Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-12
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

-Sects and creeds cut no figure in
the battle for human rights. One
Father McGlynn is worth more to hui
manity's cause than a regiment of
Henry Ward Beechers.
Which would you prefer to have, a
clearing house certificate or a green
back issued by the government? Yet
the latter has been branded by the ma
tional bankers as fiat money-Tacoma
Sun.
If silver has no claim as a money
metal because it is a product of the
earth, gold loses its claim on the same
ground. All the people ask is that the
two metals shall be treated alike by
our government.-Jour of Agricult-
ure.
England had rather rule this coun-
try financially and commercially, By
manipulating our legislation, than to
conquer it by the arts of war. 1t serves
her purpose as well, and is more health
full and less UNCONSTITUTIONAL of
Agriculture.
The present panic was deliberately
planned and executed to bluff congress
into the decentralization of silver, the
purpose being to enhance the value of
the securities held by the panic makers,
by making them payable in gold val
ues.-Journal of Agriculture.
Franklin was without doubt the
all round wisest man this continent
ever produced, and he declared at that
early day in favor of paper money,
pure legal tenders, after a trial of the
principle in the colony of PENNSYLVANIA
from 1922 to educational Watch
man.
Whatever government agrees to
receive in payment of the public dues,
as medium of circulation, is money,
no matter what its form may be; treas
ury notes, drafts, etc. Such bills or
paper, issued under authority of the
United States, are money Henry
Clay in the Senate, 1881
The populist cause is sure to tri-
umph. There is moral wave sweep
ing over the country and by that wave
one or both of the old parties will be
dashed to pieces. The new issues are
coming to the front and they will never
down till they are settled and settled
right.-Alliance Independent.
In 1892 the production of silver was
5S,000,000 ounces, of which the govern
ment bought 81, 1919, 727 ounces, putting
into circulation therefor SAT, 1874. 291 in
treasury notes. Free coinage of the
American product would have put into
circulation S19,595, 600 more money,
after deducting silver used in the arts.
This is s3S, 974, 1927 less than the gold
lost by export during the year.
When we get postal note or P. O.
money order we know to an absolute
certainty that it is as good as the cash
itself, but when we get a bank draft
we look to see what bank drew the
draft and upon what bank it was
drawn and then look at the list of fail
ures The Nebraska peoples party
boys were right when they took the
lead for government banks.-Missouri
World.
The industrial millions demand
justice. Through special privileges
and class legislation they have been de-
frauded. Through allowing politicians
and interested newspapers to do their
thinking, they have permitted them
selves to be well nigh enslaved. Their
hope now lies in independent thinking,
| and in political unity of action. The
first thing to be done is to abolish all
class legislation, and to demand the
government ownership of natural mo
nopolies," as well as an expansion of
| the volume of currency, which will
tend to relieve congested business con-
ditions, and enable the slaves of the
gold barons at least to live after pay
| ing their interest.-B. o. Flower.
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