People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — As to the Future Policy. [ARTICLE]

As to the Future Policy.

The follow ing are Senator Peffer’s views as to the future policy of our party. “Populists wisely placed the money question first in their platform. The money power now agrees with us that this is the leading issue of the time. Its representatives in high places have removed from the statue books the last vestige of law requiring the coinage of silver dollars and the issue of paper money. They have brought the business of the country to a gold basis; they have stopped Ihe coinage of all orher kinds of money and now they propose to withdraw from circulation our government paper and substitute bank notes in its place, thus placing the people’s business affairs at the mercy of the speculators. We can not escape the itsue if we would. It is upon us. The practical question for us to determine it, how can we best concentrate the voice and vote of men who take the same view that we do of this great and pressing issue? A proper discussion of the money question involves every idea in the Populist platform. We need not and ought not to abandon a principle we hold dear, but we can press our leading idea more boldly, more aggressively and more exclusively than we have done, and with this key solve the problem yet to come.