People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — A CENTER SHOT. [ARTICLE]

A CENTER SHOT.

A Calamity Howler Gives a Group of Business Men a Lesson In Finance. During the exciting run on the Illinois Trust and Savings bank of Chicago, a group of business men stood nctir by discussing the financial situation and suggesting such remedies as to them seemed best calculated to "restore confidence” to bank depositors. "The president should at onoe put a stop to any more gold leaving the country,” said one. “That’s what is playing tne mischief. ” "A special session of congress should be called at once to repeal the Sherman act,” said another. “Another issue of bonds is the only thing that will save the country now,” said a third.” “Gentlemen, there is only one way to restore confidence to the people on money matters and do it effectually,” said an old “calamity howler,” who has been howling for the last ten years about this very calamity that has just fallen upon the banks, and through the banks upon the people. "Substitute the credit of the government for bank credits by a sufficient issue of greenbacks. Then establish government depositories for money where a man can have the entire wealth of the country behind every dollar he deposits. Then, and not till then, can you put an end to money panics and such scenes as this. You have all got to come to it in time.” Saying which the C. H. squared himself for another round. But not a word of dissent followed. The single populist cannon had completely silenced the old party batteries. It was a center shot.—Chicago Express.