Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-10
Whenever Danger Threatened the
Country They Have Rallied
to Its Support.
HARD TIMES AND THE CAUSE.
Employment of Labor in Mechanical
3 Industries and Not DECEASED
Money is Needed.

tbe sunnort of his country. There is
Z good reason in this, in the fact that he
owns the broad acres of our territory and
is so identified with our institutions that
protect him in this ownership that his IN
ferest is necessarily of character TO
make him the safe conservator of our
governments perpetuity, prosperity and
honor.
In the present campaign we are con-
fronted by an issue that affects every
class of our citizens, hence, there Is an
interest in the outcome more intense than
in any campaign since 1860 One reason
for the manifestation for SO much inter
est is the fact that the country has been
suffering from an unprecedented period
of depression and is earnest in its intent
to secure relief. Among those who la
Dor none have more reason for COM
plant than the farmer. Prices OF his
products have been low. values of land
and stock have continued to decline,
until discouraged and disheartened,
dema rogues seem to believe him ready to
accept any promise that they make but
the fact is. and better still, he is ready to
review and discuss fully the merits OF the
propositions offered. The proposition
that has been urged paramount to all
others, is the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
proposition one more startling in its
effects and results and one that would
be more disappointing SHOull II peCoine
a practical fact. 1t is advocated by
men having a pecuniary interest at stake,
backed by a combination of capital un,
euualed by any that has ever attempted
TO control our government since the day
of the slave power. The silver mine
owners of the United States, skilled in
political maneuvering. have organized
themselves into q syndicate for the pur-
nose of forcing upon the country, with
out regard to consequences, the tree and
unlimited coinage of silver
The magnificent scheme was outlined
nv Mr.. BRYAN in his Madison square
speech when he said: AT the present
time and under the present law, silver
dollar when melted loses nearly one-half
its value but that will not be true when
we can establish a mint price OF SILVER
and leave no surplus silver upon the
market to drag down the price OF Sill
yer bullion" and then to show the pos
sibility of cornering silver and. forcing
it to a price satisfactory to mine owners,
.'we cannot even expect all OF the an
China Japan, Mexico and other silver
using countries must satisfy their annual
need from the annual product; the arts
will require large amount and the gold
standard countries will need consider
able quantity for subsidiary coinage:
we will be required to coin only that
which is not needed elsewhere. but II we
stand ready to take and utilize all of 1t.
other nations will be ready TO buy at
the price we fix
This is the silver miners scheme as
invited to loan the resources of this gov
eminent to a silver syndicate in order
that it may be able by taking all the
silver that is offered to the world 20
fix the price and compel other nations
to pay that price. This is worse than
free and unlimited coinage, yet it is the
only way Mr.. Bryan says whereby the
price of silver can be maintained at
parity with gold. The magnitude of the
scheme and their audacity in attempt
ing its execution challenges admira ton
lint I'M Icon n % a
to investigate the claims of parties and
men. They want to know for themselves
the why and wherefores. if some great
radical change is proposed. That they
viii thus investigate and Judge for them
selves is evidence that they are quail
fed for self-government.
That present conditions are hard, eS-
pecially among the farming class. every
one admits There is undoubtedly a
cause for this abnormal condition. The
silver advocates attribute the existing
depression to the characterization Of sill
yer. 1.-The crime of 1873 they desis-
nate the suspension of coinage of silver
dollars in 1878.
They fail to show how that legislation
reduced prices: they simply assert that it
did They fail also to show why prices
continued to decline after coinage of sill
yer was resumed in 1878. They ignore
all the facts of development. the large
and unprecendented production of farm
division of labor. The building of new
railroads and the opening of vast terri
torres TOT CULTIVATION are entirely ignored
During the years 1S1S-T9 and so If is
known that over 100000 mechanics left
the factories and shops of New ENGLAND
and the middle and older Western States
TO locate on the lands in Kansas and No
braska and the Dakotas. These all no
came active producers instead of conS,,r,
ers of farm products.
What we now need is to reverse tb;s
condition of affairs and secure less inro
ducers and more consumers of farm nro
ducts. If by any way we can do This We
nave ACCOMPLISHED
teal in correcting the ills our "a rn,ar
have to bear There is n method bT
which this may be accomplished. a RENE
dy that 1t not only practical hu+ No.,
manent and far reaching in IFS effaots
There is a well established princinIe in
political economy often referred r. ~
writers that the greatest creator of
Wealth Is the greatest possible division of
labor Previous to the election of 1905
under the operation of the Republican
policy of protection. We were stru1oI;r.-
TO realize our benefits of this princinle ana
we We're rapidly overcoming our adxerSa
conditions by increasing the demand -
farm products. The interes. which ~.
movement of labor has in protecriva ~,
ties lies in the effect which the rnovement
OF labor has upon the supply and demand
OF agricultural products 1t is imDossihls
TO maintain q proper division of labor
manufactured goods possible within our
own territory Open our ports free and
allow our markets TO be supplied by the
manufacturers of Europe and the effect
would be to compel our wage earning