People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 4

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The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG, (Lessee.) PILOT PUBLISHING CO, (tailed,) Proprietors. David H. Yeoman, President. Wm. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook, Sec’y. J. A. McFarland Treas. The People’s Pilot is the official organ of the Jasper and Newton County Alliances,and .» published every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM Entered as second class matter at the post office In Rensselaer. Ind.

DELEGATES TO ST. LOUIS.

Call to Indiana Populists Authorizing Their Selection. To the Voters of the People’s Party. Under the call of the Peoples party. Indiana is entitled to thirty delegates to the national convention. The state central committee by virtue of the authority vested in it by the national committee have apportioned the delegates among the several districts of th is state as follows: « Each district under the new apportionment is entitled to two delegates, and the First, Second, Fift'h/and Ninth districts are eacji entitled to additional delegate. on the basis of the vote 'cast for Dr. Robinson for secretary of state. The Seventh district having already selected two delegates at its district convention, the action of said district, and any other districts having taken similar action, has been approved by the state committee. The basis of representation to the district convention will be the same as for district conventions under last call. District committeemen are authorized to reconvene their district conventions, or caH new ones, for the selection of national delegates. Under the foregoing apportionment there will be no delegates at large, as it was thought best to apportion all among the several districts as above indicated. District chairmen will, under the above instructions, fix such time and place as their respective judgments may indicate. N. T. Butts, [Attest. | Chairman. S. M. Shepard, Secretary. Reform papers will please copy and keep standing.

Tell the average republican who is struggling under a burden of debt, that what he needs is a measure of value that is harder to get hold of, and a tax that is harder to pay, and he will think, if he does not say so, that you are a fool. When his party tells him the, same thing but calls it “sound money,” and “protection,” he will accept it as the true gospel of political economy.

Isn’t it a little inconsistent, not to say “cheeky,” in the free silver men in the old parties to appeal to the populists to come over and help them win the fight for silver? Populists are ready and anxious to help you, gentlemen, and will meet you half way, but they can never come to your assistance while ypu remain in the ranks of your enemies. Come out from amons the Philistines and fight them in front, and the victory is certain.

Did you ever stop to think how childish, not to say foolish, is the fear expressed by some that under free coinage the rest of the world would make the United States a dumping ground for their hoards of silver? Is silver something so despised as to be “dumped” upon us without an equivalent in value? Certainly not. Every ounce of silver “dumped” will take its value in our products, which will create a demand for more labor, and that, in time, will increase home consumption and thus a sure way to prosperity will be established.

Dear money and higher faxes is she remedy for hard fimes. So say she admirers of she “advance agenf of prosperity. ” Whaf matters it if the gold standard dollar stretches out over more and more of the products of your labor, year after year? What matters it if the present tariff rates are in most cases twice as high as the labor cost of the goods on which the duties are collected. On the principle that “the hairof the dog is good for the bite,” money must still be made dearer and taxes still higher. David H. Nowels left Sunday evening for a short trip to the northwest. He will visit Minnesota and the Dakotas.

HURRAH FOR OREGON!

Populists Capture Both Congress, men by Safe Majorities. Republicans and Democrats Concede the State to the Populists in November. The freight train report of the wonderful victory is in and reluctantly the plutocratic gold bug press prints the bare facts of the “unexpected” populist wave. For three days there has been profound silence, excepting the paragraph announcement that the republicans had swept the state. When the truth can no longer be concealed it is given with scant'comment. The great silver wave is in motion and it will take more than a Napoleon to stop it.

Special to the Chicago Record. Portland, Ore., June 3.~Returns are now sufficently complete to show that both congressmen from Oregon will be populists. Figures received up to seven o’clock to-night only serve to increase the pluralities of both Vanderburg in the Ist and Quinn in the 2d district. The vote at this hour in the Ist is: Vanderburg, pop.. 15.904; Tongue, rep., 14,825. The second district is closer, but safe for Quinn. The vote so far as returned is: Quinn, pop., 8,129; Ellis, rep., 7,724. Figures are still incomplete on judge of the Supreme court, but the republicans seem to have carried the state by about 4,200. The vote on this office, however, is in no sense a test, as the republican candidate was personally very popular and no effort was made to defeat him.

Congressional Convention

Pursuant to instruction from the State Central Committee. I hereby call a convention of the People’s Party of the, Tenth Congressional District of Indiana to meet at Rensselaer at one o’clock sharp, on Saturday, June 20, 1896. to elect two delegates and two alternates to the People’s Party National convention to be held at St. Louis. Mo., July 22, .1896, said Congressional Convention to be composed of delegates, one delegate from each township and one additional delegate for each fifty and major fraction thereof of the votes cast for Dr. Robinsah for secretary of state, which will entitle thn several counties to delegates as foll.ws; Warren 13. Tippecanoe 16. White 16. Benton 12, Newton 13, J asper 24, Lake 15. Porter 15. La Porte 23. The several county chairmen are requested to at once assemble county conventionsto select delegates as above. Counties that are unorganized will meet in mass convention and besides naming delegates perfect organization. Arrangements have been made for half fare rates on the Monon and a large popular gathering is assured as speakers of national reputation will address the people in the afternoon and evening on the Free Coinage of Silver and Money Question. Hon. Robert Schilling of Milwaukee has been engaged and negotiations are in progress to also secure Senator Allen of Ncbraeka. These speakers are so well known and such able orators that no pains should be spared to make this inaugural event in the campaign of this district productive of greatgood. Half rates good going on Friday and Saturday and ret urning on Sunday. F. D. Craig, Chairman.

I believe, in common with millions of other citizens, that the time has come, as at long intervals it does come, when party names and mere party fealty, however useful such sentiments may sometimes be, should not keep asunder those who cherish the same convictions upon vital, exigent, imperative public questions. Parties are neither masters to be served, nor idols to be worshipped—but means to an end. It is precisely the thick and thin partisan spirit and what holds of that and results from it, is the source of ftiany, if not most of the evils from which our republic- if it is, indeed, any longer a republic is now sick nigh unto death. For so sick it is. The man who does not see signs of its imminent peril, is either entirely unobservant, or is wilfully blind. Judge Cyrus F. McNutt.

Since Sen. Tillman denounces the populists, wonder where he will go when he/ bolts the democratic national convention. As base ball players would say, Seri. Peffer puts whiskers on his resolutions. Hill couldn’t hit ’em with a six-inch board. Organize legions in every county. Write to Gen. Paul Vandervoort, Omaha, Neb., for particulars. Inclose stamp for reply. A sight that ought to make a cow laugh is a man with four varieties of patches on his breeches vojtng to make our dollars good in “Yurrup.” The free silver democrat is strong on bluff and bluster; but when it comes to the scratch he “bolts” by swallowing •whatever the bosses give him.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1896.

OTHER PRTIES ARE DAZED. The democrats are simply swamped by the populists, the democratic vote being by far the smallest ever cast in the state. The republicans are dazed over the re suit, as their vote has also gone over to the people's party in great numbers. The cry everywhere was free silver, and the people appear to have reached the conclusion that the surest way to get it was by voting the populist ticket. The results were surprising in all the counties along the Pacific coast. In this city Pennoyer, populist,is chosen mayor by 1,000. He had struck a pop ular chord by announcing that he will accept but half of the salary allowed the mayor. The present salary is $5,000. The impression here to-night is that the state will certainly go for the populist candidate for president in November.

When the coal monopoly lets loose of the struggling poor the ice monopoly grabs them by the throat, and free silver will not settle this question, either. Decreasing the volume of money increases its value, and is also equivalent to an increase of a debt due by increasing the value of that in which it is to be paid. Populists should insist that the government take possession of the Pacific railroads. These companies owe the government more than the railroads are worth. If Wall street allows the national democratic convention to indorse free silver and nominate a free silver man the fool killer never will catch up with his work. Labor has been organized into unions for years; but has no representative in congress. If it would unite at the ballot box it could control the entire government. The democrats have not found that “good western man” yet. The democratic statesmen are not running over each other for the privilege of heading the funeral procession. “Sound money” means dear money which is low prices for labor's products. flm’t it\funny that workingmen can be gulled Into voting for low prices of their products? There is such a fight against any change of the transportation plank of the Omaha platform to "control” of railroads, that the men who first mentioned it are getting ashamed of it. ♦ Mr. Cleveland, the gentleman whom the democratic party gave us for President, will likely get in another dose of bonds soon after the election, and another one just before his time expires. And he’ll do it under a law passed by the republicans, if there is any law for IL The free silver men weaken their cause when they intimate that prices never began to fall until after the “crime of 1873.” As a matter of fact they began a rapid decline several years before that on account of a contraction of the paper currency. According to Carroll D. Wright there are 15,000,000 wage workers in the United States —in other words, one-fourth of our entire population are wage-slaves, dependent upon the favor of other men for a living. Down with the gold stand-, ard and Clevelandism. Why should the papers worry so much about McKinley’s silence on the financial question? He is handicapped first by the fact that he doesn’t know anything about finance—and, secondly, he is bound to obey the party, no matter if he had an opinion of his own.

POWER OF WEALTH.

HOW IT IS CRUELLY ENSLAVING THE RACE. Bat the Parent, Competition, Will Be Overthrown to Make Room for a Cooperative Commonweath Plutocracy Is on Its Last Legs. A feature of the New York World of Sunday, April 26, was a page devoted to a symposium by nineprominenteconomic agitators giving their views of she nation’s ills, presenting at the head of the page pictures in group of the writers. Senator Stewart wrote about free silver and the goldbugs; Mrs. Mary E. Lease advocated populism; Dennis Kearney, of “sand-lot fame,” played upon the old anti-Chinese string; Jacob S. Coxey talked good roads and non-in-terest-bearing bonds; Lucien Sanial, socialism; Samuel Gompers, trades unionism; Senator Peffer, more populism; “Coin” Harvey, more silver. The following broad survey of the industrial problem is from the pen of Eugene V. Debs:

In answer to your interrogatory as to what I consider to be “the greatest evil of the time, and what is the remedy for the complaints of the discontented masses, ” I have to say that I agree entirely with Senator Tillman in his terrific indictment of the money power in the Sunday World of March in declaring that power to be the monumental evil of this age, in which all others have their source and compared to which all others dwarf to insignificance. The widespread poverty, misery, wretchedness, squalor, degradation, vice and crime in all their multifarious forms, not omitting the venality, corruption and rascality among what a perverted civilization is pleased to call the “upper classes,” are directly or indirectly traceable to this money power. This power, the outgrowth of aggregated and centralized wealth extorted from the producing masses by processes no less reprehensible than those employed by Captain Kidd, Jesse James and v Bill” Dalton on an incomparably small scale, makes congress and legislatures, dictates national and state legislation, appoints federal and state judges, nominates and elects the president of the United States and compels all its spineless vassals to do its bidding. This money power has reduced the high office of the president to a marketable commodity, the supreme court to a nest of venality and the United S-ates. congress to a den of treason. Only a few days ago Prof. George D. Herron, the eminent Christian scholar, d-dared that Christ had no more reason to scourge the money-changers fro n the temple at Jerusalem that the American ■people have to dean out the United. States senate. This money powrr, omnipotent and omnipresent, has even entered the church of Christ, touched the robed minister at the altar, blordied his soul and frozen his heart and sent him forth a traitor to his consecrated vows. This power grows more and more arrogant and despotic as it plunders, crushes and enslaves th? people, while it builds its fortifications of the bones of its victims and its palaces cut of its piracies, until purple and fine linen on the one side and rags and wretchedness upon the oth r side define social conditions as mountain ranges or rivers define the boundaries of nations —palaces on the hills, with music and dancing and the luxuries of all climes—-huts in the valleys, dark and dismal, where the victim's of “mail’s inhumanity to man” crouch and shiver, and where the only music is the dolorous “song of the shirt” and the luxurious rags and crusts. This money power, this insatiate, remorseless, abnormal development of a barbarous civilization, has polluted every fountain and stream designed to bless the world.

Senator Tillman seems to believe that the money power can be dislodged, and that the vices, crimes and iniquities which It has spawned can be remedied by a change in our monetary system. In this I do not agree with him. His remedy is, in my opinion, totally inadequate. It is a vastly larger question, and involves infinitely more than a change in our system of finance, radical and sweeping as they may be. I; is a question of industrial revolution and social regeneration. The whole capitalistic system, which has its foundation in wage-slavery, must be destroyed, root and branch. The competitive principle as applied to production and distribution must give way to the co-op-erative principle. The one fosters greed, avarice, cunning, cupidity, selfishness, brutality and the whole brood of vices that make men monsters and fill the world with agony and woe. The other engenders love, kindness, sympathy, mutual help; in a word, the brotherhood of man, with which earth is transformed into paradise, and the sons of God may again shout for joy. The basic political reform is, in my opinion, embodied in direct legislation, proportional representation and the imperative mandate, and social industrial regeneration will come through the inauguration of the co-c.perative commonwealth. The evolutionary processes are in operation, and the change will come on certain as the stars shine, either on peace lines or through the fiercest revolution that ever shocked the world.

The Vanderbilt Castle.

The work on George W. Vanderbilt’s estate near Asheville, N. C., on which he has erected a mansion that breaks all records for residence In this country, is reported to be nearly finished. It will be known ag Biltmore castle. The estate consists of thirty thousand acres of land; which might be made

Into thirty-four pieces of land as largo as Central Park, New York. Each member of Mr. Vanderbilt’s family might, therefore, have all to himself a private playground several times as large as all the breathing spots set aside tor a million and a half of New Yorkers. The mansion stands on a spot once occupied by a mountain peak. Mr. Vanderbilt had the peak cut off and carted away. In order to expedite the construction of his castle a plant was put up that turned out 60,000 bricks and 2,000 flowerpots a day, the latter to he used in a seventy-five-acre plot set aside for greenhouses and flower garden. A railroad was built between Biltmore station and the castle for the transfer of materials, and this line will be torn up when the work is done. There is a deer park of 3,000 acres, and extensive trout ponds. The entire enterprise, it is estimated, will cost Vanderbilt about $5,000,000. —Chicago Express.

TWENTY WHYS.

Which Republicans and Democrats Will Do Well to Think About. Why does it take lawyers to explain the great principles of the democratic and republican parties, while farmers explain the principles of the people’s party? Why is It that members of the people’s party can tell why they are Populists, and republicans and democrats cannot tell why they are republicans and democrats? Why can Populists understand the financial situation, but democrats arid republicans cannot understand it? Why do Populist papers and speakers tell the people that they can understand the finance question, but the republican and democrat papers and speakers tell them that they can not? Why do democrat and republican leaders ask the people to take a position upon a question that they cannot understand? Why do Populist leaders urge every man to study politics, and the old party leaders ridicule the idea of farmers and laborers understanding politics? Why try to learn the people politics, and the two old parties try to make them believe that they are too ignorant to learn? Why do Populists invite democrats and republicans to come and join the issue with them at their public speakings, but the ■ two old parties refuse Populists the same right at their public speakings? Why should men vote upon issues they do not understand? Why is it that the democrats never quote Lincoln on finance?

Why is it that the republicans never quote Lincoln on finance? Why not drop the legal tender clause of gold by our law if it is the money of the world independent of law? Why object to the full legal tender clause and free and unlimited cqin.age of silver at the ratio of 16'ko I,’ if law does not make money? j Why should a man want a gold standard that he never owns, to travel in foreign countries where he never goes, and objects to silver and greenbacks for fear he will get too much, while he and his family is double worked, half clothed, rough fed, and cannot pay his debts? Why should farmers want high salaried officials, high taxes, high interest on the money, and low priced products to foot the bill with? Why should the farmer be in favor of the government loaning money to national banks at one per cent, per annum and not loan to the farmer at any price? Why do not religious democrats and republicans take God’s advice on usury if they cannot understand the finance question? Why do preachers not take such texts as “The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil.” “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.” “He upset the tables of the money changers.” “Restore, I pray ye, to them even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the corn, the wine and the oil that ye exacted of them.” Why does a preacher serve God left handed, but serve mammon with his right hand? Why did Christ favor the tramp and tramp himself, and oppose the rich and our preachers take the reverse?

Sooner Than Expected.

A week or more ago we referred to our bonded condition end predicted that agents of English bondholders would be stationed in our custom houses and state treasuries to force collection of bonds and defaulted interest. We did not know at that writing that we were so near the consummation of that prediction. An Associated Press dispatch from Anthony, Kansas, carries the somewhat startling information that the town is about to be seized by an English syndicate which purchased its bonds. Some time ago the town failed to meet its interest obligations and this step is taken through the United States courts to protect the bondholders. The dispatch adds that the syndicate purchased the bonds twenty years ago and the interest was paid regularly until January 1, this year. The original investment has been paid nearly thrice over in interest. Honest people pay their debts when they can and there is nothing in the dispatch to lead us to surmise that the citizens of Anthony are not honest. They may be poor and unable to pay their debts, but that is not dishonest But Anthony’s experience may be that of others before another year goes by. What are you going to do about it?— Coxey’s Bound Money.

Money of ultimate redemption is a fraud. The plutocrats are fighting our money plank. If the democrats adopt a silver platform —what ? It seems to be a case of the big fish eating the little fish. “Wealth belongs to him who creates it.” —Omaha platform. The way to maake populists is to teach the principles of the people’s party. Government ownership of railroads is a fundamental principle of the Omaha platform. The gold boom in Alaska doesn’t interfere with the silver boom in the west and south. The chances are that there will be no silver convention at St. Louis outside of the popuMst. The people need expect nothing from any party that tolerates either a Cleveland or a Sherman. The imperative mandate is a rope which ought to be tied to the hind leg of every office holder. Coxey’s plan of paying out money for public improvements (roads) is in line with the Omaha platform. There is only one way to control the railways, and that is to own them. This has been fully demonstrated. Cleveland’s administration has been a prosperous one for the bankers, the bondholders and other usurers. No financial system that does not do away entirely with banks of issue will prove beneficial to the people. The plainer the old parties declare for a gold standard the better. Straddle platforms won’t fool the people anyway. Every effort to have McKinley express himself on the currency question fails. He evidently realizes that “silence is golden.” “If we don’t win this year we can never succeed” is all slush. We have heard that story for fifteen years. If we don’t win this year we will lick our flints and come again—that’s what we’ll do. When a few men gain control of a party or a government and run it in their own private interest, there is no longer any democratic principle in the organization. Down with Clevelandism. Land is the source of production, and money and transportation the two principal agents of distribution. The three constitute the tri-une of reform, and direct legislation would make a safeguard to the republic. The bankers and money loaners want absolute control of the nation’s money, so that they can profit thereby. This is what inspires the whole fight for a gold standard and destruction of the greenbacks. Get together, silver men. Senator Tillman has called Carlisle the “Judas from Kentucky,” President Cleveland a “besotted tyrant” and John Sherman the “arch fiend from hell,” yet he says the reason he can’t join the populists is “they are too radical.” Rats! Congress has passed a law providing clerks for congressmen during the whole time for which they are elected — that is the pay goes on whether congress is in session or not. The democratic congress provided SIOO a month pay for their clerks only while congress was in session, but the republizans went them one better. Nothing like the g. o. p. Whoop ’er up, ye toilers and sweaters! Sell the last bushel of potatoes to pay this increase in your taxes, but be sure and vote ’er straight when election day comes. We should not lose sight of the fact that it is the volume of money in circulation that fixes prices and not the money in existence. Hoarded money does not effect prices. In view of thia fact the manner of putting money in circulation and keeping it there becomes one of the most important features of the financial question. The way to do this is simple: Money never hoards when .it is employed in productive enterprises. It is always so employed as long as prices are stable or rising; and prices, as a rule, do not fall except when the volume of money is being decreased or contracted.

An Infamous System.

Any system or policy of government that robs people of their homes is infamous, and if there is no other way of changing it, then it should be done by revolution. The record of home robbery within the past twenty years is startling. Take one state, and a very good one for illustration, Minnesota. During the past thirteen years there were 2,087,130 acres of farm lands foreclosed, and the owners driven out of their homes. On this land dwelt 33,453 farmers, who were all set adrift. In the towns and cities of the same state during ths same time 57,112 town lots were foreclosed and not redeemed. Here is another army of homeless men started out to tramp for a living. Must the people submit to a villainous system of representation of their nature? If they do they don’t desire liberty.—Southern Mercury. 1