People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

j The producer Is the only useful to society. ■■■■ Over-confidence in the two old paraies is what ails this country. The Republican congress will leave the gate open for another bond steal. Until interest is abolished money will rule, and man will be a slave. The People’s party is the only party that opposes monopoly of all kinds. Commerce cannot prosper except when farmers and laborers prosper. Three-fourths of the people of America consider the greenback good money. j ___ The American people must learn to be just if they would remain to be free. The only way to have cheap transportation is through government ownerj ship. Man must either earn his own bread or somebody else is compelled to earn j it for him. ~ ' | The millionaires will never confess I that the system by which they were made rich is wrong. The platforms of both old parties are made by "international agreement” of the money power. The Republican congress don’t want President Cleveland Impeached. He Is too good a Republican. About ten new Populist papers are being started per week nowadays; that is how Populism Is dying. Gold is the most, dishonest and cowardly money that ever bore the stamp of any government on earth. The only men who have ever questioned the credit of tills government are either foreigners or torles. Even the prohibitionists split on the silver question—and yet we are assured that tariff is the issue this year. The same kind of dollar that would have paid the debt when It was made is the honest dollar of final settlement. Populists should support the papers that are fighting in their cause, and let the other fellows hustle for themselves. Andrew Jackson did not belong to the Democratic parly. He was elected on a ticket that was headed "People’s Ticket.”

How do you know money when you see it? By the government stamp. And yet some fools say the government can’t make money. Debs is a true and tried friend of labor. He doesn't want office, but prefers to fight in the ranks for the uplifting of his fellow man. Shall the Rotschilds dictate our American financial policy? Then the revolution was a failure, and the Declaration of Independence a dream. Dun’s report has caught on at last. It recently said: “Good times next fall or not at all.” Must be getting desperate—for the prosperity whoopers. The way for the people to help themselves is to vote against every form of monopoly and they are not doing it when they vote the same ticket the monopolists do. Two men were recently fined at Clay Centre, Kansas-one SSO for beating a mule, and the other $3 for beating his wife. The mule was property, and property is divine, you know. The Republicans tell us that lack of confidence in the Democratic administration is what causes hard times. Yet the present Republican congress diplay no lack of confidence in the policy of President Cleveland. Tihe man who produces $3 worth of wealth per day should have $3 per day—and the man who produces nothing should have nothing. That is the object of all the agitation of economic problems from the beginning to the end. The gold standard advocates want to buy more produce for their dollar, and the producers want more dollars for what they produce. Both are directly interested, but their interests are opposite —and the producer is the only one whose claim is worthy. “The borrower is servant to the lender.” That’s Scripture, and Cleveland and Carlisle have made us the slaves of the bondholders to the extent of $262,000,000. How do you like it? The Democratic party gave us these two men. The Republican congress, in voting its members SIOO a month clerk hire during the time when congress was not in session, has given the country an object lesson of what we may expect if the Republicans gain full control of all departments of government. Before the People’s party was organized a voter was at liberty to choose between two bosses as to which should rule over him. The People’s party, with its broad and manly declaration at Omaha breathed new hope into the hearts of the struggling millions. The first great duty, therefore, of the new party is to clear itself of bossism, and keep Itself clear.