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FIGURES OF TRADE

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leaa a. - ssr seat AID eleslas oHef~1s@t "a
vff cs1l-
paslea rates - 70 A..
(ioss4nilent 414ds aase oeea d8ll and easy.
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sai4e s8asider41ls srr7~ llafitf " mofeinsnt
Ea1 so8s Sl1e changes 01.o4ta sides resulted
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bu8 ne overwhelming oafure Of Tie "a - n
east deposits aud sur iEs @rfc lard , aAttei-
passl AID had a nata-d elect Epoa the a ar,
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IT you want money and have the proper se-
curity. the Manhattan z per cent pan or
ters the best inducements ShsA bssenan.
agent. vs. New Houseman.
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WANTED-RoeMB

WANTED-April ist or before. board and
w two connected furnished rooms in pri vate
family in house with furnace. gas and BATH.
References given. Morris" care carrier
one q
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WAN III HUtNlA
WANTEp-Agents 10 sell our choice and
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IA offer agents biz money. IN exclusive ter
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Safe Co.. No. St0-Ssl Clark street. Cincinnati.
Ohio
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HERALD DEHRELETS
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N. W. N0RTHROP.
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FOR RENT.

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KNIGHTS OF pYrHIAs DIRECTORY.

IMPERIAL LODGE NO. l4-Reguiar con-
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WANTED-Work, washing. ironing. house
w cleaning or work of any kind. Eliza
Fleming. 20 Crescent avenue. -
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NANTED-Doy you know that Evergreen al.
w dtion ia the east end. on the line OF
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
BlMETALISM RULED OUT,

The Adjourned Meeting of the Interna-
tional Monetary Conference viii Prove
to BE Fake.
The Brussels monetary conference is
not to discuss the question of bimetal-
ism at the adjourned meeting. This
question was settled by the president
short time before adjournment, as
shown by the official record, page S43,
announced as follows:
The president declared the discus.
sion on bimetalism closed"
This conference was called by the
United States, and it was left for Pres
ident Cleveland to say whether the con-
ference should reconvene or not. With
the further discussion of the restoration
of silver as a full money metal COM
pletely debarred by the decision of the
president of the conference, what rea-
sons can be given for the further con-
tinuance of the conference?
Under this ruling only the greater
use of silver can be discussed None of
the plans had in view the restoration of
silver as real money, but to keep silver
as representative of debt to be re-
deemed in gold as is now done by Sec
rotary Carlisle.
1t looks very much as though Presi-
dent Cleveland, knowing that he has a
dead sure thing in the action of the
conference, is DESTROYS of keeping up
this international humbuggery to head
off the passage of a bill for the free
coinage of silver by the United States
congress.
This dOne,an effort will then be made
TO restrain the nations from the
free use Of silver as an ultimate
money by keeping it under-valued and
subordinate to gold by force of law. In
fact no one need be surprised if treaties
of this character are brought for
ward for consideration before the
close of the adjourned conference to
convene in November at Brussels
Shelbyville Qll.) Peoples Paper.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
WHY NOT2
The Value of Money Does Not Depend Upon
the Value of the Material Upon Which 1t
is Stamped.


The Value of Money Does Not Depend Upon
the Value of the Material Upon Which 1t
is Stamped.
The Leavenworth Times wonders. if
the government could make a p cent
piece worth dollar. We suppose if it
could do that it could say a nickel is s.
and a $40 gold coin is 500 or bond
for $1,000 is worth million. See?-
Atchison Champion.
Yes, that is the way we see it, but
you say the government can make GA
cents worth of silver equal 100 cents
worth of gold, then why not % cents
worth? Don't pull away from this
question. You took up the cudgels
against us, now please answer us: If
the government can make a coin con-
tanning but ga cents worth of silver as
valuable as gold dollar, why cannot
it make much smaller and more con-
venient silver acknowledgements
Times.
The government has done a heap
better than to make % cents worth of
material worth dollar and can keep
on doing that very thing. 1t has made
half cents worth of paper worth one
of the biggest kind of dollars, as big as
gold dollar, and so much bigger that
the government recently refused to
swap them with the Denver bankers
for gold dollars, dollar for dollar. And
the government can keep right on do
ing it without the least trouble. And
it will do that very thing in four years
when the populists get to running the
machine.
But seriously, Mr.. Anthony, isn't this
sixty-four-eent dollar you talk about
worth just about as much this blessed
minute as the hundred-cent gold dollar?
Won't it buy just as much of everything
or anything? And if so, isn't it worth
just as much? Come, now What makes
it worth as much as a gold dollar? It's
Just because the government says so;
so it will be, no matter what the gold
bugs may say about it. Even if the
gold-bugs should say it is worth only
twenty cents it will be worth one hun
dred cents, nevertheless, as long as the
government says so. Therefore the
gold-bugs lie when they say our dollar
is worth only sixty-four cents. 1t is
the dollar that is worth the hundred
cents-not the silver it is stamped on.
You had better get up on your feet
and study your lesson, Brother Anthony,
instead of standing on your head and
imagining that everybody else is upside
down. Get some populist farmer to
loan you a primer on money or tell you
few Of the basic truths about it. You
are making spectacle Of yourself
Fort Scott Lantern.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
Pledged to Reform.

Won't the peoples party become just
as corrupt in few years as either old
party? This question is so often asked
reformers that we will answer it.
We say, No! Because the peoples
party is pledged by its platform to en-
act certain reform measures, among
them the initiative and the referendum.
Now, when the party triumphs, as it
will, our Legislators will be forced to
enact these laws or the party cannot
live. Therefore these first pledges will
be carried out and then the people,
with the referendum can reject any
pernicious law. When our future legis-
lators become susceptible to the cap
italistic siren the people will call halt
The people, under populist rule, will be
the supreme power and politicians will
be as clay in the potter's hands.
Our party throws around itself the
safeguard OF self-purging corruption.
A feature possessed by neither old par
ty. We say the people are the govern
ment and their power supreme. The
politician will be shorn of his strength
to do evil when the people rule the
land.-Golden State.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02

We have received from the Publishers Of
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The illustrations are simply superb, more
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1t is the most artistic and costly number Of
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All old subscribers receive this number
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
THE IMPENDING CRISIS.
The Small Gold Apex Cannot Much Longer
support the Pyramid of Credit.

The Small Gold Apex Cannot Much Longer
support the Pyramid of Credit.
After giving list of the large num-
Der of banks which have recently failed
and showing the enormous percentage
in increase of business failures over the
corresponding period of last year, the
Clay Center, Kan, Dispatch says:
These are bank failures alone. The
number of failures in other lines is i'm
mense, and this is only partial record
of one weeks business" Gentle
reader, don't you think this is great
showing considering that we have
neither free trade, free coinage of sill
yer or fiat money" (?) in this country?
1t is quite evident that the trouble all
comes from the populist victory in
Kansas last fall.
The best finance system the world
ever saw Plenty of money if you've
got something to sell! More per cap
tia" than ever before 1t was not be-
cause of scarcity of money that these
failures took place. Oh no; it was be-
cause those fellows couldn't pay their
debts, that's all! If they could have
paid up promptly everything would
have gone smoothly with them. The
reason they couldn't pay is because the
per capita" is larger than it ever was
before. The reason we know it is
larger is because the late Secretary
Foster says so, and of course he would
not prevaricate about little thing like
that. If some conservative statesman"
will only get hold of the machine and
stop this extravagant increase in the
circulating medium we will soon be
able to get down to solid basis"
again The expansion of the volume
of money-especially fiat moneys
always followed by wild speculation.
Put down the cranks and let us go back
to the good old days of a gold basis"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

a New York Banking journal Says the
Monometallists Are COnspiring to Force
Panic.
The doctrine which some of our super
.ilious monometallists are propagating,
to the effect that the only way to
change the ideas of the next congress
on the currency is to precipitate panic,
would not only be absolutely futile but
is extremely vicious. Examine the
opinions of those who are to take the
lead in approaching currency legisla-
ton and you will find them unanimous
ly declaring that there is a conspiracy
in the east to bring about a crisis in
business, under the auspices and con-
nivance Of those who are opposed to
silver currency: but that if a panic
should develop it will simply be anoth-
er demonstration of their predominant
ing idea that the gold basis is not
broad enough for the safe conduct of
business. Could there be anything
more absurd, then than the advo-
cacy of a collapse of confidence by
treachery in view Of this extensively
supported sentiment and condition?
Taking a broad view of the matter,
should not such a proposition bring
upon those citizens who support it the
contempt of all public-spirited citizens?
A panic, in the eyes of the free silver
advocates and the fatists, who appear
to hold the balance of power in the
next congress, would thus confirm their
own forecasts, both as to the character
of eastern credit institutions and the
standard Of value, and would it not es-
tablish their errors upon a frmer
foundation? So long as this govern
ment can pay its obligations in the
money of the world, the gable that it
ought to refuse to do 50 in order that
credit might be destroyed, with the sub
sequent result of changing western
and southern opinion on the currency
question, is idiotic and monstrous in a
breath. Let it be remembered that the
advocates of free silver recall time,
not dozen years back, when similar
demonstrations foresaw ruin in the
operation of the silver certificate act.
They recall the hysterical theories of
that period and find them curiously
analogous to the present. Ithas caused
them to regard with scorn the currency
notions of the east, and neither panic
nor prognostication will affect them
now except to emphasize their repeated
assertions that there is not currency
enough in the country to make it pru-
lent to contract debts. With the in
trinsic merits of any currency theory
we have nothing here to do; it is the
proposition to infict commercial ruin
Upon merchants and banks for the sake
II an object lesson in finance which we
4Xecrate.-American Banker.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
HOW DO THE PEOPLE LIKE IT2

They Like 1t So Little That They Demand
Money That Is Not Redeemable in Any
Other Kind of Money.
The silver law Of 1878 was a step I'M
the right direction. 1t provided for an
increase-light, it is true-of the circul
lating medium. The people of the land
reJoiced that congress, for a moment at
least, had escaped the clutches of a
vicious money power and had retraced
its steps toward Jeffersonian simplicity.
A later act provided for the issue Of
silver certificates-paved the way for
the iniquitous Sherman law. But the
people liked those notes. They were
receivable by the government for all
dues and were a legal tender for
governments Indebtedness. One hun.
bred cents worth of bullion were be-
meath each one of them-in fact,
they were the only genuine specie basis
money that had been given us-and no
Wall street scare could be manufact
ured out of their use. They were too
good. They answered the peoples
purpose. The gold-bugs ahldn't con
veniently' use them, so they simply
yelled Presto, change!" and John
Sherman and his cross-eyed law bobbed
up serenely, and Wall and Lombard
streets smiled and winked the other
eye. The Sherman law provided for
the issue of coin certificates The man
who sold government his silver bullion
received them in payment for the same,
When these certificates were presented
to the sub-treasuries for redemption,
the officers in charge redeemed them in
coin, and that term seems to have
had but one meaning, in these redeem
ing shops, namely, gold! When
the machine got into full opera
ton, the same gold-bugs laughed. 1t
worked like charm, because it con-
stantly took gold in preference to sill
yer; that is, these gold-bugs did. The
people were busily engaged in their
stores, workshops and factories, and on
their farms They were attending to
their own affairs. Not so with Wall
and Lombard streets. They had been
grinding their axes-endeavoring to in
crease the purchasing power of their
yellow dollar by demonetizing silver,
the business mans, the workingman's
and the farmers dollar. The people
have been hard at work creating
wealth. Wall and Lombard streets
have been busily engaged in endeavor-
ing to obtain the wealth created with
out rendering an equivalent. This can
be accomplished by increasing the
power of ther dollar, gold; and the
power of their dollar will be increased
by the destruction of the power of the
peoples dollar, silver How do the
people like it? -Nonconformist.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
Government Banks.

The National Bank of Australasia
makes the seventh out of the ten large
Australian banks which has failed
within a few weeks. The cause is not
difficult to find. Russia and Austria,
as well as England, are in the worlds
market as purchasers of gold. The
withdrawal Of gold from Australia de-
creased the volume of the currency and
depressed values. The banks demanded
more security for their loans and re-
fused credits. This disturbed con-
tidence, and people began to withdraw
their deposits. As a gold standard,
with not gold enough to go round, re-
quires popular confidence for undis-
turbed transaction of business, it fol-
lows that a panic at almost any time is
possible. In other words, gold is no
standard at all unless people believe in
it. 1t is not in itself an honest measure
of value. The government of Victoria
has decided to gather all the private
savings banks into one system and at
tach them to the postal savings banks
to be run by public officials. This
marks the growing distrust of private
banking institutions.-New Nation.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
The Georgia Alliance,

Through the earnest and systematic
work of Hon. c. H. Ellington, the alli-
nnce is rapidly perfecting its organiza-
ton all over the state. Under his able
management the order now possesses
an effective lecture service, a full treas
ury, and a frst-class newspaper. 1t
cannot be too often impressed upon our
farmers that they, as farmers, should
be organized. Under our system of to-
day the organization is everything.
And the farmers alone are without it.
So long as this situation continues they
are at the mercy of other classes-Peo
pies Party PAPER.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
AN HONEST CONFESSION.
United States Paper Money as Good {
Initad Sfatas p0nds nur Ahaur1 r.,

United States Paper Money as Good as
United States Bonds Our Absurd Cur
rency Policy.
The manner in which many Of our
interior banks are yielding up their
gold reserves to the treasury shows
how clearly they appreciate the situa-
ton. On the one hand, they do not
think it wise to issue bonds for gold;
on the other, they perceive that no
other resource is left to the treasury
but to borrow the needed funds, il the
sl0O, 900, 900 reserve is to be kept intactor
as nearly so as possible Confident that
the credit of the nation is as good for
its circulating notes as it is for
its bonds. they reach into their
own vaults for needed gold and take in
exchange for it treasury notes, green
backs and, if a recent statement is to
be credited, any other available gov
ernmental currency. There is another
thing to be deducted from these acts of
our interior banking institutions. 1t is
that these banks seem to believe it
best that the 100000, 900 should not be
largely drawn upon in the interest,
presumably, of conservative finance.
If our friends did not so believe, there
would be no occasion 10 prompt them
to replenish the government stock of
gold. Whether they reason correctly.
if they really look at the matter in this
light, is matter which only experience
2an demonstrate.
No one believes that gold viii be
withdrawn forever and shipped abroad.
But if the movement should be unend-
ing, imagine this nation then in the
process of creating great public debts in
order to furnish the medium by which
its citizens pay their private obliga-
tiOnsl Does not the absurdity of our
existing currency policy stand out in
amazing relief from that point of view?
We doubt not that our readers have
contemplated earnestly the present sit
dation and anticipated, perhaps, the
various climaXes to which it might lead
the national finances. American Bank.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
That's the StuH.

There may be money plenty in this
country, but if so, it has gone into the
hands of the few and they put it be-
yond its power to serve the legitimate
purpose or function for which money is
created, and just at this juncture is
good time for the government to exer-
else that power which the supreme
court has decided lis not war power"
and put a few hundred millions of full
legal tender greenbacks in circula-
ton. The "exigency" has certainly
arisen which makes the exercise of this
power both ''expedient and impera-
tive" "The necessity for providing a
proper currency for the country" as
the court has said, lis all the authority
needed" either in war or peace.--Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
An Omen Confession.

Henry Watterson, in commenting on
the meeting of republican leagues at
Louisville, makes this honest confess
sion. He says:
THE absence of leadership shown in
the republican meeting at Louisville
would be of good augury to democrats
if there were not evidences of like de-
fciency on our own side of the line.
We do indeed seem to be passing
through an epoch Of little men and lit
tie things. Of originality, even of Wig
orous and sincere conviction, we have
hardly glimpse anywhere"
A harsher criticism of the old parties
and their tactics has never been writ
ten by the loudest calamity bowler in
the land.-Milwaukee Advance.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-02
They Won't Get En-.

The down-east fellows, who howl for
the gold standard, are terribly fright
sned for fear they will be paid in dol
lars worth less than one hundred cents,
but they fail to understand that we in
the west want the same consideration.
We don't want to pay our debts with
dollars worth less than one hundred
cents, nor do we want to pay our debts
in dollars worth one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fiye cents. The Yankees demand
more than they are entitled to; they
demand dollars worth one hundred and
twenty-five cents. They won't ge. 'em.
North Dakota Independent.