People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — Page 4

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is GOOD for all diseases that have their origin in impure blood. It is BETTER than other sarsaparillas, better made, of better ingredients and by better methods. Its record of cures proclaims it the BEST

The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG. (Lessee.) PILOT PUBLISHING CO., (Limited.) Proprietors. Lavid H. YeojiaN, President. Wm. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook. Sec’y. J. A. McFarland Treas. The People’s Pilot :s the official organ of the Jasper and Newton County Alliances,and is onbiished every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM Entered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind

A circular letter from some dupe of the one-eyed cyclops, monopoly, urging the people to join in a universal remonstrance against the free distribution of seeds through the Department of Agriculture at Washington, setting forth the immense cost of th'S feature of our public institutions, is at hand. Can it be possible that the American voters are going to permit themselves to be hoodwinked into consenting to the abolition of this beneficent feature of a popular government? Let us urge upon our readers this immortal truth, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Think of tins, no individual at his own expense is going to spend a million of dollars to print arguments in favor of saving the public from an inappreciable tax. There must be some powerful motive behind it. Let us see if we can’t find the cat in the meal tub. Suppose some syndicate of British capitalists had succeeded in suppressing the free seed distribution before it had placed the Concord grape in the hands of the American farmer, don’t you see that this delicious luxury would have remained in the con trol of our “giant cyclopian” monopoly, and instead of Concord grapes being within the reach of ike humblest citizen, they would be found only on the tables of our American nobility?

Tiie general introduction of the Early Kose potato, to say nothing about the other varieties of this most valuable of all farm products that liaye found their way to the public through the department of Agriculture, has been worth more to the tax-pay-ers of America than the total cost of this bureau from its foundation, ten times over. It was this institution that gave us our sorghum seen, our mammoth sugar corn, our best varieties of pears, berries and other fruits. Anti now who can have the brazen effrontery to ash the people to abolish this institution which has already demonstrated the wisdom of its founder by the incaleuabie blessings it has showered on mankind? No Sirs: Messrs Ayer & Co. You can’t catch the people with your chaff. We know a good thing when we have got it, and don’t you forget it. Come on Mr. Commissioner with your new seeds. Nobody is kicking but Ayers & Co. We want everything that will be a public benefit to the people of America. Would it not be a good thing for the people to take the business of free distribution of all new and choice seeds out of the inandsof Uncle Sam and allow the firm of Ayer & Co. a complete monopoly of it? They seem anxious for the job and would no doubt make large fortunes, at our expense out of the enterprise. It is a pity that the government cannot do anything for the people without interfering with somebody’s “private business.”

Something About Archery.

The following is copied verbatim from the preamble of the Articles of Association of the Banking Clearing House of the United States: “To adapt our badness to the volume of lawful money at any and all times , save labor, cheapen cost, and reduce amount of floating cash necessary to the settlement of accounts between individuals,if effected singly. and obviate the necessity of borrowing money for business purposes; we, the bankers of America, form ourselves into a body corporate, and adopt the following Articles of Association. ’ ’

Now let us see what lesson we can learn from the above. We see first, a deliberate purpose to “reduce” the amount of floating currency. “The floating currency” is the money that flows through the channels of trade. We see second, a device by which the bankers can adjust their business to the volume of lawful money at any and all times. We see third, that they, the bankers have discovered how to avoid borrowing money for their business purposes.

DARTS FROM THE QUIVER.

Archery makes it possible for workingmen to utilize their labor where other methods fail. Kokomo Archers are full of zeal and the Order is growing at a phenomenal rate in Howard county. Apollo Temple of Archers at Indianapolis is iniatiating members at the rate of 10 to 30 each week. Franklin, Johnson county, is enrolling names for a Temple of Archery and will soon be ready for iheir chapter. All business men recognize the value of advertising. Archery is the best advertising maehino over invented. If there were,no incentive to evade the payment of debts there would be no need of a collector of debts. Archery removes this incentive. Francisvillo, Pulaski county, is the seat of a strong prospective order, of Archers. The enthusiasm of the boys is almost boundless. If one dollar can be made to perform twenty-five dollar’s worth of business, business will be twenty-five times as good as it is now. Stick a pin there. □ Archery is a secret organization. No one knows how many Archers there are; how much fun they have, or how much good they do, who is outside of the Order. Forty minutes behind the scenes is worth more to the man just embarking on the voyage of a business life than all the works on political economy ever written. Don’t let anyone cheat you into the belief that the Archers aim to do without money. That is not so. The secret Archery has learned is how to get money without borrowing. The banks have learned to make one dollar of money do twenty dollar’s worth of business. Archery has caught the trick ar d will teach you how to work it if you wish to learn. Making things to sell and selling things that are made,is business. If people could sell everything they can make, business would be good everywhere. Archery makes this thing possible. It is not the object of Archery to employ men, but to enlist them. It does not buy the products of labor, but aids in selling them. It makes a market by making it possible for men to buy. Archery has waited twenty years for the Grangers, Knights of Labcr. F. M. B. A.’s, Alliances andlPopuliets to spend their force before it entered the field. Now it is ready, the harvest is ripe. The Archer has discovered a new field and you must not expect, it to spend its I efforts thrashing over old straw, cr to encumber itt) columns with literature on the worn out issues of the dead past. When men's wants are all supplied, more wants arise, and the pursuit of happiness lies in gratifying want. The luxuries of today are the wants of tomorrow. This is an Archer syllogism. Banking Clearance houses do not les- | sen the number of banks, but materially | strengthen and aid them. The Archer I Clearanco house does not lessen the nutnj A er merchants but aids all who invoke ! its aid.

Reprinted From “The Archer.”

A Lesson to Ponder.

We see fourth, they rely on organization to accomplish this reduction of floating cash, adaptation of their business to the volume of circulating medium at any and all times, this cheapening of cost to them, this saving of interest to themselves, Archery comes forth armed with their secret, and by adopting their methods<kas done for its members, the producers and merchants, what the banking Clearance House has done for the banks.

Who of us are not wishing to realize better results? If better results are attained, better methods must be employed. Archery affords the opportunity to apply better methods. I he man who chops the tree, and saws ■it into Jogs, is helping the cabinet maker make a chair. The cabinet maker’s union will not admit their fellow craftsmen to their councils. Archery welc jmes them both. All are producers, all are consumers; each working for the other. All depend on all, hence comes exchange, and hence a class to do that work. If all exchange be made in equity none will be poor save those who will not work. Capt, Shepard of Indianapolis writes in a personal letter to this office: “1 received packages of Guide Books; think them quite neat. We mustered 24 new ones last night(men) and I think 17 the week before. We are prospering.” Logansport politicians are guessing what this mysterious order of Archery can he. There is but one way to learn, ard that is to come into the order and see for yourselves. It wont hurt you, boys, and you may learn something to your interest. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Cmsar’s,” would be unmeaning words, were there no Ccesar to demand. Working men, Business men, Farmers, do you know that you are paying tribute to a mightier than Caesar? Archery will relieve you from this tax.

□ The Grangers thought the middleman was robbing them, and they organized to protect them elves against the merchant. Archery takes the merchant into its councils and shows him why so mauy of the merchants fail in business, and how future failures will be avoided. Statistics show that labor produces S 6 of value and receives butone: capital gets $5 for making the exchange, or rather, for permitting the exchange to be made. Archery makes the same exchange for sixty cents, thereby saving labor 85.40 out of every six dollar's worth of value produced. The sav ige hunts his own game, tans his own skins, cooks his own food, makes his own wigwam, constructs his own implements, and we find him hatless and half naked, roaming the trackless wilds, hunting roots and game to subsist upon, boycotting everybody else. He has the boycot to perfection. Two cronies in walking down street saw a dime on the sidewalk; one of them picked it up, “That's justanickle apiece ain’t it?’’ said the other. “Not for both of us, replied the first man, putting the dime in his pocket. That is the way with the “good times” we are having; they are not for us and'the shylocks too. They’re “not for both of us.” The scoffers at Archery, those who are outside, gravely remark, “You’ve got to have money to do business.” That's what the bankers say. And forthwith our sneering friends mortgage their accumulations to the banker and get money, then go to work for money to pay interest on the loan. Archery begins at the other end. It does business to get money, that it can keep if it wants to.o The populists in Congress have caucused, and now demand recognition from Speaker Eeed as a distinct party and aßk

assignments accordingly. If the Speaker will take time to ascertain what populists do when given a chance, his objections to granting any recognition they can desire will quickly vanish. To be sure they are a 'party,' with passions, appetites and abilities to do nothing, equal to any other party. Let them be recognized. If we have money we can buy whatever else we want. If we have desirable goods we can get money, and then get whatever else we want. We cannot make money with our skill and labor unless we work for some man that has money—sell our skill and labor. We can make good goods with our skill and labor if we can find some way to employ them. This is the ‘way’ Archery teaches. There have been more bankruptcies since last November than in any like period in the history of civilization. There is evidently something wrong somewhere. Old Sojourner Truth, a famous colored advocate of emancipation being confronted with the text, “Servants obey your masters,” as proof that the bible sanctioned slavery, said in reply: “De bible’s all right, “but slavery’s all wrong. Dare’s somethin’ wrong somewhat.”

The trades unions are organized for avowed purpose of protecting the skilled workmen from the avarice of employers. They limit the number of apprentices their bosses shall have to one for each five journeymen employed. It is the object of Archery to make places for the boys thus prevented from learning trades. Few have stopped to consider how many of the tramps which now infest our cities and line our highways are unskilled workingmen who have been denied the opportunity to learn a trade. Laws have been piled on laws till the books that hold them would make a mountain as high as Arrarat, to fix a standard by which to measure justice. Who are benefited by all this labyrinth of laws? Surely the men who are outlawed by poverty are not. The men who live on annuities, who invoke the law to eject tenants, foreclose mortgages, buy tax.titles and take in sewing machines on forfeiture of leases. The laws of Archery are not so complicated, There are only four ways to get money (when there is.any to get). These are to borrow, steal, beg of buy. You borrow with bonds, bondage is slavery. If you steal, you endanger liberty. If you beg, you are a pauper. If you buy, you are fr<ie. We buy money with the products of our labor. Every hour of labor lost is that much wealth forever gone. There ate millions of men in enforced idleness in this country today—that means millions of dollars of daily loss to America. Archery teaches how to stop this frightful loss.

The "Indiana Plan.”

, Following the last election a call appeared in the reform papers of Indiana for a conference to be held in the city of Indianapolis, Dec. 28,1896. A large representation from every district and nearly every county in the state, responded. The purpose of the call was to devise ways and means for a mobilization of all the elements opposing the gold standard; and to adopt some plan of organization suited to the needs and conditions of the hour. For two days they held forth in continuous session. A committee was appointed to draft a plan and report it to the conference. After a hard fight by Hubbell of Pulaski, a hearing was granted for a presentation of Archery. After hearing it, the committee brought its session to a close at once by adopting, without a dissenting voice, a resolution commending this plan for favorable action by the conference. The conference'adopted the report by unanimous vote, then suspended the rules to receive a presentation in detail of the ir round work and system of the organization. Then, without furtner delay the conference as a body proceeded to receive the work of the initiation ceremony, which in itself conveys the secret of the Order’s great strength and features for centralizing and harmonizing elements under its instructive and impressive influence. Published reports announced that “a plan” had been adopted, leaving for the future to reveal the fact that Archery was that plan. Since then the word has penetrated to remote sections of the land that Indiana had the plan which responded most nearly to the ne.ds of the politically divided elements. So persistent have come the calls from the outside for access to the work, that its benefits may be promptly applied, \ hat separate replies are impossible, and this explains a neces j sity for the appearance at this time of The Archer. As dispatches appearing in the daily press already testify that the Order is being securelyjplanted ail over this state, we may scon be able to report a like growth in neighboring states. To keep step with this movement, all are invited to at least, take a “standing room” ticket, where they can see what is going on, and thus be in readiness for an i organizer at firstiopportunity. This invitation includes who are, in a measure, discouraged, but not whipped.

PLATO’S ARCHERS.

The headquarters of the Order are temporarily at Rensselaer,' Ind. Its objects are not to supercede, or antagonize any existing society or organization whose objects are to promote the interests of the producing classes, but rather to aid and assist in the attainment of these objects. It admits to membership all who are necessary to a just and perfect system of societjß having signs and signals by which members may recognize each other and a ritual by which members are iniatiated. The iuitiaitory ceremony is admitted by all who have witnessed it, to be the best calculated to teach the iniatiates the relation which, productive and distributive branches of industry sustain to each other, of any formula ever yet devised. While not calculated to shock the religious or political sensibilities of any, the initiation sets forth in a clear and unmistakable object lesson the mistakes which our fathers have made in providing for the distribution of the products of labor among the various divisions of productive industry. No one who witnesses the ceremony can fail to understand where the error has crept into our social system, and what the remedy must be, for the evils of which the business interests of the country have so long been, are still, and will continue to suffer, until the remedy is applied. Any persons interested in the perpetuity of our government, and the preservation of its institutions, should at once make ap plication for membership in this society, and if there is no organization in his reach he should immediately take steps to have a Temple instituted in the neighborhood,

HOW TO ORGANISE.

Secure the names of teri pSio sons (at least) who are willing to form the nucleus of an organization and are willing to go into the Order—and pay the iniatiation fee of §1 each (this fee entitles each member to one year’s subscription for the Archer,) Then notify the chief recruiting officer, and he will come or send some one to institute the Temple and install its officers, and you can begin to iniatiate members. After fifteen or more members have been secured, the Temple will be chartered. If theparties after hearing the ceremony is not satisfied his money will be refunded then and there.

Interchangeable 1000-Mile Tickets.

Every traveling man should have one. They < ost but S2O each and can be purchased of any agent of the Monon route. They are good for one year from date of sale and good for passage on the following lines: Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (Lines west of Pittsburg and Benwood, including Wheeling & Pittsburg Division); Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R’y. (Form L 38), all divisions; Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg R’y; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton R. R. (Form I. D. 2), all divisions; Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia R. R. (between Cincinnati and Portsmouth only); Cleveland Terminal & Valley R’y; Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo R’y; Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking R. R. (Form J); Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western R’y; Indiana, Decatur & Western R’y; Indiana, Illinois & lowa R. R; Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis R. R. (Form B) (Good only for continuous passage between Louisville and Evansville, Evansville and St. Louis, and Louisville and St. Louis); Louisville, New Albany & Chicago R'y; New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R; Pittsburg, Shenango & Lake Erie R. R; Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R. R. (Form L 8); Wheeling & Lake Erie R’y (Form H.) The above lines afford the commercial traveler access to the principal cities and towns in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky, with through hues to St. Louis. The train service of the Monon Route 1 includes all the conveniences devised to make traveling a pleasure. Vestibuled i trains, with parlor and dining cars on all day trains; Pullman buffet and compartment sleeping cars on all night trains. Special features: Steam Heat, Pintsh Light. Sidnky B. Jones, City Pass. Ag’t. 232 Clark St., Chicago. Geo. W. Hayler, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, 2 W. Washington So.. Indianapolis. E, H. Bacon, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, 4th and Market Sts., Louisville. W. H. McDoel, Receiver and Gen’l Mgr. Frank J. Reed, Geu’l Pass. Ag't. General Offices: 198 Custom House i Place, Chicago. r W. H. Beam, Agent.

Special Rates

For the fifteenth annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association to be held at Elkhart, Indiana, April ,1 2 and 3,1897. Members of the Association will take the pains to notify the station agent a few days in advance that they may have coupon tickets ready for sale. Members will then purchase through tickets from starting point to Elkhart and return paying therefor one first-class fare. If through tickets cannot be purchased members will purchase tickets to the nearest point where such through tickets may be purchased and there purchase round trip tickets. Tickets will be on sale March 31 and April 1, good returning to April 3. These tickets will permit continuous passage only in each direction. □ Will Stimson drove down from Stoutsburg Saturday with a load of cheese for this market. He remained until Sunday morning the guest of ye Pilot people.

State of Ohio, City of Toledo ) Lucas County. ( 88 • Frank J. Chemey makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J CHENEY & CO. doing buisness in tha City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in ray presence, this-6th day of December, A. D. 1896. A. W. GLEASON, t SE ; AL ] Notary Public. Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo O.' Sold by all Druggists, 75c, Edward T. Briggs, of Wheatfield, and John E. Hollett, of Remington, have been named by Judge Thompson as members of the County Board of Tax Reviewers, which consists also of the assessor, auditor and treasurer. Isaac Glazebrook AND GENK3.AL BLACKSMITHING Repair agricultural implements and all kinds of machinery. Wheelwright in connec Lion. Shop on Front street near Saylor Mill, Rensselaer, Ind. C. P. KAHLER, Street, Depot, iMsmitliing, Horse Shoeing WAGONMAKING. Special attention to repairing Maehinerv an J Duplicating Castings in Iron or Brass ALL WORK NEATLY DONE. Rensselaer. Ind. C. W. Duvall, The OHly reliable Hackman in town. DUVAL’S ’BUSS f makes all trains, phone 147, or Nowels House. Transfer wagon in connection with ’bus. Calls to all parts of the city promptly attended to.

New Meat Market CREVISTON BROS. Uensselaur. Indiana. Shop located opposite the public square. Everything fresh arid clean. Fresh and salt meats, game, poultry, etc. Please give us a call and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Remember the place. Highest market price paid for hides and tallow. NEW IINDfkTAKING. W. Overton wishes to announce that he has opened a new Undertaking establishment in the Nowels house Block. A NEW HEARSE and first class funeral furnishings have been provided, and special pains will be taken to merit a share of the public’s favors. Mr. OVERTON has carefully fitted himself for this work, having been for some time under the instruction of one of the best practitioners in Chicago. Telephone No. 209.