THE QUESTION IS SIMPLY ONE OF HONESTY OR DISHONESTY.

Shall thrift and economy be rewarded by robbery? Shall the widow's mite

and the savings deposited in the banks of this country be cut in two

by changing our money to silver monometallism? Shall the two and a half

billions of school bonds from all over the country, held by English and

American capitalists and payable in gold, be doubled, and a double tax

fall upon the shoulders of the tax payers of this nation? Shall the

toilers of this land, the wage-earners on farm and in factory, be robbed

every Saturday night of one-half of their weekly wages?

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