People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — He Knows! [ARTICLE]

He Knows!

Every man knows enough about the money question to know that money as regards the people, Is scarce and hard to get. He knows also that prices are low. He knows as well, that money was made scarce by suspending the coinage of silver. He knows also that the men who create wealth don’t get it. He knows that a system that makes millionaires on the one hand and paupers on the other is radically wrong. He knows that it has been sung into his ears that the bankers know all about the currency and ought to be 16ft alone in managing it. He knows he has voted to sustain that proposition. He knows that the result is, the banker got rich while he got poor. He knows that he has been told that “trusts are private affairs,” with which the law has no business to interfere. He knows that the same trusts have raised the prices of the necessities of life and robbed the people. He knows that both old parties, one of which he has been voting for, has been fostering these trusts and the banks. He knows that he has been acting a “gol darned” fool. Direct legislation would lodge the power in the hands of the people, and me st of the political corruption in our legislatures would be rooted out.