People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JARS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JARS.

When a republican asks a friend of both gold and silver as money to depend upon the republican party for the rehabilitation of silver, ask him to explain the republican league convention at Cleveland. Ohio, a few days ago. When a democart says his party will reinstate silver, ask him to explain the Kentucky State convention of last week.—Progressive Farmer. The first silver dollars coined in the United States had stamped upon their rim or circumference “Hundred Cents, One Dollar or Unit.” This ought to settle the question as to what was the unit of money, or price, established by the fathers. These dollars contained 3711 grains of pure silver, precisely the amount of pure silver contained in the standard silver dollar of to-day which the modern gold-bug says must be redeemed in gold to make it good.—The Progressive Farmer.

The democratic editors of this state called a convention at Maximkuckee and passed the following terrifying resolution: Resolved. That one does not really have to cross a swollen stream at once, or if the bridge spanning it is shaky and in need of repair, and is being repaired, and if, besides, the stream is falling and gives promise of being in such condition that it may be forded or crossed dry-shod before one needs to be on the other side, it is the part of wisdom to camp under the olive branches in the shady grove on this side of the river.—Fowler Leader.

Ex President Harrison has expressed dissatisfaction with a model for a statue of his grandfather. Inasmuch as his grandfather was never a citizen of Indiana. and his native state of Ohio and his relatives have left his grave unmarked all these years, we fail to see Wherein exPresident Harrison should interfere if Indiana is silly enough to erect a statue of his grandfather, or any other deceased Ohioan, unless, as the Elkhart Truth suggests, ■ the old man's hat isn't on straight.” In his objections, however, the ex-president-has a large following. Most Indianians object not only to the model but to the statue itself.—Delphi Citizen. The county democracy of New York adopted the following resolution: That we condemn the legislation which for a generation has forced upon us an unsound currency from the fiat legal-tender greenback to the depreciated silver, by which of late our industries have been paralyzed. The Leader believes that the war against the rebellion was right. That means to crush that rebellion, among which were issuance of greenbacks, were right. It is a part of the democratic scheme, which the Indianapolis Journal has adopted to retire the greenback along with silver and i substitute bank notes. Behind i these notes is a never ending i interest bearing debt. They propose to buy an income, as fixed as taxes, which posterity shah pay. - That is what the retirement of greenback means. Fowler Leader.