People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.