People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — PRINCE BISMARCK. [ARTICLE]

PRINCE BISMARCK.

SAYS THE ACT OF 1873 WAS TOO PRECIPITATE. And That the German Government Must Review Its Monetary Position The World Must Return to Bimetallism— Parmer Must Not lie Estranged. New York, Sept. 23. —A dispatch to The World from London says: “Moreton Frewen came back today from the international agricultural congress at Buda-Pesth. One delegate, Herr von Kordoff, leader of the Free Conservative party in the German reichstag and a neighbor of Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe, reported a conversation he had recently with the prince on the American political Situation, as follows: “ ‘Frankly, Mr. Kordoff, I am too old to go to school over the currency question, but I recognize that, although I acted In 1573 on what I regarded as the best advice, my action was too precipitate, in view of the results which have followed. “ ‘The one class that we cannot afford to estrange is the farming class. If they are convinced, and they assure you they are convinced, that agricultural depression is peculiar to these . monetary changes, our government must review its position.* ” If you could enter the homes of this nation and see how hope deferred has made the heart sick, if you could see the parents, who, in hopes of better days, have planned for the higher education of their children, inorder that the children might begin the battle of life with greater advantages than their parents, but who have been compelled to keep the children at home in order to keep the wolf from the door, you would understand what the gold standard means. It means a lower order of civilization, and, if continued, we will sink down where the few own all the wealth, and the many are •imply dependent tenants.—Mr. Brydu at Charlotte, N. C. Chairman Gowdy of the Indiana Republican state committee; recently addressed a letter to the Indiana Stove works of Evansville, Ind., detailing the wretched condition of the country and asking a contribution of money to assist in the restoration of the Republican party to power, “to avert further calamity.” Instead of sending a contribution, Mr. J. W. Boehne, secretary of the Indiana Stove works, replied: “The election of Bryan will cure most of the evils from which the masses are suffering. Have voted for Garfield, Blaine and Harrison, but will vote for Bryan this time." A year ago, when the election of a gold president seemed absolutely certain, igold left this country in large quantities. Now, with the odds in favor of the free coinage Candidate, it returning in such quantities Utnt the Bank of England has been obliged to raise its prion.—Waverly (la.) Democrat.