People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — CHOKE THEM OFF. [ARTICLE]

CHOKE THEM OFF.

Money Made of Paper or Green Ghees* Just as Good as that Made of Gold. We hope sometime to see congress wise enough and patriotic enough to take the gold-bugs by their rascallythroats and choke their infernal wind off! How? Restore the sole right to issue money to Uncle Bam—and that money will lie just as good If made of paper or of green cheese as of gold. The intrinsic or commodity value of the metal in a $lO coin has nothing to do with its debt-paying or purchasing power. If the gold-bugs don’t believe it, demonetize goldi and prove it to them! We do not believe in metal money, nor in “basing” ten or twenty dollars of paper on one of coin—for the pur-, pose of enabling sharks to bring on a panic when they see fit, to line their coffers at the expense of the people. Nor do we believe iim basing money on debt (government or other bonds), for that necessitates debt If it had not been for the machination and tinkering of the national bankers there would not be a United States government bond in existence to-day—nor would any have been issued. The government issued greenbacks during the war and swapped its interestbearing notes (bonds) for its non-in-teaest-bearing notes(greenbacks). And that’s the way the government got money to carry on tine war! Gold went into hiding, and not a soldier received it after the first pay~«)ay.—Chicago Free Trader.