Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-06
DON'T BE FOOLED.
Tall For . Show Down Before Allowinl
the Democracy to Take the Stakes.

call For . Show Down Before Allowing
the Democracy to Take the Stakes
The democratic party in congress this
winter will play for big stakes Its
leaders are nicely calculating how to
win the alliance vote without losing the
support Of Wall street The game will
be played according to the rules of
draw Joker. bluff being the principal
factor. 1t hopes to win the stakes
without showing its hand. 1t CANDLES
people to be blinded by political leger-
demain.
The alliance and peoples party have
given them one chance to play the
game successfully. Too much stress
has been placed on the value of free
coinage of silver. A minor issue,
which, if enacted into law, could give
but little relief, has been given too
prominent place in the demands for
reform. While if we must have metal
money. still, the advocates of free
coinage can hardly explain how any
great benefit will come to anyone, ex-
cept it be to create a market for the
product of monopoly that, given the
power, would quickly establish mono
metalism on a strictly silver basis.
Given free coinage and we can ex-
pect to coin but very little more than
the output of American silver mines, or
between $50. 600. 600 and $50, 900, 600 au-
nually, or an increase in the money
volume of perhaps 70 cents per capita.
But little foreign silver can be ex.
pected to come to us while the value Of
silver for coinage purposes is higher in
other countries. So free coinage of
silver, if given to us, will hardly offer
any perceptible relief. Yet the demo-
cratic party, true to its instincts Of
trucking to Wall street interests, is
preparing to give us a pretended free
coinage measure as compromise for
more important demands, while alli-
ance leaders, like Livingston. of
Georgia, will be advising the people to
vote the democratic ticket, with the
specious plea that 1--WE can only do one
thing at a time"
The democrats, having an under
standing with Wall street, can easily
give the country a free coinage meas
ure and supplement it by something
else that will leave financial conditions
unimproved Reforms are questiona-
BILE when coming from the party that
has the moneyed support of the enc
mics of reform. The game now is to
dupe the people into the support of a
Wall street candidate at the coming
presidential election, trusting that an
other four years will witness the disso-
luton of the alliance.
A half dozen measures could be named
of far more Importance than the silver
question, measures which the democrat
ic party wouldn't touch with a pair of
tongs. We need vast deal more money
than free coinage of silver would give
us We need the establishment of a
banking system that will secure safety
to all depositors, and that will foster,
not bleed, the industrial and business in
terests of the nation. We need str ct
control of the transportation lines of the
country, until the earning capacity is
limited to fair dividend on actual in
vestment and not cent on watered
stock. We need the restoration to tho
public domain of all land held by rail-
roads OF right forfeited by non-fulfll-
ment of contracts, and also all lands
held by syndicates. Will the demo-
cratic party give us these things? No.
Would they offer US free coinage if it
would give us the desired relief? No.
Tariff and silver are to be the issues of
the next campaign as far as the old
parties are concerned The two par
ties are but slight per cent. apart on
the tariff, and free coinage would give
us at the best moiety of the relief
sought. The game won't work. The
people demand something more. This
is not the time to compromise by ac-
cepting minor issues. The democrats
will have to show THAR hands, and then
they'll be found not in the game
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