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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

From the Chicago Tribune.
In all the discussion of the financial ques-
ton by the most thoughtful advocates of
sound money it is fitting that the most
comprehensive epitome of the effect of a
debased currency should have emanated
from the Republican standardbearer.
These words of Mr.. Mckinley contain the
naked truths compressed into incisive Ian
guage:
be free from speculation and fluctuation
1t is the money of country. 1t ought
never to be the subject of mere partisan
contention. When we part with our labor,
our products. or our property, We should
receive in retu=a money which is as stable
and unchanging in value as the ingenuity
of honest men can make II. DebaSement
of the currency means destruction Of val
ues. No one suffers SO much from cheap
money as the farmers and laborers. They
are the first to feel its bad effects and the
last to recover from them. This has been
the uniform experience of all countries, and
here, as elsewhere, the poor, and not the
from every attempt to debase our money.
1t would fall with alarming severity upon
investments already made; upon insurance
companies and their policy holders; upon
building and loan associations members;
upon the savings Of thrift; upon pensioners
and their families; and upon wage earners
and the purchasing power Of their wages.
This is the keynote of warning to tho
laborers and farmers, to whom the Popo-
Gratis are making their most seductive ap-
peals. They are the words Of an expert
enced campaigner, a statesman and an
honest man, who sees and expresses clear
ly the fallacies of the repudiationists.
He points out, moreover. the simple fact
that free silver would open the mint.
of the nation for the few owners of silver
bullion. but would make silver coin no
freer to the many engaged in other enter
prises. He shows the dishonesty of the
claim that the value of money is deter
mined by the mint stamp and not by Its
purchasing power. He defines in convinc-
ing argument the fact that free coinage of
silver in the United States without the CO.
operation of other nations would mean SIM
ply the establishment of monometallism
and that of the cheaper metal, raising d
new barrier to the real triumph Of bimetal-
lism.
These vital points of the campaign issue
are handled with clearness and judicial
candor by Mr.. Mckinley, and his mastery
exposition of the subject must be a strong
support for all who may have been waver-
ing in their faith,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Take Your Choice.


The Popocratic orators and editors are
trying to make the people believe the Re-
publicans want to overturn the present
financial system by driving silver out of
use as money, and substituting gold for It,
OF course, no intelligent voter will be-
lieve what the Popocrats say. Every man
who knows anything knows the Repub-
licans have proposed no change in the cur
rency Of the country. He knows that the
st. Louis platform declares for the main
tenance of the present currency system
until silver can be admitted to the mints
along with gold for free coinage, at the
present ratio, which is 16 to /, under an
agreement entered into by the leading COM
mercial nations of the world. No intelli-
gent voter can find fault with the position
which the Republicans have taken on the
money question. In the meantime, what
silver we have will be as good as gold,
1t is the Popocrats who have proposed
changes that would be injurious. Instead
Of leaving the currency system alone as it
is, they desire the United States to ATTEMPT
the impossible task Of forcing the CONNER
cial value up to a partly with gold at the
ratio Of sixteen ounces of silver to one of
gold, solely in the interest Of the silver
mine owners.
The adoption of the Republican policy
would result in no change. The adoption
of the Popocratic policy would result in
the depreciation of the silver currency by
so per cent in value by driving gold out of
circulation, and compel all creditors save
those protected by contracts, to accept
short dollars in payment of just claims,
while at the same time every workingman
would be compelled to accept the same
wages he now receives. practically, in dol
lars worth only about half as much as
those he receives to-day.
Which policy Is the better for the people
OF the United States?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Bryan Answers with Untruths.
From the Chica1o Tribune

A question that Bryan lodges with tho
persistence Of supreme prudence Is: How
are the earners Of wages and Of salaries to
be benefited by q change in the currency
which is expressly intended to raise the
prices Of cotton. wheat. pork. beef. and all
agricultural and mineral products? His
only attempt to meet this point was in his
Madison Square garden speech, when he
said:
"while the gold standard raises the pur-
chasing power Of the dollar it makes It
more difficult to obtain possession OF the
dollar; salaries In business occupations de-
pend upon business conditions, and the gold
standard both lessons the amount and
threatens the permanency OF such saia-
ries.''
Statistics, which Mr.. Bryan appears to
ignore. prove this statement is untrue.
Specie payments on a gold basis were re-
sunned on January I. 1879. and since that
time wages and salaries have risen, and
certainly have been no harder to get paid.
In 1850, the year In which the gold stand
ard became supreme, the number of en-
ployes in manufacturing establishments
was 2sTs2, sos. and the aggregate Of their
wages was $947. .963, ,796. or an average Of 1924.
In 1890. after a decade Of the gold stand
ard. the number Of employees was 4.7l2,S22.
and their aggregate earnings were 81, ,2S3.-
ZIG, 529. an average Of $4S8. Here was an In
crease OF nearly One-half under the gold
standard. which Mr.. Bryan says "both les
sens the amount and threatens the perma-
nency" Of the wages Of workingmen.
In further refutation OF Mr.. Bryan's
statement can be urged the figures report
ed by the committee Of the senate. which
in 1894 investigated the ]lbject Of wages
and prices. Senator Aldrich was chairman,
and in his report he said that "in twenty
one selected industries wages were in
money 10 per cent higher In 1880 than In
1860 and 60 per cent higher in 1891 than in
1860 while the prices Of staple articles had
fallen between 1880 and 1880 In some in
stances one-third." The facts show, there
fore, that Mr.. Bryan was nearly exactly
wrong. What new Inaccuracies has he to
offer In substitution?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Mr. Lewis is not a ''spellbInder" He
doesn't get up among the clouds and pluck
feathers from the eagles tail. But he
talks intelligently and earnestly on the
subjects which vitality concern the peoples
welfare. He doesn't tickle the ear with
carefully prepared rhetorical figures, nor
dazzle the eye with gorgeous dramatic ef-
fects. but he discusses practical issues in
plain. forcible language that carries con-
vict!on. Mr.. Lewis will make a digniied
and capable governer-a governor whom
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
The Roy Orators Lament.

CToo late to apologize to Stevenson.)
Sing me song Of boom that Is gone.
Say, could that boom be mine?
Gay!y twas launched in Chicago town
In July. when the weather was fine.
Jones was behind. st. John in front.
How could it help but win?
But the wind has died out-that Is, my
voice
Is getting woefully thin.
Sing me a song Of boom that has burst
Say, could that boom be mine?
My last h ope died at Wolferts Roost,
When went with Hill to dine.
The enemy's country Is getting hot:
My speeches no longer take.
Oh. for a quiet spot to rest
Where people don't think me O fake!
Sing me song of boom that Is gone.
Say. but 1t makes me tired
To think when the country "hires it's man.
I'll not be the man that's hired!
New York PxanA
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
CarIisle Answer. a silly Question.

From the New York Recorder.
Senator Faulkner, Of. West Virginia,
asked silly question when he wrote to
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle inquir-
ing whether the department had ever re-
deemed silver dollar in gold. The stat
Wes of the United States ought to be rea-
sonably familiar to Mr.. Faulkner, and he
must know that such redemption without
law to back it up would call for the i'm
peachment of whomsoever might be re-
sponsible for it. OF course, the allegation
has been made in badly informed newspa-
pers thet the present silver dollars are
kept at par by the governments willing
ness to redeem them. but intelligent per-
soils are not bothered by such inaccura-
cies. Secretary Carlisle answers Mr..
Faulkner by explaining that nothing of the
kind has ever taken place, though, for
the convenience of business, exchanges
hive been made. These occasional swap
pings of gold for silver. and of silver for
gold. were mere accommodations, not de-
manded as right by anybody, and the
government has been the gamer by the ag-
gregate of such transactions. in its stock
Of gold.
The real reason why the silver dollar
remains at par is that it is coined only at
the convenience of the government. Free
ana unlimited coinage Tor private owners
of silver bullion would be an altogether
different thing. deprecated legal ten
dei coin has no bad results. so long as its
coinage is properly restricted, any more than
putting out of deprecated fractional curren-
cy has. Every government on earth makes
Its fractional currency less than face val
ue. Eight cents worth of copper will make
hundred 1-cent pieces. The convenience
of the people is subserved by this plan, and
the money is kept in circulation. Unlimit-
ed free coinage of 1-cent pieces would be
in precise analogy with the proposed pol
icy Of the Bryan Democracy.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
This money question presents itseI

This money question presents itself
to me in this hOmely fashion; II free
coinage of silver means n 53 cent dol
lnr, then IT is not an honest dollar.
If free coinage means n 100 cent dol
lar equal to n gold dollar, ns some of
fits advocates assert, we will not then
have cheap dollars, but dollars just
like those we now have, and which
will be ms hard to get. In which. cnse
free coinage Will not help the debtor
or make IT ensfer for him to pay his
debts. WILLIAM MkINLEY.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

for gain but a defense against loss. If
gold is driven from circulation, the effect
will depress rather than increase the price
of gold. There is no likelihood of gain
from boarding gold but simply to prevent
serious loss.
However let 1t be borne in mind that he
who would divine what free coinage will
do need go no farther than anticipate the
opinion in the mind of the gold owners as
to relative value of gold at the ratio of 16
to l. Can there be any question on this
point? The silver men declare that gold
has already gone into hiding. If 1t goes
into hiding on threat of free coinage,
what would the reality do? 1t is shallow
nonsense to talk about a profit from hoard
ed gold. Gold driven from use as money
has nothing added to its bullion value.
The point is this: On one hand is a
tendency to hoard gold; on the other. there
is no tendency in silver to rise. The con-
clusion at once is that free coinage means
a silver basis; that there will be practically
the same difference between coined bullion
and uncoined bullion. gold and silver; that
the surest protection is to hoard gold
simply as defense against loss.
Every rational person prefers that which
he knows to be good to that which may be
good; would prefer 100 cents about which
there is no risk to 100 cents in which there
is 40 cents risk. And the whole question of
the outflow of gold will depend upon
whether the gold owner prefers certainty
to neutrality-suspicious. he will exchange
on even terms 100 cents of actual value for
81 cents Of actual value and 40 cents Of
fiat. This is not question of politics but a
question OF business. Unless history shall
reverse itself free silver means the outflow
of gold and permanent silver mono
metallism in the United States.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Carried Away by a Speech.
From the Cleveland Leader.


Il tell you, my countrymen." said the
patriot on the box, this nation has come
to the verge Of ruin. A halt must be
called. Tho plutocrats seek to rob us OF
the rights that We are assured under the
I, constitution. Do you know what those
rights are? like to look into the faces
of the plain people and see that they en-
joy being fool mean enlightened, my
fellow citizens, enlightened.
Now, let me give you a few facts, &C.
companied by some figures. Do you know
how many barrels Of dried apples it would
have taken to pay of the national debt
when the horrible crime of '7s was perpe-
trated? do you know this, I ask? Well,
I'll tell you about 1t. We have paid on
hundreds of millions Of that debt since '73
but my fellow citizens, 1t would require a
greater number of barrels Of dried ap-
pies to pay of the debt now than 1t would
have required then. I love the plain
peop-"
Excuse me Just a moment" called out
q man over at the southeast extremity
Of the crowd. do you know the present
price of barrel Of dried apples?"
Say" the orator retorted. after he had
thought the matter over for a moment
and scratched his head. you evidently
don't like what am saying
"Oh. yes I do the bad man replied.
''You keep right on. But I'd like to ask
you II you know what a barrel of dried
apples was worth in '73. Perhaps you
know all about that, since you don't know
what it's worth now. Can you
Hold on there" yelled the silver
tongued wonder, "yru shan't be allowed to
break up this meeting. You shall not press
your impertinent questions down upon my
brow. You shall not cruelty me upon an
Interrogation point"
At his stage Of the proceedings the en-
thusiasm got beyond bonds. and the Or
ator was carried in triumph upon the
shoulders of his admirers to the next
corner.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
"coin, Harvey Wants Gold.

From the Chicago Post.
We congratulate W. H. Harvey, alias
"Coin," on the extent Of his bank account,
which enabled him to draw his check for
800 yesterday and get it cashed in gold.
We felicitate him on the ''object lesson"
which he admits was his purpose in in
sisting on receiving gold rather than ma
tional bank notes, silver certificates, treas
ury notes or any other form of money.
True, Mr.. Harvey probably never deposit
ed a single gold coin in the bank from
which he drew the gold. Like other gold
bugs in the receipt of large incomes Mr..
Harvey probably received his pay for his
profitable school Of financial falsehoods in
checks which were passed to his credit at
the bank.
1t is said that Mr.. Harvey. with that
boylike innocence that SO endears him to
the multitudes of discomfort, believes that
Bryan will be elected next November. His
"object lesson" in withdrawing $500 in
golSen eagles from his bank yesterday and
lockihS 1t up in safety deposit vault was
an earnest of his confidence in Bryan's
election ana of his belief that the result
would send gold to a premium. Evidently
when the silver deluge comes Brother
Harvey does not intend to be without a
gold life preserver.
Mr.. Harvey's "object lesson" will not be
lost upon the farmer and the wage-worker.
They will interpret ITS faith in the election
of Bryan as an evidence of lack of conf
dence in the silver standard under Bryan.
They will also reflect and comment on the
"object lesson which takes $500 out of
the gold reserve of bank, where it helps
to extend credit and assistance to all lines
Of business, and boards it in a safety de-
posit vault.
The farmers and workingmen who are
familiar with the Bible will remember the
parable Of the servant who went and hid
his lords money in the ground. He was
rebuked and what he had was taken from
him. There are more "ob1ect lessons" in
Coin Harvey's little $500 trick than
there were falsehoods in the pamphlet out
of which he coined it-even though those
outnumbered its pages.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

1--WE have heard from Lonnie Stephens
how he accomplished the feat of marrying
a Missouri girl" writes correspondent,
now let US hear how in the name Of COM
mon sense a Missouri girl came to marry
him." This is a campaign secret which
Lonnie has so far shown no disposition to
uncover. 1t can only be speculated upon.
Even Missouri girls sometimes make ter
rible mistakes.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Perhap. Thi. Explains 1t.

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. William Morris Stewards plea
that when he was advocating the gold
standard in 1873 and 1874 he meant "coin."
although he said gold" is received with
too much incredulity. 1t has long been evil
dent that Mr.. Stewart is suffering from
absence of mind. Who can be sure that
this concise Nevada speaker doesn't now
mean "gold" when he sends forth his
voice at such rare intervals in behalf Of
silver?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Politics is not sufficiently absorbing this
year to lessen the attractiveness of Kansas
Cfty's autumn festivities. This annual
event is one in which the people OF sur
rounding communities, as we'll as the peo-
pie of the city, have great and growing
interest. 1t will be gratifying to our neigh
bors to know that the preparations for
their entertainment this year promise
richer and more gorgeous display than ever
before offered. The record already made
will be difficult to eclipse. but it will be
eclipsed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Jone. crie. for Funds.

From New York Commercial Advertiser.
American workingmen who are eager to
have their wages cut down about one-half
are respectfully urged by Chairman Jones.
Of the Democratic national committee. to
send in contributions to the Bryan cause
forthwith. The response will undoubtedly
be something phenomenal.
Jones intends that this subscription shall
be q popular one. Imagine the glee with
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
silver View of the Vote,

From the New York Journal
Let us not underestimate the significance
of Vermont's election. 1t is twofold. 1t in
dicates surprising Republican activity and
entire absence Of Democratic effort. But
neither let US be discouraged by 1t, but
learn from it rather to accurately gauge
the force of the enemy and to dispose our
on limited resources to the best effect.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Indiana Republicans will not admit that
their state is in danger. but think Illinois
may be doubtful. Illinois Republicans de-
clare their state is all right, but think
Michigan may be little shaky. Organism
seems to be like the milk sickness-yery
bad in the next county.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

When Governor Morrill, tells the Kan
sas people what he will do for them they
remember what he has done for them and
put faith in his promises. An official who
has discharged his duties honestly and
capably can appeal to the people he has
served with a good conscience and with a
manly confidence that they will heed his
words. A good, clean record is powerful
campaign equipment.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

No free silver orator has yet condescend-
ed TO explain why the hard times Of the
last three years should be attributed to an
act of congress passed twenty-three years
ago and not to the Wilson tariff law. whose
passage they Immediately followed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

In declaring that this country will not
have its financial policy dictated by Brit
ish capitalists. the Bryan orators do not
refer particularly to those British capital
lists who own one-third of the Western sill
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

''Some Of my friends declare that the sIl-
yer question is not a sectional ISSUE" ex-
claims Senator Tillman. ''but say it is q
sectional issue" Tillman is right. 1t is
the silver mining states against the Union.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

The attempt of Bryan to excite class ha-
tred-to array the poor against the rich
makes opposition to his candidacy a pa
triotic duty. regardless Of party prefer
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Coin" Harvey is another free silver
leader who is intensely anti-silver in his
private business. He has just drawn all
his funds out of bank in gold and locked
the yellow metal up in a safety deposit
vault until the free silver craze blows over
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

MIR. Potter. of New York. who has been
campaigning for two weeks in Kansas. re-
ports that Morrill, will undoubtedly run
ahead of his ticket. Kansas people know
; good thing when they have tried It two
wears
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

nm quite as much opposed to
clieapenfnE the American working
man and workingwoman as 1 nm to
chcapenine our dollars. am quite
ms strongly in favor of keeping a
days labor mt home as am n gold
dollar. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

A Mr.. Stutzke predicted that the world
would come to an end last Wednesday. In
formation as to whether or not the predic-
ton was fulfilled is slow about coming in.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Mr.. Bryan takes issue with the Vermont
returns. He insists that he is all right in
the East. Maine will have to do a little
demonstrating with Mr.. Bryan.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
Before and After.
To grind the country's axes,


To cut down all the taxes,
II elected.
To make each man that votes
Rich with twenty-dollar notes
silk beavers-broadcloth coats.
II elected!
But o the sudden change
When he's elected!
So distant. shy and strange
When he's elected!
The voters cease to shout
And in sorrow hang about,
And policemen show 'em out,
When he's elected!
Atlanta Constitution
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

It is said Ii Hung Chang is confirmed
cigarette smoker. The public suspected
something of the sort when Lii lost his yell
low jacket and peacock feather.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Possibly Mr.. Vest is still talking for the
goats milk ticket. but II so the Democratic
managers are carefully refraining from adj
vertising the fact.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

If Mr.. Vests Boonville speech had been
like his Chicago nominating speech-inaud-
ibleAt would have been much more valu-
able to his party.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Possibly the reason Candidate Bryan
doesn't produce beard is because the pro-
ducers are so ground down by the gold
standard.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Colonel watterson is doubly glad. He
rejoices that the sound money Democrats
have named ticket, and rejoices that he
is not on 1t.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Governor Morrill, may not be great ora
tor, but when he talks his hearers know
he is talking sense and telling the truth.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Governor Stone and Mr.. Bland seem to
be trying to see which can make himself
most ridiculous. Stone declares that Bryan
will carry New York and Bland insists
that he will carry PENNSYLVANIA.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
You Can See II for Yourself.

From the New York Press.
''They say camel can so eight days
without a drink
81 know it: but he has to hump himself
to do it,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Kansas City is little ashamed of her
self anyhow for inviting an old heather
Chinee to visit her.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Senator PETER is doing his best to elect
the free silver ticket. That Is to say, he
is keeping perfectly quiet.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06
THE WEATHER.

Washington. Sept. 5-For Oklahoma and
Indian Territory: Fair; northeasterly
winds.
For Missouri and Kansas: Fair; north
erly winds.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

The nomination of Doster by the Popu-
lists ought to be worth at least 10000 votes
to the Kansas Republicans.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Mr.. Bryan is willing to talk on any SUBJ
tect that can be suggested except one. He
has no views on the Vermont election.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

Kansas City is satisfied with Lewis. He
comes up to full gubernatorial measure.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

In large number of Western states Mr..
Sewall is about to be Compromised" off of
he ticket
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-06

the people of the state can look up to and
respect and trust. The probability Of his
election is rapidly becoming a certainty.