People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Rights of Property. [ARTICLE]

Rights of Property.

A writer, discussing the present financial situation, says: “Property values have some rights to survive.” That’s right. The prices of corn and wheat, pumpkins and potatoes, hog and hominy, have as much right to an increase as have the values of bonds, mortgages, promissory notes and gold dollars. “A dollar will buy more now than ever before,” means that it takes more garden truck and farm produce to get • dollar than ever before. Why should the shade-dweller’s income increase in value while the prices of the workingman’s outgo go down? Property values have some rights in the case as well as the values of dollars, hoarded, awaiting good “chances.” The dollars that are so plentiful increase in value even as they lie idle in the vaults of the banks waiting. And so has the value of wheat increased, you say? Yes, in the elevators —not in the wheat-bin. Not much. You had wheat —“something to sell,” and you hoped to get “plenty of money.” Did you get It? If not, why not? Why not? Can you cure the matter with votes? If not, why not? If so, how? Think!—Nevada Director.