The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-02
SUGGESTIONS AND QUESTIONS.

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the money question. No effort which
party leaders may, singly or combined,
put forth can be equal to staying a
sentiment which is rising higher and
higher every day and which will soon
prove an overwhelming wave. Mr..
Clevelands eX-secretry of navy return
ing from Europe day before yesterday,
may assure the country that Harcourt's
opposition cannot stand before the ut.
terances of Balfour and Of Bismarck,
and that therefore America has but
to wait patiently for a couple of years
when national bimetlliSm will be real
lied. His utterances will not even
tend to stay the onward wave. The
people Of not only America but of
Europe are tired Of these promises of
international agreements. Knowing
that the currency of civilization has
been ever seundly based on the two
precious metals why the money func-
ton should now be held to gold alone
must be satisfactorily answered or
otherwise silver must be utilized, even
to the limitation Of gold. What is to
be our money, is the first important
question which is going to be settled.
AS almost every conceivable interest
with which man has to do hinges upon
the question of money, it is high time
that the question Of what is money be
settled that the energies bent in acquir-
ing it may not be foolishly expended.
All quart-cup and yard-stick measure
ments, and such like Illustrations as
We're INDUCED in by the Wall street
sharks at Delmonico's in New York
the other night are of no more force
or effort than the thin ordorless gas
generated from left over soda cracker
of last year. And so all talk that more
money will decrease the price of labor
might as we'll cease. More money
means higher prices for everything,
higher values on everything, and more
of everything. The sounder it is the
| more solid the enterprises and the
values, the more sure the paper cur
| rency based upon it. Silver is rs
sound as gold and there is more of it
and that is all there is to ii. If in
| the restoration of silver, as a final re-
demption money with equal oppor-
tunities with gold money, it should be
discovered that the old ratio of vaiua-
ton. as controlled. respectively, by pro-
duction, is not the proper one then
regulate them TO uniformity, not by
| charging the size of the silver coin but
| by cutting the gold coin. Such cut
ting Will stimulate production. Ii
| can't do more. The more money. OF
either silver or gold, the better times.
The discovery of gold in California
| did not cut down wages or reduce
! prices or destroy values. But there
was more money and better times
! When because of plenty Of money
prices are advanced wages are not
therefore reduced. either absolutely OF
| comparatively. Then why do Cleve-
| land. Carlisle, Roosevelt and the rest
persist in saying that in the rehabili,
tation of silver the laboring man
would suffer by cut wages on the one
hand and higher prices upon the other;
Do they take the American people FOL
fools: Does an advance in the price OF
corn or wheat enable the farmer 1,
| obtain labor at lower rate? Is moi
the reverse exactly true? As all wealth
is created by the laborer and as III,
laborer is the poor man and rs silver
is the poor mans money. by what au
thority and in whose interest is it SAID
thar he shall not have his own? A.
the farmer and the laboring man anG
the debtor class, who are demandin.