People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-05-19
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.


up the agitation and education.
There is lots of idle money in this
country, and idle money is worse than
idle men
The money power is in the saddle
and so are million good and true men.
and two or three millions more have
their foot in the stirrup ready to spring
at the proper time. Let the battle
wage.-MissOuri World.
-ROthschild and his kind seem to
think the whole world should work for
gold; to increase its value because the
Jews have it. Do the people love the
Jews so much that they should work
for them?-Weekly Press.
Growers letter fixes the matter.
He is the hardest kind of a hard money
man. Gold is the god and he wants all
the people to bow down to it. Some of
us have put on silver armor and our
knees will not bend.-Iowa Tribune.
Gold is getting higher priced every
day. Wheat is getting lower-priced in
proportion. What we in North Dakota
want is higher-priced wheat, We pro-
duce no gold and therefore have no in
terest in higher price for that metal.
North Dakota Independent.
The st. Louis Republic has hoped
right out in 1.-THE middle of the road" on
another alliance-populist plank. 1t is
now advocating graduated income
tax. We see no way for the Republic
to avoid going with us now, and pre-
serve honor.-Independent Waterman.
The Jew bankers of New York have
stood the government on end and are
emptying the gold out of it into their
own Golfers. The operation of circum-
cisiOn, modified 50 as to embrace the
neck, would not be a bad remedy to
apply to the hooked-nosed fraternity of
Swindleheimer, Grabblebacker, Squeeze
goOzle, Robberichter s. Co.-Noncon-
formist.
Wall street brokers are nothing
more nor less than gamblers. and the
periodical scare about the export of
gold is only part of their game to give
apparent justification to the repeal of
the Sherman act and the issue of new
gold bonds. With a president elected
to do their bidding in this very matter
they will get the bonds, of course
Texas Advance.
james S. Pirtle, president of the
Louisville National bank, one of the
wealthiest men in the south, has de-
clared himself in favor of the princi-
pies Of the peoples party, maintaining
that "a greenback dollar is as good as
any other kind of dollar, and that it
don't matter whether the treasury con-
tainS any gold at all" The leaven is
slowly but surely working.
The growth of the peoples party in
Ohio has surprised even the populists
Last fall the entire state of Ohio only
cast fraction over Il, 900 votes. In the
spring election Cleveland alone cast
5000 votes. The populists nominated
tickets in large number of towns and
cities Of Ohio last spring and the vote
was from 200 to 900 per cent. greater
than last fall. Using the cities as a
criterion the pOpulist vote of Ohio
would now be between 100, 900 and POO
600 votes
The st. Louis Republic comes to
the front with a smile and knocks out
some very knotty points with one sensi-
BILE suggestion. 1t says by all means
try the gold standard; levy an income
tax OF five per cent, payable in gold
coin on all incomes over ten thousand
dollars, and let that pay everybody in
gold that has claim against the gov
eminent. that wants gold so bad. We
think this policy rigidly enforced
would demOnetize gold in one year and
settle the whole matter.-Lamar (Mo.)
Industrial Union.
The hypocrisy and humbuggerv of
the pretense Of maintaining the parity
of gold and silver by the adoption of
the gold standard of payment of all
obligations while discriminating
against silver by law. as well as in
practice, are too apparent to deceive
anybody. The good sense of the peo-
pie will enable them to understand
that if it was really the desire of the
administration to maintain such parity
it would be done by treating both
metals alike and giving each an equal
chance.-TOpeka Advocate.
On March /, 1898, the treasury re-
port showed that there was in circula-
ton at that date paper money of the
United States, 81, OG5, 1884, 476. The poll
cy of making this paper all redeemable
in gold finds rather narrow basis of
that metal for so large superstructure.
The report of March shows at that
date gold in the treasury, S1S7, S34, 900.
Demands upon the treasury since that
time have reduced the gold to about
500, 900, 600, so that if gold is really the
basiSof our currency each dollar of the
metal is holding up at least ten dollars
of credit money.-Kansas Farmer.
Wall Street Banker Henry Clews
now says: Public opinion has become
very sensitive about the steady drain
upon the treasury reserve which the
banks have been indirectly enforcing.
and signs indicate that this policy NAV
be soon tempered, if not abandoned"
The public is getting better informed
concerning monetary affairs, and it will
be no surprise if the banks are forced
to temper" or abandon their policy"
of forcing another issue of bonds by
draining the treasury reserve. If the
masses would study the financial ques-
ton and keep their eyes open, a great