People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1896 — Notice Speculators! [ARTICLE]

Notice Speculators!

According to gold bug argument good times are inevitable; whether Bryan or McKinley is elected it matters not. The logic of all their reasoning points to the one conclusion, without considering it necessary to give a reason, they say, “if McKinley is elected business will boom;” “if Bryan is elected one hundred cent dollar debts can be paid with fifty-three cent dollars.” As ninty-five per cent of the people are debtors, it would take no stretch of imagination, to comprehend what a relief the masses will experience; and, if their argument is correct, what an opening there is now for speculation not speculation for that implies risk but absolute profit; any man who has the security to procure credit should buy every thing in sight, and “if Mr. McKinley is elected business will boom,” all property will advance and can readily be unloaded at a profit, while on the other hand, if Mr. Bryan is elected every dollar of debt, so contracted, can be paid with fifty-three cents. The gold bugs say that “free coinage of silver will rob the poor man of his wages, the rich man of his wealth, the widow of her savings, the soldier of his pension, the creditor of his dues and the debtor of his ability to pay.” Now is it not about, time to ask who in thunder gets the benefit of all this robery? '