People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-16
ny vaIedictory to the Republican
Party.

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Republican party 10y its enactment
cut away aud destroyed money sys-
TEN that mad maze the American
people great. that bad employed their
labor that had pgoftably developed
their resources, that had scattered
sunshine ana song through the Nd
ton. 1t planted a Upas "a American
finance.
10 order to the support Of this
specification a short review Of Ameri-
can history is made necessary.
Therefor, it will be remembered
that in the beginning our nation con-
sisted Of thirteen weak colonies mum
boring less than four million people
that our entire wealth embraced less
than four billion dollars. 1t must be
remembered. too, that we had just
come out of the revolutionary war,
that fire and sword had devaSted the
country, that the nation had a war
debt to pay that We had no industries
established, that We were without
authority, money and without credit,
that our resources were altogether
undeyelOped and in this condition we
had YET continent to conquer.
Such 10 brief were the conditions
when the ship of Americas State was
launched on the great business sea Of
the world, when we commenced bust
ness under the financial system born
10 the councils Of our past great.
Now let US 60 back to the beginn-
ing corner l7S7 and turn the pages Of
American history up to 1913, when
the money system Of our fathers was
discontinued by an act Of Republican
legislation, Feb. y, y o'clock mid
night, an hour in which honest peO-
pie sleep, an hour in which the nation
was disarmed, the hour which aSsaS-
sins generally select to come fourth
with stealth and cunning and do
their bastard deeds.
And be reminded of what the ma
tion had accomplished working under
the money system advised and set up
by Washington, Jefferson and other
patriots Of 1776.
Now submit that if under this
system the nation had sunshine and
song, if our labO- was employed, if our
resources were being satisfactorily de-
yeloped, that if it supplied the wants
and needs Of the nation and the peO-
pie, if in short, that money system
was suited to America and to Ameri-
caL institutions, the Republican
party ought not to have discontinued
it.
But up to 1873 what had we achiev-
ed. We had subdued the wilderness
extending from ncean to ocean, reach
ing from the Gulf of Mexico to the
northern lakes had reduced it to vast
fields of grain with which we were
feeding hungry world.
BY building railroads we had con-
neCtiou with the CULTS and the lakes
BY our Pacific system we had cnnnec-
ton and made easy of exchange the
commerce of the western twilight
with that Of the mornings dawn. By
cutting canals we had connected
great water ways east to the adyan-
tage of great commerce. We had
sunk shafts into the earth and tun.
neled its great mountains and were
delivering it OF its treasurers-itS
mineral, its gas, its oil. We had lain
the great Atlantic Cable connecting
the hemlsphereS and were speaking
across the ocean. We had martialled
the gIandeSt armies that ever strobe
the earth, fought the most sublime
battles Of the world and had won the
greatest victories ever recorded in the
history of human struggles.
Just before the transcendant
change in our money system with the
immortal Lincoln, our head in Wash
tngton, and the illuStriOus Grant in
field, we had struck the shackles of
slavery from four million people and
had given the freedom of the eagle.
In this we had purged the republic
from its last relic OF barbariSm save
one, the bondage Of woman.
We had put in motion millions Of
SpindleS twisting wool and cotton;
we had jewelled our streams with
mills and had turned the great power
of steam and water upon their wheels
The ring Of the miners pick was
heard on mountain peak and in lonely
pass,
Peace on earth and good will to
men" was the happy greeting that
went out from our people in early
morning mingling with the glad ex-
preston of singing birds.
From tropical sands south that
never cool to Arctic SHOWS that never
met the song OF our country was of
hope and peace.