People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

fought IN the union army who is wrong
now and with England on this question;
and | believe that it were better for the
republican party to suffer defeat now on
this money question, handicapped as it is
by English and Grover Cleveland combi-
nations, whereby it might learn some
sense, than to have it win now on these
issues in order to strand the party in 1896,
and | would rather see you beaten now
than to have your voice added to that of
the gang in Congress who are manipu-
lating the republican party under the
guiding hand of English domination.
How a man of your ability, with the dis
astrous results Of 20 years of vicious leg
islation on this question before you, with
wreck and ruin all around you, while the
vail of the houseless and homeless in mis-
cry squalOr and despair rend the very air,
can shut his eyes and turn from the con-
temptation thereof and now renew the
clamor for an honest dollar as interpreted
by our English despoilers, is one of the
idiosyncrasies which cannot and have
not, since | made an examination of the
subject, been able to understand.
Can't you see that you are thus playing
into the hands of that power which to-day
owns the carrying trade of our people on
the ocean, and which power, through our
United States courts and receiverships of
their own choosing, is fast getting control
of the transportation upon the lsndY
Do MT you know that the transportation
of an article from the place of production
to that of the consumer is as much part
of the cost of production as the work of
him who produces it?
Do MT you know that the power which
controls the transportation of an article
from where it is produced to where it is
consumed can absolutely fix the price
thereof to the producers
Don't you know that England to-day
controls both our transportation upon the
land to tide water and on the ocean to the
consumer, and that she has been and will
continue to strangle our agricultural in
uusGrleS Oy reason JnereO1!
Do MT you know that, out of ITO ships
leaving our California coast alone during
the last seven months ships loaded with
American products for foreign consump-
ton 100 of them we're foreign bottoms
and sailing foreign flag!
Do MT you know that all the misfor-
tunes which Cypress the American people
to-day had their inception in the vicious
financial legislation of 1873 and since, and
that We have been brought to where we are
by English influence on this financial
question; and do MT you know that but
for our tariff laws which have kept the
American market for the American farmer
and artisan, that influence would have en-
quilted rs long sincef
Don't you know that just in proportion
as you diminish the volume of money in
the country you necessarily enhance the
purchasing power thereof, and CORE.
spondingly press down the value Of every
thing elses
Don you know that under a single,
gold standard, with which England has
dominated the finances of Europe and
this country, her monetary interests are
getting control of our railroads and
other valuable franchises by foreclosure
of her mortgages, whereby the men who
developed those magnificent resources
and placed their money in those enter
prises are being shut out, and their stocks
and other securities despoiled from them
thereby impoverishing our own people
for the enrichment Of hers; and don't yor
know that she never could have done THU
great wrong but for our foolish Legislation
on the financial question:
And don't you know that England
being q great creditor nation, and We {
great debtor, We eau only keep gold herr