People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1896 — Victory Brings Responsibilities. [ARTICLE]

Victory Brings Responsibilities.

There has been a frost. It covers Jasper county knee deep. Not a green twig of the silver crop seems to have escaped. The golden rod blossoms this November day in all the glorius splendor of a summer sun, while the chill rain falls from the darkening clouds on the blighted blades about it. A great battle has been fought, a decisive vie tory won, and the victors are drunk with joyous excitement. It is their right, and we wish them the fullest measure of merriment and satisfaction. Burn brightly the fires of your great triumph, brothers, celebrate to the uttermost your achievement; had the victory been won by your opponents they would have expressed their joy with all the enthusiasm of a conquering soldiery. And winning the victory they would have proceeded to inaugurate that system of laws which they promised would bring relief. You also have promised relief and the people will expect you to make the promise good. From the present information it appears that all the branches of government will be in your hands and there will be no excuse for your not giving the people prosperity. The opportunity is yours and it is fortunate that no barrier interposes to prevent the carrying out of your fnll scheme of legis lation. Should you follow out the policy you have advocated during this campaign, and be successful in inaugurating an era of prosperity, it will prove the gold standard theory correct, and will render impossible another campaign on the money question. On the other hand, however, should permanent prosperity fail to result from the trust imposed in you, and we believe failure inevitable, you will be held accountable by a deceived people. That they are deceived and have voted aganist their own interests time will certainly demonstrate, and they will as certainly vindicate their outraged manhood by asserting their supreme sovereignty in taking the sacred trust of government out of you hands. The defeated party has taught the necessity of a larger volume of money; the .victors have contended that there was an abundance of money and that a continuance of the present financial system would produce prosperity. In a nutshell this has been the issue; let the republican party put their theories to the test, the verdict of the American people will be fair.