People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
Principles First.

llC railing INTO line on the side of the
people. The only fear is that the
plutocratic influence will in some
way bring their powerful commercial
skill to bear upon it as they have on
the Kansas City Times, and as they
do on every metropolitan sheet that
gets to showing independence in that
line. 1t goes without saying that the
Republic voices the sentiment of the
rank and file of its party in the south
and west in its liberal financial views,
and Of the people as a whole regard
less OF party, for that matter. We
venture to say that if the Republic
will adhere to its present course that
IN a few years it will be looked up to
as one Of the great deliverers of the
people, and its prosperity will be cor
respondingly satisfactory to its man.
agement. Glittering gold is tempt
ing, but it will have a far better flav-
or when gained with honor rather
than dish0nor.
Such sentiment as the following is
calculated to make us shout "BravOl"
And it does US great good to see our
esteemed and worthy cOtemporary.
the Standard, quoting freely from it:
Under the law of self-preservation
Democrats must make it their first
consideration to put the adminiStra-
tl0n tOr which their party is reSpOn-
slDle on a Democratic basis. They
must defend it against the domina-
tl0n OF the northeastern four hundred.
They must justify the party record
as party, not of the select few. but
OF all who believe in human rights
and human freedom. They must
show that it is the party of manhood
right rather than Of property privi-
lege' They must stand ready to sac
rlfice everything but principle, and
OF Their principles they must make
no sacrifice.
There is a struggle coming and the
question is for and against DemOc-
racy. We must not allow the control
OF the Democratic party to be usurp-
ed by John Adams federalistS.
These brave words are the conclud-
ing sentences of leading editorial in
its issue of last Thursday, in which it
boldly called the attention of Mr.
Cleveland to the consequences of his
course in forcing the narrow gold
standard upon the people. 1t con-
cedeS the honesty of the president.
but excuses him, as Gov. Robinson
did in recent article, on the ground
that his association is with the cred
ltor class, rather than the debtor
class and appeals to him to learn the
principles of Democracy from the
masses rather than the classes.
The VOICE joins the Republic and
Gov, Robinson in cOnceding honesty
to the president, and sincerely trusts
that he may get in sympathy with
the masses before congress meets
However, we feel like emphasizing
the Republics good advice to the
rank and file of the party as indi-
Gated in the above clipping.
Here is some more good logic from
the same issue of the Republic which
we hope every one will mediate
upon:
An esteemed correspondent writes
to us from San Antonio, Texas on
the letter head OF the San Antonio
and AranSaS Pass Railway Company
TO ask us if the people acting
through state legislatures would nof
ieglSlate as wisely in regard to state
banks of issue as they have done in
regard to national banks" And he
would like to know also whether we
are not denying the capacity of the
people for local Self-gOyernment in
opposing a state bank note currency
we deny in the first place that the
people have acted wisely in allowing,
or that they are responsible for allow,
ing, national bank note currency
Inat currency costs them a dOuhle
interest, as, before it can be isSued
i!ntereSt-bearing bonds must be depos,
lted TO secure it. And after it has
got into circulation by the payment
10 the iSSuerS of a second interest il
is outstanding as demand against a |
very limited amount of gold, and its |
presence in circulation tends to in |
crease the artificial pressure which
FORCES up the price of gold and forces
down the price of labor. And assum- |
ing other things equal between the
state bank note and the national
bank note, this is as true of the one
as of the other. Neither is-neither
can be-hOneSt money, because neith- |
er can circulate except by a discrim-
lnation against the whole people in
favor OF the very few who issue such
notes.
The only honest money is curren-
cy OF gold and silver freely coined. !
with treasury paper based on gold |
and silver and redeemable in gold or
silver on demand. The sovereign
power of issuing money belongs to
the sovereign people and must not be
delegated to corporations.
Over and above all this, or rather
in spite of it, the Boston Napoleons
of finance who are behind this move |
ment for state bank currency are in
favor of it because we will not be able |
to pay our debts to them in it. We |