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

ty demands dollar that Will remain at
home regardless Of the material Of
which it is made.
Our people now understand that metal
is one thing and money another. They
comprehend that to equalize the metal
value with the money value is to demon.
etize their money and give it a status and
a value which will send it abroad. To
put dollars worth of bullion into a sill.
yer dollar is to strike out the enacting
clause of the law which made it dollar
and to again convert it into bullion. III
makes the law destroy itself and prepares
our money for deportation and profitable
use in the arts the world over, and hence
unsafe and unreliable as a circulating
medium. The enemies Of silver under.
stand this and know what they are about.
Just what they want is exactly what we
do not want. They know that the tive
elements cannot dwell together in peace
in the same dollar; hence in the inter.
est of the people, when the money func.
ton is conferred upon silver, that must
lift it out of the category of metals, and
it must be made to take on distinctively
its new function. To accomplish this it
must be worth more as coin than it,
would be if again converted into bullion.
This is the only safe and rational solu.
ton of the controversy.
THE CHALLENGE.
As the beautiful and gifted Nine Roland
was being taken to the place of execution
during the French revolution she was
driven past the statue of Liberty, which
stood in mute witness of the awful
scene. Upon beholding the beautiful
column she bowed and exclaimed, "Ol
Liberty, what crimes are committed in
thy name" And so millions of Ameri.
can citizens may justly make the same
exclamation today. Chained to the
earth, no foot of which is accorded to
them of right, haraSsed by debt, pinched
by rack rents and Knocked by poverty in
land groaning with plenty, they have
for a full quarter Of a century been
forced to the bottom of society and made
to feel the cruel weight of the whole
social structure.
Under the plea Of "honest money" an
adequate supply of currency has been
withheld from channels of trade, and
this has shut the door to prosperity and
opened it to train of scourges whose
name is legion. During this malevolent
period millions of our people have been
robbed of their homes and millions more
taught the melancholy lesson that they
may never hope for resting place Of
their own upon this planet. The blight
of mortgage has settled upon the land
and the curse Of debt cast its heavy
burden upon every part of the continent.
Laboring men, by starvation wages,
unavoidable strikes, cruel lockouts and
merciless evictions, have been brought
into constant conflict with capital, over.
awed and scores of them shot down by
hired mercenaries. Our cities have be-
come surcharged with impoverished ref.
ugees from rural districts and by those
who have fled from farms whose fertile
fields, by the strangest of all contradic.
tons, have filed their granaries with
plenty and at the same time Knocked
them with poverty. Sweating bells have
grown up at our wage centers like fungi
fed by poisonous exhalatiOns, miasm
and moral decay, while the wealth pro-
duced by millions of patient, toiling
hands has been gathered by gamblers,
usurers and idlers. Corporations and
trusts have fourished and multiplied
without number, overrun the country
and driven the plain, honest citizen from
the marts of trade unless he will yield to
them the profits Of his toll.
Our railway vikings have placed the
whole country under tribute to their
greed and divided it into provinces that
they may better plumber the people.
The machinery Of the old parties has
been seized by conspirators against the
public welfare and the organizations
themselves compelled to join in the gen.
eral work Of spoliation. Our legisla-
lures have been corrupted, seats in the
United States senate openly purchased,
great industries paralyzed, our silver
mines, which contain Gods bounty to
his needy children, forced to shut down
and congress compelled to crouch like
vassals before European kings and AFRO.
CANT money lords.
Judicial arrogance has invaded the do
main Of legislation, nullifed the most
solemn enactments Of congress, set aside
the acts Of state legislatures and denied
the right Of laboring men to quit the
service OF their corporate masters. Let
us not wonder that old parties are dis
solving and political revolution shaking
society from ocean TO ocean. The won
der is that its coming has been delayed
so long. The industrial people of Ameri-
ca will meet the emergency and acquit
themselves like men. The people are
long suffering, but unconquerable. They
are rapidly massing their forces and will
crush their adversaries by overwhelm-
ing majorities at the ballot box.
j. B. WEAVER
Des Moines