Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — A Pessimist’s Forecast. [ARTICLE]

A Pessimist’s Forecast.

B. 1,. Gwlkln, in the Forum. We may expect, for ipstance, such mistakes as our silver policy, with increasing frequency, because politics of the world are becoming mope and more a controversy bet iw£en rich and poor. The influent tial and the rich man are taking th# place of the feudal baron and the ab* sojute monarch as objects ofwpula# taken the place of political liberty.*’. But 1 Itfie rich ’ hidii cannot and wilt not be openly robbed. He runs nd risk oi having his head cutoff, or hrs property confiscated. He will probably be gt>t at through experil ments in taxation, or in currency, which unfortunately; rarely reach th precise objects at- which they ar aimed, and sooner or later, like th silver purchases, involve the who; .COnjmunity in great distresr. XiU [CI ‘y