People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Wants No Trimming. [ARTICLE]

Wants No Trimming.

We do not underrate the towering importance of the money question in its entirety. We believe it not only worthy of one campaign but a dozen of them as the sole issue. But we say that the other plank of our plalXorm—the concrete propositions of government railroads and telegraphs, government loans and government banks, have drawn around the standard of money reform a large number of the two million or more men that now espouse the cause of the people’s party. It fs now proposed by some to drop this powerful recruiting force, in the hope that by so doing we will gain more rapidly. There is not in all of our personal acquaintance a solitary man who offers, so far as we know, to come with us if we will trim our platform to the money question. Not one. Inquire in your neighborhood about this matter. If the silver men not now in our party withdraw from their old partlles in large numbers and offer to co-oper-ate with us in a battle royal against the money power, they will find it an easy matter to come to terms with the people’s party. We are waiting hopefully for the silver men of the old parties to act. The silver party is a refuge for them if they cannot swallow our platform. We will continue to wait and hope until the convention meets.