People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1896 — Page 3

EDITORIAL NOTES.

L -An&ther bond Issue is being |T prepared, Local speakers should take the stump at once. While you are sleeping your enimies are. at work. Vanderbilt gives SIOO,OOO to Wlp elect McKinley. This is the hour of se If sacri\fice and true heroism. Welcome to the silver camp you heoric silver republicans. Brother populists be patriots and rally to call for yeoman soh v diets. The Rothschild’S of Bnglatid’ •are back of the Gold Standard •conspiracy. The national bank ihiist go; the government alone.should issue money. The national banker is loaned motaey by the government at one per cent a year. Spread the silver light of deliverance from Rothschild’s for gold. Sixteen toone means that the silver dollar shall, weigh sixteen times as much as the gold dol t Jar. 4 s My democratic friends lay aside your partisanism and deal fairly with your populist broth--ers. ‘ The public be d—d, here’s a hundred thousand to kill of this silver craze.”—Wm.H. Vanderbilt. * The Mexican silver dollar was •once a legal tender equally with our own silver dollar in this country and until it was demonetized it was always at par with our money, both gold and silver. The Bank of Montreal has just purchased SIOO,OOO of greenbacks, preparatory to another ’bond issue. The banks and other monopo lists have contributed $20,000,000 "to the McKinley campaign fund, ' about $2 per voter. The man who lives alone by , (loaning money and is too selfish to want to see his neighbors prosper, is in favor of the gold standard and dear dollars.

Why do the railroad corporations oppose Mr. ( Bryan’s election? Because he favors government control of the railroads. Remejnber that; even if free coinage did make dollars easier to get that it would take no more of them to pay your taxes or your debts. One American laborer is calculated by scientists to be equal to 'nine Mexican peonk Does the American get nine times as mnch foi* his labor? If your business is the clipping of cupons from government bonds it is to your selfish indi vidual interest to vote for the single gold standard. The republican party opposes government control of the railroads and therefore thpse "great corporations are turning up the very earth to elect McKinley. While the farm renter in Indiana is having hard work to live and pay his cash landlord, the renter in Mexico is living well and making more clear money than owners of farms do here when thev work themselves. Th,e Chicago Record has sent two correspondents, one a silver man and the other a gold standard advocate, both well known and prominent in the cause they represent. Their letters appear daily in that paper and are full ,of valuable information as coming quite authorative sources, and are establishing the Suppression in this country that Mexico is really prosperous and almost inviting place fqr Americans of all occupations to emigrate to. Especially does it s4m to be worthy of notice by farm rente'rs, and some of our local renters are reading the letters with a view of moving therein the near future.

We demand that the bonds be paid in silver and gold. • Is the dollar dear enough for you with your 10 cent oats and 20 cent corn? The railroad news agents are no longer allowed to sell free silver literature. McKinley seems determined, to play the mountain to all his worshiping Mahomets. Silver circulates among the people and cannot be as easily cornered as gold alone. Free coinage of silver will give the people more money and reduce the fate of interest. If you believe with us, my hon ored republican fellowcitizen, be brave and tell the truth, as you see it to your wavering neighbor. Skilled factory labor in Georgia is 9 years old 11c, and twelve hours tS a days labor. How does that Compare with your Mexican peon wages.

Prohibitionists, nationalists, populists, silver republicans and silver democrats, though differing on other issues, can unite in the great battle for silver, and all demand the initiative and referendum for the ‘ settlemept of all great questions. The old soldier is\ being told that free silver will reduce the purchasing power of his pension. We wish to call his attention to the fact that fyur years more of gold standard and contraction will bankrupt the government and wipe out his pension. There are 371.2 grains of pure silver in the silver dollar and 23.2 grains of pure goldrin gold dollar. To each is added an alloy to make the metals hard; and durable, making the finished silver dollar weigh 412^« grains l andthe gold dollar 25.8 grains. An inidgnaat Spanish Mexican asks why Americans in writing about the poor Indians of Mexico' do not compare them with the American Indians. They are both Indians, he says, but the Mexican Indian earns his own living while the American Indian is a pensioned pauper. The former lives in free silver Mexico the latter in gold standard America.

The silverites ask for no change in the size or value of the present silver dollar; they simply demand that the old law which was repealed in 1873, shall be restored so that the silverminer may take his bullion to the mints and have'it coined into standard dollars, the same as the owner of gold bullion now does, Previous to 1873 there had been over. $150,000,000 of silver j coined, $9 000,000 of which was standard dollars and $145,000,000. in quarters and halves. Beside's ( this there was in circulation as tender money over' $100,000,000 of Mexican and Spanish dollars, and they remained a part of our money uu til after 1853. The* purchasing power of the soldiers pension is more than twice as great as it was twenty" years ago, but the ability of the government to pay it is about gone and a continuance of this gold standard policy will soon make pension retrenchment absolutely necessary or bonds will have to be regularly issued to pay them.

Half of our old soldiers are farmers and nearly all have chil dren who do not draw pensions, and it is not one in ten of them who would not welcome' an ad - ■ vance in prices on farm products, Republican speakers are bit-1 terly opposing free coinage of* silver on the ground that it will. raise the cost of food. How do | you like that, brother farmers? , Stop talking about what you £et for your pork, beef, wheat, corn | and oats; if you got any more for j your stuff your republican orator would accuse you of robbing the old soldier, the widow and orphan. t

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

It is the duty of every man who has the cause of humanity at heart to devote eydry moment of time that he can possibly spare to the advancement of the silver movement. Read and become familiar with every phrase of the money question and be able to meet your neighbors questions with convincing proof. Those who have the .gift of •speech should address meetings at school houses every night un.til election. Especially do I urge the old guard in the popu'list party, as being eminently fitted to meet the arguments of our deceptive antagonists. Circulate literature' and" have personal talksrwith 1 every man you can influence.' Daniel E. Kelly of Valparaiso, democratic elector from the 10th district' has resigned his place because of ■ his views ph silver. It is probable that James Pierce of Rensselaer, the' populist elector, Will be elected to till the vacancy. The Ideal is just opening ■ a line ofOvercoats for winter; they will' be sold right. Louis'WiLDßEßGjdanager.

• . Now is the • Time to • 5 get Posted...... J J Have You 1 J ' Ever Read this ® Great 800 k......... • 2 The Price is 2 Only 25 cents... ® ‘ ■ E 2 • Send Your ® • Orders to A ■ The | ■ Pilot Office ■ THE IFir/TEJHrorSjB.-ThePopulists Will capture it In ’96. Bow the country down with Populist literature, twill pi,i« your name and andresnon the People’s Party Exchange Liat for a Silver dime. and Vuu will receive a large number of loading Ponnlist papers for reading and distribution. Write U. Pjumkj, Lock Box 416. Ennis, Texas.

Aptly PERU, Indiana; August 15th, WdJ Messrs Phil Arhtou r & Chicago; tit.; DEAR SIHS: _ Your offer of 50 ceP Vs of meat agfaf' ican doilar in exchange fo 1 " an American received, but we cah flo as well with our pat finis’. We can offer 50 cent# worth °f mea t and $2 worth erf Portuguese three percent goldbfmds in exchange for a silver dollar. Our patrons say the must a. e good, as Portugal has been on gold standard sine. e 1853—twenty years before the other enlightened nation' s of Europe —aud its national debt has only increased 100 per cent, without- any war since that date. Average tvages paid all citizens in Portugal is 17 cents pt,. * day. In your letter you say all we meed is “a little gold, im ~ proved banking facilities" and “confidence." Portugal has a “little gold," the world has had its “improved banking facilities" since 1853, and we can supply the “confidence," so the bonds are certainly good. We can continue to give you 50 cents tvorth of meat and $2 of Portuguese gold bonds after Bryan is e}ected. Will you continue to give 50 cents worth of meat and a Mexican dollar in exchange for an American silver, dollar after Bryan is elected? Yours Truly, Columbian Meat Market, Peru, Ind. P. S. We see the London fimed quotes Mexican bonds at 94 1-2; Portuguese 3 per cent, gold bonds at ' 26 1-4.

Beauty, durability, price, the trinity of merit in C. A. Roberts buggies and carriages, opposite Makeever house. Everybody needs an Aermoter, the nest windmill made. Sold by Judson H. Perkins. Call on him at office in MoDbuald’s poultry market.

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MOIIDJCAI F. CHILCOT;, ' z Refiteselaer, Ind. AttAids to all business In the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office tn second stitrv of the Makeover building, Simon P. Thompson. D. J. Thompson. M. L. Spitler. THOMPSON & BROTHER., Lawyers and Real Eslate Brokers Have the only complete set of Abstract Books in town. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. ._____ Airred McCoy, Pres. T. <>• 3ic<My, Cash. A. It. Ifopkiiih. Assistant Cashier. A. MCCOY & CO’S BANK RENSSELAER, IND. Z7»e Oldent Hunk hi Jaiper County ESTABLISHED 1854. I'ransHCU a general banking business, buys notes and loans money on lung or short time on personal or real estate security. Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all Interest paid oir time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. Your patronage is solicited. Patrons having valuable papers mi v deposit them for safe keeping. A POISON I’A RKISON. GEO. K.HOLLINGS WORTH, President * Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. Commercial State Bank, RENSSELAER, INDIANA, i"iE ONLY STATE BANK IN JASKER CO. Directors: Addison Parkison. Janies T. Randle. John M. Wasson. Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on timoHleposlts. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your pat»solicited. Are open for business at the old stand of the Citizens' State Bank.

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