People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Keep cool. K Is an honor to be called a populist nowadays. Be sure and send an old line populist delegate to St. Louis. A populist president will be inaugurated at Washington on or about March 4, 1897. Six million voters will come to the populists this year. Nothihg but a great truth could attract so many voters. ' Every populist should be a missionary. Get to work. There is always one more misled mind ready to be convinced. S. P. Troutman of Chapman, says: “Who shall issue and control our money, the banks or the people; that Is the Question, not silver alone.” If the “pitchfork” had been used to Uncover the pull the bankers had on that “popular loan,” something might have been uncovered of interest to the people. Sq as to avoid the financial issue the old parties are about to raise the religious cry. That has invariably blinded the people in the past when all else failed. But will it work this time? It’s a clear case that the Omaha platform is the base of action till a new one is made, and that must be made by people’s party voters who are standing squarely on the Omaha declarations. The people are buying money orders instead of depositing their money in the banks and it’s a sensible plan to do so. Had everybody boycotted the banks last year it would have saved twenty-five million dollars which was stolen.

The man who handles the pitchfork vigorously and intelligently in the Interests of tie people Will not get any pie from the present administration, but when that fork wears out a carload of new supplies will be gladly firpished by the people. Wonder what the “Kentucky Judas” thinks of the pitchfork in the hands of an honest and intelligent senator. Possibly Grover, Hoke and Herbert might “jifie” Johnny in a remonstrance against the use of such agricultural tools in public places. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that the proposition to put the government in charge of the railroads and telegraphs is socialism, “rank socialism,” but the world is advancing to a pofnt where ideas are hot to be squelched by calling names and applying epithets. * ' ■ The biggest trust ever formed on the Pacific eqast and representing a capital of over $70,000,000, has been consummated. It is the Central Lumber company of California, and its membership includes dealers of the western coast of the United States and British Columbia. The old party “subsidized” do not believe all the padded reports as to gold production. Such reports are published in order to keep quiet the “silver craze” which has been so often proclaimed dead. Strange, isn’t it, that a corpse should need continued treatment to keep it dead. Maine is right in it. Reed is the speaker of the house, and now Senator Frye of Maine has just been elected president pro tern o's the senate; Chief Justice Fuller is a Maine man from Illinois, and the chairman of the ways and means committee is from Maine. If there is anything else Maine wants she will probably ask for it. A late London dispatch is authority for the statement that there is a fair prospect for an early settlement of the Venezuelan question by a compromise acceptable to the three governments most interested, without loss of dignity to either. But it is just as hard for a nation as for individuals to put their foot in it and preserve their dignity.

If every county in the United States had three such untiring, earnest workers as John Painter, Jacob Weiker and David Wells of Wayne county, Ohio, the coming campaign would simply be a walk-over for the populists. These men realize that education is what wins. Get a man to reading and thinking and ho won’t long be a slave to the old party lash. On last Monday four indictments , gainst the Meadowcroft brothers were stricken from the docket by the state’s attorney at Chicago. The Meadowcrofts /sere indicted in 1893 for receiving money on deposit while their bank was insolvent. It was a clear case of robbery, as most bank suspensions are, but as good business they know how to the stolen $250,000 in such manner as to guarantee that no punishment will be" inflicted. “We cannot be too careful in selecting our delegates to the St. Louis convention to send those who cannot be led by scheming men to abandon the principles of the Omaha platform. I, '■‘as well as many others hereabouts, mistrust that democrats and republicans would only too Quick disrupt our party ; K they get a chance. Those who are ; honest In favor of reform know the peopled party is the place to go. We ; cannot be too careful to guard every I plank in our platform. I think there will be plenty of of the few<o old parties in the silver convention at St. Louis.” I