People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — Affidavit of Circulation. [ARTICLE]

Affidavit of Circulation.

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss. Francis D. Craig, Editor of tht People’s Pik>t,does solemnly swear that the actual number of bonafide subscribers to the People's Pilot is 13!#, exclusive of «B subscribers to the Mt Pleasant, low a. Referendum, which list has been combined with that of the People’s Pilot, and that the regular edition of the People's Pl jot printed during the past three months has been 2.000 copies, and that the number of new subscribers received for the People’s Pilot since the Ist day of January. 1895. exceeds 300. F. D. CraiG. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of May, 1895. David W. Shields. Notary Public.

The Debs outrage is a warning lo the sons of the ‘minute men’ of ’76. A real live gold bug who is not afraid of his colors, is entitled to respect, but the man who merits only contempt is the straddle bug- _____ The baseness and turpitude of the supreme court decision in the Debs’ case—establishing a government by injunction—makes their former infamous record appear virtuous by contrast. It is in vain to expect England to voluntarily consent to an international arrangement for the free coinage of silver when by so doing the cost to her of our wheat and our silver bullion would thereby be doubled.

The people of this country want neither a 50 cent dollar nor a 200-cent dollar, but the 100cent dollar of their fathers, which, without their knowledge or consent, was taken from them by the act of 1873. The issue is sharply defined. Those who do not favor free and unconditional coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, making the silver dollar the unit of value as was done under the act of 1792. are for the single gold standard. There is no middle ground. Our mountains contain enough of one of the precious metals to make us the richest nation oi. earth. If the seal on these mountains was broken and silver restored to the rank it enjoyed from the foundation of the republic up to the year 1873 we would speedily enjoy a monopo ly of the trade with India, China and all the South American states.

An international conference would be of value in elucidating the money question, for it would call out the arguments of the ablest students of monetary science in the world, says the Chicogo Record, but that great paper fails to state that those “ablest students of monetary science” would be the paid agents of the money power of England.