People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-22
RESULT ELECTION RETURNS.

pie, and when it voices that which is
best in the people, may we not then
truthfully say that it expresses the
voice and will of God?"
Oh Lord! What profanity! The
purchased and subsidized daily papers;
owned by foreign and domestic CAPT
talists, slavishly obedient to its mas
tiers, the very mouthpiece of Unsuitable
greed and cruel injustice; full to the
lips with falsehoods; diabolical in cum
ming; industriously engaged in ruin
ing mankind,-'eXpresses the voice
and will of God"
This is fiat blasphemy. If the daily
press of the United States is "the
voice of God" the sooner the churches
are torn down the better.
And the convention proposed an
amendment to the banking act, "that
banks are to be allowed to issue circu-
lating notes to the amount of one half
their paid up unimpaired capital, sub
ject to tax of one half per cent per
annum upon the average amount OF
circulation of 25 per cent of the paid
up unimpaired capital, subject to the
one half per cent tax, and an additional
heavy tax upon the average amount OF
such circulation outstanding for the
year, the additional 25 per cent to be
left as an emergency circulation. The
tax Of 4 per cent upon the average
yearly circulation is to be paid to the
United States treasurer as means of
revenue, and the excess over that tax
imposed upon the emergency circula.
ton is to be paid into guarantee
fund"
Observe this: The bankers perceive
that the howl of the people for more
currency can not be much longer re.
sisted; but they are determined that
not dollar of it shall ever reach the
people unless it comes through them.
They will levy 10 per cent on it from
the people and pay back to the people
one-half of per cent; taking 9K pei
cent per annum for standing be.
tween the citizens and their own gov.
eminent! The constitution provides
that the national government alone
shall create money-if any one else at
tempts it he goes to prison-and as the
government comes from the people and
is the people, the bankers propose tc
stand between the people and the
people, and tax them for the use o.
their own money! Why don't they in
sist that postage stamps shall not be
furnished directly to the citizens, but
shall go through the banks, and tn,
banks make profit off them?
In Gods name what right has any
man to crawl in between the peopl,
and the government, and levy take,
ian attribute of the highest sovereign
ty) upon the people, for the use O
their own money? Why the nationa
bank notes are printed by the govern
ment THAT is, the people, on paper fur
nished by the government THAT is, tn,
people,, stamped by the United States
and signed by the officials; and thei
only guarantee of payment is redemp
ton in greenbacks, the peoples money
also printed by the people. 1t is al
incalculable, incredible absurdity tina
an intelligent people would permi
their own money to be MIXED to them
through the sieve of the banks, an,
pay heavy interest to the bankers 70
holding the strainer! There nigh
just as well be law that no man coul
thresh his grain unless banker he'll
the sacks, and charged him 10 per cen
OF the crop for doing so; whether tn
farmer wanted him there or not.
And remember, friends, that tn
Peoples party is the only party in tn
United States that proposes any remed
for this great encroachment on tn
rights of the public.
1t declares fer greenbacks, full lega
tender, issued directly to the people
without the Intervention Of bank.