People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.