People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — Not Any Danger. [ARTICLE]

Not Any Danger.

Democrats and Republicans who oppose government ownership of a railroad on the grounds that it would perpetuate a party in power, do not believe it themselves. If they did they would work for it, for some of them want perpetual power awfully bad. A rigid civil service system would prevent political corruption in government railway service as completely as it prevents it in the postoffice department. The disfranchisement of government employes is not necessary, though it is done now in the case of soldiers of our regular army. Notice how England avoids all danger of political corruption. “Government employes,” says a writer, “including all those engaged in the postal service, are forbidden to take any active or open part in political campaigns. “They may vote as they please, but they must not belong to any political club, sign any political documents, pay any political assessment or take any action that would prevent their being good civil servants under another party.” Give the foregoing your careful study and make up your mind as to whether the non-partisan plan is a good one. It certainly looks well over in England. —Nevada Directory . You will take notice that all the leaders of this free-silver»inside-the-party movement want office, every mother's son of them. A wise man will take the hint.