Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

The United States Tobacco Journal complains sarcastically of the demonetization of tobacco, ’'the money standard of old Virginia,” and laments the passing of tlie good old times when "it took three gold dollars to buy one pound of the weed. Borrowed money which was worth “200 cents on the dollar, ’’ wlien borrowed, should bo repaid in money of the same kind. This is not politics. It. is common honesty. The Westerly (R. I.) Weekly says: “If a vote for Mr. Bryan is a vote for a 50-ccnt dollar, a vote for a gold-standard Democrat might be described as a vote for a 75-cent dollar. The only effective vote for a 100-eent dollar is a- vote sot McKinley and Hobart. We do not know what McKinley's popular majority will be. but we know what it ought to l>e«-sixtecn to one. i - The St, Paul Dispatch says: “The election of Altgeld in Illinois will mean as much in prestige for free silver, among free silver Democrats, as if Bryan were to carry the state." If the government has power t# “make money.’’* why does it Collect taxes from ns? Why does it not “make money” anjl let us a lout)