People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Gold is the devil’s yard stick. Harmony means submission to the gold bugs. “Bank paper must be suppressed.” Jefferson. Banks of issue are a violation of the Jefferson doctrine. The gold basis is so narrow you can’t measure it with the “golden rule.” There are plenty of b.. for the fr’ ? coinage of silver, but wha> we want is Just one law. « - While talking about the Mcnrco doctrine don't take your eye off of the Jefferson doctrine. ■' 1 1 • If the people’s party keeps on “Jyl: ■; ” it will soon be able to knock the two old parties into smithereens. Grover’s deficit needs a prop—the “tariff for revenue” was all right, only it did not bring the “revenue.” Carlisle’s speeches seein to have gained more notoriety for the falsehoods they contain than for anything else. Slavery and debt are synonymous terms; there’ll be slavery as long as there is debt, most especially interestbearing debt. / And now we rise to a question of privilege: Did not Cleveland violate one of Monroe’s doctrines when he fooled Maria Halpin? When the gold goes into circulation it is not fit for a “reserve,” and when it is in the “reserve” it don’t circulate—a great scheme, this gold basis. That message of Grover’s would have more weight if the author had done his own fighting in the late unpleasantness instead of hiring a substitute. The coal trust has advanced the price of coal 50 cents per ton. It can always be relied upon to do this when the people are obliged to use lots of coal—in midwinter. Take the People’s party platform and compare it with the old time Democratic platforms and you’ll find it contains more genuine democracy than a wagon load of modern democratic platforms. The “gangs” are now getting together to outline the coming campaign and make up the slates. A Populist gang is as I) ad as any other kind of a gang. We don’t need any gangs in our business. The gold bugs insist on harmony in the democratic party, yet they don’t want it unless it is on a gold basis. The cowardly free silver leaders, like Bland, have announced their surrender in advance.

While the plutocratic press is laboriously pointing out how the People’s party is dying, the Populist vote goes right on increasing in about the same ratio that the vote in the two old parties is decreasing. Gold is both a coward and a traitor. It hid Itself when the nation’s life was threatened and never came out until the fighting was all over; and then it came to plunder under the plea that it had saved the union. The big railroads have swallowed nearly all the little railroads, and are now trying to swallow each other. The railroad problem will not be settled, however, until the people swallow the whole system—that is, own and operate it. Battlefields of the late war come pretty high, but then we must have them; don’t see how the nation could live without a “gold reserve” and a good stock of battlefields on hand. The latest battlefield placed in the market is Stone River, and the price asked is $125,000. The first thing solcj out of the republican spoil’s budget was the place for the holding of the national convention. It»was knocked off to St. Louis, the highest bidder. The next thing offered is the nomination for president. It will also go to the highest bidder. If we should be plunged into a war with Great Britain it would be making the Monroe doctrine come pretty high; therefore, while we are at it, there might just as well be a settlement of the Jefferson doctrine. By the • time we got through with Mr. Bull, on these two counts he would be worn to a frazzle. The greatest danger which the people’s party has to encounter lies within its own ranks. Whenever it stops to listen to men who hanker for office and are willing to trim and dicker it is on danger ground. The best way is to crush every man’s aspirations that places his own success above that of the party’s principles. The banks want the privilege of issuing all the paper money. Suppose we grant them the privilege. They would only issue their notes to be used as money. They would charge interest for the use of these notes. They would collect interest on what they owed. On every note would be printed a “promise to pay.” To pay what? Why, money, of course. And what is money? The bankers say, gold. But where would they get the gold to pay these notes'- “Ah. there’s the rub.”