People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Silver Speeches. [ARTICLE]

Silver Speeches.

Hou. W. W. Gilman will speak next week at the following places: Monday at Fair Oaks, Tuesday at Kniman, Wednesday at Wheattield, Thursday at <PeMotte, Friday at McCoysburg, Saturday at Center School in Gillam. At each of these meetings a free silver league will be organized.

It, is not silver simply that is needed in fair Columbia to relieve her struggling children of their distress; it is more money, and it matters not whether it be made of the precious metals, endowed with the authority of law to pay debts, or whether it be o| paper having the same mighty mandate.

The Monticello Herald makes a special display of the silver law of Feb. 28, 1878, heading the same. “Silver dollars are a full letral tender.” Unfortunately, the law does not justify any such assertion, as there is an exception clause invalidating the full legal tender quality, making them a legal tender only when not otherwise specified in the contract, and your note at the batik, your farm mortgage due to the insurance corporations of the east, and. perhaps, even the rent on the farm you cultivate, are payable in gold, not in sil ver.

The dollar is not the gold or silver coin, but the law itself which endows it with power to legally pass from man to man and from citizen ta government in the payment of debt. As an illustration the trade dollar is in familiar evidence; at first that extra large coin was a limited legal tender and would pay debts at par to the amount of $5; after ward the law was withdrawn and it would not pay debts of any amount, though the coin was just as large; still later law was again put behind it and it was worth as much as any other dollar.

It is the duty of every believer in the principles of the People’s party to sustain the action of the St. Louis convention. If a mistake has been made this year in holding the national convention late, and thus allowing the demo era-tic party to promulgate a plat form in some essentials in harmony with populism, and to nom inate a candidate who is a populist in principle far above the platform of his party, it is a mis take that cannot be remedied now. And if the People's party is to be perpetuated for the accomplishment of those most vital reforms, through which only can perfect prosperity be restored to the land, then must its faithful defenders stand by the nominees of that convention, not one of those nominees, but both of them. The result of the election this fall will in no way a if- ct she disruption of the magnificent party of reform, 2,000, 000 strong, that has been crystal izod into definite organization through twenty years of patriotic effort. Though it may be true that silver is the great issue being discussed in this campaign it is also true that the study of that branch of the money question leads on to a fuller understanding of the whole financial problem, with the result that converts are constantly being made populist position of an absolute money, gold, silver and paper of limited amount, all full legal tender for all purposes public and private,all redeemable in the revenues of the govern- * ment. no dollar to be based up°n or redeemable in any other dollar.

! On account of the Grand Army jof the Republic National Enjeampment to be held atSt. Paul, j Minn.. Sep. Ist to 4th, 1896. excursion tickets will be sold Aug. 30th and 31st and Sept. Ist, from Rensselaer at £IO.OO for the *©uns trip-final limit for return pa§£lge win s>e|Sept. loth. Bv depcfeitin« with joint agent ai.SL.Paul 01 or before S e pt.' Uf.bC,m extension of return limit may be obtained to and inch ding Sept. 30th. W. H. Beam, Agent.

At last, after twenty years of tireless effort, the mighty union of the classes against the masses has been accomplished, and the oft repeated prediction that the republican and democratic parties would unite against the people is conclusively proven by the rallying of the money power, regardless of mythical old party lines, to the support of McKinley. By the successful revolt of the rank and file of the democratic party, and their establishment of a new order of things in their camp the forces of plutocracy, that have so long dominated both old parties and confused their partison followers for years, have been forced to throw off their sheeps clothing and stand forth the true wolves that they are.