People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-21

up for free coinage, but most of them
bow to the will of their gOld-bug mas
tiers.
The lively Denver Road has adopted
the motto Free Silver or a Free
Fight" 1t may sound little harsh,
but the people 10 the centennial silver
state feel as they talk. They hate
the name Of "gOldbug."
If it is fact, and it seems to be
undeniable, that President Cleve-
land has been using the official pat
rOnage lash to coerce congressman to
his way of thinking on the money
question he should be deprived of the
appOintive power. Like Sampson of
old, he should be shorn of his locks.
1t is announced from Kansas City
that P. D. Armour has been elected
president of the Midland National
Bank of that city to succeed Witten
Mcdonald, who some time since re-
signed to take the management of the
Kansas City Times. This explains
why the Times happens to be so ar
IDENTITY in favor of the gold standard
at this time. 1t is edited by a bank
president.
There has been over seventy-1ve
thousand business failures in the
past ten years, involving a loss to
creditors of more than 100000, and
the record is not yet complete. The
continued contraction of the cur
rency has been the main cause of this
condition and yet the gOld-bugS in
siSt that the circulating medium
shall be still farther contracted.
Does anybody suppose the money
sharks care anything about the con-
dition of the general public?
1T is "a mystery to tell how such
"Squirts" as the editor of the Oxford
hooking Bird makes out to live in a
state and community inhabited by
such anarchists as he pictures them
in his paper. If some big, burly an
archiSt should meet him on the road
some dark night and say "Boom he
wouldn't stop running until he crossed
the Mississippi river. Had we the
feelings he has toward the anarchists
we should not feel like sharing their
bounty nor living among them.
While Noah Allen has been bounced
by the attorney general, it will re-
qulre more evidence than we have
yet seen to convince US that he has
done anything that was dishonest.
There seems to have been more or
less jealousy In the attorney generals
mind OF Noah. He undoubtedly
allowed outside old party influence
to get Judgment in his brain. From
the occurrences that have taken place
since Noah's retirement it is plain
that the attorney general should have
had the benefit Of Mr.. Aliens judg-
ment to keep him from making him.
self ridiculous.
New York jobbers are already de-
manding gold in payment for import
ed goods. They do not demand gold
because they would rather have it,
but because they have to pay for
their imports in gold. Demonetize
gold, make the governments checks,
paper money full legal tender, and
gold will be at a discount. Then if
heathens want gold, buy it by the
ounce and send it to them. If China
men want beads buy them and send
to them. If Indians want red blank
cts in exchange for their articles of
commerce, concede them. AS repre-
sentatives Of the highest type of in
telligence, let Americans step out of
the dark ages and adopt the common
sense system of finance.
POpulistS everywhere should know
that now is the time to take his Re-
publican or Democratic neiUhhor