People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — The Middle of the Road. [ARTICLE]

The Middle of the Road.

Slumber on, you proud and haughty swell-headed plutocracy, and your Ignorant and misguided followers! Stop your ears to shut out the truth; close your eyes to the vision of desolation before you; do not let reason have its sway; count as naught the logic of events; do not think of reason, but move on in ignorance, blinded by prejudice! You’ll wake up by and by, but your impotent rage will not avail you. Your derision and scorn of the people’s movement, of their struggles for industrial freedom, only adds strength to their purposes, energy to their efforts and zeal for the cause. “Lay on, Macduff, and damned be he who first cries, ‘hold, enough!”’—New Forum. The populist who submits oftenest to toeing interviewed this year by the plutocratic press will likely go on record as the biggest fool.

Occasionally the Globe-Democrat forgets itself and admits that the Populists might carry a state or two, although the party, it says, is dead. In a recent issue It speaks out the following: “Chairman Harrlty, of the Democratic national committee, thinkß the situation for his party In the presidential canvass is not as gloomy as it seemed a few months ago to be. To a certain extent there is some justification for this view. The mischievous felly of the Republican silverites in attempting to thrust the 16 to 1 issue into politics has caused some thoughtful Republicans to look for a serious contest in the national convention on that question. That would, of course, mean that there might be a rupture in the party in the mining states, and that some of these states might go to the Populist or the Democratic party. However, nothing of this sort is likely to happen. The silverites will be so badly beaten in the convention that they will see the folly of injecting the free coinage issue into the campaign. Nevertheless the pernicious political activity of the Tellers and the Carters has given the Democrats a little hope of carrying a 3tate or two outside of the Gulf tier, and the campaign may be a little livelier than anybody looked for until the senate changed the bond bill Into a sliver measure.” The reader cannot help being impressed with the Idea conveyed by the above, that the success of either of the two old parties depends upon the nutn bei and magnitude of the mistake? made by the otJier—no merit In sel’-es.

Municipal ownership of electric Hghts is one populist Idea that Fargo oeotd profit by adopting.— Merth Defcotala•lAßMidrat. There are ethssp.