People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-22

your OWu lights plluVlPlOo OhiNNNAAN
in the st. Louis platform.
The truth of the business is, the sit
uation is so desperate that long since
r. G. Dun & Co., have ceased to pub
fish to the reading public the aggregate
amount and number of business fail
ures per week. For years past the
pnblic was cited to Dun's and Brad
streets reports, as an indication of the
business situation, though the Situa-
ton has become so desperate, these
tell-tale reports have been suppressed
by the old party press and Wall street
interests.
The opposition press take pride in re-
ferring to the revival of the once good
times when the farmers get their i'm
menSe wheat and corn crops on the
market. Yes, at starvation prices, So
to IS cents per bushel for wheat.
We are further told that not one
half of these crops are yet sold, but are
held by the farmer for better prices,
and because he does not need the mon
ey these crops would bring him.
when the whole truth of the matter is,
he, like four-ffthS of his fellow-men,
is on the verge of ruin financially,
and the greater bulk of his crops long
since sold to pay the interest on his
English cousins claim on his home and
to pay the banker, one of the privileged
few, the note he holds against him and
which he charges interest on at the
rate of Y to IS per cent. This money,
be it remembered, the national banker
gets from the government for one per
cent. Is he better than you are?
When your time will permit you
from beholding our great prosperity O.
please figure a little on our indebted
ness as a nation, also on the pc cket
change required by us Kansas farmers
to pay Wall street and eastern capital
lists their annual interest on the homes
of Sunny Kansas. S21,01S,64S is the
little sum we pay them for the S243,-
146 S26 of borrowed money.
1t will require sixteen years of unre-
hitting toll and the good crops of as
many years to pay the fabulous sum,
provided we do not contract one dollars
Indebtedness during the time. Do not
be lulled into quiet by the lying state
mentS you see in the old party papers
of the Cancelled and paid off mort
cages reported by them. These are
the same kind of falSehoOdS these pa
perS have been telling us all these
years. The truth is, and you land
these papers, tOO) know it, that nine
tenths of these reported paid off mort
cages are paid simply by the farmer
giving up his home to these eastern
and English money ShylOckS.
Look around you. In your own
neighbOrhOOd, how many of the farm
erS have paid off their mortgages +?
How mauy have lost their homes d?
How many have grain to realize from
to meet overdue interest? What is
true of your vicinity is true of the
whole state and in fact, every agricul-
tural state in the union.
As a nation, we are paying annually
in interest to British capitalists the
little sum, in gold at that, Sl5O,OOO,OOO
or for every day we pass, $4,000.
If we, as Americans, are prospecting,
burdened with home and foreign debts,
beyond the hope of our ever extricating
ourselves, in Heavens name, when
were we not prosperous?
If any intelligent man will look over
our country'S map and locate the men,
bers OF congress who voted against the
free silver bill last week, he will GER
tainly see how completely Wall street
and the money power have in its grasp
our lawmakers. He will also see that
tits little spot of country in the north
east corner of the United States that
dictates to congress and our whole peo-
pie just what our financial policy as a
people of 100000 shall be and also
how much or how little our volume of
money shall be. Just so long as men.
otherwise intelligent, vote blindly for
party, irrespective of their own or
own and their cOuntry'S welfare, just
so long will men be bowed down with
debt and take less each succeeding
year for their daily toll. Did it ever
occur to you of the common class that
tits the whole aim OF the wealthy to
make money scarce and consequently
a high interest for the use of this
money?
Have you thought what the future
of our country will be in a few years if
we continue a system that makes hun
dreds of millionaires every year and
thousands of paupers. The time is
certainly here for us to vote as sensible
men and not as blind partisans. Will
we do as our better sense tells us we
should do? PROSPERITY.