Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — STAND BY THEIR COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

STAND BY THEIR COUNTRY.

The People Hasten to Accept a Low Rate Loan of the Government. The applications for the government’s war loan of $200,000,000 aggregate $790,000,000. The success of the popular feature of the loan appears in the fact tha*t subscriptions in SSOO and less have been received to the amount of $40,000,000, which is expected to be largely increased from the July 1 withdrawal of savings bank deposits. This hurry to accept a low rate loan of a government engaged in war is one of the most impressive signs of the times. It shows the American people’s confidence in their own nation, in which they are the governing power. It shows the grandeur of a country to which u foreign war is an incident that is not embarrassing. And it shows the absurdity of the cry thnt "the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer"—an absurdity demonstrated by the revelations of the distribution of wealth among the people. Nor should it be forgotten that the credit of this nation which finds an eager competition for its bonds results from the lecord of this country as an inflexible opponent of repudiation. Those who in party platform* and in legislative balls have refused the enticements thnt lend to repudiation. and have fought with great labor the battle of financial integrity, have their works following them in a government which cnn borrow nt will and find its creclitors among its own people. —Troy Times. CT Pennsylvania democrats, through the regular state convention, have discarded free silver and Bryan. The prospect is that similar action will be taken in New York.—St. Ixniis GlobeDemocrat.