People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.