Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-07
MR. McNEAL AGAIN.

EDITOR INDEX: I have read carefully
and with interest, Judge McKay's let
ter, in your last issue.
Before examining the Judges argu-
ment l desire to correct him on some
outside matters referred to by him. He
says he supposes it is astonishing to re-
publicans to see a judge enter the Office
of a newspaper like tha INDEX, which
is engaged in discussing governmental
affairs in a statesmanlike manner.
The Judge is wrong. I am satisfied
on the contrary that it will be a source
of qualification to bis republican con-
stituency to feel that they have judge
who can enter the INDEX Office in a
ia tesmanlike manner. In a country
like this, where you could hardly heave
q rock at random without hitting a
statesman, the least that can be ex-
pected of judge is that he shall carry
himself in statesmanlike manner, and
especially on entering an Office like the
INDEX Office, that he shall carry him
self like q statesman. /, for one, am
glad the judge appreciates the duties of
his station, and has determined that
come what will, so long as he enters
the INDEX Office he will enter it as be-
comes statesman.
Again the Judge says am disturbed
over the term fux. That am a person
of limited education and prurient i'm
aGInation. To the charge of limited
education 1 of course plead guilty, but
am not troubled about the term hux,
and do not know that have given any
indications Of prurient imagination.
When the Judge, in his first article,
spoke of case of flux in connection
with collie and spasms, it did not re-
quire any ''prurient imagination" to
know what kind of flux he meant.
Now to the argument: The judge de-
votes considerable space to attempting
to prove proposition thatl have never
denied, viz: That the price of cOmmodl-
ties, all other things being equal, is in
creased by increasing the volume of
currency. He doesn't need to quote
standard authors to proye that PROPOSE
ton. 1t Is to my mind almost self-evi-
dent. The trouble with the plan of the
Peoples party is that they disregard
the important part of this proposition,
viz: s'AIl other things being equal. F."
They propose to issue an unlimited
volume of currency without any regard
to the monetary ideas or financial meth
DDS If other commercial nations with
whom we deal and have intimate and
extended commercial relations. In do
ing this the Peoples party disregards a
fundamental principle of finance. If,
for instance, we do business with a
dozen different nations all of whom rec
ognize gold as the standard of money,
then the business must be done IN gold
or its equivalent or we are forced back
TO the barbar0us method of absolute
barter.
This leads up to the question have
twice asked and to which have recelv-
ed no answer. II the price of our sur
plus product is fixed in the market of
Liverpool, how can We increase that
price by issuing vast volume of IRE
deemable currency in this country?
When speak of the Liverpool market
OF course use it as a general term for
the European market. Judge Mckay
says l must prove that the price of our
surplus farm products is fixed in the
market of Liverpool. That proposition
is self-evident. 1t is recognized by the
press Of all political parties. In the
very issue of the INDEX in which the
Judges article appears il en- editorial