People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-09-17

are IN their final analyses crest moral
questions, and 1t requires no extended q.
pefience In tho handling Of money 10 on.
able man 10 tel right from wrong.
The Common People,
And, more than this this money quss.
ton will not be settled until the great
common people act upon It No question
Is settled until the masses settle It Abra.
ham Lincoln said that the Lord must have
loved the common people because he made
30 many Of them. BE was right about 1t.
There Is another evidence that the Lord
made the common people and made great
many Of them II is because the common
people are the only people who have ever
supported reform that had for Its object
the benefit Of the human race
do not mean to say that there have NOT
been exceptions to the rule. I do not mean
to say that you have not found among the
masses at all times those who are ready Ia
beray those who toiled with them II they
could see some chance Of personal eleya.
ton.
Nor do mean to say that those who
have got beyond the ranks Of the common
people are entirely unmindtul Of the claims
OF brotherhood upon them. But say, as
general rule, that the common people here
and everywhere have been the support and
the only great support Of every measure
Of reform.
Now, you have right to take this CUES.
ton, examine 1t and form your own opin-
lon, and the ballot Is given to you In order
that you may express your own opinion
when you come to vote and not be required
to accept somebody else's opinion.
Facts to Be Considered.
And am going to call your attention
to Just few things this afternoon for you
10 consider when you are trying to make
up your minds what you are going to do.
Now our opponents are all divided as to
the policy which should be pursued. You
take the gold standard Democrats. Some
Of them say they ought to come out openly
and indorse the Republican candidate, SO
as to be sure to elect him. Others say,
mo; that would be dangerous, because
unless we have a candidate Of our own
there will be great many Democrats who
will be foolish enough to vote the Demo.
cratic ticket"
And there they are divided. They all
want the same object They all want to
elect the Republican candidate, because
they believe that Democracy is better ex.
emplifed through Republicanim than
through Democracy.
But l say they are divided as to the
means Of getting at it, and some say that
they can elect the Republican candidate
better by having a candidate of their own
to fool Democrats with than they could BY
openly supporting the Republican ticket.
Not only are they divided there, but they
are divided all the way through when they
come to argument. Why, some of them
will start out to show that the gold stand.
ard is good thing, and after one Of their
speakers has got we'll on showing how
great thing the gold standard is then an
other speaker comes along and says II Is a
mistake to say the gold standard Is good,
the gold standard is not good; what we
want is bimetallism, but we can't have Il
until somebody helps US. Now, those two
arguments are not consistent II the gold
standard is good thing, why should they
want bimetallism' And yet II they ever
have two men making speeches the same
night the chances are 16 to that one of
them will praise the gold standard as a
good thing, while the other will tell you
how anxious they are to get rid Of It
Arguments of Republican.
Well, then, they come to the details Of
the argument One man says the reason
why he does not want free coinage is that
be does not think that the government
should pass law that will enable a silver
miner to take 30 cents worth of silver bull
Hon and convert it into 100 cents and
make the difference.
And he will get red In the face, become
indignant at the Idea that the government
should attempt to help some individual In
this way. OF course, be may have been In
favor Of . system Of taxation that would
yield 200 or 300 per cent, but that doesn't
count 1t Is terrible thing to allow the
silver miner to make that profit.
Then the next man who comes I'D will
say that, as a matter Of fact, the stamp Of
the government adds nothing to the value
OF the metal, and that the free coinage of
silver simply means that you convert so
cents worth Of bullion into 10 cent dol
lar and nobody makes any profit out Of It
/ say that the chances ere that II you
have two men make speeches on the same
platform In favor Of our not taking any
action until some foreign nation helps us
you win ind that one Of them will IN all
make one argument and the
other will make the other argument, and
very often the same man makes both argu-
mentA
Now you can see the absurdity Of It II
the silver miner, under the law Of free
coinage, fnds that his silver bullion Is
raised % that that which Is now worth 80
cents viii be worth 100 cents, then there
are no 30 cent dollars, and II the other
man Is correct, and the law adds nothing
TO the value Of the metal, and you simply
convert 10 cents worth Of silver into q 20
cent dollar, then the mine owner has not
made a cent
IL there are two men to speak against
our position, one Of them will probably
say that there has been no fall In prices,
and he will denounce the people who com.
plain that gold has risen IN price, and after
he has proved that TO the satisfaction Of
svery man who does not think then his
colleague win come on and tell you that
not only have prices fallen, but that It IL
the greatest blessing In the world 10 have
prices fall
0pponents Not United.
Those two are not consistent, but Il fol-
lows all the way through Why Is IL Il
is because our opponents have no theory.
no princinla M nolicv unon uhi,h a.,