People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-18
GREENBACKS AND SILVER.
That's the Doctrine. ="


The Kansas City Journal. leading
Republican daily, in recent issues con-
tained the following editorials. If
they are not sound POpuliSt doctrine,
we are ignorant Of the principles of
our own party. Any Populist can en-
dorse these utteranceS, for they are
what the party has been preaching
from its inception:
OH, FOR GREENBACKs.
Silver certificates and other paper
money at premium over gold in
Wall street, in the midst of a "Silver
panic is one of the things that, like
a search light, shows a world in dark
ness just what is about them.
Was the United States government
what it ought to be. there would be
available now treasury nOtes-green-
backs, if you pleaSe-ample to do the
business, and send the money chang
er to the rear. Gold is a myth as a
benefit-a very monster as a destruct-
i've force in the hands Of its owners.
1t is only used to Oppress and to force
tribute from those who do not own
it.
Half a dozen houses, sO-called bank
ing houses. control, own the great
bulk of all the gold of the world avail
able as money. They are not bankers
only usury shOpS-lOan offices. And
what is more, these very owners of
gold own the productive gold mines
of the world. All they do is charge
the government and business of the
world for the use of their money.
Gold being the money of ultimate re-
demptiOn and they owning the gold.
there is no limit to their eXtortiOn
but their sense of policy and prudence.
Anyone ought to see the remedy for
this is in using money made by the
!. United States, receivable for all dues
and good for all payments-and not
the money of some broker that lives
in Europe. Even with the war on
silver it is at a premium over gold.
If we had volume of greenbacks to-
day there could be no such condition
as exists.
SILVER on TOP.
a fact is worth all the talk in the
world. The wants of men determine
the demand and value of anything and
everything. Right in the very teeth
and crisis of the 60 cent dollar howl.
comes the following report of the As
SOciated Press, which will be found
under the New York date in the
Journal yesterday morning:
The scarcity of currency has led to a
peculiar condition Of affairs on Wall street.
To-day money brokerage concern at one
and the same time was offering per cent.
premium for gold, and Il. and 81. for cur
rency, so that the usually discredited money
was worth more than the yellow metal.
So in Wall street while gold COM
manded only l per cent. for the de.
mands of business payments, silver
or silver certiflcates-cOmmanded II
to q premium-Or from ! to II per
cent. over gold. And this right in
Wall street where the conspiracy to
bear silver was cOncOcted and car
ried out.
1t is, as fact of business, with all
the talk INDUCED in on this subject
from the Brussels conference to Cleye-
lands proclamation. 1t is simply
the water-down-hill demonstration.
At a glance the common sense OF
the people will see clear through all
the subterfuge and platitude. II sill
yer in Wall street on the 4th ofAugust,
1893, after all the fierce war upon it,
commanded premium over gold for
the current uses Of business, what
would 1t not do as an equal of gold in
law and at the mint? The fact needs
no words to emphasize il.