People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Page 5

HON. H. S. P. ASHBY. OF TEXAS,—“STUMP - ‘ ASHBY.

The above most able and eloquent speaker will discuss the silver question at Rensselaer, July 16, and at other places in the 10th district as announced elsewhere in this paper. . Mr. Ashby has no peer as a platform speaker, and the occa~ fiion of his coming to Rensselaer will be the most notable gathering ever held in the district. Large delegations will be present from all the counties and it is expected that 5000 visitors will be in attendance.

EAST VS. WEST.

HERBT. N. CASSON’S STARTLING ADDRESS AT LYNN, MASS. “Beware of the We»t" —“What Englin l la to Ireland, What Spain Is to Cuba the East la to the Weat” —The Farmera Have Not Been Idle. The following startling address was. delivered by Herbert N. Casson in tne Lynn Labor church, of Boston, on M£y 17, on the subject, “Beware of the West.” Mr. Casson introduced his lecture by pointing to two large maps of America that hung in front of the pulpit, one representing the western states as the}* were fifty years ago—uninhabitated and unexplored. He said: “In ten years we may have a third map, on which the western states will appear as an independent republic, having an industrial and financial policy of its own. We can no longer consider the western states as waste and lawless territories; for in a few decades they have developed all the symptoms of eastern or European civilization. Western men can remember When land was free, when money was weighed by the pound, when all were equal in opportunities, and when labor was the only key that opened every door.

“The west was settled largely by the best and bravest young men of the east. Thousands of union soldiers went there and took up land after the war, and we cannot afford to sneer at or belittle the opinions of such men. “It is a momentous and alarming fact that in thousands of pamphlets, papers and books the west is now asserting itself to be wronged and robbed by the east, and that a feeling of bitterness, hatred and enmity to New England has arisen beyond the Mississippi. It points to the fact that from 1880 to 1890 Massachusetts alone gained more wealth than Indiana, lowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, that have seven times the population and fifty-eight times the land. Single individuals in New York city can -buy up entire states in the west. “In 1889 the farm mortgages of west amounted to nearly 83,500,000.000, and during the last thirteen years in Minnesota alone, 33,453 farmers were sold out. The farmers have not been idle or shiftless; they have every year planted and reaped an enormous crop, but prices have been too low to cover expenses. Lately, in a western city, potatoes were sold at 83 cents a ton, and every year immense quantites c.f grain are destroyed or fed to the hogs. The farmers cannot manage their farms without hiring helff, and they have no money to hire with. In the south the truck system is making money a museum curiosity to the planters, and all kinds of crude labor exchanges are being formed to manufacture and circulate money. “What England is to Ireland, what Spain is to Cuba, the east is to the west. Massachusetts has become the American gypsy moth, feeding on the fruitage of the west.

“In some parts of the west it is not safe to say titoat you came from' Massachusetts. Commercial travelers inform us that many 'western merchants will not even look at eastern goods. Before long they will be throwing eastern tea overboard Into the Pacific. They assert that the thirteen colonies have becoipe financially annexed to England, and that nothing now remains of/the American republic but the western states. Much of this accusation is true. The star of empire 120 years ago crossed.the Atlantic, and now it has crossed the continent. The black soul of George 111 is marching on today in Boston and New York. “Instead of Hessians, we have lawyers; instead of royalists, we have republicans; instead of Benedict Arnold, we have John Sherman; instead of Bunker Hill, we have the Chicago strike; instead of Washington, we have men like Tillman, Debs and Pingree. “Lincoln’s prophecy haa been ful-

filled; and tne east has become the home of industrial and financial despots. One hundred and twenty years after Christ, Jerusalem was inhabited only by wolves and jackals; and one hundred and twenty years after Samuel Adams, Boston is inhabited by bulls , and bears and other wild beasts of trade. “The shadow of Bunker Hill monument falls on the dingy tenements, where the hungry fever burns; Faneuil hall is besieged by howling hucksters, scrambling for a beggerly existence; opposite to where the first blood of the revolution was shed there are bankers and brokers, squeezing the life-blood out of their fellow men; the Old South church is surrounded- by throngs of ragged newsboys, robbed of education and childhood; and Boston’s sacred Common is pock-marked with policemen, to keep off the grass. “Boston the Great is fallen, and become an industrial Babylon. Its money kings have only two blanks in their platform—‘There’s nothing to arbitrate’ and ‘The public be d d.’ “It is time for us to know that the west will never submit to a New England president, on a gold and monopoly platform, and I warn those blind financiers that if they continue in their present course for five years more, they will never receive either principal or Interest. “The west cannot be coerced. It is not afraid of ,our tenderfoot militia. Forty'years ago the south insisted upon a fugitive slave law, and the result was an uprising and an emancipation; and a simila: - result will occur if the eastern Shylock Insists upon cutting off his pound of flesh. If the east is merciless today, the west will he mprollAßa Mronrrnw Thp waa'ern giant, like Gulliver, is only bound with threads, and he is every day becoming more awakened and dangerous. “Let us remember that the interests of all honest and industrious men, whether in the east or west, are the same. Let the mechanic and the farmer co-operate and. stretch hands across the Mississippi. Let us take the pitchfork and the hammer as our emblems and form a political party of our own. “For the sake of the Union and the men who died to save it; for the sake of social peace and patriotism, we must speak the sternest words, in spite of prejudice and self-conceit. If there had been an abolition church in Richmond in 1858 and its warnings had been heard when it cried ‘Beware of the north!’ perhaps the civil war might have been averted.”

THOUGHTS ON MONEY.

Banks are more dangerous to the liberties of the people than standing armies.—Jefferson. If the Americans adopt our banking and funding systems, their liberties are gone.—Sir William Pitt. By the Eternal, we will see which is to rule —the money power or the people!—Andrew Jackson, Gold is the most useless metal in the world. Fit only for plugging teeth and ornamenting fools. —Dr. Franklin. I have met and conquered all the allied armies of Europe, but England’s paper money sent me to St. Helena. — Napoleon I. The theory of intrinsic value of money has been abandoned by the best writers and speakers.—Encyclopedia Britannica. Whoever controls the volume of money of any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. — James A. Garfield. Avarice says: “I will oppress the weak and devour the fruits of his la-, bors and I will say it is fate that has so ordained.” —Wolney. Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation, to whom it belongs.—Thomas Jefferson. The bank is the union of the government and the money power—a union far more dangerous than church and state. —John C. Calhoun. The present system of finance robs labor, gorges capital, makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capital.—Wendell Phillips, in 1870. Anything upon which the govern-

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ment places its stamp and declares it a full legal tender in payment of aH Jag.es is mopey; parameter ‘ wnat. the wtwiial may, >be—H4nry Clay. - I believe the struggle’now going on in this country, and in other countries, for a single gold standard, will, if successful, produce widespread disaster, in the end, throughout the world.— James G. Blaine. Man is the only animal on earth that will quietly suffer for food among plenty. He is the only one whose brain is so small that he will see his tender offspring suffer with cold where there is plenty of material to keep him warm.—lnter Mountain Advocate. If a government contract a debt with a certain amount of money in circulation, and then contracts the money volume before the debt is paid, it is the most heinous crime that a government can commit against the people.—Abraham Lincoln. My friends, unless our children have more patience and courage than saved this country from slavery, republican institutions will go down before moneyed corporations. Rich men die, but corporations are immortal. They are never afflicted with disease. In the long run they are bound to win with legislatures.—Wendell Phillips. Place the money power in the ha ads of a combination of a few individuals and they, by expanding or contracting the currency, may raise or sink prices at pleasure, and by purchasing when at the greatest depression, and selling when at the greatest elevation, may command the whole property and industry of the community. The banking system concentrates and places this power in the hands of those who control it. Never was an engine invented better calculated to place the destinies of the many in the hands of the few.—John C. Calhoun. “Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing a dose. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. The best blood of the flower of American youth has been freely offered upon our country’s altar, that the nation might live. It has been, indeed, a trying hour for the republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and r.n era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment, more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. God grant that my suspicion may prove groundless.”— Abraham Lincoln.

There are several ways of loosening the glass stoppers of dechnters and bottles. One is to stand the bottle in hot water, another is to drop a little oil with a feather between the stopper and the decanter and stand it near the fire. After a time strike the stopper gently with a piece of wood on all sides, and if it does not move repeal the process. A strip of flannel or wool wound around the neck of a bottle and smartly pulled backward and forward to produce friction will sometimes loosen stoDDers.

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS JOIN IN A STEAL

The Populinta Alone Solidly Voted Against the Recent Salary Grab—Cleveland Will Vote for McKinley —• The Threatend Panic. Well; congress finally adjourned, ami the history it left behind may be summed up in a foot-note by some future historian. It proposed to ,do nothing—and did it. However, the republican congress is responsible to the people for some things the democratic executive did —and which it refused to pass a bill to prevent. The populists in congress declared by voice and vote that issuing bonds was a wrong and a robbery —the republicans indorsed the robbery by doing nothing to prevent it. The populist party urged by both voice and vote some measures of relief. They have proposed both financial measures and measures restricting the corporations and combines that are' robbing the people yet these measures failed to pass because the members of the other party refused to support the populists in their efforts to secure relief. The republican party passed a steal known as the Clerk Hire bill which increased each congressman’s salary SIOO per month. The democratic party gave its consent and meekly with its minority whined in “me too” and voted for it. The populist party solidly opposed it. Which do you prefer? The republicans and democrats have not passed a single distinctively party act (unless it was the Clerk Hire steal) with their vast majority of the members composing the body. The populists have secured the passage of a resolution to investigate the bond deals that increased* the people’s burdens by $262,000,000. The populists forced through the senate a bill to prohibit the further isuse of bonds and placed the republican house on record as bein£ in favor of bonds and bondage. The populists by offering to assist the republicans in a tariff measure if they would in return assist in the passage of a free coinage measure showed the utter hypocrisy of the republicans in their pretended friendship for each. Which party’s record meets with your approval? President Cleveland gives it out that he and his cabinet will vote for McKinley in case the silver men win In

To Make the Stopper Come Out.

the Chicago convention. He doesn’t wish to see the gold-bug vote divided. |ie considers democratic part} merely^Cieveiand ciub?• ’ He is the head of the party .and the cabinet its hind legs. *:> # < : A Speaking of the advantageous sltution of the populists in the coming campaign, the Twentieth Century says: The party has very little money and that is a fortunate thing. Nothing injures a political organization more than the possession and the expenditure of funds on a liberal scale. Such pecuniary resources are sure to create a swarming band of needy adventurers who prey upon the organism and desert it the moment their own selfish ends are attained. Another good thing for the populists is the fact that the approaching campaign is to be an educational one in the strictest sense of the expression. We cannot have too much discussion. It looks as if many a venerable delusion in the world of politics is destined to be exploded in short order. We hear very little of the pauper labor of England nowadays. What has become of that ancient and consecrated bugaboo? The only resource of the monopolists is to threaten to bring about a panic and this threat has been held over the heads of the people like a club for months. It does not seem to have much effect. The people are quietly and surely turning down the gold monopolists. That by no means Implies the exclusive attention of the people to silver. There are many other things than silver in the world and the voters are expecting declarations upon other subjects. The people’s party platform will be broad enough for all reformers to stand upon. , • • « Congress refused to restrain tne issue of bonds —and as the gold reserve is going to Europe at the rate of nearly ten millions a month, Grover will probably have another chance to make a “stake” upon which to retire from office. Shipping gold back and forth to Europe is very profitable to the dealers in gold. There are charges on both sides for the use of the gold—and in both places it lies stored up, useless as far as the people who pay the freight are concerned. It is a great game of “now you see it and now you don’t” — and the manipulators draw interest all the time whether you do, or whether you don’t see it.

Even the goldbugs sometimes get caught in their own trap. In presuming on the interest of the people they sometimes succeed in convincing them too thoroughly. For instance, a recent dispatch from Ashland, Ky., says: Col. A. W. Boscomb, one of the largest tobacco planters in this section, is having a queer experience with negro laborers. During the campaign just closed there has been talk about silver dollars being only worth 50 cents. The negroes have taken this literally, and when Boscomb offered to pay them ■in silver dollars, they emphatically objected to accepting 50-cent dollars, and wanted to be paid in paper money or gold. * ♦ • A controversy between Sherman and Teller calls forth the following from Col. S. F. Norton, of Joliet. Ill.! We beg leave to correct Senator Teller of Colorado and John Sherman of Ohio. You see there is no one who has kept a closer tab on John Sherman during the last twenty-five years than the writer hereof. We know him. as the saying is, as well as if 'we bad wheeled the dirt to make him. In course of a speech on the antibond bill Senator Teller had the following “exchange of courtesies,” v. ..li the senator from Ohio. Teller—The senator from Ohio tail's about the sacredness of contracts, i remember when the senator from Ohio declared that theperson who would not take a 40-cent greenback in exchange for any debt that the government owed him was a robber and a thief. Mr. President, he changed his mind very soon after that. Mr Sherman—l do not think I used those words. Mr. Teller—He used the words “robber” and “extortioner;” that it was “extortion.” Mr. Sherman—Not “thief." Mr. Teller—He was a robber without being a thief. Now, the fact is what Sherman said about the bondholder’s being an “extortioner” did not occur in a public speech. It was embodied in a letter to the Hon. A. Mann., Jr., of Brooklyn Heights, written from the senate chamber March 20, 1868. We quote from the letter th,e following extract—which is mighty interesting reading just at the present time when John is talking so loud about “repudiation” when it proposed to stop the issue of more bonds: “Your idea that we proposed to repudiate or violate a promise when we offered to redeem the principal in legal tenders is erroneous. I think the bondholder violates his promise when he refuses to take the same kind of money he paid for the bond. If the case is to be tested by the law, I am right; if it is to be tested by Jay Cooke’s advertisement, lam wrong. I hate repudiation or anything like it; but we ought not to be deterred from what is right tor fear of undeserved epithets. If under the law as it stands, the holder of 5-20’s can be paid only in gold, then we are repudlators, if we propose to pay otherwise. If, on the other hand, the bondholders can demand only the kind of money he paid, then he is a repudlator and extortioner to demand money more valuable than he gave. • • • A Good Book. —“The Danger Line Reached,” by Ex-Governor Hadley, of Arkansas, is a book of unusual merit It treats an intricate subject in a simple but thorough manner. To the business man who wishes to arrive at a correct conclusion upon the money question it will disnel all dmibt . Thnm

who are Marching for truth, and want complete and straightforward answers to the gold-bug assertions of the Wall Street press, should read this work. It is strictly 'non-partisan, written in a calm and philosophical vein, and should be in the hands of every business man.

Labor Pays All Debt.

All wealth comes out of the earth. This fact should be kept in mind. The way it is extracted from the land is also important. It can only be drawn from the soil by the application of labor to land. Thus it will be seen that all of the debts and taxes are paid by labor applied to land. The most difficult thing in the world is to secure for this fact a lodging place in the human mind. The merchant thinks probably that he adds to the wealth of the country by selling goods at a great sacrifice from his bargain counter. He does not add a penny to the volume of the nation's wealth. The banker may think he adds to the national wealth by the practice of usury, skinning the people on his loans. A banker never did add one cent to a nation’s wealth. The great army of middle men may think they add to wealth by robbery of both the producer and the consumer. Middle men never created one penny of national wealth. And so it goes with all classes of business and professional men. They are consumers of wealth, but they do not produce a cent. All wealth being created by lator,* it follows that all of the debts of government, national, state and municipal, fall to the lot of labor to pay. An another important question to be remembered is that the greater the debts, the heavier tax and the less labor derives in the way of wages for producing wealth. When the debts become sufficiently burdensome then labor becomes a condition of absolute slavery.—Southern Mercury. (

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE.

Political, Religious, Social and Criminal Doings of tho Whole World Carefully Condensed for Onr Readers—The Aceident Record. James Taylor of Belvidere, lit., who was incarcerated for selling liquor without a license, was found dead In his cell. Serious trouble is feared at Buchanan, Mich., where the St. Joseph Valley Railroad company is trying to lay a track on land owned by men who object to the road obtaining a right of way. A brother of Dr. Jamieson, Dr. “Jim” of the Transvaal raid, has been murdered by the Mashonas. The sultan of Turkey has accorded a general amnesty to the Cretans. The disease of cattle bill passed <ts second reading in the house of lords, London. President Ronilla of Honduras has accepted the resignation of Dr. Juan Aarios as minister of the interior. As a result of Saturday’s cabinet meeting in London the second battalion of the King’s Royal Rifles, now at Malta, has been ordered to the Capo of Good Hope. The English house of commons sat all Monday night to consider the agricultural land rating bill, designed to lessen the rates of taxation on agricultural land. Monday afternoon four choir boys and the choir master of St. John’s Episcopal church of Charlestown, were drowned in Lake Massapoag, near Sharon, Mass. Three members of a picnic party were drowned in the Missouri river at Tekamah, Neb., Monday. The dead: Miss essie Kelso, Sadie Reese and John Samson. The boat they-occupied was swamped. But one member of the party was saved, he clinging to the boat. Their bodies were swept away by the strong current. The afternoon eastbound Grand Trunk mail train jumped the track about four miles east of Coraall, Ark., Monday, every car being derailed. There were sixty passengers on board, but none of them nor any of the train hands received Injuries. The schooner Norma, from Kodiakata, arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., with . thirty-five stranded miners

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aboard. They pronounced the uotwe Inlet mining boom a fizzle. Over 3,500 miners are at the inlet unable to obtain employment and supplies are going rapidly. , ... Young Carl Wendell was acquitted at Menominee, Mich., of the murder of little Eva Lafrienere, 5 years old, alleged to have been committed at Ishpeming a year ago. The trial dragged through seven days, and the jury were out but forty-five minutes. By the explosion of a boiler in the office of the Evening Age at Houston, Texas, Monday, three people were killed and a fourth badly injured. The latter is W. G. Van Vleck, General Manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific railway. Miss Frances E. Willard says the World’s W. C. T. U., of which she is president, will meet In Montreal, Canada, either next spring or next autumn. The Braddock wire works at Pittsburg, Pa., shut down, affecting 800 men, who will be Idle until August. A conference on the sheet scale was held at Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, and it was announced that an agreement had been reached. The scale of last year was practically adopted, the only change being in some minor foot notes. Au unknown man and woman were found dtad in bed in a house of questionable reputation at Wllkesbarre, Pa. It is believed to be a case of double suicide. Among the witnesses examined at Akron, O„ in the trial of Romulus Cotell, charged with the murder of Alvin N. Stone, his wife and Ira F. Stlllson, were Emma and Hattie Stone, both of whom had terrible struggles with the murderer. Neither could throw tho slightest evidence on the Identity of the murderer. The North Carolina democratic state convention met at Raleigh, Thursday. The financial plank favors both gold and silver as primary money and advocates free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Georgia democratic state convention declared unqualifiedly for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, condemned the bond Issues and touched adversely on the policies of President Cleveland. Friday the grand jury indicted Nathan Cadwallader, president of the defunct Citizens’ bank, at Union City, Ind., for defalcation aggregating |15,000 and for indorsing 35,000 more for which there has been no accounting. In all six indictments were Issued, but the names of the others are not yet known. Morgan Edwards, 28 years of age, fell from a street car at Kankakee and died a fefr hours later. His wife and child live at Sparta, Wis. While a “society circus” was in progress on the lawn at the residence of James T. Jones at Springfield, 111., Wednesday, the seats broke down. A large number of people were injured. United States steamboat inspectors have revoked the license of Captain N. N. Jenny of the steamship Wyanoke of the Old Dominion line, which was sunk in a collision with the United States cruiser Columbia off Newport News, a number of lives being lost. More than 1,400,000 spindles at Fall River, Maes., are now pledged to shut down for four weeks during July and August, and it is now considered probable that every plain cotton goods and print cloth factory there will enter the agreement to curtail production by a suspension of operations.

X Raya in Court.

It is amusing to find that an actress has been the first woman to press the Roentgen photographic discovery into her service in the law courts. Miss Gladys Ffolllett hurt her foot by a stumble upon an alleged faulty staircase ami promptly sued the Nottingham theater company for damages. They disputed tbe charge, whereupon Miss Ffolllett had her foot photographed a la Roentgen by Prof. Ramsey, produced in court the negative showing the precise Injury to the bone which she had received and promptly won her verdict. Really, the possibilities of photography In its latest developments are apparently Illimitable. One of these-days we shall have the male defendant in a breach of promise case producing a Roentgen photograph to prove that he is afflicted with a marble heart. and was therefore the merest creature of circumstances and not responsible for his actions in an affair in which sentiment was concerned.--Lady's Pictorial.

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