People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — Self Condemnation. [ARTICLE]

Self Condemnation.

Ever since there has been a People's party, Republican press and politicians have denounced it for demanding the coinage of silver on the same terms that gold is coined. Shouted 70 cent dollar, dishonest dollar, short-legged dollar, but when the representatives of these hyprocritical scoundrels appear before the international monetary commission they demanded exactly w T hat the People’s party has always demanded, the free coinage of silver. If free coinage was wrong a year ago it is wrong yet, if right now it “was right then. These men speak the views of the administration; we ask when was it converted? We suspect, about the Bth of November. Does the president suppose that his enmity to silver and his wire pulling and log rolling to prevent -free coinage are unknown in Europe? The conduct of the president and the leaders of the party make us the contempt and laughing stock of the world and handicaps us as a nation in any attempt to restore to silver its monetary use. When will we

have men with brains enough to understand the best interest of the country and courage enough to stand up for it?