People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — People Are Moving. [ARTICLE]

People Are Moving.

We congratulate our readers that the people are at last moving. The outrages committed by Mr. Cleve’and and only condemned in a Pickwickian way by

Republican leaders are doing their work. The people are beginning to see that the rule of gold monoply means stagnation, want, misery, and the loss of lib erty, and that they must unite or the money power will destroy them. They begtrr to see that the government, 6f the United States is in the hands of gold gamblers, stock jobbers, and swindlers, and that the money powers and the banks have control of the commercial press and the telegraph, and of the lead ing politicians of the two old parties. They have ueen a long I time learning that their trusted leaders have betrayed them. There is every evidence that all who are opposed to the English gold standard as administered by the stock jobbers of Wall and Lombard streets will unite in the campaign of 1896 on some plat form which shall be in favor of financial, political, and commercial independence; on a platform will be a new declaration of independence The people now see that they must be serfs and feudal slaves if they allow Wall and Lombard streets to continue to rob them of their property. Self-preservation, love of liberty, and patriotism are sentiments common to the Populist party; common to the great mass of the two old parties; common to all who are not either the active agents or the dupes of gold monoply; common to that part of the press which has not been subsidized by the banks;common to every citizen of the United States who loves his country, and desires to perpetuate the free institutions ordained by the fathers. The politicians of the two old parties have lost their power to divide and conquer. They have lost their power to make the friends of financial reform quarrel about nonessentials. They have lost their power to pack the conventions of the opposition. They have lost their power to disintegrate army of freedom by emissaries or socialists whom they employ. In 1896 gold monopoly will be tried in the balance and found wanting, and the people will rescue their government from the heartless intriguers, speculators, and jugglers who have controlled it for many years.—Silver Knight.