People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-17
THE GOLDEN CALF
SET UP IN AMERICA AND ALL
CLASSES MUST RENDER
HOMAGE.
Pharaoh Cleveland Booming the PeO-
pies Party aud Helping Them to
Eject the Next President.

IOOh INC blOuhu bidt SfCi bhiHS "oS
al right politically, and that the tar
if had made it so; and that IL the re-
publican party continued in power
things would not be changed.
This blind action of the republican
party brought about its own defeat;
because the people knew that every
thing was not right, that something
was fearfully wrong. They didn't
know what the cause was, but they
thought they would make change,
hoping to better the state Of things.
They were like the old doctor who
was called to see a patient lie ex-
amined the patient, said he did not
know what caused the disease, but
that if he could only throw him into
fits he could cure him, for he was hi
on fits.
So our country is thrown into fits by
the political change, and it is having
one spasm after another, kicking the
national banks into kingdom come.
Now what will our democratic doc
tors do? They proclaimed loud and
long before election that the country
was on the brink OF ruin, that the re-
publican party had made it so, ard
that they wohd change all this state
of things; but now after the election,
when they have the power to do any
and all things necessary for the high
est good of the people, they do moth
ing.
Before the election the tariff was
the battle cry. 1t was the cause Of all
our troubles. 1t was the sum of all
evil. 1t had destroyed our American
marine. had ruined the agricultural
interests Of the country, had built up
great manufactures, founded trusts,
created monopolies, made millionaires
by the hundred or thousand, had con-
centrated the wealth in the eastern
states, impoveri hing the west and
south; it had done all these things ond
vastly more, before the election, but
now we don't hear a word out of their
mouths about tariff.
Were they lying about the tariff?
Did they believe what they were say
ing, or was itsystematic, premeditated
deception?
The great mass of the people who
were crying out for help were told by
the democrats that the cause of their
hard conditions was the high tariff,
and if they came into power they
would smash the bad thing forth
with. Why don't they do it?
Before the election the money'ques-
ton was not sin it" Now after cleo
ton it is the question and the tariff is
out
To my mind it is clear that the civil
lied world has now about reached the
position where metal money must go.
Of all the silly things that ever filled
the brain-pan of any man, the idea
that nothing but gold can be money is
the most puerile.
can only account for tie domi
mating influence Of this childish posi-.
ton of our great statesmen on the
ground that they are deluded. fully
believe that Mr.. Cleveland, like old
Pharaoh was, is judiciously blinded
Of course, it is his choice so to b.. Fol
this purpose he was raised up" to the
Presidency.
He evidently believes that gold alone
can be money. He believes that ht
can make congress and the country
believe the same thing. He believe!
that panics, hard times, scarcity o.
money among the masses, will teacl
this absurd lesson-that gold alon,
; can be money. Hence he believes tina
the true policy is to make none!
} scarce-as the people suffer and cry
out for more money, give them less.
Mr.. Cleveland is pre-eminently the
tool OF the money power. He is nov
; their instrument to knock silver en-
. tirely out. The money power mean Il
: crown gold "lord of all" The cal
! session Of congress will do that yer,
thing;and the contraction policy begun
t in resuming specie payments will "g'
to seed" when gold is crowned king.
In reaching thispoint by contraction
we have produced crop of debt tina
is simply incomprehensible. From
thirty to thirty-six thousand million
dollars is the milestone hangin
about the neck of this republic
The man never lived nor never will
that can comprehend the magnitude o
y this vast sum. Yet it is the fruit o
4 this robber system of specie money.
o When the howl for resuming speci
payments filed the land, gold an
|. silver both meant specie; but no,
gold alone means specie.
Specie, or coin, or metal money
mean the SYSTEM, is the great deb
breeder or producer Of our world; and
. as debt is slavery, 1t is the curse Of tn
human race
The debts produced under this sy!