People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-07

The VOICE is indebted to Charley
WEIGH for copy of the San Francisco
Daily Chronicle of June Il. The
Chronicle is edited by NJ. H. De
Young and is the leading Republican
paper of the Pacific coast. 1t sounds
peculiar to hear a Republican paper
talking out boldly as does the ChrOn-
icle. like this:
"The gold mOnOmetallistS who alb
surdly imagine that the present SER
iOuS condition of affairs is due to the
fact that the government is purchas-
ing silver, should ask themselves why
mOnometallic Australia, where gold
is the only legal tender, is in the
throeS of financial crisis relatively
far more serious than that threaten
ing the United States. A little study
of the situation at the antipodeS
would teach the Wall street blather-
sixties that the smash" in Australia
is due to precisely the same trouble
now menacing US. Owing to the de-
mOnetiZatiOn of silver and the con-
slant contraction, the price of wool
has declined over fifty per cent. and
Australia is now obliged to give two
bales of wool where she formerly gave
one to pay a debt. In the United
States the farmers in the north are
paying their creditors two bushels of
wheat where they were formerly re-
quired to pay one, and the southern
cotton planter is obliged to give a
great deal more of his staple than
formerly to settle up. Under such
conditions it is prepOsterOuS to sup
pose that the country can prosper.
Nor will it until the producer once
again receives something like a fair
return for his products"
The truth is the principles advO-
Gated by the Peoples party are so
self-evident that we find both Repub-
licans and Democrats in all parts of
the country breaking over party walls
and advocating them. Our party
has not single tenet that has not
been amply demonstrated to be cor
rect by eminent leaders of both the
old parties. Is it any wonder then
that the party is growing? Men are
getting their eyes open every day to
the fact that they are blindly pursu-
ing aparty name, hoping that it will
finally come around and give the
country the relief it needs. Many of
them, however, are becoming con-
WINGED that there can be nothing lost
in voting their sentiments straight
regardless of party names. Partisans
may make wry faces and characterize
the POpulist demands as visionary
and impractical" but so long as their
sOundneSS is admitted and advocated
by men of known capacity and lnteg-
rity in their own household their
derisiOn falls harmlessly to the
ground.
The same issue Of the Chronicle
champions another of the radical"
demands of the Peoples party.
Speaking of the great fight on rates
now in progress between the great
northern railway out of Chicago and
the other lines, it says:
1T is not always, as this case shows.
that competing railroad produces
any permanent benefit to the travel
ing and freight shipping public.
Where a number of roads unite in
pooling their issues it makes it very
hard matter for single outside road
to stand up against them and as rail-
roads arc simply business enterprises
they cannot be expected to be carried
on at a disadvantage. They must
pay their way, and if they cannot
maintain themselves against opposi-
tlon 1t is natural that they should
make peace and adjust their differ
enceS.
There is BUT ONE SOLUTION TO THIS
PROBLEM and but one way in which
equality and uniformity of rates can
be secured, and THAT is by GOVERN
MENT OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF
THE GREAT RAILWAY LINES IN THE
UNITED STATES. That would remove
all sIsi incentive eIG.I for undue competition,