People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — GOLD VERSUS PAPER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOLD VERSUS PAPER

UNiON SOLDIER AND GREENBACK CURRENCY. Fought Side by Side —National Supremacy Sustained by Their United Effort* — Gold I* a Coward and Retreat* in Time of War. In 1862, when liberty was assailed by grim-visaged war, gold, as ever a coward, retreated to vaults and to Europe. Then as Minerva sprung full armed andYeady for victorious combat from the brain of her parent, so sprang from the brains of wise statesmen the millions of greenbacks ready to save the menaced nationality. They sheltered, fed, clothed and armed the soldiers; built ironclads and manned them not alone for the union, but for the confederacy as well. With the aid of the boys in blue they conquered. Peace once here, the coward, gold, whose emisaries had traitorously crippled the nation by crippling the greenback, returned, and has been for thirty years waging subtle and Insidious war upon the national life by seeking to destroy the savior of ’65 —the greenback. Now the warfare is open and avowed. The battle is on, it is Gold vs. Greenback. Will the American patriots stand firm? Will the G. A. R. see its comrade defeated? Will the son of the veteran see the power that saved, through his father, liberty for him, destroyed? Traitors they who cry out against the greenback! It is as much a sign of nationality and sovereignty as is the flag. “Shoot him on the spot who hauls down one” is the cry. Of the two the greenback has most power, and he who decrys that should be exported with gold to some country where liberty is not. Beware of any cry that does not include all the Omaha platform. Let not our ranks be divided by the silver issue. The whole includes all its parts. The People’s party includes free silver and more.' Encourage the free silver discussion in the old parties, but shoulder to shoulder forward under the banner on which is money, land and transportation. To that banner all shall yet rally, and the first battleground—the silver dollar —only prepares the way for the victory for the legal tender paper. Let dissention rage and disrupt the bld. All fragments thrown off by schism will unite with this large young party that has no leveller and acknowledges no authority but truth and justice. As well curtail the declaration of 1776 as that at Omaha. Rejoice in the new parties and stand flrm on the platform now builded, and unto which they shall step. After taking the first silver step the other two will be easy. The dawning light of victory is in these signs of disintegration in the old. “Every crumbling altar stone That falls upon the ways of time, Eternal wisdom has o’erthrown To build a temple more sublime.’* —Chicago Express.

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