People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-17

M iiiS ChN iOiiN"iHo 'P
;ofill caller:
The people are with me in my pol
icias but fear | shall not be able to
command action from CONGRESS-. |
never saw such ObStinacy as exists
among members congress upon the
silver question. 1t is useless to APP
fval to them now. We shall have to
SnHplv bide our time. 1t is my Opin-
iyl that we shall experience close
times in money matters during the
year. and when congress gets together
rtXt December it will be more reason.
able. more tractable. 1t sometimes
REQUIRES hard times to briDgpeOple to
rr4lize their condition. When the
squeeze comes the men who stand in
the WY of legislation intended tOpre-
serve public confidence will lose sight
If local theories and sentiment
and will be willing to join
tine majority and general sentiment
Of those who best know what should
be cone"
If the president means that the
people are with him on his narrow
theory Of gold basis and the utter
extinction of silver as money, he is
reckoning without his host. The
''OjStnacy" which he finds in con-
grc,5 is the Ubstinacy which comes
from the expressions of an aroused
and enlightened constituency. He
will fad also that the people are
dead cato that racket" of plutOcracy
"Diding her time" The people are
awake to the emergency and propose
b. Eeep a close watch on the wicked
oil cat that is constantly lying in
wait to pOunce upon plundered and
suffering victim. If he finds the
present congress more 'tractable"
in December than at the present
time the present congressman will
tild the people less tractable at the
following election. Mr.. Cleveland
may not know it, but he will some
dag discover that the squeeze" has
already come to the people, and as
soon as intelligence and education
has done its work thoroughly the
squeeze" will have penetrated the
hides of such plutOcratic gold
bugs as himself, A theory and SEN
timent" that casts a million votes in
the face of certain defeat, distributed
from ocean to ocean and from lakes
to gulf, is not of that class that could
justly be called local" nor is it of
the class that is likely to yield to
that general sentiment of those who
know best what should be done"
The people are not just now employ
Ing statesmen" to do their thinking
for them. They have been trying
chat plan for some time past and have
discovered that they could have done
a far better job themselves.
IL is given out that the President
proposes to use the patronage of his
high position to whip silver advocates
back into the gOld-bug camp and
there is every indication that this is
true. There is no doubt but that
this will have a great influence and
that thereby he may temporarily de-
feat the will of the people to increase
the amount of money in circulation.
But is not president who will thus
use the machinery of the entire gov
eminent to manufacture a false SEN
timent rather dangerous man to a
republic? We do not argue that the
country would have been bit better
of under Ben Harrison, for on this
point their apparent ideas are the
same. But we must call the atten-
ton OF the people to the fact that it
is this money power we have got
TO fight to the finish in both the old
parties before we secure that in
duStrial freedom which should insure
TO every labOrer the full fruits of his
toll.
We desire now to call the at
tentiOn of all liberal thinking Demo
Gratis to the lines thus drawn by
their chief, and to appeal to them to
keep an eye on the liberal, progressive
element in their party, led by Bland,
Of Missouri, the daddy of the silver
dollar, John Martin. of Kansas, and
other eminent and learned gentlemen,
who do not share the narrow opinion
of the president that gold is an abSO-
lutte essential to human life. We
hope they may plant themselves in
the way Of encouraging the sentiment
in their party that is destined to lead
to the ameliOration of the human
race and the certain victory of the
party that champions it. 1t is not a
aght between the gold-bugs and sill
ver-kings-not by any means. 1t is
simply question Of whether We shall
have the extremely narrow basis Of
gold as foundation for our vast com.
merce-a foundation so narrow that
il can be cornered by shylocks and the
whole people made to pay tribute in
dividually and collectively to their
cunning, as evidenced by the present