People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — Waked Up at Last. [ARTICLE]

Waked Up at Last.

It is now something over a year since the Coin Publisning Company of this city began the issuance of its financial series, the most famous of which is “Coin’s Financial School.” This publication is having the most phenominal sale of any romance with or without a purpose since Harriet Martineau’s famous series and Mrs. Stowe's “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The Tribune figures somewhat in the “School,” and after months of silence and indifference that paper breaks out in a hysterical fit of blackguardism. It waited until all classes of the community, far and near, from college presidents, bankers, and professional men to the draymen on the street and the mighty army of wage workers, are talkmg about it, before throwing spitballs, and then, as usual, falls to calling names, drawing liberally upon the lexicon of billingsgate. This is just what might have been expected, and shows the old inability to distinguish between argument and abuse. The amazing popular demand for this publication shows that the American people are indeed pupils in the school of finance. Never before in the history of the country were the voters, learned and unlearned, rich and poor, so eager to know the real facts and bottom truth about our monetary system. The times are woefully out of joint, and the question is: “What can we do to be saved from going over the brink of bankruptcy?” There is a general determination to restore silver to its old and legitimate place as a money metal. Just what has to be done and undone to secure such restoration is the question of the hour. It cannot be answered by drawing upon the sophisms of theorists, and least of all by vilification.—lnter Ocean.