People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Goed Times. [ARTICLE]

Goed Times.

Good times are not far ofT. Everything political points to their being very near at hand. In 1860, while commodities were not so low as now, labor was very much lower and there were as many out of employment. During that year parties broke up into fragments; thieves fell out, and laboring men soon after got their just dues. Slaveholding was beaten at the ballot box and then at the point of the bayonet. In 1861, in less than one year’s time, wages jumped from 50 cents and $1 per day to $3 and f 4 per day, add then the price remained until 1869. At this time the bondholder superseded the old slaveholder, and still rules the nation. In 1873 the bondholders demonetized silver, and as a result a panic followed and prices of commodities fell 70 per cent and wages dropped 60 per cent, and 3,000,000 of men were thrown out of employment. From 1869 until the present time both old parties have been in partnership, and have worked together in introducing every system to bear down the price of commodities and labor to the point reaohed before the war, and in that they have at last been successful. For twenty years these old parties have been shaking their fists at each other, each accusing the other, when in public, of being the thief; but as soon as the election was over and the curtain dropped they at once banquetted together upon the spoils. To-day the American people see through'this fraud and deception. They are mad through and through; they are resolute and determined. Already the old parties are breaking up as in 1860. Both these old frauds will be beaten at the ballot box. They will then fight as did the slaveholders, and thsy with their bondholding system will share the same fate as that which befell the slaveholder and the slave system, and once more the people will get control of government; then the people will issue their own money, as in 1861, and once more prices will go up to the point reaohed during the 60’s. 1 Had the slaveholders unloaded their slaves upon the government for money they would have saved their holdings. Now, in the face of the coming storm, let us see if the thieving bondholders will profit by the slaveholders’ experience. We will soon have good times again for the working people—Vermont Kicker. We presume that ihe reason the republicans expressed "sympathy" for morality at St. Louis, was because of thejf own shameful abuse of It. Morality certainly suffered.