People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — The Bushel vs. the Dollar. [ARTICLE]

The Bushel vs. the Dollar.

The vital point of all this currency question is simply one of volume. The creditor class demands that the volume of money shall be decreased, that the purchasing power of dollar may be enhanced. The debtor justly objects to contraction which makes his labor and products of less purchasing power. The one deals in gold and says, “Give me a dollar of high purchasing power; down with silver, down with greenbacks.” The other produces corn, and should echo his demand, “Give me a bushel of high purchasing power.”