People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Page 3

Texas is all right. Down with toryizm. The old parties are consolidating. - The gold-bags want another bond sane. * Cheap goods are produced by cheap tabor. The Democratic party is not even true to itself. The day of the party-whooper is nearly done. The world condemns right and worships wrong. V 1 ■■'■i When you vote for either of the old parties you vote for both. The absorbers of all kinds are uniting—why not the producers? This is too great a country to be at the mercy of a foreign syndicate. If the greenbacks are destroyed, we plight as well pull down the flag. The people have a right to question Very act of their hired representatives. That Chicago Republican convention ■was a nice little exhibition of anarchy. The gold-bugs are comprised in two Classes —money loaners and office huntirs. Millionaires don’t make good servants for the people. Quit voting for them. Every dollar paid to an old party newspaper is a dollar given to help the enemy. ~The eastern states are properly called “New England.” They are still loyal to old England. The ‘‘sound money” league is a secret organization of gold-bugs that originated in London. The old parties are both international —that is to say, they both get their orders from England. Government through a syndicate of "foreign bankers is worse than paying .tribute to a foreign king. It is costing the tax-payers of Spain three million dollars a month to tyrannize the island of Cuba. Gold is good in Europe. That is the Teason it won’t stay in America. Give us money that is good in America. Throughout the crash of business and the wreck of American independence (Grover continues fishing serenely. If the gold-bugs think they know the people, they will find that the American people know them better.

The bosses issue the bonds—but the people have them to pay. Issuing bonds is easy work —paying them is different. The Kentucky campaign appears to he the center of attraction for all parties. The Populists are gaining rapidly. Millionaires, railroad kings and political bosses control both old parties. Join a party that is controlled by the common people. Mr. Horr is forced to admit that he attended Coin’s Financial School —but he wishes that he might make affidavit like Gage, that he didn’t Senator Sherman is doubtful about the wisdom of annexing Cuba —but he is confident that an English financial system is necessary in America. Arkansas is soon to have a state Populist paper, edited by W. S. Morgan •and George A. Puckett, of Hardy, Arkansas. It will doubtless be a hummer. Willie C. Pollard Breckenridge, of 'Kentucky, is a fair specimen of the genus gold-bug. It is certainly a noble cause that enlists the services of Breckinridge. The London Times is in favor of a third term for Cleveland. The gold-bug press of America may rest assured that their policy is approved in England. Whoop ’er up for Grover. It would be a God-send to America if never another dollar of foreign capital should be invested in this country. No more tribute to aliens forever, is the true American sentiment. Why not just appoint the Roths-•hhilds-Morgan syndicate receivers of the United States treasury, and let them ■settle up the affairs of the country,'and turn the proceeds over to the bondholders?

Senator Vest, of Missouri, “the little Imll-frog,” like Mark Twain’s famous ■“Jumping frog,” is so heavily loaded ■with the cuckoo shot he has swallowed that he can’t do anything but sit still and croak. If either of the old parties nominates a western man for president, you may be sure that he will be a western man with eastern views on the money -question—such a man as Allison, of lowa, for instance. The rapid work of the Texas legislature in passing the anti-slugging match bill, is a specimen of what legislators could do in congress if they would, Instead of talking forty days and forty nights and then selling out. The Philadelphia Item is the only great daily paper in America that is unreservedly a friend of the people. Every reformer in the country who can afford it should subscribe for the Item, and keep the money power from crush lng It out.

Did the capitalists make Che earth? It is patriotism to repudiate fraud. Keep the campaign going the year round. Abolition was not secured by a single issue party. The big cities are the centers of bossism and rascality. America continues to swap rich heiresses for foreign paupers. The gold-bug knows no motive but interest on the people’s debts. I Stand by your local paper. It is doing great work for the salvation of humanity. It is no longer a conspiracy—but open war of the money power against the people. The tyrants expect riots in the cities and are preparing to shoot the rioters to death. Both old parties act in convention under orders of the bankers and bondholders. Tom Watson may be counted out again in Georgia—but he will never be whipped. See that your neighbor reads a good reform paper. That is the way to convert him. Governor Culbertson of Texas whipped both Corbett and Fitzsimmons yi one round. Don’t wait to see what the conventions will do. Go to work now for the cause of reform. The money-god has “called” Rev. T. De Witt Talmage to Washington to entertain our kings. The railroads have fixed rates so as to enable them to gobble the greater part of the immense corn crop this year. The fact that Debs is in prison is a small matter —but the principle that put him there denies freedom to every workingman in America. The assemblage of Washington ministers who thanked God for the hoplouse, ought also to thank God for the devil whose presence in the world gives them a job. It requires only a short jaunt in Europe and one or two swell suppers to make a goldbug out of an old party congressman who was elected on a free silver platform. The representatives of the insurance companies in session at Chicago denounced all legislation affecting the insurance business. It would be a good idea to stop all such legislation by repealing all their charters.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Ad Ohio Republican Sliver Resolution Adopted by the Legislature. Sound Money: Some of our readers who are constantly met with the assertion that the republican party of Ohio were always an honest money party and opposed to the free coinage of and reinstatement of silvtir as money, are advised to call their opponents’ attention to a resolution adopted April 24, 1877, by the republican legislature of Ohio, when Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, present congressman from Ohio, was speaker of the house, and Hon. H. W. Curtiss, of Chagrin Falls, was president of the senate. The following is the resolution which may be found on pages 537 and 538, Ohio laws of 1877: JOINT RESOLUTION. RELATIVE TO THE RESTORATION OF THE SILVER DOLLAR TO ITS FORMER RANK AS LAWFUL MONEY: RESOLVED, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THAT COMMON HONESTY TO THE TAXPAYERS, THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF THE CONTRACT UNDER WHICH THE GREAT BODY OF ITS INDEBTEDNESS WAS ASSUMED BY THE UNITED STATES AND TRUE FINANCIAL WISDOM, EACH AND ALL DEMAND THE RESTORATION OF THE SILVER DOLLAR TO ITS FORMER RANK AS LAWFUL MONEY. SIGNED BY C. H. GROSVENOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND H. W. CURTISS, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. ADOPTED APRIL 24, 1877.

Et Tu?

And Henry Watterson! The once great and gallant leader of Democracy! He whose white plume always danced in the fore-front of battle, whether the fight was against goldbuggery or high tariffs—he, too* has rallea! A few months ago if one had asked us to name the foremost champion of the free coinage of silver in the United States, we should have answered “Henry Watterson.” Today if we were asked to name the most subservient slave that crawls at the feet of the Money Devil, we should think the name of Henry Watterson, but we should not say it. Henry Watterson supporting W. O. Bradley for governor of Kentucky! Henry Watterson, no longer captain of Democratic hosts, but a Hessian in the ranks of the enemy! Henry Watterson no longer wielding his trenchant blade against the Republican foe, but using the dirk and the dagger on the backs of his friends! And this is—nay, let us say this was — Henry Watterson! Shades of the mighty! Can it be That this is all remains of thee?— Memo his Commercial-Aspenl.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, BENBSELAE&, Dip., THURSDAY, OCT 24, 1896

AFTER SCHOOL MAMS.

CONVERTING TEACHERS TO THE GOLDBUG THEORY. A New York Editor Seeks to Force His “Sound Money” Doctrines on American Teachers and Gets Cornered by a Western Editor. Chicago Express: The following article is from the pen of A. C. Butcher, superintendent of schools of Whitman county, Washington, and is in reply to an article in the Teacher’s Institute, for September. The article in the Institute is said to have been written by the editor of Our Times, a goldbug publication. The scheipe to educate the teachers of America to the “sound money” theory gets a serious set-back in the open letter to Our Times by Mr. Butcher, which is as follows: Colfax, Wash., Sept. 21, 1896. Editor of Our Times, New York, Dear Sir: Your attempted enlightenment of the teachers of our country ors “Money and Its Substitutes,” through the columns of the September number of the Teacher’s Institute, shows you to be about as ignorant of your subject as R is possible for an educator to be and remain on the outside of the wills of an asylum for the feeble minded. You have undoubtedly taken the “Keeley cure.” You say that paper currency is not money, only the representative of it. Please write a supplementary article for the next issue and inform our teachers that the lexicographers who have defined money as “a medium of exchange, a representative of value,” etc., were mistaken. Also inform them that the sixty million dollar? of demand notes issued February 12, 1&62, were not money. You further state that in 1864 paper currency depreciated in value till it was worth only forty cents on the dollar. Why? Because of the infamy of your plutocratic neighbors in securing by act of congress, February 25, 1862, the “exception clause” on all subsequent issues. Now, in your next article I want you to state how much on the dollar this first sixty million dollars were worth that did not bear the “exception clause.” I maintain the proposition that there has never been a time since their issue when they were not on a par with gold, dollar for dollar. You say that a silver dollar is worth only fifty cents. Please state how much it was worth before your friends demonetized it England demonetized silver in 1816. Please state whether or not she ever refused any of our silver from that time up to 1872. State what a silver dollar was worth In England from 1816 to 1872. I assert that during those years silver was at a premium. If you have any flfty-cent sHver dollars that you wish to get rid of I will contract for the whole pile at 75 cents each. The worthlessness of our paper currency and flfty-cent silver dollars seems to give you great anxiety for American travelers in “Yurrup.” As far as travelers in “Yurrup” are concerned, sixty millions of Americans are only hoping that they will never return to this country. I must say that your little catechism at the dose of the article intended to be asked of the pupil by the teacher is about the most amusing thing that I have seen for some time. If those questions were asked by one of our western teachers, the pupils would feel real sorry for his ignorance, the school board would dismiss him, the community vote him a fool and the authorities arrest him as a public nuisance. In the spirit of all kindness, I would advise you to let the money question alone and confine yourself to dippings from the Associated Press dispatehes. I would further advise, that if you and your plutocratic friends keep on forging gold collars for the necks of Americans, you will do well to prepare yourself for an indefinite sojourn in “Yurrup.” Kansas always leads every new movement. The fusion of the two old parties has begun in that state by the old parties of Seward county meeting in joint convention to nominate a ticket in oppositoln to tho Populists.

HIS CONSCIENCE HAUNTS HIM IN HIS DREAMS.

TO CORNER GREENBACKS.

Movement of the Bank* to Foree Retirement of Honest Money. Last week we noticed a statement in a Washington dispatch to the effect that a National bank of St. Louis has sent SIOO,OOO in gold to the treasury in exchange for greenbacks. Now at this writing the following appears In the Associated press dispatches: New York, Sept. 23.—Certain interests have made it their business to undertake a movement looking to the retirement of greenbacks. They do this on the principle that what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and unless some person makes a business of seeing that greenbacks are retired they will not be retired. One of the first steps in the movement is stated to be to corral them in sufficient amount so as to be able to turn them into the government at the right time without contracting the currency when it should not be contracted, and to contract it, perhaps, at the present time when it would do no harm. A study of clearing-house statements show that certain banks are already beginning to accumulate legal tenders. The banks of New York already hold about $87,006,000 of the greenbacks, which is a large proportion to start with. The treasury of the United States holds at about $30,000,000, which together is nearly one-third of the total amount issued. The otner two-thirds, about $229,000,000, are in circulation, mostly in small, denominations, which can easily be secured by the banks in due course of trade and to handle them easily after congress acts upon the matter. It is a fact that the greenbacks are slowly getting into fewer hands, and in this fact lie great possibilities for the immediate future. There is scarcely the shadow of a doubt that the money power demanded of Cleveland as the price of the presidency: First, the repeal of the Sherman law; second, the issue of half a million dollars gold bonds; third, the retirement of greenbacks. Cleveland has bent all his energies to the accomplishment of these objects. The first is accomplished; the bonds come slow, but they are coming, “Father Rothschild,” 300,000 more; and the out-going congrees will retire the greenbacks. Cleveland says the greenback must go; the republican party says the greenback must go; democracy says the greenback must go; and all these but echo the edict of the gold king. And the greenback will have to go. But it will return again minus tbe exception clause, and redeemable in something that old Shylock can’t corner. (Paste this in your hat). How will they be retired? Why, by act of Rothschild’s congress, and Rothschild’s banker-gang is now busy cornering them, so as to demand a premium on them, just as they did on the bonds that were called in some time ago. With $300,009,000 of greenbacks in their possession all calling for gold payment on their I.—uoo zb bz zb zbmhmh ment on demand, with, say, $50,000,000 of gold to redeem them with, the banker’s association could “turn them into the government at the right time” and have a dead sinch on this g-r-e-a-t republic for any purpose they chose. If they will only carry out this program, the populists will have a walkover at the next presidential election, provided tbe government lasts long enough fcr the people to go to the polls. —Chicago Express.

A Populist.

A populist is a man who has been fooled so often in one or other of tbe old parties that he cannot be fooled any longer. A Populist is a man who has the 'courage of his convictions, and whose convictions are the result of earnest investigation. A Populist is a member of a party whose platform, state and national, are in harmony throughout, and whose candidates stand on the platform. A Populist is a man who demands the loaf that is his own, and refuses to accept the crust which politicians offer to let him have. A Populist is a man who will not train in the ranks of an old political party which has millionaires at one end and paupers at the other.—Nevada Director.

LETTER FROM WAITE.

Ood Has Implanted a Principle of Justice In the Human Heart. < Hon. S. F. Norton—My Dear Sir: I have just returned from Texas and feel very much encouraged. That state is sure to vote populist In 1896; There is no election this fall, but already the silver democrats, realising that they have no show in the democratic party, are coming over to us in shoalß. I learned two facts which both Interested and encouraged me, as pretty good proof that the disintegration of the democratic party has set in all over the South. One was related to me by "Cyclone” Davis and occurred in his •congressional district. Davis was elected to congress by about 2,000 majority, but the returns and boxes were "doctored” and he was counted out. A hard shell Baptist minister lived in bne of the adjoining counties of this district, and his son was a candidate for some county office on the democratic ticket, and was declared elected, notwithstanding the populists had fairly carried the county. The old minister went up to the county seat and made the officials a short speech about as follows: "You all know me. I have lived in this county forty years, was in the Confederate army, and never Toted anything but the democratic ticket, bnt you know and I know that the democratic ticket was fairly beaten in this county at the late election. My son and I have come up today to tell you that he refuses to accept the office to which you have declared him elected. He will not take an office to which he was not elected. You may have degrees in crime. I have none. I believe a man who steals votes as wicked as a man who steals a horse, and we want you to know that henceforth we shall vote the populist ticket.” Ood bless the hard shell Baptists! The other was told me at Sherman. A leading populist in that vicinity had just received a visit from a friend from Georgia. They both formerly lived in one of the counties of Tom Watson’s district, and the Georgian was a democrat After other conversation, the Texan says: “How’s politics in Georgia?” “Oh,” replied the Georgian, "we counted in Governor Bill Atkinson and counted out Tom Watson." "Well, now, my friend,” said the Texan, “between me and you, what is your pri-vate-opinion of that style of doing business?” Said the Georgian: “To tell the truth, I am ashamed of it, and the fact is, the decent democrats of Georgia are abandoning the democratic party for that very reason." God has implanted dcpp down in the human heart an eternal principle of justice, else the people would be incapable of self-government. Yours truly, DAVIS H. WAITE.

All Honor to Union Men.

Motorman and Conductor: “For ten years," said Potter Palmer, of Chicago, “I made as desperate a fight against organized labor as was ever made by mortal man. It cost me considerably more than a million dollars to learn that there is no labor so skilled, so intelligent, so faithful as that governed by an organization whose laws recognize that an employer has rights that labor must respect, and whose officials are well-balanced, level-headed men who can distinguish between a real and an imaginary grievance. When the men in my mill first organized and sent their committees to me to discuss questions at issue between us, my indignation at their presumption was unbounded. “The idea of men whom I employed daring to dictate the treatment they should receive so incensed me that I forthwith discharged them all and precipitated a strike. Well, I tried nonunion men and swore I would never allow a union man to enter my service. I persisted in this fashion for ten years, until I had transformed one of the bestpaying plants in the West into an almost hopeless wreck. Everything went wrong. Men got drunk, machinery broke down, product was returned, orders turned down, expense increased and revenue diminished until one was unable to meet the other. I finally , realized my mistake and corrected it, and now I employ none but organized labor, and never have the least trouble, each believing that the one has no rlicbt to oppress the other."

WHAT IS IT TO YOU?

NO MATTER WHAT YOUR BUSINESS, THIS CONCERNS YOU. Tli* Prosperity of the Whole Country Depends Upon the Prosperity of the Workingmen —The Prodnoer Supports Them AIL There is no man —not even the money loaner —who can escape his final dependence upon the farmer and the laborer. There is no production without labor, and therefore no produce for exchange, unless the laborer is employed. Did you ever think of this? If not, it is nearly time you had your eyes opened. If you are a farmer, even you are interested in having all labor employed —notwithstanding you pay all its wages in the end. If labor is employed it has something to exchange for your products. The mechanic is interested in the success of the farmer who swaps him bread and meat for the product of his labor. The country merchant dependß upon the patronage of the farmers—for if it were not for that patronage there would be no town people to patronize him —they would all go down together. The merchants could not get rich swapping jackknives among themselves. The manufacturer can’t sell to the merchant unless the merchant can sell to the people. And the people can’t buy unless they are employed at producing something which they can exchange for money. Where the laborers have money the merchants sell goods. Where the merchants sell goods the wholesale houees do a good business. Where the wholesalers do a good business, the factories are busy and the mechanic is employed. There 1b a market for raw materials, and the producers of raw material are able to buy the manufactured product Money is kept In circulation, and the legitimate banker (if such there be) does a good business. Taxes are paid promptly, and the public revenues are ample without issuing bonds. The rate of interest may go dowiL but money is more profitably invested in legitimate business. There is plenty of money in the country, and nobody complains of overproduction of anything. Everybody is busy, and there is a constant demand for what they produce —because they demand in return what other laborers produce. The buyer and the seller, the "mid-dle-man” who has the honor of distributing the produce of the toiler, is busy, because the tollers at both ends are busy. There is no lack of ability to produce all the necessaries of life. The only lack is in the ability to exchange—and the merchant stands willing and anxious to make the exchanges for a fair profit. But because there is a lack of the “medium of exchange” (money) the farmer burns his corn, while the coal miner goes hungry and the shelves of the merchant are covered with cobwebs. There is. no market for the farmer's product because there is no market for the product of the laborer who wants to buy the product of the farmer. There is plenty of clothing and other things for the use of the farmer stored up in warehouses—and there is plenty of food for the mechanic stored up in the bins of the farmer. The farmer waits for the demand to begin for his grain, and the manufacturer waits for the demand to begin for his clothing, furniture and implements. Both stand idly waiting for "prosperity,” while the wealth of produce rots, mildews, rusts or is moth-eaten in storage. The only thing necessary to bring prosperity to both is to exchange their products. But neither has money to start the wheels of commerce rolling. If there were enough money so that all the people might have a small surplus on hand, the farmer could buy, the mechanic could buy, and both could sell, the factories would sell their surplus and put men to work producing more, and these men would buy the surplus of the farmer, thus making him able to buy still more, the merchant would handle fresh goods, sell for cash and buy for cash, and everybody would be prosperous. Stagnation is what is the matter with this country, and the creation of enough money to overflow the dam a little would start the old machine going. j There is not a man in America but who wants more money—and mighty few but who need more money. Why not have enough money to do a cash business and keep all the wheels of distribution moving? Distribution is all Chat is lacking. There is plenty of muscle and productive soil in America to clothe and feed every man, woman and child.

Let the Tories Unite.

It seems to be settled that if the democrats carry the Kentacky legislature, Blackburn will be re-elected to the senate. The only way, therefore, for the sound money democrats to beat him is to vote the republican ticket.— Globe-Democrat. That’s the stuff. The goldbugs must get together. The interests of the “mother country" demand that the tory element of the two old parties unite at once for a single gold standard.

Since Harvey mopped the floor with him, Harr can’t get anybody to listen to his speeches, and has to force his ret M the people through the papers.

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