People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-09-10

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Mr.. Cleveland presented it with hi
infamous object lesson
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All Here come the breakers. Lis
ten June 4th);
"a conference of all silver men ha
been called to meet at Topeka on thu
18th inst. We are friendly to silver
but when it is announced that at thi
meeting the advisability Of forming
new silver party is to be considered
we hesitate and grow suspicious
Our firm conviction is that the Re
publican party must be relied upOT
for all relief needed in the line O
remOnetizing silver"
("RemOnetizing silver" Tha'
sounds strangely coming from thu
Mails editor Did not some one tel
US that he said silver had never beer
demonetized and that those who sale
it did not know what they were talk
ing abOut?)
This paragraph appeared in tht
issue of June /, '9j, and the editor
seems not to have recovered from the
shock Of the dire possibilities men
toned therein untilJune 10Th, nearly
month, when he said:
Judging from the published re.
ports from all over the country, the
conferences and conventions called
for the purpose of forming a silver
party are failures. 1t seems that
nearly every body proposes to fight
out this monetary question within
their respective parties"
After events proved that they were
not such failures as he hoped fOr-eS-
pecially after the St. Louis conven-
ton declared for the gold standard.
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la his issue of July lSt he grows in
dignant at the New York Sound Cur
rency club again:
GOLD BUG PAPERS.
THE following from the Elk County
Citizen will give the average layman
an insight into the why" western
papers are supporting the single gold
standard. When such means as these
are used to entrap small papers of a
few hundred circulation, how much
is at disposal of powerful news.
paper with circulation reaching up
toward the million mark and whose
sanction alone gives great effect to
any question:
eve were shown a letter from the
committee on sound currency" this
week. 1t Was private letter re-
Ceived by one of our subscribers, who
was at one time connected with a
bank in this county. 1t gives the in
formation that the club is con- posed
OF 700 resident members and 1,50O
nonresident members. The infOrma-
tiOn is also given by the letter that a
club house is maintained for the &C.
cOmmOdatiOn of members and head
quarters for the committee. The
object of the organization is said to
be to promote the growth Of Sound
money" sentiment in all parts Of the
country, The organization is conf
posed entirely of bankers and those
interested in banks. They charge
members $40 per year dues. The
letter says the organization is secret
This is the same outfit that mails us
pamphlets weekly, most of them at
tempting to answer "Coin's Finan-
cial School, They offer to send US
documents by the hundreds, and if
we will mail them list Of our sub.
scribers, send the literature to them
direct free of charge. They also agree
to furnish US with enough "plate"
matter to print one side of our paper
free of cost. This expense alone
would amount to $3.50 each week.
This offer is made to at least one
paper in each county in the United
States, and would cost the concern
$4,000 monthly for this item alone."'
Since we noticed the Mail lately
running some of these same plates,
furnished by this same sold-bug club,
the VOICE will be pardOned for in
quiring If this is the "why" the Mail
Is now supporting the single gold
standard"
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In his issue OF July ID he says ed
itOrially:
"The gOld-bugs as you say can buy
as much for dollar now as you could
buy for two dollars a few years ago,
but they neglect to mention the fact
that you cannot pay any more tax or
interest with one dollar now than YOU
ever could"
No, they forgot that, andy, just
like you forget it now,
And here you have a part Of the
silver record of man who is now ad-
vOcatiug the gold standard. Oh,
consistency, indeed thou art a jewel
Our extracts from his papers would
not have been so copiOus but for the
fact that they are good arguments fol
silver and will count now against the
gold standard, even more than they
did in the year 1895. as well as to show
the Mail mans inconsistency.
Ray at South Haven.
Judge Ray had a good audience at
SOuth Haven Friday nirbt n no,