The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-10
NOT DEAD OR RuRIEu.

| which reaches US through every gold
bug organ of the land that s.silver is
done for is all bosh. 1t is hoodoo
howl intended to brighten, distract and
discourage. The defeat Of the Dem
| ocratic candidate for governor On a
gold platform in Kentucky was encom-
passed by the powers of the federal
administration Until half loaf can
be made to serve the better purpose of
filling up and satisfying hungry man
| than a whole loaf it is foolish TO talk
about relieving the present depression
and stringency of the country with a
curtailed volume of primary money.
| Common sense. history, logic alike
unite to show that financial troubles
| and disasters have ever followed a
shrinkage in the volume of real money.
| We care not what the creditor and the
monopolist may say to the contrary, the
/ more money the less hunger and naked
ness, the more prosperity and the less
crime. Bribery and deceit and false
hood robbed the world Of half Of its
values, and the people of the world will
sooner or later reclaim that which was
stolen from them. We, the people of
the United States, tried the single gold
standard from '73 to rs, with the re-
suit of distress and disaster. Then
came some relief in the way of the
Bland bill, under which there was a
marked revival, both to labor and COM
merce. In '93 congress again forced
back upon us the gold standard, result
more idleness, more bankruptcy and
universal ruin. In short it is the his
tory Of the world that bankruptcy and
crime, and restitution have followed
in the wake of the single standard.
The lack of money must mean all these
things must also mean stagnation and
non-progression. Cleveland is going
to recommend the destruction of treas
ury notes, that the treasury may be Sc
cure against gOldbug raids. What is
he going to give us instead? Only this
week a London paper declares that all
the gold which was furnished by the
syndicate is back to Lombard street.
Must we, because Of the defeat of Wat
Hardin and Joe Blackburn, two poll
ticians in Kentucky, permit a few hun
dred thousand members of trusts, cred
itors, money lenders and the like and
their families to own the earth? While
the free coinage of silver would re
dOund directly to the benefit of sixty OF
seventy millions of people Of this coun-
try?
No, silver is not done for although |
Of politicians, who in controlling their |
respective parties, are but the tools of |
the money power. Neither of the great |
parties, or their leaders have manifest |
ed any good faith upon the question. |
They continually seek to frame plat
forms so as to make them read both |
ways. Like the howl now going I'D |
over the defeat Of silver, it is all to |
and discourage the people. |
The people are for the system and !
times anteeedent to 1873. despite poll |
ticians and their banker hackers. Each |
party has fooled the people with the |
words ''bimetalhsm, parity Of value"
zone dollar good as another and like |
phrases, and may continue to fool the
majority for awhile longer, and so we
are treated to the howl all along the
line that silver is done for. Some
bright morning these old parties refus-
ing to listen to the demands of honest
people will waken up to find themselves
dead and buried. The great parties
for the last eight years or more have
pursued this course of evasion and I'M
certainty until the masses of both par
ties, who have hurrahed for success,
are pausing TO consider if the success
is not in reality defeat But the dis
cussion and advocacy of free silver has
become so broad and far-reaching of
late that leaders had become appre-
hensive, and so the first pretext which
presents itself they all unite In de-
claring that the silver question is done
for-dead and buried. The day for
talking ''bimetallism" and at the same
time fighting silver is about ended, as
these shriekers will soon, and maybe to
their sorrow, find out