The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-24
GREED AND HUMANITY
Are Now Fighting Says Jerry
Simpson, Who Is Here.
Says the Next Step Is Retire
ment Of the Greenbacks.
WIN Not Oppose a High Tariff Bill,
He Says, Because He Wants 1t
Proved That High Tariff
Won't Help Matters

Congressman-elect Jerry Simpson al
SO came to the city to meet the mem
bers of the new administration When
the reporter asked him if he had time
to talk for publication he said:
wen L have more time than money
just now; my salary as congressman
has not begun yet"
Talking about the result in this state,
ne continued The principal cause of
the Republican defeat in this state was
d want Of enough votes Well now
isn't that a chestnut, though No, ser
iously I think that the result of the
election i'm this state is found in the fact
that the question which was at issue in
this state this campaign was an old
one and had been before the people for
a considerable length of time and they
fully understood it and knew how to
vote on it, Perhaps also we are too far
west to ever be a gold bug state. 4
think that the people out here know
that it is a question between greed and
humanity and that they were intellI-
gent enough to vote the right way"
What do you think viii be the ques-
tons that viii come up before con
gress %
..WeU there viii be three questions.
First there viii come time when there
VIII not be enough gold in the treasury
and then VIII be the time to strike for
the issuance of more bonds-gOld bonds;
bonds viii have to be issued so as to
keep UP the reserve and then the
blame viii be attributed to the green
backs and they viii want them retired
This has been the measure that they
have beenleadlng up to for sometime. The
argument VIII be that they had better
issue enough bonds to retire all the pa
per money and thus get rid Of the
greenbacks and do away with them
forever Then the banks can buy the
bonds and issue money in the place Of
the gTeenbacks. Then there will be a
re-enactment OF the Mckinley tariff
measure. This viii materially help
ms s-4
Germs that are in the trusts and com
bines; it viii hurt the smaller con
Germs But the large ones will be ben
emitted by it and they viii get the bill
win be re-enacted.''
What position viii the silver men
Ike on these bills2''
Personally. as the majority of the
people nave declared in favor Of .
1lshsr tarlI, am not disposed to
stand in the way of one. Tt VIII soon
oeilloIlstraIe for itself that it is not the
way 10 deal with the question The
tarln measure viii probably pass.
uoupt II the measure to do away with
the paper money of the government
VIII so through. There is a frfendlf-
ness on the part of the people toward
IT. There is q feeling that it has
helped US to fight the war through and
that 1t has been our friend and / doubt
II the Republicans themselves viii
nave enough votes to ever pass such
a measure.
II have noticed that there is much
matter in the eastern press going for
Kansas see that The Journal has
been copying some Of them ana an
swering them 1 am clipping all these
pieces out and saving them for some
Of these times when 4 get back to
washington there win come q time
when it VIII come handy to get up and
read some of these articles and answer
them and intend to do it, The arti-
cies viii have q tendency to make the
people of the east more bitter toward
us. and in that respect they viii injure
the state
eve have the resources out here. ana
the tools to raise the stuff 10 feed them
back there and they depend on US more
or less. They cannot hurt US ia this
respect. OF course this talk Of theirs
may keep US from borrowing a little
cash SO that We can develop our re
sources a little faster. bat they cannot
prevent us from getting them devel-
oped sooner or later and paying what
we owe"