People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Fetch on yoror prosperity. When a boss puts up his head, thong It The best Fay to organize is by school districts. The Omaha platform is the only Populist chart now. Boasism is one of the isms the People’s party don’t want. There is no doubt that McKinley is Wall street’s candidate. * If any man is in the People*! party for pie he ought to be kicked out. The Populists deserve a great deal of credit for the enemies they havh made. There was a good deal of kicking §xpreased in the Declaration of Independence. He is not much of a soldier that wapt* to end the fight by going over to the enemy. Vote the old way, for the old party, and wear old clothes; that’s your politics, Is It, honey? There Is only one kind of business that is flourishing In this country; that’s the sheriff’s business. The two old parties are pulling the international conference string again. They want some more suckers. No man has a right to own the earth, therefore there ought to be some kind of a limit as to what he should own, In land. We shall soon see how much of the threats to bolt the old party conventions are bluff, and how much are pure metal. Every bond that the “besotted tyrant” and the “Judas from Kentucky” have issued is illegal and should be repudiated. All the Democrats will be able to do for the next thirty years will be to make promises and Bit on the fence and sea the procession go by. No man ever created a million dollars’ worth of wealth, therefore no man ever honestly acquired a million dollars’ worthof wealth unless it was given to him. Our gold is good in Europe, and it is going there very rapidly. We’ll have to issue more bonds presently to coax it back. Anybody see any "clover” about this? The railroad officials of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad stole $50,000,000 and wrecked the road, but not a mother’s son of them will be punished. That would be paternalistic, you know. McKinley as a bankrupt is a fitting candidate to run on a “sound money” platform. He is simply a tool of Wall street, and his nomination will show to what depths American statesmanship has fallen. That $262,000,000 increase In the bond debt is about $4 for each man, woman and child in the country. For a county of 20,000 population it means a debt of SBO,OOO. Say, it looks like somebody had lost their vote, don’t it? If we remember right, Cleveland was billed four years ago as the advance agent of prosperity. It makes our hind leg ache to hear such slush, and *ends a cold chill up our back when we,know how many fools will believe It. The best evidence that the lawyers are not fit to run this country Is the miserable failure they have made of It, yet the people keep right on voting for them, for no other reason in the world than that the lawyers want to be voted for. Free silver would increase the volume of currency, say, 70 cents per capita, which, according to political economists, would increase prices from 3 to 5 per cent. Free silver is all light so far as it goes, but It isn’t hardly a start towards what we need. If you like to wear old clothes, see your children grow up in ignorance, pay high taxes and have lawyers and bankers to rule over you, why, just keep right on voting ’er straight, John; vote the same ticket the rich thieves do, and the one they want you to vote. It is claimed that there is plenty of idle money in the country. And to some extent it is true. But why is it idle? First, because its constantly increasing value has ruined all enterprise and industry, and, second, because the simple increase in its value is a good investment without loaning it. The gold bugs say that free silver would hurt the dear people, which is the best evidence in the world that they are lying. Whenever thfe gold bug pretends to be doing anything for the dear people, you may be sure he is whetting his knife for another pound of flesh. If you want to do the right thing, do what the gold bug tells you not to do. The adoption of a free silver plank by the Democratic party at its national convention will not give us free silver —not by a jug full. That party has had full control, had over 100 majority in congress, and thefl failed even to pass a free silver measure through congress. It will be exactly the same way again. There are always enough gold-bug Democrats to Join with the Republicans to defeat free silver.