People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Watch the speeches of your congressmen. They are made to quote from in the next campp/sgn. “Money talks.” That’s why there were 239 congressmen ready to talk and vote for the plutocrats and only 110 for the people. Tariff, pictures just now seem to be lost sight of. Guess they are overshadowed by the bankers’ “bust ” or darkened by Sherman’s silhouette. The Republican party is divided into the administration Republicans and the anti-admin-istration Republicans. “Old Cleveland did it.” Judging by the tone of the speeches in congress, the “issue” between the Democratic and Republican parties has been knocked out. What a strange sight it is to see the big guns of the Republican party joining heart and hand with Cleveland in undoing Republican legislation. A notable feature of the present congress is the facility with which the majority of its members speak on both sides of the silver question. They are nearly all bi-metalists “if.” There is much virtue in “if.”

The Democratic party has for a long time been following in the footsteps of the Republican party, but it has caught up now, and the two old skeletons march along side by side very harmoniously. The world do move! Keep your eye on the fact that the gold now being imported is consigned to the same houses that exported it, by the same houses to whom it was sent and in the same packages, the seals never having been * broken. Then answer, “why money is scarce.” If congress would give us a system of government banks run in connection with the so called presidential post offices, then issue a sufficient amount of money to do the business of the country, times would soon be good and money panics would be a thing of the past.

The Democratic and Republican parties are consolidating against the People's party in Kansas, but the People's party will beat them both. The time is not far distant when the two old parties will unite nationally in the effort to beat the new party, which is making such wonderful growth. But they’ will fail. For the first half of this century, the world’s product of sitter in each year about doubled that of gold, yet under free coinage the two metals were kept at a parity at a ratio of 15 to 1. Then the discovery of gold in California and Australia just reversed these relative amounts, and if the law of supply and demand operated in the money metals gold would have fallen to about $5 an ounce. But instead of this the disparity of value was less than 3 per cent, until silver was demonetized. Thus, you see, it was not until silver had been reduced to a commodity that the values of the two metals began to diverge.