Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1897 — A Wonderful Offer. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Offer.

Have you heard of any farmers who would like to exchange a McKinley Congressman for one of a free-trade type? And it will be a happy year for Uncle Sam if the present indications that the Dingley law is to produce a surplus in December are realized. Mr. Bryan has not yet reported from Mexico how it is that labor under free coinage gets only onehalf the rate of wages paid under the gold standard in the United States, and that the articles which it buys with those wages cost twice as much as in this country.

President McKinley’s selection of ex-Attorney-General McKenna for the Supreme Court vacancy is being warmly commended. The few people who have found fault with the nomination merely for the sake of finding fault are not likely to cut much figure in their attacks upon him. The talk of cheap money only catches the men who do not understand its real meaning. When it is brought among business men it finds no supporters. The free-coinage-of-silver proposition was kicked and cuffed in the most distressing way by the members of the National Board of Trade in Washington last week, despite the fact that all the old parties were represented in the Board.

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