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

National Faith.

To hear the gold men talk of national faith is folly. Where was national faith when, in 1869, a coin bill was put through the bouse and senate and signed by the president, making the bonds issued prior to that date, principal and interest alike, payable in coin? The emergency of the war had passed. The exigency was over, and what reason was there to add to our great indebtedness by supplemental legislation? It is a thing accomplished, but I cite it showing that anything done with 4 view of adding to the burden of our debts is all right from a gold standpoint. What right, in ail honesty, had we to add to the burden of a debt already incurred? —John R. McLean.