The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-23
THE FIGHT IS ON.

| The perpetuity of this government de-
ponds upon the contentment of the
masses, not upon the prosperity of the
| classes.
| In the absence Of steady employment
at living wages and in the presence of
| hunger there is danger for any gov
eminent even of centralized power.
Under such conditions, with no menac-
ing army possible, and the contentment
| of a majority of the people becomes an
| absolute necessity to national exist
ence
The Political Science Quarterly lately
contained an estimate of the debts of
the American people, made from Stats
teal investigation which shows that the
| country owes for every man. woman
! and child in it the sum of $500. II
shows that 9 per cent of the families
in the United States owns II per cent
of all the property of the country, while
the remaining 81 per cent of the peo-
pie own only 20 per cent of the total
wealth. The public debt, national,
state and municipal is S2,O27, 40, 746,
the railroad debt $1,000, 100000, the
bank, real estate, mortgage and other
individual debt, nearly eleven billion
more, or a total Of S1S,027, 170,546.
Under the goldbug rule, forced upon
us by foreign creditors, through home
administrations, it now will take two
bales where it took one before, two
bushels where it took one before, two
pounds where it took one before, to
cancel the obligation of these debts
which though spread out over munich
palities, corporations and individuals,
after all really rest upon the shoulders
Of the laborer who produces all values.
For the payment of the laborer for his
action of all business, the per capita
circulation Of the United States is less
than $40, as against $1,000 in France
Assuming these statements to be true,
which We do, and having added to them
the fact of the gripping of the national
protective policy, is it any wonder that
the 81 per cent Of the people who own
only the % per cent of the property,
but who in the end must pay the entire
debt, are discontinued and unhappy,
that a large per cent of them are idle
or unprofitably employed, and that
there is hunger and despair in the land?
The issue is made, the fight is on, on
for the wealth producer, the small prop
erty owner and the business man, who
constitute that 81 per cent. 1t is a
fight for an equitable chance, for the
life blood of labor and commerce.
which is money. All efforts like those
made by the majority delegates at
Cleveland to divert the attention of the
people to other questions will not avail.
Ninety-one per cent of the people have
been robbed in the interest of the re-
naming 9 per cent nor tariff-talk nor
any other question, however pressing,
can interest those who have been rob-
bed until restitution is made Was
the tariff-law made an impossible wall
of fire, mountain high, unless it shut off
the drain Of gold interest, there could
be no prosperity for America with half
their property values destroyed, to-
gether with half their real money It
will not do even to issue or supply
credit money, for credit money will
not pay the foreign obligations which
have been doubled in fact in the appre-
citation Of gold. 1t is a debt of gold
against flesh and blood with flesh and
blood denied even a chance for the gold
with which to discharge of the debt.
This government, this land of free
men, is not going to be turned over to
Queen Victoria, admitting that her sub
JectS have blanketed it's every econ
omic interest with gold mortgage
We will pay the debt in the like value
borrowed, not with double the COM
moditieS. We are not a dependency,
but an INDEPENDENCE, independent of
every conceivable internationalism and
superior to every entangIing alliance
that may be sought to be enforced by
any or all foreign interests.
This question confronting the Ameri- |
can people cuts deep. 1t is more than |
one of parity" and international
agreement" 1t is one of individual |
manhood. The issue is made I'D and |
there will be no opportunity to side
track it on tariff or by any other sub
terfuge whatever. The purchasing |
power of the days labor must be raised |
to its former basis as against gold |
value, and the price of every other /
value reinstated. The next presiden-
tial campaign is to be fought out on this |
question, when it must be determined |
If 81 per cent of people is more than o |
per cent of other people; whether hui
manity counts in this Republic or only |
the gold which supports the aristocracy |
OF crowns. SuStainS the armies of |
heredity pretenders and protects the |
plutocrat in his ill-gotten possessions.
WHAT Is WALL STREET.