Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-01
NOT TRAMPS BUT MISSIONARIES.

and suffering country.
1t is to turn the tramps into mis-
sionaries. These tramps, as Gov.
Lewelling recently said, are "the
product of our economic conditions"
Judge Kelly said the same thing Of
the tramps of twenty years ago. Hugh
McCulloch was the father of those
tramps. He 'hamstrung the nation"
as Judge Kelly expressed it, by con-
tracing the volume of money after
tie civil war, and converted 1900, 900
of soldiers and toilers, who had saved
the Union, into Oeggars, while he tied
and held down the south by the same
process. What Hugh McCulloch did
from 1868 to 1876 John Sherman and
Grover Cleveland have done in 1894,
only on larger scale with more con-
summate wickedness. BY demonetiz-
ing silver and otherwise conspiring
against their country, these traitors
have brought us to our second era of
tramps. Let us not blame the tramps;
the traitors are the men to hate, and
kick and spurn.
The average tramp of to-day knows
much more a bout political economy
than the average reader of the sub
sidized press, and will make very
good missionary to that kind of
heather. Some of the so-called
tramps, indeed, are able as well as
excellent men, and could get work,
as is sometimes charged against them,
If they would throw others out of
work to get it. But they sea this
point as it is and decline to be as
mean as the upper classes" would
try to make them. Mr.. Morris of the
''CoXey army" is one of the most in
telligent, temperate and conscienti-
GUS men in the United States. Some
months ago he constituted himself an
economic missionary in Pennsylvania,
distributing literature and beginning
work of which is now 'in the air.
and which hundreds of people evil
IDENTIFY have in their heads ali over
the country. This tendency of the
times" has been organized and has
become the formal purpose vi a
strong and active organization. 1t is
called the American Economic Re.
form society.
i,The circular of the society bears The
motto: More Money and Less Mis-
cry for the People" 1t says:
The American Economic Refot M
society was organized on the Sth of
June, 1894, meeting being called for
that purpose at the rooms of the So
ciety, l20? Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington.
While recognizing the need of DO
litical and economic reform in manv
directions, the meeting instantly de-
cided that the panic in this country.
with the present hard times, had been
directly pretipitated upon the people
by strangulation of their money vol
ume, partly through the demonetiz-
ing of silver, partly by the sudden
/ withdrawal of circulation and credits
by the national banks, and owing in
/ general to the British-American bank
system, which issues some ten credit
dollars to every one actual metallic
dollar, yet promises to redeem it's
ten |. o. US. (of discounts and bills)
In that one gold piece that can never
/ go around when really needed.
The immediate purpose of the Amer
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clared to be the enlightenment of the
people in regard to this great conf
dence game, which must be understood
and abandoned before any other
economic reform can possibly be
achieved
For brief statement of its general
purpose the society adopted the toll
lowing declarations"
''To relieve distress and secure pros
perity for all the people we favor
more money, and believe it should be
issued by the government and it's
volume controlled without the inter
vention of corporations. Thus believ.
ing and teaching, relying upon peace
fuI and lawful methods, we call upon
all who thus favor more money and
less misery to unite with us for politi-
cal action to secure these results"
Steps have been taken to put into
the field at once several groups of
speakers and organizers to furnish
them with supplies Of suitable litera-
ture, and to connect them with other
groups in the different states.
Here is the inception of movement
that is destined to become national.
The American Economic Reform So
ciety may be sure of support and CO.
operation on every hand. The times
are ripe for just this thing and the
gold bugs have made us so poor that
the work will be self-supporting.
Men will do their best in this direction
for bare subsistence, if only that the
next generation may not be slaves.
The Arena says the unemployed
number fully 5,OOU,OOO people which,
marching four deep, would make a
column 300 miles long, while the
women and children, the aged, sick
and infirm dependent upon them
would trail along for ], 200 miles in the
rear.-Labor Advocate.
The theory of intrinsic value has
been abandoned by the best writer's
and speakers "-Encyclopedia Brit
anniea. Metallic money. while act
ing as coin, is identical with paper