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

II is not unreasonable TO prOphesy that Colone
Blues name will not be pulled down; :" hence, tn,
logical thing for republicans TO do who agree with
Mr.. Martin, is to support Col. W. A. Harris, who
has clear record on The silver question. And they
are going to do it-ED
Editor Atchi'on Champion: 1t is cur.
rently reported that, in a speech recently
delivered at Kansas City, Kas., the Hon
Richard W. Blue, our republican candi-
date for congressman at large, came out
boldly in favor of the single, gold standard,
and indeed contended that there could be
no such thing as double standard.
In this latter statement, Mr.. Blue con-
tradicted the history of the verld from
the time of Abraham to our own, and the
annals of this country for hundred years.
The contention of Cleveland, Blue l. Co.
is, that the $6OO,OOO,OOO of gold coin, con-
shutting approximately the holdings Of
this country (being about 50 per capital,
or as much of it as tie people shall be
able to retain, must constitute the sole
measure of values of all other, property
including silver, while the declaration OF
our party is that gold and silver coin, of
which we now have about $1,000, DOC, 900,
shall together constitute the measure OF
values.
The Cleveland crusade of 1893 against
silver is surely but gradually bringing
down prices and wages TO about one-half
their former rates. Men who would en-
gage in new enterprises can be assured
only of loss, while those already embarked
In business, TO avoid insolvency, must cur
tail expenses in every way practicable.
The consequence is an army of millions
Of unemployed people, fast being reduced
to abject penury and want, while the re-
sistance of other workingmen to the low.
ering of wages 1.-THE inevitable logic of a
single, gold standard) is now vastly adding
to the numbers of that army, so that we
seem as If on the verge of civil war.
The indebtedness Of this people, in
CURED on double standard Tor standard
more favorable to-the debtor, ia so enor.
nous that all the gold coin in the country
will not pay more than one-half the annual
interest charge; yet it was the decree of
those who had practically oornered the
four billions of gold coin, constituting the
entire stock of the world, that the princi-
pal and interest of this vast American
debt must be paid in gold coin alone, and
Grover Cleveland and John Sherman were
the principal agents of the organized greed
Of two continents in the virtual confsca-
ton of this country.
II we would save ourselves from ruin,
we must send to Congress men who will
undo the great wrong of 1893, not those
who would uphold or condone it. Silver
must be fully restored TO its place as a
money metal, and silver coin made current
as standard money-money that redeems
itself, so to speak, the same as gold coin.
If Mr.. Blue can give us nothing better
on the money question than the spurious
democracy administered by Grover Cleve-
land, with the sanction of John Sherman,
then he is not entitled to republican sup
port, and his name should be hauled down
from the ticket by those having authority
in the premises. DAVID MARTIN.
ATcHIsoS, KAs., July !, 1894.