Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-07-19
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

Secretary Morton seems to be spend
ing more time talking in the interest OF
the gold speculators than in the inter
est of agricultural progress.
And now comes word from Wash
ington that the senate finance commit
tee has ma ajority of three in favor OF
unconditional repeal of the silver pur-
chase law.
The money power of London has
succeeded in stabbing to the death-the
free coinage of silver in India. The
grip of the octopus is tightening
Missouri World.
We want no state banks-they are
worse than the national banks Don't
repeal the 10 per cent. tax-raise it to
100 if need be. Government issue of
currency and government banks are
what the people want.-Pittsburg Kan
san
India has just closed her mints to
the free coinage of silver. 1t is stated
that this was brought about by the of
fetal class, whose pay will be increased
in purchasing power by the apprecia-
tiOn of the standard of values.-Kansas
Farmer
The New York Press exhibits a
shrinkage of 1,5OO, 100000 in stocks
and bonds since Cleveland's election.
As there is just as much material wealth
in the country now, as there was last
November. the squeeze out must have
been wind and water.-PittSburg Kan
san.
Gold is not money until the gov
ernment stamp is put on it; neither is
silver nor copper, nor nickle, nor pa
per, but with the stamp one is just as
good money as the other. 1t is ''Ceasars S
image and superscription' that makes
the money, and not the material
Pittsburg Kansan.
The stoppage of free coinage of
silver by India is another step in the
great conspiracy of the fund-holders,
gold discoveries, to demonetize one of
the precious metals, in order to make
their bonds and notes represent more
of the peoples property than they 9th
erwise would. VIII the people of the
great republic of the United States
consent to becoming the victims of the
Spiracy?-Missouri World.
The gold-bugs succeeded in scoring
another victory. Controlling the Brit
ish, like every other government, they
have prevailed on the council of India
to close the mints to free coinage of sill
ver and force that country to gold
basis, while heretofore silver has been
the exclusive value unit of India This,
of course, forced the price of silver still
lower, as explained by those who are
not posted, but more properly speaking
caused greater demand for gold and
makes gold dearer. Advance.
The banks are failing at the rate
of from six to ten a day, carrying down
thousands with them, leaving many of
them poor for the balance of their
lives. Is there a person idiotic enough
in the United States to say that if we
had money enough to do the business
with that anything of the kind would
occur, that few money lords may
have their way. The savings of hun
dreds of thousands are swept away in
n few days, the depositors left poor
and many of them made paupers.-In-
dustrial Union.
About all a man needs in order to
go into the banking business is a safe
perhaps the larger the better. He then
receives depOSitS-nO one thinks of ask
ing security of banker" The bank
er loans the deposits out on interest,
scoops in the shekels-and the deposit
ors, too, if they happen to want their
money. Banks are all right till you
want your money, then, often, they
are all wrong. Nationalize the bank
ing business, In towns of 1000 inha b,
itants or over, turn the post Offices into
savings banlIs.-ChicagO Free Trader.
The Encyclopaedia Britannia says:
''The intrinsic value idea of money has
been abandoned by the best writers
and thinkers. Coin is not a safe basis
for money. The base is too small
Rees Encyclopaedia says: "The in
trinsic value idea of money was the
idea in the crude day of barbarism.
The simplest and most perfect form of
money is that which represents moth.
ing but transferable debts-such as pa
per. 1t is only when states have
reached "a high degree of civilization
that they adopt this perfect form OF
money"
The Germans are more progressive
than we are. They have the courage
of their convictions They vote as
they believe. Every old hack of pa
per in this country has for years, when
they wanted to apply a mean epi-
thet to 'reformers, always compared
them 10 German socialists. Now
when they have come close to carrying
the elections over there, and slapped
the pompous young emperor square in
the face, they are called social demo
Gratis. since they can read the riot act
to the ruling class over there.-Indus-
trial nirD