People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Consequences of Free Silver. [ARTICLE]

Consequences of Free Silver.

If the United States should return to the free coinage of silver we are told that this country would become the dumping ground for the silver of all Europe. Deal. dear, and what an alarming condition of affairs tills would be. Imagine, if you can. the English, Dutch, French, Scandinavians, Russians, Austrians, Italians and Spaniards dumping their enormous loads of foreign silver coins at the doors of the United States mint to be melted and r^-coined into American standard dollars.

Terrible as this would be, it might be born providence that these measelly foreigners would at once take their dollars and themselves out of the r-ountry to return no more forever. But this they probably would never do. but would proceed to trade dollars to our ignorant people for beef, pork, corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco plows, reapers, mowers, harvesters, cultivators, butter, eggs, cheese, iron, steel, cotton ard woolen fabrics, in fact, everything we produce, to such an ,extent that our farms and factories would be literally worn out in a vain effort to supply the demand. But worse than all this our poor working people would be kept too busy to tramp and this noble American passtime might be abandoned altogether, while our new enterprise which has just sprung into such importance as to be the leading topic throughout the entire nation, would be hopelessly crushed and our great generals Coxey and Kelley would find their occupation gone. But let us not despair while proud America can boast so many thousand noble millionaires . to., bravely lead the loyal masses, for they are pledged irrespective of party lines and we may trust them to see to it that our already over-worked people shall not be required to carry about great pockets full of money or have their time so employed that they will be unable to find leisure to tramp.