Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — BISHOP SIMPSON. [ARTICLE]

BISHOP SIMPSON.

Hi- Condemns the Financial Policy of the Government. IBinhop Siiupßon'H Tjctter to the Christian Advocate. Aug. 29. J I believe the masses have cause of complaint. I think the Government has not done its duty. While seeking to conciliate foreign capitalists, who care nothing for our country, the interests of our people, who seek a safe investment for their earnings, have been neglected. Their savings have been lost in banks, which, had they been placed in small bonds, would have made a richer community and stronger friends for our Government. I believe our financial leaders, in overlooking the masses of our people, have committed terrible blunders, and have showed themselves incapable of directing aright the finances of a free people. Congress has spent in party contention the energies that ought to have been employed in establishing savings banks, or in issuing interconvertible bonds, where the laborer could have placed his scanty means. Yet the remedy is not to be found in violence, but in more light and in seeking for men for office, not so much for party affiliation as for their unquestioned honesty, and for their true sympathy with the masses of the people.