Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27
THE PUBLIC BUSTED.
NEITHER A THEORY NORA CON-
DITION. BUT A PREDICAMENT.
President Cleveland Makes an Urgent
Appeal to Congress for Immediate
Issue of More Bonds to Sustain the
Golden Calf.

Apparently the gold bugs and bond
holders are getting impatient Hence
they had their President write con-
gress a special message.
Even the regular appropriations are
to be neglected until the bankers get
their special demands.
He wants the friends of plutocracy
in both old parties to rally and make
2 non-partisan fight for more bonds
and gold standard.
| He wants bonds i-sued payable prin
cipal and interest in gold-since Wall
street has officially informed him that
the present form of bonds do not mako
a good investment
He thinks the gold reserve absolutely
essential to maintain our high ma
tional character"
He says that not only are present
conditions irritating to capitalists but
that those of our people who seek en-
ployment as means of livelihood" are
getting restless.
Changed conditions have turned the
eyes of foreign investors upon the gold
OF the government, and to maintain our
credit with them, the gold must not
be allowed to become low in the treas
ury bank.
The idea of issuing bonds payable
In gold is a dandy. There is not
enough gold in the world to pay the
interest on obligations-hence to make
the principal payable in gold would
simply give the capitalists a corner on
the earth-and that is just what Gro
yer wants them to have.
He wants bonds issued payable in
fifty years, believing that the present
generation has all it can bear-and Of
course measures must be taken at once
In order to enslave the next gener-
alton of people before they are born
lest they might not be born with a
disposition to submit to such an out
rage.
He wants the duties on imports made
payable in gold-which would, of
course make gold sell at a premium
and would be highly beneficial to
bankers who have the gold to sell, and
the means to draw more out of the
treasury in case they run short.
He wants sound financial condi-
tion."
He admits that the issue of bonds
so far has proven failure-but in the
same breath goes on to recommend the
issue of five hundred millions more
payable in gold.
He says spectators have reaped a
harvest-and of course he wants them
to reap some more.
Grover is the most abject unblushing
tool of Shylock that ever disgraced the
Presidents chair in America.
He is worse than John Sherman
and either one of them is worse than
the devil.
He says lack of confidence is what is
the matter-but how a five hundred
million dollar increase of the public
debt and destruction of the best money
in the country can restore prosperity
he does not attempt to explain.
The bankers are the only people he
considers or asks consideration for.
The main question he says is the retire-
ment of government paper, and the
substitution of bank paper based on
government debt and bank debt.
Two debts behind every dollar Of
bank paper would of course make it
sound"
He admits that the country is in a
| predicament, and recommends that it
be destroyed altogether.
His evolution, from public ofaee be-
| ing a public trust, to the confession
that he is in a predicament and wants
to turn the whole thing over to the
devil, is remarkable exhibition of
grand and lofty craftsmanship having
a fit in a mud puddle.
He compliments the people very
highly on their industry and ability
to create greatness and wealth to rule
over them.
His bosom friend, Sherman, also sug-
gests that the laborers of the country
should be asked to come forward with
the money in their stockings and re-
plenish the reserve for the benefit CT
the bankers and spectators.
Grover suggests that while he is not
unfriendly to silver, that he and the
bankers don't want it made into money.
He has no objection to the great
Creator having made silver, but thinks
1t confusing when considered in con-
nection with gold, which is the money
Of God and the spectators.