People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Populist gains everywhere. How do you like the gold cure? We must have the Referendum. Legalizing theft does not make It right. The tramp-makers are still in the 3addle. Brice probably wishes that he had saved his money. Cleveland has Republicanized the Democratic party. Poor old Kentucky has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. Now it is the Democrats who are throwing away their votes. The “confidence” party has made another haul —and the people are the victims. The two old parties are bankrupt in principle, but they have plenty of gold left. The people are aroused —now keep them awake until they get on the right road. From the Democratic to the Republican party —out of the soup into the dish-water. Who cares what name wins? True victory comes only with the triumph of right principles. The Populist party is the only one that gained anything permanent in the elections this year. Now, pay up on your county paper, and brace up the editor for a strong campaign next year. Every vote gained by the Populists is a victory over ignorance and prejudice. We are coming. Populism is what has destroyed the Mason and Dixon line. We have the only true national party.

The silver boom in the Democratic party seems to be knocking the wind out of the free silver party. Populists, do not let the excitement die before you are in the field sowing seed for the campaign of 1896. A metropolitan paper remarks that the Democratic party is without a leader. The fact is, it has too many leaders. No use to talk any more about free silver inside the Democratic party. There is no inside to the party—it is all outside. The trouble with President Cleveland’s “vigorous foreign policy” is that it is too intensely “foreign.” His whole policy is English. “Chances” don’t come to the democratic party often, and it is well for the country that they don’t. The next chance is due in 1926. Cleveland and his hirelings—the men who hold office by grace of his royal fatness —will all support the gold-bug policy of their Wall street masters. Capt. Frank Burkitt made a gallant fight in Mississippi. He did not expect to be elected this year—but the educational work done in the campaign will bear fruit. The Associate press dispatches ignored the populist vote, as usual —but they can’t suppress facts long. We have nearly two thousand local papers in the field. The Republican end of the see-saw is up—but the people who hold the whole thing up in the middle feel the burden just as heavy as when the Democratic end is up. The only thing the Democratic papers have to rejoice over is that the treasury deficit for October was only six million dollars, instead of fifteen millions, as had been predicted. The election is only an incident in the war. The populists mean to conquer both old parties—it matters little which of the two whips the other. We wish them both success in slaughtering each other.

The result of the election signifies nothing but the dissatisfaction of the people. They will learn by and by what is the matter —then their action will signify something more than a mere change from bad to worse. The Populists are still here, and we still demand everything in the Omaha platform. If the Reps, will give us these things, we will disband and join them. We stand for the success of principle, not party. Will the Republicans restore prosperity? Oh, no; they plead the baby act—can’t you know. But every campaign speaker has proclaimed, before election, that prosperity would immediately resume business. There is considerable concern manifested about the people’s party being absorbed by this, that, or the other faction. As a matter of fact, there is no need to worry—the people’s party is somewhat of an absorber itself. In fact, it is now the only party that seems to be engaged in that healthy pastime. The other parties are being absorbed. All debts are paid in the products of labor —that is, it takes the products of labor to buy money to pay debts. A scarcity of money makes low prices and requires more of the products to obtain money to pay debts. This is why and how the debtor class has been robbed in the interest of the creditor class within the past thirty years. This is what the two old parties have helped the creditor to do.