People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-16
Who is Dodgingp

its question. 1t knows better.
The NeaOS' question was "show US a
man in Kansas who is lOaning money
as he was three years ago." The
VOICES reply was "ShOw US a man in
or out of Kansas who is lOaning mon
ey as he was three years ago." and we
called attention to the fact that we,
as POpuliSts, prOpheSied this depreS-
sion three years ago, unless there was
a change in the financial policy Of this
government. Then came the pip
Jag voice of our wOuld-be statesman
on the border, saying 1--WE are mt
talking of any state but Kansas. 10
which the VOICE related the story of
the ''little apples" and insisted on
taking a broader view of the Situa-
ton. We never were an advocate
Of estates rights" We believe in
one grand union of both people and
states and that the injury of one is
the concern of all. We always
thought Friend SimOnS stood on that
platform until he insisted on cOnfln-
ing causes and effects exclusively to
Kansas.
There has been no lodging on our
part. The people know that. But
now how about the Ne1OS?
At the outset of this controversy
he charged that Kansas credit was out
Of joint, because of the talk of repu-
diatiOn by POpulists. The VOICE
denied the soft impeachment" and
challenged him to name the Populist
who had advocated population. We
went further and stated that if dam.
age had accrued to the credit of the
state it was due to the lying accuse.
tionS against Populists uttered and
sent out by such men as the editor of
the NeICS. Our readers will remember
that we had to urge this challenge the
second time before he answered it,
and then he did so in a very few lines
at the close of a long editorial, by
simply naming Edward Bellamy and
Lyman Naugle as the POpulists who
advocated reputation. We then
made the point that Edward Bel
lamy was a resident of Massachusetts,
and had never been in Kansas to Oul
knowledge, and as for Lyman Nau
gle, we demanded day and date and {
bill of particulars. Now he come.
back at US with not word on thai
point. Now who has lodged? 1t il
enough to make an owl smile to SCI
him eyade this matter. By his per
SiStent evasion and silence he ha
written himself down guilty a
charged" 1t is he, and such men a
he, who have been trying to assassin
nate the credit of our fair state, bu
which in spite of their SANDERS ha
survived, because of our people beinl
the best paying people in the Unite,
States, 50 confessed by the loan com
panieS themselves. Money talks.
At last we have caught the skunk
that has been stealing our chicken.
Farmers, what shall We do with him
So much recapitulatiOn in Orde
that we may find out where we ar
at
Now as to other phases of the col
trOversy.
1.-The NetCS did not say it was
favor of measuring the value Of 81
yer by gold"
Didn't, eh? Will not the NetCS the
please tell US what it did mean whe
it said "it was in favor of silver Il
the reason that it can be made wort
in value equal with gold"
The VOICE cOngratulates the Neu
on its advancement toward "greel
Dackism." 1t says:
$50 far as we are concerned
makes no difference what kind
money we receive so long as it as goC
as any other money In circulation
Ii we had only one kind of none
paper for instance, that would be IL
best money in circulation and IL
same would be true of either gold
silver. But as we have three kind
principally, which are interchang
able in value, it is necessary to ket
the three on a par with each other
Why not, then, go to a greenbat
currency at once and forever ha
done with this confusion and delusit
of parity" This is the true scie
tifc principle of money. Free col
age of silver is only advocated by Pc
ulists as a palliative for gold contra
tiOn. The money bags" of t
world will continue to keep the DE-
pie confused with the imaginary [
ceSsity of a coin basis as long as tn
can, for the reason that by this sup,
stitiouS idea they are enabled to
strict the volume and make the CO.
mon people pay tribute 70 the
Talk about a money of the wOr
Did you ever see any of it? Engla
isa gold standard country and if a
nation has money of the world