People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hare you any opinions of yoor own? Both old parties foster banks of issue. Greed and creed are about to destroy he church. Every man who votes for a gold-bug foes honor to John Sherman. Bland will perpetrate a series of lectures on the Southern people. Let us have a little Jefferson doctrine llong with the Monroe doctrine. Fifteen cent corn and prosperity are not on a parity with each other. It didn’t require any gold reserve to carry on the war of independence. Sherman’s new book is too vitupergumptious to suit some of the bosses in the g. o. p. Ask the man who says there is plenty of money to lend you a “fiver” —then watch him squirm. Why don’t the silver men get out of the old parties, if they want to unite with the Populists? It is now reported that Cleveland don’t want a third term. We are pleased to hear that there is something he don’t want. The democrat who votes the ticket again can be safely put down as among those who don’t know when they have enough. There is no good reason why every able bodied man should not find employment at remunerative wages in this country. In most of our large cities it is a crime to be without bread, and a crime to ask for it, yet there is no work for the idle to do. A free silver man who will vote for a gold-bug candidate because his party nominates one, ought to trade backbones with a fish worm. The man who howls for free silver this year and votes for a gold bug next year lacks something in the upper story or has a very weak backbone. If the free silver democrats had half the backbone that the gold-bug democrats have they would get out of a party In which they figure only as doughfaces. The most that can be expected from the National conventions of the two old parties on the silver question is a straddle platform with a gold-bug candidate. The best evidence that the money power are not capable of running this government is that they have made a dead failure of it —so far as the people are concerned. The first thing the democratic party ought to do when it meets in national convention is to pass a vote of thanks to John Sherman for putting them righr on the money question. The Populist cause is gaining everywhere, yet it would gain much faster if every Populist would go to work with a will. The most effective way to work is to scatter reform literature. The whole tendency of the Cleveland administration has. been towards the theory that the credit of banks was better than that of the government, and that Englishmen had more rights in this country than Americans. It was one of the Vanderbilts who said “the public be d d,” and now the Vanderbilts have cornered sulphur. No wonder they want the public to be d d,” since they expect to get the contract of furnishing the brimstone. It is surprising to see how fast the principle of government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones electric lights and water works is taking root in the minds of the people. Keep up the agitation of government ownership of railroads. The free silver democrats ought to be able to see that they have been making a losing fight all the time “inside of their' party.” They will have their Waterloo at the national convention and then those who still remain with the party are no friends of silver. If making dollars cheaper is equivalent to a repudiation of a part of our debts, the making of them dearer is confiscation of a portion of the debtor’s property. The dollar has been made dearer and by this method the people have been robbed. The question is how long will they stand it? The constitution prohibits the states from issuing money, but congress has usurped the authority to farm out this privilege to the banks, and the money power is now asking an extension of that privilege. The democratic party once said in its platform that congress had no right to do this, but the democratic party of to-day wants to go farther even than the republicans did in the privileges granted banks of issue. The most absent-minded man was not the man who hunted for his pipe when it was between his teeth, nor the man who threw his hat out of the window, and tried to hang his cigar on a peg, nor even the man who put his umbrella to bed and stood up in the corner—but the man who wanted free silver and voted an old party ticket. His mind had been absent ever since he was born.