People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — HUMBUG THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

HUMBUG THE PEOPLE.

AND THE DEAR PEOPLE LOVE IT SO MUCH. Th« Majority of Voter* Swallow ltoythine — Bon. Extract* from tho Say Inc* of Pro»*«loaal Politician* Who Rain tho Conn try. In these times of general dlstrwn (the money king excepted of course) it will prove interesting to gnaw a file —of newspapers. The people’s party at its national convention in Omaha In 1892 declared that the old parties had brought thin country to “the verge of moral, political and material ruin.” What a screech went up from on* end of the country to the other at this truthful statement and what fiendish delight the plutocratic papers took in calling the populists "calamity howlers” because of It. „ But you never see the word calamity in these papers now. It is a ticklish subject that they do not like to refer to. The calamity Is here! So there is no need of referring to it, and the less said the soonest mended. When a fellow has made a monumental jackass of himself he don’t care to mention the matter. So with the old party jackass politicians and editors. (Thin Is not very dignified but it is correct) It is fun to cram their own false sayings down their throats and show what fools they were. The masses of republican and democratic politicians and editors are not to blame. They were only the victim of the big confidence sharps and were humbugged with the rest. So we’ll let them alone. But the following quotations from the boss political blacklegs will prove the point: Grover Cleveland worked the repeal of the purchasing clause through congress by open bribery, dispensing offices for votes until even the papers of his own party began to ridicule his “pto counter.” And he worked his confidence game under the pretense of securing a return of prosperity. Where is It? Ask these fellows who went on record at the same time: Repeal the Sherman bill and good times will return within thirty days.— John Sherman. The financial situation Is growing brighter. I believe the recovery will bo more rapid than the country has ever witnessed. The crisis is over and you will witness an unparalleled recovery. —Comptroller Eckleu, Sept. 1, 1893. In ten days from this time the skies will be brighter, business will resume Its ordinary course, and the clouds that lower upon our house will be In the deep bosom of our ocean buried.—John Sherman, Nov. 1, 1893. The effect of repeal will be most favorable to the country. It is the time to cheer up. Recovery will be manifested from this time on.—Minneapolis Journal, Oct. 1, 1893. And these are the men who are recognized In our country as statesmen and leaders of public opinion.— Milwaukee Advance.