People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Boycott the corporation* at the balot box. A dollar will buy ten bushels of potaoes up in Minnesota. The Republicans now have rope enough to hang themselves. The “Sound Currency club” is a Democratic annex to a British system of finance. There is room for suspicion that Great Britain has a chattel mortgage on the Monroe doctrine. What’s the matter with J. Sterlin Morton’s mouth? It hasn’t “gone off” lor several days.

It is the men who have robbed the people most that fight the People’s party the hardest. John Sherman, says he is glad the Democrats are in favor of the Republican financial policy. Are you voting the same ticket the. Autocrats vote? If so you had better get on the other side of the fence. The only successful boycott now possible for the laborer is a universal boycott of corportions at the ballot box. John Sherman’s new book is like the last effort of a dying wasp—bringing all the venom of its nature in its sting. The initiative and referendum means that the people shall have the privilege »f voting direct on such laws as they ©ant made. It makes but little difference how much the people produce; interest, rents and transportation charges consume most of it.

"There can’t be but two parties.” That’s right; the Republican and Democratic party is one, and the People’s party is the other. The people could wrest this government from the hands of plutocracy at one election if they had sense enough to combine as the plutocrats do. The French ministry have resigned. It would be a blessing to this country if some of our statesmen (?) could acquire the habit of resigning occasionally. The government pays the railroad companies $26,000,000 a year to carry the mail. This item would be saved with government ownership of railroads. Every man who comes into the People’s party prior to the time of choosing delegates to the next national convention will have a voice in making the platform. The reform press is the great power that stands as a bulwark for the liberties of the people. What are you doing to extend its influence? Get one subscriber, at least, for this paper. Agriculture is the true basis of our national wealth, and there never will be any prosperity until the farmer is prosperous; and the farmer will never be prosperous with low prices for his products prevailing. You deposit your money in the bank; the bank owes you that amount; it loans this money and collects interest on it; that is it collects interest on what it owes; "best banking system in the world” —for the bankers. Say, Mr. Workingman, how have you been voting for the past twenty years? Has either of the old parties passed laws which made your tasks easier? Have you been voting for yourself and family or for your party boss?

There are plenty of instances where Republicans and Democrats are coming over to the People’s party, but none where anyone is leaving the People’s party. Yet- the plutocratic papers keep saying that the People’s party is dying. Don’t forget the fact that organization for the fight of 1896 is half the battle, and that the Legion is the best form of organization for the People’s party. Write to Paul Van Dervoort, Omaha, for particulars, enclosing stamp when you write. It is reported that Great Britain has made a bid for a half interest in the Monroe doctrine, promising to help enforce it against other nations. It will be a wonder if the present Democratic administration don’t make some “dicker” of this kind. The People’s party platform is antimonopoly throughout. It is the only party which the plutocrats are fighting. It is the only party that represents the interests of the common people; therefore it ought to have the support of the masses. All the promises that the Democratic party can ever make in the future cannot wipe out the stain of having hired a foreign Jew syndicate to protect the credit of the government. It was an insult to seventy millions of people that can never be effaced. Senator Teller announces that under <o circumstances will he vote for a goldbug. Now, that is the way to talk it. Let every man stand up for his principles, and if his party won’t carry them out, let him join one that will. It is now in order for some Democratic senator to make the same kind of an announcement. Recently the State bank of Garnett, Kansas, failed; the next day the First National bank of Wellington, Kansas, failed, and about the same time a bank in Fort Scott went under. All these banks were in Kansas, which has been “redeemed” by the Republicans. It was the great wave of prosperity that swept them off their feet.