The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-10-29

over thirty years standing, he
launched into his speech, and the
buffetings and hastings the pop
ulists got the night Of the Burton
PETER debate were little more than a
circumstance to what the same fell
lows got at the hands Of the col
league Of their pestiferous and pes
simistic prophet-Peffer. Senator
Plumb IL not an eloquent man, but
ne deals in facts and common sense,
and therein II where his strength
lies. He prefaced his speech by
stateing that he believed that his
position was that OF q servant, and
that his periodical itineracy over the
state was to find out the peo-
ple's will, and their views aud sem
timents i'm regard TO matters Of pub
lie concern. He paid high tribute
to the women, and especially the
young women Of the day. He Thought
that the rivalry between the young
men and young women Of the day,
while earnest was a friendly one,
and that the young man who thought
he had an easy thing in having for
q rival one OF the young women OF
the day was badly fooled. A few
years aro IL was a momentous ques-
ton as to what shall we do with our
daughters NOW 1t had changed so that
IL IL WAS almost a question, what
shall our daughters do with us. He
urged the young men to action and
expressed his confidence in their
determination and ability.
The causes which lead to hard times
were dealt with fully and with mas
terful skill. He did not come as an
oracle who knew all about hard
times; that was familiar with their
causes (although he was acquainte1
with their effects) and could
prescribe an unerring and infallible
remedy. He could, however, give
them the benefit OF his experience,
and assured them that the only way
he knew whereby the evils Of life
could be remedied was by ex-
perience. You cannot get over the
law OF supply and demand, and the
principle Of cause and effect. He
was reminded by the complsiners oil
hard times OF an incident that &C.
Cured when he was young man In
Ohio. He was on q railway train
and sat in a seat with Thomas Cor
win, behind some Shaker, who ex.
patiated dolorously on th" weather.
Mr.. Corwin turned to hIm and ex.
claimed, ats a good thing the
Lords time amt out this all, or he
wouldn't be reelected" He thought
1t was a good thing that his time was
not out last fall. The subtreasury
scheme was taken up and was shown
to have emanated from q source
where a free press, free speech and q
| free ballot are at discount, aud
where only q lawyer can read well
enough to get any sense out OF the
Revised Statutes. 1t was seen thai
whisky was warehoused and it was
therefore thought by them that II
would be an excellent thing to have
warehouses for cotton, tobacco and
corn. Then somebody looked uI
the law and found that the govern
ment was not favoring the producers
of whisky. That as q matter OF fact
the whisky distillers were compelled
to build their own warehouses and
store the whisky there, under the
eve of representatives Of the govern
ment until the tax on il WAS paid
That the government would not
trust the distillers to pay the tax
when due, but retained possession Of
the security until the tax was paid
How would 1t be IL the state govern
ment took possession Of every mans
property who pays personal taxes
and kept il until the dues were paid
instead Of trusting him to pay as is
the case now, and allowing him tt
do it on the installment plan, to
boot?
II was shown that the currency
of the country had not been con
tracted, but had been steadily in
creased until now IL was about go
per capita. The peoples party had
demanded that the currency OF the
country should be increased In &C.
cordance with the Increase In popu-
lation; but the Republican party had
gone further and had increased the
currency three times the increase In
population. One of the demands oil
the peoples party was that the sill
yer bullion in treasury should be
coined. This can not be done because
the silver referred to does not be-
long to the government, but to the
people who told certificates, based
upon that bullion. A great deal OF
fault had been found with the ma.
tional banking system, and 1t was
charged that the persons who en-
gagged In 1t were favored as q class
The speaker himself was not parti-
cularly enamored Of the idea, and II
was being supplanted and would
soon pass away; but it had served q
good purpose In different ways and
instead OF favoring individuals II
was the government that received
the benefit. The act i'm question
went into effect in 1864 and furnished
all opportunity for the government
to float some $500, 600, 600 Of Its bonds
which could not be done in any
other way, and the money came at a
time when II was most needed. Be-
sides this Ii gave the country uni
form kind Of money, and greatly
lessened the risk OF imposition by
counterfeiting. All bills not re-
deemed by the banks themselves be-
come the property OF the govern
ment aud when this 10 done the gov
eminent is just somuch ahead. The
greenback was illegal II issued In
time Of peace, except for the pur-
pose of making public improvements,
and whenever issued must be re-
de.med The Advocates of irredee m