The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-07

deotedness to legislation that was enacted
fifteen or twenty or thirty years ago,
came here with my money earned il
| the east and invested it III property here
That property increased in value; sold i
and bought other property; mortgaget
That: and 1t all kept increasing in value
| and 1 soon began to feel pity for JAY
| Gould because would soon be so muci
| richer than he That Was the boom; thai
was Imitation: that was the Argentine Re-
| public IN a small scale. There was an in
crease IN the circulating medium
that Is what n ads the increase
IN values here. And as is
always the case where the circulating me
dunn Is increased rapidly in q locality
| people went in debt. But there finally had
| 70 De an end to it. There always is an END
of this thing of speculation; this thing Of
an increase of the circulating medium. Il
| you increase it to fifty dollars per capita
| you have doubled it almost, and you have
created an initiation of values, and the
people Will begin TO speculate-you can
not Keep them from it-and Indebtedness
Will increase in spite of all my friend kies
and his friends can do; and we will all be
| IN debt worse than before. Then will
come the day of account, just as it did
Isn't that trues How many of you con-
| tracted your debts In 1870? How many in
1882 None at all. II this Indebtedness
has been almost altogether created within
the last six or seven, or eight years, defy
Mr.. kies or anybody else TO point 20 any
legislation that has made it,"
he devoted little time to Mr.. Kies'
wonderful figures showing what a gold
dollar put out at "a per cent interest
would amount to in hundred years. and
then went on TO expose the fallacy OF his
opponents argument touching the depre-
citation of the greenback during the war.
When our nation was in its greatest dan
ger was when the greeuback was worth
the least as compared with gold. There
was where the trouble was who was re-
sponsible for that depreciation! Such men
as compose the Republican party-such
men IS George I. Anthony, who went to
the front and fought for the salvation of
the Union? Here are people complain
ing of condition that was
brought about by their can
didatrs, and then blaming the Republi-
cans for the conditions! Did you ever
hear of such an outrages The men who
fought against the government, and the
the ck-coDperheads, if you please, such
men as Dan Voorhees-these are the men
who deprecated the green back!
As soon at the Union arms were victor
lous; just as soon as the surrender of Gen.
Lee at Appomattox; just so soon did the
greenbsck begin to 90 down toward gold.
Isn't that true, Mr.. Allianceman? And
don't you come before an Intelligent peo-
pie and tell them that it was Il combina-
ton of capitalists of this country that
brough hit on the war"
MY friend touched very lightly upon
the sub-treasury scheme. He seemed a
little dainty about that; doesn't feel just
like he wanted to tackle it-and | don't
blame him. The people of this country
don't take kindly to the sub-treasury
scheme; they nave discovered that it is
very dangerous thing, from this fact that
1t will permit men to take the warehouse
receipts which are circulating over the
country and corner the grain market
worse than it ever could be cornered in
He quoted some choice bits from
a speech from an article by w.
A. Harris, the Populist candidate
who is alleged to be running for congress
against George L. Anthony, and who de-
nounces and ridicules the sub-treasury
scheme numerically. He then took up
the land loan scheme, and compared it
with the cedulas in the Argentine, the
assignats in France in the last century,
aud John Laws Mississippi valley affair,
and showed that in every instance where
the government had attempted anything
Of the sort disaster followed
Touching the matter of freight rates, be
said the people of this state are practically
l unit in favor of reduction of the same,
and it would be done. 1t was not an issue:
hey were all of one mind on that ques-
ion.
Mr.. Museller then took up the Peoples
party platform adopted at Omaha, and
quoted from that document, The condi-
ions which surround us best justify our
We meet in the midst of
ration brought to the verge of moral, po-
itical and material ruin" He asked all
n the audience that were morally ruined
o stand up. Not even the poorest Popu-
ist arose. Corr upton dominates the
,allot box, legislatures and, congress and
ouches even the ermine of the bench"
NV friends" said the spea ker, that |
; q damnable liep' He wished |
o defend even the Alliance men from this |
platform. The people are demoralized.
Are you demoralized?" Most of the |
taBes have been compelled to isolate the !
-oters at the polling places to prevent uni |
'ersal intimidation or bribery" How |
many of you have been bribedT' 1.-The |
are largely subsidized or muz-
ledP l am glad that word largely" is in |
here, for otherwise what a deplorable |
tate my friend kies would be in. Pub
c opinion is silenced." 1t looks like pub
lc opinion was silenced when kies and l |
ct up here and debate in this manner.
Our homes are covered with mortgages"
God many OF US in this coun-
ry but it was the result of
nflation. urban workmen are denied
be right OF organization" Why, l
bought there was Typographical union
4 Wichita, for my friend kIes said the
Their night that he only paid 50 week to
is printers III Newton because there was
o union there, and when he came down
ere he bad to pay SIS
From the same prolific womb of gov
injustice we breed two great
ssses-tramps and millianaires." Now,
II you fellows that are millionaires stand.
10 one could be noticed getting up The
est of you are all tramps! How many of
on have been made miliionaires or
amps by legislation? 1t is impossible
,r "A man to be tramp in this county
ally temporarily"
After disposlng of the preamble, he then
,ok up the platform proper and the reso-
itions that come after the platform. He
id not know why they were gotten up in
lis way, unless it was that they might
Sc in some parts of the country the plat
'rm without the resolutions, and in other
srts the resolutions without the platform.
eterring again to the question OF in
,btedness, he closed by referring TO the
ct that where the Indebtedness was
-eatest there the Peoples party was the
rongest. but he for one would never lay
! legislation the blame for his indebted
sss, caused solely by an inflated state of
e currency and feverish desire on his
srt to get rich in the shortest rossibie
me.
The batteriug Mr.. Museller gave Mr.
les argument made the latter gentleman
gful hot and when he stood up TO reply ,
e paper he held in his hand trembled ,
70 aSpan leaveS lie lew ! ,