People's voice., 1896-06-18

land we believe l20 miles a day is
pretty good time for freight train
we fud that it will take it eight years
and three months tOpasS agiven point.
And if we add to the interest the
principal already paid, we find that
it would make solid train q times
around the earth. A solid train of
cars 525,OtO miles long.
1t wOEld take it nearly fourteen
years topass a given point.
eggds, but what subject sOr con-
temptation is this proposed train of
40 Car loads Of Mckinley corn
And what still greater and more
impressive object lesson would be the
One that we have pictured.
Every carload of it;
Every buShel of it;
Every kernel Of it;
Wrung from the sweat and blood
and toll of the Annericanpeople by the
financial policy of the Republican
party.
By contraction of thecurrenCy.
By making the bonds payable in
coin instead Of in greenbacks.
BY the refuBGing act, whereby short
time bonds become leng time bonds,
exempt from all taxation.
By the decentralization of silver and
the SuspensiOa of itsCOinage, destroy
Ing half of Cur metal money, and rea-
dering the bonds payable exclusively
in gold.
BY the resumption act, curtaili0g
the usefulness Of the-greenback.
By the establishment of the geld
standard" EOrlthe.sake OF the 'hOa-
est dollar"
BY all these various acts, begiuniGg
in 1868 ard coming ,dewn to the pres
ent time. whereby Hcices have been
reduced so That to-day it takes nearly
twice as muoh of the productsOf labor
to pay the present sFnblic debts of
s747, 100000 aslit did to pay 81, ,24s, Co.,
900 thirty yeas,agO!
In the above illustration we have
shown up theteffects upon the nation.
al debt alone. III we should carry n
still farther and show what effect The
reduction OF prices has had upon state,
county and municipal debts it would
more than danble our $500 miles Of
corn. Think of the effect up0a Gffi-
cial salaries. Then $500 bushels paid
our presidenta years salary; today il
takes 3s,3OO-and we don't get near aaf
good president either. Official sala'
Iries remain fixed, wages and farm
products 20 down in The general re.
ducti0n Of prices.
Think of the effect which this re-
duction Of prices has had upon 0nr
nine million OF mortgages and all 0nl
private debts. Its contemplation il
simply appalling. The haman miRd
is scarcely capable of comprehendiEe
its eGormity.
iIslit any wonder that few thou
sand persons own two-thifds Of all
the wealth in the Tnited States?
4 Is il any wo0der that eur poor
hOusesare over-Aowing with paupers.
our jailS with criminals andaur high
ways with tramps?
Isn't it time for { reyolutiOn-not
Bloody, hat brainy?
Isn't 'titkme for the people TO take
things into their own hands? ISN'T it
time for a new party?
You may search thep pages ofIhstOry
from the dawn of creation to the pres
ent time and you can fad nothing
that can compare with this recari OF
public robbery.
The Caesars, Hannibal, Alexander
the Great-men who made Rar a trade
and the subsection and robbery of n2-
tiOns profession, never wrung from
a 'prOstrate foe Cle tithe Of what
has been extOrted from the American
people by the financial policy Of the
Republican party always aided at
critical periods by the Democratic
party during the last quarter OF a
century.
And still they cry for more.
Still are they Matching new schemes
Of robbery and plunder.
By dishonest aud hypoeritieal CRY
Of "honest money" they are seeking
to reduce prices and add to the bur-
dens OF the people. AS well MIGHT