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

STEALING OUR CURRENCY.

Col. Cherry Wants th. Democrats to Shinny on Their Own Side. Hl there! You democrats! Shinny on your own side! Keep off of our populist Isms! You said “Tariff” was what was the master. Why don’t you keep on bellow.ng about the “Tariff?” What’s got Im.* matter with you anyway? Up to two years ago you wildly denounced our "items,” said that they were worthless. We once heard of a boy who Wore out his pockets by stealing things out of one pocket and hiding them in the other. He was called a natural born thief. But he didn’t steal what he considered “worthless Isms” —things he didn’t want. You do. You tried to steal our graduated’ income tax, but didn’t get away with It. You are now trying to steal our convict road building ism, which has been our property for eighteen years, and our election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. And yo* think you have already got 5 a way with our free stiver isms. “Ah,” you say “the democracy have always been in favor of free silver.” The Moses you have. What party was it that voted down free silver eleven times in the past ten years? While initiating a member into the Sons of Malta, the Recording Scribe writes in the record these words: “The candidate will both He and steal.” You all seem to belong to the Sons of Malta. If you are not arrested you will soon be trying to steal our other isms, limited land ownership and graduated land tax, exempting homesteads .from' tax, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones. Then you will lie like a lot of hoodlums about whose isms they are. > We’ve been watching the peculiarity of your thievery. You will denounce, ridicule, mir represent and He about one of dur isms until you happen to find out that a majority of the people want It; then you’ set about trying to steal it. Didn’t you steal our greenback platform bodily in 1878? And were you ever greenbackers after you got through that election? I once read of a dog that slipped into front yards and stole morning papers, which he hid in-a-ltfffiber yard. He had evidently been attending democratic, caucuses. That’s where he learned it. You’d better go back to your “tariff,", boys. That is yours. Take your tariff bill before the farmers and show them the beauties of admitting free of duty, diamonds, paintings, statuary and the material for making silk plug hats, and then putting a tax of 40 cents on the dollar on sugar to make up for it. Show them the benefit of striking off the |2 per thousand from lumber and letting In Canada lumber free to supply the prairie states; show them how that enriches Arkansas. But we are not dictating how you shall shinny, only that you shinny on your own side, and let our isms alone. If you don’t we’ll expose you before all the people. This Is only a private, hint. John H. Cherry.