People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-02-13
TO JOHN SHERMAN.

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln aud
Garfield.
TO JOHN SHERMAN.
Senator Sherman, are you correctly
reported in the Congressional Globe
of February q, 1867, where you said
that Equity and justice are amply
satisfied if We redeem these bonds
at the end Of five years in the same
kind CT money, Of the same intrinsic
value it had at the time they were
issued? The bond holder can demand
only the kind Of money he paid, and
he is a repudiator and extortiOner to
demand money more valuable than be
gave?"
When the legal tender bin was
before the senate in 1862, l find you
addressing the senate on said bill in
the following language: Il much
prefer the credit Of the United States,
based as it is upon all the productions
and property Of the United States, to
the issue Of any corporation however
guarded and managed"
Do not all citizens hold their prop
erty subject to our unlimited power of
taxation? Do not all share in the
blessings of government, and should
not all share in its burdens? Shall
we infict loss only on those who
trust and labor for the government,
and relieve the selfish, avaricious,
idle, unpatriotic citizens who will
neither fight for, lend to nor aid the
government?
Now, II you were honest then, and
your position was true, is it not i'm
possible for you to be honest now and
correct in your convictions? You
have entirely changed your position.
Either you were false then, or are
false now. If making the bonds pay
able in gold which was bought with
paper at 80 to 40 per cent discount in
1852 was robbery, avaricious and repu-
diatiOn, is it not just as wrong today?
If the legal tender quality OF the
greenback which you fought for on
the floor Of the senate forced the SOL
der 20 receive the same for his SER
vices in the army, why is it not good
enough today to pay the class you
style the idle, unpatriOtic, who will
neither fight for nor aid the govern
ment?"
Are you not Cleveland's right hand
bower, aiding and abetting him in the
destruction of the very money you
nelped 10 create:
If this is not true why did you in.
troduce the resolution, a few days ago,
exactly on a line Of the presidents
message which, if it passes, will destroy
our 500 million of legal tender chr.
rency, which has escaped the toma-
hawk Of the gold savages for so many
years, although it bears the marks OF
the stabS Of the Wall street pirates
to this day.
am glad you fellows have come out
Of the bush so the people can get at
you, It's so plain now that deception
has about run its course. The bloody
shirt racket, the rebel cry, the force
bill, the rObber tariff, the horse thiet
Democrats, McKinleyism, Cleveland
and Shermanism, Monroe doctrine
bonds, sound money, or the wall Of
war can't stop this battle on the
financial question.
And while the gold bugs of both old
parties are hugging each other and
working together, they will some day
find the masses are getting ION tC
their job" The time is not far of
when the people will be compelled tc
join hands and work and vote TO-
gether, or submit TO industrial slavery
TO THE PEOPLE.
Now is the time to work. The bat.
tie is on, the enemy is advancing upor
our freedom. Don't give up. Yor
may De hard up, but if the golt
worshippers succeed, you will realize
that times are good now. This is thu
age Of trusts, combines and mono
poles, and they are exacting the las
pound of desh. Let all opposition t
existing conditions come together
and protect our form of government
as well as our homes.
A. G. FoRNEY.
Belle Plsine, Kansas.
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