People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-23
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

sung W pay Interest 10 Une money
loaners Of Europe Union.
If populism is running Kansas, what
in the world is the matter with all the
other states whose failures furnish ma
terial for our prosperity column?-Ad-
vOcate.
Was it ''over production" or 'lazi-
ness" that brought about the failure of
ex-Secretary Foster? No lodging.
We want an answer. Iowa Farmers
Tribune.
Vol. /, No. l, of the populist papers
that come to this Office is simply won
derful. They are the straws that tell
which way the political wind is blow
ing.-lowa Farmers Tribune.
American farmers make money?
You bet; made it fast during the last
twenty-five years. Why are they kick
ing, then? Because the other fellow
has the money.-Farm, Stock and
Home.
i say that a man who is not as re-
ligious at the ballot-box as he is at the
sacramental board, is an arrant hvpo-
critic, and don't care what church it
is that he belongs to.-James B.
Weaver.
We don't hear the plutes talking
so much lately about "the best fnan
clal system the world ever saw" and
the honest dollar" etc. The whole
business is too near the ragged edge
Exchange
The gold men tell us that when we
fully remOnetize silver the foreigners
will not loan us any more money. If
that is true it is one of the best argu-
ments for free silver offered yet.-In-
dustrial Union.
Free coinage is an assured fact in
the next congress- There is a majority
OF fifty in favor of it. The weight of
the administration, which is against it.
cannot overcome this majority Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
The gold-bugs say it is only "a
process of liquidation going on" When
it is finished, 'Rothschilds, Icllelheimer
q Co. will have all the money and the
rest OF this country will have all the
Observation-Disclosures.
The question now disturbing the
administration is, will it make matters
better or worse to repeal the Sherman
silver act? And when the cabinet has
decided, then congress will have a word
to say on the subject Advocate.
The gold reserve" in the United
States treasury, which it has been re-
garded sacred duty to keep at $780,
100000, was officially reported June 1
at $50, O4S,64O, and three days later had
decreased to rather less than 800, OOO,
OOO
An insufficient money volume
means paralysis to progression. This
nation is a victim to this disease The
patient is buoyed up by the morphine
credit-system, but the end is inevitable
unless the treatment is radically
changed.-Missouri World.
During the year ended April 9Oth.
1898, we exported 800 49S, 900 more gold
than we imported. During the twelve
months previous to that time we ex-
ported S2G, sos, 900 more than we i'm
ported. A few years longer at the
same rate and we will have none: we
can then demonetize the miserable stuff
and have some chance to release our
people from their miserable slavery
Lamar (Mo.) Industrial Union.
Plenty of money in the country.
but; ample demand for goods but:
plenty OF men wanting to work, but:
plenty OF employers want to hire, but;
plenty of farmers with bins full of
wheat they want to sell and pay their
debts with, but; plenty of people
want to visit the worlds fair, but, but.
but! The truth is that the whole svs-
tenn, which Dun tries to bolster up is
like many forest trees, hollow at the
butt. '-Nonconformist.
If Mr.. Carlisle is really at war with
the president on the finance question
and wishes to step down and out. and
cannot afford to lose his position be-
cause ne is poor man and would be
out of a job, let him hand in his res.
ignation, start west in wagon with an
old fashioned Pennsylvania wagon bed
on it, and it will be filed with good
1OO'cent silver dollars before he gets
very far. The people will stand BY him
in refusing to be bulldozed by Cleve-
land.-Missouri World.
The silver of the world amounts TO
only about 50, zoo, 900, 900, and if it were
possible to have it all dumped" in the
United States in consequence of free
coinage legislation, it would only
amount to $50 per capita of our popu
lation. But any sensible man knows
that such thing as all the silver in
the world being dumped" in this
country is an utter impracticabilitv.
and such argument (?) the veriest non
sense. Why didn't the world aflict us
with all its silver during the eighty
years of free coinage?-Journal of Ag-
riculture.
Immense runs are reported on
banks, especially savings banks
of Chicago and other places east of us
Failures of firms engaged in various
kinds of business, as well as banks, are
of daily occurrence. The time will
probably come some time when we
shall in this country adopt the very
sensible and absolutely safe system of
postal or government savings banks.
The present stringency, which borders
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