People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Silver Threads. [ARTICLE]

Silver Threads.

Why change the ratio and make the silver dollar larger when it commands a premium as it now is?—Tipton (Ind.) Union-Dispatch. If the senate passes the bill to repeal the Sherman law, congress will then be asked to mortgage the country for gold by an issue of 1800,000,000 goldbearing bonds.—Grand Forks (N. D.) News. Colorado republicans seem determined on organizing a new party, tha planks of whose platform shall be free silver, free trade, western rights, antimonopoly and retaliation.—Las Vegas (N. M.) Optic. It has narrowed down to a fight between the east on the one side and tha west and the south on the other side, and on this line the battle will be fought in the next congressional and presidential election.—-Dillon (Mont.) Examiner. Silver is either a commodity or it ie real money. “Concessions” which only put out a little more silver token money are worth no more for a bimetallic standard than concessions which would put out a little more paper money on the government’s gold reserve.—St. Louis Republic. From time immemorial silver has been used as money and upon this use its value was based. When congress said that it could no longer be used as money it was but natural that its price should fait Restore the use upon which its original value depended and silver will take its old-time price in the markets.—Salem (HL) Herald. Gold-bugs tell us that the Sherman law is the cause of the hard times and financial distress, bijt they have never told us how it has wrought all the evil, nor can they. The crime of 1878 is what is causing the trouble. Not one sound argument has been advanced to show that the repeal of the Sherman law will benefit the country one bit.— Dayton (Nev.) Times.