People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Page 4

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The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG. (Lessee.) PHOT PUHI SHING CO., (Limited,) Proprietors. JJavid H. Yeoman, President. Wm. Washbukn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook. Sec'y. J. A. McFarland. Treas The People's Pilot is the official organ of the Jasper and Newton County Alliances, and .s published every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind.

If the greenbacks are burned liberty will freeze to death. The gold reserve has concluded to take a trip to Europe. The democratic bosses are now making some more promises. The oftener you read the Omaha platform the better you will like it. According to the plutocrat an honest dollar is a better one than he gave. Otto Thum denominates Grover Cleveland as the “loan fisherman.” Vote against the pompous plutocrats •who call the people cattle and fools. The democratic party favored chattel slavery and now favors debt slavery. The people are coming to us on the railroad question; don't give up the fight on that. Senator John Sherman has a good joke on Senator Peffer. Mr. Peffer has a son named Sherman. The Sherman-Rothschild factions of the two old parties talk of organizing another new party. America governed by an English protectorate! That is where the gold standard is leading us. Money is reported “easy” in NewYork and Loudon. But it is darned hard (to get) further west. The republicans will do something in the next congress; they will warm their seats and draw their salaries.

If you want to be a democrat you want to get out of the democratic party, for it is no longer democratic. If the government can carry our letters and parcels up to four pounds, why can’t it carry us and our freight? The democratic party ought to officially declare what the plaform of 1892 means on the silver question. Discrimination by a citizen or corporation against any money of the United States government is treason. The gold reserve is paternalism for the special benefit of a few importers of foreign goods, and exporters of gold. Our national treasury now assumes the attitude of a beggar, soliciting alms from the bankers of New York and London. There is a very large crop of corn this year, but the interest crop will also be larger than usual, as it is increasing all the time. There is enough politics in the sermon on the moun': to damn both old parties, but most of the preachers are afraid to use it. If the democratic party had never done anything else bn* give us Grover Cleveland it would le enough to condemn it forever. The price of corn is going down and railroad rates are going up. That is one of the ways the farmers are being robbed. The price of money going up is another, and worse.

All the bankers, railroad kings, trusts and owners of combines are in the two old parties and are fostered by them. They vote the democratic and republican tickets. Do you vote with them? The difference between the republican party and democratic party on the silver question is that the former used fraud when it demonetized silver, and the latter bulldozed it through Congress. The paper that suggests that a man's political opinion can be changed by a change in the weather or a big crop of corn, insults American intelligence. That paper regards the voters simply as fools. One reason the two old parties don't like the populists is, the populist platform contains so much that is good that neither one of the two old frauds can make a platform to suit the people without copying after it. Over $25,000,000 a year is stolen from bank depositors in the United States. This amount in silver would weigh seven hundred and fifty tons. Now you can see why the bankers are all howling against silver. It’s too heavy carry.—Chicago Express.

— meeting up ut) Ai ca , ns held a har mony resolutions of harmobf?" Th ' ey P_ assea the bosses had a scrap, ~fn t v, C lof got his face all hammered into one eye gouged out and generally “done up.” These harmony meetings are great things among the bosses. The masses don’t need them. They vote as they are told. Whenever the bosses decide the question the masses are informed and they fall into line.

Shall the greenbacks be burned? You cannot get free silver by voting for gold-bug parties. The trouble with the gold reserve is that it wont reserve. America is paying too big a price for this “international” farce. The biggest bank robberies are all committed by the men inside. Vest of Missouri has been pulled down, into the goldbug camp. When the golden calf wiggles its tail Carlisle and Cleveland dance. “America for England” is the meaning of the gold standard war cry. What are you kicking about? The syndicate will save the country. Another American heiress, Miss Vanderbilt, has captured a real “dook.” Stand on the Omaha platform and fight for anything in it you want to. Have your neighbor to read the Omaha platform; perhaps he has never read it. Say, Bud. do you ever pray? If you do that is all right, but do you vote as you pray?

The anarchists who now control our government should be driven out forever. Burning the greenbacks would be burning American patriotism at the stake. Roger Queer Mills of Texas is the latest curiosity purchased by the Rothschilds. It is not much trouble for a dishonest man to lie for a corrupt party for a good salary. The democratic “chance” has reduced the United States treasury to beggary. Three-fourths of the wealth of the United States is owned by nine per cent of the people. Carlisle is out with his mouth organ begging the bankers for gold to see the calf dance. The question is shall the citizen or the dollar rule this country. On which side are you? Bank notes are very cheap money for the banks that use them, but dear for the people. The Kentucky democrats don’t know where they are at, yet. They will know after the election. The only true test of democracy’ is “never scratched a ticket in my life.” That is what the "harmony” talk means. If either one or both of the two old parties are in favor of free silver why have we not got it*? Did you ever think of that? No business is more intricate than the pose-office business, yet no one would think of letting it out to a corporation of capitalists. Chauncey Mouth Depew miraculously escaped from his European admirers long enough to speak at the New York state republican convention. The papers have a way of getting things badly mixed. It is hard to tell whether the gold resrrve has gone fishing, or Grover has gone to Europe.

The kind of “vigorous foreign policy” that the country needs is one that will banish foreign bond syndicates from America, and prohibit alien ownership of property. There seems to be a stampede in the democratic party on the silver question, but the leaders will take the boys around in a circle and round them up in a gold-bug camp. The democrats of Pennsylvania in state convention endorsed Grover Cleveland’s policy and adopted a Rothschilds’ platform. Democratic free silver men will vote ’er straight, as usual. Now that America has got done ravin’ (Dunraven) about that yacht race, what is the matter with challenging all England for a fight on the financial question? We can beat her at anything. The fact that cat-gut makes good fiddle-strings doesn't make a cat’s voice melodious. Neither does the fact that there are thousands of honest men in both of the old parties, make “harmony” and “reform inside the party” possible.

At the recent dedication and reunion at the Chickamauga battle-ground, a i company of ex-confederate soldiers, with their old tattered gray uniforms, marched under the stars and stripes. It is now in order for the fellows who never smelled powder to quit fighting the war over with their mouths. The railroad kings are looking with greedy eyes on the hie corn crop. They figuring on an advance in rates of 5 cew s per hundred pounds from Chicago, to xew York and points on the seaboard. This means a tax of seventyfive million dollars on the crop of corn. But private ownership of railroads is a beautiful thing.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY OCT. 10, 1895.

PINCHING THE PEOPLE

SILVER MEN IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY KEEP STILL. Else the Supply of Money West and South Will Be Shut Off Altogether — The Administration Policy of BiaclrmalL The fidelity of the Washington Star to the administration’s gold policy gives it great advantages in obtaining reliable information as to the purpose of Cleveland’s democracy. In its issue of September 5, 1895, it says: “They, the (sound money democrats) profess no fear of the silver men bolting the convention, because that sentiment is strongest in a section where democrats are forced by the instincts of self-preservation to adhere to the party. As one of these reasons for confidence that they will control the convention they point out that the silver democrats as a class are those who can least afford to resist the ‘sound money’ influences. “An instance of this is given in the matter of money accommodations. In the South, it is argued, the people cry for silver because they want more money, and they want it because they haven’t any. All the bankers have to do is to declare that they will not make loans to people who ‘want to pay their debts in 50-cent dollars, and who are trying to establish a debased currency,’ and this operates as a notice that if they want to borrow money they must stop shouting for silver. “It is said that a short time ago a Philadelphia syndicate placed twelve million dollars in the agricultural districts, with the small banks, principally in the South, and that one of the conditions exacted was that the borrower should ‘pipe very low on silver.’ To men who have to borrow money to harvest and move their crops and to handle them in commerce, this makes a very convincing ‘sound money’ ai gument. Moreover it is far-reaching, because it affects all classes, from the planters and small dealers all the way up to the banks in the section of the country where the ready cash is necessary for the marketing and transportation of the crops. They are confronted with the cold fact that the eloquence of the silver orators does not move crops.

“Thie ‘sound money’ faction say that sentiment always exhausts itself soon after it has reached the emotional stage, and that, therefore, everything will quiet down by the time the national convention meets. This sort of philosophy is the most comforting they cah apply to a situation full of confusion, with the party divided in nearly every state.” The fact that the foregoing could be printed in a respectable newspaper and circulated in the United States speaks volumes. If it be true that the money powers have already subjected the people of the United States to their corrupt rule, the republic is lost. The silver men have for years pointed out that silver was demonetized to give the banks and money loaners dominion over the producing classes. The mask is now thrown off, and those who monopolize money through corrupt legislation boldly tell the people that they will ruin them if they dare exercise their rights as free men. and contend for the restoration of the money of the constitution. Are the people of the South so low spirited, so degraded that the bankers can say to them that they shall not. as American citizens,have political opinions and express them? Has it come to this, that an English syndicate, through its money lending agents in the United States, can say to the American people you must “pipe very low on silver?” For years the manipulators of money denied that they had any intention to use the power of money which corrupt legislation gave them, to perpetuate their political control, but now it is boldly proclaimed in their most trusted and confidential organs. If the people of this country submit to dictation of this kind they are already slaves. The fate of serfdom which awaits them cannot be avoided. But we will venture the prediction that the people of the United States are not yet slaves, and that before the purposes of the gold combination are consum-

WILL WE SUCCEED?

ated and civil liberty destroyed in this country, there will be an uprising before which shylock himself will tremble. The only safety he will have will be in foreign lands and under the protection of the British crown, because nothing can protect despotism, and particularly the despotism born of avarice, on American soil. Corruption may prevail for a time. The American people may seem long suffering; they may even appear to be yielding and submissive to wrong, but when aroused they have shown through their entire history that their determination to be free and independent is irresistible. The claim of gold monopoly that they are now slaves will be remembered when the time for action comes. Silver Knight.

POPULIST SOLILOQUY.

To fuse or not to fuse, that is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in minority, with patience Still to fight the old monopolistic parties, Or to join hands with one to down the other, And by this fusion win’. To vote — merely to win The offices, by compromise to say we end The heartache and the thousand oppressive wrongs Workmen are heir to—’tis a revolution Retarded by this move. To. fuse, to sell — To lose, perchance our all; aye there’s the rub! For with ambitious men what quarrels will hatch When we have seated high an halfbreed crew, Must bid us pause: there’s the respect We all should have for earnest men — For who would bear the gall and tricks of jugglers, The, wasted time, the much more fuddled people, The “policy” moves, the disagreement and delay, The old party methods, the useless laws That oft result from doing what’s on file, When we ourselves might all this jumble save By faithful work and waiting? Who would patient bear To grunt and sweat under such galling yoke, With shrewd enraged thieves taunting, “Is this your boasted principle, division of spoils?” And such just reproof from rascals, Makes us rather bear the ills we have Than join the gang ourselves. Thus fusion (without conversion) would make failures of us all; And thus the noble plans of reformation Be blended all with such weak nonsense. And peace and profit of great need and moment With despair their currents turn away, And the loss be all the workman’s. GEO. A. PUCKETT, Hardy, Ark.

Ain't It Funny.

The people own and operate the postal system. The people own and operate the judiciary system. The people own and operate the fire system. The people own and operate the army and navy. The people own and operate the streets, highways and Bridges. The people own and operate the tax system. The people own and operate the school System. The people own and operate the prison system. If every silver democrat and republican would vote as they talk it would break up the two old parties. But the bosses don't intend that any such thing shall be done, so they have raised the cry of free silver “inside the party.” A gold-bug will be nominated and then the ticket will have to be supported in the “interest of harmony,” you know. Don’t you see the trap. They have already begun to talk harmony. The gold standard has robbed the American producers of ten thousand million dollars in the past two years

WARNING TO FEDERAL OFFICERS

Cleveland’s Precepts in 1886 and Cleveland’s Practices in 1895. Grover Cleveland in 1886 was lauded to the skies by the press of the country for the following patriotic words: “I deem this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departments and all office-holders under the general government against the use of their official positions in attempts to control political movements in their localities. “The influence of federal office-hold-ers should not be felt in the manipulation of political primary meetings and nominating conventions. The use by these officials of their positions to compass their selection as delegates to political conventions is indecent and unfair, and proper regard for the proprieties and requirements of official placs will also prevent their assuming the active conduct of political campaigns.” In 1895 he overlooked these patriotic utterances and commanded the members of his cabinet and advised with the cuckoo United States senators and members of congress to go into all the length and breadth of the land to shout for “honest money.” Federal officeholders controlled the democratic conventions of Georgia, Kentucky and Ohio, and disrupted the Nebraska convention. Cleveland has attempted to dictate the policy of the democrats on the silver question, and has done so in this and other states. The Amherst (Va.) New Era says of this flrgrcrt ignoring of his early utterances: “Not or.’y did he flood the Ohio convention with his office-holders and rule its proc' - flings, but he did it in Kentucky, and previous to the conyention in that state, he ordered his secretary of the treasuy, J. G. Carlisle, to stump that state and he did it in the interest of gold bugism. In Georgia, Hoke Smith, another member of the cabinet, spoke too in favcr of gold bugism. In all three of these states the national administration had nothing on earth to do with the state conventions —there the people should have been let alone to decide what position they should take on the silver question—instead of that Mr. Cleveland thought proper to dictate to them what they should do. For consistency Mr. Cleveland takes the cake on this point.”

Is This Plain Enough.

What builds bank buildings? Interest. What builds bankers’ palaces? Interest What pays the bankers’ salaries? Interest. What pays the banks’ dividends? Interest. What pays the banks’ expenses. Interest. What is the cause of interest? Debt. Now are you silly enough to believe that bankers want a change in the financial system that will relieve the people so they may get out of debt and thus destroy the said bankers’ business? Dou you think the bankere want to destroy their own business? Do you think they employ lobbyists at Washington and the state capitals in the interest of the people as against themselves? As well to expect a king to recommend laws curtailing his power and’ enlarging the liberties of the people. If the people had the blinds pulled from their eyes they would elect men w’ho would make laws for them instead of voting for men whom the bankers like so well. The bankers work for their own interests just as other business men. They are not so much to be blamed. So long as the multitude remain ignorant and vote ignorantly, the bankers might just as well skin them as anybody. One thing is certain, somebody will skin them so long as they believe in and vote for the present system. If they do not want to be fleeced by bankers, they will vote for men who want government banks,,and government money. Until this is done, all the power of men who profit by usury will be used to have laws that benefit the lenders who are few against the payers who are many. The lenders are enjoying life pretty well. How are you fixed?—Appeal to Reason. Neither one of the two old parties can be “saved” without foreign aid. England is the principal backer for both.

THE REFORM PRESS.

HEROIC WORK AND UNSELFISH PATRIOTISM. The Strong Right Arm of the Labor Movement and lt« Watchful Guardian Sweeping theDecka Clear for Action Next Year. Few people realize the importance of the press in the great struggle now ; going on for Human Rights. Perhaps still fewer have any conception of the great sacrifices and heroic struggles which the men and women who are publishing Reform papers are making. It can be said that they have to contend with the “world, the flesh and the devil.” The world looks upon them as fanatics, heretics and conspirators against the public peace and welfare. Verily, at times the flesh tires of manna and “yearns after the flesh pots of Egypt,” even though those flesh pots meand bondage. The devil of incarnate greed and plethoric spleen hounds them on every hand. In most cases without any possibility of a chance at the public printing, boycotted by the “business men” of the.r ‘">wns, harassed'by environments that would drive the iron into the soul of an A "hilles, supported by a constituency whose very poverty is the primary cause of their revolt against existing conditions, they have maintained a fight that entitles them to credit for a high degree of patriotism and self-sacrificing devotion. The Reform press is the strong right arm of the movement for a better civilization. It is in closer “touch” with the people than the politicians. It is the people, because the people make it—mould its opinions. It is the medium of communication between the people of different sections. It is the forum through which a consensus of opinion and concert of action is attained. As it is of the people it is the people. The people rely upon it not only for information, but for a sentinel on the watch tower to give the alarm of approaching danger. If a traitor is in the camp the Reform press is expected to expose him. If a movement is being made to side-track the party or to betray it into the hands of the enemy the Reform press is expected to lift up its voice in protest. And well has it done its duty. All hail to the noble band of men and women who stand as a stone wall between liberty and monarchy, between the people and their despoilers. The people owe it to their liberty, owe it to themselves, owe it to their families, owe it to humanity to hold up the hands and liberally support the brave band who are sacrificing their time and talent on the altar of Human Rights.

MORTON THE CUCKOO.

At One Time a Greenbacker and Candidate for Governor for That Party. The populists are not cranks, fanatics or theorists, as many people believe. Some of the great leaders of the democratic party have been our associates in other days, and advocated the faith they now seek to destroy. Populism is an offshoot of greenbackism—both contending that the coinage of gold and silver be supplemented by an issue of paper money sufficient in volume to permit the transaction of legitimate business. Vice-President Stevenson was once enrolled in our ranks, having been elected as a greenbacker to tfie forty-sixth congress. “Why, the fact seems to have been forgotten that J. Sterling Morton, at present secretary of agriculture, and the most ardent and irrepressible advocate of gold monometallism, was within the past two decades the stanchest of stanch greenbackers! “Here,” said Mr. Dunning, producing a long slip of paper, “is a bona fide original greenback national ticket for 1876. At the top you see ‘For president, Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts.’ Then follows the list of electors for the state of Nebraska, and below that the full state ticket. Do you observe that it reads ‘for governor, J. Sterling Morton.’ This gold standardist is the same man who nineteen years ago was proud to nave his name appear upon the greenback ticket with that of Ben Butler.”—N. A. Dunning’s Interview.

CONTEMPT OF COURT.

En B ene V. D«bs Hag Not Lost Any o f His Contempt. The Supreme court is a supreme nuisance. Contempt for United States courts is national, continual and constitutional. The question now is what does it cost to “get the decision” required of the supreme court? The question is still unanswered, how much of Choate’s $2,000,000 did Shiras receive for his change of front? It has been suggested that a commission be appointed to count the blow holes in the constitution , made by the supreme court. If contempt of the supreme court was star dust, God could build anqther world with the material and have enough left for two moons. Jefferson said the supreme court would ultimately wreck the republic, and a man is blind who does not see that Jefferson’s prediction is being fulfilled. There are about two and seventy small fry attachments of the supreme judiciary, most of whom represent a separate and well-defined judicial stink. Four supreme judges express their contempt for five supreme judges', and five supreme judges express their contempt for four supreme judges—what a contemptible gang it is, sure enough.— Railway Times. Its mighty hard to get a silver democrat to say how he will vote in case his party nominates a gold bug for president next year. Will somebody please tell us this country needs three new torpedo boats?