People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — How Not To Legislate. [ARTICLE]

How Not To Legislate.

Prominent republican leaders in congress are already telling the people there will be no legislation on the currency question during the next session of congress. Of course not; nobody with any sense expects anything of the kind from the congress that will convene next month. It was not elected to legislate upon any question touching the vital interests of the people. As the national campaign is just ahead, the farce, “How Not to Do It” will be on the boards at Washington this winter. The time will be taken up and the people’s money will be expended in getting ready for the campaign next year, and that will be to do just as little legislation as possible. If the people want a congress that will work and legislate for them they must first elect one of that kind.—Sound Money.

When the gold reserve reaches 175,000,000 more bords are to be issued. The deal has already been made. It is to be with New York bankers this time, and the kind of bonds are the 4 per cent bonds of 1882 taken on a 3 per cent basis. Let the “endless chain” grind. In Kansas tha.twas“redeemed” by the republicans from the “calamity howlers” last year, corn is now selling for ten cents per bushel. That kind of redemption will hardly fool those people at the next election. The repulicans have already given it out that no financial legislation is to be attempted this winter. They are to lay low and prepare for the campaign.