Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-22
ALL IN ACCORD.

Democrats, Republicans and POpulists In
dorse the Justice of the Demand.
The resolution adopted by the indus
trial conference at St Louis on Febru-
ary %, 1892, reads thus:
We demand that the government issue legal
tender notes and pay the union soldiers the
difference between the price of the deprecated
money in which he was paid and gold
Planks and of the national demo
cratic platform of 1858 read as follows:
g. Payment of all the public debt Of the
United States as rapidly as practicable. All
money drawn from the people by taxation, ex.
cept so much as Ia requisite for the necessities
Of the government economically admins tered
being honestly applied to such payment and
where the obligations of the government do not
expressly state upon their face, or the law un-
der which they were issued does not provide
that they shall be paid in coin, they ought. in
right and in justice, to be paid in the la,crul
money of the United States.
3. One currency for the government and the
people, the laborer and the once holder, the
pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the
bondholder.
1t will be noticed that in 1853 the
democratic party not only denounced
the outrage perpetrated in the redemp-
ton of the bonds in coin, but also vir-
tually stood where the peoples party
does to-day, and denominated the legal
tender greenback of the nation as claw
full money of the United States.''
Ex-senator John ]. Ingalls,, during
the delivery of memorial address at
jefferson City, Mo, on Decoration day,
said:
His claim (the soldier's) is based on Justice.
1t was part of his service. He fulfilled his
contract, and the government should not do
less. The common soldiers were paid from s13
to Sl6 per month and were allowed $40 to S45
per year for clothing. The rations, when they
got them, were worth about $50 per month.
In all, an able-bodied soldier received, directly
indirectly, about Il 800 for thirty-six months
service and the government assumed to con-
tribute to his support in case Of disability or to
his relatives in case of death
But the soldier suffered financial loss At
wages paid 500 per year, or e 100 for three
years, and thus each soldier who served three
years practically donated not less than S1OoO
OF the three year men there were q $50 272 and
TO Offset their loss there is stin due 81 OOo. :
OOo,0 This is due by just bookkeeping and
payable 1t is an honest debt and can only be
avoided by reputation The bondholders were
treated differently. They were paid 81 ,0Oo, ,OoO
900 more than this.
As the difference between the wages
paid soldiers and those paid laborers
not IN the army exactly represents the
premium upon gold, Mr.. Ingalls, yir-
tually indorsed the resolution adopted
by tL~ St Louis conference.
A MARES NEST.
The Soldier Resolution OF tAe YndustrtaI
Conference Worries the Two Pluto Par
ties.
Republican journalists ~ have found
another mares nest They have let
ter from President Polk and another
from the editor of the Advocate relative
to the soldier resolution adopted at st.
Louis These letters they are running
In parallel columns for the purpose Of
showing an inconsistency upon this
question
what Is that inconsistency? Presi
dent Polk says in his letter that the
resolution Is not part of our platform
NOW let these Tlncompoops read the
other letter and see If they can find
where 1t makes any claim that it is. Nc
participant in the St Louis conference
and no person anywhere who knows
anything about the matter ever claimed
that or the suffrage resolution to be q
part OF the platform The published
proceedings of the St Louis conference
distinctly stated that IL was not II
has never been published in any reform
paper In the country as part of the
platform The platform and "addi-
tonal resolutions" have been kept a.
standing matter In the Advocate ever
since their adoption, and they show
for themselves lust whst bslonRs to ths