People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-10
KANSAS ALLIANCE.
From the Topeka Advocate
"HOnest Money"


On page 27S OF the Kansas senate
journal OF 1888 may be found the
following resolution introduced by
Senator Kelley and adopted BY the
Repub lican senate:
WHEREAS r. j. Folger secretary of the
treasury of the United States. in a letter
directed TO the speaker Of the house Of rep.
resentativeS. Of recent date. states there
is now idle in the treasury OF the United
States and the different depositories, the
sum OF sl0. 55S 5Sl, or about $500 tons (of
silver and
WHEREAS He reports that he has not
room to store the 2O1l,OOO a month the
minimum amount required TO be coined BY
law. and
WHEREAS The United States now owes
over s7OJ,GOo,0OO now due payable according
to contract, in either gold or silver coin, at
the option Of the government and
WHEREAS Less than 81 cents in greenbacks
will buy silver bullion enough TO cJin full
legal-tender silver dollar therefore,
Resolved, By the senate, the house concur.
ring therein, That our senators in congress be
instructed and our members requested to vote
for law requiring the secretary OF the treas.
ury TO Immediately pay slO 0)OOOJ OF our coin
debt in silver coin according to contract, and
II said coin returns 10 the treasury. that II
shall be q ;ain paid out on our coin debt, until
said debt shall all be paid and Cancelled
Resolved further That said secretary Of the
treasury be compelled to coin the maximum
OF 100000 Of silver dollIrs per month, pro.
vided the silver can be bought at the face val.
ue, or less, in greenbacks: and that said
money, when come /, shall be used in the pay
ment OF the national coin debt, until il is all
paid and cancelled
Resolved further, That correct copies OF
this preamble and resolution be correctly en-.
rolled, signed by the president OF the senate
and sent TO each Of our senators and repre-
sentatives in congress, and that copy be sent
TO the president OF the United States and the
secretary of the treasury also to the presi.
dent OF the United States senate and speaker
OF the house Of representatives and that they
be requested TO lay them before their respect
i've bodies
1t will be remembered that Kan
sas Republicans were not yauping
about "10-cent dollars" or "honest
money" at that time. They favored
the purchase OF silver bullion at "less
than eighty-fve cents on the dollar,
or as cheap as they could get it, and
coming this cheap bullion into "full
legal tender dollars" They were
not then afraid Of the fat in the sill
yer dollar They were in favor also
of paying the debt of the United
States in silver according to con-
tract" Wall street had not reached
out and gathered them all into it's
loving embrace. Some of them were
yet free men who dared to express
their own sentiments without
consulting the money kings.
They have got beyond that
stage now, and the political leaders
and the press all join in the Wall
street yelp for "honest money, dol
lar that is worth a dollar" and that
other consumate humbug, parity"
And still they wonder why the
masses OF the people have deserted
their party and gone over to the
anarchists. The fact is, there is
not one solitary principle of ancient
Repubhcanism that a Republican
politician or newspaper dares to ad-
vocate to-day. The party, as an
organization, has deserted its former
principles and its leaders do not
recognize them when they see them.
1t is no wonder that honest men are
tumbling over each other to get out
of the party.