People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-30
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

creasing largely and rapidly.
Tariff is no longer even mentioned
in the old party papers. Oh. the
wretches.
-Six-cent cotton will educate the
south; forty-fve-cent wheat will bring
the scales from the eyes Of the vest
Industrial Union.
Speaking Of the present financial
conditions Cleveland says: Goodness
is required" We think cold cash
would bring relief more readily.
AS DIR. Briggs has been convicted of
heresy, the next step will be to burn
him at the stake. That's what was
once the custom. Nation.
In discussing the money question
most people fail to distinguish the diff
ference between the dollar and the
material upon which the dollar is
stamped.
The business of the country must
either be contracted or the currency
expanded. The former remedy appears
to be the one most adopted at present.
-Oberlin Herald
Up guards and at 'em!' are words
attributed to the duke of Wellington
on memorable occasion. awake pop
ulists. We've got EN- should be the
refrain in Missouri. - Independent
Waterman.
Give us the dollar that will circu-
late at home and come back quickly if
it is sent away, and not the dollar that
is worth more somewhere else than in
our own country; not the dollar that
will sneak off when we need it most
Clay Center Dispatch.
From every quarter comes intelli-
gence Of wonderful activity by the pop
ulists and socialists. All seem to real
ize that the time for active propaganda
work is here. This is the most impor-
tant epoch in the worlds history. Now
or never.-Coming Nation.
1t is great fnanciering to base all
our money on one Of the scarcest metals
known and then quietly sit down and
watch the money mongers ship all that
metal out Of the country. If you OBJ
ject to that kind Of iIiocy you are a
"crank"-Clay Center Dispatch
Nothing short Of the free coinage
of silver, ar issue Of greenbacks based
on the produce Of labor, ar income tax,
and deatl;-dcaling bows to combines,
trusts and national banks will pull this
countly out Of its awful fix, Mr.. Cleve-
land and we told You so six months
ago. independent Waterman
Six and a-half millions of dollars
in gold went to Europe Saturday, and
when money is 50 badly needed at
home. viii the people learn from this
panic that gold is not fit to print money
on? Nc country should have money
that is current in any other country.
Paper money is the money of intelli-
gence-gold of burbarians.- Coming
Nation.
Our sound financial system for
which the old parties beg our continued
support has produced nothing lately
but the sound Of crashing banks, and
the cries Of despair going up from de-
frauded creditors and depositors. If
the people continue to support this
rotten system, their mental soundness
may well be qucstioned.-National
Spectator.
The finance question has been set
tied every .wo years for the past TWEEN
ty and yet it is the leading question be-
fore the American people to-day. Pres
ident Cleveland is going to call an ex-
ira session Of congress to meet in Sep
TENDER, to settle It again. Like the
slavery question, it will never be set
tied until it is settled right.-Clay Cen
ter Dispatch,
- alueS are contracting as never
known before The most valuable thing
in the world to-day is dollar-except
two dollars What of it? Why the
debts Yen owe don't contract worth a
cent Your labor may still be con-
tracted one-half, but your debts will be
the same-rcquiring double the work
to pay them. Every man who owes a
dollariS being Coming Nation.
The goldolators declare that the
gold reserve boarded in the treasury is
there for the purpose Of redeemng the
greenbacls. Why, then, should they
go into spasms when it is used for that
purpose? Thus far nobody has under
taken to explain this special streak of
insanity. The treasury cannot have its
cake and eat it. 1t cannot redeem
greenbacks and keepits gold. National
Waterman.
For thirty years the democrats
have been crying: Just give us a
chance and see what we will do" Now
they have the chance and are doing
nothing but scramble for the offices.
That is all the chance they ever wanted.
In the meantime wreck and ruin is pill
ing up on every hand, but they seem to
have no care for the people, the offices
are the goal OF their ambition. Indus
trial Union.
Notwithstanding the silver dollar
only contains IS cents worth of bullion,
the man does not live who is DESTROYS
of rising in his imaginary might and
exhibiting his long ears by proclaiming
to the world that the dollar of the
dads will not buy as much in the
country which created it as will the
gold dollar worshipped by Grover
Cleveland and the "Sheenies" of Wall
and Lombard observation-disclosures.
The reform elements are beginning