People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Troth la deceiving. The convention at St Louis is going to be a. populist convention. Take everybody into the local political clubs who will come, but keep old tine populists only on guard. Better times are coming to the people with populist success assured. Hard times are (Aiming for bankers, gamblers and non-producers generally. Let the Hon. Ben Tillman be added to that committee of the senate charged with the investigation of the government by courts, and some interesting reading will come to the front. His pitchfork will turn up things that the people have not suspected. A cartoon showing “The Besotted Chief, Kentucky Judas, and the two ether renegades,” fleeing from the presence of the “Man of the People” with his pitchfork, and the two old parties in the background weeping, would illustrate a recent situation to a dot. Clarence Murphy, the defaulting banker of Salem, Mass., who skipped out with $60,000, was arrested in San Fran- * cisco, last Saturday. He had been trusted implicitly in his position in the savings bank, but on Dec. 2, 1893, disappeared and was never heard from until last week. He is not a populist. It comes from high authority in the direction of London that the Venezuelan question will be amicably settled as soon as Venezuela shall send an ambassador to the court of St. James. In that case what becomes of the SIOO,OOO appropriated by our government to look into the matter? Won’t that commission have a snap? The republicans nominated Capt. Grant of North Carolina for sergeantat the senate, and Shaw of Washington state for secretary. The populists nominated Tom Watson and Taubeneck for these positions, hoping the republicans might endorse them. But republicans are not endorsing populists except in democratic states like North Carolina and Louisiana. The people’s party nominations in Louisiana have been endorsed by the republicans of that state, and the probability is that in othdr southern states the same course will be pursued. There need be no objection to an endorsement of straight populism. Honest men of both old parties ought to endorse our movement and they will in time if we keep in the middle of the road and proYP ourselves worthy.

Congress has not done anything yet for the benefit of the people. The senate has passed a free coinage bill which the house will never approve nor the. president sign. There is a probability that congress will prolong its session until the latter part just to find out whether it will be necessary to do anything, and if so what, to ensure the success of the party whom Wall street will designate, or has designated, as its favorite. A year from now is the time when the 54th congress will get in its work. Chicago is agitated over the question of whether a bible text book in the public schools shall be permitted. The tariff being a back number, and the silver question “a populist principle” merely, something must be done or the attention of the people during the coming campaign will be turned upon bankers and their methods of fooling and fleecing the people. For a straight, square, never-wear-out issue, a little religion in politics always fills the bill. Other localities where investigation of banking methods of robbery is feared will please take notice.. The man who persists in drawing a line between “money of ultimate redemption” and other kinds of money is better fitted for running a pawnshop than for making platforms for populists. Money is redeemed whenever the government accepts it for duty, revenue tax, or anything else, and that’s all the redemption it needs. This “ultimate redemption,” so far as it makes one kind of money redeemable in, another, is a scheme by which the Rothschilds make large profits and politicians make fools of the people. Postmaster Connell has been doing a great money order business since the recent bank troubles commenced in our country. People know that when they invest their money in one of Uncle Sam's money orders the money is going to be paid to the parties to whom the money is sent. Uncle Sam won’t go out of business for mg,ny years to come. If he will just go a little further and give us postal savings banks the laboring and farming classes who simply want a safe place to invest what little money they get once in a while, will be greatly benefited.—Citizen, Greeley, Neb. Usury is the sting—the sharp danger point, of the power of money to oppress. It is the impelling force in all the conquests of the purse; and in all the misuses of money. It is the power behind the missile in the throat of the great financial gun that operates at a distance. It is the carbine and the sword’s edge of the financial calvary engagements; and the merciless bayonet charge which routs poor men from their homes, turning them and their families loose on society as burdensome and dangerous tramps. No reformation on our money system can be complex and permanent while usury is not destroyed. This theory is not new. It is old as history and true as holy writ; verified by the experiences of mankind and the deductions of logic. —-John Davis.