People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-12-02
Continue to Stand up for Principle.

A"h AOi bilC lul llClS > VI hduodo.
God knows they-have cause. As their
farms are going through foreclosure.
the Republicans say, stard up for the
honor of Kansas. What do they
claim as its honor? You have been
almost ruined by debts, through de-
basement Of your money exchange.
They have delegated the right of is
sue to incorporated companies, with
power to expand and contract and to
issue their individual credits in place
of money, for which they charge you
interest; when collected it becomes
capital, which is the mortgage de-
mand on your farm, to sustain which
they shout for the honest dollar.
They call the credit dollar an honest
dollar. Any measure replacing cred
its with money they dub as dishonest,
as in the free coinage of silver. The
issue of national money directly to
the people and lOaning the same at
two per cent. they claim is dishonest.
But when they demonetize silver,
thus depriving the people of the mon
ey of their daddies, making money
scarce and dear, taking more Of labOr'S
products to cancel its debts, then they
cry, stand up for the hOnorof Kansas.
| would think the angels in heaven
would blush for them. Now | say to
you, the producers of Kansas, con-
tinuc to stand up for the nation as
you did in the last election, make it
possible for us to he free men, through
owning our homes and controlling the
industries of our common country,
that we may be sure of an income for
ourselves and families. That the
conditions forcing prostitution upon
our daughters as portrayed in a
speech by Senator Ingallsand quoted
by Congressman Simpson, may be of
the past, as that condition is now
general. A case came to my notice a
short time ago in this city. A young
lady applied for position in one of
our leading stores. The wages were
81 per week. She says, Il cannot live
on that" He answers, II should
think as nice looking girl asyOu would
have gentleman that would partly
support you" And this in city of
churches, is but one case in thOus-
ands. And yet they shout honOrl
l say, stand up for your homes
through reclaiming the country with
honest money. The money of the ma
tiOn issued to the people at the pres
ent as set forth in the Omaha plat
form, at a tax of 3 per cent, would
transfer the present system from the
mOnOpOlies, at a high rate of interest,
to the people collectively at low
rate, which would be paid into the
public treasury, not as interest, but
revenue, taking the place Of present
taxes. 1t would not be repudiation,
as debts would be paid through gov.
ernment money, which would take
the place of present credit capital,
placing US as people on sound ba'
sis. What would become of the mil
lionaires? If mortgages were trans
ferred to the government in trust fol
the people, the money they would re.
ceive would be redeemed in our prod.
ucts. Could we ever redeem such
money? Yes, we pay for the property
of this country once in ten or twelve
years, which we keep doing over and
over. pUnder the peoples system,
when once paid it is the end Of debt
What would the millionaires do with
their money? Exchanged for our
products to consume or export, II
would make us prosperous in increas.
ed industries. What would the re-
suit be? When we had redeemed all
money paid out in the transfer OF
mortgages, bonds, stocks, ETC., then
we would be absolutely free and own.
ers of this country. How would we
bear the expenses of government:
The same as we paid our indebted.
ness, by paying out and receiving gov
ernment money for all services in i'm.
prOvement as presented in our plat
form; then labor receives representa-,
tion in exchange, which is decree is.
sued to ourselves collectively and
singly. What would the poor do who
now depend on their interest account
for a part Of their living? The tax
on the necessaries of life are greater
under the interest system than the
portion they receive asinterest. The
big mOnopOlies absorb the properties
of the small interest holders, which
comprise their profits through great
failures. The abolishment Of interest
would give all access to the natural
opportunities and would make each
family and individual so prosperous
in the increase ofprOperty which now
goes to create the millionaire, that
poor houses would be Of the past.
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