Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-12


cessity to be heart is imperative, because
they are in distress from debt and general
lac& of prosperity; and the supplication
hereby made in their behalf is not for spe-
cial favors or assistance, but simply to Sc
cure 1ustioa Hence the necessity for a bold
ness that will follow mem bers CT your COM
mittee who refuse to listen to this righteous
cause with a letter. and, IL they ara still too
fuH Of prejudice TO read this written appeal
in behalf of this great and good, but terribly
outraged people, there are over q million
honest hearts In this country that will pray
conscience to the exclusion of all else until
II shall receive attention
There Is very little d ,fference between ono
man and another each Is In the I'm ge of his
Maker, and of nearly the same size weight
and intellect By what right then can any
man arrogate to mself a degree of sune.
riority sufficient to au, horize him to deal In
q captiOus m amer with q subject that in.
wolves the ppint IS OF thousands of his
ielloN men as good a he? Surely none and
he is unworthy to be called man IL he does
not honestly seek to relieve their distress
When a man says the f,rmers of this
country are being Systematically robbed by
the laws oil the country, It is customary to
regard him either a crank or a delna-
goRue; either Il man who is partially crazy
on the money question. or the middIeman
question, or the tariff question, or some
other one idea to the exclusion Il good
broad judgment, or he Is a man wanting to
curry favor with the farmers, and is regard
ed as sharp fellow who is insincere in his
assertions. The reason that a man who
makes that assertion is judged to be either
q fool or knave, Is be cause the assertion ia
so often made without any satisfactory ef-
fort to demonstrate or prove 1t. 1t Is true
The farmers of this country are being sys-
tematicalIy robbed by the laws of the land.
The proofs are at hand to demonstrate It
robbed, and they can no more prevent II
than they can fly. Their substance is taken
from them by the most potential compuI-
sion possible, and they are entirely at the
mercy of forces over which they have no
control These are Lold statements. and
made in the interest of the most important
cause that has been before Congress in ten
years, yet so true are they that
even this cause may stand or fall
upon them. systematically robbed
Surely to stop systematic robbery of the
most important industry is not class legis-
iation, except in the Eyes of the robbers. 1t
Is not necessary to sop 1t by unconstitu
sional methods. stop 1t by constitutional
methods, but don't make bubble over CON.
stitution al methods a pretext for not stop.
ping 1t at all Stop it practical method
that will stop 1t, and do not try to fool the
people into believing that they do not want
1t By talking about an impractical Q meth.
od. top 1t If it exists; you will agree to dc.
thst, and ths good peo lie of this whole
country will demand it, If 1t ex sts
You have in this country about one billion
Of dollars, more or less, but practically
something near that sum, in cir. uIatton
among the people or boarded by capitalists
This sum must do all the business of the
country. Tho manufacturer the merchant
the miner, the banker, professional men.
artisans and laborers, all alike complete a
productive effort in their various vocations
every day. That Is to say, each of these
has an even and practically uniform use for
money thrcu Ehout the year
With this uniform volume and uniform
demand stability of prices might reason
ably be expect d 4 a ricuture did not be.
long 90 the family; but II does, and will as
long rs people eat bread and wear CLOTHES.
which however, VIII not be very long un
less present tepd.,ncies are stopped ARri.-S
culture steps In during the last four months
OF the ye with alb ut seven billion dollars
worth (st present prices) of products, which
she offers fer (and must hhve) money. What
demand upon the one billion dollars In
circulationl Ia add tion to doing the busI.
ness OF The entire country, as it has ben
doing for eight months, 1t must now take
care of a business equal to seven times its
volume. 1t will surely be admitted 20 fair
to presume that the demand for money Is
doubled during that period when it is
known that the gross value of the gross
output of all kinds OF manufsc uring for he
entire year in 1880 was 81, 1853, 479,l91 Wien
you con slider the re at ions between the vol
nme at money and the demand for its use,
you must admit that the same eject will be
roduced by an increase g. demand or by a
D. crease In volume That 10 to say, fixed
volume OF money with an Increased demand
10 q contraction cf volume Just as certain as
Excl demand with a diminie he'd volume
Is contraction. Til refore the augmented
demand for money created by the ma ket-
Ing OF agricultural products under existing
laws Is attended with a violent contraction
or the relative volume of the circulating
medium Of the country which compels, ire.
slstioly, reduction in prices at the very
time when the farmer must part with his
proouct. Mr.. Flower, of your committee.
mas already submitted good evidence In
proof OF this, by showing that for iorty years
the actual average fiuctuation annually
In price of these products has been about 50
per cent, and 1t Is an admirable illustration
and confirmation of the principle here laid
down, that general prices invariably fall
with this relative contraction of the volume
OF money every aui umn. This enables those
VINO have money to buy the products of the
farm during that season for less money
shan It cost the farmer to produce them at
the prices which prevailed in the spring,
when he made the investment in the pro-
ouctlVe effort 1t should not be forgotten in
this connection that at all times the Gov
eminent Is taking in as Government re.
cetpts from taxes and revenues" about
forty millions per month. True it pays out
about the same, but that money is not buy
Ing wheat while 1t is going to the bottom of
Uncle Sans po. ket and back.
No man can dsny that 1t is a systematio
robbery of the farmer to have a financial
system established by law that will contract
80 as to depress prices at the season he is
compelled to sell the products of his labor
Of course the demand for money is dimin-
ished as the crop Is consumed, aud by the
time 1t Is necessary for the farmer TO MAKE
his spring and summer Investments to Sc.
cure crop the volume of money, having
less to do, is reia' i've y larger. and, as must
follow. prices are higher. Thus you have it
in nutshell; he buys his commodities un-
der an environment that makes wheat
worth dollar a bushel, and IS
compelled to sell his produce under an en-
vi'onment that makes wheat worth fifty
cents hu'hel. Is 1t any wonder that the
most enter -isirg m r hauts have generally
failed, or that the best farmers in the coun-
try have become involved in debt? Do not
say that II this were true 1t would have been
discovered long RgH, and would not have
been unearthed by a modern hayseed con-
vention: because. it would not 1t Is the
result of the material pr gress that has de
Feloped the railway AMI the telegraph. by
means OF which the product of agriculture
can be placed on the markets Of the
world the very day 1t Is harvested,
and before it leaves the farm
This has shortened the season for
harvesting and marketing so much
that the effect OF a stable volume of money
Is equal to a violent contr ctiou. There
has been rock in one end Of the meal bag
long enough, and 1t 10 time m dern condi-
tions were rec 1znized and utilized.
NO mere inerease of the Y In re of money
by the free coina6s Of sIlyer, or Fhe issue og
treasury notes. or the aninR Of nnon.y OF
real estats, is now sufficient, because the
farmer il not IN shape to get his shar" os
sha benefts that would undoubtedly flow
aessa -es. He Is behind the pro-
.rom % SUI a. above ehown, are dis
ression' I"ur 10" r- wants the dis
C' InatihS a1aih- u'u, l. ~1uat
elimination stopped He wants
chance to share the benefits. Then you may
increase th- stable volume an enact othsr
wise laws, and he. being able to get his share
Of the dement's, VIII Civ. you the cradit Bat
DO net seek to sidetrack him hy any thing
lhnrt Of complete equalty. This pFin cipls
Of fexib l.ty of volume to meet flsx bilitv of
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