People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

No dodging. Human rights is our battle cry. Do a little thinking for yourself. Making a thing legal does not make it right. Congress ought to draw its salary and go home. That “good western man” is still in the woods. Turning evil out onto the street doesn’t cure it. The churches are awakening from their hypnotic sleep. The masses of the People’s party must dictate the platform. * India has free trade with England, but it don’t settle the labor question. Let the old parties consolidate —then we can kill two snakes with one pitchfork. Uncle Sam is in more danger from the sugar trust than he is from Spanish armies. The government has given employment to the bankers—clipping interest coupons. This government is run in the interest of the plutocrats, but the people pay the taxes. Put none but populists on guard and you know what it requires to make a populist. Gall and money are the two principal elements in a democratic or republican campaign. Cleveland has bought stock in a Cripple Creek gold mine. He is now a gold bug right. Justice is no longer in the old party dictionary. It is regarded as an obsolete word. The only honest and patriotic confidence game is confidence in the great plain people. Municipal ownership of water and light plants are among the “isms” that scare the trimmers. The people are tired of waiting for politicians to help them —and now propose to help themselves. It is now claimed that the $50,000,000 in bonds issued by the Northern Pacific railroad company are illegal. Prosperity still lingers in the distance. The great financiers in this country are always great liars. This is a revolution in which the stomach and heart are concerned, as well as the brain —words won’t stop it. The Hamilton-Brown shoes are “scab,” and are being boycotted by union laborers and their sympathizers.

If no one else will head the democratic funeral procession what’s the matter with trying Willie Breckenridge? One vote of the church for the right would squelch more rascality and destroy more evil than ten million prayers. The more debt the more slavery, and Cleveland has added about $4 for each and every man, woman and child in the United States. A national direct legislation convention will probably be called to meet at St. Louis the day before the populist national convention. Cleveland’s political weight is evidently greater that that of both branches of congress. Anything but, a congress of cowards would impeach him. Keep the masses of the party posted on the doings of its leaders. They have a right to know what deals are on foot —since they are expected to put up the votes. It is easy to see that the only men who pretend to be enthusiastic over the democratic situation are the fellows who are drawing salaries, or who want to draw them. Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for congress to discuss the American situation, after it gets through with the Cuban, Venezuelan, Spanish and Armenian situations? Gold-bug, high tariff McKinley appears to be the “favorite son” of destiny in the g. o. p. If the democrats will nominate Carlisle, and the reps McKinley, Populist victory is assured. The farmers and laborers have 80 per cent of the votes —but the idlers get more than 80 per cent of all the benefits of the government. Why don’t laboring men vote for their own interests? The suspicion must r.ot be allowed to get abroad that the American congress has any notion of doing anything to please the American people. This would ruin “our credit” with Rothschild. Men de-horn their cattle to give them equal opportunities in eating their food, but when it is proposed to exact measured to prohibit men from getting more than their share of this world’s goods „ it is called rank anarchy.