People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — The Middle of the Road. [ARTICLE]

The Middle of the Road.

Btamber on, you proud and haughty •weti-beaded plutocracy, and you r tg■orant and misguided followers' Stop yeur ears to shut out the truth; close jwor eyes to the vision of desolation bstfore you; do not let reason have its ■way; count as naught the logie of •vents; 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. Yonr 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 flret cries, ‘hold, enough!’ ’’—New Forum. The populist who submits oftenest to being interviewed this year by the plutocratic press will likely go on record m 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 Harrity, of the Democratic national committee, thinks the sßaatton 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 folly 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 state or two Outside of th« Gulf tier, and the campaign may b* a little livelier than anybody looked for until the senate changed the bond bill into a silver measure.” The reader cannot help being imprfessed with the idea conveyed by th« above, that the success of either of the two old parties depends upon the number and magnitude of the mistake* made by the other —no merit in 'hemselves.

Municipal ownership of electric lights Is one populist lies that Farm oe«M preAt by adopting.—Marth Da beta la-