The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-01-26
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE

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Pay off the bonds instead of issu-
ing more.
More money is the only means OF
| salvation.
No more honda Give us green
backs instead.
What has become of that prosperi-
ty that was to follow the repeal of the
| Sherman law?
Paper money is the MONEY OF intel
E:xence. the Fneney of civilization and
It j. the coming money. - Missouri
World.
value barbarians, for In spite of all
they say, money is the creation of law.
-Pittsburg Kansan.
-Laboring men Of Rockford, Ill,
have formed a club, started reading
room and are studying and discussing
the cause of hard times. This is the
first step on the road to liberty.
There are now seventeen populist
members in the Georgia Legislature.
four or five having been elected during
1898 to fill vacancies made by the
deaths of that number of democratic
members.
He who proposes, advocates or votes
for interest bearing bonds is cowardly
robber of the producing classes, con-
spirator against their liberties and an
accomplish of that unseen but uni
versal tyrant the Money Power
Pittsbure Kansan.
--Organized labor is getting to a
place now where it is ''fifty-four forty
or light" 1t would seem. Will they
take the hint, and proceed to vote
themselves out or will they continue
kicking against the condition their
votes place them in Tacoma Sun.
Under the present system monopoly
has gathered in most of the nations
wealth 1t is satisfied. Under the
present sytem the masses have been
sunk into bankruptcy and poverty.
Their votes sustain the system. Wonder
if they are atisfed?-New Charter.
Mr.. Carlisle said III his ban
quet speech that gold is the only
international money" This will be
news to the financiers of the world No
one had an idea. until Mr.. Carlisle said
SO, that there was such a thing as lin
ternational money. Texas Advance.
There never was dollar that was
not Fiat" dollar. No person ever
saw full legal tender dollar, issued
by the United States. that was not
worth as much as any other dollar. 1t
is worse than foolishness to talk about
fiat money" or cheap money" or a
dishonest dollar. Texas Advance.
In St. Louis there has recently
been organized an independent local
society for economic research, which
gives promise of attracting to itself
many determined workers for reform
upon peoples party and nationalist
principles Meetings for discussion are
held weekly, and reform literature is
being circulated.
Interest on money is an indirect
tax on consumption. The more we
consume the more interest we pay, and
the more interest we pay the less we
are able tn consume, and the less we
CONSUME the less employment we give
to laborers who create the products,
and SO on down grade, our system of
exchange, based on interest bearing
indie btedness, is forcing the masses of
the people.-Missouri World.
I'VE hope to See editors of reform
papers everywhere make preparation
to attend the next annual session of
the association at st. Louis, February
%. 1t will be an important session
and there should be large attend
ance. If those who have seen the cali
for this meeting will cali attention to
it, they will very much aid in spread
ing the information. Let us all boom
this meeting. Topeka Advocate.
There is absolutely no hope of an
Improvement for the laboring man I'M
der the present economic conditions.
Prof. E. Il. Andrews says they are no
better off in England now than they
were four centuries ago The aris-
tocracy take all the earnings of the
laborer and leave him nothing but his
poverty. This is exactly the situation
in the United States, and we are now
chained to the English gold standard.
Iowa Tribune.
The elements which enter into the
cost of ev ry article that we purchase
may be stated thus: Interest plus rent,
plus taxes, plus profits, plus wages,
equals the costs. Our bureaus of labor
and agriculture might be profitably
employed in Analysing the cost of con-
sumption into its original elements and
give us some idea of what portion of
our cost of living goes to pay interest,
to pay rent. to pay taxes, to pay profits
and to pay wages. Missouri World
Secretary Carlisle says that three
per cent. government bonds would be
a safe" investment. If government
bonds with no gold under them are
safe for a banker to invest his gold in,
why wouldn't non-interest bearing
treasury note with the same integrity
and honor of the government behind
it, be as safe and Sound currency"
for the people as national bank notes
resting on bonds with no gold under
them?-St Louis journal of Agricult-
ure.
If the state, or a county, city or
school district desire to make any pub
lie improvements. the law provides
that these different municipalities may
borrow money on long time, with
usually semi-annual interest payable
in New York or some other eastern
city and issue bonds If these bonds
are good security for some eastern
money loaner or foreign capitalist to
lock up in his safe and twice a year
clip his coupons for the interest, why
are they not equally good chopped up
in SIS or SO certificates. receivable for
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