People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — IT WAS A CONSPIRACY. [ARTICLE]

IT WAS A CONSPIRACY.

At the recent non-partisan state silver convention held in Des Moines, the free silver people of lowa without'regard to party took measures to make the currency question the leading issue for this falls campaign. The delegates were enthusiastic for the white metal and were not slow to denounce the efforts of party leaders to prevent a free expression of opinion on the part of the voters of the state. Many republicans were conspicuous in their advocacy of free coinage. ' The man who attracted the most attention was Amos Steckel. the well-known banker of Bloomfield. lowa, who has been a lifelong republican until now. He was made chairman of the meeting. Iu his brief address on taking the chair Mr. Steckel insisted that the business of the world would easily absorb the product of the silver mines of the earth with but slight effort. The $4.000,000.000 of gold in circulation as

money, he contended, is not nearly sufficient to transact the commerce of the world. He claimed that the present deplorable condition of business was the result of a conspiracy on the part of the money changers of Europe and America, wbo, so long as we are confined to a single standard, will control the gold product and through it the commerce of the world.