The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-18
Po!NTs EoR rHE PEoPLE

r-it Is unconstitutional 70 tax Inc
rich. through The income tax, but 1t IA
al right to authorize the rich to tax
the poor. through ustE-Reform
Press
According to the standard set up
BY the republican press and speakers
in the last campaign, an anarchist is
man who objects TO being robbed.
There are about 7,0o0, coo Of them in
this country.
In the recent campaign the men
who howled most about national honor
and sound money were the very men
who dodge taxes and nse their best
efforts to defraud the government
independent
The gold-bug majority in New
York state would have been about 1O5,-
600 larger but for the fact that that
number Of voters were not possessed
Of sufficient intelligence to properly
mark their ballots, Clay Center Dis
patch.
There is a hitch somewhere in the
machinery that is running the prosper
ity business. The ante-election faith
in prosperity was very much like an
inventors faith in the running of
machine that he is promising to do
great things with when he gets it run
Encyclopedia Kan Advocate.
Carol D. Wright says there are
over 100000 men with no work and
there are 1000, 900 farmers worked half
to death who get no pay for their
labor. There is the situation, Men
who can get no work, and the men who
have the work get no pay. The adj
vance agent had better look into this
matter.-Nebraska Independent.
The members of the railway mems
sound money leagues who have had
their wages cut from ten to twenty
per cent since they walked up to the
rack and voted for Mckinley, have the
sweet consolation that lies in the GER
tain knowledge that every dollar they
do get hold of is as good as every other
dollar, anyway.-Clay Center Dispatch.
Kansas is like a city set on a hill.
It is the first state in which the three
departments of the governmeut-exec-
utive, legislative and judical-have all
been put into the hands of party de-
voted to social and economic reform.
Let US ali remember that we are now
the file leaders in the struggle of the
race to emancipate itself from the tyr.
amy of riches Star and Kansan.
In looking over our exchanges we
find a woeful absence of discussion of
the issues Populjst editors are spend
ing too much of their time and using
entirely too much Of their space in dis
cussing the might-have-beens of the
past campaign. The work of populist
editors is to educate the people upon
the vital issues, SO drop your foolish
ness and go to work.-Inter-Mountain
Advocate.
"A Concord, n. e., dispatch gives a
list of % savings banks of New Hsmp-
shire which have failed in the last Is
months with deposits of over 17,OOO,-
900, and says that Of this amount 81, 5OO,-
600 will be lost to depositors The
money, it is said, was lost in western
land investments That lets Kansas
out, for during all of the last IS months
this state was in the hands of the re-
eemers.-Topeka (Ran.) Advocate.
The profits Of government banking
at much lower rates of interest than
now, and government railroads and
telegraphs with greatly reduced fees
for transportation aud Accommodation,
would abolish the tax collector. Add
to this an issue of government paper
money sufficient to bring the eireulat-
ing medium up to at least $50 per cap
tia, and then we would sec a wave Of
prosperity in this country.-Missouri
World.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
has created a sensation in protection
circles by the declaration that he will
not vote for tariff on any article con-
trolled by trust The senator seems
to be fully aware of the fact that one
reason why trusts favored Mckinley
was to secure additional tariff duties
in order that their profits might be cor
respOndingly increased. Their contri-
buttons to the campaign fund were in
the nature ofinvestment.
Here is a dollar which is coined out
OF paper. 1t is a legal tender for every
thing which money will buy and will
cancel any debt to the amount named
on its face. It is redeemsble in labor,
the products of the farm and work
shop, the factory and anything a ma
ton of 100000 of people may pro-
duce, to the extent of 100 cents. Isn't
a dollar of the above description bet
ter than one redeemable in pinch of
metal, with exceptions as to its debt
paying power stamped on its face?-
Missouri World.
Almost every republican of note in
the country has had himself inter.
viewed since the election, and has de.
clared himself in favor of the destruc.
ton of the greenbacks. They want
national bank notes and gold to be the
only money. With the greenbacks ont
of the way and alt the gold in the
hank vaults we would be at the mercy
of the money sharks and national
banks. Instead of contracting the
present volume Of money which is now
too small, they should increase it by
the issue of more greenbacks -Inde-
pendent
Bryan Was Counted Oat.
The impression grows that "there