People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Stolen Thunder. [ARTICLE]

Stolen Thunder.

The first demand for the free coinage of silver was made by the people’s party. i i The first demand for an income tax was made by the peoples party. I I The first demand for the abo : lition of national banks was made by the peoples party. I t The first demand for full legal tender paper money was made by the populist party. I I The first protest against a government by injunction was made by populists. I I The first protest against an interest bearing non-taxable bonded debt was made by the people’s party. I I All of the above demands the democratic and republican parties have for twenty years, op posed, but now behold their adoption by the new democracy. A train wrecked in lowa, a hundred human lives lost, hundreds wounded and suffering.

Many republicans of Delphos, Kan. have repudiated McKinlyism. It begins to look like the campaign of ’96 is te be fonght out on repudiation lines. If the “chance” given the democratic party four years ago had been used to fulfill the promise then made, none would doubt the sincerity of their professions. Is this new movement an honest revolution? Are its promoters real patriots? Have the traitors actually been turned down? Railroads are owned by cor porations not by co operators the corporations refuse to let news paper men ride on their trains to relieve the suffering. Why? Newspaper men, seeing the horroible effect of a wreck, are in the habit of investigating the cause, and corporations prefer that the cause be not investigated. The one idea politicans say “free coinage is the only remedy for the evils which now oppress and oveawhelm the people.” As well attempt to stay the des tructive progress of a cyclone with a five foot wind-brake as to hope to accomplish the full measure of relief by restoaing silver without otherwise increasing the volume of money.

The democratic owl spent twenty years trying to get up from behind onto the republican roost; when it got there—owllike—it crowded the republican chicken off and—fool-like-fell off itself; in*their efforts to get back the democrats got the worst of it. Are they now trying to play the “owl and chicken game” on the populists? Walling has been denied a new trial and it now looks as though he and his partner in ciime. Scott Jackson, would have to pay tte penalty of their cruel murder of Pearl Bryan. However, it is not probable that they will be hanged until after the . September term of the Campbell county circuit court. It’s a pity that the hanging could not take place at once and thus relieve the overwrought public mind.— Goodland Herald. A “Don’t” book for the political campaign is in order.

“Don’t” think your party has a “corner” on political virtue. “Don’t” fail to state fairly the position of your politiqal opponents. “Don’t” discuss politics with an angry friend, nor when angry yourself, with a good-na-tured friend. Above all, “don’t” think the country will go to ruin unless every political wish of yours be realized.

J. T. Davenport, of Douglasville, Ga., is interested in erecting a co operative cotton mill and will be glad to give information to anyone wishing to take part in the enterprise. Mr. Davenport is a populist and a business man of more than ordinary qualification. He has managed the affairs of the Douglas County Co-operative Store from its SSOO inception in 1890, paying 8 per cent dividends to the co operators, while ad ding 811,500 to the assets. The Atlanta Journal, a goldbug cuckoo paper, says: “If the silverites could find some country which is on a silver basis and which pays laborers better wages than are paid in the United States their cause would be greatly strengthened.” If gold is so effective in raising the price of labor, now does it happen that laborers in the United States—that have hardly yet got onto a gold basis—and better paid than in England and other countries, that have used only gold for many years?

The Monticello Herald says: “The republican party was the author of the greenback, and when they were first issued democrats called them “Lincoln rags” and 'did all in their power to discredit them. Now they become the self-constituted champions of the greenback and want to make them perpetual.” Since the democrats have become converted to the belief that the “Lincoln rags” are worthy of perpetuation it is to be lamented that the reminiscent author will now Repudiate his own most worthy production, Rudyad Kipling is now putting the last touches on a fifty-thousand-word novel dealing with the Gloucester fishermen and their life on the Grand Banks. It is written from close personal study of the scene and the people. It is American in its*characters, and in its plot sea laring and adventurous. It breaks entirely new ground. The title is “Captains Courageous.” Th ere has been a lively competition for the serial rights of “Captians Courageous.” They have been secured for the United States by The S. S McClure Co., ams publication of the novel will begin in the November number of McClure’s Magaazine.