People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — “COIN’S FINANCIAL. SCHOOL.” [ARTICLE]

“COIN’S FINANCIAL. SCHOOL.”

It Is the “Uncle Toni’s C abin” jThat Will Set Silver Free. From The luter-Ocean. York. Neb , Feb. 18.—To the Editor.—No national issue has been boiled down, leaving only the double extract,since the days of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” until Coin presented the question of silver slavery. The little book is finding its way into thousands of homes in every State. It is loaned to the neighbors until it is worn out. The creditor class is reading the book to find weak points that can be attacked. The only criticism yet made is a surface one. It is said that Coin did not have a school al all. The men referred to are men of “straw,” raised up only to strike them under the belt. They say it is an imaginary school. The average reader of the book does not care whether Lyman Gage or any other one named was at the school or not. When they read “Uncle Tom's Cabin” not one thought or cared a tig about Eliza, Eva or Uncle Tom. When these same enemies of silver say to their boys, “If Henry has six marbles and James has four, how many have both?” they do not expect the boys to ask whether or not Henry was the fellow who had the four marbles and James six, or as to whether, in fact,Henry and James existed at all. The juice of what they want to impress on the boys’ thought tanks with straw boys and straw marbles is the fact that six and four are ten. So with Coin. The problem is stated, and every pupil in its great American school must in the near future write his answer and drop that answer m the ballot box. The struggle is now on. It must be met the same as was the owners of slaves. Those owners had only a personal interest in that question. The owners of the debts the people owe have only a personal interest in the slavery of silver. The question of vested rights is the only tightirg giound ike "old men have left. That was the shield the owners of men and women raised between their property and freedom. The Nation said, instead of a vested right, it was a vested wrong. The Nation today, by a majority in both houses of Congress, says that silver slavery is not a vested rn lit, but a vested wrong, and that vested wrongs must be abolished, even though it causes loss to the comparatively few personally interested. America believes first in the rights of man, then in the rights of property. M. C. Frank.