Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-31

country And sue Teachings Oh FOpu'
lis'n.
To the voters of Reno county!
However much we may disagree as
TO causes aud cures, we can all agree
Upon the proposition that there is
something radically wrong. With all
our boosted civilization, improved
machinery and scientific Advancement,
we still find things sadly out Of joint.
BY some means these great improve
mont9 hqva not inuraI 70 the hnnsit
or JnA greac n.a,ts Il Cas people
Statistics show tha5 our Increase Ia
wealth is very great, and growing
greater year by year; but alOngs'de
this great increase in wealth we find
hunger and want, suffered by those
who are both willing and anxious to
work; men and women spurning char
ity while their dear ones suffer for
fOOG and fuel. and that within the
very shadow of colossal fortunes rob.
bed from the hard earned toll Of those
who suffer. The many SOW, but the
few reap.
Populists claim that this terrible
condition of the masses is the natural
ami inevitable result of certain laws
that have been passed in the interest
Of the .'leh few and against the poor
many.
The remedy populists offer is simply
d reversal OF what has been done, by
the passing # laws that will put the
burdens, and bestOw the benefits of
government upon all equally
If the governments are not mai1S
tanned for the purpose Of protecting
the weak against he.strong, we must
say, that we are hopelessly ignorant as
to what they are for.
The people are in debt, Whether
wisely or otherwise, they are in debt
They are in debt certain number of
dollars. To pay their debts they must
first buy these dollars. II these dollars
are scarce and hard to get, their debts
are hard to pay. Dear dollars means
cheap products of labor. BY making
money scarce you ruin the debtor and
enrich the creditor,
Silver was demonetized in '7S for the
vsry purpose above stated, namely to
en- ich the rich and enslave the POOR
7 Ia. it has done its work and done it
WILL, let the facts accord. This was
nearly twenty-three years ago The
dark aud damnable plot has long ago
b9en unearthed and exhibited to an
a5tOnisEtd nation. The act has been
denounced by all the good men in both
the democratic and republican parties.
Tie rep"blicars were in full control
OF the government for great number
of years and they did not rectify it.
For nearly three years past the demo-
cratic party has been in full control of
the machinery Of government, and
Lleir party, be it said to their shame,
after all its previous pretenses, adde d
insult to injury by taking away from
tho people the last vistige of financial
legislation calculated to in any way
help the masses.
Nor do either of the dominant par
ties promise anything now. Their
platforms on the silver questions in
1892 were so much alike that the one
could be exchanged for the other with
out doing violence to either party.
And, what is still, worse, neither of
them are capable Of being understood,
They meant ANYTHING everything, or
n thing, just as the exigencies of the
case might demand.
There is not a democrat or republi-
can in the country anywhere who will
dare to venture an opinion as to che
future of his party on this great ques-
ton. True, in some localities they
pass notwithstanding the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver, but
what else do they: demand regarding
money? Nothing. They entirely ig-
more the fact that the national banks
are In full control of the paper money
of the nation aud that Sthese institu-
tons. tn whose interests it is to have
money scarce, eau call in their circula-
ton at any moment they choose, and
effectually Offset any general good,that
might come from the free and unlim
tied coinage of silver. They are en-
tirely silent regarding the restoration
TO the general government, where 1t
belongs, the function Of issuing all the
paper money. In tact, ia the eastern
states both parties coincide With Mr..
Cleveland in hls demands for stl
greater powers to be given the banks,
by the government going out Of the
banking business"
They are to beguile the public into
their way OF thinking with such
honeyed phrases as ''sound money!
s.bonast rnonav - "staple currency ,