People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Appeal to Subscribers. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Appeal to Subscribers.

It is not necessary in this connection to refer to the fact that times are hard, that people are economizing i n every possible

way} that only the most .pressing debts are being paid by many, for the reason that they can get no money. Now this condition of affairs bears heavily on the publisher of the county paper, and especially the reform editor, whose subscribers are often poor. His subscribers cannot respond to his call for payments, and he finds it hard to meet current expenses, and if, as in the case of the Pilot, there are payments to make on machinery and type, it is doubly hard. This little statement is made that the friends of the paper who can render it a little assistance now, may know that it is urgently needed. We do not ask donations, simply the payment of something on subscription account for yourself or for some one else. There are *2OOO due on subscription alone. Many cannot pay now. but will later on; others can pay but are careless. There are many who could easily send the paper to a distant friend for a year, or to a neighbor, and would, perhaps, if they but thought of it; many are doing so. We simply ask the reader of this to do the best he can to help the paper meet its pressing obligations. This year promises to be the most important in the history of political parties in America, and if the Pilot is unhampered financially it will play no small part in the making of political history in Jasper county and the tenth congressional district. It advocates the strict adherence to the principles of the People's party, and the nonaffiliation with either of the old parties. .Its editor feels that he is laboring for the individual interests of each subscriber as well as for society as a whole, and only asks that his hands may be strengthened to accomplish the greatest measure of good. Thanking you for many past kindnesses we remain, fraternally yours, F. D. Craig.