People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-11
GOLD BUG LIARS,
Where "Sound Money" Cam
paign is Conducted.
What New York Paper SayS-EnOr-
nous Expense to Spread the Wall
Street Theories-Plate Matter
Service Free To Newspapers
All Over the Country.
New York Herald

New York Herald
The campaign now in progress in
behalf of souLd money promises to be
one of the most exciting in the history
of the financial world. In every state
in the Union the friends and foes of
free silver are marshaling their forces,
and from now on until after the pres
idential election next year the great
topic Of discussion in political circles
will be the money question.
The headquarters of the anti-silver
men in New York are at No. 80 Will
liams street, on the fifth floor of the
Union building. The organization is
known as the Reform Club, and has
for its president Charles S. Fairchild,
formerly secretary of the treasury.
The hard work of the club is intrusted
to a committee on sound currency, of
which John Dewitt Warner, formerly
representative in congress, is chair
man, and Calvin TOmkins is secretary,
Byron W. Holt and L. Carroll Root
look after the editing of the sound
money newspaper articles that appear
regularly in the several supplementS
of the club.
| Who in the mischief is Byron W.
Holt and L. Carroll Root, that they
have corner on all the information
and intelligence there is on American
finances? From the jingle of their
names we SurmiSe that their homes
may be across the water. The latter
may be first cousin of the Root-Of-
all-evil.-ED. VOICE
And Mr.. H. S. T. KiSsam, of Yale
university, attends to good part of
the correspondence.
The club has been busy for more
than year in getting classified lists
Of voters, and has spent many thOus-
ands Of dollars in this work alone.
For example, If it is desired to reach
bank officials, the secretary of the
committee can within a very short
time, communicate directly with more
than 10000 bank presidents and cash
iers scattered throughout the country.
And pray tell US why does the COM
mittee want to communicate direct
ly" with so many bank officials? Is
this a sample Of your communications
to them: "a terrific war is being
made by the people upon our business.
We must have funds to maintain our
system. Your assessment is g..
Please send draft by return mail.
This is an appeal to your patriotism"
1t occurs to US that when the banks
thus combine to maintain themselves
the people all ought to line up on the
other side.-ED. VOICE.
Again, the names of more than a
million OF the most prominent farmers
in the United States are in the list of
tue clubs classified addresses.
I'VE imagine there is a contrast be-
tween the communication to the
farmers and those to the bankers -
ED. VOICE.
Secretary Holt keeps a watchful eye
on the newspapers Of the country, and
sees that they are constantly supplied
with all sorts OF arguments and arti.
Giles bearing on the campaign.
land when any paper of more than
provincial proportions gets obstreper.
Gus for silver, and sugar" will not
catch its managers, the stock is bought
up and the old management displaced
by men like Byron W. Holt and L.
Carroll Root, as was the case with the
st. Louis Republic, Chicago Times
and all other papers that have trieC
to fight for the people.-ED. VOICE.
The result is that the clubs effort.
are pretty thoroughly heralded I'D anC
down the land, and every mail bring.
in marked copies of newspaper article.
OF a Dig batch of letters making in.
Quiries of one kind or another.
The hundred thousand supple
ments" filed with solid money litera
ture are sent out every week, and be
ginning now ''plate-matter" factory
to supply fresh plate matter on tht
currency question to every paper in
the land that wants it, and the cost
will be only the freight or express
charges.
lWhO pays the bills, and why?-ED
VOICE.
The work of the Reform Club. how
ever, does not begin TO meet the need
OF the case. In the West there ar
two silver papers to every gold basi
organ, and silver orators are legion.
If anyone doubts that there is
great battle on hand. be has only |,
see the singing letters that are re
celved from the silver followers in th,
various states. The sound money ad
vocates are branded as "rascals.