People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27


Don't you know that that policy is
mortgsging the homes of the people
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the Gulf to the lakes, and that the
mountain of mortgage indebtedness com
menced with the demonstration of silver
in 1873, has grown steadily, disastrously
and enormously every year since, until it
is startling in the extreme; and can't you
see that these robberies and wrongs would
not be possible had we statesmen to
legislatss for US instead of the political
teredos who are the authors of our
misfortunei
Why, man, just think of it for minute!
Suppose we had no mountains of silver,
and England had, and she we're indebted
to Us as We are to her: do you suppose that
she would destroy her silver, thereby en-
HANGING the value of gold, and then insist
on paying us in gold! Her cruel oppres-
sions throughout the vast world, whereby
she has gained foothold, give no man
authority to say yes.
Remember that We are on a gold basis
through no vote or voice of the people.
We are where we are through the silent
manipulations and crafty, subtle and evil
influence which emanated from the dark
and silent recesses of congressional cloak
rooms and wine-supper cOnspiracies.
No man has ever openly advocated a
single, gold standard in Congress or out,
and yet we are on single, gold standard
basis. A greater crime was never perpe-
trated against free, enlightened and in
telligent people, and it is perpetrated
under the steslthy, crafty and deceitful
cover of professional and political decls
rations in favor of the greatest possible
use of silver" and its advocates thereby
hope to maintain such a political mon
strosity. This abnormal and vulgar crime
is voiced in another cruel and deceptive
cry, whereby the masses may continue to
be robbed for the benefit of the classes,
under the deceitful, specious, dsmnable
misnomer called an "honest dollar" and
that man who, in the face of what we
were and where we are now, mouths such
twsddling hogwash is either knsve or a
fool, and suspect both, and does not and
ought not to receive the votes of the toll.
ing men in Kansas or elsewhere.
You are candidate of great party fol-
a great Office. Mistakes have been made
in the past, as they always will be. You
nor l are responsible for anything directly
Indirectly, everybody is.
Coming from the war and going back
into the civil pursuits of life, we old sol
diers remember how democracy denounced
in unmeasured terms, every act of the
government looking to the issue of green
backs, made necessary to feed and cloths
the armies and save Us as a nation.
You and l and every old soldier remem
Der how promptly that party and it,
Southern influence declared in favor o.
the greenback in the payment of nationa
obligations. Their sudden conversion wal
so startling, that we we're easily entrappeC
with the argument that, having fought tt
destroy the government and failed, they
were now seeking to destroy the public
credit of that government, made necessary
to help subjugate them, and in spirit o.
patriotism born amidst the hardships Of
camp and the horrors of the battlefield
we have allowed the old financial pendu
lum to swing as much too far wrong as il
was heretofore swung too far right, anC
as result we fell into the hands of tn,
English schemers and money changers
and we now know where we are at.
Remember that every labor organization
in the union and every farmers organiza
ton in the union have declared for the fire.,
coinage of silver.
Remember that in 1896 the republican
party on no other platform can carry {
single state west of the Missouri river
Remember that party will not get a singl,
vote south of Mason and Dixon's line
Remember that it cannot hope to carry
either New York, Indiana, or Illinois, and
remembering all this, tell me how in tn,
name of sense we are to elect the mex
President, in 1896, Oh the Minneapolis
platform as interpreted by the republican
party in this Congress.
This being so, why hesitate; why bea
around the bush; why prevaricate; VIII!
seek mems votes under false pretenses
Why not as party organize upon tn,
lines of the free coinage of silver and higl
protection, unity the party East, West
North and South, and go forward to
grand and glorious victory in 1896!
Oh, man! What is the matter with you
that you cannot see this! What is tn,
matter with the leaders of the republican
party that they won't see iti Why viii
they tarry longer in dslliance with tn,
Shermans and Harrisons and that who'll
brood of pestiferous, miserable, double
dealing hypocrites who have been onl!
too willing to do the bidding of their Eng
lish m asters on this money question.
Oh, Dick, write me that my interpreta
ton of your speech is all wrong. Writ
me that if you are elected to Congress yo1
will vote for legislation which will plac
silver back where it was before the Grim
of 1873, and subsequent legislation relativ
thereto enacted into Law. At least, tina
you will do this 80 far as the American
product Is concerned, and no man in Kan
sas will throw his hat higher and yell longe
than myself for you.
l do MT want to see an old soldier lik
yourself beaten by man whose hands ar
red with blood of your comrades and mins
but l would rather see him elected il RICH
on this question than to see you electe
while wrong on it.
Do MT fail me in this matter. 0n'th
platform made for you, you have chanc
to again touch elbows with the masse
against the classes. For you or the part
now TO falter on this question is vors
than political suicide.
Remember the fate of the old wing part
when ii faltered on the slavery question
Get your ear close 10 the grass roots, fol
as sure as there was God in Israel, so sur
you and those who think as you do will di
political grave for yourself and republ
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