People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1896 — Page 1

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friiiiiiiiiillii Ai»ny» Cinasc Rt( cj The Direct Line to Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, LaFayette, Louisville, West Baden, Fredeta Lick Springs and All Points South. Frank J. Rbed. G. P, A., Chicago. Monon Time Table No. 27, in Kffect Jane 2i. NORTH BOUND. | SOUTH BOUND. No 4 . ....4.48 a m INo 5 lftsß au. No 40 7.31 a m No 33 1.09 p in No 32 10.07 a m No 39 6.05 p »u No 6...., 3.30 p m No 3 11.13 p in No 30, ....7.03 pm No 45, 2.40 pm N 074 8.08 pm N 046 .9.30 am No 32 stops at Rensselaer only when they have pasengers to let off. no 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. IV. H. Beam, Agent.

CHURCHES The pastors ot all the churches In Rensselaer are requested to prepare notices similar to above, which will be inserted free in this directory. *** FIRST B4PTIST. Preaching every two weeks, at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. m.; Sunday school at 9:30; B. Y. P. U. 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. m.; 0. E Voiiva pastor. *** CHRISTIAN. Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school, 9:30; J. Y. P. S. O. E., 2:30; B.Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 Rev. Findley, pastot. Ladies’ Aid Bociety meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. JPRESB YTERIA X. Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday School. 9:30: Junior Endeatorers, 2:30 p. m.; Y. P. S. O. E., 6:30. Prayer meeting; Thursday, 7:30 Ladies Industrial Societv meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. *** METHODIST E. Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League, Sunday 6: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:30 alternate Sundays. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Dr. li. D. Utter, pastor. • LADIES’ AID SOCIETY every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. CHURCH OR GOD. Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching, lo:45 and 7.30; Sunday school, 0:3o; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Ladies Society meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. * **** christia a t —barkley church op C HRIST. Preaching every alternate Lord’s Day. Morning, Sunday School 10:00; Preaching ll:op. Evening. Y. P. S. C. E., 7:3o; Preaching, 8:oo. Rev. R. 8. Morgan, Pastor. LODGES jrASOMC.—PRAIRIE LODGE, No. 126. A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. C. G. Spitler W. M.; W. J. Imes, Secy. EVENING STAR CHAPTER, No. 141, O. E. S., meets first and Third Wednesday's of each month. Nellie Hopkins, W. M. Maud E. Spitler, Sec’v. *** CATHOLIC ORDER RORESTERSWillard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. E P. Honan, Secy., Frank Maloy, Chief Ranger. ODD RELLOWS. IROQUOIS LODGE, No. 149,1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. W. E. Overton, N. G., S. C. Irwin,Sec’y. *** RENSSELAER ENCAMPMENT, No. 201. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. T. J. Sayler, C. P.; John Vannatti. Scribe. *** RENSSELAER REBECCA DEGREE LODGE. No. 346. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, N. G.; Miss Alice Irwin, Sec’v. *** I O. OR RORRKSTERS. COURT JASPER, No. 1703, Independent Order of Forresters. meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff, C. D. 11. C. R.; J. W. Horton, O. R.

Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any.season, but perhaps more gen- . erally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malaria poison. Headache, indigestion, constipation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50 ceprts and 81.00 per bottle at h . B. Meyer’s drug store.

The Garden South.

The South is destined to be, and is rapidly becoming, the garden of the United States. Here life is easiest to live; the rigorous winters do not eat up the fruits of the toil of summer, nor are the summers so trying as many northern people have supposed. ‘‘l used to live only half the year” said a northern farmer recently settled in the south, “and I used to work all the time then. Now I work half the time and live all the year through.” Home seeker’s excursion tickets will be sold over tne Monon Route to nearly all points in the south at the rate of one first class fare (one way); tickets good returning on any Tuesday or Friday within 31 days from date of sale. Liberal Btop-overs ate allowed. These excursions start (and tickets are sold) Aug--gust 17, 18 and 31*. September 1,14,15; October 5, 6,19 and 20. Call on W. H. Beam, agent of the Monon Route, so r further information.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

FOR THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER AND GOLD AT THE PARITY RATIO OF SIXTEEN TO ONE WITHOUT REFERENOB TO ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH.

The Peoples Party Platform of 1896.

The peoples party, assembled in National convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles declared by the founders of the republic, and also to the fundamental principles of just goverment, as enunciated in the platform of the party in 1892. We recognize that through the connivance of the present and preceding Administrations the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our declaration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the supreme duty of the hour. We realize that while we have political independence our financial and industrial independence is yet to be attained by restoring to our country the constitutional control and exercise of the functions necessary to a people’s goverment, which functions have been basely surrendered by our public servants to corporate monopelies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legis- . ation than the voice of the American people, Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our Legislatures and defeat the will of the people and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democracy. To restore the Government intended by the fathers, and for the welfare and prosperity of this and future generations we de nand the establishment of an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs, and independent of European control by the adoption of the following declaration of principles. FINANCE. l.We, demand a national money, safe and sound, issued by the general Government only, without the intervention of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all debts, public a&d- private; a just, equitable and effifTent means of distribution direct, to the people and through the lawful disbursement of the Government. 2. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent of foreign nations. 3. We demand the volume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficent to meet the demands of the business and population of this country, and to restore the just leuel of prices of labor and production.

England Will Fight.

The following appeared in the Chicago Times-Herald August sth, and is illustrative of the lengths to which the plutocratic press of America will go in order to terrorize the people into voting for the gold standard. Washington, Aug. 4. —Startling statements have been published by the Times and Echo, a radical London paper, owned by Passmore Edwards, a man of great wealth, who in his own philanthropic tendencies is the reflex of the late George W. Childs. When it is considered that this paper goes weekly into half a million homes of radical wage-workers, and that the aggregate number of readers is probably a million and a half, the effect of such an editorial in creating English opinion can be fairly imagined. This is how the Times and Echo regards Bryan’s nomination:

The election of W. J. Bryan—a young man from Nebraska, and an impassioned orator, but hitherto an unknown politician—as the democratic candidate for the presidency seals the adherence of the democrats to the silverites. The gravity of the situation can hardly bo exaggerated. It is by no means so certain that Mr. Bryan may not be elected, and if he should be, and congress decrees that silver, which is worth to-day half a crown a pound, shall be worth 5 shillings, and that all national gold bonds shall be paid in silver, there will be war between this country and the United States before this time next year. The great capitalists who forced Mr. Gladstone to occupy Egypt will compel any government in office here to declare war against America, sooner than that their holdings of American bonds shall shrink to half values. If, on the other hand, the republicans win, the west and the south will throb with violent indignation that may bring about civil war.

It is pleasant to reflect that England has twice attempted to enslave this country by force of arms with results too well understood to mention here, and if there is one thing which the people of America can be relied upon to unite upon as one it is resistence of English interference with our domestic affairs. The statement ‘that all national gold bonds shall be paid in silver”, is silly and misleading, in as much as this government has no bonds that are payable in gold, not even those recently sold by Cleveland without authority of law. The interest only ,is payable in gold, the principal in coin. And further, it is not proposed by any party that the government’s obligations be iu any way repudiated. If this country was an Egypt England would not take the trouble to make a threat, she would land her troops first and

RENSSELAER IND., THURSDAY. AUGUST 27, 1896.

4. We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public interstbearing debt made by the present Administration as unnecessary and without authority of law, and that no more bonds be issued except by specific act of Congress. 5. We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by private contract. 6. We demand that the Government, itspayment of its obligations, shall use in option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preceding Administrations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligations. 7. We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the recent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the income tax law as a misinterpretation of the Constitution and an invasion of the rightful powers of Congress over the subject of taxation. 8. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the Government for the safe deposit of the savings of the people and to facilitate exchange. TRANSPORTATION. 1. Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the Government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people and on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be acorded the.same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny and political power now exercised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment, if not the destruction, of the political rights and personal liberties of the citizens, may be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in a mariner consistent with sound public policy. 2. The interest of the United States, in the public highways built with public moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants of land to the Pacific railroads, should never bo alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United

make her threats afterwards, but it is different with the United States. The real point that troubles the great banking power which stands behind and controls the policy of England in both peace and war, is the inevitable effect that free coinage of silver by this country will nave upon gold. The shrewd financiers of the world know that the moment our miuts are opened to the unrestricted coinage of both metals the demand for gold here and in every country with which we trade is practically gone. In all the immense home commerce gold is not used eveu now. and when the silver using nations of the world discover that their silver will buy as much of our merchandise as gold will, then will their immense trade turn this way and the commercial supremacy of England is gone, gone forever, and with it will vanish her military supremacy.

Oh, it is no insignificant danger that menaces Britain, it is the most serious situation with which she has ever been confronted, and it is not, perhaps, wholly an jidie threat that her great papers are making; with the triumph of silver here this fall England ceases to be the workshop and the pawnshop of the world, and it might be wisdom for her to risk a battle to the finish with us at once.

It is the height of absurdity to talk of international agreement, with England’s very existence depending upon the forcing of the gold standard upon the commercial world; she makes no secret of her devotion to that policy and has never even hinted at the possibility of such an agreement. England cannot compete in the markets of the world even handed with the United States and she knows it too well to join in any agreement for the free coinage of the white metal. When we consider that the intestines are about five times as long as the body, we can realize the intense suffer ing experienced when they become inflamed. DeWitt's Colic a Cholera Cure subdues inflamation at once and completely removes the difficulty. A. F. Long.

States on these roads should at snee follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the Government shall purchase the same if it becomes necessary to protect its interests therein, or if they can be purchased at a aeasonable price; and the Goverment shall operate said railroads as public highways for the beutit of the whole people and not in the interest of the few under suitable provisions for protection of life and property, giving to all transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freightn. 3. We denounce the present infamous schemes for refunding tneso debts, and demand that the laws now applicable thereto be executed and administered according to their true intent and spirit. 4. The telegraph, like the Post Office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, Bhould be owned and ■operated by the Goverment in the interest of the people. LAND. 1. The true policy demands that the national and State legislation shall be such as will ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a home, and that land should not be monopolized for speculative purposes. All lands now held by railroads and otner corporations in excess of their actual needs should by lawful means be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers, and private land monopo ly, as well as alien ownership, should be prohibited. 2. We condemn the frauds by which the land grant Pacific railroad com Sanies have, through the conivance of ae Interior Department, robbed multitudes of actual bonafide settlers of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation by Congress which will enforce the exemption of mineral land from such grants, after as well as before patent. 3. We demand that bona fide settlers on all public lands be granted free homeß, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the case of Indian reservations when opened for settlement, and that all lands that are not now patented come under this demand.

Some of you industrious dis pensers of gold standard argu menls, who have been talking about the grand opportunity to double an investment by buying fifty cents worth of silver and having it coined into a dollar, had better buy your bullion right soon, for its commercial value is advancing a trifle, several trifles in fact, to be exact it has gone up 7ic per ounce since Bryan was nominated. And further my friends, silver is going to continue going up right along until the free silver candidates and free silver congress are elected next November, until that presidentelect is inaugerated and calls that inevitable extra session of that free silver congress, to enact the law that shall open our mints again to the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver as of old; then and before then will silver bullion be worth its full coinage value and be at par with gold. By the restoration to silver of its former rights of coinage, the same as is granted to gold, silver bullion will at once advance to par with gold, though it will not long enjoy the present high purchasing power of gold, because as the quantity of the two metals increase the total volume of money their power to purchase will gradually decrease, and the prices of all products of the farm and and factory, and of labor itself will increase in even greater proportion, but the metals will always remain at par. Their parity will be maintained by the natural law of supply and demand. The demand being for dollars, the supply will invariably be met by which ever kind of dollars it is easiest to obtain, and should the holder of gold refuse to part with it at par he would always keep it. for no one would give a fraction Of a per cent more for gold than for' silver which would serve him as well. Hollister & Hopkins have leased the Monitor Boiler Mills for another year refitted the same with some new machinery and are prepared to do all kinds of milling. They thank the public for its liberal patronage in the past and trust to merits continuance of the same.

DIRECT LAGIBLATION. We favor a system of direct legislation through the initiative and referendum under open constitutional safeguards. GENERAL PROPOSITIONS. 1. We demand the election of President, Vice President and United States Senators by a direct vote ot the people. 2. We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their heroic struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United States, the great republic of the wourld, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be a free and independent State. 3. We favor home rule in the Territories and the District of Columbia and the early admission of the Territories as States. 4. All public s-daries should be made to correspond to the price of labor and its products. 5. In times of great industrial depression idle labor should be employed on public works as far as practicable. 6. The arbitrary course of the courts in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injunction should be prevented by proper legislation. 7. We fßvor just pensions for our disabled Union soldiers 8. * Believing that the elective franchise and untrammeled ballot are essential to a government for and by the people, the People’s party condemn the wholesale system of disfranchisement adopted in some of the States as unrepublican and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the duty of the several State Legislatures to take such action as will secure a full, free and fair ballot and an honest count. 9. While the foregoing propositions constitute the platform on which our party stands, and for the vindication of which its organization will be maintained, we'recognize that the great and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon which the present presidential election will turn is the financial ques tion. And upon this great and specific issue between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organizations and citizens agreeing with us upon thiß vital question.

If the value of silver bullion cannot be increased by enacting a free coinage law, then it is false, as alleged by the opponents of silver, to say that the mine owners would be the great beneficiaries of such a policy. It is too plain to need a blackboard demonstration that the ptoducer of silver cannot be benefited by the law unless the law enhances the value of the metal.

Silver is steadily advancing in price, having gone from 59c per ounce a few months ago to 66±c last week, and as the campaign progresses and the prospect of victory for the white metal increases, it will continue to advance, going up day by day, until when the mints are finally thrown open it will be worth its full par value with gold. The gold advocates are emphatic in declaring that free coinage will double the value of silver bullion, or to be more specific it will increase its present price of nearly 67 cents per ounce to $1.29. That being true, and we do not dispute it, what do they mean by fifty cent dollars? The single gold standard men give the lie to their statement that the silver movement issoley in the interest of the silver miner, when they say that free coinage will givq us a debased currency, fifty-cent dollars, etc. There is practically no gold in the banks, yet we are told ours is a gold basis currency, and that every paper dollar and silver dollar has a gold dollar behind it. That may be true but it is a long ways behind it. * Gold is not now and never has been the money of the poor man; it is hoarded by the rich, and not one man in five hundred can to-day produce a single piece. Free silver will gradually decrease the purchasing power of gold dollars as well as of all other dollars. Mrs. Imes has received her first selection of fall millinery among which are some beautiful new designs. Seo her new walking hats and sailors, and other popular styles.

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ELLIS . . . OPERA HOUSE Ily^iPWNsJ 1 This Week In a Kepctory or Xcw Comedy Dramas Reserved Seais at Huff’s Jewelry Store.

Views Formed in Europe.

Prank H. Cooper of the great firm of Segel, Cooper & Co. of Chicago and New York, the biggest retail firm in the world, has just returned from Europe. Said Mr. Cooper; “We car. make everything over here that is made abroad, but with McKinley as president our currency may become even more contracted than it is to day, as a single gold standard, if adopted, would work ruiu to this country ana make times harder than they are.

“1 can’t see anything but good to result from the free coinage of silver. True, it will benefit the miners and benefit the west. It will give the farmer money; it will make better prices for farm products; it will make the farmer a buyer in our markets. • ‘Times can be uo worse than they are at present. Our currency is not expansive enough for the demands of the people. France has S4O per capita of money in circulation, and its people are prosperous and happy. Wo have S2O per capita. We need more money and fvee coinage will put an end to business stagnation.

“Our factories are closed and our artisans and merchants are out of work, More money will make higher prices, better demand for goods and a revival of prosperity. “Goods and products are too cheap because people have no money to buy them. The depreciation in prices on some lines of goods has been more than 50 per cent, in the past six months. Can merchants and manufactures stand this? With free silver the price of wheat and corn would enchance at once. Dollar wheat for the farmer makes him look at his clothes. When they are frayed he buys new ones. He furnishes bis house, if it is needed, and so helps to start the furniture factories going again. It is so in all lines. The more money the greater the demand for goods. “A single gold standard would bring prices still lower and more failures and more disaster • for the people. We are partially upon a bimetallic basis now, and that is in a measure our salvation, “Contract our currency to sls or sl2 per captia and the result would be such as no one could figure. Talking of free silver, our mints could not turn out over $60,000,000 per year, less than $1 to every inhabitant. It would restore prices, confidence and resuscitate business. That,. I think is about what free silver would do for us. We want to take care of ourselves first; European countries are able to take care of themselves.” For first-class windmills and water tanks call on Jndson H. Perkins.