People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Burk Cockran’s Prosperity. [ARTICLE]

Burk Cockran’s Prosperity.

Burk Cockran’s speech in the city hall at Indianapolis, described the cowardly attack on the '‘working man’s dollar,” by the advocates of free coinage, denouncing Bryan and his supporters of contemptuous hypocrits who, under the guise of advocates of the cause of the working man, were plotting to rob him of half his wages by cutting the dollar in two. This same Burk Cockran went out to paint in glowing colors the blessings that would flow from the honest (?) dollar, and the calamity that would follow the cheap dollar. Now it is plain that dear dollars are dollars, that will buy more labor, more wheat, more corn, more of everything else, than the cheap dollar will buy. How an intelligent grain dealer or cautious manufacturer could have been induced to investcheap dollars in corn or manufactured goods and expect to sell for dear dollars and make any dollars out of the transaction is more than we can imagine. Talk about business revising while the dollars are growing scarce, and therefore dearer, is blank idiocy.