People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-23
ny Valedictory to the Republican
Party.

RopuOllCdD parry pldnItu III huleIICdu
finance Upas the poisonous atmOs-
phere of which we have since contin-
uOusly breathed,
Since 1873 there have been material
changes relative to our national and
individual prosperity cannot be denied
and that such changes are not 10 the
advantage OF the nation or people,
must be conceded if the truth is to
: prevail. Since then the business of
the country is depressed in all of its
branches.
The wealth, the hope, the spirit of
other days has gone out from among
the people; our springs of progress
have dried; therefore its wheels re-
fuse to turn for US. The former
wealth and greatness of the nation
now seems to have been but a deluSive
dream.
The sceptre of money has departed
from US, the dew Of sorrow now fills
the eyes of the nation, cOntempla-
zion of the future now pervades the
people like a solemn pail, a funeral
bell of our past hope and greatness
now seems to be tOlling.
The American people in sack cloth
and ashes now appear before the
thrones of Europe pPtitiOning them
fer money system suited to America
and to American institutions.
Since the demOnetizatiOn of our sill
yer the hardest times that ever eff
fected a people have fallen upon US.
Where once proud cities stood, the
pride OF a county, state wherein
were homes of luxury and ease, repre-
Senting the wealth and beauty of our
genius, oats and owls have now taken
up their abode.
Where once the fires of our indus
trial furnaces lit up the gloom Of
Gight, darkness has returned to cover
the place, and vermin pi0wl.
Instead of tapestry of fiction we
Gave ridden the crawflSh.
Instead of smelling the apple OF
Arabian story, we have endured the
stencil Of dying industries and watch
ed the flight of receding values.
Instead of the mirror into which
to look and wish was to receive the
utmost desire, we have been looking
into English hog pens and realizing
huskS. We have been looking intooon'
ditiOns that get worse with each re-
ceding year.
Our labor unable to find employ.
ment can but strike the road where il
trsmps and bogs.
Our ship-building Industry has been
destroyed. The sound OF the hakchet
and saw are now seldom head ia .ouI
yards. Where before the blue deer
was whitCd with our commercial sails
nothing now remaiaS but the blue
water,
Where before our steamships were
blowing the mighty oceans, that Of
other people have come to do the car
rying,
Then our great resources we're rap
idly ard with profit being developed
they now lay dormant
Then the yoke of our debt waslight
and easily worn; it is now unbearable
Since the decentralization of silver
we have lost about one.half of Oul
wealth as compared to money.
In tie shrinkage of values we have
lost billions. Gloom and solemn fore
holdings have taken the place of ouI
former sunshine and song.
The wolf is on the threshold of Tia.
American home, his Visage is outlined
in any direction we look, among tht
toiling people, photographed in tht
executive, the mortgage, the bond ant
the orders of courts.
He is perched on the front doorstep.
of our temple of justice where the
peoples property is being conascatet
by foreclosure and forced sale. He i.
seen in the ranks of the moving mil
lions seeking in vain for work thai
they may eat bread.
To substantiate, the foregoing fig.
ures are given:
Ships built in 1879. 9
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