People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Henry Vincent Scores Carlisle. [ARTICLE]

Henry Vincent Scores Carlisle.

Populism does not consist of anything less than the declarations in the Omaha platform. Plates are being engraved at Washington now for another bond issue to be floated “ after the elections.” lowa populists estimate their vote at the coming election at 75,000 to 100,000. The prairies of the state are illuminated with populist enthusiasm. One week from next Tuesday and the momentous ’‘off year” election in many states will be over. The Pilot predicts unexpected gains in all the states for the people’s party. The feeling throughout the whole country is for an early national convention. It is evident that the old parties will want a short campaign and the shorter the better. The populist campaign being one of education have nothing to gain by waiting. Will any one deny that the next move of the administration will be to destroy the few remaining greenbacks and turn them into interest bearing bonds, which in turn will be used as collateral to borrow national bank notes of the government at one per cent, or the half of one per cent, per annum?

Think of it friends, the money lenders of Europe are actually begging for silver bonds at as low a rate of interest as we are able- to float our gold bonds. Mexico is running her own financial system absolutely independent of Europe and is paying off her national debt instead of increasing it, as this country is doing. It does the heart good to see the solid sledge hammer blows that brother Henry Vincent is dealing the enemies of good government through that great reform paper, Sound Money, published by General Coxey at Massillon, Ohio. That a merciful Providence might raise up a thousand such powerful arms to overwhelm the “classes” that are to-day responsible for the unjust laws that are grinding American producers of actual wealth into helpless pauperism on the one hand, and building collossal fortunes for an idle aristocracy on the other hand. Henry works, he works not only for himself but for humanity, and d—d be the man that don’t. He that receives his livelihood by the sweat of another man’s brow is worse than a felon.

Our democratic friends informed us when Carlisle was made secretary of the treasury, that now we had a cabinet officer with a free silver record, who would not bow the knee to the Wall street bankers. The last three years has demonstrated that he is morh of a traitor to the welfare of American prosperity than was ever Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr. So completely has he allowed the cutthroat and robber bankers of the country to control him; that we doubt not that history will class him with John Sherman and Cleveland, the chief trio of Arch Devils and traitors of the universe.—Sound Money.