Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-10-03
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3.
No nation can call Itself
free and Independent that
cannot make and maintain a
financial system Of its own.
A FINANCIAL. JOURNAL TALKS
SENSE TO NEW WORKERS.

THE Maine election, go far as the
figures are available, shows II Re-
publican vote some li,0OO larger
than in 1894, and a0.010 larger than
i'm 1882. \ Democratic vote 5000
larger than in 1904, aud 1859 small
ei than in 1902.
1t only proves what has been fore.
seen from the beginning and dem
oustratcd so far as elections have
been held. New England il getting
temporary bcncii, from the 30.
cent dollar and is fighting Tor il.
The gold standard is 10 New Eng.
land what il is 10 old England,
double payment of debts TO her
creditor class. half paymem, for
products 10 her buy ing class. Us
New England lives on What she
buys from other states, in food ma
tcrial, shelter. fuel, she wants them
cheap. As special privileges in The
laws have her rich and landing
country she wants big dollars for
principal and interest. Her gold
standard is killing the market for
her products from the mills, made
up from material brough, from
other parts Of The country, but 80
far she has had Il benefits from IL.
The 2OO.ccnt dollar Of today il 10
her what the tariff was twenty OF
thirty years ago when she had n
monopoly Of manufacturers. us
what slave labor was to the slave
oligarchy forty years ago. The
.'cinch" by which that section lives
at the expense Of other parts OF TIT
country. or. to 20 further back for
an illustration. the rule by which
one Sc clion lives by the sweat of the
face Of another section is u short
sighted policy. doomed TO ultinia,,
failure, just as The slave policy was
doomed.
That Maine has given approx
uatcly 50.OCO majority for this poll
cy will only bring out in array
against New England an equally
emphatic vote by the sections tina;
have been impoverished by the
gold policy. Arkansas and Alnba-
ma have answered Maine and Yer
mont.
In the game OF change off the sill
yer folks have the larger number OF
states and electoral votes.
New England's views and inter
ests have NIL been local and section
al for many years. AS proof of ihi'
since the outbreak of the civil war
there have been but two men in
ruhlic lie from New England. enc
OF them n pcnnsyivanian. Ben But.
Ter, and James G. Blaine, who ever
took more than New England
view Of any public question. Mr..
Reed, as speaker. has always organ
lied his committees prIn arily in
the interest of New En- Sland and al
the exp, usc OF all oil err sections of
the country. The fact, therefore,
( lat Maine follows Vermont ina
way showing extreme srctionalism,
will only produce opposing Sec
tionnlism in the southern. central
and western states, which have
been injured by the gold standard
which has temporarily benefited
New England.
1t will make votes for Bryan in
all the doubtful states. AS to New
York, all her interests are national.
Her great interests are with the
southern, western and central
states. Unless they prosper New
York must suffer. If they prosper,
New York's great plant in railroads,
mercantile trade and ocean COM
MERGE is a wonderfully valuable
asset. But, IL they do not prosper,
all our agencies for business be-
come devouring liabilities. More
than that, we already have new
competition that is growing every
day at southern aud gulf ports.
This has certain advantages which
VIC cannot afford to stimulate by
joining New England in her local
and sectional policy. New York
has mere TO gain or lose than any
other city, but II must be gained or
lost by alliance with or opposition
TO the states where our interest lies
and upon whose prosperity our
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