People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — He is Satistled. [ARTICLE]

He is Satistled.

Rev. D. T. Phillips of Chicago in a recent communication to the press says: “I was a long time making up my mind. This silver question has been to me a most perplexing one. I wanted to read up on the question. I have a scrapbook at home, in which excerpts and other matter have been pasted, and they have helped me more effectually than any book published on this vexatious subject. For years 1 did my share in ridiculing the free-silver advocates. Ever since the debate between Messrs. Harvey and Laughlin I have made a special study of the subject. I had hoped that Prof. Laughlin would pulverize Harvey and his arguments into the finest powder. 1 was greatly disappointed in the professor, while Mr. Harvey not only astonished me with his argumentative presentations but succeeded also in knocking out what prejudices I had against “free-silver craze,” My conversion to bimetallism dates from that memorable night. I have carefully and studiously read ever since on both sides of the controversy, and I am satisfied now that free-silver has the best of the argument ”