People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Page 4

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The People’s Pilot. BY F D. CRAIG, (Lessee.) pilot POUSHS6 co., aw) , ft - (■>■■>— —■ '— Bated H. Ybomah, President. Wm. Wasb>uhm. Vice President. Lu E. Glaxbbbook. Sec'y. J. A. McFarlamd Tress Tbb PBOFtB‘B Phot is the official organ of ike Jasper and Newton County Alliances, and .rpubltohed every Thursdays!

•MB DOLLAR PER ANNUM. ■atered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind. Neither one of the old parties ever keeps its promises. Massachusetts democrats want the greenbacks burned. By keeping out of politics the farmer has got “in the hole.” Laborers pay for the standing army that shoots them down. The constitution of the bankers’ association appears to be supreme. President Debs reports great progress in the organization of the A. R. U. The man whose work renders no service to humanity, is worse than idle. Neither one of the old parties has any sympathy for the poor and unemployed. The gold-bug daily press is engaged in educating its readers for monarchy. Neither one of the old parties wants to have all the people educated equally. Neither one of the old parties dares to oppose the millionaires and trusts. Neither one of the old parties believe in this government issuing its own money. If the masses of the people could do their own thinking there would be blood on the moon. The republican party will not give the people relief; then what will the fool voters do? “Gone democratic," is now the appropriate way to announce bank and other business failures.

The long prayed for has happened—the country’s enemy, John Sherman, has written a book. The worker would find It much easier to make a living if everybody else also earned their living. The Supreme court made it necessary to keep the demand for an income tax in the Omaha platform. It is predicted by financiers that the October report will show the largest treasury deficit of the year. Neither one of the old parties wants enough money in circulation to enable the people to do a cash business. Since Harrison’s own town, Indianapolis, has gone democratic, he seems to be out of the presidential race. Neither one of the old parties favors letting the people have a direct vote, upon important national questions. About thirty new labor and reform papers were started during the month of September. The cause is growing. Neither one of the two old parties has time to fight the other. It is making them both hustle to keep from being snowed under by the Populists. The necessity of having two great parties is what led to the organization of the People’s party. The democratic party has become republicanized. Why is the penalty for embezzlement less than the penalty for any other kind of stealing? Have officials passed a law for the special benefit of themselves? If the leaders of the democratic party had any political sense, they could see that their party was bankrupt and ought to go into the hands of a receiver. The most remarkable thing about Cleveland’s "sound money” views is that they have many indorsements from republicans as well as democrats. Neither one of the old parties dares to advocate the principles of the Declaration of Independence under which our forefathers fought for their freedom from England. Hon. S. B. Crane, Populist candidate for governor of lowa, has challenged both the democratic and republican candidates to meet him in debate —but they cannot face the music. “Treasury experts,” whatever that means, think that the worst is over, and that there will be no new issue of bonds in the near future. Perhaps not, until after the fall election. Carlisle is too busy to speak in Kentucky—but tie finds plenty of time to talk in New England. He wants to get better acquainted with the fellows who control national conventions. England “docks” the tail of her fine carriage horses; Americans follow suit England adopts the gold standard; Americans follow suit. One is as appropriate as the other. Now some Americans (?) want an international .silver congress. Why not have an international horse’s tail congress?

Honesty speaks for ItMtt The old parties oppose orgaaitod labor. ; V ? a * I i . ' ' f . Don’t get excited. Truth is coolheaded. Direct legislation is one of the greatest issues. England wants Cleveland to have a third term. Stand up for the truth, and keep in a good humor. Neither one of the old parties is opposed to monopoly. Silver isn’t half as “cheap” as the talk of the goldbugs. Our money should be as sacredly American as our flag. Houses for the homeless means peace, prosperity and patriotism. Remember the Hazard circular, to keep it before the people. “Sound money” causes corn to rot in the field, for lack of purchasers. Neither one of the old parties is opposed to stock and produce gambling. Don’t abuse any man on account of his ignorance. Teach him as a friend. Give all parties proportional representation, according to their strength. The two-hundred cent gold dollar is too expensive for the common people. The more interest the people have to pay, the more prosperous are the money lenders. Now is a good time to keep the office itching politicians of the People’s Party in the rear. The man who has no contempt of »urt now-a-days has also very little patriotism. Neither one of the old parties wants this country to declare its independence of England. The Populist party is the only one that advises the people to read all sides of the issues. The two old parties do not want the people to think, and advises them to let politics alone.

There is a good deal of socialism in the Lord’s prayer; and the golden rule is pure socialism. The Rothschild idea of “saving” this country is to salt it down for the use of the money-lenders. Keep your eye on the “Lone Star” state and you will never lose the trail. Texas Populists are awake. Every man who remains in either of the two old parties helps the goldbugs and bankers rob the people. Neither one of the old parties dares to declare itself openly and radically tn favor of anything whatever. Senator Vest is still being interviewed. His real position on the money question, however, is unknown. Votes keep the two old parties alive, and the two old parties keep the trusts, corporations and combines alive. It is rumored that the Monroe doctrine “in a mild form” has been laid down to England by Secretary Olney. A few people are subverting the objects of this government. Why do the many submit to it? Why? that’s the question. As long as the seat of government remains in Grover Cleveland’s trousers, the people will be sat on by the money power. Abraham Lincoln said: “The battle to-day is between men and money.” It is just the same now as it was in Lincoln’s day. When the banks boycott any money of the government, it is time for the people constituting that government to abolish the banks. ’ The free silver democrats of Nebraska have applied for an injunction against the “dear money” democrats tieing allowed the use of the name democratic. Why are laboring men always the first to starve in time of panic? Seems to us the fellows who never do any pro’ductive work should be the first to run out of bread. If there were offices enough, President Cleveland would soon have the entire 'democratic party converted to his “sound money” views. Every appointment makes a convert. The executive, the judicial and the military departments of our government are now under absolute command of corporate greed. Cleveland, Woods and Gen. Miles, the triumvirate of tyranny, are in the saddle. Democratic papers of the south boast that the “little breeze of Populism” will hot sway the grand old democratic ship one inch from her course. This may be true —since the curse of the democratic party is direct toward its own destruction.

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The above is a very crude and imperfect representation of the Presbyterian ch. now being erected in Rensselaer. The walls have now reached the top of windows. Pressed brick and cut stone are being used. A fine illustration will be given the Pilot reader later.

CURRENT TOPICS.

In the World of Thought and the Field of Action. The Democratic press says that the Populist senators have indicated their willingness to vote with the Republicans in the organization of the next senate, provided they are given a liberal share of the patronage that would come to the dominant party. Strange that the Populist papers have not been Informed of the proposed trade upon the part of the representatives of the People’s party. Fact of the matter is, the Populist senators have declared themselves opposed to any dickering with either side of the chamber. Populist senators are wise enough to know that .such action would result in their being asked by the people to take down their signs and no longer pose as Populists. The People’s party does not send men to Washington to fight for spoils, but for principle. * * * A correspondent writing from Washington says: A sample of the agreements England has forced from this country is one In which Uncle Sam enters into a contract not to build ships on the lakes, and also not to keep but one fourth-class gunboat on the lakes. What ridiculous nonsense! What business is it of England if this country builds vessels on the lakes or keeps a fleet of iron-clads on one or more of the lakes bordering on our territory? I hope the day may come when the people of this country will have the independence and manhood to stop British dictation on these shores. If English rule in America continues much longer I am going to join Finerty’s Irish army and help lick the stuffin’ out of every Britisher found in the country. I am so disgusted with English dictation in American affairs that I am ready for a declaration of war with England any day. If the People’s party does not show more Americanism and independence of British dictation when it gets in power, I will be the first person to advocate an American party in opposition. This cringing to England makes me tired. • * * The interest now being displayed in local elections indicates the deep concern of the people. It is just as important that true principles should actuate the people in local affairs as in national affairs. local gain adds to the national gain. State politics depend on county politics, and national politics depend upon state politics. The local organization is the base of the whole structure. Let us lay a strong foundation and build upward. * * * The Texas Democratic platform says that there is an organized “conspiracy inside of the Democratic party headed by Grover Cleveland and his cabinet to lead them into the Republican party.” No doubt that is true; and the prospects of the “conspiracy” succeeding are growing better with every conference of the Democrats for the purpose of “reform Inside the party.” The Ohio silver Democrats have sent forth their manifesto advising all Democrats to support the gold-bug state ticket. And so the work of herding the kickers goes on. The gold bugs will make the next national platform, and the silver Democrats will vote ’er straight, to save the party. The silver-inside-the-party advocates are doing more to hold the party in line for a single gold standard than the gold bugs themselves are doing. ♦ * * More Americans went to Europe the past year than during the Paris Exposition. The number Is estimated at about two hundred thousand. The steamship companies alone have received about thirty million dollars from these tourists, nearly all of which is spent in Europe, only one of these steamship companies being an Ameri-

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can concern. It is fairly estimated that the average amount expended between landing and sailing would be more than SSOO. As a matter of fact it would probably be so much in excess of this amount that readers would doubt the estimate. So let it be SSOO. If there are 200,000 American visitors and each one spends SSOO, the total would be $100,000,000. Then add the $30,000,000 of steamship fare and there would be a horrifying grand total of $130,000,000. It is doubtful if any method of calculation copld make the amount less. This huge sum has a possible effect in the balance of trade, but it never enters into the official reports. But even this is not the worst feature of the matter. In this vast crowd of Anglomaniacs and pleasure seeking millionaires with marriageable daughters in search of a title, are also many United States congressmen, other high officials and political bosses who spend the time conferring with English financiers and being made tools in the hands of the Rothschilds and the bank of England for spreading the gold standard doctrine in America. We might easily bear the expense of the pleasure-seek-ers—but the destruction due to English ideas absorbed and conspiracies entered into by our congressmen threatens to wreck the whole nation. ♦ ♦ ♦ The socialists of Germany recently held a meeting at Breslau. The chairman in his opening speech referred to the recent remarks of Emperor William and other utterances villifying the social democracy. He said that the party could now defy defeat, no matter though bayonets were at the disposal of those who wished for a trial of strength. “The highest authority in the land throws down the gauntlet and insults us. Let us take up the challenge, no matter who it may be who casts this mud at us. He is incapable of touching us, for we are above his insults. Socialism will triumph. A violation of universal suffrage will be equivalent to the death warrant of the imperial government.” The socialists of Germany are very moderate in their demands, one of the greatest being the right to vote. ♦ ♦ * A unique and timely organization of farmers -has been incorporated with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. Its object is the protection of farmers from railroad companies. Farmers complain that if they are not well-to-do and influential, they are unable to obtain redress when fences, barns and haystacks are burned and cattle killed by the railroads. The association proposes to establish a fund, by means of annual dues, and keep in its employ attorneys to present all such cases in court • * ♦ An operator on the Chicago board of trade has made a bet of SIO,OOO that he will supply one of the elevated roads of that city with corn for fuel the coming season and that it will be cheaper than coal. He claims that a ton of corn will produce 25 per cent more heat than a ton of coal and he expects to buy corn in Kansas at 12 cents a bushel. This is a great country where sawdust is used for bread, corn is used for fuel, and horse-meat takes the place of beef. We have a beef trust and a coal trust that have put meat and coal so high the people can’t afford to use them, and a railway trust that puts freights so high that the people can’t afford to ship corn. The coal miners can eat coal and the grain producers burn bread. Great country, where Baron Rothschild says more money can be made in the next two years than in any other country on earth —that is for speculators • and money-changers. It was all right for Mr. Cleveland to give a foreign syndicate $10,000,000 in a bond deal, but he could not sign a bill granting an appropriation to the Texas. Kansas and Nebraska drouth sufferers It was unconstitutional, you know.

CASUALTIES.

Earthquake ihocxi ware felt early Thursday nemiag ia aumy atatoa es the weet tad south. The vibration* lasted from forty seconds to more than two minutes. No serious damage to property or life is reported. At Wichita, Kan., Maj. John Gorman, an officer in Gen. Frans Sigel’s command, fell from a scaffold of a house and broke his neck. At Early Station, near lowa Falls, lowa, Daniel Gammon, conductor, was fatally injured, and Engineer Fermenter and Fireman Wagner seriously injured in a railroad wreck. D. Blckler, a cattle buyer of Random Lake, Wis., was thrown from a buggy and killed. • August Raevoe, of Boscobel, Wis., was caught in the machinery of a feed mill and fatally injured. Joseph Kellogg fell downstairs at Rockford, 111., and received injuries which will probably prove fatal. A 6-year-old child of George Ramsey, of Coflke county, Tenn., fell into a burning brush heap and was cremated. At Petersburg, Pa., Mrs. Fortesque Whittle, daughter-in-law of the Bishop of Virginia, Lucy Stone, soon to be married, and a negro servant were seriously burned by the blowing up of a gasoline stove. Near Monteville, Mo., 400 acres of timber and 300 acres of corn have burned. At Menominee, Mich., the Columbus house was destroyed by fire. The boarders had a narrow escape. At Miller’s Falls, Mass., fire destroyed O’Keefe’s hotel, the Union Block, Miller’s Falls company’s block, a Congregational church, and Moran’s block. Loss, |60,000. At Columbus, Ga., the girls’ high school and five residences were burned, with a loss of $35,000. An open switch at St, Louis caused a collision between two trains, in which both engineers were killed and a number of passengers injured.

FOREIGN.

The Bank of London and Mexico will establish a branch at Tampico. It is reported that the Mexican steamship lines will end their rate war and pool their earnings. At Vera Crux patriotic Spanish committees have raised S4, NO for the Spanish cause in Cuba The fire that broke out in the British steamer Bendo at Bremen has been extinguished without great loss. At Palmero two nephewa of Cardinal Rampolla have run away to escape arrest on the charge of forging a will. Ex-Preeident Carlos Ezeta of San Salvador has lost all of hie money at Monte Carlo and the government has confiscated his coffee estates. Four prominent citizens of Santiago de Cuba are said to have been sent without trial to the Spanish penal colony of Ceuta, on the coast of Morocco. It is alleged that 26,000 Armenians have risen in open revolt against the authority of the sultan of Turkey. At Hongkong the American ship Wandering Jew caught fire and was scuttled. It was owned by Carleton, Norwood & Co., Camden, Me. The archbishop of Cuba and bishop of Panama have left Santa Cruz for Havana.

CRIME.

At Janesville, Wls., the wife of George Van Etta, one of the wealthiest men in the city, eloped ‘with a horse jockey named Goldie. At Jamestown, N. Y., Charles Douglass is under arrest charged with the murder of Mrs. Winslow Shearman and daughter in December, 1894. At Washington, Attorney-General Harmon argued the cases of W. H. Clune, Isaac Ross and Philip Stanwood on appeal from a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment from California for interfering with the mails during the strike of 1894. George Kalllkey, of Bottineau, N. D., killed his wife, who had refused to live with him. He was arrested while in a barber shop preparing a disguise to aid in escape. The court of appeals heard arguments at Albany, N. Y., in the case of Erastus Wlman, charged by his late partners in the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. with forgery. '’Fred Johanssen, who killed a companion at Bryant, lowa, while returning from a dance, was sentenced to sixty days in the penitentiary and fined S2OO. He appealed the case. William Thompson, released from Joliet penitentiary at the expiration of a term for robbery at Sycamore, 111., was rearrested and taken to Rockford for trial on a similar charge. Charles Douglass, of Jamestown, N. Y., has been arrested on a charge of murdering Mrs. Winslow Shearman and her daughter, Mrs. Cynthia Davis, last December. They were his neighbors. Ex-Banker Burr, of Stevens Point, Wls., has exhausted three days in an effort to secure bondsmen, but is still in charge of the sheriff. United States Judge Newman, at Atlanta, decided that "Crazy Bull,” the Indian of Buffalo Bill’s company, must go back to Baltimore to stand trial for manslaughter. He is charged with having caused the death of a small boy. At Rockford, 111., Dr. E. E. Gould, a dentist, who is under indictment for arson, has disappeared. He was under bonds of SI,OOO. At Lebanon, Pa., Major B. Frank Hean Is said to be missing, with SIO,OOO. At Los Angeles, Cal., Ferdinand B. Kennett, once chief of Police of St. Louis, was found guilty of manslaughter for killing Detective A. B. Lawson last June. Mrs. Pltzel gave her testimony against Holmes at Philadelphia Wednesday. The detells have been often published.

MISCELLANEOVS.

Report! to the Martoe Hospital Service show mueft. yeitowftvw Havqtyu. From October M to 24 there were I$G eases and forty-three deathA Ida M. and KRa R. Netaonef Chicago, who aye tramping their way to Jacksonville, Fla., on a wager, spent Sunday in. Lexington, Ky. , At Montgomery, Ala., the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and St Louis railway is given thirty days in which to pay to the Metropolitan Trust company ot New York SIBI,OOO defaulted interest. If not paid the road will be sold; At Fort Payne, Ala., the steel mill built by the Coal and Iron company and purchased by the Dekalb company Is to be operated in thirty days. It has a capacity of 100 tons a day. Dun’s review of trade reports business in a rather unsatisfactory condition. It is a period of waiting, and the* stagnation may continue some weeks. The will of John R. Porter was filed! for probate at Rockford, HL He leaves, an estate of $75,000, all of which, goes to his widow without restriction. The monthly coinage statement* shows the coinage executed at the: United States mints during the month, of October to have been as follows:. Gold, $7,215,700; silver, $820,000; one cent pieces, $23,500; total coinage, SB,059,200. The Illinois state board'of health during the past week issued certificates entitling to practice medicine and surgery in Illinois to Edith Sturges, K. E. Keith,. R. E. McDonaldi and S. Severson, of' Chicago; C. H. Smith, Tonica, and H. L.. Kutchen, of Columbus, Ohio. Buffalo Bill has decided to close his: Wild West show at Atlanta. The weather has been inclement At Marshalltown, la., the delegates to the convention of the lowa Epworth league visited the Soldiers’ Home. At Erie, Pa., Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., of Chicago, were each fined SIOO for violation of the oleomargarine law. The Pennsylvania societies of the Lutheran church have formed at Philadelphia the Lutheran League of America, with E. F. Eilert, of New York, president At Washington the contract for putting in place the steel and ironwork above the attic floor of the Milwaukee postofflce building was awarded to J. G. Wagner, of Milwaukee, at $34,000. At Ann Arbor, Mich., over 500 women students of the university attended a reception given by the sophomore girls. All male students were carefully excluded, and the men in the orchestra, were hidden by a screen. Gov. Altgeld denies the report that he has commissioned Col. R. M. Smitlt of the Fourth Regiment to raise a new regiment of 1,200 men. Judge Buck Kilgore of the Federal Bench in the Indian Territory has written to Attorney-General Harmon defending himself against charges filed by attorneys. The most serious charge ia that “he doesn’t know much law and tyrannical.” At Duluth, Minn., the Masonic Temple Association assigned to George N. Lavaque for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are about $135,000. The assets are the Temple Building and insurance on the opera house destroyed a few weeks ago. The ram Katahdin, the latest addition to the new navy, was given an official trial. The result of the trial is not announced, but it is said the required seventeen knots were more than maintained under favorable conditions. At Washington, Ind., 400 miners empolyed by Cabel & Co. struck on account of the screens used. Others may follow. Mrs. Agnes Spzcholskl, of Chicago, has secured a verdict against the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Electric Railroad for $3,000 for injuries sustained in a wreck. She sued for $50,000. Hal ft & Newbourer Brothers, wholesale dry goods and cotton buyers, filed a deed of trust and a chattel mortgage at Houston, Texas, with C. S. Rechman as trustee, covering a stock of cotton and real estate in several counties. The total liabilities are $225,000, of which $181,258 is preferred. The assets are estimated at $210,000.

LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

Cattle—Com. to prime..<l.2s @4.90 Hogs ...’ 2.00 @3.75 Sheep—Good to choice.. 1.25 @4.20 Wheat —No. 2 .57 @ .60 Corn —No. 2 ...'.30 @ .31 0at5....19 @.20 Rye3B @ .39 Eggsl6 @ .17 Potatoes—New —Per bu.. .16 @ .22 Butteroß @ .20 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 spring 57 @ .58 Corn —No. 330 @ .31 Oats—No. 3 white2o @ .21 Barley—No. 240 @ .41 Rye—No. 140 @ .41 PEORIA. Rye—No. 2 . 38 @ .39 Corn —No. 329 @ .30 Oats—No. 218 @ .19 ' KANSAS CITY. Cattle 1.00 @5.00 Hogs 3.00 @3.55 Sheep 2.00 @3.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 267 @ .68 Corn—No. 2 mixed 32 @ .33 Oats—No. 2 mixed2o @ .21 NEW YORK. Wheat—No. 2 red7o @ .71 Corn —October 37 @ .38 Oats —No. 223 @ .24 Butter 10 @ .23 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 1.75 @5.30 Hogs 3.50 @3.80 Sheep 2.25 @3.40 Wheat —Cash 62 @ .63 Corn —Cash 27 @ .28 Oats—Cashl7 @ .18 . BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 hard6B @ .69 Corn—No. 2 ye110w...... .36 @.37 Oats—No. 2 white.. .23 @ .24