People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — A JURY WOULD HAVE ACQUITTED DEBBS. [ARTICLE]

A JURY WOULD HAVE ACQUITTED DEBBS.

Had there been a jury trial the defendants would have been discharged because it was not proved that they had violated any law. This would have been in harmony with the constitution, with the law of the land and with .eternal justice. But the corporations wanted the constitution brushed aside, and the federal judge kindly obliged them, and the supreme court has now approved his acts.—Gov. Altgeld.

Whether the act of 1792 was or was not surreptitiously repealed one thing is certain, the question of its repeal was never made an i issue in the politics of this country and the voice of the people 1 was never taken upon it at the polls or in any other manner, iNo party or faction ever de--1 manded its repeal and the peoi pie, and many senators and repI resentatives in congress at the j time of.its repeal, were ignorant of the fact that it -had -been repealed until long after the passage of the act. The question now is: Will the people approve jan act whereby one half of the metallic currency—one half of the money of redemption—of the ; country was practically stricken out of existence? This act necessarily appreciated the value of the metal that was retained as money and depreciated the i value of the metal that was demonetized. In this way the purchasing power of the metal retained as money was greatly augmented, while its debt-pay-Jing power was not at all in|cressed.