People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — Evils of the Gold Standard. [ARTICLE]

Evils of the Gold Standard.

The evils we are now suffering have their origin in the gold standard, and will continue with increasing intensity so long as their cause is suffered to remain. This new policy was first entered upon by the commercial nations in 1873, and what we are now witnessing in this and other countries are its legitimate fruits. It is arresting production and compelling communities to subsist upon the past accumulations of the present and former generations. As only a small part of this aggregated wealth, even if it could be equally distributed, is in a farm to furnish us with the necessaries of life, the portion of it available will soon be conconsumed. What then! Let the bankers, whose gold policy is ruining their patrons, and the gold newspapers, whose financial heresies are wasting the country, think of this, and let them be assured that men will not starve and see their families starve and say nothing about it.—Chicago Times.