People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Page 4

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The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG, (Lessee.) PILOT PUBLISHING CO., (Limited.) Proprietors. Qatid H. Yxoman, President. Wm. Washburn, Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook, Sec’y. J. A. McFarland Treas The People's Pilot ,s the official organ of she Jasper and Newton County Alliances.and s published every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM . Sntered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind.

The bonds are coming. What’s become of Horr? Lok out for another issue of bonds. Character is greater than formality. Shall England rule the sons of revoutionary fathers’ Brand every man a traitor who wants to destroy the greenbacks. Don’t forget that England is backing the entire gold-bug scheme. Join the army of the fool-killer, and help to bury the dead with your vote. The wonjan who sells her womanhood is no worse than the man who sells his vote. If it were not for the government security what would bank-notes be worth? Carlisle ‘ dealt silver a terrible blow” at Boston —almost winded himself, he blowed so hard. Sherman's death-bed repentance leads him to confess not his own sins but those of others. The real fight of the money-lenders is not against silver, but against the government issue of money. The man who is not radical has neither friends nor enemies—and really amounts to nothing at all. If it were not for pugilism, how in the world could Governors Culbertson and Clark have ever gained fame? Both the old parties foster trusts and when you vote for either you vote to perpetuate them and enslave yourself. The plutocrats want war —but if they continue in their present course, they will have to do some of the fighting when it comes. Cleveland is popular with England— George Washington was not. Popularity in England is not the best sign of American patriotism. It is thought that the prosperitywhoopers will now abandon the faith cure for hard times. The patients have lost faith in the doctors. John Sherman has not only lived to see the Democratic party indorse “the crime of ’73,” but has seen them commit a crime just as bad. The increased purchasing power of the dollar does not help the fellow who has to sell an increased amount of his labor and produce to get the dollar.

Report comes from Washington that the plates are being prepared for another bond issue. We will likely have it before the beginning of another year. Anonymous writers often speak truths fully as forcible as those that are duly signed by recognized authorities. Truth is the only true authority. The only kind of fusion that is justifiable is between the democrats aiTd’ republicans; their sole object is office and they make no secret of subordinating principle to get it. It is hard for a man to be a silver man and a Democrat at the same time —or a Republican, either, for that matter. In other words, one cannot be a silver man and a gold-bug both. IF GOLD MONEY IS THE ONLY RELIABLE BASIS FOR BUSINESS, WHY DON’T BUSINESS BOOM, NOW THAT WE HAVE A GOLD BASIS? PLEASE ANSWER, MR. GOLDBUG. The workingman not only sacrifices his manhood in voting for either of the two old monopoly parties, but also robs his wife and children of the' protection he promised in the marriage vow. “Farmers” by appointment do not represent the sentiment of farmers by profession. That- “farmers’ ” congress at Atlanta which adopted a gold-bug resolution consisted of farmers by appointment. Until the people come to regard their law makers in the same light that they do their other hired hands, and look after them as close, we will never have purity in politics, or that prosperity to which we are entitled. Senator Vest, of Missouri, says there is only $3.84 per capita of money in circulation, yet if his party declares against an increase of money he will stand by the party. What do you think of such a man’s principles? The Louisville Courier-Journal has Invented a new word, “jabberwocks.” Of course ft applies to a newly discovered class of democrats. There are so many kinds of democrats that new words have to be invented for naming them.

Banks of issue are a fraud. Let the government issue ths money and plenty of it. Congress alone should have power over the currency. There’ll be lots of John Sherman democrats in 1896. Joe Pulitzer has decolonelized editor Jones of the Post-Dispatch. Why does our government nqed any credit? Did you ever think of that? The greatest republican now is the one who can say the most and mean the least. The government has no right to delegate the power to issue money to a corporation. It will be funny to see the democrats “take water” on the silver question next year. The depositor in a bank, as now conducted, has absolutely no protection, except “confidence.” The worst kind of “scab” labor is that which votes for a party that opposes labor organizations. Senator Brice’s speeches during the Ohio campaign were very short; they all began with “Pay to the order of, etc.” There is some consolation in the fact that all “sound money” advocates are not yet in favor of killing the greenback. Money is a medium of exchange and its purpose is to facilitate trade, but it has been turned into an instrument of oppression. When the free silver men who want to get it “inside the party” attempt to control their national convention they will find that it is loaded. Does anybody know what President Cleveland said in his speech at Atlanta. He used lots of words, but they don't seem to mean anything. The Kansas City Times, which is in the hands of a receiver, still talks editorially of the “glorious prosperity everywhere growing evident.” It is now r dawning on some of the ablest minds in the country that government ownership is the only correct solution of the railroad problem. Cleveland is the only president that ever allowed the Monroe Doctrine to be whisked around as it has been of late; but there will be a day of reckoning. Bland ought to know by this time that his fight for free silver in the democratic party does the gold bugs more good than they can do for themselves. The people, not the bosses, will make the platform of the People’s party next year. The platforms of the two old parties will be dictated by the bosses, as usual.

In the recent election contest in the Tenth Georgia district between Watson | and Black the democrats polled 10,000 less votes than they did in-1894 for the same man. Who’d have thought it? John Sherman now says he is opposed to the destruction of the greenbacks. He must have soured on his accomplices entirely while he was writing that book. Col. D. R. Anthony of the Leavenworth Times, says that “Kansas republicanism has a foul cancer.” We would suggest that the Colonel is a little off in. his bearings; the cancer is afflicted with a little republicanism. The two old parties will fuse in the organization of the next senate, and try to ignore the Populists. But the Populists will be heard, whether their votes count or not. They can do some good educational work by standing up boldly for principle. Why shouldn’t the money kings be gold-bugs? They own the gold of the world; the debts of the world are owed to them; and they want to increase the debts so as to draw more interest. Very simple. But why should a debtor be a gold-bug? Can’t be answered, Don’t look for the leaders to desert the Democratic party; they wont do it. Neither will the Republican leaders desert their party. Both old parties will have gold bug candidates for President, and if you want to vote for free silver you will have to do it through the People’s party. There is one point which no gold bug has ever attempted to explain; that is how the United States can maintain a single gold standard when the average amount of gold that is leaving the country annually is more than $50,000,000, while the average annual production is only $35,000,000. Of course it is expected that the deficit is to be made up by issuing bonds. The bankers are now talking of the necessity of maintaining the credit of the United States. Every intelligent man knows that the credit of the government was never assailed by anybody but the bankers. If every banker in the United States of the stripe of Pierpon Morgan, August Belmont and Lokelheimer were banished it would do more to improve the credit of the United States than anything else.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THUKbDAI NUV . 14. 1895.

CAUSE OF PANICS.

INDICATIONS THAT MYSTERY WILL SOON BE SOLVED. Men Begin to See the Trick the GoldBug. Are Playing to Establiah the Gold Standard Despotism —It Is Played By Shylocka. The people of the United States have been greatly worried over the question, “What Is the cause of panics?” There are as many theories and answers as there are points to the mariner’s compass. Just now the indications are that the mystery will soon be solved. Cleveland has got a pet called a “redemption.” or a “parity” fund. Some call it the “sound money” fund. The “parity” level of this fund is $100,000,000 in gold. Above that level, business swims; below that level, business sinks. If this fund gets below $100,000,000, business is “panicky.” Then Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, a stock speculator, who isn’t quite ready for a panic until he unloads, comes to the rescue of the government, (?) that is to say, the Buzzards Bay administration.” or the “Gray Gables administration,” and the panic does not materialize. The gold bugs. In connection with Rothschilds, get hold of some greenbacks, buy a little gold, and the parity fund is leveled up, but Mr. Morgan, speaking for the syndicate, informs the country that his contract to stave off a panic has long since expired, and that w’hat he does to run the government is prompted by patriotism. This being the case, the “redemption” or “parity” fund, is an “anti-panic” fund. Hence, all that is required to create a panic is to reduce the “anti-panic” fund below $100,000,000. Reports from Londop refer to this fund and predict a panic if it goes much below the $100,000,000 level, and all Europe is engaged in depleting the fund. Why? Because Europe, particularly England, wants our “Buzzards Bay administration” to issue more gold bonds, and this will be done whenever Morgan, Rothschilds & Co. demand it. When the panic struck the country two years ago or more, our “Buzzards Bay administration” saw distinctly through his leather goggles that the cause of the panic was the outflow of gold, and as clearly, that this exportation of gold could be traced directly to the “Sherman law,” requiring the government to purchase a specified amount of silver bullion. Gold was going by millions, and the panic was increasing. While this storm of stupidity was raging, and before the repeal of the Sherman law was accomplished, gold began to flow from Europe to the United States. This puzzled the “Buzzards Bay administration” and demonstrated that he was a better fisherman than financier; but he was destined to sink still lower in the list of financial nincompoops, for, after the repeal of the “Sherman law,” gold again began to flow to Europe in a steady and in a larger stream than ever before, until, finally, no level-headed man has any confidence in the financial acumen of the “Buzzards Bay administration.” Now the “Buzzards Bay administration” has another fad, manufactured by Morgan, Rothschilds and the national banks, which is to retire the greenbacks since it is held, if the greenbacks were out of the way, there would be no demand for gold, and the “anti-panic-parity fund” would remain intact. But while this demand is being mouthed by all the gold bugs, it so happens that the firm of Morgan & Co. take greenbacks and exchange them for gold, which they hand over to the government, to maintain the level of the "parity fund” at $100,000,000, and this, according to reports, has been done seeral times within a short period, the result being that an escape from another panic was owing, absolutely, to the use of greenbacks, hence it is seen that the greenbacks, instead of promoting panics, has been the acknowledged means of preventing them.

The question has recently been asked: Why this ceaseless outflow of gold? and several gold-bug, high monkey-monks, including J. Pierpont Morgan, reply: The United States is in debt to Europe and gold goes forward to pay interest and balances, and has no relation whatever to the “Sherman law,” nor now, to greenbacks. When the “Sherman law” was repealed, gold, as has been said, left the country in an ever increasing volume, and if in the interest of the national banks, greenbacks were destroyed not a dollar less, therefore, would be exported. Men begin to see the trick the gold bugs are playing to establish irrevocably the gold standard despotism. It is played by Shylocks and has been splendidly played by them, and our “Buzzard’s Bay administration” is either in the deal or is such a confirmed nincompoop that he cannot see through the jugglery. At any rate never before has the world been furnished with a more humiliating spectacle. Never before was the United States so completely in the hands of a gang of conscienceless boodlers, and while they are in power the people will never be ten days removed from a panic. If, therefore, the people will vote to retain either of the old parties in power, when the panics come, as come they will, they will have only themselves to blame for they will have been the author of the country’s business calamities. —Railway Times. Spain taxes Cuba pretty hard but nothing to compare with the way the trusts and corporations tax the people in the United States. The man who thinks finds it necessary to face the contempt of the conventional world

A BUSY LIFE CLOSED.

A Patriotic Woaaa Called te Her R*> ward. Populists and other reformers throughout the United States feel the loss of a friend in the death of Mrs. S. E. V. Emery. The following sketch from the Lansing Daily Journal reveals the esteem in which she w?.s held by the people of her own town. She lived for the uplifting of all humanity: “At an early hour this morning death ended the sufferings of Mrs. Sarah E. V. Emery, one of the best-known citizens of Lansing. In March, 1893, Mrs. Emery became afflicted with a maligr nant cancerous growth, from which she was unable to obtain relief, although every effort was made, and she gradually declined in health. “Since December last, when she was obliged to take to her«bed, her decline has been rapid. Two weeks pga it became apparent that the end was fast approaching and her death was daily expected. Last evening she fell into a quiet slumber, and the new day was but an hour old when she passed peacefully away. She had suffered excruciating pain for months, and death was a welcome visitor. “Sarah Elizabeth Van Dervoort was born May 12, 1838, in Phelps, N. Y. She attended the public schools at Phelps, and completed her creation at the Clinton Liberal Institute, in Clinton, N. Y. She taught school seventeen years, three of which were spent as superintendent of the schools of Midland, Mich. She was married to Wesley Emery in 1870 in Phelps. Soon thereafter Mr. and Mrs. Emery moved to Lansing, and have resided here since. “Few Michigan women succeeded in attracting more attention or took a more active part in the agitation of political and social questions than has Mrs. Emery during the twenty-five years she has resided here. She first interested herself in the greenback cause, taking the platform and participating in the campaigns. Later she espoused the cause of the Knights of Labor and was one of the ablest champions in the state. The farmers’ alliance next enlisted her sympathies and she exerted her abilities in its behalf.

“Mrs. Emery was ever aggressive in working for equal suffrage, and was instrumental in causing several suffrage bills to be framed and introduced into the legislature. In the W. C. T. U. she was recognized as one of its ablest members and two years ago was elected national president in the department of temperance in relation to capital and labor. “When the people’s party was formed she immediately set about to preach populism in Michigan and was recognized as one of its ablest champions. She was not only a fluent platform speaker, but achieved great success in the literary field. In 1888 she completed a book entitled ‘The Seven Financial Conspiracies,’ which dealt with the money question. Of this work over 360,000 copies were sold. Two years ago she completed another book written in the interest of populism. It was entitled ‘lmperialism in America,’ and over 40,000 copies have been sold. The former work had a most remarkable circulation in Kansas, where it was used as a campaign document, and is credited with the subsequent populist victory there. “Mrs. Emery’s religious affiliations were with the Universalists, and her devotion to church work was constant until failing health rendered further work impossible. For several years she was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Universalist church, and almost her last thoughts were concerning the church. Last spring she presented the valuable site at the intersection of Capitol avenue and Ottawa street to the church. “Mrs. Emery’s career as agitator and reformer was both unique and brilliant. From the time she first began to speak on the greenback rostrum until disease incapacitated her for further work, she was constantly in the harness, campaigning in all sections of Michigan and in many other states. “Aside from her husband, Mrs. Emery is survived by two brothers, G. M. Van Dervoort of Shortsville, N. Y., and T. S. Van Dervoort of Phelps, N. Y.” As requested by Mrs. Emery, her body was cremated.

A Warning to the United States.

Recently the United States consul at Cairo made a report to the State Department showing the deplorable condition of the Egyptian government. From that report, the Topeka Capital selects the following facts: Egypt’s bonded debt reaches the enormous total of 509 million dollars. The population being only seven millions, this is a debt of about $72 per capita, or the equivalent of a national debt in the United States of five billion dollars. At present the productive area of Egypt is only five and one-quarter million acres. From the product of this land must be gathered a revenue of eighteen million dollars a year to pay the interest on the public debt, which amounts to an average tax of $4.56 per acre. The consul’s report does not dilate upon the most important fact connected with this sad story, which is: Egypt depended on foreign capital to carry on her government and her public enterprises. English capitalists were always on hand ready and willing to advance gold and take bond? bearing high interest The Egyptian statesmen were either too ignorant or too c-shonest to issue their own money beto~A it was too late. They were sound money statesmen. Now their people arc -educed to such a state of degradation cn** the fiat of their government wosK cf little value. The Egyptians are slaves. The United States shotild take warning.—Topeka Advocate.

LABOR IN THE SOUTH.

A CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF THE PRINCELY WAGESFarm Laborers Getting Six Dollars a Month —Facta Regarding Reports of “a Revival of Prosperity” —Starvation Has to Compete with Cheap living. Atlanta, Oct. 10. —When I reached this city and the grounds of the Cotton States and International Exposition, about three weeks ago, I found everything in dire confusion. Two days before the opening there was only one building really ready, and that was the government’s. Thousands of workmen, however, were rejoicing in hope that their present condition would continue and were free to talk of their wages, as workmen generally are when they are doing a little better than common. And verily I was astonished at some of their statements. Thousands of negroes have flocked in from the farming regions and were getting $1 a day for common labor, where before the exposition boom the rate was but 90 cents. One year ago painters and carpenters in Atlanta got but $1.50 per day. Now they get $2.50 and call it princely pay. Country negroes tell me that on the farms they get $lO a month and rations, but that is only in this middle section, while southward and eastw’ard wages are lower. Orthodox party papers over in Tom Watson’s district have been making a great to do over the improvement and revival of prosperity, and surely there is an improvement if Editor (late Senator) Pat Walsh tells the truth, for he says that not long ago able bodied negroes could be hired in the 'vicinity of Augusta for $6 a month, while the latest comers from there tell me they can now get SB. Of course these wages go with rations —that is, enough cornmeal, pork, coffee, peas, rice and black molasses to keep a laborer in working order. And even in this state I hear the familiar statement that one great cause of hard times is the extravagance of laborers. Last year the rate for picking cotton was forced down to 30 cents per 100 pounds. This year there was an attempt at a combine to force it up to 60 cents, the rate which prevailed in the “good old times,” but I am told to-day that there is a compromise by which the pickers are to get 45 cents on “first” and “scant” and 40 cents on the late or full boll. It takes a lively darky to pick 200 pounds a day, but women occasionally do better, and one was pointed out to me who could turn in 240 pounds a day for a week. In view of such and many similar facts I was not surprised at seeing a very large chain gang without a white man in it, and when a resident friend called my attention to the model jail in the exposition grounds I was moved to ask; “Will you explain your model convict system?” “Not this year,” he replied, with a dry smile, and we changed the venue. Street car men have also had their wages raised and now get 12 cents an hour, a part of the contract being that they must “maintain a neat and respectable appearance.” That’s a blamed sight more than I could do during the long drought, when a cloud of red dust hung perpetually over the grounds. Editor Martin of The Dixie Magazine tells me that cotton mill operatives average 80 cents a day, and others put their wages at “from sl2 to $lB per month,” which does not seem to consist. I suppose the latter are only the poorest class, of workers. In the section where they live board is phenomenally cheap and I suppose correspondingly plain. I had to laugh at one good old lady who told me she “railly hadn’t the heart to charge the poor girls more’n eight dollahs a month, though railly it’s wuth more in these hard times.” In the nicer sections board is much higher, and rents are simply awful.

Gas and water rates are said to be higher than in New York or Chicago, while house service of some kinds is dog cheap. Even among men there is a great diversity, and much more so since the exposition company discharged so many common laborers, who are bidding against each other. The firm I am best acquainted with just now gets the services of a preacher of the gospel for $3 per week, and he is there from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m., though his duties as messenger do not employ him all the time. He is 25 years old, a well educated mulatto and a licensed minister, but is on the pay roll, as a “boy.” Draymen and hackmen get $6 per week. All these facts and many more of the same sort I gathered in my first ten days here, for really there was not much to see yet in the exposition, and if it had not been for the thousands of veterans who came down from the Chickamauga dedication and the ten governors, including two candidates for the presidency, and the generals here on blue and gray day we certainly should have suffered “ongwee.” I was particularly struck with the fact that the speakers laid great stress on the rising tide of prosperity and the advantages to farmer and laborer. And all those fellows profess to believe in a God and expect to be justified in his sight!—J. H. Browning, in Chicago Express. Senator Peffer** View. Senator Peffer, in an interview with the Washington Post, says: “I take it that the republicans will elect both a president and house of representatives. Then their troubles will begin. They will soon be in the same predicament of the present administration. A breaking up is sure to come; it may be we will see a collapse of both the old parties before 1900. A great deal depends on the action of the incoming congress. I think it quite possible that legislation will be passed withdrawing the greenbacks and treasury notes from circulation and funding them in a bond

ferae. If such a policy te to be pursued, the sooner it fe effected the better and the sooner will the voice of the people be heard. In a few years more the conflicting elements in the old parties will separate for all time. About 75 per cent of the democrats who believe in free silver and equal treatment of both metals will break away from their plutocratic gold-standard coadjutors in the east. About 25 per cent of the republicans will do the same thing. These seceders will go over en masse to the populists. It’s easy to-predict what will be the result. The populists will come into control in every branch of the government and it will be administered in the interest of the people and not of the Shylocks and speculators.”

BONDS AT BOTH ENDS.

How Grover Has Fattened the PocketBooks of the Bondholders. During Grover Cleveland’s first term as executive, there was a surplus of money in the treasury. How the government officers happened to let this money slip through their fingers is something that has never been fully explained, yet there was actually a surplus so big that it was a burden. The question came before congress, and measures were urged to dispose of this money. Some suggested one scheme and some another, but our Roger Q. Mills finally presented a bill providing for the expenditure of this surplus in buying bonds of the government not yet due. In order to induce the holders of these bonds to surrender them, a premium waspaid on the bonds, and in fifteen months seventy-two million dollars found lodgment in the pockets of the bondholders, in addition to the principal and interest due on the face of the bonds. Thus, the bondholders succeeded in getting in a bold robbery by the help of Senator Mills, to the tune of $72,000,000. This was the initiatory term of Cleveland. When Mr. Cleveland came in on his second term a deficiency in the treasury occurred very soon, and how to dispose of the deficiency was a matter of much moment. Of course, it must be disposed of in some way to the financial benefit of the bondholders and money thieves. So instead of buying bonds, Grover went to selling bonds, and did the same as he did in buying bonds, that is, paid the bondholders a premium. The bondholders must have a steal out of the bond deal no matter whether the bonds are “a cornin’ or a gwine.” The money gang succeeded in fleecing the government out of from fifteen to thirty millions on the bond sale designed to procure money for the deficiency in the treasury. Thus Grover has fattened the pocketbooks of the bondholders at both ends of his executive service. When there was too much money, the bond holders were paid to take it out of the treasury, and when there was a shortage of money the bondholders were paid to put money into the treasury. It is ( down hill both ways for the bondholders and up hill both ways for the people. There is not the least doubt but that some one received a bonus for this scheme of feeding the bondholders fore and aft. Grover has developed from a poor man to a millionaire in a few years on a moderate salary, it is reasonable to conclude that some of the fat went his way. Senator Mills is, of course, an honest man, but honest men rarely father a bill in congress designed to rob the people for the benefit of the bankers and bondholders. If Senator Mills did not receive a share of this corruption fund, it is not because he was not in position to do so.—Southern Mercury.

NOT DISCOURAGED.

Torn Watson Says the Pops Are Just Beginning; to> Fight. In Wilkison county the democratic registrars struck off sixty populists who are entitled to vote; Jefferson some three hundred; in Columbia about the same; in Taliaferro at least 50; in Richmond they not only retained 1,200 illegal votes for Black but counted 1,000 of our ballots for him. We say it; and we will prove it. * * * Discouraged? Bosh! Bosh!! Bosh!!! Let the other fellow get discouraged. His troubles are just beginning to commence. * * * Courage, comrades! The battle is only begun. A generation of wrong cannot be swept away in a day. If your heart is not in this fight, the sooner you quit the better: you will be a burden to us rather than a help. But if your heart is in it, then be of good cheer and press on. The world can never suppress a man who loves his convictions better than life itself, and who would stand disgraced in his own eyes if he did not do battle for the right as a mere matter of duty, reward or no reward. All that is worth having in the social fabric which shelters us is the fruit of sacrifice, of toil, of patience, of persistent adherence to noble ideas. We who are populists on principle cannot become indifferent. We dare not. We would sin against conscience to do it. ; * * * Whipped ? Not much. We are fust beginning to fight.—People’s Party Paper. A Bottomlemi Aby'g, The celebrated "bottomless abyss” of France is situated in the Province of Vancluse and is considered one of the most interesting geological wonders in the world. It is called the Abyss of Jean Nauveah and has been known for centuries. It is fronr three to twelve feet in diameter and practically bottomless. It is supposed to be the vent of an ancient geyser.