People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-08

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whole country, it is of vast Importance
that we should understand the mean.
ing of words and phrases used in the
national pleadings by the two great
political parties, viz: the single gold
standard party on the one side, and
the bimetallic silver party on the
other. The issue, or the point of
dispute between the two parties must
be settled by the people at the polls,
and no voter should neglect 10 know
that in casting his ballot upon this
issue he votes directly for it against
his own interest, thatO his neighbor
as well; nor should we neglect to keep
in our minds few facts that give i'm
pOrtance to the issue in controversy.
First, our present financial system
rests upon the single gold standard,
commonly understood as the English
plan" Under this system. or plan, the
silver 10 an American silver dollar is
worth only about 81 cents. and IN
der this system our government is
made to assume the gaTb of dishonest
ly swindling her own people, for the
government takes 81 cents worth of
silver and puts her own stamp, the
American eagle, on it and calls it lone
dollar" and cOmpelS Americans to &C
cept it as legal tender dollar for his
produce and his labor, while the single
gold standard administration releases
the English and Wall street bond
holder from taking it under the Syco-
phantic plea that it is done to "main-
tain the honor of our country" And
this is the system of finance, this is
the existing gold standard referred
to in the St. Louis gold standard plat
form and which that convention
declared must be maintained" until
the leading commercial nations of the
the world shall consent to a change,
and then ask God for his blessing to
rest upon them, as il he was 10 the
single gold standard business too,
after having blessed mankind by fill
ing the earth with gold and silver for
mans use as money metals which
rust cannot corrupt nor demonetize.
The Chicago silver convention
challenged this system of English
single gold standard in these words:
"We demand the free and unlimited
coinage Of 10th gold and silver at the
present ratio Of Is to /, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall be full
legal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public and private.
Here is presented the issue, or the
difference between the two parties
upon the money question, to settle
which our votes will be cast"
The term Stree coinage" means
that silver and gold bullion shall be
coined without charge by the United
States minis.
The term unlimited coinage"
means that all the gold and all the
silver presented at the United States
minis shall be coined into money.
The "ratio of l6 to l" means that
the number of grains of pure silver
in a silver dollar shall be sixteen
times the number of grains of
pure gold in a gold dollar.
The term full legal tender" means
that when debtor offers either gold
or silver a creditor, in any sum what
ever the creditor is bound to accept
the same and discharge the debtor
from his liability.
How easily and readily may all
understand and fully comprehend the
full scope and meaning of this plank
in the Chicago platform,
Never" it is said, until silver
was demOnetized did our government
take less than 100 cents worth of
silver out of which to coin dollars. q
They who demOnetized silver and set
up the gold standard are responsible
for this fraud, and the crime of
placing our government in the
apparent role Of a defrauder of her
own people to satiate the rapacious
nav of the hoarders of gold, whose
God isgOld, whose gospel is a contract.
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