People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — The Latest Trick. [ARTICLE]

The Latest Trick.

Sllver men, free coinage advocates, are getting on to dangerous ground. It is dangerous ground because it includes the fatal quagmire of “compromise.” What is the use to talk of restoring silver as the first step, if the questions of ratio, limit and parity are to be "adjusted"—yes "adjusted” is the word — after silver is restored? “Restored” to what? Say! "Restored” to what? What does a man mean who favors the restoration of silver without naming the ratio? Rehabilitation without naming the ratio? Re-establishment without any ratio? Resuscitation without any ratio? Rejuvenescence without any ratio? Suppose silver is restored—restored to free coinage. How can there be any coinage till the Size of the coin is fixed? How can that be until the ratio is definitely agreed upon? Restoration without a ratio is a sham a play upon words, a sneaking, cowardly, double-tongued trick of Wall street, the subsidized press, and the cuckoos. It is one of the weeds which is already sprouting up in the “fallow ground” of the two old political parties. Jerk it up by the roots!—Nevada Director.