Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1908 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

•w “Gold Standard Will Destroy Homes * and Close Schools.” *1 reply that, If protection has slain Its thousands, the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands.” 'William. J. Bryan; speech at democratic national convention, July, 1896. “The democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter; we give no quarter. We shall prosecute our warfare until there is not 'an American citizen who dares to advocate the 1 QOC Free Coinage « old standard. You ask, why? IOt7U 16 to 1 We reply that the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race, and that we should no more join in it than we would an army to destroy our homes and to destroy your families.” —William J. Bryan; speech at Albany, N. Y., August, 1896. “Do not let the republicans beguile about the future. The future is written in blood crushed out of you by gold.”—William J. Bryan; speech at Erie, Pa., August, 1896. “Ah! my friends, there is another reason why people have gone into the cities and left the farms. It is because your legislation has been causing the foreclosure of mortgages upon the farms. Mark my words! If the gold standard goes on and people continue to complain, the gold standard advocates instead of trying to improve the condition of the people, will be recommending that you close your schools so that people will not realize how much they are suffering.—William J. Bryan; speech at Monmouth, 111., October, 1896. *1 * Tiy 'i‘. . (.{> <.. The Answer in 1008: The gold standard has '‘slain no one, nor did it write the future in blood, nor did it foreclose the farm mortgage, nor did it dose the district school; on the contrary, it was the sound and solid foundation of wide-spread prosperity leading to individual progress and. happiness, aided in paying off the farm mortgage and in expanding the educational facilities in general.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County. Btate of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Mary Burns and Archibald Bums late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent JAMES F. IRWIN, Administrator. Bept i, 1908. 5.29-20-0.6 The Silver Cliff, Coip., Rustler, has discovered that a Mr. Meal is running for mayor of a Pennsylvania town, and the editor hastens to line up on the side of the Meal ticket