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

.0nsplrat0rs In the crime, then COM
menced to retire their notes as rapidly
as silver dollars were coined. Mean
while presidents, treasury officials, clear
ing houses and leading money centers
simultaneously opened furious war on
silver, which has been kept up from that
day until the present time. Every dis
elimination known to the ingenuity Of
experienced foreign and domestic gam.
blers and money sharks has been called
into requisition to discredit silver ana
drive it from circulation. The New
York clearing house, the United States
treasury being member thereof, has
steadily refused to receive it except on
special deposit to be paid back in kind.
For Is years all administrations have
schemed and conspired with all the
power and diplomacy at their command
to destroy Our silver money and to retire
the remaining volume of our greenbacks.
THE RELAPSE.
The logic of events is always hard in
fallacies and covert frauds. At last the
criminal character Of the financial legis-
lation of the past 80 years is becoming
manifest to all. The malady which pros
trated US in 1878 has grown with our
growth and gradually undermined the
business health in spite of the palliatives
afforded by the remedial legislation Of
1878, and the country is now expert
encing second paralytic stroke. That
of 1873 was the alarm bell which warned
US in the midst of our debauch that we
were treading upon dangerous ground
and nearing the graveyard Of republics
The rigor from which we are now suf-
fering is the second call, which tells us
in terms too plain to be misunderstood
that our condition is most critical. 1t is
now evident that patient constitutional
treatment alone can relieve us. Unfor-
tunately for the country, the same school
Of quacks whose malpractice forced US
to the verge of the grave in 1878 still has
control of the patient in 1893 and are in
sisting on the same line Of treatment
The studied malevolence of the con-
traction acts of 1866, 1878 and 1915 was
made apparent by the utter disregard
shown for the fact that $4,000, 900 people
had just returned to the Union without
dollar in their pockets. The great crime
of today is the stolid Indifference to the
current increased demand for money &C.
casioned by the addition Of 100000
of money using people who have crowd
ed in upon us since the close of the war
and for whose use not one dollar has
been provided. Treasury officials can
not now build bonfres nor heat crema-
ton furnaces with our money, but for
eign spectators conspire to export it,
and treasury officials aid in the diabol-
ical work. This answers the same pur-
pose When our money starts on all
ocean voyage, prices at home decline.
This enables the speculatOr to return
and buy for song the products of our
fields and mines, which he also wishes to
export
The president recently gave notice
that he will convene congress early in
September to repeal the Sherman law,
which now adds about 100000 month
ly to our volume of money. This will
land US back to where we were when
the cruel and fraudulent act of 1878 was
passed. 1t is cowardly blow in the
face of wounded man. 1t is the pirat-
ical bombardment of cities filed with
defenseless people. All the strength of
the administration backed by the money
power of two hemispheres will be ex-
erted to bring this about. The purposes
mad in view by the international con-
spiracy of 1873 was retarded by the pop,
ular uprising which followed. But never
for one moment have they abandoned
their fell purpose.
The president will urge upon congress
the repeal Of two laws relating to our
finances-the Sherman law and the law
imposing 10 per cent tax upon the issue
Of state banks. The first will complete
and condone the crime of 1878 and con-
fiscate fully one-half Of the property of
the country. The second will remit us
to hybrid currency Of Adifferent vari-
cites, none Of which can be a legal tender
under the constitution, and will start US
on the road to q succession Of panics
such as cursed the country prior to the
war. As in the panic Of 1878 the people
were told that If they would consent to
the destruction Of the greenbacks and
the demonstration Of silver the national
banks would supply their wants, SO now
they are to be told to look for relief
through state bank issues.
NECESSITY FOR A CHANGE.
The present generation has twice been
painfully reminded that readjustment
Of our money system is Of first neces-
ity. II should be fashioned to suit the
wants Of an independent republic, and
all traces Of systems which were invent
ed by monarchs to enrich princes and
rob peasants should be forever elimi-
mated. All power over the currency is
vested in congress. This has been ad-
Indicated by the highest court known to
our constitution and is our only safe
guard.
Our present banking system, instead
Of being sourceof security, is the gen.
esis Of danger and the storm center of