Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

cratic ana unrepuprcan In It's erect, rnen
we are not yet freed from England and
another declaration of independence Is
needed.
They say we cannot transact business
with the commercial nations of Europe
unless we use the same metal for our pri-
mary money as they do.
That is fa;iacy. Cod does not pass
between nations by the stamp of the gov
eminent upon it, but by weight We settle
our balances with Europe primarily with
exports, and If we do not ship them enough
OF our merchandise and crops to pay them
then We pay them gold at so much an ounce.
1t 10 not treated as money There is no
such thing as International money. The
most prosperous period we ever had in the
United States was when we had neither
gold nor silver. And at the same time wee
did prosperous business with Europe
Why should we give such Importance to our
foreign trade, even if it were true that It
was convenient to adopt the same metal
for money as that adopted by Europe? Only
four per cent. of the business of this cour-
try is carried on with foreign nations as
against 96 per cent. that is done among
ourselves. Shall We legislate for the four
per cent. or the So per cent?
Shall we legislate for ourselves? VIII
we permit monarchial Europe to dictate the
laws of free America? Will we tie our
selves to the usages and customs of the
effete monarchies of the old world?
Let Us Think for Ourselves.
The gold standard permits few men to
control the money of the world, to take
away from US our property and to destroy
our prosperity and happiness. They are re-
ducinS the people of this great nation to
the conditions of bonded slaves Break
the chains they are forging around you!
Poverty is chloroforming the people Of the
nation, and apathy will increase unless you
act quickly in defense of free Institutions.
OffiCe-Spekac q n fI0 g
to you in the pay of a campaign committee,
ana the money dealer, worship Wall street,
but step forth yourselves, freemen in de-
Tense OF your tiresides and your posterity!
Reverse this selfish legislation and our
people will again enjoy prosperity.
The mortgased homes of your state will
be saved to their owners. Rising prices will
cause our exports to bring us a balance Of
trade in our favor with Europe and With 1t
we will pay our foreign debts. There will
be life again in dying America. Men will
look more cheerful, women and children
will be made happier. Restore silver, and
the blood of civilization will be warming
the arteries and veins of commerce again.
Only the money lender will be disappointed.
who Is now nursing his dear money, and
even to his grim visage will come a smile
as he finds he can collect oil the debts due
him and can so on dealing in the blood Of
civilization.
Your country needs your intelligent and
Niagara is In sight. All the republics of the
world have heard it before and have gone
down to their ruin. In the east. where civil
ization arose and attained the eminence
we now posses. seltishness arose among the
people, and to-day their land is inhabited
by barbarians.
That same spirit that has eaten out the
heart Of civilization in the nations of Asia
and Africa, is now preparing the same
sepulcher for proud, selfish modern Europe.
1t has crossed the Atlantic ocean, and is
now sapping the integrity of our manhood.
Individual seltishness enacted into laws Is
the cause of despotism and the mother OF
monarchies. Once fastened upon a people,
no civilization has risen from under its
rule. independence, manhood, freedom.
have fed before this dragon, from the
birthplace of civilization to the United
States. We can fly no further. With our
backs to China and our faces to this storm
of dcspotism blowing from the east, we
make the last stand of freemen for the
civ cation of the world. Never was there
time when American manhood was so
screly needed as at the present time.
IN the hour of our sorest need, let 1t be
said that Ohio rallied under the banner Of
humanity firm In resolve to sustain free
Institutions!