People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — A Communication. [ARTICLE]

A Communication.

Tefft. Ini., Nov. 1894. Ed. Pilot—ln the last issue of your paper I notice a request for correspondents in different localities, and seeing none from this pom', I concluded t> become an occassional one at least. We have had a very nice fall, good weather up to the election and since men, we have had very disagreeab’e an I squally w lather. Whether this was ci.is.‘d by the republican triamp i oi not Ido not know, but th are is us mucu reason to charge it to the i tthcans. as the panic and hard times of the last two years is chargeable to the democrats. The republicans in my opinion are not to blame for the weather since the election nor do I believe the democrats are resn >-isible for hard times or the panic. Our republican friends won d have us believe that remodeling of the tariff by the democrats caused ad the trouble, arid the Cleveland democrats agc'ewitu them on that point. Now I am not a democrat of tne Cleveland stripe nor have I any faitu in the republicans. lam an old time democrat, one that believes in the doctrines of j jerson. Jackson, Polk and B ichanan. I have no faith that t h- promised revival of business a id trade made by the republican speaker during the campaign, will he forthcoming. We can't have any revival under the presei> financial policy. We must return to the free coinage of silver or the issuing of government treasury promises. This crisis in our finance was brought about by the national banks and their co-workers, the

millio’ia They commenced this trouble when they attacked the Shermw, Law, and after s i in repealing it, undqr the promise to do something for silver. They have gone back on this promise and not only refuse to c»in what silver they have bought under that law, but clandestinely work for the driviig out of use what silver we have now coined. Not only do they do this, but they are striving to compel the government to take up the greenbacks with gel 1 and stop their use as money. If they succeed in driviig silver and green-backs out of circulation they cm replace tle a nount $800,000,000 in their p.’omise to pay and scoop in the i erost in the bonds thus issued, a >d get interest on their bank

notes to an equal amount. I lam ready to join hands with any party that will help to defeat it. The democrats have got the chance to defeat this policy and I trust they will do it, but seeing that they failed to redeem their pledges and are blindly following Cleveland, I have but little faith they will do it. The present old congress on meeting in December should pass a free coinage act the first thing they do, and business then would revive at once, but the banks and the millionaires will be on the look out and will pour out money like water to prevent it. If they succeed, our only hope is in the people to rise up and drive both old parties out and put in men who have some sympathy for the common laboring people of this country and who will give us money enough to do business with. With money the people can live under most any kind of 1 ariff.