People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — Courage Only Needed. [ARTICLE]

Courage Only Needed.

If our government was only bright enough and wise enough and brave enough right now to assume the aggressive, to call on the nations of the earth to join with it in a common ratio between gold and silver; to call on the republics of this continent to join with it in a ratio for gold and silver and for a common coinage, so that a coin of the United States would pass directly in Argentine or Brazil, and in the call give to the world notice that, whatever it might do, the United States had determined to use the gifts which had been put in our deserts and desert mountains and, following the experience of 4,000 years, and repudiating the experience of the last twenty years, would henceforth recognize and use silver as money, all the clouds in our sky would vanish away within ninety days. If there were a little courage and statesmanship in our national capital; if there was a little American manhood there to assert itself on the money question, the change would be like the change from the furious winds and frosts of March to the calm and the blooms of June.—Salt Lake Tribune.