People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — NEARING A CRISIS. [ARTICLE]

NEARING A CRISIS.

j AMERICA RAPIDLY APPROACHING THE DANGER LINE. When the Present I’rurcis of ConcMr traiin i It Co:iiiimmtte<l Oar niM Kln.ncinl -ytteiu Will Have TlnSSii Ite Ml«.«ion. The following, which appears in tbtt New Charter of San Jose, Cal., very clearly shows how the present debtmaking credit system is forcing the people out of their possession* and making a few people masters of the people and owners of the world. Why can’t the people see and understand? Why do they stand indifferently by while the robbery goes on? Why will they be whipped into line year attar year to vote their loved ones out oC food, clothes and shelter, and into serfdom, bondage, pauperism and prostitution? Will nothing but tho crack of doom awake them? Read tha following: • Sixty-five billions is the assessed value of all the wealth in the United States, including lands, say the censna • reports. Forty-two billions is the indebtedness of the country, say careful statistics.

The average annual increase of wealth is 3 per cent, which on sixty-five billions 1h an increase of one billion nine hundred and fifty millions. The average interest of six and a half per cent on forty-two billions amounts to two billions seven hundred and thirty millions —a deficit or annual increase of debt to the amount of seven hundred and eighty mtlliona. This deficit must, be made up by the sacrifice of the lands of the producer* to bond-holders. There is no other way for it to be made up. This accounts for the vast number of farms and homes going daily Into the hands of the mortgage holders by foreejoe? ure. When this process of concentrating the ownership of the land into a few hands Is consummated our false money system will have finished its mission and served Its purpose. Then It will not matter how much money or hour little we have or what it is made ©T, for the owners of the land will then be absolute masters of the products of labor.

The landlord will then take fn rant what the b">r.d and mortgage holder now takes in interest. Being masters of the whole people the owners of the land will only employ enough to supply all their ova wants and the rest of the people must die or emigrate. When Rome fell one thousand persons owned all the land of the Empire), aays history. Itockonlng from the foregoing wt*r tlstics, the year 1912 will find tho American republic in the control at perhaps lees than a thousand - on. Really, is it not dominated no# by Imb than that number? Revolution did you say 7 Oh, no; ao danger. So long as the masses Ignorantly lick the hand that smites d«eis under the hypnotic influence of patriotism and partylsm no revolution occur. , So long as one workingman stand# ready to shoot another workingman at the behest of corporative robbers, or dispute over a religious idea or tha Jingoism of a Monroe doctrine, or bruise each other’s heads and reputations for the sake of party. Just so long may those who are being benefited by the present systems of land, money, bond and transportation rob-* bery compote their souls in peace, tor they are Hale. But should an electric shock of Intelligence suddenly awaken In man that slumbering instinct of the righto with which nature or nature’s God endowed him, then look out for squalls. A falsely called civilization has rendered impotent the natural instincts of men to assert their natural rights; but the signs of the times portend an awakening. What is it to be?

Government Onnunh p of RillroidS Dr. Glover, of Macon, who has recently returned from a trip to Europe, Africa and Asia, wrote a private letter to the Flovllla Enterprise, from which that paper makes the following extracts: “I traveled seventeen thousand miles and found no place where the American silver dollar or paper dollar was be-, low par. I traveled over railroads that are owned and operated by the government. On the government railroads wc feel more safe than, on our roads, from the fact that they are all dpublotrack and every precaution is taken to prevent accidents to passengers. The' fare on the roads owned and operated by the government te about half what It is on the roads In this country. “I am very glad, to find on my return to America that so many who have been opposed to the true principles of government are beginning to see the light and have the manhood to say so. "What I have seen of the financial systems of the old countries and conditions surrounding their people I am more firmly convinced of the justness of the demands of the People’s party than ever. I hope the good cause may go on till Shylock Is dethroned and all rejoice in a government for the people, by-the people and in the interest' of mankind, and the great idol (gold) will not have a worshiper in this fair land." ; . 7; There were none to do honor to Pmbident Cleveland at the Chicago eonven- , tlon. However, Cleveland has been Ist in on the ground floor with Wall, street, and has made enough money out of various shady deals to enable him to live henceforth comparatively independent of politics.