People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

like to appoint you to England.” We can spare him, and Willie Wallie Astor and other refugees from American wit will be proud of their one-time countryman. Some light is being thrown on the much talked of Arbitration Treaty. It seems that its acceptance by England will insure her control, if not absolute ownership, of the Nicaraugua Canal, which has been coveted by her singularly acquisitive sons since the inception of the great plan. Several states have acted upon the hint carelessly dropped by that prince of trust defenders, Grover Cleveland, in his message, as to the possibility of their dealings with those hitherto uncontrolled robbers, the trusts. Georgia’s law has gone into effect. New Jersey is framing one and even trust-ridden, New York is beginning to bestire itself on this point. Legislation on this point is pending in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Indiana, Utah and Minnesota.

Theßradley-Martin mask ball, the unprecedented number of the unemployed and their terrible sufferings during the severe weather, have precipitated a serious discussion among the leading ministers of New York city. Those who have dared to tell their wealthy flock that a critidal condition Exists, owing to the unequal distribution of wealth, will doubtless have to come west soon for a more sympathetic audience. Some of thesq men have taken a truly Christian stand on this matter. One Rev. (?) Thomas Dixon (whom we regret to thus much advertise) said, “If I owned $1,000,000 and the public should attempt to dictate to me how I should spend it, I should say as a certain member of the Vanderbilt family, ‘l’he people be damned.,’ ” Straws show the trend of the wind and the fact that the revelers at this great debauch are to dress in the style that anti-dated the French Revolution, that the decorations and dances are to be in accord, is not without meaning to thoughtful minds. At this juncture of our history political and social events are so closely interwoven that it is impossible to separate them. Populist teachings have made politics more a matter of social science and less a matter of office holding. McKinley is out with a card denying that he wrote the much commented upon letter begging that the fifty thousand dollars set aside for the inaugural ball should be spent relieving the sufferers in our great cities and the Armenian and Indian victims. From what source this extraordinary bit of forgery eminated is not yet stated. Many will regret that the incoming president should hasten to clear himself from the suspicion of not being entirely in sympathy with the richest rich. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was the largest single contributor- to the Hanna campaign fund, has rented a palace at Washington, D. C., and his example will be followed by several others of New York’s rich men. The capital is, of course, overjoyed at this acquisition. 1 Mr. McKinley proposes, as a sop to Wall street, and to make partial amends for the appointment of Gage, to establish a Department of Commerce and Trade and put a New Yorker at its head. Apropos of Gage’s appointment it is said that Europe began buying American stocks Janurary 26, as a result of the security it felt was thus assured. Gage, it is said, with a regard for the eternal fitness of things seldom found iu a national banker, wears a golden wig. * Constipation in its worst forms, dyspepsia, sick headache, billiousness and derangement of the liver are readLy cured by DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. These little pills nevergripe. Small pill, ■Safe pill, best pill. Sold by A. P. Long.