People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1896 — Pertinent Questions. [ARTICLE]

Pertinent Questions.

Permit me space in your paper to ask the following questions: 1. —When Ernest Seyd, the secret agent from the English bankers, was sent with $500,000 to the United States to get silver demonetized, was that an international agreement with one of the leading commercial nations of the world? 2. —Why is it that since 1873 everything the farmer produces has gone down in price 50 per cent, as measured in gold, though if measured in silver bullion it contains practically the same as in 1873? 3-—Why are forty-five of the staple products of labor only worth as much as they were in 1873? 4. —Why are the republicans opposed to free coinage of silver? 5. —Why are the republicans in favor of free coinage of silver? 6. —Why do the republicans want the existing gold standard preserved? 7. —Why do the republicans want all our silver and paper currency maintained at a parity with gold? 8. —Why do the republicans want an international agreement if they want the existing gold standard preserved? 9. —ls the existing gold standard is the standard of the most enlightened nations of the world does any sensible man think this will change' it by international agreement for free coinage of silver ? 10. —How is it possible that a continuance of the gold standard can better the condition of ruin and desolation which it has produced? 11. —Why is Portugal, a gold standard country, in dept beyond the hope of payment, and Mexico, a free silver country, practically free from debt? The answering of the above questions satisfactorily to prove the republican contention correct will make at least one soldier vote change from Bryan to Me-

Kinley.

JOHN CASEY.