The herald., 1896-09-18
THE PEOPLES FUND

No more Interesting or significant
feature Of the present campaign can be
found than by perusal of the list of
subscribers to the New York Journals
campaign fund, to which it's proprietor
every dollar subscribed.
BY the last copy of that paper to hand,
we learn that the subscriptions within
/, week have reached considerably over
$4,000, consisting mostly of small sums.
from % cents to 81. All sorts and con-
ditions of men and women are daily
sending their mites. Men with families
dependent upon them have contributed
half their weeks wages, and poor work
ing girls have given their entire saw
ings. What greater evidence of the
depth and earrestness of the popular
feeling regarding the great issue at
stake could be produced.
All who realize the vital neces-
sity of defeating Mark Hanna, who must
know that a campaign cannot he con-
Quoted without funds, who are Jealous
and sincere in their desire for the tri-
umph of free silver, should be cheerful
contributors to the legitimate expenses
of spreading abroad the gospel of free
silver and assuring the realization of its
revelation. No better channel can be
selected by the contributor than the
New York Journals fund.- for your con-
tribution will be doubled by the Journal
as soon as it reaches that office.
Such a fund is the best and most con-
elusive answer to the gold-plated
monopolists, who taunt the Democratic
party with being unable to raise a
campaign fund since it repudiated its
plutocratic leaders.
mo sign" says the Journal, "can be
more encouraging to the advocates of
true Democracy than the eagerness of
the people in responding to the Jour-
nails call for aid. 1t assures us that
there is great proportion of men and
women everywhere throughout the coun-
try who are fighting tooth and nail for
the success of the party, and whose
whole political faith is pinned on the
principles Bryan represents. From
their number we may gain confidence;
from the vigor of their exertions we
may foresee the conversion of many.
with which they are daily adding to the
moneys to be used in the real campaign
of education we may be certain of a big
fund and a sufficient quantity of liter
ature for the proper instruction of the
great Masses
There should be no "deadheads" in
this campaign. The combined forces of
the Democrats, the Populists and the
free silver Republicans are confronted
by the great money power of the coun-
try, which is confessedly prepared to
invest millions in the hope that its in
iquitous advantages may be maintained.
Against the mammoth fund of Wall
street the workers for free silver can
only depend upon the mites of the peo-
pie If. however, one-half of the ear
nest believers in the salvation of sill
YER are willing to prove their earnest
ness by contributing a small sum-in
most cases, no sacrifice--there will be
no difficulty in raising a fund sufficient
to meet the legitimate expenses of the
campaign. There can be no possibility
of meeting the Republican party on its
own ground as far as expenditure of
money is concerned. nor is such to be
desired by any manner of means, but if
the people will do their share, not mere
ly in contributing to a legitimate cam
paign fund.- but in withstanding the
wholesale corrupting influences that the
Hanna syndicate has already set in mo-
ton, many of the latter's millions will
be wasted and many more will never be
spent
Send along your dollar to the New York
Journals fund and thus add 81 to the
resources of the campaign.