People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — SURRENDER TO ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

SURRENDER TO ENGLAND.

The Republican national platfor m endeavors to tire the reader with a lot of rot about tariff and reciprcc ty, end then shows the dominating influence behind the once great pir y of Abraham Lincoln when it says in substance: “The Republican par yis unreservedly in favor of English money and against American mon« y. It caused the establishment of the English system by the act of !<’ 7 . nd since then every American dollar has been as hard to get as an l[ i h dollar. We are unalterably opposed to every effort to turn the silve i. American mines into money; we prefer to borrow of England. We ar t erefore opposed to free coinage except by the consent of England. All c": money must be as good as gold, notwithstanding the fact that that :cf. of money has given to the world such monstrocities among nations ai 'Airkey, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and Greece, whose people have long sin: been enslaved, and notwithstanding the fact that Italy, Austria, Germa y, Russia, England, France and the United States are marching toward he same sad destiny. In short, we want a currency system that will m. ke paupers by the millions and millionaires by the score.”