People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A true Christian never lived on etThe question is not one of comp&rilon, but of justice. . 1 ■ i Money “good in Europe” is not pariotic enough to stay at home. The kind of dollars the gold-bugs want are those that will buy the most aws. If the government must stand good 'or the bank-notes, why not better issue them direct? President Cleveland is guarded all the time by detectives. The wicked fleeth when no man pursueth. The “Flood of Gold” about which the cuckoo papers are blowing, appears to be flowing toward Europe. Senator Vest evidently thinks that the best way to get what you want is to vote for what you don’t want. The man who will buy a vote will sell a vote. The man who buys his way into congress will sell himself to the highest bidder. All bribing in this country is done b; men who have money. Workingmen could not commit such a crime, if they wanted to. An overproduction of work is probably what makes it so cheap. A man can buy more work for a dollar now than ever before. It is worthy of note that Governor Clarke of Arkansas whipped the pugilists, without having to spit tobacco juice in their faces. The People’s party is the only free silver party. A vote for either of the two old parties is a vote right along with the gold-bugs. Election of senators by direct vote of the people is obr application of the “initiative and referendum" that every voter can understand. Bank money has reduced the land owners of England from 160,000 to less than 16,000, and it will do the same for this country if it is persisted in. The parity of the two old parties was established by “international agreement.” That is why they both want the money question settled that way. The production of gold in America last year is said to have been the greatest in our history. Yet, the total amount was not sufficient to pay the annual interest on our public debt. Only one state democratic convention in the United States this year declared in favor of free coinage of silver —and yet “silver men” profess to believe that they can secure reform inside the party. Jeffersonian democracy said that congress had no right to charter a bank with power to issue money. Carlisle says the government has no right to issue paper money. Which is democracy? Coxey’s papey says the difference between Populism and demo-republican-ism is this: “The former believes in the law making money, while the latter believes in money making the laws.” Epigrammatically and religiously correct.

Eastern democrats say they will be content with naming the presidential candidate. They are willing to let the west and south make the platform. They expect to name somebody like Grover, who will pay no attention to the platform. Submitting amendments to the state constitution for a vote of the people regardless of party is a practical feature of the “initiative and referendum” already in operation. If constitutional law can be made this way, why not statute law? The railroad companies, east and west, are forming a gigantic freight trust. This means milions of dollars more tribute to these highway robbers. The Inter-State Commerce law, and the anti-trust law are dead letters in the hands of pliant tools of the corporations.