The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-07

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Q-Are commodities cheap?
Ayes, potatoes not worth digging,
farm hands 81 a month and a whole
barn full OF calico for 81.
0-How cheap are they?
A-SO cheap that the people cannot
buy them.
Q-Why cannot they buy them?
A-They have not got and they cannot
get the spondulicks to buy them.
Q-Is it fact that money is now the
very scarcest and the very highest?
At is.
Q-Can you state from memory the
rule relating to the price of money and
things?
A2When money is high things are
cheap; the higher money. the cheaper
things are. And vice versa.
Q-Is this rule true?
At is.
Q-What would raise the price of po-
tatOes, their value now being 8 cents on
the Topeka bourse?
Am increased use of these tubers.
Q-What would increase their use?
A-Money in the breeches pocket OF
3.5O0,00O unemployed labOrers of the
United States.
Q-Why do not these unemployed
men sell their bank stock and buy pota-
toes?
Al do not know why they do not.
Q-What efforts are the gold bugs
making in this campaign?
A-They are now engaged in kinder
garten work, reciting the shorter cate
chism, prepared on Wall street, before
taking the stump.
Own they take the stump?
Alt the commencement of the cam
paign; but a little later they will take
to the woods.
Q-Is not business, as Benjamin Har-
Tison said, at the bottom of the vat?
Ayes, if the vat is bOttomed.
Q-HOw long has this been so?
A-FOr some considerable time, long
enough to make US all tired.
Q-What has occasiOned this long
slump in business?
A-The delay of the bankers of the
country in furnishing advice that they
are now rushing into print with
O-Has not the country been patient
in waiting for these fellows to take hold
and change things?
Ayes
Q-What else is there in sight for
che voter to take hold of to make
change for the better?
A-YOu answer, please.
Q-What would these gold people do
with their gold if we were to have free
coinage of silver?
A-They would give it to Ickelheimer.
Q-What would he do with it?
Ale would put it af1Oat-
On the channels of trade?
A-Nope; he would put it affOat on
ship.
Q-What is market value?
At is a lost art.
Q-Of what, largely, does property
consist in the west?
A-Equities and tail holts on land.
debts, future crops and expectation of
office.
Q-Next to the catechfsm of the pay
ing teller of the Topeka bank in their
daily clearing house circular, what is
the next most powerful thing to convert
a siIverite?
A-Threat of a panic.
Q-WhOm would a panic hurt in the
west?
A-Nobody. unless it was one of our
dam enterprises.
Q-Why?
A-They are all out of sugar. They
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gency and any gale would help sail
them to a better port.
Q-What initiates a debt?
A-Interest and high priced money.
in debt who desires cheaper money to
enable them to pay?
A-NO, sir; no, sir.
Q-Do you fear an increase in the
price of money in case the country
should unfortunately adopt free sill
yer?
A-No.
Q-Is money so high priced now that
those who have it are holding it for
worse times, and will not spend it for
labor or anything else that they can
possibly do without?
Ayes.
Q-Is anybody employing labor now
ed to?
A-No.
Q-WhY?
A@They cannot.
Own free silver cheaper money so
as to give the Iaborer a chance?
A-Yes
OFF the great army of unemployed
men We're to have their proportion of
the wages paid to all those who are
employed, would the wages average
more than the poems of Mexico now
earn?
A-For heavens sake. Mister. I hope
So
Q-when Wall street advises the
sea, what ought the country to dO2
A-Take to the mountains and let the
baggage come on after.
Q-When Wall street is well, what is
the condition of the country then?
At is in the hands of a physician.
Q-What is sufficient argument for a
SilVerite to uSe2
A--EVery Republican platform that
was ever drafted before 1896.
Q-When was the first gold standard
convention ever held?
A-By the money changers in the
temple, nigh nineteen hundred years
ago.
Q-When money goes up in price,
does it get scarcer? Is it harder to get?
Does man then commence to hoard
it? Does he then employ more, or less
labor? Does he then hold on to it for
fear he may never get any more?
When money gets cheaper, does a man
who has money spend it more freely
than when it is high and hard to get?
Does a man who works for living
have better chance to earn money
than when it is so high and scarce?
Amy man ought to answer these
questions They don't need an answer.
They answer themselves.
Of little bevy of men had the
bulk of the 81. 600, 900, 900 said to be in
circulation, could such money be di-
vided per capita, or ought it to be SC
divided in any statements made of
the money in the hands of the people,
devoted to the transaction of general
business?
A-NO.
Q-How much of the money that has
been put afloat do you say is now in the
hands of ]. Pierpont Morgan, IckeI-
berg, Hinckelmier & Co, chucked in
nanks and hid aMaY in sock LEGS de-