Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-13
JUSTICE ALL ROUND.
What is Known ~ the "Soldisr Resolu
tion," Adopted ut st. Louis, Is Eminent

What Ii Known as the "SOldisr Resolu-
tiOn," Adopted 1t st. Louis, Is Emincnt-
ly just.
A great many letters are coming in
about the resolution to make good the
soldiers pay to a gold basis. That res
olution came from southern friends. 1t
was first suggested and approved by
them. The north does not demand it.
But there is no proposition concerning
the soldier that has more absolute
same basis the bondholder has been
paid. That it has long been withheld
from him Is no argument That it
might cost something is no ex-
cuse. If it is ever done it should
be done openly and squarely by
equalizing his enlistment wages
with the advance Of cost 1t should
be done and can be justified
on the present declaration Of the repub-
Hcan and democratic parties that gold,
silver and legal tender paper money
shall be kept on parity. Those twins
of plutocrats propose to run a big game
through this campaign on keeping
money honest and at par. Give them
man has declared that lawfully the first
bonds were payable only in greenbacks,
but as matter Of justice and honor he
favored the refunding acts and the pay
ment in coin equivalent. He was might
lily concerned about honor when the
leeches were to be paid, but what great
concern has he ever had for the soldier?
Mr.. Sherman says:
But here was the difdculty. The notes we
had issued we did promise to pay by every inn.
Piled obligation that could rest upon q nation
or man The United States promised to pay
the bearer S. When! When we were able.
Tnat Is what was the meaning of the note
"nen the war was overi prosperity was re-
Vveo; the union was united: all our great
country from ocean to ocean and from the Gulf
OF Mexico to Canada was quietly pursuing the
even tenor Of its way, all acting as citizens of a
common country. The quest stion then arose
whether we ought not fairly and honestly raise
the standard Of value of those greenbacks up
to the par OF coin, or whether we should con-
tinue to refuse to make provision for their re-
demption and thus keep them below par IN coin
ana avail ourselves our own wrong to use our
dishonored notes In paying the bonds in
money less valuable than coin
This is John Sherman's excuse for
paying the gold-bugs in gold Now, he
paid the soldiers in greenbacks He
says that was promise to pay in coin.
Has he done it? Has the republican
party been just to the soldier?
Let the Omaha convention meet this
broadly. Declare more concern for the
soldier who bled than for the gold-bug
that fed. This issue can be made a
grand one in that it will be Just to the
men and just to our principles. Find
out what we owe them; pay this debt in
greenbacks and thus put a sum of
money into the hands of the people that
Will destroy the monopoly of gold-buQs
and save our country. And in this con-
nection the soldier should understand
that the peoples party Is the only one
to deal with his interests on honorable
grounds, The republican party is try
ing to get up whine about the poor
old soldier and his pension We pro-
pose to recognize that he has an nm
settled account for unpaid wages, and
that justice precedes charity. ty.-Noncon-
formist.
Alliance men all over the country