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

They Are.

The Hartford Courant says: “Connecticut capitalists have one hundred million dollars loaned in the west, and don’t propose to have it paid back in 53c dollars,” and then it threatens, for said capitalists, that it won’t lend any more. Is the Courant aware that according to the republican platform of 1880 “the dollars” these same capitalists loaned were only “35c dollars?” Is it n<?t also aware that the purchasing power of the dopar these capitalists have been getting in interest on this hundred million Is more than double the dollar they loaned? They demand a dollar with 200 cents in it in pay for the 35c dollar they loaned, and then console themselves with the idea that they are “honest,” and tha: these wicked farmers out west are trying to cheat them—Daily Citizen. Naugatuck, Conn.