People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I BELIEVE THAT THE STRUGGLE NOW GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR A SINGLE GOLD STANDARD, WOULD, IF SUCCESSFUL, PRODUCE WIDESPREAD DISASTER IN THE END THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE DESTRUCTION OF SILVER AS MONEY AND ESTABLISHING GOLD AS THE SOLE UNIT OF VALUE MUST HAVE A RUINOUS EFFECT ON ALL FORMS OF PROPERTY EXCEPT THOSE INVESTMENTS WHICH YIELD A FIXED RETURN IN MONEY—JAMES G. BLAINE. (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, PAGES 820 TO 822, 1878.) The November election will prove that Carl Schurz, who has acted in turn with the republicans, democrats, and mugwumps, does not carry the German-American vote in his pocket