The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-07
peal. beyond expiation and below the
remedy of the lowest contrition.
Oh. Kansas.
AID Astra Per Aspera!
For Sbanaf
LYING WON'T GO.


If it is to be the policy of the goldites
| to trick the public by downright lying
| they might as well give up the contest
| now. Nothing is clearer to the man
who reads the papers than that the
present crusade aginst silver was in
stigated by the universal growth of
sentiment in its favor in all parts of
the country. The mOnometalliStS took
the alarm and promptly met in council
to devise some scheme to counterfeit
ii, hence the interviews of high up of
ficials, the campaign of oratory and the
subsidized literature with which they
are trying to deluge the people. 1t
Is as clear as the sun. that the whole
movement eInanateS from one common
center, and that center is the half
dozen institutions which have prac-
tically cornered the gold OF the world.
Ii IS no news 10 those who have kept
tab Oh these gold-gobbling autocrats
to say that their plans are deeply
laid, and that the funds necessary TO
carry them out are assured. provided
only, that they can once more humbug
the American people. To accomplish
this, nothing will be left undone. Al
ready we are treated to the most I'M
stlnted and ineXcusable lying ever
known in a national contest. Re-
ports, known by their authors to be
the basest fabrications, are put up for
the press, and Haunted in the faces of
intelligent readers every day. a sample
OF these has been going the rounds
since the first day of their ung0dly
crusade, to the effect that a large
majority of the people are in favor
of the single gold standard. The IN
biushing audacity of this is in the
fact that the alarming prevalence of
the opposite sentiment is the very
thing which melted them to a sudden
effort TO bolster up their own cause If
the sentiment for gold was so unani-
nous, why the necessity for this Ia
b0rious and expensive campaign, when
the time for voting is eighteen months |
away?
There is also the specious plea for
honest money" which everybody |
knows, is a lie by implication That |
the gold monometallist is any more |
friend to honest money than the |
good citizen who favorS the use of both !
metals as redemption money, is a lie. |
made OF whole cloth, neither will his
implied claim be accepted as anything |
but a willful and premeditated false
hood. These apostles of the single |
standard may just as well take no.
tice that the day for shutting has |
passed. There is so little Of old issues
involved in this campaign that party
lines are not necessarily the limita-
tons which define the shape of the |
ballot; and if they are basing their
calculations upon presidents, or de-
pending on party organization to pull |
them through they will be most Woe
fully left. 1t happens, for that matter,
that both of the old parties have made
a record favorable to bimetallism, and
no voter will be required to step out
side the limits of party affiliations to
support it. The one fact which DOM
mates all others in this fight is that
the people are thinking for them
selves, and the issues involved affect
directly the pocket of every man old
enough to vote. They relate particu-
Iarly to wages. and to the price Of all
products. They involve the question
Of daily supplies, and their settlement
will determine whether the millions
shall prosper, or a few men, by forcing
gold to the position of the only real
money of this country, shall bring
them to a condition of absolute servi-
rude. These are the issues, direct,
simple, unbiased, and so plain that the
people have already discerned their
full meaning. All efforts to divert
attention. either by persistent lying
)r by getting up a scare upon techni-
al propositions, will rebound upon
hose who manufacture and repeat
hem