Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — It Means Revolution. [ARTICLE]

It Means Revolution.

“I was well, I would be better; I took medicine; and here I am.” Is the reading of an old epitaph. The American people were well; never better. They took the medicine of free trade quackery, and behold their condition. And now the same political quacks who poisoned them W*lth free trade and trying to complete their work with a dose of free silver. But the treatment of Dr. McKinley of Protection and sound money is their only road to industrial and economic health.

The men employed in the varied industries of Indiana have more than 922,000,000 in life insurance policies. A large part of this money these thousands of men have paid in and it has been loaned out on mortages, bonds, etc., and it is this money power which exGovemor Boies declares must be paid off in half dollars. These men constitute a portion of the creditor class against which the controlling element of the Democratic party is making war.— lndianapolis Journal The money question ought not to be in politics at all, but, as it has been forced in, good citizens should unite, irrespective of politics, in getting it out as soon as possible by an emphatic verdict in favor of sound money.—lndianapolis Journal.

If you mean, will the Democrats of Illinois support the free coinage of silver with full legal tender, quality for all debts, public and private, on the ratio of sixteen of silver to one of gold, I answer, no. Nor can the Democrats carry the state ou*that issue, for there are more than 100,000 Democrats in Illinois who will not submit to be transferred like chattels to the support of silver monometallism. What the Chicago’convention will resolve on that subject, or whom it will nominate for the presidency no man can predict. If the convention nominates a candidate for the presidency pledged to the support of the unlimited coinage of 1 A T 1 1 v. 4. legal wHfier silver lor an (louts, public and privrte, on the ratio of sixteen to one, it will inaugurate a business and social revolution more serious and reaching than anything known in our past, histpry, and if successful'will produce confession and embarassment to an extent that no one can fortell. What the Democrats of Illinois will do to resist this revolution I do not know, but we will not submit to it.—John M. Palmer, Democratic Senator from Illinpis.