People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — THE GOLD BUG LIARS. [ARTICLE]

THE GOLD BUG LIARS.

WHERE "SOUND MONEY” CAMPAIGN IS CONDUCTED. Enormous Expense to Spread Wall Street Theories —Plate Matter Service Free to Newspapers All Over the Country. The campaign now in progress in behalf of sound money promises to be one of the most exciting in the history of the financial world. In every state in the union the friends and foes of free silver are marshaling their forces, and from now on until after the presidential election next year the great topic of discussion in political circles will be the money question. The headquarters of the anti-silver men in New York are at No. 52 Williams street, on the fifth floor of the Union building. The organization is known as the Reform club, and has for its president Charles S. Fairchild, formerly secretary of the treasury. The hard work of the club is intrusted to a committee on sound currency, of which John DeWitt Warner, formerly representative in congress, is chairman, and Calvin Tompkins is secretary. They were compelled only the other day to secure their presnt commodious quarters in order to carry on the crusade against free silver. The club believes that the present free-silver craze is due largely to the ignorance of the masses on financial questions, and that the quickest way to check the fallacy and make sound currency legislation possible is to educate the voters by carefully prepared papers and pamphlets from the pens of wellknown writers on the currency experiences of this and other countries. This is the work which the committee on sound currency has undertaken. Byron W. Holt and L. Carroll Root look after the editing of the sound money newspaper articles that appear regularly in the several supplements of the club, and Mr. H. S. T. Kissam, of Yale university, attends to a good part of the correspondence. The club has been busy for more than a year In getting classified lists of voters, and has spent many thousands of dollars in this work alone.

For example, if it is desired to reach bank officials, the secretary of the committee can, within a comparatively short time, communicate directly with more than 30,000 bank presidents and cashiers scattered throughout the country. Again, the names of more than a million of the most prominent farmers in the United States are in the list of the club's classified addresses. Secretary Holt keeps a watchful eye on the newspapers of the country, and secs that they are constantly supplied with all sorts of arguments and articles bearing on the campaign. The result Is that the club's efforts are pretty thoroughly heralded up and down the land, and every mail brings in marked copies of newspaper articles or a big batch of letters making inquiries of one kind or another. The hundred thousand “supplements” filled with solid money literature are sent out every week, and beginning now a “plate matter” factory to supply fresh plate matter on the currency question to every paper In the land that wants it, and the cost will be only the freight or express charges. The work of the Reform club, however, does not begin to meet the needs of the case. In the west there are two silver papers to every gold-basis organ, and silver orators are legion. But the club does not confine its operations to its subscribers arid supporters alone. It is reaching out after the students In the colleges and universities. For example, in Cornell, Colum-f bin, Michigan university, and the College of the City of New York, the club’s publications have many readers, and they formed themselves into centers for the dissemination of sound currency literature.

If anyone doubts that there is a great battle on band, he has only to see the stinging letters that are received from the silver followers In various states. The sound money advocates are branded as "rascals,” "robbers.” "yellowbellied traitors alongside of whom Benedict Arnold was an angel," and a hundred other epithets. The reports received at the sound money headquarters show that the situation is serious, as regards sound money views, throughout the United States. West of the Mississippi there are few states that can safely be counted on as anti-silver states. All through the west free-silver fallacies seem to be widespread. Arkansas is hopelessly lost and Nebraska is not far behind. Even Pennsylvania shows that it needs looking after. The Manufacturers’ club of Philadelphia has thrown out its banner for bimetallism, and Senator Don Cameron is an open and avowed friend of free silver. The south is about evenly divided be- ' tween thm tw* e**ip*b with the chances Ip. t'-tvor of the noun de money rtUfii.--New York Herald.