People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — LEARN OF FRANCE. [ARTICLE]

LEARN OF FRANCE.

She Alain tains Rime tall is in and Is Strong Financially. It is an important and strongly suggestive fact that, from a financial point of view, France is to-day the strongest nation upon the glob*. In full possession of free coinage of both gold and silver, and with a silver circulation far exceeding that of gold, and still being augmented by purchase, she has not asked England or Germany whether she could or should demonetize silver, but moves calmly on, confident through experience and in the intelligence of her people in her ability to maintain a sound and reliable double standard and free coinage for herself alone if necessary, showing thereby her greatness and sagacious financial system, whose value and practicability is proven by the universal prosperity of her citizens. There is matter in the contemplation of contrast between the existing conditions of prosperity in the French repubiic and those found at this moment in nearly or quite all gold standard countries, which should inspire every statesman, every lover of his country, every man who can influence thought and action, to resist the encroachment of the money power upon the liberties and happiness of the American people through the pernicious banking and financial system, directed by and carried on in the personal interest of onethird of one percent, of our population, at the hitter cost of the great remainder. —Breckenridge (Col.) Bimetallic.