People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — NOTES BY THE WAY. [ARTICLE]

NOTES BY THE WAY.

It is reported that the Vanderbilts, Morgans and Astors have been granted something in the nature of a franchise to own and govern the republic of Honduras. In the United States the same set manage to achieve about the same result without the aid of an actual contract. Taking the state as a whole, the Republicans decidedly lost ground in the Kansas municipal elections. This is not to be wondered at, as there is certainly nothing in present political conditions to cause the populists to lose votes. , It must be at least admitted that the “advance agent of prosperity” is traveling a long way ahead of the show. Some of the courts ought to be made ap example of by being punished for contempt of the people. The Dingley bill places ashes on the free list. The coal trust and the railroad trust keep the weekly price of the kitchen fire at a high figure, but ashes will hereafter be cheap. The social democrats of Austria polled over 800,000 votes in the recent elections. “If the Dingley tariff raises prices, the silverites ought not to complain. That is what they have been calling for.” —Indianapolis News. Higher prices generally would have the effect of stimulating industry and relieving the burdened debtor class. Dingley high prices simply mean an increased toll upon the producers for the benefit of the officeholders, who squander the revenues of the government, and for the benefit of the trusts. Higher prices for the things they buy and lower prices for the products they sell is not precisely what the “silverites” have been calling for. But it is what they will get.

An eminent physician says that yawning is an exceedingly healthful function. Here is an explanation of the healthy appearance of our public officials. Indianapolis is about to “commit anarchy,” says the Non-Conformist. The city council is discussing methods and means of buying the water plant and the rock-ribbed Journal —the Harrison wheel horse —has actually advocated in its editorial sanctum sanctorum the government ownership of railroads. And yet they pray “deliver us from the wild-eyed, visionary Pop of the West.” When the airship really does make its appearance it will bring about a great many changes in economic conditions. Tariffs will then be impossible, railroad monopolies will be shorn of power and a great deal of good new land will be made accessible to labor. Solve the money question and the air ship (when it comes) will go far towards doing the rest. This year good work should be done in the way of extending the party organization. Next year there will be some more important voting.