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

of the silver states worth what we
offer for them?
Gold is splendid thing from which
to manufacture heather gods for fools
to worship, but it is not fit for money.
Clay Center Dispatch.
IAN adequate metal base or none, -
says Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan is to be Mr.. BANDS chief as
sistant in the fight for silver. The true
populist says mo metal base, no swap
ping dollars"
How fifty dollars per capita is to be
evolved from total supply of metal
for money use, of less than $40 per
capita for the increase in population,
doth not yet appear. Bimetallism is
a Dead sea apple.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, threatens
the formation of a silver party" 1t is
well Let there be gold party, a sill
yer party and greenback party, and
then let the war be to the knife and
the knife to the hilt
If the law in India can knock
twenty cents out of a silver dollar what
could the law of the United States do
for the gold dollar? Suppose we try it
now while we are experimenting
Clay Center Dispatch.
Don't forget that gold is not money,
but that money is the voice of the peo-
pie or the representative of power con-
centrated in stamp. What the people
say is money goes" never forget it;
never dOubt.-lowa Farmers Tribune.
Let congress demonetize silver.
then will the people decapitate con-
gress and return another that will de-
monetize gold, and put the business of
the country on a solid greenback mo
exception clause basis. - Pittsburg
Kansan.
The production of gold and silver
combined, in the United States, is al
most the same per capita that it was in
1873. How is the free coinage of sill
yer, or the issue of paper money based
on gold and silver, expected to give the
people any relief.
What is needed and must come is
an American money for American peo-
plea currency which, when called
abroad, will return to the borders
wherein it was issued-a full legal
tender money, no matter of what it
may be observation-disclosures.
The money of the future, must be a
promise to receive-not to pay. The
fact that the government received
greenbacks in payment of custom dues
made them as good as gold, although
instead of promising to receive them,
we stated on their back that we would
not do so.
If silver is demonetized and its
coinage stopped, gold will soon follow
suit The people of this great Amer
lean nation will see to it that it is
done. They do not propose to become
the slaves of lot of gold gamblers
This is not made as a threat, but as a
prophecy, or rather as a belief that
manhood will triumph over greed and
goid-lowa Farmers Tribune.
1t IS stated in Washington that one
of the numerous financial measures
that will be introduced in congress will
be a bill providing for the demonetiza-
ton Of gold and the making of silver
the standard, The statement comes
from what are known as silver men.
and those who are classed as gold
bugs" say that it is only a joke. We
, shall see.-junction City Tribune.
If congress succeeds in leaving sill
yer out of the money functions of this
country, there will be the greatest de-
struction of values that has been seen
in TIE world in five hundred years.
There will be no known values for a
series of years After that the millen-
ium will come, the people will learn the
oppression of metal money and repudi-
ate the whole thing; when that is done
it will revolutionize the world it will
bring peace on earth and good will to
men. 1t will be the destruction of one
of the last relics of barbarism that is
to-day enSlaving the world. The gold
power is to-day doing something it has
no conception OF. -InduStrial Union.
That silver will be again demone-
TIED in the United States there is not
much reason to doubt; and it is per-
fectly natural that the friends of the
white metal should retaliate by de-
handing the demonstration of gold.
Indeed it is not difficult to show the
justice and reasonableness of this de-
mand. Why should one commodity, a
commodity owned almost exclusively
by the rich, be clothed with special
monetary power, while all other com
modities are denied the privilege?
This makes of the gold owners a priv
ileged class, and Thomas jefferson said
"a privileged class is a dangerous
clasS"-Mount Vernon Ol.) Progress.
sive Farmer
The issue before the American peo-
pie is not the relative merits of mono
metallism and bimetallism. but the
fight is between those who advocate
the claims of the commodity" system
of finance and the advocates of the 'nu-
merary" monetary system. Gold and
silver men are alike commodity"
money men, in that they maintain that
there must be a standard of value, /"
consisting of a certain set quantity of
some certain metal, or metals The
'numerary" theory maintains that the
exchange value of each unit of volume
of money, depends upon and is regulat-
ed by the number of units in circu-