People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The dollar is only a unit of reckoning. The world la moving while you sleep. It requires brains to make a thorough populist. Rotten men throw rotten eggs at reformers. Thinkers always lead the world. Are you thinking? Right now is the time to begin the “campaign of ’96.” The man who has no argument but abuse has none at all. The more you read and think the better Populist you will be. What you sacrifice now for the cause will return a thousand fold. Texas is to have a Populist daily paper, and Missouri likewise. London money bankers are said to be wildly speculating on silver. The plutocrats love their country because of the interest it pays them. “Practical politics,” so-called, consists principally in deception of the people. Massachusetts Republicans declare for a dollar based on the single gold standard. The dollar is simply a receipt given by the buyer in acknowledgement of value received. The Democratic bosses of Ohio are afraid to have their candidate meet Coxey in debate. Watch the congressman of your district next winter, and see if he represents the people. The state Democracy of New York will fuse with the Republicans on an “independent” ticket. The evolution of the democratic party has four stages: Democrats, plutocrats, aristocrats, autocrats. If manufacturers can increase prices by combining, why can’t laborers increase wages by combining? Watson carried nine counties in his district, and Black carried only two — yet Black is declared elected. There is not a prominent gold-bug in the country but either lives on interest or sucks the public teat. If the president isn’t out fishing when you read this, he has just returned and will start again in a few days. The number of new populist papers being started every week indicates a growing demand for that kind of literature. Fraud has triumphed again in the tenth district of Georgia—but a contest before congress will seat brave Tom Watson. If the populist farmers and union laborers unite on a candidate for president next year, the fusion of both old parties cannot defeat him. Germany has ordered American insurance companies doing business in ■that country to vacate. Many of them ought to receive the same treatment here at home. The district court at Carroll, lowa, has decided that the courts of a state have no jurisdiction* over a bank. This decision, if enforced, would render all money laws void. Captain-General Campos of the Spanish army in Cuba is said to be “annoyed” at the attitude of the United States at the present time. So are we, but not in the spirit of Campos. The only papers that express the true opinions of their editors are the country papers which are owned by the editors themselves. The stock-holders dictate the policy of the great dailies. A San Francisco paper warns working people to keep away from California. Never since the settlement of the state have conditions been so des-, perate there. Yet California is rich in gold. The trouble with a gold “basis” is that about the time we get ready to build, the basis pulls out for Europe, and leaves our business structure to depend upon a balloon-frame based on a hole in the ground. The great paper trust lately formed will have to fight every newspaper in the United States —that is if it don’t buy the silence of the great daily press with a special price to papers using large quantities of its goods. Don’t let your neighbors forget that you are interested in their welfare. Lend them books and papers to read, i and give them a special personal inviI tation to attend populist meetings and hear the principles of justice discussed. The Populists are perfectly willing to confer with the silver men of the old parties upon the matter of making a platform—AFTEß THE SAID SILVER MEN SHOW THEIR SINCERITY BY LEAVING THE TWO OLD PARTIES. Not before. Get out of the old parties, then talk to us.