People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — Gold Not In It. [ARTICLE]

Gold Not In It.

As a matter of demonstrable fact the supposed relation of the gold standard to the best of civilization has no existence. Germany, for example, was upon a single silver basis when tne war with France was fought, and the civilization of the country, like its military power, was never higher. France is, and for centuries has been, one of the most highly civilized nations in the world. It has led mankind in the useful arts, and in the meantime it has proved itself to be possessed of resources which have permitted it to recover from disaster more quickly than any other European nation has ever done. But France has always used silver more largely than gold, and at this moment its stock of silver is greater than any in existence outside of India. Our revolutionary war was fought with depreciated paper notes, and the southern rebellion was suppressed with greenback money. Gold was clear out of reach in both cases.—Advance Thought.