People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — REPORM PRESS. [ARTICLE]

REPORM PRESS.

It seems probable that the democrats will get a silver plank at Chicago. But they got there before and came into power with a majority of 80 congressmen. Where is that majority now? Old politicians are not to be trusted until they get straight populist religion.—Norton’s Joliet News. The gold men have been claiming that “the Germans are for the single gold standard.” In Cole county. Saturday, the German democrats all voted with the free silver men and are enthusiastic for the free coinage of silver. St. Charles county went for free silver, and most of the democrats there are Germans. South St. Louis, where our German fellow cit ; zens predominate, is for free silver on a fair vote, as will be seen at the primaries.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. Populists throughout the state need not and should not stop organization sinbply because the dates of the principal conventions have been postponed until the national body acts. Much may be done, long before the conventions meet, to get Indiana populists in fighting trim. This should be looked after by the county committees and leading workers without delaying for any purpose. Where there has been no organization. such should be entered upon immediately. Get together and form a nucleus, however small, from which to enlarge into greater dimensions. Call meetings often for consultation and adopting methods to disperse populist literature. Wherever possible speakers should be secured to address these meetings. The system of school-house campaigning which is the best of all, especially for young parties, can be effectively employed now as well as later. By keeping a speaker in a county for a week, talking once d, day at different places, good results may be reached at little cost. The main point is not to lie idle waiting for something to happen. Get

in your work now and all the time. After the hurrah of the campaign begins it is difficult to attract the attention of those not already partially secured.—Nonconformist. All that there is in the silver question is: Free coinage will give us an increase of the currency. That’s all. For our part, w T e had rather see this increase come in thb shape of greenbacks than in the shape of silver. As long as the Indian mints were open to the free coinage of silver, there was a natural connection between the prices of silver and the prices of any product exported by India. Her exports being chiefly cotton and wheat, those products were mostly affected by the price of silver, and thuy our farmers were hurt by our anti-ailver legislation, enormously hurt. But India, under British orders, closed her mints to silver in 1893, and since that time we can not see any triore connection between the price of silver and the price of other things, than there is (and must always be) between the prices of all commodities and the volume of money. We do not wish to be misunderstood. We state plainly that the silver question is immensely important to the people, but it is important for the sole reason that free coinage would give us more money. While we want this increase of currency, we attach no superstitious importance to the material it is made of.—Atlanta (Ga.) People’s Party Paper. The masses of this country want to see prosperity among classes. Prosperity that will keep the factories going; prices for farm products that will enable the farmer to raise his crops and market them at a profit; prices that will leave him something to live upon after he has paid the interest on his mortgage,— Franklin (Ind.) People’s Paper. Democrats and Republicans who “intend to stand by the party”— silver or no silver should ask how their parties have stood by them. —Rocky Mountain News. %