People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Thk People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG. (Lessee.! PILOT PUBLISHING CO.. (Limited.) Proprietors. David H. Yeoman, President. Wm. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook. .T. A. McFarland Treas The People's Pilot, s the official organ of tfie.Jasper and Newton County Alliances,and s published eve? y Thursday at ONK DOLLAR PER ANNUM. / Entered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind. Blessed is he that expects nothing—for the present congress will provide for him, It is a wonder the courts don’t decide that the constitution is unconstitutional. It is evident that the courts think the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. If the “stay-at-home” vote should be cast for a policy that would provide homes to stay at. Brass bands and buncombe speeches will fail to cover up the record of the Fifty-third congress. The office will probably have a hard time seeking the man in the next national Democratic convention. The kind of “sound currency” wanted by the bankers is their own notes, on •which they can draw interest. England will probably participate in the international monetary conference to the extent of defeating its objects. “Primary money” is discussed only in the primer class of finance. The advanced class has learned that all money is fiat. Don’t forget the fact that the silver “inside-the-party” advocates are the backbone of the single gold standard movement. *- Paper money issued direct to the people is just as good as paper money issued through the banks to the people —and very much cheaper. A guarantee on greenbacks issued by the government direct to the people is as good as a guarantee on a banknote issued by the government through the banks. If the bankers are going to insist on .conspiring against the government and the interests of the people, they ought to be tried for treason, condemned and banished to Jerusalem. The question is not so much whether our money shall be made out of the yellow metal or white metal, or both, but who shall issue whatever money we do liave, the bankers or the people? “This note says I owe ‘the bearer’ ten dollars, but I will loan the note to him and make him pay me interest on what I owe'him. This is the kind of sound currency I want.”—“National Banker. % The Republicans have decided not to ■do, anything in the Fifty-fourth- congress but pass the usual appropriations. They evidently think that as much record as can be handled has already been made. There will be a mighty effort made to fool the people again.

The express companies are about to take the money order business away from Uncle Sam. One reason is they make a cheaper rate and the other is you don’t have to run the gauntlet of •writing otit an application. \The same result could be obtained if Uncle Sam would go into the railroad business to some extent. It would bring the railroads down in the rates. Express money orders increased from 500,004 in 1882 to 7,000,000 in 1894. The express companies are doing their business cheaper than the government, but they would charge three times the rates they do if the government was not engaged in the business as a competitor. Here is a valuable lesson applicable to the public ownership of railroads and telegraph lines. A little competition on the part of the government would save the people millions of dollars. President Cleveland notified the conferees on the sundry civil bill that the provision for the distribution of $300,000 worth of seeds to the drouthstricken farmers of the West must not remain in the bill, to be consistent with his record in having vetoed a seed bill for Texas drouth sufferers several years ago, and in violation of every precedent and without a shadow of law or rule, but in obedience to the president’s demand, this item was stricken out. And yet the gavels of both houses had scarcely sounded the death knell of the Fifty-third congress until Grover Cleveland boarded a government vessel and at government expense went on a duck hunting trip—a fine example to set before the country by a president who declared the seeds voted to the Texas drouth sufferers was “paternalism!” Talk of Caesarism! If Grover Cleveland has not given this country a taste of all that implies In the past two years, then to what other depths must we descend? No president has ever presumed to threaten members of congress or committees to influence legislation as he has. However, the people voted for this, and they are getting what they voted for. Those irho did not vote for Cleveland lave the duly right to squeal.