People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Free silver or bust This is a Populist year. Organized labor demands oonsi deration. Now, let us have less talk and more work. Grover 13 now free to ash and fish and fish. Lots of Republicans coming over to the people. True patriotism lives in the present, not in the past Don’t be deceived, nor seared by gold-bug threats. The American people mean to have a scientific money system. The two old parties are only “organized appetites” for office. The growth of the silver movement Is the advance of intelligence. Restore the government to the people by giving them a direct vote. A man cannot be a monopolist and a true silver man at the same time. Direct legislation will retain free coinage of silver after it is adopted. There is no other single issue of as much importance as direct legislation. A gold standard is the baronial castle of modern feudalism and serfdom.

Whitney might as well have taken his tour to Europe several weeks sooner. Absolute government issue and control of money is the demand of the people. The man who lives on interest lives on the labor of somebody who is in debt. Redemption free coinage is a fraud — merely a shield to hide the bank oligarchy. The democrats are going to do , this time, oh yes. That is they sa, they are. The business of the West and South is just as important aa the business of the East Continue the work of education, regardless of what may be the result of the election. Several wplirsters knocked off the g. o. p. already -and the storm gettingworse all the time.

It is not converts the gold-bugs expect to their theories —'but convicts under the lash of blacklist. “International agreement" means surrendering our own national constitutional power to coin our own money. The silver men ar° no worse split than the gold men—and, besides, they have the advantage of a large majority for silver. Cleveland may drop out of sight, but he will be remembered for some time by the hole he leaves in the United States treasury. If you are satisfied with present conditions, of course you will vote for McKinley and the “maintenance of the existing gold standard.’” The nomination of McKinley is creating about as much enthusiasm in Kanaas and Nebraska, as the arrival of the grasshoppers used to arouse. The only bolts from now on will be belts of white (silver) lightning—with gold-bug thunder. It is the lightning that will count, and not the thunder. Let the people so cast their votes in November that Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln may send greeting from the other shore, “we are satisfied.” . We are glad to notice that the Democrats have become so reconciled to the despised Populist platform as to steal the greater part of it. Hope they are in earnest. Thousands of men who haven’t made a living the past four years will vote to continue for four years more the same policy which brought about the present state of affairs. It ie not the people who are making the noise now that will control the elections this year. It is the quiet citizens, who have made up their minds and are now busy with their farm crops.

If gold is the only money, then let wage-earners of all grades and degrees, refuse checks, national bank bills, etc., and demand the gleaming yellow coin on pay-day. Let workingmen demand “sound money” as well as the bankers. Take no other. It would smash the gold combine. Lincoln said, in speaking of the Wall street speculators: “For my part, I wleh every one of them had his devilish head shot off.” Yet the Republican party of to-day which claims descent from Lincoln adapts Wall street as Its guiding star. Truly it has descended from Lincoln —a long ways.