Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-05

a-PARITY-in favor of "honest money!
in favor Of a monetary conference with other
countries, and all such rot.
Let me ask you, honest voter, how in the
name of all that is good can we ever expect
party to restore our silver to where it was prior
to '73 when at the same time they were the
party that took it away from us? 1t would be
just as reasonable to expect the express robber
to return his sack of stolen money.
The members of the Republican party are
not all in sympathy with silver, I6 to I. Look
at the leaders in the party. How do they stand
to-day? There are Harrison, Mckinley, Sher-
man, Reed, etc.-they are all pronounced gold
men. How could we expect any silver legisla-
ton from them? Why, the Republican con-
gressInen in the last session of congress voted,
almost to man, to put out the last burning
ember that silver had
They tell us to-day that it is over-production
of silver that makes it so cheap. According to
the director of the Mint for the first half OF
the present century, the production of silver
over gold was about 7S per cent Notwith-
standing that great production of silver, we had
no trouble to maintain the parity between gold
and silver on free-silver basis. During the
past FL years, the production of silver over
gold is about S per cent If any one disputes
this, let him get the report of the mint.
Congressman Cummins, of Iowa, at the Re-
publican national convention, capped the climax
of the whole affair in his great (?) speech.
wish had space to give you his mixed dose OF
monometallism, but will say he carried the
thinnest whitewash of all to the convention.
Among other things, he said:
cit may be that when, in '7S, the value OF
gold and silver began to diverge, we should
have followed the cheaper instead of the dearer
metal. am not prepared to say that it would
not have been more just for us to have done SO;
but we did not, and for seventeen years. hour
after hour, month after month, during the peri
cd of our greatest development and our most
marvellous growth, we pursued the path which
the most eminent intelligence of the nation
cleared away for us; and now, in '95, with o5
millions of people who have bought and sold,
bartered and borrowed, saved and invested upon
a gold basis, would be, in my humble judg-
ment, the most stupendous act of confiscation
the world has ever seen Granting that the
financial departure of '73 was unwise, conced-
ing that it was a grave mistake, 1T CAN NEVER
BE RECTIFIED. There are some errors that can
never be undone. The legislation of '73 is
part of our lives-it is part of our property
it is part of our obligations. From the stand
point of our national morals it would be as
defensible to proclaim the year of jubilee, and
repudiate all our debts and liabilities as to pass
from gold to a silver basis"
Yes, but, my dear brother, how about the IS
millions of poor people that have labored hour
after hour and day after day to pay off their
debts with this money your party has made so
dishonest? This speech is, indeed, hummer,
but it is not unlike all of their argument.
Why will the people of this enlightened ma
ton continue to be humbugged? If that little
book, Coins Financial School, was placed in
the hands of all the American voters, at the
next election, all Of this deinagogery and Eng
lish gold-bugism would be showed under the
deepest torrent of ballots that the world has
ever witnessed. That little book is an eye
opener to the unprejudiced mind. 1t is doing a
great work here and everywhere. Educate the
people-that is all we need-and America will
be free again.
must close, as this is too long already.