People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — What the People Want. [ARTICLE]

What the People Want.

The only duty of congress is to coin money and regulate the value thereof. They cannot refuse, constitutionally, to coin silver any more than gold, both being the money metals in use at the time of the adoption of the constitution. As soon as the legislators of this nation learn that their sole duty is to admit silver or gold to absolutely free coinage at the mints, leaving to the people to choose which they prefer in their business, we shall have prosperity. It is a novel argument in the United States that we must arrange all our business to suit England, because, forsooth, we want to borrow from her. “The borrower is servant to the lender.” Let England keep her money or loan it in Australia or the Argentine republic.—Cor. N. Y. Press.