People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-09
No POker-Chip Currency.
st, Louis Republic Dem)

wv OAAcA VI
st, Louis Republic Dem.l
According to the Philadelphia Press
Mr.. Cleveland is of the opinion that
an issue Of state bank notes would
give immediate relief from the money
stringency, especially in the more
sparsely settled states.
The Press is a Republican paper
and has no right to speak for Mr..
Cleveland on this or any other sub
Ject. Mr. Cleveland has made no
special study Of financial questions,
but lie has too much common sense
to believe that a financial stringency.
caused by debt and contraction, can
be relieved by the issue Of notes that
no one is bound to take for debt.
We want no pOkeT-Chip currency.
We want money Of final account. cash
that will pay all debts, both public
and private; that will circulate as
full legal tender in every state in the
union: that will pay every form Of in
debtedneSS that Illinois, Kansas
Iowa. Arkansas, Missouri, Texas or
Tennessee owes to Massachusetts, or
New York.
The free coinage Of silver will give
us standard dollars Of full legal ten
der, and WREN we get rid Of the per-
niciOus theory that silver dollars
must be redeemed in gold, the coin
age of these doll; rs will give us a cur
rency responsive to our always in
creaSing population and the marvel
Gus development of our trade.
The west and south are right
in this matter and they will
not compromise their rights
and the rights of the people of
the whole country by sacrificing free
coinage for permission to issue poker
chip currency that is not cash, that
will not pay debts and that, while
seeming to initiate the currency, really
contracts it by increasing the amount
OF debt and the consequent demand
for gold which this system makes the
only money Of final account; the mon
ey in which all debts must finally be
paid; the money against which all
paper and silver issued would be made
a debt.
The free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver is a constitutional
right of the American people, and it
shall not be compromised away or
traded away to the NapOleonS Of FL
nance in New York or the mortgage
dealers of Boston.
The Democratic National platform
has defined the attitude of the Dem
OcratiC party, and when congress
meets its first act should be to pass
an act for the repeal of the Sherman
act and the re-establishment Of the
free and unlimited coinage of the
precious metals on the basis Of the
constitution.
This is the right of the entire
American people and the time has
come to enforce it. They have been
Swindled long enough. The crime
of 1873 must be atOned for and not
made a precedent for new robberies
of the people. The control of the
treasury and of the financial policies
of the nation must be rescued from
the hands Of the plutOcratiC class and
restored to the people.
If, after making this pledge in its
platform, the Democratic party could
fail to stand by it, the defeat the Re-
publican party sustained in 1890 and
1892 would be reOpened against the
Democratic party in 1894 and 1896.
If the Democrats fail to pass a bill
for the free coinage of gold and silver,
the party will get the worst defeat
party ever got in the history of this
country. The politician who does
not know enough about American
politics to know this knows very lit
tie indeed.
The continued demOnetizatiOn Of
silver under a policy which treach-
erOus enactment permits without au-
thOrizing; the continuance of the sim
gle gold standard with no authority
given in express terms for its mainte-
nance by any law Of the United
0 States, make this paramount issue in
American politics. 1t must be set
tied, settled at once and settled
right.
1t cannot be settled at all except
by the free and unrestricted coinage
OF gold and silver without diScrimin-
alton against either metal.
That is the policy of the Demo-
cratic party and no matter who is
against that policy the Democratic
party is for it.
Were Mr.. Cleveland capable of
abandoning tue platform and desert
ing the party he would be left with
out support except that of few mug
wumpS, tories and pGtOcratS. But he
is incapable of doing what Tyler did.
la spite of all that is said BY Repub-
lican organs; in spite of all that can
be done by the Wall street conspiracy
to bull gold, the crisis when it comes
will find Mr.. Cleveland on the side of
his party.
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