People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Here's a Corker. [ARTICLE]

Here's a Corker.

Vanderbilt has offered to pay Gould and Sagie $2,000,000 a year for 99 years for a lease of the New York elevated street railway—to put it more plainly for the privilege of robbing the people of New York. Gould and Sage have such a soft thing of skinning the fools who believe in private ownership of street transit that they want $2,500,000 a year to let loose the teat. What is the difference to the people whether the legislature of New York should vote a pension of $2,000,000 a year to Gould and Sage and their descendants forever, or allow these men to own the street cars? Do not the people pay that or a greater sum every year, above the cost of operating the plant! What is the difference whether this colossal sum is paid under the cover of private property or of a title? But it has been ever thus. Fools will allow themselves to be hoodwinked into the belief that the most colossal robbery is legitimate if but the most flimsy excuse is given —Appeal to Reason

McKinley, the bankrupt, is thought to be a fit subject for president of this nation. But the bankers will tell him how to run it, and if he is an apt scholar he may become a millionaire as did Grover Cleveland. The only party in the United States that points to the future is the people’s party. The two old parties have no pride except in the achievements of dead ancestors. The people’s party is proud of the living principles it represents. When a man talks about a 50-cent silver dollar offer to buy one of him. If he tells you it is worth a hundred cents because it is redeemable in a gold dollar, or exchangeable, he is either mistaken or is lying for it is neither one. McKinley, having failed himself In the management of his business affairs, is-now billed as “the advance agent of prosperity.’* Prosperity to several thousand place hunters, we suppose.