Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — Coin's Financial Quackery. [ARTICLE]

Coin's Financial Quackery.

Indianapolis- Journal. The attention of the Journal has been called to a book entitled “Coin’s Financial School,” which is being industriously boomed from Chicago and extensivelyi.circulated in the northern part of ‘this" state. It deals, or pretends to deal, with the currency question. The book itself is printed in flashy style, profusely illustrated with pictures, many of which are vulgar and all of which are vile, and is appropriately bound in yellow paper. It belongs to the class of yellow covered literature of various kinds which are treated as nuisances in all well regulated newspaper offices and either deposited in the waste basket or sent to the paper mill. The book is a vicious attack on honest money and a direct appeal to the prejudice, the ignorance and the avarice of superficial readers and disjointed thinkers. One of its pictures, which is evidently deemed so clever that it appears in the text and on one of the outside covers, is of tke “average business man.” It represents him with wheels in his head, which are worked by a string from the rear held by a hand labeled “bank.” From this it may be rightly inferred that “Coin’s Financial School” does not appeal to intelligent business or even to the average business man. It appeals to those who regard banks as inventions of the devil, bankers as public enemies and successful business men as their willing dupes and allies who believe in honest money and a sound currency because the bankers tell them to. There is much to be said in favor of bimetallism and the free coinage of silver on an international basis, and there is reason to believe that the problem is rapidly approaching la solution on that line, but the interests of silver cannot be promoted by such wretched travesties on truth and reason as “Oom’s Financial School.”