People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-10-20
PICKET LINE SHOTS.

1t will take something more than
rotten eggs to save the Georgia
democracy.
A California bank that pays per
cent on time deposits, refused a de-
post of $4,000 of G Id bullion, be
cause it was not coined into dollars
Guess 'fat" has something to do with
money after all
An ASS ciated Press dispatch from
Washington admits that the action of
the house on the silver question is
breeding populists at a tremendous
rate all over the nation.
A prominent national banker being
interviewed gave it as his opinion that
oh, shucks! Who cares what a ma
tional banker thinks! What the coun-
try needs is more money and less
bankers wind.
The government is hard up, it is
said, for money to meet current ex-
penses. Well, what's the matter with
the collection of the S;2O, 90, 900 due
from whisky distillers for taxes due
on whisky in bonded warehouses?
A there's matter of nearly $780,
con 900 due from the Pacific roads
These would come handy just now,
and you can bet your penultimate
nickle they'll come when the popu-
lists take the reins.
The fellows who are carrying the
Mckinley banners and transparencies
in Ohio, and shouting protection,
ought to carefully preserve them, for
many wi no doubt need the cloth in
them to half-sole the seats of their
breeches to protect them from the
blasts Of the coming winter
Ire fact that over forty bills relat-
ing to finance have been introduced in
the senate proves that that body has
heard from the country and that the
finance question is the real issue.
Up in the green hills of Vermont the
populi'ts are organizing and getting
ready for industrial freedom. They
are arranging to establish a state
paper. All, the spirit of freedom is in
the air and cannot be quenched.
Employers of convict labor are re-
fusing to make new contracts, or try
ing to get rid of old contracts, because
free labor is now cheaper than con-
Wet labor and involves no care of the
laborer. Great country, this.
The Philadelphia populists have
placed ticket in the field, on ring
ing platform. There was a large at.
tendance of delegates at the conven.
ton held Sept. s.
Old John Sherman ought to have re-
manned 81 ent and made no denial of
the dece ton practiced in the demone-
tization of silver in 1878, as he has set
the reform papers to searching for the
testimony to prove lie is an Old liar,
and they are finding plenty of it.
Four passenger conductors were re-
Gently discharged from New England
road, because, as alleged, they were
talking upa strike against reduction
of wages Laboring men should only
talk in whispers an be careful who
they are talking to then.
The lllino bureau of labor statis-
tics for the last year gives the follow
ing as the average weekly wages paid
as follows: Bakers, 1886; bookbind-
ers, Sc. "a; brCom-makers, $500; candy
makers. s4.6S; cigar makers, S6.57;
cloak makers, S6.17; corset makers,
$500; dress makers, S1l.4S; dry goods
clerks in small stores, S7.25; glove
makers, .96; hotel employees, s1.12;
laundry help, Sc %; meat packers,
S6.7S; type-setters, 9.9o; shirt factory
hands, $3.50; telephone operators,
S7.l3; stenographers, Sl9.O7; telegraph
operators, S4j a month. And yet re-
publican papers say under republi-
can rule wages were higher than ever
before IN this country!
K IS
The New York Tribune Is evidently
looking for trouble, as it has been
making some calculations as to the
number of troops Pennsylvania aud
NeY York could muster to thrash the
western fellows into submission to
New England domination Ye gods