People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — DARTS FROM THE QUIVER. [ARTICLE]

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.

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.