People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The gold-bugs raise the cry of repudiation when the free coinage of silver is demanded. It is simply the old cry of “stop thief" raised by them to conceal their own high-handed purposes lof robbery, and is too gauzy to j deceive the most simple. It is j they who are the repudiationists. j They wish to repudiate contracts made under a double standard by having them settled under a single standard. This would increase their value two fold and such contracts would be two fold harder to fulfill. The creditor classes are fully determined to perpetrate this robbery upon the people and will do so unless with equal determination the people say by their voters it shall not be done. Republicans say all this financial distress comes from fear of tarilT legislation; Democrats say the. Sherman law is responsible for it. Is it the fear of free trade and the operations of the Sherman law that is causing such great distress in other countries? Is it not reasonable to believe that the same thing that is giving us trouble is injur- i ing others. There is surely one universal cause that is producing this universal complaint. If free trade is hurting us it is surely helping others, and the Sherman act can hardly be so far reaching as to carry calamity around the world. No, this unparallelled panic that is cursing every land is caused by the money power of the world trying to establish the single gold standard.