People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.