Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-10
Arnold had in the continental army
when Lord CORVALLIS surrendered.


when Lord CORVALLIS surrendered.
witness the absolute brutality Of the
last proposition Of the gold standard
papers, that borrowing gold by issuing
one hundred millions of interest bear
ing bonds would strengthen the public
credit and help business. Carry this
idea into your own business. Could a
corporation or business firm strengthen
their credit by making large loan OF
money and Issuing interest bearing
notes for obligations that bore no In
terest? Is not the proposition thor
oughly idiotic when examined in the
light Of ordinary common sense? We
have now had over s260,0O0, 900 useless
bonded debt created in the past two
years, and the end is not yet. When
tho Sherman silver act was repealed
all the gold bugs in the land, big and
littler from John Sherman down,
claimed that we would have prosperity
in sixty days. Read Senator Sher-
mans last speech in the senate, just
before the silver repeal bill passed.
Sherman was the chief bugler among
the loud singing cuckoos in both houses
of congress. He then said that all we
needed TO bring gold from Europe by
the ship load and give us substantial
business boom was to destroy silver as
a unit of value and money metal.
And it was done by men who were
elected to congress sacredly pledged to
bi-metallism. Look at the terrible
business wrecks in the immediate trail
of this infamous enactment. Look at
the record of bond sales since then.
See from the records how every prom
ise for better times has been proved
criminally false and delusive. And
again we see Senator Sherman, as the
real mouthpiece of his platitudinous
obesity OF the White House, arise in
the senate and commend the present
house of representatives because they
have just voted to kill any silver legis-
lation whatever.
And did you notice that Sherman
savagely criticised leading statesmen
and senators Of his own party for vot-
ing against another tariff bill, and
commended the republicans Of the
house for defeating any legal recogni-
ton whatever Of the white metal; that
Sherman. in a speech made at Zanes-
Vile last year, before the Ohio repub
lican convention. claimed to be
stanch and trusty friend? And he had
the marvellous audacity to claim, in his
speech, not yet five days old, that these
house republicans, fresh from the peo-
ple,' as he said, represented the people.
1t was almost 1900 years ago, II re-
member Alright, that Christ, talking by
inspiration from on high, of just such
beings, said:
They bind heavy burdens and
grievous to be borne, and lay them on
mems shoulders; but. they themselves
will not move them with one Of their
fingers. Woe unto you. scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for we devour
Widows houses and for a pretense
make long prayers.
And all these modern Pharisees
from Sherman down claim to be cham
pions Of the only honest money, and
that all are dishonest or ignorant who
oppose their schemes of confiscation of
the property Of the common people by
law. / would like the Plain Dealer to
look up the campaign records of the
members of the present congress who
voted few days ago to murder the
honest silver dollar of the constitution
nj every stage of the voting, and see
how many preached the gold dollar Of
the vampires on the stump when out
vote begging. venture the opinion
there are not ten congressman in the
whole erray, from the entire country