains to satisfy her brutal demands for gold. An election will be held in the Tenth congressional district of Georgia next month. That is the one in which Tom Watson has undoubtly been elected to congress for two consecutive terms and each time counted out. His opponent last fall was Mr. Black, who believing great fraud .had been perpetrated refused to accept the election and proposed to resubmit the matter to the people. Democrats generally concede the election of Watson on a fair coun t.