People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-09
HOW SHALL WE VOTE2


This is question that greatly con-
Germs us at the present time, especially
the farmers and laboring classes, for
we are in great deal worse condition
than we have any idea of, and we may
never have another chance to vote our
selves free from the money power; and
under the present management of the
government, and with the present mon
etary system, the national bank system
that we have in operation in this
country in a few more years the COM
mon people will have nothing left, and
will be servants and slaves to the money
lords.
The national banks are taking all the
profits of labor out of the hands of the
laboring classes and putting it into the
hands of the monied class and will
eventually dispossess every farmer and
small property holder in this nation
without change. And with the ma
tiOnal, state, municipal and individual
indebtedness standing against us that
labor must pay and no money scarcely
to pay it with, there won't be any of us
who own farms now that will have a
home left for ourselves and chill
dren at the end of twenty
years, because the debt is so
large, and the amount of money with
which to pay it is so small that we can
never get money enough to pay it, and
it will take all the land owned by the
common people to pay the debts. Joseph
H. Walker, wealthy congressman and
strong opponent of free silver, says
that the whole Indebtedness of the
American people is SS1, ass, OOO,O 900, and
that the interest alone on that sum
would amount to SlSs, 92O, 900 while tho
amount of gold or debt paying money
is only three per cent of the indebted
ness, or three dollars TO every hundred.
That is, that we only have three dol
lars in money to pay hundred dol
lars in debts. Now how many
times will we have to turn that three
dollars tomake it pay the hundred dollar
debt, or can we pay it at all without
stripping Us of all we possess, and if we
let the debts run and pay only the in
terest will we not still be slaves to the
money kings? Now, Mr.. Walker seems
to be calamity bowler, but he is tell
ing the truth and is only stealing lit
tie Alliance or peoples party thunder
when he says we have not money
enough to pay the debts of the country.
If he or any of the rest of the old party
men think that we ought to have more
money why don / they give us more. Why
did they vote against free silver. But they
don't want to give us more money and
only talk that way to deceive the peo-
pie, They will talk one way and do
another way, and are not to be trust
ed, and we, as farmers and laborers.
should vote for the men who repre-
sent our interests, it matters not what
party we find them in. But we will
not find many in the old parties that
will work for our interest even IL they
be alliance men. For we elected
about forty alliance democrats and
republicans to congress last year and
they have done no good because they
are bound to party and have to obey
the will of the money power who con-
troll the parties. The nine men who
were elected on the alliance platform
have done more for the people than the
whole forty, and all the men in the old
parties, besides, because they worked
for the interest of the people instead of
working for the party. And now |
want to say that every farmer andla
ing man can vote as he pleases, but as
for myself, | am going for the peoples
party ticket clear through because |
have the best of reasons to be-
lieve that the men on that
ticket, if elected, will represent
the great labor interest of this coun-
try, and beside | believe that the time
is near at hand when we will either
have to vote for homes or fight for
them. And the great question before
the American people to-day is, not the
tariff but the money question. The do
ing away with the national banks that
is robbing the people and the govern
ment to issue and control the money.
1t is said that in twenty years after
the national bank was organized in
England that all the land passed out of
the hands of the common people into
the hands of the money class, and It
will do the same here. They already
have three-ffths of the wealth now, and
in twenty years more they will have
all our homes and we will become
tenants and slaves to them. So let us
vote for the labor party, the party that
demands the abolition of the national
banks The government control of
railroads, the free coinage of both silver
and gold, tariff reduction and the issu-
ing Of more money to the people-Cor.
St Louis Monitor.