The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-06-28

become very tired OF 1t. Now, the
question is how to obtain good times.
Well, believe / can tell how. In
the first place, let Congress pass 8
law to coin all the silver mined in the
United States into money and keep
foreign silver out. Then a law that
there shall be 4124 grains of pure sill.
yer in dollar, not 81 grains of silver
and 4l1 grains of worthless alloy our
dollar is now. Then make the hall
dollars just half the size of the dollar,
and the quarters, dimes and half
dimes at the same ratio. Then do
away with the unsightly and worth
less nickels and use silver half dimes.
This would add about seventy mill
lions of dollars per annum to our cur
rency. Then make all this silver le-
gal tender for all debts. Then pass a
law that any obligation that specifies
it is to be paid in gold is illegal and
can be paid in any legal tender. This
W Ould doubtless wrench the very
hearts of the Rothchilds, the Wall
Streeters and Cleveland, but it is
right and should be a law. Then
blessed little "parity" will take care
of itself and be all right. Then give
us tariff law along the lines of the
Mckinley law, and last, but by no
means least, give all the old soldiers
a service pension and additional PEN
sion for disabilities received in the
service which they are most right
eously entitled to. The old boys will
take the silver, don't you forget it.
Then let the government be great
deal more liberal in public improve
ment 8 and enlarge our postal facilities
so country people will be accOmmO-
dated with mail facilities something
near half as well as city people are.
Then let the government pay all
these obligations in silver, gold or
greenbacks, which ever it has the
most on hand. Then the money pow
er will see that its cinch on the mon
ey of the country is broken, then cap
it al that has been so long locked up
will come out and be invested i'm some
Enterprise, factories that have long
been idle will fire up and resume
bus mess, new ones will be built, la
Dor will be in demand at good prices,
farmers will get good prices for what
they b ave to sell and our country will
just hum with business and times
will be good and the people will be
happy, mortgages will then be paid |
off, not in 30 cent dollars, apparently
the Populist way, nor in 200 cent dol
lars, the gold bug way, but in 100
cent dollars, the honest way. Times
are always good when farmers get
good prices for what they sell, and al
ways hard times when they have to
'ell at low prices like the average
prices are now. Pin that to your coat
,Ollar for it always holds good. But
ome "gold bug" will say, ''if you
armers get higher prices you will
lave to pay higher for what you have
o buy" Very well, give us five dol
ars per hundred for hogs and from
hree to six dollars, according to .
'rade for cattle, from 800 TO S125 per
ead for good horses. from one dollar
a dollar and quarter per bushel ]
Dr. wheat and 80 cents for corn and
Their things in proportion and we !
'ill not kick if we do have to pay IA 5
ollars for suit of clothes that we i
An buy now for ten dollars, or four {
ollars for a pair of boots that we can t
ow get for two and half. Give the
verage laborer something like two
Ollars day and work the year round
nd he will not grumble if he does
ave to pay something higher for his
roeeries and clothing. But good
mes don't suit the money kings and
lie wealthy loan companies and it 5
ould seem Cleveland also. They I,
ant gold to go up and prices of all
,operty to go down, just as they T
ave been going for several years.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, permit
e to say that am amazed beyond r
easure that good and generally sem =,
bic Republican papers, such as the in
EGIsTER and Topeka Capital will IL
rsist in unfolding Cleveland and AT
Irlyle in their Iuinous silver policy, Of
policy that has been largely instru- HI
entail in bringing about the present be
de spread financial depression and tn
nsequently hard times. Why not Sc
We good times when so easily OBJ he
med? Why not? Why? -
H. G. WINCHESTER, be
Carlyle, Kansas. fs S7
?. s. Since writing the above /
We read Mr.. Osborn's communica.
n in the REGISTER. He says that
the close of the war it kept us busy