People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The gold-bugs oppose direct legislation. Each old party Is but a wing of Wall street. Close up the ranks now and press forward. Direct legislation Is the key to purs government. Now let every man pull off his coat and go to work. England Is well pleased with the republican platform. Old JoHh Bullion will vacate his throne in America this fall. McKinley belongs to the men who paid him out of bankruptcy. Fiat paper money is just as sound and safe as flat paper bonds. Financial reform was needed befors silver was demonetized in 1873. The Imperative Mandate would knock out the boodle politicians. The nomination of McKinley is a wet blanket on the sliver republicans. Wall street Is playing the democratic party to prop up the republican party. Four years under McKinley and John Sherman will get that “last shirt." The principles of the Omaha platform will live to become the law of the land. The record of the democratic party is too slimy to ever unite reformers under Its banner. Both old parties have had too many chances already. That’s what’s the matter with us. No trouble to keep the financial Issue to the front, but the silver question is not all of It. Liberty’s flrps, lately kindled from coals In the ashes, are bursting forth In overwhelming conflagration. , “Napoleon" McKinley was nominated on the anniv-rsnry of the battle of Waterloo —and his doom is sealed. When the church and courts desert the people the next step is revolu“on—and we are abou: to that point no at. President Cleveland is probably convinced by this time that St is a cyclone and not a theory that confront* him. The man who live? on interest produces nothing useful—and the world would be infinitely better off without him. Let us do our best to win this time, but don’t you believe that this is our last chance. Continqe the work of education. , ..... !•>■. J| Nothing short of a wholesale war scare will divert the minds of the people from the money question In this campaign. 4 Napoleon Bankrupt McKinley will not be able to pay his campaign debts, not to speak of restoring prosperity—he will be defeated. There are enough good things In the Omaha platform to furnish all parties with live issues for the campaign, but that is no reason why they should steal It Boss Hanna says that his employes are not interested In the silver question. Of course not. If they were to let him find out that they were they would lose their job. If the “present gold standard must be maintained" to make the country prosperous pray why are we not already prosperous? We have had the "present gold-standard” for some time. If an Income tax Is unconstitutional —or any other law that a majority of the people want—so much the worse for the constitution. No statute should stand against the expressed will of the people. We were on the down grade under Harrison’s administration, struck the bottom with a dull thud under Cleveland’s rule, and may expect to wallow in the mire of hard times for another four years If McKinley is elected. Whether free coinage of silver is the best policy or not may be honestly argued from both sides—but the question of the United States running Its own financial system is not debatable. Americans must settle the money question without asking the consent of England. If the democrats never had a free silver plank in their national platform this is rather late In the day for them to repent. If they claim that the declaration in their platform of 1892 was for free silver, then they betrayed the trust which the people reposed In them and ought not to be trusted again. Populists don’t favor the specific redemption money fraud. They want • paper money redeemable In all commoditiee, including gold and silver, and receivable for taxes and all dues to the government. If the hankers don’t like this kind of money let them pell up and go to some country where they can have some other kind.