Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-09-10

| of the Republican party. was born of the
| hard times and distressed conditions of MT.
You. but low prices. unemployed labor.
monetary stringeney, aceumulating inde5t,
| the Farmers Alliance organization into be-
ing? When did it come into being? Why.
| tor, in the first year of Mr.. Harrison's ad-
| ministration. When did it carry, politically
Mhoy Ha OF Mhy s IN 1885,
for the first. when the, administration Of
When was it that Kansas most distin-
guished representative. from his seat in the
he only can your Republican financial pol
| icy, which had prevailed for more than a
TO the vrtuous women of the land the al.
| Tentative of prostitution or starvation?
administrator itr II IN Of Benjamin in Harrison
lacked scarce two months of being half ex-
Where and when was it that the great
est industrial strike of all the ages up to
the the combined military forces of Pinkerton
and Pennsylvania to Suppress; strike not
the preceding Democratic admfnistrat ton.
but strike against a reduction of the
ceding pemocratic administrator and
against the imposition ion of more onSr1 S1
sir, it was at Homestead, Pa, in the year
Of our Lord 1892 and in the year Of Ben
tected iron factories of Mr.. Carnegie, under
hs full Of fb the estdn M ta
Cleveland as President. which occurred the
bility.
Democracy From Non-Partisan View.
Mr.. Chairman, I am no Democrat.
hae never ne v vGfed baTe ticket
for many Democratic candidates, and shall
of 20 the pgn Of foe
character. their competency, to discharge
and III Of their ann oc iaf
am not here in the character of defender
in so far as the present distressed con-
ditions can be laid to the door of Demo-
them has been but continuation of the one
originated and carried near to a ruin
cessors, and in opposition to the spirit and
temper and advice of the great mass of the
the time existed
as much intensity Of feeling as any Demo-
upon the men who will thus spervert and
falsify the known facts of yesterday for
body knows who knows anything at all
about the ud matter that while times . have We
recent years, they have become harder and
hat we @0a arse now ap reaping the psraiy
ripened harvest of Republican misrule, the
the contraction, resumption and demoneti-
cation policies of Republican Congresses.
| pass, however, from these general top
Financial Legislation Reviewed.
I'm the discussion, of the all-absorbing
matters of silver coinage and gold mono
of the principal acts of legislation which
go to make up the financial policy Of the
serving their effects, but because they indi-
pa paTty has 81 Shows to the
dustrial interests of the masses of the peo-
authorizing the contraction of the paper
currency OF the country. And begin with
the war we had in circulation. in exist
ance. at least, in round numbers, 81 Coz, OOO-
$685., 100000. In this statement of amount,
| hawever, the issue known as 7-30 bonds, or
culating currency or bonds some question
| has been raised, is excluded. lay this to
ere aRG say of
in existence in this country. and that was
a aHa ai for ' the Peoples %se " dill Minus
Issues of State bank currency, both
| North and South, had gone out of existence
| during the war. Gold and silver had fed,
as they always do in times of emergency.
where it remained for many years there
after; and was not even used as a base
currency. This entire volume of money was
States of the North. And by the North
| was then meant much less than it means
POUND s May the e te taas apd
of the PACIFIC coast. it was confined to that
Of ana the Union lying and p0g a of the
| Missouri might more correctly say the
bracing Nearly one-third Of the Union. and
nearly one-third of its population, was to-
tally unsupDlied with money.
The South at the Close of the War.
1.-The South was practically bankrupt. Her
Her gold and silver had gone to defray the
eof have OF aneaRng sne do
| lar of money with which to begin again
WI oh N
build up her homes, made desOlate by the
Of b wa The oRiy Place fao ff fS
of the North. or the Northeast, as it may
MY "fmm Hi i upon the Close of the war
that money which had hitherto circulated
among portion of the people only, began
| to go South. 1t went there in the form of
Were IN command G Of e credit. It was taken
there by men from the North on which to
| accomplished Contraction of the currency
| by distribution of its volume over a wider
9nmber Of peoe But fhs Vas ot
/ only method of the same kind by which
.'At the close, of the war. the entire ,coun-
| try between the Missouri river and the
From the Indian Territory north to the Brit
ish possessions was one trackless s,, unsettled
! Rocky mountains to California was re-
gon not only b nnn I, save IN few 1s
| explored expanse of mountain peak and
PLAIN. Kansas the only state OF all TINS
vast region had then 1 believe, less than
a quarter of a million Inhabitants
'Since that time we have developed an
empire out of a wilderness. The mighty
energies aroused in the people and put
forth for the preservation of the Union
would not abate with the cessat ton of the
war. but they carried hundreds Of thou
sands, even millions, across the rivers and
plains and over the rocky peaks toward
the Pacific shores in a tide as impetuous
as the host which scaled the summit of
Missionary Ridge and marched with Sher-
man to Savannah and the sea. Within
twenty-five years from the close OF the
war we had paraIleled and bisected this
country with railroads almost as numerous
as common highways of travel. We burt
great cities and smaller villages. School
houses, court houses, churches and capltois
went up seemingly in day and night
Currency Contracted by Distribution.
ITO accomplish this stupendous miracle
of civilization required money, and the
only place from which it could at first pc
obtained was from the States of the
North. 1t came here as it went to the
South. in the form of loans. and was
brought here by a million emisrants seek
ing new homes. All this, likewise, accom-
DliShe6 a contraction by distribute