People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — Silver and Pensions. [ARTICLE]

Silver and Pensions.

In reply to A. A. Stewart, who' says he is an ex-member of the 17th lowa volunteers,'l will say that I served in the army about four years and never was off duty but once, and that was when I re enlisted, for all such received* a furlough to go home. I was not in the war to shoot my fellow-men, nor to be shot at (I presume 1 shot like the rest), for the paltry* pay of a private, nor the pension which seems to bother Mr. Stewart so much, but to try to save the best country that the sun shines on. Now. I care more for the good of the whole country, for this and future generations, than for the pension, so that I shall vote for Bryan and 16 to 1. If Mr. Stewart cares so much for the paltry pension, he should vote fur McKinley and the gold standard, and help to make slaves in the future. I get a pension, and consider it a badge of honor; but those poor soldiers that are to have tlieir pensions cut. in half understand that their pensions are only a drop in comparison with what the bondgrabbers got. We have had a gold standard sos some years, and I think four years more would put us beyond redemption. H. A:M. Kilbourn. Wis., Sept. 17. No hill will be sent to anyone who gej.s this paper. Every subscription is paid in advance and if you did not do it some friend did. Take, read and hand it to your neighbor, and vote for Bryan and tree silver. ——>■■■■ William J Bryan and a return t» prosperity.