People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1897 — Learn Your Oppressor’s Secret. [ARTICLE]

Learn Your Oppressor’s Secret.

The three cent street car fare bill for Indianapolis passed and is now a law. What have we to offer capital but perpetual servitude? Remember. “bonds are instruments of bondage, and bondage implies servitude?”

The old park theatre of Indianapolis, the oldest playhouse in the state was totally destroyed by fire Sunday night. It will be rebuilded at once. Mr. McKinley is starting out as a wonderful party harmonizer, and in consequence every patriot in search of a place is feeling renewed assurance. A Washington writer, close to the president, states that every surviving member of the 23rd Ohio Infantry, McKinley’s old regiment, is a candidate for office.

President McKinley has start ed in with a new method for dispensing patronage. He will not recognize favorites of any faction, but when factional differences do exist, applicants from those sections must bear the endorsement of both senators and representatives.

Governor Mount refused to sign senate bill No. 21, authorizing the issuance of additional bonds to complete the Jasper county court house. As he did not veto the bill, it of course becomes a law. Evidently the Governor did not think it a very meritorious measure.

Col. Bob Ingersol was held up in Chicago Sunday night while walking to his theatre where an SI,BOO audience was in waiting. The stranger demanded some of his cash and in reply was given a right and left hander that knocked him dlean out, when Robert proceeded as if nothing had taken place.

When we see announcements that the Association of Methodist 1 Clergymen of the United States, said to number 15,000 in membership, is to hold forth at LaPorte beginning June 15th, the public begins to iuquire if this is another trust or combination to perfect methods for enforcing collections on delinquent quarterage.

They say horses are bringing a little more of late, but how many more it takes to lift a sl,000 note from the bank than it did 15 years ago or rather, how many more horses can a 11,000 mortgage raise than it ever could before? Some folks would call this getting more horse into the dollar. A strong healthy horse is nothing compared to a robust healthy, capacious dollar. When the fierce flames were marching with resistless fury through the heart of Chicago l years ago* the terror stricken peopld fled in blank despair before the scourge, helph ssly bewailing their »ad faie. The

wisdom of the engineer who saved the threatened city was worth more to Chicago than all rhe money loaned by syndicates to rebuild the waste places. The lesson of this is that there is other capital than CASH. Cash is the most expensive capital we can employ. Let us procure an inventory of all the capital we have and see what cash will be required.

How many thousands in all parties to-day would jump at the opportunity to take an object lesson requiring forty minutes time in which to see for hitnself that he has been a blinded slave to an ingeniously divised iilu sion which loses all its power to deceive when once exposed? And in fact there is no superior-' ity in rank because one of you fs labled Democrat, Republican. Populist or Socialist. You are all warring against each other, forgetting the fact that you are all each others’ customers, but lacking the Distributive Factor which combines your self interests with those of each one in the varied ranks of productive enterprise. • The populist thinks that money is the sole distributing factor. The socialist that ownership of the tools and land is the vital force to be conquered. The banker has adjusted his methods of business to make one dollar of money accomplish transactions which all others require 25 dollars to Effect. And no matter how small the volume of circulating medium is reduced, that one man can continue the faster to roll up his fortunes. He has gained the secret of distributive science and uses money only to transfer his profits. If the very same methods can be utilized by others in effecting transfers and exchanges of the varied fruits of individual toil and genius, is it not the part of wisdom to seek it? It can be found. It has been demonstrated time after time, and comes now as the long sought solution following the ineffectual paliatives of Grange, F. M. B. A., Alliance, trades unions, protective associations, merchantile associations, all of whom have left out the others, which in the economy of nature and business, are necessary to complete success. Why not direct your attention to acquiring that information and get into line with concentrated effort already at work, which by experiment and continued success is demonstrating that the key to escape from present environments has been found, and strange as it may sound, it is not in party politics.