Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — WHAT MAKES THEM POOP. [ARTICLE]

WHAT MAKES THEM POOP.

A Free Silver Kinder the Bencfljj of What is it makes some people poor? ’ Tho cryne of ( ■ How did that cause poverty? By striking down one-half of thS money of the counto., • How much silver money was there in the United States in 1873? Less than $80,000,000. How much have we now? Six hundred and twenty-five million dollars. ■* Does this increase of about $550,000,000 look like a reduction in the volume of our silver money? So Senator Stewart says. What causes floods, cyclones, droughts, weevil, bollworms, grasshoppers, gophers and other, evils which .injure the farmers’ and planters’ crops? The gold standard. What will make the cows give more milk, the sheep grow more wool, hogs weigh twice as much and the hens lay bigger eggs? The silver standard. Name some of the silver standard countries. China, India and Mexico. Are tho people of those countries more prosperous than the American farmers and workers? No; they are a great deal poorer. Why has not their silver money made those countries rich? Ask something easier. If there are more poor people in silver standard countries than in gold using nations, how would free coinage qf’’6o cent dollars abolish poverty in the United States? That is one of the things that nobody can find out