People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Bidicule No Argument. [ARTICLE]

Bidicule No Argument.

No politidal party ever existed that in its beginnings was more unmercifully ridiculed than the republican party; and perhaps no party was ever more wickedly misrepresented by its opponents. But ridicule did not effect it. It went steadily forward to marvelous victory. And one would suppose that, remembering its experience, its press would know better than to think that it can crush any political movement by ridicule. Yet that is the chief weapon which is wielded against the advocates -of free coinage and the populists. It is both futile and foolish. Both the silver sentiment and the populist movement have grown and are growing. They are elements in our politics that no sensible politician will ignore, for one of the plainest principles of generalship is to recognize the strength of the opposing army. We are constantly told that the “silver craze” is dead. It is not a craze and it is not dead. We are repeatedly informed that the “pop ulist folly” is over. The populist creed is no more a folly than any other political creed and not nearly so much as some; and it is not over. No movement that is backed by men of conviction, as’the populist movement is backed, is ever over until it achieves a victory. The Farmers Voice is not a partisan paper. It discusses political matters from an indepenpent standpoint and it is simply gives expression to political facts. It is not responsible for the fact.—Farmers’ Voice. Flour and meal at J. H. Cox’s.