The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-09

Geo. w. Cunningham, of Arkansas
City, Kas., has made liberal distribu-
tion Of the following circular, accompan-
led by a blank form of petition Ito be
signed, asking congress to enact these
demands into law. The circular is as
follows:
WHAT WE NEED.
We need sufficient amount of circulating
medium that shall be absolutely Interchangeable.
We need some 1Cay to get such money into cir
ctIEdttOn.
We need employment for the unemployed.
We need safe place for people to keep their
money.
When these needs are supplied, zoe can depend
on good times, and not before.
A sufficient amount Of sound, unchanRe-
able money can be had, and 1t can be put in
circulation at once. The condition of the
laboring man, capitalist, and every other
person will be improVed the wealth of the
country will be increased, crime and pau
perism will be reduced to a minimum.
Every person will be certain that his chill
dren need not become paupers or criminals,
and no person will be injured by it. Have
the government restrict immigration and
issue a sufficient amount of legal tender
notes to employ the unemployed citizens of
the United States on public works, public
roads, public parks, public buildings. etc.,
at a nominal uniform price per day, regard
less Of their trade or ability, and when the
government indebtedness amounts to $50
per capita then tax direct on all any person
may be worth over $500. That gold and sill
YER shall not be coined as money, but may
on application be refined, weighed and
stamped for private use and sale.
Money is only smedium of exchange, and
can only be put in circulation by labor. La
Dor is wealth, and the more labor performed
the more wealth we have. We had good
times during the late war when large
number Of our citizens were down south en-
gagged in TEARING DOWN. Why would it not
be better in every way and more lasting if
large number were now engaged in BUILD
ING UPP
Would not the obligation of this United
States with all it's wealth be sufficiently good
money! Il is not what makes our money,
whether gold, silver or paper, good now2
Would labor not return dollars worth of
wealth for every dollars worth Of money
paid it2
If every person in this country who could
afford to would employ one unemployed
person, there would be no unemployed; but
what is evsrybody's business is nobody's
business, therefore the government should
make it it's business to attend to it.
Unemployed labor, by reason ofthe Strin-
genoy Of the money markets and improved
machinery, is increasing, and labor will
soon be forced TO starVe or commit crime.
Would it not be more profitable, more hu-
name, and is it not absolutely necessary un-
der present conditions to employ the
labor, when it stands ready TO
give "value received" in return, dollar for
dollar, and at the same time give us an alb
solutely Interchangeable and safe circulating
medium, and give to all the benefits Of Ia
bor-saving machinery, reduce crime and
to a minimum, and say TO the
lazy and indolent who will not work: "There
is plenty of work; you can either work or &C
hungry"
A safe place for people to keep their
money can be provided by establishing
postal savings banks where money shall be
received on deposit without interest. The
experience of the last month has shown as
that there is no place in the United States
where people can deposit their savings and
be sure Of getting them again.