People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Legislation Did It. [ARTICLE]

Legislation Did It.

How could we expect to maintain its [silver’s] value when the two largest nations in the Avorld, and the two most important nations, Germany and the United States, struck it down and took away from it its money value and reduced it to the basis of silver spoons and forks and plate? We give free coinage to gold and it oes up and up, and say to it: “Here is the idol, financially, of the whole world.” Take away the monetary value of silver and then say: “Here is a metal that is debased and depreciated.” What has done it? It was legislation that did it; the settled determination by adverse laws for the benefit of the capitalists and the financial eentralizationists of the world to bring us to a gold basis for their own purpose.—Senator Vest.