The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-03-24

THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.
With It's Enormous Circulation 1t Is Fast
Converting Democrats Into Populists.

THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.
With It's Enormous Circulation 1t Is Fast
Converting Democrats Into Populists.
1t is with an ineXpressible measure of
relief that one turns from a reading of
the gold-bug editorials of the Kansas
City Times to the columns of the St
Louis Republic, which may now be fitly
classed as Calamity howler." The
following from the Republic has the
true ring of pure democratic doctrine
and emphasizes the fast widening galf
which exists between the southern,
t-estern and northwestern democracy
and the eastern plutocracy of which
Grover Cleveland is the greatest living
exponent and representative. The Re-
public is doubtless fighting for reform
within the party" but the bulk of its
readers will become populists SO soon
as they discover that no relief can be
expected from the present administra-
tion. A strangely familiar sound to
populist ears has this Republic editori-
al, which reads as follows:
SIT is supposed by some who are 9TH
erwise well informed that there has
been n decrease in the price of silver
due to an increase in the supply of silo
yer bullion as compared with the sup
ply of gold.
This is mistake, for the supply of
silver in relation to the supply of gold
is less now than at the beginning of
the century. The decrease in the price
of silver is due to a conspiracy of En-
glish, German, Hebrew and American
tizing it.
There has been a decrease in the
price of silver because of this con-
spiracy, but the increase in the price of
gold has been much heavier, as can be
easily demonstrated.
To do So it is only necessary to see
whether other prices have been affected
as silver has been. If the leading
staples of commerce follow silver down
from the time of its characterization, it
is unquestionable proof that gold has
been ''bufled" to premium as a result
>of the conspiracy which began opera
ton about 1870.
1.-The statistical abstract issued by
the federal treasury shows that this
has been the ease. Wheat, cotton,
"ooi anu olhCi StuplCo lOilo" oiiNC
down, showing that the gold preminm
has been created by the legislation
that demonetized silver.
''In 1899 an ounce of gold brought
4. IS ounces of silver more that it did in
1870. In 1870 bushel of wheat brought
s!.30, as against only SS cents in 1890
In the same time cotton fell from 10. 03
cents to 1901 cents pound and wool
from 4S to 33 cents.
The effect of bulling gold by de-
monetizing silver is strikingly shown
in the decade between 1870 and 1880 by
the increased purchasing power of gold
as compared with the products of the
Mississippi valley. The census of 1870
shows that S,24S, 900 horses were worth
in 1870 s617. 319, 900, while ten years
later, though the number of horses had
increased to 1,2O1, 900, they were worth
much less than in 1870, or only $685.
296, 600
SIN 1870 1,179,OOO mules were worth
$12S, 5S+, 900, while in 1850 l, 729, 600 were
worth only s105, ,94S, OO0 So too, with
milch cows; with mess pork and pro-
visions; with all cereals, and with
everything we produce in the NIissis-
sippi valley.
''These fT Ires will suggest the enor-
nifty of the robbery perpetrated on the
producers of the Mississippi valley by
the geld conspirator who began oper-
ations in America by demonetizing sill
yer through the Sherman act of 1878.
Since then they have steadily forced
gold to higher and higher premium,
forcing down the price of every article
the valley produces until we have been
robbed not OF millions, but of billions
The world never saw conspiracy so
gigantic or soaudacious as that through
which the money dealers of London,
New York and the German cities are
operating to force the premium on gold
higher and still higher regardless of
the fact that, as compared with silver
and with all our staples of production, at
is higher now than it has ever been in
the history of the world.
''Out of such attempts as this grow
great political and social revolutions.
No government that is not military
despotism can uphold such conspirators
against an intelligent people when in
telligence is once reused to action.
No greater crime was ever commit
ted in the history of the world than the
crime of using the government of this
country and OF other countries to carry
out the plans of these plunderers of
the people. They are still in the busi-
ness of robbery, insisting that what
ever does not promote their advantage
is unsound and dangerous finance, but
they cannot go much further without
making reaction inevitable, and, if,
when it comes, the people take back
somewhat of that they have lost
through robbery, it need not surprise
those whom success in swindling has
made more Unsuitable as immunity has
made them more audacious'