People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — What They are Doing. [ARTICLE]

What They are Doing.

The free silver people need to understand that nothing that brains can suggest or money accomplish is deing left undone by the gold advocates to permanently impoverish the masses by making the dollar permanently worth 200 cents. We are in receipt of a pamphlet from a New York gold club giving full information of what is being done by these people. In the first place they are deluging the country with a semi-monthly publication that is being sent through the mails contrary to law. But it goes all the same. They are furnishing speakers; have sent out 1,532,000 copies of what they call “sound currency periodicals;” send out plate matter to such papers as will use it and are too poor in money to setup their own matter and too poor in brains to prepare it; furnish cartoons to such publications as will use them, in the attempt to accomplish by ridicule what they can not do by argument; and now they call for $25,000 more to carry on this work. The aim is to reach all classes of voters, as will be seen by this quotation from the pamphlet at hand: “It would be foolish to predict that even with any probable concurrence of favorable circumstances, we shall not yet have widespread and apparently formidable revivals of free silver and fiat money sentiment; and those of the least experience in educational work (which, to be permanently effective, must reach all classes of voters in all parts of the country) do not need to be told how rash would be any assumption that within a few months, or during any time short of years, it will be safe to count upon any permanent change in late convictions of prejudices of great masses of voters. ” There is one feature of this quotation, however, that will cause merriment in the hearts of the people. It clearly shows that the crowd is scared, and also contains the frank acknowledgment that the silver sentiment is widespread and powerful.—Farmers’ Voice.