The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-23

employment and reduced to want
We posses all the elements of mater
ial wealth in rich abundance, and yet
notwithstanding all these advantages
our country in its monetary interests
is in a deplorable condition"
Col. Moore made a vicious attack OF
Mr.. Frick because he cut the wages o
the laborers in his coal mines, anC
laid 1t all onto the Republican party
and the protective tariff. This might
be knock out argument except fol
the fact that Mr.. Frick is o Democrat
and there is no tariff on coal. Col
Moore forgot to add these facts to his
little story.
The official reports show that 200
100000 pounds of tin plate were made
I'm the United States last year, and
that it is nearly $500 box cheaper
than it was before the new tariff went
into effect. We state these facts for
the information Of Col. Moore who as
serted that there was no tin plate
made here and that the new tariff
added $15, OOO, 600 a year to the price OF
what we consume.
1t is surprising that a man of Col.
MOore's apparent honesty and intel
ligence should repeat the stale and oft
refuted lie that it would take more
bushels of wheat to pay the National
debt now than it would at the close of
the war. 1t would be but q weak ar
gument If 1t were true; but it is not
true.
- The Senator seems to yearn for the
return of the good old days of the
fail and the loom and spinning wheel.
ought to tell him that
every farmer in Kansas can use fail
to thresh his wheat if he wants to.
There is no law against it.
81 am just as good a Republican
now as 1 ever was" observed the
Senator. And Peoples man
who heard him turned to his neigh
Dor and said "That man is a
traitor. He has gone clear back on
u.s."
Senator PETER declared that foreign
laborers came over here with no in
tention of becoming citizens but mere
ly work year or two and get money
to carry back to their old homes.
That is probably true. But what
becomes of the material ruin" plank
of the Peoples party if it is true?
1t is very pitiful that people are
coOped up in tenement houses in the
great cities. But how does the Peo-
plies party propose to help it?
The speakers all had a great deal to
say about the poor workmen at Home
stead. But none of them told us that
the poorest paid of those men got 81 40
a day and the best paid $l4.62 a day.
The Senator wants the State Gov
eminent to take hold of the railroads
and all the big mills and factories.
Why doesn't he go all the way and
ask the government to run everything?
Considering that there had been
4 grand total of 8 minutes applause in
;hree hours of talk, Mr.. Otis remark,
when two or three men applauded
he said, that he hadn't
lime to wait for cheers showed that
ne must have been in q very great
hurry.
After Col. Moore had spent all his
lime discussing the tariffit was really
,ruel for Brer. Otis to get up and de-
,lare that the tariff was not an issue,
hat it was "only a sham battle got
Up by the plutOcratic old parties to
distract attention from the real issue"
The fusion team hasn't learned to
lrive well together yet.
The trouble with us, according to
dr. Otis, is that we all borrow dollar
md keep paying compound interest
N it for 100 years.
"Money is creation of law" says
dr. Otis, land it can be made out of !
'aper or leather as well as silver or |
old" Well then, why all this rack |
t about free coinage? Silver even
vhen coined free, costs more than !
'aper. And why should the Govern
nent collect taxes when it can make |
IL the money it needs?
According to Senator PETER the
'eople owe more than all their
is worth. According to Mr.. |
tits man should be taxed on what
70 owes and not on what he consumes.
both are right would not that make |
axes heavier than they are now?
at will not be four years." said the
enator," until there will be no dis
motion between the Peoples party
nd the Democratic party" What do
ne old guard think of that?