People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

C. C. Starr and family were called Sunday night to the death bed 'of his step-father, Amos White of Buck Creek in Tippecanoe county. He was nearly 81 years old. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon, Rev. B. Wilson Smith officiating. A public debt is the bankers’ snap. Forty-three bolt firms have formed a trust. God is on the side of right; we need not fear. Nearly everybody seems to favor direct legislation. How many planks had the republican platform of 1860 in it? The latest thing in the way of a big combine is an enormous flour trust; Victory is the first essential of success only. Victory itself is not success. The free coinage of silver would add about 30 or 40 cents per capita to the circulation. Anyway the democrats are sick of Clevelandism. That much pleases the populists. Victory at the polls has killed every party that promised to do too much if entrusted with power. Remember that the populist party is one that performs its promises. Let us not make too many. Tillman says John Sherman is an “arch fiend from hell,” and Tillman thinks he is not radical. And now the people will soon vote to turn the rascals out —and turn the other rascals in—perhaps. They say capital is timid, but we note that it takes everything in sight and calls for things that are not in sight. The cause of “sound money” is not materially assisted by the number of dishonest men that are espousing it. Senator Peffer deserves great credit for pushing his bond investigation resolution to the front and forcing its pas-> sage. McKinley’s case is a verification of the truth that nothing pays like advertising. To this alone is due his great boom. The terrible cyclones of the past few weeks are only a slight foretaste of the cyclone that will strike Clevelandism pretty soon. Democratic promises are not worth the paper upon which they are primed, especially if they are made by the gold bug wing. The labor forces of the cities will vote the people’s ticket this year. ' “We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people, or the people must own the railroads.” —Omaha platform. “The land, including all the material resources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes.”—Omaha platform. Under our magnificent (?) government Americans are living and working to enrich British capitalists, all to make “sound money,” that is “good in Yurrop,” you know. After all, it will not be until the populist party is in powei that the great struggle will be begun. We would have to perform all our promises or there would be no more populist party. How money is to be kept in active circulation is one of the phases of the finance question. This can only be done by abolishing all kinds of bank money, and then increasing the volume to keep pace with business and population.