People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — HOW THEY MANAGE. [ARTICLE]

HOW THEY MANAGE.

PLATFORM MAKERS HELD UP . TO SCORN. How the Spoil* System Dominate* Old Party Politics—Let the People Take Finance* in Their Own Hands, and Throw Fraud and Corruption Oat. Probably at no time in the history of this country has there been so large an instance of united power in support of OPPRESSION as a FIXED POLICY under the control of the MONEY LENDING ELEMENT, as the present political situation. No better illustration of this is needed than the recent platforms of the two old Parties in a number of the principal States of the country, which is climaxed by that of the Democrats in Massachusetts, just formulated. This last platform, not satisfied with declaring for gold alone, consequently against Free Silver, has gone one better in declaring for the DESTRUCTION OF GREENBACKS and OTHER GOVERNMENT PAPER MONEY, which is to be replaced by wildcat State bank money having no gold or ANY SECURE BASIS. It is an INSULT to INTELLIGENCE and MANLINESS that such things be, and is a strange illustration how far outside the bounds of common sense or reason schemers having a general loot of the Nation’s resources in view, will work to attain their ends. That the public tolerate this state of affairs is also ASTONISHING, for MORE FLAGRANT ACTS against the cause of PROSPERITY and COMMON HONESTY, in financial administration, it is very hard to find. It is an out-and-out advocation of CRIME and ROBBERY without a qualifying word in its behalf, and the sooner the great plain people wake up to the fact the better it will be for their prospects of getting BREAD and BUT-' TER TO EAT, let alone the comforts or luxuries of life.

With the policy of this Massachusetts platform carried out, the finances of the Nation will be completely under the thumb of the money-lending profession headed by the Rothschild “ring.” This “ring” then can CONTROL and ENFORCE wages, industry and good or bad trade to their OWN PERSONAL PROFIT, without let or hindrance. No softer snap—to use a commonplace expression—has ever been engineered in Wall street than the power this platform proposes to put into the hands of CORRUPTION and OPPRESSION. It is even so bad that that goldite organ, the New York Tribune, feels compelled to say of it: “There are probably very few persons in Massachusetts who, if the question could be put squarely to them and decided by their votes, would contract to ANY RETIREMENT of legal-tender (greenbacks, etc.,) circulation. * * * But when men know (referring to the platform makers) that they have no chance of success before the people, but have a chance of getting office if they please the dispenser of patronage, they not infrequently say what the dispenser of patronage wants, without regard to what the people want.” That tells the whole story. It is a description of the way these recent platforms are made without any regard to HONESTY or the WELFARE of the NATION. There is only ONE REMEDY; that is for the PEOPLE to *:ake the NATION’S FINANCES into their OWN HANDS. Platform makers belonging to the older Parties are wholly dominated by the SPOILS SYSTEM, and it is a hopeless expectation to get anything else out of them than forms of robbery to be legitimatized in the shape of law at the public expense. It is a MONSTROUS condition of things, but the plain people have an EASY" REMEDY if they but UNITE AT ONCE and determine to cast fraud and CORRUPTION overboard wherever it is to be found—Philadelphia Item.