People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Gold fights no wars. A public debt is a private snap. No time to dicker while your house is afire. Direct legislation would unite all reformers: Party name is nothing—principle is everything. The best basis of union is the initiative and referendum. WANTED —A few more farmers at Washington with pitchforks. More money, controlled by the banks, would not relieve the people. Populist news from everywhere is discouraging to the old parties. The trouble with the “favorite son” game is so many states can play at it. An "ism” is not such a dangerous looking thing when you get close to it. Not what the office hunters want, but what the voters want, is the vital question. Not for the present generation alone, but for posterity, we build a reform party. Another bond issue will come before all the installments have been paid on the last one. Can slaves long remain loyal to the government that permits them to become slaves? Ex-Gov. Buchanan of Tennessee has left the Democratic party, and joined the Populists. The government nursery of “infant industries” is not paternalism—oh, no! it is grandpapaism. Read the Omaha platform and decide how much of it you want left out of the next national platform. Shall American muscle submit to the lash in the hands of the wealth which labor has itself created? It requires neither thought nor brains to hoot —and nearly all old party editors are eminently qualified to hoot. No nation was ever wrecked in which the bankers, or wealthy classes, did not contribute largely to the causes. If the government owned the railroads it would not be compelled to borrow money from their present owners. If the silver party wants help, let it come to us and we shall not refuse. However, we have other troubles of our own. Probably that is why many prominent old party politicians are silent on the money question. They distrust themselves. All that the People’s party demands is a square deal, and any person, party or paper which opposes that is a traitor to humanity. All talk about the dignity of the senate is regarded as a joke since Tillman introduced courage and truth among the sacred hoot-owls. If the two old parties had never done anything else but give us John Sherman and Grover Cleveland it would be enough to condemn them forever. The republicans of Kansas in state convention did not make any state platform, but agreed to swallow the national platform, whatever it might be. Jesus Christ denounced the conditions He found on earth —and incurred the displeasure of the rulers, who had Him crucified under a charge of “blasphemy.” Grover seems to have an open field for completing his contract with the gold-gamblers by issuing the full five hundred millions of bonds before the close of his term. Coxey’s good roads plans now has the right-of-way in the National Reform Press association. It is middle-of-the-road populism, and should be studied by all reformers. The initiative and referendum is making rapid progress with reformers everywhere. It is the club that will knock judicial tyranny and party bossism off the perch. Why, if the fool people'had a direct vote, they would be just as likely as not to vote for justice—and of course every banker and lawyer on earth knows that justice is “unconstitutional.” } The banks are taking out increase ! circulation to ease the money market through the campaign, in the hope that they can make another haul through the success of the republican party. An anti-tramp convention recently held in Wisconsin decided that a majority of tramps took the road to avoid work, and that it was an easy way to make a living. Suppose the convention undertakes to furnish work for those who want it? Fusion with a weak is just as bad as fusion with a strong one. There is no good reason why populists should fuse with republicans in the south and democrats in the north. They belong to the same national parties whether they live north or south.