People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-18

4uere are gOOd indications tnat
many OF the business men are getting
sick of the medicine which they were
free to prescribe year ago. They
have been depending on the financial
doctors for many years, and when
these doctors prescribed the repeal of
the Sherman law ard striking down
OF silver the boards of trade met and
passed resolutions asking congress to
swallow the prescription. Lured by
promises Of quick returning prosper
ity and efficient relief, supplemented
with judicious distribution of official
patronage. Congress did as IL was
bid. Six months has elapsed and the
promised prosperity still futters
doubtfully in the distance. And the
results of following the advice of the
able fnancier' (?) are now showing
up in great share. The New York
Recorder sums up the situation as
follows:
The income oflabor from wages has
diminished, under the gold contraction
decreed last November, By at least
$1,000, 900, 900 year. Why wonder at
bad business?
Railroad stocks that averaged see
per share before the fatal act are now
worth only $50. Trust stocks that
averaged $40 share are down to So.
The payments through the clearing
house for February, 1894, were 800
per cent less than in February, 1898.
The railroads, averaging them all
over the country, are earning about
II percent less now than they were
befgre the gold standard screws were
given an extra twist by Wilson's sill
yer repeal bill.
New York's foreign imports show
decrease CT over one-third compared
with the record of one year ago, be-
fore Wilson's gold cure" got in its
deadly work.
Northern cotton spinners bought
less. than one-third as many bales OF
Southern cotton last February as they
bought in February in 1898. That
obliged the cJtton grower to send the
enormous unsold surplus to Europe to
be sold at England's gold-standard
prices - which means ruin to the
southern planter.
And it means want, idleness, and
misery to the northern mill hands,
too, for the less cotton bought of the
southerners implies scores OF thous-
ands fewer operatives employed in
working it up-and at from 20 to Is
per cent less wages.
Meantime, the railroad values of
this country are being sponged off the
slate by the scores of Million at a
time. There are not more than a
dozen American rai,rold companies
to-day in the United States that are
unimbarrasse1. Most of the trunk
lines, which, until the blight and
curse of the gold standard fell upon
them, were sound and strong and
profitable, are at this moment in
liquidation, unable to meet their OBJ
legations
And these are but few OF the d.
rect results of that piece of consum-
mate folly-the unconditional reveal
of the silver law of 1890"
1t is evident that the fnanciers
either lied about the results or didn't
know.
The expressions OF disgust INDUCED
by democrats who voted for Cleve-
and IN 1882 are somewhat out of line
with the course of consistency. IF
all these expressions, that of Gov
Tillmal Of South Carolina is probably
entitled to the cake. 1t viii be seen
that the governor is rot very choice
in the language he uses. He says:
Il desplse Cleveland and his mug
wumps. He is no better than a re-
publican. He has destroyed the dem
ocratic party. The south and west
will be forced to unite and have
complete organization of party lines.
THE people who are afraid OF the
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