The Iola register., 1890-10-24


dodge, nothing to apologize for, and
that so long as 1t advocated the cause
of right and justice and was the true
servant Of the people, as 1t has ever
been, he would continue to advocate
Its principles. He said that the people
of this country were we'll informed
men and women and sought the truth
and that deception, fraud and misrep.
resentation could not gain a lasting
foothold among them. He said that
parties were formed only in great
emergencies, as i'm wars or revolutions,
the Republican party being made
up mainly of the Whig party,
which went bodily into it. He
said he was and had been
since its organization, a member OF
the Patrons of Husbandry, and believ.
ed in organization of farmers, but he
did not believe In Transforming such
organizations into political parties.
The store-box politicians had wormed
their way into the Grange, and forced
1t intoa political party the very name
of which Is almost forgotten. He
said the Alliance, properly managed,
was good organization. In the South
1t had gone into the Democratic party
and controlled Its nominations, but
when Mr.. Polk came to Kansas he adj
vised them to form separate and dis
tinct party to destroy the Repub-
licdn party. The first demand
of the new party was to des-
troy the national banks, the finest
financial system the world ever knew.
He then proceeded to demonstrate that
national banks, instead of possessing
special privileges, as claimed by the
Peoples party advocates, transact
ed business at loss as compared with
the individual money broker or private
bank, but that by reason of the
rigid government control and inspec-
tion of the national banks they were
regarded by the public as safer, and
that the national banking feature was
valuable as an advertisement TO the
banker. He said that the demand of
government loans upon real estate
would require three thousand million
dollars to meet 1t, based upon one-half
the value of the land, and that gov
ernment ownership of railroads would
require three thousand millions mole.
This vast sum the Peoples party ad-
vocates, Mr.. Allen and others, would
have the government turn out with
crank, without a basis to issue it on,
and that with such an initiation of the
currency it would not be worth ten
cents on the dollar. The scheme was
and impossible.
He demonstrated that the silver bill
just enacted had increased the value
of all farm products; that while the
increase was in part due to the de-
crease in production, with the present
crop and the surplus Of last years
ciop the amount Of grain on hand was
larger than q year ago, the enhance
ment of values being due mainly to
the silver legislation. He instanced
the fax crop, which Is this year the
largest ever raised, yet with all this
Increase in yield the price has ad-
vanced from 95 cents q bushel in 1889
to Sl.S5 this year. He denied that the
bill provided for the suspension of
coinage at the end of year.
He said the Mckinley bill was the
best tariff bill ever enacted. The eff
Sect of 1t already was to close certain
foreign manufactures and that their |
nachineryand workmen were eomingto
to be supplied with food by |
he farmers of America. The bill
placed 80 per cent of our imports on |
he free list. He believed in letting |
n everything free that we can't pro-
luce in this country, and protecting
that We can produce. He
allied attention to the misrepresenta-
ions of wholesale houses that an ad-
rance would be made upon certain
ines of goods because of the change
u the tariff. These statements he
to be false, and were used by
'nterprising wholesalers to influence
heavy purchases by their
Istomers.
Since 1850, be said, farm implements
sd cheapened in price fully one third,
While The value Of farm products had
dvapced. He demonstrated the folly
t the Third party advocates in adye=
ating free trade aud at the same time
enactments that would