Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-10-10

in 1891, athat The taria bsnsa6o f.rm-
CD and wage sarnsrs knows bstSsr.r
IL farmer" aid n. Peaar = -
Topsks Capital Of August 2, 1858, -
more interested than any othsr elass of
citizens in the maintenance OF IT, pro.
tective principle Of tariff legislation.n
The workingmen OF this country
now have the victory won," said III.
PETER in tho Capital of September 2.
1888. = II General Harrison
is elected president next November
protection will be the settled policy of
our people; il not We will surely drift
toward free trade, and that means q
leveling down of American wages
In which OF these cases did Mr.. PET.
fer "know better" than use the words
he did? .
On August %, 1888, Mr.. PETER gave
this to Kansas readers: Americans
own this country. They have made it
what it is, and the spirit of 1776 and
the spirit OF 1883 would send every
British cargo back to England rather
than build up their manufactures at
our expense. The motto OF republicans
in 1888 is like in spirit to that Of 1866
millions for American homes, but not
one cent for British manufactures. The
republican party will never die as long
as the government of the United States
shall stand"
Did Mr.. PETER 'sknow better" than to
talk such good sense as that?
Here he goes again: "Our laws
should b, must be, will be, 80 amended
and enforced a. to secure for our own
workers the markets which Justly be-
long to them"
A long editorial about tho debate on
tho Mills bill, in which Mckinley and
others are highly complimented, closes
with these words: away down deep,
in the very foundation Of this great
subject, lie the independence of the
people and tho perpetuity Of the gov
eminent. A protective tariff means
simply taking good care Of our own
interests, protecting the nation from
dangerous foreign influences. It means
q busy prosperous people, great
growing, powerful nation of freemen. !"
When Mr.. PETER talks about the need
Of vast issue of paper money does he
''know better" than he knew on July %,
1883, when he published this: 1.-The
supply of money is ample. There is
usually a monetary stringency about
the time the wheat and corn crops are
to be moved; the transfer from one
section to another of the millions neces-
sary to this purpose and their gradual
return through the agencies of trade
being a financial transaction too great
in magnitude to be accomplished with
out some local disturbances. + =
The currency of the country is ample to
meet any demand that can be made up
on it."
In 1883 the per capita circulation
was $22.88. In this year of grace,
when food of currency IS called for,
it is $23.45. If the currency was ample
three years ago, it is ampler now.
In an editorial headed 'The Labor
Party Movement" which appeared Au-
gust 80, 1888, the present head Of the
so-called labor party spoke as follows:
'.Let the workingmen organize for dis
cussing the great question of labor
do it within the lines of the two great
parties and the result will be repub-
lican administration that will have both
heart and brain to take care of the peo-
Piles interests. Men rarely gain what
they want by organizing new parties. y
In the light of Mr.. PETERS quoted
uttersaces, which are only very few
in comparison to the hosts which
might be marshaled, it is rather diff.
cult to account for the present attitude
and the force of what he has to say il
greatly lessened. If not entirely lost
There is record of but one similar
revulslon of belief and feeling, and that
was when the unbelieving Goldsmith
fell in love with the diamond eyes o.
tho idol Of Juggernaut and became
zealot in the faith to which his disinter
estedness had led him.