People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — POINTS FROM THE PRESS. [ARTICLE]

POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

Government ownership of natural monopolies will go a long way toward killing trusts and combines. —Nonconformist. The Cleveland Leader uses a beautiful “Dawn of Prosperity” head over the new tariff bill, but its foreman spoiled the effect by running a list of business failures in the adjoining column. —Washington Post. Property in land has ceased to be a right and become a crying evil when one man, or a number of men, can hold a million acres against the natural desire and right of a million men to occupy and use it. —Castorville Enterprise. Labor unions of Pennsylvania are. praying and beseeching McKinley not to appoint so many enemies of labor to office. That is nerve. Enemies of labor elected McKinley, and they are entitled to the offices. —Omaha Western Laborer. If Venice could carry on its commerce 600 years without a panic or a currency bottomed purely on its credit and Uncle Sam carrying on his commerce ou intrinsic money has had four great panics and many lesser ones in 100 years, which has had the wiser financial policy?—The Better Way. In New York 26,000 people spend $2,500,000 on clubs; $20,000,000 on yachts; $3,500,000 on flowers; $20,000,0000 on jewelry; $31,877,500 on European travel; $5,000,000 on wine and spirits; $213,244,000 for these eight items of pure luxury, while millions of our best and thoroughly patriotic citizens toil every hour of their waking moments without seeing a hundred dollars of luxury in a lifetime. —Joliet News.

The only banker that ever became a great finance minister was Necker. Guizot says that Necker replenished the French treasury not by increasing the imposts upon the poor, but by a curtailment of the emoluments and privileges and the levy of an income tax upon the rich. Lyman J. Gage does not believe in this policy. He stands for what the noblesse stood for in the reign of Louis XVI. Ergo, Gage will never become a great finance minister. —Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph. There is no disguising the fact that in many sections of the country the number of the unemployed has about reached the danger line. What is to be done? We admit that this is a question more easily asked than answered, and still it must be answered. The calculations of those who \yere in a majority in the presidential campaign have gone amiss, at least as to the time of their fulfillment, and the people are no longer in a humor to be guided by the same advisers. —Eight Hour Herald. In Nebraska corn Is selling at 8 cents a bushel. In Louisiana, in the drouth district, for the poor and needy widows, they ask 40 cents. The question arises who “they” are, and who pays the freight?—Nonconformist.

The trouble with the complaining farmers is that they do not manage their farms in a business way. They keep in the old rut of growing the ordinary farm crops, while they should plant taxes, banks, railroads, official salaries and all such things as are constantly advancing in value. A majority of them voted for this unparalleled boom of prosperity and the elevation in price of the things we now advise them to plant. Now they should stop growing the crops they voted to reduce in price, and turn their attention to the things that pay.—Sledge Hammer.