The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22
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night with one exception, Brother Kelly,
nm here In the Fourth district. And L
want to exempt one other man, who has
NV his vote on that bill, laid the founca-
ton that will make him the hero OF the
future. mean Preston b. Plumb. ZAP
nlause1 He voted against that bill: all
The rest voted for it. Now these men have
come before you In part OF the districts;
h,1f 7 will not dwell upon that lis pretty
near political 1 am talking business TO-
night.
But will say, so that my Democratic
friends may feel good, that while the Re
publfcans of the west voted for the Nc
Kinley bill, every western Democrat voted
Now. thew have reduced the circulating
medium and increased the debts OF the
people two, three or four times. what 90
we waptg We want to bring the volume
hack to somewhere near where it was
when these debts were incurred: We want
it so we csn do business. You know that
when currency, like everything else, Is
scarce it is dear, and when abundant IL IS
cheap ! will make little Illustration; IL
any farmer friends are here they VIII un-
derstand IL. Suppose farmer wants 70
feed 200 head of steers. We VIII say thaJ
thew will weigh a thousand pounds each,
and YOU want TO pay 81 cents; you want
70 keep them n year. At that price they
would cost you $1,000 You have plenty OF
produce. hut you have no money, ana Uhe
man who has the steers don't want your
wheat and corn but will take money.
Don't You see that you must have money
n do business with? That is what 1t is
for--to help forward exchanges among the
people You 60 to the bank an say l
want to get s.. 900. Very wei. want 10
give chattel mortgage lor secuT!Iy. ~ M
We will have to charge you 10 per cent.
You get your steers and keep them
fbrouch the summer and pay taxes on
them: Won feed sixty bushels OF corn 20 20
each steer: at % cents per bushel thap wiz WIZ
perhaps make the cost of raising ABOUT
Sc. zoo. which with the interest amounts TO
So 600 Now. we VIII sell them; they nave
oained 300 ponnds: we sell them at ~
cents instead of 81 cents; they
Will bring $3.50 apiece or I,'Oo %
that the farmer loses 800 by paying
that price for his money. but Ihe man
who loans the money makes 81 Wv sup
nose he paws y per cent, then the farmer
loses 500. after all the trouble OF feeding
and taking care and everything OF that
kind If he can get il for per cent, with
money abundant, selling IN the market
for per cent, the same rs Engllsh money
sells for. then he viii make S1JO instead OF
that loss: and if he could get 1t Tor per
cent. which is what national banks pay
for their currency. then he would make
500 and pay SO for his money.
take this trouble TO show you That
men cannot do business as we have 10 40
il with such high prices Tor money linen
won say: 'In the name Of God, how can
we increase the circulating medium
They have some nine tons Of silver IN the
treasury, and there is silver bullion
all over the country; there Is mll-
lions of it in the mountains. l on
sav; Let us have that silver coined
and out into circulation, or WhaJ Is
IL Iii r-fap ln1O
circulation that are legal tender. There
is not a man here but what is in favor OF
If not a man in Kansas. any OF the west
ern states but that is in favor OF 1T. ANA
we supposed that our members OF con
gress would do that very thing. They got
In a bill there: they worked at 1t Tor a
while: il went like a shuttlecock from one
house to another and after while 1t came
out-not free coinage. but to com about
four and a half million ounces month
until next July, and then they can com
that much or none at all, Just as the sec
retarv of the treasury may see Mt. And
he generally represents Wall street, and If
Wall street doesn't want silver coined it
won't be coined That is the fix we are in
ON the silver bill
How did our people vote on that / am
afraid / shall get into politics again. But
every man from Kansas voted against free
coinage except one-Mr. Kelly. 1 wish /
was in Kelly's district.
The farmer that is in debt, sinking
deeper and deeper every year in hopeless
effort, what does he wantl He wants
somebody to buy him out. If they don't
buy him out pretty soon he will lose every
dollar that he has. the interest will amount
30 all his farm is worth. He goes among
his neighbors and says: Can't You buy me
outg And MS neighbOrs say: Why, we
are in debt. too, and are trying TO get
somebody TO buy us out: we want TO leave
this country; we cannot live here Well.
what does ne want next If there is no
one here to buy him out he would like TO
have somebody come into the state, would
he noty He would like to have some fresh
blood. He would not care even If IL came
from Germany If they would bring a
little money along and buy him out.
Isn't that what you want hereS You
would like to have these buildings filled
that you built during the time of the
boom. Wouldn't the farmers of the couu-
try like to have somebody come along and
help them let 20, a the old man said that
caught the wolf 10y the ears ] believe
what every man, woman and child in Kan
sas wants Is an influx of population, with
money and business enterprise.
You say, Amt we having it, Secre-
tary Mohler published "A report in Deem
her last, of the population of Kansas for
the years 1885 and 1859 and he showed that
the population decreased in that year 3D.
600, or 81 per cent. leaving hut l,4G9. 900.
am aware that my Republican friends re-
port that the population OF Kansas is ESQ.,
600 That is not true. | don't want 10 say
they lie, but il isn't true. n Is only l.423.-
600 We have got the census from Wash
ington: the increase has been but - per
cent in ten years, while from 1870 to 1855 il
was lI3 per cent. We doubled our popula-
ton and almost doubled ii again from 1870
70 1880
How is it with our ncighbors, similarly
situatedy Nebraska has increased l35 per
cent. TO our A. per cent. And We are bet
Ger state than Nebraska. Her cities are
increasing. Omaha has apopulation equal
to kansas City. No Lincoln has a pOpu-
lation OF 10000, while our Topeka has but
81. coo. | was up at the north line of our
state and everything is booming over the
line. Colorado, according to the New York
sun, has increased 10 per cent: Iowa. is
per cent Minnesota has increased 50 per
cent. These states are similar TO
our state. Maine has increased
"a per cent. New Hampshire
right alongside Maine and not so good n
state rs il. has the White mountains has
increased 10 per cent. Vermont. right
alongside New Hampshire. has lost 800 in
ten years What is the natter Why is
81 that Kansas is losing population at the
present time. and these other states are
gaining All that l have TO say is that
Kansas is prohibition state Nebraska
and Colorado are local option states; Iowa
is prohibition state; Minnesota i a local
option state; Maine and Vermont prohibi-
tion states. New Hampshire a local option
state. Massachusetts, right south OF
Maine ans Vermont, has increased 35 per
cent.
Now, my friends does it mean anythings
/ intend 10 give these figures correct \
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