People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — HILL FOR SILVER. [ARTICLE]

HILL FOR SILVER.

WRITES A LETTER TO THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. He Advocated Independent Action for This Country—Prophea led Victory for the Adherent! of Free Coinage in 1806. “I am in favor of bimetallism as the issue of the future. We should seek to keep that issue to,the front. We should not strive for temporary success or compromise. We should be for free coinage under an international agreement, if it be possible to procure one, and, if not possible, then for independent bimetallism. This is the great goal for which we should strive. It cannot be done at once. Our friends must not be impatient. The people must be educated. The unexpected action of India and the general sentiment of the monied classes conspire against us at this time. Ido not believe in the Bland bill or any other measure which guarantees anything less than the unrestricted coinage for gold and silver alike, as pledged in the democratic national platform. Let us prepare not for the present victory, but for victory upon that issue in 1896. The repeal of the Sherman law will not give the relief which is anticipated. It will aid business temporarily, but in a year times will be hard, and the demand for permanent financial relief will be irresistible. We should continue to hold out free coinage as the goal which the country must ultimately reach. The triumph of the monometallists will be but temporary.”— Written on July 13, 1893, to the Atlanta Constitution, and published at Senator Hill’s request.