The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-07-20

Of thousands of millions of dollars an
nuaIly?
Do MT you know that that policy is
mortgaging the homes of the people
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the Gulf to the lakes, and that the
menced with the decentralization of silver
in 1873. has grown steadily, disastrOusiy
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
legislate for us instead of the political
teredos who are the authors Of our
misfortune?
Why, man, Just think of it for minute!
Suppose we had no mountains of silver,
and England had, and she were indebted
to us as We are to her: do you suppose that
she would destroy her silver, thereby en-
on paying us in gold? Her cruel oppres-
sions throughout the vast world, whereby
she has gained foothold, give no man
authority to cay yes.
Remember that we are on 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
IOOulA anu W4n0-6uRPSr OuSpAEAC4SSs
No man has ever openly advocated
single, gold standard in Congress or out,
and yet we are on a single, gold standard
basis. a greater crime was never perpe-
trated against free, enlightened and in
telligent people, and it is perpetrated
under the stealthy, crafty and deceitful
cover of professional and political decla
rations in favor of the I" greatest possible
use of silver" and its advocates thereby
hope TO maintain such q 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 GLASSES,
under the deceitful, speciOus, damnable
MISSIONER called an "honest dolIar;" and
that man who, in the face of what We
were and where we are now, mouths snch
twaddling hogwash is either knaye or
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 for
g great Office. Mistakes have been made
In the past, as they always viii be. You
nor 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 clothe
the armies and save US as nation.
You and and every old soldier remem-
Der how promptly that party and its
Southern Influence declared in favor of
the greenback in the payment of national
obligations. Their sudden conversion was
so startling, that We were easily entrapped
with the argument that, having fought to
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 of
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 it
was heretofore swung too far right, and
as a result we fell into the hands of the
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- |
ticn in the union have declared for the free
coinage of silver.
Remember that in 1895 the republican
party on no other platform can carry q
single state west of the Missouri river. |
Remember that party will not get single |
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 the |
name of sense we are to elect the next |
President, in 1896, on the Minneapolis |
platform as interpreted by the republican |
party in this Congress.
This being SO, why hesitate; why beat |
around the bush; why prevaricate; why |
seek mems votes under false pretensesf |
Why not as party organize upon the |
lines of the free coinage of silver and high |
protection, unity the party East, West, |
North and South, and go forward TO q |
grand and glorious victory in 1857
Oh, man! What is the matter with you,
that you cannot see this? What is the |
matter with tbs leaders of the republican !
party that they won't see lit Why viii |
they tarry longer In dslliancs with the |
Shermans and Harrisons and that whole /
brood Of pestiferous, miserable, double |
dealing hypocrites who have been only /
too willing to do the bidding Of their Eng /
Ifsh masters on this money question.
Oh, Dick, write me that my interpreta-
ton of your epeech is all wrong. Write /
me that If you are elected 80 Congress you /
viii vote for legislation which viii place
silver back where il wss before the crime
Of 1873, and subsequent legislation relative
shsret0 enacted into law. At least, that /
you viii do this so far as the American
product Is concerned, and no man IN Kan
sas viii throw his hat higher and yell longer
than myself for you.
do ne want to ses an old soldier like
yeaxself beaten By q man whose hands ars /
red with blood Of your comrades and mine, I
but would EEtheE see him, elected e right
On this question than 70 ese yea elscked /
9hile Wreng On e.
Don's fan me IN this matter On she
platform mads fog you. Jon have q ohencs
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