People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — A Late Day to Begin. [ARTICLE]

A Late Day to Begin.

We have been a nation for more than one htAidred years, and have never, until recently, applied to the governments of Europe or sought an alliance with them for the settlement of the money or any other domestic question. To do so now is to disregard the solemn warnings of Washington in his farewell address to the American people.

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