People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Give Us the Law. [ARTICLE]

Give Us the Law.

The leaders of the two old parties are becoming somewhat alarmed at the demonstrations being made by the people, and the growing popularity of the principles embodied in the People’s party platform. Many of them, especially in the South and West, are now professing great friendship for free silver. We have no confidence in their sincereity. They pretend to be making a fight for a plank in the next national platform declaring in favor of free silver. Suppose they succeed. What good will that plank do? What the people want is a law providing for the free coinage of silver. The two old parties are in power. If they are sincere they can give us a law providing for free silver at any time they choose to do so. If they don’t do it it is proof

that all this talk about a free sliver plank in the platforms is bosh— a mere subterfuge and catch-vote trick. It has come to (he point now-that the way-to catch votes is to do and not promise. The people have learned that promises made by the two old parties are not worth the paper on which they are written. If the two old parties are sincere in their professions of friendship for silver, let them “show their faith by their works.” They have the power to make the law. Give us the law, gentlemen, we have promises enough.