People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“If any will not work neither shall he eat.” People who take time to think seldom do as they desire. The best banking system in the world is getting in bad repute. The National banks should be ordered to keep off the grass. Government banks will do much towards relieving the situation. There seem 3 to be a want of parity between “confidence” and “prosperity.” Even old friends are apt to grow musty if kept in a damp place —a saloon, for instance. If the government has to guarantee the credit of the bank money why not save any further trouble and issue the money itself? The people are not much interested in the tariff business; they have gnawed on that bone until they are tired, besides the thing has been settled twice already. Weyler and his army have perhaps done less than was ever done in the same length of time with as large a number of troops, but he can yet compare very well with the record of the Democratic period when that party had 'ts “chance.” The Republicans have begun to realize the responsibility which they wilb Boon assume and it is no pleasant thing to contemplate. The old plan of dividing the offices and shirking the responsibility was best but the people do not ifrant it that way any more. Each party will be held responsible for its action or non-action.