People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — NOT A FORGERY. [ARTICLE]

NOT A FORGERY.

The Famous London Financial News Article Proven to Be Genuine. Chicago, Oct. 9.—(Special.)—The following cablegram from London appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the most partisan goldbug newspaper in America, and should forever set at rest any doubt as to the authenticity of the celebrated London Financial News article, which has been so vigorously denied by the goldbug press: “London, Oct. 2.—(Copyrighted, 1896, by the Press Publishing Company, New York World.) —The World correspondent examined to-day a file of the London Financial News in its office, and quotes the following extract from an editorial in its issue of April 30, 1894: “There can be no doubt about it that if the United,States were to adopt a silver basis to-morrow British trade would be ruined before a year was out, because American industry would be protected not only at home, but in every other market.” In addition to the above proof, the following affidavit has been received by the national Democratic press bureau at;national headquarters: “I, William Durant, proprietor of The Press Cutting agency, of 57 Holborn Viaduct, in the County of London, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I have examined the file of ‘Financial News’ newspapers at the British museum (London) and that the article attached hereto, now produced and shown to me marked: ‘A’ and headed ‘England and the Silver Question,' appeared in that journal on the 30th day of April, 1894, and that the reprint attached as aforesaid is an exact copy. “And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the statutory declarations act of 1835. (Signed.) W. DURANT.” “Declared at Giltspur Chambers, Holborn Viaduct, in the city of London, the 25th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, before me, “ROBERT H. HUMPHREY, “A Commissioner for Oath.” Notwithstanding the fact that the Chicago Tribune printed the above cablegram from London in its news columns, its editorial columns to-day denounces the London Financial News article as a Democratic forgery. It only shows the Tribune’s capacity for lying is only exceeded by its love for British gold power. If the Chicago Tribune can lie so egregiously in this instance, what confidence can the public place in any statement made by that mendacious sheet?