People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Good Advice. [ARTICLE]

Good Advice.

“Uncle” Ben Colvin wants Mr. Coxey to call for an army to march on Washington again, not with a petition, but to clean out the pirates who are bonding us to death. That won’t do yet. Let the hungry multitude get a little sense into their patriotic gizzards through the starvation process. Men who have not intelligence to vote right would prove quite as doubts u 1 aquanti ty in the Held. This is a splendid time for American “patriots” to learn the effect of a vote when crystallized into law. Let ’em sweat, change the law or give their lawmakers instructions* next time.—Sound Money. The way to keep silver and gold at p, parity is to put them on a parity before the law. Any other way means robbery. The politicians are determined, if possible, to thresh the old tariff straw over again. But with the total labor cost of manufactured goods at a little less than twentyfive per cent of their total value, and the average tariff duties under a revenue tariff a little more than that figure, there is not much room left for a fight over protection.