People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The best cure for drunkenness is to vote for conditions that will not drive men to drink. * Gold as king is the most tyrannical monarch who ever oppressed a superstitioiffi people. Genuine populism wilt never give up the fight until its principles are enacted into laws. The Omaha platform is all right; go to work and explain it and you’ll have plenty of converts. The silver men stand for justice to debtors—the gold bugs stand for double pay to creditors. Government banking is as necessary as government issue of greenbacks or free coinage of silver. —— A. Ownership of railroads is one of the fundamental principles of the Omaha platform, and it will remain so. Tie republican national convention was a bacchanalian revel, a scramble for pie, and a millionaires’ picnic. The intrinsic value theory in money has long since been discarded by everyone that understands it but the bankers. No use wasting time any more telling people how bad the conditions are. They know —and are seeking the way* out. • It is the 200 cent-dollar which we are kicking against and which ia sucking the lifeblood from the industries of the country. Yes; populism may “straddle”—that is to say it will probably straddle the necks of both old parties and choke them to death. A The price of votes is the only limit placed on the amount of money the gold bugs will put into the republican campaign this year. Take away the congressman’s opportunity to sell his vote by giving the people a direct vote upon all important measures ol legislation. If you can’t sneak you can circulate reform literature. Ge to work. Every man can. a*d oqjtet to do something. Help orsatoea your township. A g»swr— inf ts M pwple, by the aa4 far th* onsuiot tee Bad while Mtofcn aanirrt the cwrenor aod trusts rab.b* keafi awuAtoeut.