People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Page 5

Vote for your principle* and be a man. '. _. it? • Ignorance and prejudice are the en*>mi?B to progress. The People’s party is the only part-, that the monopolies fight. Any fool ought to know that v couldn’t get a thing by voting aga it. The bankers who caused the I will vote for the two old party ingps. Everybody ought to be convince now e that the bankers understand' : x financial question. Civilization: Where the little thicj gets the big punishment, and it is :. crime to hunt work. The liberties of the people of this country will never be safe until v have direct legislation. Cleveland wants to write the next Democratic platform—and he has our consent. Go ahead, old beefy. There is more gold in the world than silver, but not half enough of both to transact the business of the world. Land is the source of all wealth and the basis of all credit —and that is why it is made an issue in the Omaha platform. The Sugar trust clings to the old parties and furnishes lots of campaign funds with which to make political thunder. When working men lift a log they all lift together—why don’t they vote the same way? Is it the spell of a name, or is it superstition? If the two old parties are in favor of free coinage why haven’t we got it now? They have been ruling the roost, and both have had the chance. Credit means confidence, and confidence means panic; panic means poverty and distress. What we need is more cash with which to do business. The worst the Democratic party ever got beat was when it fused with the Liberal Republicans in 1872, on a man and platform it didn’t honestly indorse. It takes a man of very small calibre not to know that a so-called “sound dollar” is the one he will have to work the hardest and greatest number of hours to get. Four doses of bonds in two years ought to settle the hash for any party that issues them, but the “besotted tyrant” will likely issue another batch for good measure. In view of the fact that the prayers of the chaplains have no visible effect on congress we rise to ask why these offices in the House and Senate should not be abolished. The President don’t seem to recognize the fact that there is war in Cuba. Perhaps a good way to convince him would be to draft him and allow him to hire a substitute.

When Cleveland sends his missionaries out West he ought not to omit to arm them with a “battle-shaped device,” for the suckers in the wild and woolly West can’t be grabbed. It would be in order to test the Democratic convention at Chicago by exposing it to a cathode ray soon after its assembling to discover the “knives in the. sleeves” of the delegates. The Elections Committee have reported favorably on Senator Mitchell’s bill providing for an amendment to the constitution for the election of United States Senators direct by the people. It is no trouble whatever to find a reasonable excuse for leaving the Democratic party, but it would make a man sweat to find one for joining the Republican party after having left the Democrats. General Weyler seems to think he can suppress the Cuban rebellion by bombarding it with proclamations. That is also the way the gold bugs are trying to kill the insurrection against the money power. We see a disposition upon the part of some Populists to drop back to the old plutocratic idea of “government control” of railroads. That’s just what the government has been trying to do for fifty years and has signally failed. —A Boston is called the “Jiub of the universe,” is a great seat of learning, one of the hot beds of gold bugism, yet there are people living there who are so poor that they are obliged to occasionally send their children to school without their breakfast. Ex-Gov. Campbell has served notice on the public that he don’t want to head any more Democratic funeral processions—and therefore declines the nomination for President. Since Carlisle helped to make the corpse he is the proper man to lead in the obsequies. That was a hard hit Senator Teller gave old John Sherman when he pointed his finger at him and said: “Infamy will follow your name after you are in the grave.” That is nearly as bad as to be called a “besotted tyrant.” But “the way of the transgressor is hard” and we don’t envy John Sherman his reputation or wealth.

bankers’ motto: “We want the The war in Kentucky is thought to be ovef tor the time being. Some people would stick to their old party if they had to hold their nose to do it. ' Fighting for spoils seems now to be the order of the day between the two old parties. The free silver men are now flirting with the protectionists—that is to say some of them are. 4 If there had been more kicking in the two old parties there would not be so much corruption. McKinley has nothing to say on the financial question, but everybody knows where he stands. The financial plank of the Ohio state platform was evidently built upon the principle of a Chinese puzzle. As a matter of course the Democratic party wants another chance —that is, the fellows who want office do. . After this year the Democratic party will be the third party—if it is entitled to be dignified by the name of party v I know that the Democratic party is rotten to the core, but then my daddy was a Democrat, and what can I do? boo-hoo! The People’s party is to-day in more danger from the men within its ranks who want office, than it is from outside enemies. No nation or man has a right to bind a debt on unborn generations. But Cleveland’s 30-year bonds does that very thing. The Standard Oil kings vote the old party tickets —the same as a whole lot of fellows do who pretend to be against the Standard. They call it “yaller dog” politics to vote against a man’s principles in order to vote for his party—and it is a slander on the “yaller dog.” One of the characteristics of a Populist is he wants to know the whyness and the thusness of things. In other words, he’s tired of going it blind. Nothing short of government ownership will enable the government to control the railroads. Without this the railroads control the government. The change of the money standard and nothing else is the cause of low prices and hard times. It is the greatest crime ever committed against humanity. The gold bugs and the people who vote the old party tickets will vote right along toget‘ the same ticket —unless the peop. ._t out of the two old parties. The gold bugs have the two old parties’ machines, and own the big dailies. They will manipulate the conventions. The People’s party is the only people’s party there is. The overproduction theory Is one of the most absurd lies that was ever told. There can be no overproduction of the necessities of life so long as a human want goes unsatisfied. There is one phase of the financial question that the people are learning rapidly—that is that when the bankers control the financial system the people make but little money. In the declining days of Rome the crown was put up at auction. We don’t do that in this country, but usually the man who spends the most money gets the Presidential office. John Sherman has indorsed McKinley. Of course McKinley could not well dodge it and ought not to be held personally responsible, only so far as he is a gold bug of the same type. The logic of events, as well as the importance of the issue, makes the money question paramount to all others; but we should not lose sight of the fact that there are many now in the ranks of the People’s party that don’t think this is true. In the days of chattel slavery it was thought to be an awful thing for children to be sold and transferred from one master to another. Now, under our financial and industrial systems we are selling unborn babes into slavery. The $262,000,000 additional indebtedness added by the issue of bonds will amount to over $500,000,000, interest and principal. A good portion of this will have to be paid by a generation yet unborn. Debt is slavery and every man that voted for the Democratic party is responsible for this crime.

On Populist Principles.

An Atlanta (Ga.) special to the GlobeDemocrat says: Years ago the state of Georgia indorsed the bonds of the Northeastern railroad, running from Athens to Clayton, for $287,000. Two years ago the company defaulted and threw the road back on the hands of the state, which in turn, failing to And a purchaser, had to operate it. From being a bankrupt road the last year’s business shows that it has become a good paying property under state management. To-day it turned into the statejreasury $20,000 clear profit on the last half year’s work, besides having largely increased the value of the property by improvements both of the track and rolling stock.

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JUSTICE OUTRAGED.

ABETTORS SEEK TO COVER UP HIDEOUS SKELETON.’ Gristly Civilization Shonld Merer Criticise Other Anarchists—The Killing o* that Washington Boy end the Punishment. To show the servile iniquity of the public press under the control of the plutocratic press association we have another sublimely infamous illustration. A woman—a young, beautiful, wealthy woman—murders a colored boy in cold blood and deliberate manner. She fires twice to do the deed. The judge and court conspire and suborn for her escape. A time is privately set for the court to adjudicate one whole half hour before the known time of opening—think of it! A half hour is time enough to go through the farce. And then the testimony shows the facts—the Amazon confesses to “homicide,” the judge sweetly flatters the millionaire’s daughter—as published last week—and ssoo—a fine—ye Gods, think of it—is paid for a murder. Now look at the old party press, either silent or palliating. There is not 'a finer-grained gentleman on the republican press of New York than Mr. Ayers, of the Chronicle. Note the heartless remark with which that journal tosses aside this grievous wrong against humanity—as flippant as the silken-vestured female. It coldly speaks of the penalty for accidentally shooting a colored boy. “Accidental,” when it took two shots to kill, alter she had brought a weapon for the purpose. A life for a pear, stolen perchance, in a land where republican and democratic thieves of millions go unpunished. The moral is that “society” doesn’t recognize that that little Sunday-school colored boy had any rights which a white judge was bound to respect. The white tigress had to plug him twice to make the “accident” more emphatic. The New York “People” says: “Equality before the law/’ as practiced in the capitalist state, has been again graphically illustrated. Elizabeth Flagler, the daughter of one of our legalized cut-throats, Gen. Flagler, shot twice and killed a boy, Ernest Green, in Washington. Thereupon the judge, and the whole machinery of the court, sets about to free the culprit. Already a coroner’s jury had tried to “vindicate” her. The popular outcry that followed caused her to be indicted. But this was only a pretense, as subsequent events showed. Last Tuesday, at an unusually early hour, the court met, evidently by appointment with the culprit. She pleaded guilty to involuntary homicide, and was forthwith sentenced to three hours imprisonment and a fine of SSOO. The fine, the report says, was paid on the spot in ten crisp SSO bills, and the “convict” rode oft to jail, where she remained three hours in pleasant chat with a friend and the .matron, and then rode home to celebrate her “triumph”—the triumph of the vicious class that dominates this nation. While Miss Flagler was lunching, the distressed mother of the boy was seen and asked what she thought of the “trial?” She answered, sobbing: “It isn’t for poor colored folks to say what should be done. I only know that I loved my boy, and that he is gone. If he had been a bad boy I would raise my hands and say, it was better thus. But he was a good boy, and I looked forward to his future with great pride and joy. Then came this woman’s shot. And I am told that she is free —that she paid the law some money and sat in the jail parlor.”—East and West.

The money question peeps out from under that big patch on your pants. It grins through the hole in the top of “Hayseed’s old hat.” It laughs through the rents of the weary wife’s torn'callco apron. It lies at the bottom of your empty flour barrel. It hides between the leaves of your child’s worn-out school-book. It swells the bigness of the bills presented by the grocery-man. It is written all over the pages of the tax-collector’s ledger. It slips between the lids of the preacher’s bible, as it lies open at the pulpit. It is corked up in the medicine bottles sitting on the shelf in the doctor’s shop. • It may be found in the thousands’ column of the office-holder's salary. It sweetens, or embitters, the wellsprings of human happiness. It mars the happiness of the guests at the wedding feast, and casts a shadow on the faces of the newly-wedded. It mingles, at the funeral, with the tears of the widow and the fatherless, as the clods fall on the lid of the coflin. It stands like a milestone, at the parting of the ways of human life, and points to heaven and to hell. —Nevada Director.

In Hungary the railroads are under government control. Since the adoption of cheap fares and a simple system of tickets on sale like postage stamps, passenger travel has increased morie than 100 per cent. If the same rates prevailed in the United States, «a ticket from New York to Chicago would only cost $2.92, or from New York to Philadelphia 29 cents, and proportionate rates for any distance. Freight could be prepaid by stamps according to classification and distance. If receipts from consignees were desired, they could be had at email additional cost by registering goods sent. —Sound Mor.f - i

Money Question.

Hungarian Railroads.

PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE TO BE EREOTBD AT ROCK ISLAND, ILL

Plans for the new state insane asylum at Rock Island have been approved and Lewis M. Curry, the architect, has advertised for bids. The building, which is to cost about SIOO,OOO. will be of stone, rough -ind dressed, with some brickwork, and will be fireproof throughout. It is to follow a modified “cottage plan” of construction, combining isolation of patients’ homes with centralization of the administrative functions. Surrounding the central administration building will

GEN. HARRISON WEDS.

NUPTIALS SOLEMNIZED AT NEW YORK MONDAY. The Marriage of the Ex-President to Mrs. Dlmmick Witnessed by Bat a Score of Invited Guests —Bridal Party Leaves at Once for Indianapolis. The marriage of Mrs. Mary Lord Dlmmick to General Benjamin Harrison was solemnized at St. Thomas’ church at New York city Monday afternoon at 5:45 o’clock. Dr. Wesley Brown, rector, officiated at the ceremony. The general’s children were not present. The marriage, which took place in the presence of twenty relatives and select friends of the bride and groom was a very private affair. The guests as they arrived at the church were re-

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

eeived by E. F. Tibbitt, General Harrison's private secretary, and Daniel M. Ransdell, who was marshal at Washington during General Harrison’s adv ministration, and were seated in the front pews of the church. At 5:20 o’clock Mrs. John F. Parker, the bride’s sister, was escorted to the front pew on the left by Mr. Ransdell and simultaneously Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot were escorted to the front pew on the right by Mr. Tibbitt. Governor Morton, attended by his military secretary, occupied the pew directly behind Mrs. Parker, and behind him sat Senator and Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, John W. Fosetr and George W. Boyd of Pennsylvania railroad. General Harrison left the Fifth Avenue hotel, accompanied by General Benjamin F. Tracy, in a close carriage, at 5 o’clock and was driven to Rev. Dr. Brown’s house on Fifty-third street. They passed through the house to the vestry, where they awaited the coming of the bridal party. y The bride left the home of her slsetr, Mrs. John F. Parker, 40 East Thir-ty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieutenant John F. Parker, who gave her away. They arrived at the entrance at 5:20 o’clock, and proceeded to the tower-room, where the bridal procession formed. They proceeded to the chancel, where General Harrison, accompanied by his groomsman, General Tracy, received his bride. The ushers, standing to one side, faced the altar as the bride and groom stepped forward to the altar rail, where the rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, I)r. George William Warren, organist of the church, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin," and during the en«

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tire ceremony playing v r ry so' 1 • ?'vcagi's intermezzo in the "C.;... . Rusticana." That portion o< the • vice imown tic proper, the< reci'a! of .

be six two-story ward buildings, or cottages. connected with the former by covered runways. In the one will be gathered the kitchen, the dining-rooms, laundry and bakery; in the others the patients will have their sleeping lounging and reading rooms. At the meeting in the architect’s office last week there were present, besides Gov. Altgeld. William S. Gale of Galesburg. John S. Eden of Sullivan, and T. J. Medill of Rock Island, composing the asylum trustee board, and

about fifteen minutes, was used,- and immediately the blessing was pronounced General and Mrs. Harrison, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker anT General Tracy, Mr. Tibbitt and Mr. Randell, Lieutenant Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walked down the aisle to the strains of the “Tannhauser” march of Wagner, and entering the carriages waiting at the entrance, the bridal party was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Grammercy park, where light refreshments were served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip to Indianapolis.

MURDERS WIFE AND SON.

Atrocious Crime In Hamilton County May Result In Lynching. One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in Hamilton county occurred in the German settlement, eight miles north of McLeansboro, 111., Sunday afternoon about five o’clock. Ben Boehmer, a well-to-do faYmer 40 years of age, cut his wife’s throat and hanged his S'Oyear-old son to a rafter in his stable. After committing these deeds he covered the bodies with fodder corn to hide his crime, and made his escape to the woods. Boehmer an dhis wife had had trouble for some time over religious differences, he being a non-believer in Catholicism, while she was a Catholic. Sheriff Buck and several deputies went in pursuit of him, and he was captured near Carmi, 111. A great deal of excitement prevails in the German settlement, and lynching is strongly talked of, but it is not thought that Sheriff Buck will bring Boehmer here until the excitement subsides. '

STUDENTS DROWNED.

Sad Accident on Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. Monday afternoon, a mile out on Lake Mendota, a squall struck two shells manned by oarsmen of the University of Wisconsin’s crew. One man was drowned and two others are in a Critical condition. The dead: JOHN DAY, Janesville, Wis., only son of Mrs. Jeanette Day. The injured: Lester Streeter, Dixon, 111. Curran C. McConville, La Crosse, Wis. Late in the afternoon the boats started out for a short working trip for the men. At the time the weather did not seem squally and the lake was fairly caljn. Within a few moments after the boats left shore, however, the wind began to rise, and just as one of the boats was about to make the turn it was struck by the squall.

NEW LIBRARY BUILDING FOR The UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

The new library building which is to go up at Madison, Wis., for the use of the university will be one of the prettiest structures in the state. The entire cost will be in the neighborhood of 1400,000. That portion that is to be built for the use of the State Historical Society will be begun in July, and although the work must be slow until the full appropriation be made, it will not be stopped. The material will be light colored stone and the exterior architecture in the lonic order of the Renaissance. The main entrance is led up to by a balustrade terrace six feet high, and the portal is three-arched. The

Iceboat Smashed to Pieces.

As the result of an iceboat race at St. Ignace, Mich., Sunday the iceboat Majestic is a wreck and four men are badly hurt. The boat was going forty miles an hour with Capt. Collins at the tiller, when all control of her was lost and she suddenly veered up toward the docks. Capt. Collins was badly cut about the head; Peter J. Vigeant had four ribs broken and suffered internal Injuries; John Blake was thrown fifty feet and the other man escaped with bad bruises. Four boys on the boat were slightly hurt.

Dr. Arthur Reynolds of Chicago, George W. Curtiss of Stockton, and James McNabb of Carrollton, three of the four members of the state board of charities. All gave the plans their approval. Mr. Curry supervised the construction of the Industrial Home for the Blind, built at Chicago, and also was architect for the Home for Juvenile Offenders at Geneva. 111. Work on the new building will be begun not later than May 1.

GOV. BOIES AND FREE SILVER.

l“wa Democrats to Give the Money Question a l’.-»t Vote. Ottumwa, lowa, April 7.—Ex-Gov. Boies has consented to go to Chicago as as a delegate-at-large from lowa if the Dubuque platform declares for free silver. This is practically the first move to secure the democratic nomination for president for Mr. Boies. His answer to a letter sent him requesting him to run is a tacit admission that he will accept the nomination if tendered him. He says: “I am in full accord with your view that some plan should be adopted by which, as nearly as practical, a full and explicit showing of the sentiment of a majority of the democratic party In our state upoa the question of currency reform, and especially upon the question of the free coinage of silver as money of final redemption, may be had; and, inasmuch as I am now unable

HORACE BOIES, IOWA.

to suggest a method by which we would be more likely to accomplish that end than the one suggested in your letter, I have concluded to adopt your suggestion apd allow the use of my name as a candidate for delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention; with the under-/ standing, however, that if our state convention at Dubuque, by resolution or otherwise, approved of our present financial policy I will not be expected to serve.” The letter sent him signed by C. A. Walsh and E. W. Curry of the democratic state central committee and hundreds of prominent democrats hints of a bolt if the convention declares for gold.

Commercial Treaty Signed.

The new commercial treaty between Germany and Japan has been signed. *

first floor is divided into seminary, packing and sorting rooms, pn the second floor is the reading-room, 5Qx 70 feet, with accommodations for 300 readers. Opening upon its sides are newspaper and magazine rooms. * third floor will be used chieflytfor a large lecture-room. The building is so planned that it may be extended akmg its length if necessary. As the original, however, will be constructed with a capacity for 600,000 volumes, it is not believed an increase of space will be. { needed for many years. The building will be erected on the West portion of the lower campus.

McKinley Assured of Two More.

Birmingham, Ala., April 7.—Mckinley scored another victory in Dp Kalb county Saturday, the result of wfoich is to give him the Seventh district, with its two delegates, to the republican national convention. The district convention is to meet at Gadsden Tuesday. McKinley has twenty-one of the delegates, six are uninstructed, and nine are divided among the combination opponents. It seems certain/ that C. D. Alexander of Attalia and George Curtis, both McKinleyites, will b< tent to St, Louis. ‘ k

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