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

"hNH pCOp "ClO ~ udppY ana
prices so good"
He repeated the same statement
later in his speech in regard tn wages.
ibis is untrue with the exception of
trades where the wages are controlled
by unions. But the Senator con-
demned unions by uphOlding Cleve-
land in his eager rush to send troops
to quell the attempt of a union to car
ry out its rights to vindicate itself by
refusing to handle Pullman cars. In
common with every Republican
speaker that has been here, he threw
the sop of protection and sound mon
ey to labor, and then implied the very
power that has sustained it in any
dignity was anarchy and the condem-
nation Of such uncalled for haste. then
went beyond all precedent to serve
capital by crushing uniOnS-as states
rights-and criticisms of the courts
With their injunctiOns imprisoning
revolutionary laborers. The labor un-
Ions have time and again passed upon
the matter of protection, and have al
ways condemned it as a delusion as far
as their own wages were concerned.
And intelligentand independent labor
today can never be caught with such
Of facts, nor by
such pretended friendship. Organ
lzed labor has also passed time and
again upon the money question and
has always endorsed free silver and
condemned the attempt to contract
the currency as destructive to the
interest of their cause.
Labor has learned that the friend.
ship(?) of campaigns and the acts of
Legislation, and DEGREES of courts are
very different things.
He also failed to show how it was
that the pnblic debt, which was only
S0S5, 100000, according to his state
ment, in 1892, was worth more to the
holders of that debt in 1892, than was
the $2,S27, 1868, $3.50, in 1895, and thus
the payment of all that debt, he so
glOwingly told Of, brought no.relief
to the people.
His next step was to attempt to
show that the financial legislation
had nothing whatever to do with the
present conditions, but that it was all
on account Of Democratic victory,
and a slight variation in the tariff
laws. The slight difference of sched-
ules between the Mckinley and VIII
son tariffs was the great cause.
He claimed that the monetary laws,
Sucn as the demonetization CT silver
in 1873, had no more to do with our
present condition than the fall Of
Adam.
The Republican party, he said,
claims that it is because the people
have gone out of business and have
gone of buying foreign goods.
This statement seemed ridiculous
to come from great Senator, when
the balance of trade has been more in
our favor under the Wilson bill, than
it ever was under the Mckinley law.
His arguments to prove that the
tariff was the cause, was certainly
very misleading. they had all the
gloss OF fairness and yet they had the
entire fact left out.
The dates OF 1916, 1887, and 1857
were given as the periods of hard
times in this country. His argument
was that at each Of these times we
had free trade and that the cure was
protection. He claimed that we had
Tree coinage during all this time, and |
Il we became sick with free coinage
now could it cure us now?
Yet with all the Senator's shrewd.
IeSs, he convicted himself in Dart of
'hls argument, when later in his ad.
lress he showed up the state banks
Ind the kind Of currency they circu.
ated In 1851. Ae also told us of the
'reenbacks Of Lincoln's time and how
hey paid the soldier ln the field, etc.
rhus by his own logic he tore
Town part OF his own argument. AMI
'eliable histories tell us that the
main cause Of the hard times Of 1887
vas the great speculations preceding
hat time when the old United State,
'ank was discontinued, and the
money stringency that followed, when
he obligations could not be met, and
heir business was paralyzed and
lines became very hard. This period
Ilso had the old state bank with its
lrculation of unstable currency, so
he Senator fell down in his dates Of
S37. MO ua'eS Vi
Ills argument is misleading again
q that it seems to show that we
ever had financial distress except in
rec trade times, He failed to tell of
he panic of 1873 and 1874. He failed
o tell Of the preparations of the Re.
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