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

Wasson will win In Georgia. "Grover the Fat” is in the fire. The plutocratic bastile must fall. Money and superstition have ruled long enough. The leaders of both old parties are monarchists. The rich anarchists are the breeders of the poor ones. The railroads will reap a good crop of rates this year. If this country can’t make money what country can? The executioner as executive has throttled the nation. The syndicate is now coming in for its part of the contract. Joe Sibley is doing some grand work in the cause of Reform. From seven to ten new Populist papers are being started every week. With an indebtedness of $40,000,000,000 there is always a good crop of interest. Baron Rothschild is doubtless in favor of a third term for President Cleveland. The republican and democratic platforms in Kentucky are on a parity with each other. If all honest men would vote together the thieves would have no show in the world. Old party harmony in Ohio is remarkable. Both old parties have the same kind of a platform. The red flag of the sheriff’s sale represents the most dangerous phase of anarchy in America. The advocates of the 200-cent gold dollar simply wish to confiscate the balance of our property. The man who prostituted Mariah Halpin has conducted the democratic party to a house of ill-fame. If this reform movement acknowledges any leaders they should be clean, level-headed men and women. There are tw r o good things about the “new woman” in politics—she is neither a “summer girl,” nor a dude. Say, did you know that a man in Illinois has “insulted American pride?” What has America to be proud of, any way?

The kind of a 50 cent dollar that is hurting this country is the one that buys two bushels of wheat at 50 cents a bushel. The main question with the farmers is whether they want a one dollar bushel or a two bushel dollar. The plutocrats want the two bushel dollar. When you hear a free silver democrat begin to talk about harmony in the party you may know that he is fixing his bed to lie down by the side of a goldbug. The railroad companies are now adjusting their rates to the end of “all the traffic will bear,” that they may reap a rich harvest from this year’s abundant crops. President Cleveland has done more to disgrace the high office of chief magistrate of this nation than all other presidents put together, yet he is talked of for a third term. If half as much money were paid the old soldiers in pensions as has been paid the gold-sharks who hid their money during the wqr and hired substitutes, every old soldier in the land would have a good home of bis own. An employe was sent to prison for eating a pig’s foot in the Armour packing house. But the big pork magnate has been found guilty of stealing a few hundred thousand dollars from the city of Chicago, and will not be prosecuted at all. The criminal rich are all right.

Now that harvest is over, the fodder is cut, the fruit gathered, and the farmer has a little time to rest before cornshucking time —why not get up a big county rally and picnic? Meet together, have a good time, and spread the gospel of reform. Stir up a revival In your neighborhood. There is one thing that the gold bugs ignore in an effort to support their position; it is that we do not buy anything of other nations with our money. All balances, it is true are supposed to be settled in coin, but the coin is taken by weight the same as pork or beef. For years the balance of trade has been in our favor and had it not been for our suicidal financial system, which made us debtor to England, the movement of gold would be our way instead of against us. This is an era of plain talk. Never in the history of this or any other country was the press engaged in denouncing corruption in such plain and defiant language. Read the reform press, and consider what means the bitter but courageous attack now being made on the system of wholesale debauchery under which we live. American gold mines will produce just as much gold as ever in spite of free coinage of silver—and the fellows who make a business of exporting gold can buy it from the mines cheaper than they get it now. What are they kicking about?