Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-01
1T is THUS.
4 Subscriber Gives His Views on the FL
nanciaI Problem.

nanciaI Problem.
1t seems to be foregone conclusion
from the action of the state and dis
trict conventions of both parties SO far
held that the gold sentiment is predom-
mating and will engraft its mono
metallic ideas into not only state plat
forms. but Will control both national
conventions and either adopt gold
mono metallic platform, or will couch
the language of the financial planks in
such rhetoric as to straddle the ques-
ton. \ straddle by these conventions,
however, will be as full of meaning to
the long humbugged masses as though
they adopted solid gold platform, and
the people of the country who believe
in bi-metallism or the free and unlim
tied coinage of silver at ratio of Ii
to | will know that the time has come
for them to strike Never In the his
tory of the country were the masses as
much in earnest as they now are to
turn upon and rend any and all par
ties that are aiming further at the very
basis of their prosperity. They have
been hoodwinked, betrayed and OPP
pressed quite sufficiently in the past by
false issues to be further fooled 10y the
straddle platform or by false cry on
the "tariff" From this time on the
great question to be determined by the
American people is, shall silver be re
stored to the place set apart for 1t by
the founders of the republic or shall
! it be allowed under the Vaccinations
of the national banks and the gold
gamblers of Wall and Lombard streets
to be forever degraded. There was a
time when the people with no greater
burdens and no greater reasons resorted
to means for their own amelioration
that caused bloodshed and strife with
results for the best, and if the ballot
that SILENT means of settling matters
in this day and age-fails them, it can
not be foretold that the spirit of 30
and other famous years may not be
aroused again. There is means of
succor; party ties may have to be
broken to receive such help, but good
heavens, how many more mortgages
must be foreclosed; how many more
banks and manufacturing institutions
fail; how many more suicides commit
ted before the people will strike for
their country and their homes? The
battle-cry must be taken up by
every man who is a sufferer, whose
| neighbor is sufferer, and the back
bone of the conspiracy between the
nationa! banks and the powers that be
will be broken. Eternal vigilance is
the price of Liberty" Are the liber-
ties of the people assailed? Let
the universal distress of the masses
answer; let the misery of the laboring
classes send out Its reply; let the tot
tering business interests of the country
send in Its balance sheet to be Its
answer; let 50-cent wheat and 20-cent
corn and high taxes and scanty neces-
saries of life be the word that the
farmer sends TO testify in his behalf;
let the debts Of the merchant answer
for him and on the other hand to
contradict it all, let the time serving
political fakir, the hireling lawyer who
will be around to your school houses
this fall, add his testimony by saying
that times are not hard, that it is all
imagination and that the tariff is the
great question before the American
people. The so-called leader, when he
goes to make these statements, wants
to be as well fortified from the assaults
of thinking men as it is possible for
him to be, for the people will ask
questions that will stagger his mighty
brain. lie cannot truthfully answer
the people and his attempt will only
aid TO further arouse the people to
their senses. This same time-server is
just awakening to the fact that the
dear people are wronged and he is go
ing to spend many sleepless mig hts
for the good of the people, and
for when the time comes, backed by
plenty of committee gold, he will spend
his time to help the deluded farmer
how to vote for the interest of whom
why for those who hire him of course
and that means the very conspiracy
that is trying to throttle the silver
question. But, like Banquo's ghost, it
will not down; but In the next six
months, will haunt the crafty Mac
beths of the gold ring until they may
we'll wish they had taken another job.
"FOR SILVER"