People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.