People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-28


every man would lay by his partisan
prejudice and use his native born
common sense he would not be TWEEN
ty-fOur hours in making up his mind
where the trouble is. We do not eX-
pect the Monitor man to do this, how
ever. If he did he would 60 back on
it when the wind changed.
The AtchiSon Champion, one Of
the Oldest Republican papers in Kan
saS, edited by Lieut.. Governor Felt,
is brave advocate of that "appall-
ing calamity" so ably fought from
the start" by that eyer-consistent l?)
and truthful ~ exponent Of political
economy, the Wellink ton Monitor,
viz: the free coinage of silver. Ina
recent issue the Champion spoke out
as follows:
The greatest battle of human free
dom is now being fought. The con-
Spiracy of all the bankers of Europe
and England and Wall street to re-
duce the standard of all values to the
single Item of gold alone is an at
tempt to make it possible for less
than ., 0OOmen to control the finances
of all the earth. A moments reflection
will explain what this means. 1t not
only covers the right to fix the
rate of interest, but to govern the
prices of every product of labor and
the farm throughout the known world.
The battle is on. 1t cannot cease
now until the issue is decided. The
victory will be for the $1,000 or for all
the untold who farm and toll. manu-
facture and barter. Every dollar
should be the equal of its neighbor
and worth 100 cents. That standard
all agree is the correct point. The
issue is not upon that point, but the
fight is for the quantity. If the 25,-
600 can demonetize all the metals but
gold-thenit can demOnetize all paper
money. The real question is shall
the money of the people be
made in the interest of the people
or for the benefit of the 1000? How
other nations may solve this problem
is not the question to be solved by
American citizens. How shall it be
settled in the United States? That
is the question. What is best for the
American people? That is the real
issue. The Wall street manipulators
and the presses they own and the
financierS they control in the west,
all say this question must be settled
to suit Wall street. This is the whole
thing in nut shell. They say to
Kansas, close down the smelterS, shut
down the mines in Colorado, then you
can sell all your butter and eggs and
live stock in New York, and pay the
freightS and Wall street will dictate
the terms.
II the low price of silver is to blame
for fOrty-cent wheat as our friends,
the enemy, insist, then it is equally
responsible for the thirty-cent corn
and six-dOllar hogs. We have never
seen any attempt by the POpulist
press to explain why one class of farm
products should be high and another
low, while the financial system is the
same and ought, their theory being
true. to produce the same results on
everything the farmer raises. But
then the editor of a calamity paper is
not supposed to be a reasonable be-
ing. If he were he would be in some
other busineSS.-MOnitOr.
To tell the truth about it there is
not much use in calamity editors
reasoning very hard. The thing is SO
plain that it is visible without rea-
sOning. And besides you fellows rea-
son it all out and tell us about it, and
then turn around and call us cranks
for believing what you taught US. In
) your editorial of August 20, 1890, you
: told US very distinctly why wheat
was affected by the rise in silver. and
said that the farmers Of this country
had had millions put into their peck.
: cts by the Republican congress which
passed the Sherman act which caused
the rise in the price Of silver. Now
we "calamityites" don't know very
much, but since you have told us that
! the rise in silver advanced the price
Of wheat we can't see why the fall in
silver would not likewise carry wheat
down also and thus take millions
out Of the pockets of American farm
ers and put them in the pockets Of
Johnny Bulls bankers. We beg Il
be excused for this herculean effort
: at reasoning. but really you gave u'
I the starting point.
The new silver bill, by raising the
price Of silver nearly thirty per cent
on gold basis, has increased the val
ue Of the farm products Of the United
: States, according to the New York
I Sun, at least fifty millions Of dollars