People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — Campaign of Supression. [ARTICLE]

Campaign of Supression.

Just ahead of us is light. Go out on the street and talk to the people you meet. Note the subjects they talk on and their vbws regarding them. Then recall the ideas that occupied the minds of ihe people "ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years ago. What a wonderful contrast! What fl world of difference! Note the changes in the periods. Then remember these are the same people, living on the same soil, in the same climate, under the same sun and "same showers—and the same government! Why this wonderful change? Why this great difference in regard to state and church and all things? The views of the people have radically changed. It’s workin'—yes, the people are preparing, consciously or unconsciously, for the Great Change. There is light ahead. —Appeal to Reason. One has to turn away from the pages of a great daily sick at heart at the awful daily recital of crime Crime, crime, crime. In every column. On every page. Mothers killing their children and themselves to escape lingering starvation. Suicides, murders, holdups, burglaries. perjury, forgery, embezzlement, violation of trusts, public and private. And in the midst of it another class giving great balls, banquets, and extravagances decked in silks, satins, diamonds, totally unmindful of the terrible anarchy their avarice is creating all about them! Such contrasts only appeared near the end of the nation that produced them. But this time it is world wide, in every nation, and the cateclysm will be correspondingly great. Again 1 repeat these are the pains of travail preceding the birth of a New Social Order.-Appeal to Reason.

There is now going on in this country one of the most wonderful campaigns of suppression ever known. Those who have no) access to news independently of the public press cannot even imagine the extent of it. Under the present system of combination, the great papers of both pa ties get their* news from a single scource, the Associated Press. The association has a monopoly of the news, and is virtually without a rival. The United Press that promised for a time to rival it, cuts now but very little figure. The Associated Press is a corporation for profit, and has its representatives every where. It is owned by the same powers that control the other great corporations, and it is used in their interest —it is one of them. The news columns of the great newspapers are filled by this association; it is very seldom that news reaches the public except through this scource., If the news thus given to the public were unbiased it would not matter, but it is not, it is colored in the interest of its great patrons, the corporations ard plutocracy. And what is worse, it is often aosolutely and unblushingly false. Every new item that bears upon politics or public policy, is given a plutocratic coloring. Whatever is against plutocracy is rigidly suppressed. With this great and only source of information in the hands of monopoly, it is impossible for the people to know the truth, and they aie compelled to grope in the dark. They may learn all about a dog fight or a horse race, or this outrage or that murder, but things of vital concern to them affecting parties or politics, they must not know. This gives plutocracy a power over the people which cannot be measured, and, sadder still, which cannot be overcome by any means yetii* sight, for even the reform papers are largely compelled to look to this same scource for the news. Monopoly has “cornered” the world’s doings, and it seems the world cannot help it.—Progressive Farmer. A high liver with a torpid liver will not be a long liver. Correct the liver with De Witt’s Little Early Risers, little pills that cure dyspepsia and constipation. A. F. Long, Druggist.