People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — JOURNALISTIC JABS. [ARTICLE]

JOURNALISTIC JABS.

This time next year. 1*96. free silver Democrats and free silver Republicans will eat crow or bolt the old ticket.—Logansport Advance. if Gov. Altgelt. of Illinois, makes a habit to call the legislature together when the thing hasadjourned itself into harmlessness, he will get himself disliked.—Farmer's Voice. It is sometimes charged that the money power desires to substitute a monarchy for the Republic. Great Scott! Cleveland and Congress can see a monarchy and go several better.-Farmer's Voice

If all the gold in the world were equally divided among all the people of the world, it would not be large enough to be seen with the naked eye. Yet we are asked to make this the basis of all the promises of all the people.—Frankfort Times. The gold-bug organ-in-chief in Chicago is doing, its best to ridicule the Harvey-Horr debate. It calls it “a freak museum/’ This is pretty hard on Brother Hon. who was going to annihilate the “school boy” before breakfast on the second day.— Inter Ocean. The editor of the senior organ of the Democratic party opened his eyes last week long enough to announce that he had the largest circulation in the county. As he carries his weekly grist to the postoffice in a small peach basket the Journal is inclined to doubt the truth of the statement. —Delphi Journal.

Every one of the many recent converts to free silver is a witness to the truth that his own party has been wrong on this question these many years and that the people’s party has been right. Why, then, may w’e not be right on the other great questions? Why not join the people's party, which is the only party really favoring free silver.— Farmer’s Tribune.

The Chattanooga, Tenn., banker who wrote a book, laments the fact that while we go to experts in the several lines of business when we want advice or service, we refuse to go to the banker when we want advice on finance. Sensible people never go into a lion’s den to learn what the brute thinks of raw meat. They study the subject at a respectful distance.—Farmer’s Voice.

Colonel Watterson. in the Louisville Courier Journal, says the record of the Democratic party from 1861 to 1895 is “a history of one blunder following another in almost unbroken succession.” and what it needs is a set of new leaders with the courage of their convictions, “not noisy zealots, drunk upon the verbosity of their own rhetoric.’’ All of which goes to show that Henry knows a whole lot,—Delphi Journal.

The Harvey-Horr debate is still going on. Horr is getting the worst of it, decidedly, and is squealing like a stuck" pig. He continually dodges the main point, his only argument being ridicule, but his ridicule don’t go All the applause and enthusiasm is on Harvey’s side. Horr is now aware that he has caught a Tartar, and wishes he was out of it. But Harvey will pour hot shot into him while he him in the corner.—Tipton Union Dispatch.

One’of the much used arguments against the free coinage of silver is that it will drive gold out of circulation. It is argued that silver will at once become the standard, and that gold will go to a premium and be retired. Suppose it does, who will be the loser? How much gold is in actual circulation now? How many of our readers have handled ten dollars in gold in a year? We are reduced to a single gold standard, yet in the ordinary transactions of life silver pays a thousand dollars to where gold pays one. Let them retire gold if they want to. The fact is, they can't retire it more effectually than it is. But it will not have that effect. When 16 ounces of silver are worth as much for mintage and debt-paying purposes as.one of gold. its bullion vaiue will rise to a parity with the bullion value of gold. When silver in the United States is worth a hundred cents for coinage who will take less for any other purpose? And who in afi the world will take less than 100 sents for silver bullion when it is worth that in the United States? Give us free coinage ind let gold take cate of itself. —Tipton Union Dispatch.