People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — The Real Meaning. [ARTICLE]
The Real Meaning.
One or two slight changes in the republican financial plank make It read as follows: “We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to curtail the power of foreign money lords by improving the currency of our country. “We are, therefore, opposed to this cation, with its 70,000,000 of ‘free’ people, managing its own financial affairs without a permit from ‘the leading commercial nations of the world,’ under an ‘international agreement.’ “We unhesitatingly declare that our silver and paper currency must be maintained on an equality with gold, and the only way to do this is to destroy both, to the end that European shylocks may understand that we favor anything that* will maintain their opportunities and our national honor. “And, finally, whenever our masters will permit (by ‘international agreement’) we shall be ready to change our views ‘to maintain inviolably the obligation of the United States.’ ’’—Coming Nation.
