People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Editorial Notes. [ARTICLE]

Editorial Notes.

New occasions create * new duties. * * * The “McKinley democrat” is a new political creation. * * * Plutocracy is now saying to plebiocraty; surrender, or die. * * * The crafty politician seems to be getting in his wily work about these times. * * * It begins to look like Mr. Cleveland is again making preparations to feather his nest with bonds. * * * The foot-prints of the British lion are now more often seen on American soil than is the shadow of the American eagle. * * * Inv 1888, the national republican platform declared: “The republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money, and conderos the policy of the democratic adminis-

tration in its efforts to demonetize silver.” It was “catchy” to charge it all to the democrats, at that time, but great Scott! the democrats have enough to bear.—Reform Press, Pueblo, Col. * * * Ex-Gov. Russell, ‘ of Massachusetts, was found dead in his bed a day or two after his return from the Chicago convention. * * * It comes on the strength of republican authority that the Chicago convention did not voice the sentiment of the democratic party. * * * Senator .Pettigrew of South Dakota, has formally renounced allegiance to the republican

party and announces himself a full fledged populist. * * * The ancient greenbaekers are to be congratulated; two-thirds of the democratic party and onethird of the republicans have subscribed * to Peter Cooper’s doctrines. * * * Wall street can precipitate a panic within two days that will deeply distress the country from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf. Already the Wall street wolf is showing his teeth. * * * At a recent banquet, M. Meline, the French premier said;, “There is but wanting an electric spark to extend bimetalism from one end of the earth to the other.” The populist convention at St. Louis this week, will furnish the spark. * * * Mr. Cleveland was first elected on a silver platform and he did not repudiate it until after his election. Mr. Sewall is more honest, he repudiates all of the platform upon which he was

nominated except one plank. But then the vice president is a necessary convenience and his importance is liable to be realized only upon the most im-. probable circumstance. • * * * Why were flies created? As food for spiders. For what purpose were spiders made? To eat up the flies. Reasons like the foregoing will fully explain the object of all limited legal tender laws, they create a market for gold. * * * “When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.” The two wings of the D. O. P. have opened their mud batteries and throwing theif slime at each other, meanwhile the populist

will the even tenor of his way. * J * Populists are said to be “cranks.” The crank family seems to be increasing. Cranks are made to be turned, but it seems that the other fellows were turned and the cranks did the turning. * * * Statistics relating to mining at Cripple Creek show that the cost of gold is only a trifle oyer fifty cents to the dollar’s worth* ot gold; as a thing is worth no more than it costs, how about fifty cent dollars? * * <* According to special dispatches, Elgin, Illinois, is excited over the appearance of a new potato bug, which is said to be eating up everything green—look out, gold bug farmers; the new bug will get you sure. *

We all remember a few years ago when the seedy old farmer, who had been reading tracts sent out by the greenback agitators, would come to town and modestly suggest to the busi-

ness man that it was not the tariff but the finacial system which needed revising. The merchant would frown at the farmer, tell him to go home and go to work instead of hanging around and whittling goods boxes. But the farmer kept repeating the suggestion that our finances were not properly adjusted. Is there a business man in the country today who does not see the force of the suggestion made years ago by the farmer, whom he abused and told to go to work? Both the old parties have been forced this year to recognize the financial question as the issue. And the business man will be with the farmer this year. The safety of the nation springs from mother earth, the farmer delving

in the soil, is the first to feel and to see the demands of the whole people. No business man is warning him to quit whittling dry goods boxes now.—World, Girard, Kan.