People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — How to Destroy Public Credit. [ARTICLE]

How to Destroy Public Credit.

If the government .has been paying gold interest, it had that right by the original agreement, and it may hereafter pay silver interest by the same right. The option is in the government, and it has never been surrendered and never will be. How often must this be repeated before the goldites will consent to accept the fact? We have had enough Shylock talk about “public credit,” “good faith,” “honor,” "understandings,” “expectations,” and “suppositions.” The surest way to kill “public credit, good faith and honor” is to smash down the price of property, paralyze business, pauperize labor, bankrupt enterprise, and drive the people into poverty and despair; and that Is precisely the role the gold-yelpers are playing.—Chicago Tribune, January 16, 1878.