People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is painfully evident that Carlisle’s hold has slipped on the “crime of 1873.” The initiative and referendum is becoming popular among all classes of reformers. The six-million-dollar treasury licit for October will hasten the new bond issue. Bank failures are becoming so common as to attract little attention except locally. Thirty labor and reform papers started in one month. That is the way we are dying. There are no silver mine owners to be enriched in Mississippi—yet it goes solid for free silver. Under the present situation the more wealth the people produce the richer it makes the plutocrats. An auction room for the sale of sec-ond-hand foreign titles to American heiresses is now in order. It is not so much “sound money” we need as it is sound men to run the affairs of this government.

If it is in order we would like to remind the public that the Democratic party has had a “chance.” It Is very appropriate that the sod under which the Democrats of Kentucky repose is blue grass. If you would rather be poor than to vote your principles why, just go right op voting the old party ticket. All the old party papers in Detroit opposed “Potato Patch” Pingree, but he was elected mayor, nevertheless. New York opposed the Declaration of Independence, and today occupies the same tory attitude she did in 1776. Since John Sherman has got started, it looks as if he intended to expose everybody in his party except himself. Even the Corbett-Fitzsimmons elocutionary contest was crowded out of the great daily papers for a day by the election news. We now rise to a question ©f privilege: We would respectfuly jfiquire of the Democratic press if the copyright has expired on the “Crime of 1873?” While there is said to be an overproduction of thirty million bushels of potatoes this year, many people will not be able to have them on their tables. * —— Did you ever notice the fact that the directors of our great American railways hold many of their principal meetings in London, England? What do you think?

The President’s Maria Halpin policy was expected to be endorsed by the Mormons of Utah, but even the Mormons have decency enough to repudiate Grover. The Secretary of Agriculture has issued a 100-page book on the “American Crow.” This may serve to educate the Democrats upon the effects of eating that bird as a regular diet. A New York financial paper says: “A new bond issue would put money rates far higher than they have ever been since the panic.” And the new bond issue is coming now in a few days.

“Depends on whose ox is gored,” of course—but the people whose ox is being gored now are in the majority, and they have not only a right tp complain, but the power to punish the offenders. No one claims that there is any law for issuing bonds to obtain money to pay the current expenses of the government, yet over $90,000,000 of the proceeds of the bond sales have been used for that purpose. Some papers are talking of the recent fusion of the two old parties in several counties of Kansas as though it were something new. The old parties entered into partnership there last fall for the election of the “redeemers.” John D. Rockefeller has just made Chicago university another present of three million dollars. This may keep the balance of the faculty quiet on the question of monopoly, and heal the wounds inflicted on their dignity by Prof. Bemis. Does the free silver element of the so-called democratic party require any further proof as to what the gold bug element will do if their party should adopt a silver platform? In the light of recent experience, what hope have they for the restoration of silver by and through the democratic party?—Advocate, Dyersburg, Tenn. f : A Private Citizen. Weary Watkins— Ever think of gittin’ into the poor-house? Hungry Higgins—Me? No. I don’t want to become no public officeholder. You won’t find me askin’ nothin’ of the county as long as I kin git my own livin’.”—lndianapolis Journal.