People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.