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

TREASON OF 1896.

Article I. Section 3of the United S tates Constitution says: “Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.” Notice that it says, “regulate the value ” Now the republican platform says that the constitution is all wrong and that congress cannot and shall not “regulate the value” of money. Nowadays it must be done by international agreement only. Shades of Washington. Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln behold the fruits of Yorktown and New Orleans. Behold the deadly treason to a constitution baptized by the blood of countless heroes and sustained by the blood of martyrs: behold the realization of William Pitt’s prophecy in the English parliament 108 years ago that “America would be more profitable as a financial dependency than as a political dependency.” Are the American people going to sup port such a treasonable platform? The man who can see it in any other than a treasonable light must be an idiot. Il the spirit of 76 is sufficiently strong there will be another Yorktown in November.