People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Free silver or bust. This is a Populist year. Organized labor demands consideration. , Now, let us have less talk and more, work. Grover 13 now free to fish and fish and fish. Lots of Republicans coming over to the people. True patriotism lives In the present, not in the past. Don’t be deceived, nor scared by gold-bug threats. The American people mean to have a scientific money system. The two old parties are only “organized appetites” for office. The growth of the silver movement is the advance of intelligence. Restore the government to the people by giving them a direct vote. A man cannot be a monopolist and a true silver man at the same time. Direct legislation will retain free coinage of silver after it is adopted.

There is no other single issue of as much importance as direct legislation. A gold standard is the baronial castk of modern feudalism and serfdom. Whitney might as well have taken his tour to Europe several weeks sooner. Absolute government Issue and control of money is the demand of the peOPl*. The man who lives on interest lives on the labor of somebody who Is in debt. Redemption free coinage is a fraud — merely a shield to hide the bank oligarchy. The democrats are going to do this time, oh yes. That is they sa they are.

The business of the West and South is Just, as important as the business of the East Continue the work of education, regardless of what may be the result of the election. Several splinters knocked off the g. o. p. already- and the storm getting worse all the time. It is not converts the gold-bugs expect to their theories —'but convicts under the lash of blacklist. “International agreement” means surrendering our own national constitutional power to coin out own money.

The silver men are no worse split than the gold men—and, besides, they have the advantage of a large majority for silver. Cleveland may drop out of sight, but he will be remembered for some time by the hole he leaves in the United States treasury. If you are satisfied with present conditions, of course you will vote for McKinley and the “maintenance of the existing gold standard.” The nomination of McKinley Is creating about as much enthusiasm in Kansas and Nebraska as the arrival of the grasshoppers used to arouse. The only bolts from now on will be belts of white (silver) lightning—with gold-bug thunder. It is the lightning that will count, and not the thunder. Let the people so cast their votes in November that Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln may send greeting from the other shore, “we are satisfied.” We are glad to notice that the Democrats have become so reconciled to the despised Populist platform as to steal the greater part of it. Hope they are in earnest. Thousands of men who haven’t made a living the past four years will vote to continue for four years more the same policy which brought about the present state at affairs. It is not the people who are making the noise now that wiil control the elections this year. It is the quiet citizens, who have made up their minds and are now busy with their farm crops.

If golc| is the only mo>n?y, then let wage-earners of all grades and degrees, refuse checks, national bank bills, etc., and demand the gleaming yellow coin on pay-day. Let workingmen demand “sound money” as well as the bankers. Take no other. It would smaslh the gold combine. Lincoln'said}, in speaking of the Wall street speculators: “For my pa*t, I wish every, one at them had ids dsvtl,lah head shot off.” tfct the Republic- ™ wWeb ceat fro* I4»o*te afegtfe WfAi afoset as its gatfias star. Truly it has dssssadsd from Lincoln—a long ways. 1