People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Prices Would Go Up. [ARTICLE]

Prices Would Go Up.

I Professor Laughlin is evidently proving too much and will have to be called ! down or he will give the gold bugs 1 away. In his article of May 9th, he is appealing to tjie wage earners to oppose free coinage as detrimental to , their interests thus: “And Just here ' is the reason the laborer does not care ; to' see free coinage of .♦iver, because i by free coinage the prices of the laborer's goods would go up double what ■they are now.” This frank admission ' from the gold s standard champion should settle the question so far as the farmer vote is concerned. If you want double prices. Professor Laughlin says that free coinage of silver will guarantee them. But the professor like ail. the ' gfrid standard advocates is very versatile. When he writes an appeal to the farmers, he will warn them against*’free coinage, because free coinage of silverwill drive gold opt of the country, thus contracting the volume of. money onehalf and as a result reduce prices onehalf.—Dakota Rural Ist. ~ The fight we are making now is against the combined money power of the world, yet some men seem to be taking things easy.