People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We want more money. More money will make better times. Give us money cheap enough to use. Harvey wiped up the ground with bim. And now Mr. Horr wants “Coin'’ demonetized. The more you think the more of a man you will be. You can’t get free, silver by voting With a gold bug party. That was a bad mixture of candidates and platform in Kentucky. Every man, woman and child can Stand on a platform for more money. Both old parties are opposed to all reform, whether moral, political or social. Now, as a matter of fact, how much gold do you see circulating among the people? Yes, what the silver advocates want is money cheap enough to use in thenbusiness.

. The church deals too much in “futures” to help our present condition yery r much. Reform is a word that scares rascals. That is why the gold-bug conspirators hate the word. Whenever a modern preacher gets converted, to Christianity, he is kicked out of the church. It is safe to say that no other gold bug will tackle Harvey. He has wiped up the ground with two of them. If gold is “God’s money” why don’t "we go to the Lord in prayer for it, instead of going to Wall street in beggary? The government makes a dollar out of twenty cents worth of gold. Why can’t it make a dollar out of fifty cents worth of silver? Loan cheap money and demand payment in dear money is the banker’s idea of “sound currency.” We’ll learn ’em a trick or two. The Harvey-Horr debate interested everybody but the gold bugs. They felt the defeat so much that they don’t want to talk about it. There is nothing to be gained in talking for silver and voting for gold, and that is wliat the democrats have been doing for twenty years.

In their mad effort to confiscate the people’s property the gold bugs are ' likely to force the people to repudiate their debts as they repudiated slavery. We are waiting to see some one point out a free silver country that has to issue $160,000,000 worth of bonds to sustain its credit and meet its expenses. When the masses of the people begin to lose respect for the law and the courts, you may be sure that the law and the courts are becoming unworthy of respect. The only thing a free silver demo- ■ orat or republican can do “inside the ’'party” for free silver is to leak wind. Next year he will have to vote for a * gold bug or get out of the party. It does no good to kick unless you hit something. If you are in one of the old parties and are kicking against gold-bug domination the most effective kicking you can do is to kick yourself out of the party. This will probably be a revolutionary year. There are elections in thirteen states. Thirteen is an unlucky number for people who are opposed to an independent American system of government and finance. The one great inspiring principle of the People’s party is anti-monopoly. The currency question is the most important only because it is the money monopoly is the greatest of all. The People’s party is opposed to all monopolies.

It is a question of cheap dollars or cheap products.' The men who don’t work want dear doll&rd, The men who do work want- cheap dollars— that is, dollars that don’t require so much of their, products to buy. On which side are you? It is stated on good authority that Mr. Horr was engeged by New York gold men at a salary of SIOO a day to demolish Harvey. Now they are kicking because he didn’t earn his wages. He certainly worked hard enough, but didn’t produce anything accept sweat and wind. Since the republican leaders indorse the gold-bug policy of President Cleveland it is strange that they should point to the treasury deficit and bonds issued as an evidence of democratic incapacity. The democrats are simply carrying out the republican policy and that can’t be done without bonds. It may be that the same selfish spirit of greed that demands a better dollar than that of the contract by the creditors, is what moves the people to want to pay in a cheap dollar. At any rate they are going to do it, and have as much right to demand a cheaper dollar as the creditors have to demand a dearer dollar than the contract.