People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-03
VOTE AS YOU SHOT.
TO THE OLD SOLDIERS WHO
SAVED THE UNION.
Capital Was an Enemy Then and 1t Is
an Enemy Now.

an Enemy Now.
When the dissolution of the Union
of states was threatened in 1861, and
the tocsin of war was sounded, the
workingmen left their plows, their
hammers, their picks and their ma
chimes and responded promptly,
bravely and nobly to the call of Uncle
Sam. At the same time a call was
made for money to carry on the war.
Mark how different the two calls were
responded to. The workingman, with
an unselfsh patriotism and devotion
to his country's cause that dims the
bright luster of the worlds past his
tory, sprang to the front. He never
stopped to ask or consider what the
government would pay him, nor even
to count the sacrifices he was making
or the danger he was Drawing. With
unselfish devotion to his country, he
kissed his wife, his mother or his
sweetheart donned his uniform and
went out to battle. There was no
selfish thought Of how much money
he was going to make out of the
transaction, or of driving a bargain
with Uncle Sam. His only thought
was Of home and his duty to save the
Union.
But it was not so with the cap
talist. The bankers q who had
said gold and silver was the
most staple, sound and honest
money, quickly discovered that this
"sound" money would not do to fight
the battles of the country. They at
first contracted to loan the govern
ment S15O,OVO,OOO, but after paying
about One-half of the Joan In coin,
every bank in the country suspended
specie payments and they kindly Of
fered to loan the government their
notes!
Then came the trial of the govern
ment to get money to pay the troops
and carry on the war. Sound cur.
rency," honest money" "the money
of the world" had failed in the very
beginning OF the trouble. But the
patriots, Lincoln and Stevens, solved
the problem. tLet the government
make money to carry on the war. A
bill was introduced for this purpose.
The soldiers were in the field bravely
fighting for the flag and the preserva-
tion Of the Union.
Up against the mouth of the confed.
crate cannon, that belched death and
destruction from their iron Jaws.
Now marching in the rain, wading
in the mud, hungry, tired and cold.
Now in the dreary hospital, waiting
for health to come to be able to go
forth again to meet death.
Now burying a dead comrade, or
soothing the pain of wounded COM
panion. Following the flag wherever
it went.
Sorming a rampant or wasting
away in sickness by the inaction of a
prolonged siege. Always to the 'front.'
never murmuring, marching, suffering,
shooting, for what?
For Human Liberty!
Where was the capitalist?
Besieging congress to prevent the
ISSUE of money to pay the soldiersl
Demanding chance to grow rich
out Of the blood of the nation!
Gripping the money that was pay
ing for supplies and munitions OF
war, and which was intended as only
a poor pittance at best for the man
who placed his life in danger to save
the republic.
At homo and when drafted hunting
up a substitute as cheap as possible,
to serve his country by proxy.
AT home plotting treason by Grip
pling the finances of the government
The confederate soldier who risked
his life in an open field in defense of
what ne had been taught was right is
entitled to th,uiand times more re-
spect than the miserable, traitorous
capitalists who went to the