Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — NO EXPERIMENTS, IF YOU PLEASE. [ARTICLE]

NO EXPERIMENTS, IF YOU PLEASE.

Whemthe Republican party came into power in 1860 it found the country already on a gold basis. The exigencies of war caused greenbacks to be issued soon afterward in great quantities, and property of every kind seemed to advance in value. But this seeming advance was a delusiou. The increase in the price of property only marked the decrease of the value of the greenbacks, ns measured by gold, which oontinuod'to be the real standard of value and has remained so ever since. Experimenting with either paper or silver cannot cliouge this, unless we cut loose from the other civilized nations and retrograde toward barbarism. And» in that case, it would revolutionize business by destroying present values and make other opportunities for the rich to become richer at tho expense of the masses, lor, in tiuaucial fluctuations, it is tho fjnnnoial experts with capital who win the prizo every time. Even a silver Democrat could hardly favor such a condition as that.