People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Well, they shall know," the fight will go right on till this government is brought back to original principles; equal rights to all, special privileges to none. . J. S. Clarkson, editor of the lowa State Register, in speaking of the crushing Republican defeat, said: ‘ It was Harrison and protection that did it.” He overlooks the fact that the overproduction of such scoundrels as himself had as much or more to do in causing the downfall of tho party than anything else. Well, it is dovyn, and when its twin fraud, the Democratic party, is as badly stretched, there will be some chance for the people.

. The commissioners of Henry county, when presented a bill similar to the ones presented by the Republican and Sentinel of nearly S6OO for printing the sample ballots in their publications, they refused to pay the bill on the grounds that it was excessive. They claimed the publisher was entitled to regular advertising rates only. The case will be carried to the courts. If the commissioners of this county had taken the same course S4OO or SSOO would have been saved to the tax payers of the county.

Out in Kansas the Republicans, finding themselves overwhelmingly defeated, ’ have sought to save themselves by perjury, forgery and counting out. To carry out their schemes they needed a great many rascals, and Republican rascals in Kansas just now seem to be quite numerous, but they are not all such, for one has revolted and said, that while he was willing to do almost any dirty political work assigned him, yet he felt he must draw the line somewhere, so when called upon to help steal a seat in the legislature, he drew the line right there and gave away the whole scheme, to the utter dismay of-the unsanctified lot. Oh, we are glad you are not all thieves.

Recently we gave a short history of our one and two-cent coins and showed that their weight and fineness have at different times been reduced, and yet their money value has remained the same. We also showed that the commercial value of the material of which these coins are made is almost nothing as compared with their money value. The laws of 176566 provide for the coinage of a three and five-cent piece. These coins are composed of 75 parts copper and 25 parts nickel. The value of a jiound of this metal is seventy cents and from it can be coined one hundred five-cent pieces worth five dollars in gold or in any other lawful money. Four dollars and thirty cents of this pound of metal, when coined, is money, is value created by law, and seventy cents of it is intrinsic or commerical value. The law of 1792 made' our silver dollars weigh 4124 grains, and the fifty - cents weigh one-half the weight of the dollar, and the twenty-five cents weigh one-fourth the weight of the dollar. These two fractional coins were a full legaltender for any amount up to 1853. In this year they were made 7 per cent, light, and a legal tender for only five dollars. Up to five dollars, ten of these light half dollars, or twenty of these light quarters were legally, just as valuable as five pure standard silver dollars. Lightened in weight, therefore reduced in commercial worth, yet these coins in the change lost none of their money value. In 1873, congress authorized the coinage of the trade dollars. This dollar was to be of the same fineness as the standard dollar, but 74 grains heavier than it. Now, this trade dollar of course contained more silver than the standard dollar, is then really of more intrinsic value than the