People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — What Does it Mean? [ARTICLE]

What Does it Mean?

Bland says the house will keep Cleveland vetoing silver bills to the end of the session. What is the significance of that? This, and nothing less: It means, as the Populists warned the Democrats, that when the Sherman law was repealed without adequate accompanying legislation protecting silver, that all further increase of silver money was ended. Democratic leaders said no, that out of the way, and then we will give “liberal silver legislation.” Repeal was secured and the first, only, and most insignificant measure looking to the increased use of silver was promptly vetoed by the autocrat of the White House. Voorhees knew it, Carlisle knew it, Bynum knew it, they all knew it, knew silver was betrayed and their national platform repudiated, but they did not care for those things, they only cared lest they could not fool their constituents and get back where they could further serve Wall street and further fill their pockets. They have served Wall street and got the swag, now if they can fool the people and get back they will be all right. To do this they must, from this time on, be zealous silver advocates, pass silver bills, denounce Wall street and the money power, send home buncombe free coinage speeches, and when they return to their constituents, they can say, why I am a free coinage man, voted for free coinage bills, made free

coinage speeches, what more can you ask? Their crime lies in the fact that they gave Wall street all it asked for without protecting the people, and if returned they will sell you out again; they are in that business. What has Voorhees, Bynum or any of them done for the people? Nothing, nor have they tried to do anything. Why didn’t a free coinage clause go into the repeal bill if they wanted free coinage. Why didn't they tie the secretary's hands if they didn’t want bonds sold? They have a hundred majority in the house and a good working majority in the senate, counting the Populists. Then why didn’t they do these things? Simply because they didn't want or intend to. All the talk and blow and voting for silver from now on, will be done with neither desire or expectation of increasing the use of silver money, but done to get back where they can further serve Wall street, till their pockets and again betray the people. Hemp did you say? Yes. Well we guess that is what is noeded.