People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Page 2

The Peoples Pilot. F, D. Cralgr, Editor* RENSSELAER, - ■ - IND

Paternalism is a thousand times better than favoritism. It Is not over-production, but a false system of distribution that causes poverty. Keep it before the people that the Republicans promised to deliver prosperity. The government part of our government is socialism —when it is not favoritism. The mission of the People’s party is hardly begun. The work of education must go on. No amount of wealth can ever stand before a revolution. It is weakness instead of strength. Resolutions of sympathy for the poor is worse than soup, and soup is a mighty light diet. The spirit of liberty and independence can be crushed and smothered, but it cannot be killed. If fusion ever had any respectability some of the place hunters have smirched it with disgrace. The “cross of gold” is yet standing, while the “crown of thorns” is being pressed down on labor’s brow. The Republicans are kept busy explaining why prosperity doesn’t come, and when it may be looked for. It ought to be borne in mind that the People’s party is not a recruiting station for the Democratic party. Changing men will do no good unless we also change the system. The Republican party will bring no better times. The first half of the nineteenth century will mark the demonetization oi all metallic currency except for subsidiary coins. When one trust begins to compete with another it gets out an injunction and puts a stop to it. Isn’t this a dandy government? The property of the Pacific railroad thieves should be made to stand good for the debt they have created, and the government should secure judgment against it. We can’t get fair railroad rates until the water is squeezed out of the stock. The best way to do this is for the government to acquire ownership and operate them.

The gold reserve seems to be reserving all right now It don’t bring prosperity, and now the question occurs, what connection has the gold reserve with prosperity? The Pacific railroad fraud is one of the greatest robberies of the age and the government should put the brigands in prison and keep them there until every dollar of the great debt was paid. If the government can’t keep gold to redeem its paper, how do the banks expect to do so? The government is much stronger than the banks and its credit better than that of all the banks combined. After all, the problem in the last stages of its analysis is, whether manhood or money shall rule in this country? All other issues center around this one. It is the same old question of human rights. If a cross-roads postmaster is caught in the act of trying to swindle the government out of a few postage stamps he is sent to the penitentiary; but Huntington and the other millionaire brigands are allowed to run at large.

Laboring men compete with each other, but trusts get out injunctions and stop competition. The people are rapidly learning to regard the law and the courts as a farce, gotten up for the poor to observe and the rich to ignore. The contest for United States senator in Idaho develops some strange things. Dubois, who is a Republican in everything but free silver, was defeated by Heitfield, a Populist. This was in accordance with an agreement made between the Populists and Democrats of that state prior to the recent election. Notwithstanding this agreement, Senator Jones, Secretary Walsh, and other prominent Democrats, did their best to secure Dubois’ election, and sent J. R. Sovereign there to work against a Populist and for Dubois, just as he worked against Populist West in the Memphis district last fall.

They Offer No Remedy.

i The financial condition of the country is deplorable. It is impossible to imagine bow it could be worse. The 6fily consolation a Populist can have fetfOthat neither of the old parties yet proposed any remedy, and Uj&tjpone haye yet been able to demonstrate on the stump Or through the press that the Populist platform, if crystalized into law, would fail to restore permanent prosperity to all the people.—Missouri World. j •

MORGAN’S COLUMN.

CAUSTIC COMMENT ON EVILS OF OUR TIMES. A Chapter on the National Banker — Generally a Traitor to Hi. Country— All of the Worst Bunko Steererg Running at Large. In all this wide world there is no class of men who can come any ways near equalizing in gall the average national banker. Men who “hold up” railroad trains seldom rob the passengers, and the highwayman who demands your money usually fills up with “’booze” and tries to justify himself by thinking he needs the money worse than you do, but the banker, without any apology or saying “by your leave,” will lead you into the worst bunco game and at the same time swear by all the big gods and little gods that it is a square, honest deal. * « • Just now he is willing to swear that for the government to take 53 cents worth of silver, stamp it as money and call it a dollar is not only an impossibility, but, if possible, would be one of the greatest frauds of the age. At the same time he contends that the government can take less than a half cent’s worth of paper, print the name of a bank on it, make it receivable for customs, give it to the banker at one per cent and allow him to loan it to the people at ten per cent per annum, and it constitutes the “best money in the world.” * * s> But it is claimed that the banker stands ready to redeem his bank note money (?) in gold. The banker don’t do any such thing. The law requires each bank to keep a reserve of 25 per cent of its circulation as a redemption fund, but this may be kept in greenbacks. National bankers do not redeem each other’s notes, and consequently if a man had twenty bank bills they might be from as many banks scattered all over the country—some two thousand miles off. It is therefore practically impossible for him to demand redemption. But if it was possible for the holders of the notes to present them for redemption, 25 per cent of their face value would only pay that proportion of them. If there is any motive for 25 per cent of the holders to present notes for redemption, the same motive, fear, or loss of confidence, would prompt the others to do sc. * * 3

The whole thrag is based upon fraud, deception and favoritism. The only thing that can be relied upon is the government credit behind the notes. Take this away and it remains the old wildcat state bank system. If, then, it requires the to make the notes good, why sc this credit out to the banks to use to make a profit off of the people? No man has ever been able to give a sensible reason for doing so. It is said that the people are not capable of managing the financial affairs of this nation. This is as base a falsehood as the one that kings were of divine origin. No crew ever scuttled its own ship. They cannot, if they try, do any worse than the socalled financiers have done for the past twenty years. * * * The old battle that Jackson and Benton fought is on. “The bank is in the field.” Anyone who has watched closely and studied the movements of the bankers can see that the silver question with them is only a side issue. The real issue is bank control of money, and therefore the entire control of the currency and the business of the country. Silver is only the platform on which they work their diabolical machinery. The real question is, who shall create and issue the paper money of the country—the people or the bankers? Whether we shall have a currency to benefit the many or the few. Whether this government shall be administered for the benefit of the wealthy or for all. Whether .patriotism and manhood shall dominate in the administration of government and the laws, or whether money shall purchase legislation and court decisions at will. These are some of the questions that center around the greater issue of who shall make and issue our paper money.

UNION PACIFIC SCHEME.

There Is a Dead African in the Syndicate Woodpile. Congressman Hubbard, of Missouri, one of the members of the Pacific Railroads committee, thinks he smells a large-size mouse in the syndicate plan of disposing of the Union Pacific Railroad matter. “The whole purpose of the appointment of the reorganization committee,” said Mr. Hubbard, “is to put the Union Pacific in the possession of the Chicago & Northwestern. These other railroads having terminals in the west appreciate this fact and are alive to their own interests. That accounts for their desire to get control through the organization of a combination. With rival roads competing for the property, the government is in a most advantageous position, and I for one am opposed to its forfeiting the slightest part of it. There is no occasion for haste. The Union Pacific is now being run by government receivers and is paying well. “In this connection it may be well to say that if in the progress of the negotiations for the settlement of the debt it should bo deemed advisable for the government to acquire a perfect title to the roads, that there would be no more occasion for the hue and cry against government ownership than there is now. The road has practically been in the hands of the government

for years, and the heavens have not fallen nor has the republic disintegrated.” Mr. Hubbard Is in a position to know whereof he speaks. He says “the road has practically been in the hands of the government for three years,” and that it is paying well. We insist that the understanding that the Morgan syndicate has with Cleveland bodes no good for the government. The public has not forgotten the bond deal for the $62,000,000 bonds between those two worthies by which the syndicate cleared about $10,000,000 and the government was loser for the same amount. These deals are altogether too one sided for the good of the government, and it would be much cheaper for the people for Cleveland to go fishing and stay there, and permit congress to deal with the railroad brigands. Little enough may be expected from that body, but when we send our grist to the Cleve-land-Morgan mill we do well to get the sack back.

POSTAL BANKS.

Their Success and How They Are Operated in Other Countries. The crush of national bonks in the past few years has made many converts to the postal savings banks scheme, and many who heretofore were actually In love with the national banking system have learned by a dear experience that such institutions are not safe repositories for the hardearned dollars of the people. It has taken some people half a century to see what Andrew Jackson saw when the national banking system was a young thing, and some have not seen it yet. The most impressive way to make them see it is by having a dear experience with some national banker who takes a notion to go under; fools will never learn except in the school of experience.

Like all other reforms, though, the postal savings banks would naturally be opposed by capital; it is a scheme to put off one of its thieving fingers, and it can be depended upon that if the money power can prevent it postal savings banks will never become an attachment to the postoffice service. Should such a law be passed the supreme court would no doubt be prevailed upon to declare it unconstitutional. The supreme court of late is becoming peculiarly fitted for that particular function, and seems to have no hesitancy in exercising it whenever prevailed upon by the money gods of Wall street. Nothing is more feasible than this plan of protecting the deposits of the people and cannot be righteously opposed by anyone save those who expect to profit by the continuation of the stealing and plundering system of national banks. The consummation of this scheme would add very little extra expense to the postoffice department, while its benefits to the people would be almost incalculable. The scheme is not a new or unheardof idea, but has been tested and found to work to a nicety. In 1867 the Dominion of Canada passed an act creating postofflce banks, limiting its operation to the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, but in 1885 it was extended to New Brunswick and Nova Sootia. The number of these banks reached 494 in 1890, and on June of that year they reported 112,321 depositors, with total deposits amounting to $21,900,653. This was an increase of $19,000,000 in the ten years preceding. The rate of interest paid was 3% per cent. The plan was found to work so well that further extensions were made, including the maritime provinces, Manitoba and British Columbia, with forty-one branches that are being rapidly merged into full-fledged savings banks of the postal character.

You never hear of depositors in these banks losing their money. It is the only safeguard that the American people can throw around themselves for the protection of what little wealth they happen to have saved. With Uncle Sam handling the money of the country, panics would soon become an unknown evil, and hundreds of shylocks who only go into the banking business to “bust” and skin unwary depositors, would then have to look for greener fields in which to ply his trade—a trade it has come to be, and some are very skilled at their trade, always succeeding in making way with the swag and escaping the clutches of the law.—St, Louis Journal.

What the Referendum Has Done.

Some people fear to copy the referendum because it is Swiss. Such should not forget that it is of New England as well. When the Irish nation was in its glory the same system of referendum was in force. But don’t think that Switzerland, though a small republic, is to be scorned by those who are working for better conditions. Let such make a note of these facts: Switzerland has penny postage. Free delivery In rural districts. Telegrams for 11 cents. Telephones at sl6 per year. The best highways In the world. The cheapest railway fares in Europe, though on the costliest road. More co-operative work than anywhere else on earth. The best opportunities to educate sons and daughters in the world. The Swiss consume five times as much luxuries and comforts as do the Italians. While we vote for parties and get principles all jumbled together, the Swiss voter gets at one thing at a time, the only sensible dominant issue known. —The Printer. The real question is whether the government or the banks shall issue the paper money of the country. Chicago is boiling her water to make it fit to drink. She ought to boil her politics.

MANY MINERS KILLED

FEARFUL DISASTER AT ZACATECAS, MEXICO. One Hand red and Seventy Men Perish in a Burning Mine—Heroic Efforts of Their Comrades Conld Not Save Them. News from the mine disaster at Zacatetas, Mexico, shows the calamity fully as bad as first reported. Fire broke out in Sanamoro mine, one of the properties of the Sombrerete companies, and communicated to the San Francisco mine. The principal shaft in the former is 3,000 feet deep, and a rescuing party went down to the bottom, but were nearly suffocated by smoke. The Cornish miners displayed unusual heroism in attempting the relief of the imprisoned men. There is no doubt that 170 miners perished.

THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF FINE ARTS

The Corcoran Gallery of Fine Arts at Washington was opened the other night with every symptom of appreciation on the part of the people invited. The brilliant assemblage of visitors wandered the lines of noble statuary and costly paintings, inspected the interior structure of the building, and listened to a most entertaining concert rendered by the Marine Band. The new gallery is declared to be the most perfect thing of its kind in the world. The rooms are so arranged as to show, with every advantage of light, the works of art that are exhibited in them. It has been finished at a cost, including the site, of almost $1,000,000, and the best judges of these enterprises say that nothing was left undone and no feature forgotten that would render the building suitable for the purpose for which it was created. The architecture of the exterior is of th,e NeoGrecian style. The interior is finished

MRS. COUGAR DEFEATED.

Indiana Supreme Court Says Women Cannot Vote in That State. The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday decided that under the present constitution women cannot vote in Indiana. The case decided is the one in which Mrs. Helen M. Gougar of Lafayette appeared as an advocate last week. In answer to the contention that women are unrepresented by the ballot, the court holds that suffrage does not exist for the benefit of the individual, but for the benefit of the state itself; that the right of suffrage is, therefore, not a natural right to be exercised subject only to restriction, but is a civil right, to be exercised only by those to whom it has been expressly granted by positive law.

Fire at Fort Wayne, Ind.

Morgan & Co.’s wholesale and retail hardware store in Columbia street, Fort Wayne, Ind., was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, causing a loss of $75,000, with $40,000 insurance. Four other buildings were wrecked. During the progress of the fire four firemen were at work on the roof of A. H. Staub’s store, which is much lower than the building occupied by Julius Nathan & Co. Suddenly the higher wall toppled, and to escape being crushed the firemen jumped from the roof. George Clingman was injured internally and about the spine and may not recover. The others were only bruised.

Held for the Spicer Murder.

Latest reports from Winona say the authorities are confident that Alexander Condot, the French half-breed, and Black Hawk, the negro half-breed, are the men who committed the murder of the Spicer family at that place. From statements made by Condot, it is probable that Black Hawk murdered the family, while Condot acted as sentry outside the house.

Killed in a Wreck.

Going at full speed, a 103 d street electric car at Chicago was struck Thursday afternoon by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger train, which also was going at full speed. Ten seconds after the collision a freight train on an adjoining track and going in the opposite direction completed the wreck of the trolley car. Three persons were killed and four seriously injured.

Infected Persons Rove at Will.

A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Bombay says: “It Is reported that thirty people suffering from the bubonic plague were discovered on the trains at Poona on Saturday.”

General Strike Ordered.

The Amalgamated Society has ordered a general strike on the Northeastern (Eng.) Railway system, Crowded meetings of railway men were held at New Castle and Hartlepool and confirmed the decision.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Chairman of the Indianapolis Convention Names Fifteen Men. Stuart Patterson, chairman of the Indianapolis monetary convention, was directed by resolution of the convention to appoint an executive committee of fifteen to continue the work of the convention and in particular to bring before congress and the country the subject of the appointment of a currency commission. Mr. Patterson has appointed the following: H. H. Hanna, Indianapolis, chairman: M. L. Crawford, Dallas, Texas; W. B. Dean, St. Paul, Minn.; John W. Fries, Salem, N. C.; J. F. Hanson, Macon, Ga.; C. C. Harrison, Philadelphia; Rowland Hazard, Peacedale, R. I.; John P. Irish, Sacramento, Cal.; H. H. Kohlsaat and J. J. Mitchell, Chicago; Alexander E. Orr, George Foster Peabody, New York; T. C. Powers, Montana; E. O. Stannard, Missouri, and E. A. Willson, Kentucky.

in pink granite, Georgia white marble and Indiana limestone generally, and the whole structure is perfectly fireproof. The sculptures are perhaps the most interesting content of the gallery. The collection of bronzes is an exceptionally fine one. The floors of the rooms in which the statuary is placed are of oak or mosaic in marble. The second floor, in which are hung the pictures, is finished in white marble. On the upper floor there are eight large rooms for the exhibition of pictures, and one of these rooms has been set aside for the works of American painters. The building is lighted by electricity and heated by steam. A feature of the gallery is a large auditorium with a seating capacity of 250, for the use of the Corcoran School of Art. The building is the gift of Lawrence Corcoran, once a Cameron Irish laborer, but who died a year or two ago worth several million dollars. •

FEEL FAMINE AT DELHI.

All Classes of Feople In that. Part of India Reduced to Dire Want. Delhi, March 3.—This, the headquarters of the gold and silver wire-work-ers, jewelers and embroiderers, is feeling the pinch of famine greatly. There are no Hindoo marriages and no demand for wedding garments. Numerous respectable classes, too proud to go to work, are enduring the direst poverty. Sirsa is the worst afflicted district of the southern Punjab. The mortality among the cattle is enormous. Forty thousand, or 23 per cent, of the total have died. The starving Mohammedans are killing the cattle, and this causes friction for the Hindoos. Rates of mortgages on lands have risen immensely, and the land is going into the hands of the usurers.

Mine Caves Under a Town.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 3. —An extensive cave-in occurred in the town of Wyoming Monday night in the main workings of the Schooley mine, which are 600 feet underneath the town. A loud report was heard, and houses shook on their foundations. An investigation showed that the earth’s surface had caved in some places a distance of twenty-five feet. The area affected is about 150 yards long and 200 yards wide. The postofflce is almost a complete wreck, and other buildings, including three dwellings, sunk a distance of twenty feet. Another cave-in is feared. The cause is said to be a lack of sufficient props for the roof.

Harsh Language from the Bench.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 3.—The efforts of Church & Co. of New York, stockholders in the Citizens’ Street Railway Company of this city, before Judge Baker of the federal court, to have a receiver appointed, have failed. The court denied the application on a technicality and criticised the watering of stock by the company, saying it was such business methods that made anarchists, and if one-half was true, as alleged, McKee of Pittsburg ought to be hung.

Bank Wrecked by Dynamite.

The private bank of H. H. Emminga at Golden, 111., lyas badly wrecked by burglars at 3 o’clock Sunday morning by means of dynamite. The robbers were frightened by the explosion, however, and escaped without securing any of the money that was locked in the safe.

Schinneer Wins Bicycle Race.

Schinneer was the winner of the sixday bicycle race at Chicago, with 1,788 miles and 4 laps to his credit. Miller, who was second, covered 1,763 miles and 9 laps. Ashinger was third.

Senator George to Resign.

A report from Jackson, Miss., indicates a probability that United States Senator George will tender his resignation in view of the approaching session of the legislature. 11l health is the cause.

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A Hair-Raiser.

May—Did you know that Pamela is raising a mustache? Nell—What! May—Yes, she raises Harry’s every time she kisses him.

1667 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.

Don’t believe it, nor did the editor until he saw Salzer’s great farm seed catalogue. It’s wonderful what an array of facts and figures and new things and big yields and great testimonials it contains. Send This Notice and 10 Cents Stamps to John A. Saizer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for catalogue and 12 rare farm seed samples, worth $lO, to get a start.

One Less Host.

Jenks —Brobson makes hosts of friends. Filkins —Yes; I’ve noticed that. But the next time he comes here to dinner, I’ll bet you he finds the door locked.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggists to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles, 25 cents and 50 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A farmer of Ozella, Fla., recently found a hairpin made of something like gutta percha four feet below the surface in an Indian mound. -

“STAR TOBACCO.”

As you chew tobacco for pleasure use Star. It is not only the best but the most lasting, and. therefore, the cheapest. The remains of an Indian village have been dijeovered near Pomona, N. J. Huts and other things were uncovered by the finder. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures. George W. Lotz, Fabucher, La., August 26,1895. Two rabbits and one glass of beer are at part in Fredonia, Kas.—-Kansas, City Star. fj, Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, 10a As soon as a man falls in love, everything conspires to panish him.

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