People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — GROWING BRIGHTER. [ARTICLE]

GROWING BRIGHTER.

Light Breaking Upon the People of the Keystone State. While the Pennsylvania republicans, in convention assembled, went by no means as far in their declarations with regard to silver as the bimetallists of the west could have desired, or as many of them fondly hoped they would go, their position will be generally accepted as a favorable sign of the advance of bimetallic sentiment in the east. It would have been much more satisfactory to advanced bimetallists if the I’ennsylvania convention had stopped with the declaration that “the Americans, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the republican party demands the use of gold and silver as money.” It would have been even more satisfactory if the convention had made a simple declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the stated ratio of 16 to 1. The leaven is working. The great body of the people in the east is beginning to appreciate that there is somewhere a wrong that cannot be cured by any legislation which has been proprosed by its representatives. It is approaching the point where it will not only realize to the fullest extent that more money is needed, but that the money can be supplied justly and honestly by silver, and paper based upon gold and silver, and by these alone. If the honest silver men can but convince the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant and the laboring man of the east that they have no affinity with those who would debauch the currency through irredeemable inflation methods, the victory for free coinage will have been substantially won.—Colorado Sun.