People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-12

ment, and that paper prints The best ar.
guments from the very best gold advo-
Gates, which shows that tie silyerites
do not fear to have both sides beard,
being confident Tat they have by far
the better O. the argument.
80. Because '';a wage Gamer will be
benefited most n silver and the Wall
street peoples Decline.
81. Because all the labor organiza.
lions have arraysd themselves On the
side Of free silver, and they generally
know their BIZ ness.
30. Because the capitalists have all
arrayed themselves on the side Of gold.
and they generally know their business.
S6. Because wages have fallen | / per
cent under the gold standard.
81. Because the goldites resort to
shallow sneers instead Of argument.
IS. Because there is not enough gold
in the world to do one months business
only $3.50 per capita Of the world.
81 Because there i' only $22. 80 per
capita in this country, counting all
kinds of money, and less than half Of
that is i'll circulation, the res being tied
up ard boarded.
40. beoause free coinage will raise
the price OF silver by giving it use and
chcapen gold by taking away the de-
mand.
A. ReoaHSo r'aire said the main.
tenance Of a gold standard would pro-
duce Widespread disaster, and his predic-
ton came true WITHIN Is years.
az. Because the silver mines have
never yet and never will produce more
than enough silver tosupply the worlds
nations with coins and tho arts with
silyerware, and there can be no over
production.
43. Because it will rot injure our
foreign credit, bat will improyJ i and
invite in foreign capital by our increased
prosperity, just as capital is now rush.
ing to Japan.
A. Because only about 4 per cent of
Cur business iswlth foreign nations, and
part OF that Is with nations that favor
silver.
45. Because Mckinley says it will
cause an oyersurply Of money, thus
raising prices, while Harrison says it
will drive gold out, making money
scarce, and ,hus lowering prices.
AZ. Because the Hon. BOurke Cochran
says both Of these are wrong ard that
the Lone prices Of silver will make
the Hrice here, and consequently prices
O 90 amoIities here will vary as the
London price varies.
A. Because free coinage will benefit
the people q the silver states only in
common with the people of the whole
United States, giving to all only that
Which the act Of 1873 took away.
As, Because Mexico has prospered
and kept the purchasing power Of her
currency stable under free coinage, and
her labor in ilany cases is far better off
than ours. Why does she not change to
the gold standard if dissatisfied? Eng
land would help her and welcome her
as one Of her financial colonies along
with the United States.
40. Because President Andrews of
Brown university is neither lunatic,
anarchist nor mine owner, and he says:
There must be a change if we would
avoid bankruptcy. With free coinage,
every industry would look up. Never
since slavery days has the press dis
played such disl~ gard for truth and
such stubborn obtuseness," etc.
DO. Because free coinage means con.
tinuouS prosperity, employment and
higher wages, government of the peo-
pie for the people and by the people,
and not government Of Hanna for the
trusts and BY the plutocrats