People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Page 6

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SURRENDER TO ENGLAND.

The Republican national platfor m endeavors to tire the reader with a lot of rot about tariff and reciprcc ty, end then shows the dominating influence behind the once great pir y of Abraham Lincoln when it says in substance: “The Republican par yis unreservedly in favor of English money and against American mon« y. It caused the establishment of the English system by the act of !<’ 7 . nd since then every American dollar has been as hard to get as an l[ i h dollar. We are unalterably opposed to every effort to turn the silve i. American mines into money; we prefer to borrow of England. We ar t erefore opposed to free coinage except by the consent of England. All c": money must be as good as gold, notwithstanding the fact that that :cf. of money has given to the world such monstrocities among nations ai 'Airkey, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and Greece, whose people have long sin: been enslaved, and notwithstanding the fact that Italy, Austria, Germa y, Russia, England, France and the United States are marching toward he same sad destiny. In short, we want a currency system that will m. ke paupers by the millions and millionaires by the score.”

Article I. Section 3of the United S tates Constitution says: “Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.” Notice that it says, “regulate the value ” Now the republican platform says that the constitution is all wrong and that congress cannot and shall not “regulate the value” of money. Nowadays it must be done by international agreement only. Shades of Washington. Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln behold the fruits of Yorktown and New Orleans. Behold the deadly treason to a constitution baptized by the blood of countless heroes and sustained by the blood of martyrs: behold the realization of William Pitt’s prophecy in the English parliament 108 years ago that “America would be more profitable as a financial dependency than as a political dependency.” Are the American people going to sup port such a treasonable platform? The man who can see it in any other than a treasonable light must be an idiot. Il the spirit of 76 is sufficiently strong there will be another Yorktown in November.

CASUALTIES.

At Canton, 111.. William R. Rock, aged 16 years, on the Fourth held an oyster can filled with powder in one hand, and in the other he held a lighted cornstalk. A spark fell into the can, exploding the powder, and the boy ■was dreadfully torn, and died in a few hours. Daniel Devlin accidentally shot and Ipstantly killed his brother Joe at a dance near Parkersburg, W. Va., Saturday. Both were drinking heavily. David Gordon, a prominent.farmer of Knox county, 111., was killed by a mad hull at his home near Victoria, Saturday. An unknown tramp was drowned in the Ohio rijer at Cairo, 111., while indulging in a carousal with two companions on the proceeds of a half days’ begging about town. By the explosion of natural gas at the Evergreen Hotel, seven miles north of Allegheny, Pa., six persons were more or less injured, three, it is feared, fatally. Thomas McGinty, a laborer in the employ of McArthur Brothers, contractors. was run over and killed by a train at Cobden. 111. His body was found in a mutilated condition. Fire at Dyersville, lowa, Sunday night destroyed Schemmels' flouring mill, the jail and several warehouses. Loss Jlv.oOO to 115,000, covered by insurance Ida Bollinger, 11 years old, fell into an oat bin at Fort Dodge, lowa, and was suffocated. Julius Wolfgram. an inmate of the Milwaukee county insane asylum, hanged himself. George McCain was thrown from a load of lumber at Shelbyville, Ind., cr-hcd to a pulp. • James Logan and his son were hurled from carriage at Bushnell. 111. It is believed that the former will die fr om his injuries. A man who is supposed to be John McKinney was found dead on the Burlington tracks at Burlington, lowa. It is believed that he was run over by a train. Henry Linden of Chicago went to K'e'.v Baden to view the wreck caused by the cyclone. He was run down by fin Air line freight train while there and instantly killed. Mrs. Dooley, aged 60 years, was burned io death in the destruction by fire of her home in Buffalo. On the way to the fire two trucks collided, killing ti’.e horses attached to one of them and injuring two firemen.

POLITICAL NOTES.

The Nebraska Republican Bimetallic League has issued a manifesto indorsing the Teller bolt. The New York Republican state convention has been called to meet at Saratoga August 25. There will be nominated ot that convention candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and justice of the court'of appeals. At Little Rock the Republicans of the Fourth Arkansas District nominated C. C. Waters for Congress. Democrats of the Twenty-second 1111Eois Congressional district will hold their convention July 18 at Marion. ,At the tenth district Democratic senatorial convention in Rockford, July 21, J. W. Bacharach will be nominated for minority representative in the Legislature. Friendship for free coinage is given by L. M. Wade of Mount Vernon, Ind., ae his reason for refusing to go to Chicago and help ex-Congressman Bynum tn his fight for sound money.

CRIME.

Thirty-two sticks of dynamite, enough to blow up the whole city, •were found secreted under the steps of the Methodist church at Deadwood S. D. J. M. Frazier quarreled with T. J. McMullin and son James about a business transaction at Jackson, Tenn., and tried tp shoot the former. The father escaped and Frazier shot the sori twice, inflicting fatal wounds. Frazier gave himself up. ▲ dispatch from Athens says that the Cretans elected a provisional government, decided to proclaim the union of. the Island with Greece, and ex-

TREASON OF 1896.

pressed the hope that autonomy will be granted the island under the surveillance of the powers. • Alonzo Walling, accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was to day sentenced to hang Aug. 7. Walling, smiling and defiant, was taken from the Covington jail by Sheriff Plummer and Jailer Bltger, and driven in a surrey to Newport. On their arrival they found a crowd of several hundred surrounding the courthouse, but there was no demonstration. An unknown man assaulted C. BrolUer’of Ollie, a small town near Ottumwa, lowa, while he was sitting on his porch. His skull, four ribs and shoulder were broken. Mr. Brollier is 75 years old. He is still unconscious and is not expected to live. Walter Thompson, a stock dealer, shot and instantly killed himself at his home in Burnside, a small town twelve miles west of Laharpe, 111., at 9 o’clock this morning. It is reported that he was mixed up in some trouble resulting from a sale of some stolen cattle and the thing preyed on his mind until he took his life. Ashford Brothers’ store at Homer was entered by burglars early Saturday morniug, the safe blown open with giant powder, and about $375 stolen. The store was also robbed Friday morning and $l4O and valuable papers taken. Early Sunday morning while Night Watchman Loomer was placing a man in jail at Chadron, Neb., tw r o occupants of the place made their escape and have not yet been captured. One was a tramp and the other was Barker of Crawford, awaiting trial on a charge of perjury. Officers are in search cf tbs fugitives.

Hello! What’s This?

New York Special: The exports of silver from this country to Europe up to last. Saturday amounted to about $20,000,000, as against $13,000,000 in the same time last year. The increase represents silver shipped to Paris foi coinage into Russian roubles. The requirements for this purpose are understood to have been practically filled for the time being. Silver is quoted at 68*4 bid, an advance of 14 per cent from last week’s final price. The above is a dispatch that appeared in all the daily papers of May 26. It seems to knock the story aboqt this country being made the “dumping ground for the silver of the world’’ effectively in the head, as we produce only, about $60,000,000 of silver in a year and exnorting $20,000,000 in less than five months will not leave us a “flood” of the white metal.—National Advance.

Home and Patriotism.

Before the French revolution 12,000 men owned all the land of France. Now she numbers 3.222,000 free holders. In England 180,000 persons own ali the land, and the proportion of paupers is 23 for England to one .in France. If our people desire to save themselves from the fate of English pauperism they will have to begin the work of salvation by adopting the New Zealand graduated land tax laws, which will speedily emancipate them from extortionate land rents, and give every industrious prudent man a chance to secure a holding somewhat larger than a cemetery lot—a home the great incentive to patriotism.—The Call. Death-bed repentance is thin- religion. There is no hope for the Democratic party, even though it should repent and declare for free silver Running a Populist paper is hard work and- poor pay. The men who ar« engaged in that business are in rhe cause for principle and not for spoils. The reform papers are a better guide for the people than are the politicians O patriotism! In what next disguise wilt thou appear? J. Pierrepont Morgan and other thieves testify before the bond investigation committee that they "acted more from patriotic motives than with any idea of making a profit?’

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT. RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY JULY 16, 1896

MR. PEFFER SPEAKS.

CHARGES THAT BONDS WXRE ILLEGALLY USED. ■ Stand* for a Paper Money That Neerli No Redeemer And That Will He Good M Long a* the Republic Last*. - ■ ♦ i Senator Peffer addressed the seiia.s May 28 on thb Butler bond bill, and the following appeared in his remar..s: ‘’The discussion that has folio*.ed the introduction of the bill has tui.cn a very wide range. Silver in all us phases has been discussed ably. Gold monometallism has been treated with considerable ability. Both sides oi almost every economic question have been considered. But the only argument which has been presented in opposition to the passage of the bill was that of the senator from New York, Mr. Hill, which was that it is a populist measure. “It appears that the time has come in our history when in the American senate the merits of a measure are to be determined by the politics of the senator who proposes it. I ask if that is democracy, if that is republicanism, that because a senator who is the equal of all his colleagues introduces a bill trenching upon a particular line of party politics it must be discarded, it must be hounded and beaten and abused and ridiculed without touching the merits of the subject involved? “I assert, Mr. president, that in all of our eventful history no president before the year 1894 ever undertook to sell a government note or a government bond without express authority of congress before that time enacted. » • • “This bill has been treated Dy sena tors as if were the first of the kino ever proposed. But that is error. We -—and when I use the word ‘we’ I do not use it editorially, but I mean those of us who are charged with the paternity of bills of this kind —have not been derelict in our duty. The senator from North Carolina, Mr. Butler, coming here nearly two years after the bond-trading business began, very properly seized the first opportunity to press the subject on the attention of the senate, and it is greatly to his credit that he has been able to accomplish so much this soon. I allude to the matter only for the purpose of calling attention to the fact that early, even before the first sale was made, immediately, the next day after the proposition to sell was made, I offered a resolution reciting the facts and asserting as the sense of the senate that the whole proceeding was in violation of law. The next day I addressed the senate on the subject. A few days later the senator from Nebraska, Mr. Allen, delivered a forcible argument to show that such issue of bonds is illegal, and we have not lost an opportunity from that time until the present to denounce the whole proceeding as a grievous usurpation of power. * * * “Not only have the bonds been illegally issued, but there was no necessity for their issue, because there was an abundance of funds in the treasury at the time of the sale of the bonds to pay every debt that was due from the United States, whether we paid it in gold or in silver. There was an abundance of coin in the treasury with which tb redeem all the greenbacks which had been offered at that time, so that absolutely and positively no necessity for the issuance of bonds existed, except only to accommodate the speculators in New York and London.

In proof of that —it is not a mere idle assertion—l took occasion in a speech, delivered by me January 15 last, to collect the figures from the treasury. It appears that, beginning in 18 4 9 with $128,000,000, we go on down to 1894, when there was $154,000,006. In 1889 there was $229,000,000; in 1890, $249,000,000, the largest amount in any one year. Then we come down to the last of January, 1895, with $51,000,000. On the last of January, 1894, when the first of the last three issues was made, there was $65,000,000 of gold coin lying in the treasury. t “It may seem almost revolutionary,, and I have no doubt that if my good' friend the senator from Connecticut, Mr., Hawley, were here he would regard it as revolutionary, as infamous, and anarchistic, but I yet insist with fell candor, with all earnestness, and with a patriotic devotion which I do not believe any senator will doubt, that there was no other demand upon the treasury at. the time when the bond issues were made, except alone from the speculators in Wall street, New York, and their confreres in the city of London, on the other side 'of the Atlantic. I have asserted again and again that the United States gov-I eminent has been forced into partnership with these men, that we are in fact the silent partner. We are expected only to tax the people and raise the money that these men want. The only need that the government has for money is to pay its debts. We promised to pay our debts in coin, and I have shown by the figures that we had an abundance of coin to do it. * * ♦ “The only trouble— and the presi-> dent of the United States is right about it comes from the demand for gold, and it is not because the people of the United States demand gold—l mean the great body of the people of the country. They are not asking for gold. They care nothing about gold coin. Probably ninety-nine out of every hundred would be unable to distinguish at first sight between a quarter eagle and a half eagle In gold coin. The demand for gold comes from one

“stone-wall” before the assaults of ah who seek to destroy us. I again appeal to ypu to organize a legion in every precinct; and if the hosts desiring reform are gathered in and put to work at once we can yet succeed. You must sustain your newspapers, and “stand by each other though the whole world assail us.” I have issued this circular as a sacred duty to warn the rank and ’file, who have a right to know, that a wholesale attempt is being made to deliver us, bound hand and foot, to our bitterest enemies. We warn all honest, sincere men, in all parties, who earnestly desire free coinage and other reforms and hope for an honorable union, that the action proposed would prevent any union whatever. There is no hope of gaining any reform at the hands of either of the old parties, and we cordially invite, as we always have, all true men and women to unite with us to save the nation. Our doors have always been open, and we stand for principle. Fusion or entangling alliances with the debauched or corrupt democrat or republican parties would ruin us. We would lose our organization: our voters would be disheartened and dejected, and many of our papers would be compelled to suspend. The goldstandard democrats would go to the republicans and their nominee would be elected. We have constantly gained ever since our birth, and by our united stand we have divided and disintegrated both the old parties, until today republicans in the west and democrats in the south have to pretend to be populists in order to maintain their organization. There is no party in the nation that is so dominated by foreign influence as the democratic party, and their vote largely come from the saloons, dives and slums, and vicious and criminal classes, and it would be suicide for us to unite with them. We are in the supreme crisis of our history, and, if we all prove faithful, we will save our nation from destruction and gain a- “government of the

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