People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — POINTS FROM THE PRESS. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

May there be no delay in enacting higher tariff laws. The sooner we learn that salvation does not abide in the breeches pocket of a higher tariff the better.—Farm, Stock and Home. Both Ballington Booth and BoothTucker, the Salvatian Army men, have been talking as if they recognized the fact that monopoly and only monopoly is responsible for the submerged tenth. •—Cincinnati Common Cause. Populism consists in an earnest, sincere and honest desire for economic reform, and not in a frantic desire to warm a seat at a pie counter. —Reno (Nev.) Plaindealer. Cleveland’s administration added 4,500,000 to the Populist ranks, and it is safe to predict that McKinley’s administration will add 5,000,000, making the total number of Populists in 1900 an even 11:500,000. Enid (Ok.) Coming Events. They tell us that the new tariff law will be a great thing for the poor man because it will make more work. It will “make more work” in the sense in which Pharaoh made more work for the Hebrew brickmakers when he refused them straw; in the sense in which the spilling of grease over the floor makes more work for the housewife, or the rain that wets his hay makes more work for the farmer. — Harrison Times. The last congress, strongly Republican, voted almost unanimously that bimetallism is the best and a necessary monetary system; and President Cleveland, nominally a Democrat,' endorsed the vote. But in the estimation of both congress and president we mustn’t have the best and necessary system without Europe’s consent!—Farm, Stock and Home. For several years past the number of the unemployed has been steadily increasing, and many have died from starvation and exposure, but during the past winter the results of enforced idleness have been much worse than ever before. The daily papers have day after day been filled with horrible accounts of suicides, deaths from starvation or disease caused by insufficient food and clothing, yet at the same time the ruling class was rioting in luxury.—The People. Let us establish the principle of arbitration at home, if we want to arbitrate so badly. Make the railroads arbitrate with their employes instead of hiring the military to shoot them down. —Twentieth Century. The Nicaragua canal company don’t want the earth, they only want SIOO,000,000, a very modest request.—The Orthonomic Era. What the poor need is not alms, but an opportunity to earn a just equivalent for their labor; and they al3o need to learn how to vote right at all elections. —Coming Events. The shipbuilders at Cleveland, Ohio, have won their strike against the tyranny of Mark Hanna. Wonder if the gold bug papers will announce the going to work of the successful strikers as another indication of returning prosperity.—Uncle Sam. If direct legislation was in force the people would vote on the silver question, independent of all others. They would say whether they wanted postal savings banks, government telegraph and railroads and would say whether greenbacks should be retired, in fact all matters of great interest would be passed on by the people instead of being trusted to a lot of so-called representatives, whose highest aim is to reap the greatest reward for themselves regardless of the interests of the majority. There is no assurance under our present system that the men elected to office will fulfill their pledges; in fact, experience proves that they do not. Under direct legislation the people would make no laws; officers would have no promises to fulfill, for every law' would represent the voice directly of the people interested. —Chicago Sentinel. Pictures of destitution are accompanied this year by cuts in wages.—Ex.