People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — People’s Party Meeting. [ARTICLE]

People’s Party Meeting.

The Carnegies are supplying Russia with armor plate for #3OO per ton; the United States is paying the same firm #6OO per ton. The cost of the steel billets from which armor plate is made costs about sl2 per ton.

The gold standard means dear money; money of high purchasing power; money that will buy more bushels of corn, more acres of land, more days of labor, but that will not pay one cent more of taxes, nor of mortgages, nor of interest.

Among the most prominent converts to the free silventes in this part of the state recently is Hon. Robt. Parker of this place. Mr. Parker served in the legislature of 1890-2 as a republican joint representative of Newton and Jasper counties.—RemingPress.

Solomon achieved all his glory by having a circulation equal to SBOO per capita. Gold and silver was plentiful and cheap, but it was an era of unexampled prosperity, the brightest spot in all the world’s history. There was employment for all and a market for every product; crime was almost unknown and the race was raised to a high intellectual plane, a real civilization.

Hon. John Swan was greeted by a good sized and deeply interested audience at James school house, three miles south of Rensselaer, last Saturday night. He is an able speaker and handled the money question in a masterly manner. This is the first of series of school house meeting th«t are to be held in the several townships.