People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-06-18
LET EN- TRY IT!
Wall Street Has Threatened
to Create a Panic.
HENRY CLEWS MAKES THE THREAT
IN Circular, That Wall Street VII
Take Such Action if the Free
Silver Men Secure Control
of the Government.
Topeka Journal. Rep

AlltIICduS, having Us mUCu less du
mixture Of foreign blood than New
England, New York and PeUuSyl
7anie, are an OptomiStic and patriotic
class. Love 0: country is more gen
timely felt in the Mississippi valley
than tits in New York city with it,
hundreds Of thousands Of Italians
Germans, Irish, Poles, HungaTians
and others recently from the old
world, in New England with 100000
French Canadians; in PENNSYLVANIA
With 100000 Huns. New York
newspapers betTay this fact 10 theiI
columns. Pages are devoted to the
daily dOingS Of the inhabitants OF
New York and neighborhood and
other pages to European events. but
The great region of the west, which is
Che real United States is scarcely
noticed by these great Metropolitan
dailies. While two columns of mat
ter about a Vermont state cOnven-
tion is telegraphed to all western
points and published, d Kansas,
Michigan or Missouri state CONVEX
SION is given only twenty lines in the
eastern papers,
The people Of the east wont read
more than that. They do not care
about the west. They travel little as
compared with western people, and
their Interest is attracted only to
iheir near neighborhOod. To the
average New Yorker. the United
States stops at Jersey City. The
Eell-tO- do New York ,man cares
lothingabOut the rest If the country
except as he can draw the trade from
It Or put mortgages on it,
All this accounts for the SeliShnesS
continually manifested in national
affairs by the east toward the west.
The people heed not how we suffer by
unjust legislation or trade laws if
aheir pockets are we'll filled, and We
like poor foolish creatures. have.
ever since the foundation of the
government, fallen in with theiI
IDEAS.
Even now many Influential men in
The west are found willing to bank.
rnpt their section Of the country in
order to enrich the already groaning
Eaults of the eastern money getters.
Because the east demands the gold
standard, the west, with the blind.
ness of the HindOo devotee. would
take the last coat off It's oback that
the east should have its desire.
On account Of the indifference Of
the east toward the west the designs
OF tue money kings and money
changers of that section upon the
great productive states west of the
AlleghenieS are little needed bv the
masses Of the fasteners, who selfish.
" shut themselves away from the
balance Of their cOuntrymen and BY
shelr votes and influence assist in the
SpOliatiOn.
80 long have the money getting
classes of the east had their way that.
shey have become arrogant. If Wall
street cannot have what it wants il
viii not hesitate to ruin the country
Weigh well the daring presumn.
tuousneSs OF that threat.
1t the people in their wisdom do
eide that they will manage their own
finances through the general govern.
hent' as they please, Wall street
u is declaaed will bring on
panic and wreck every com.
merClal institution in the conn
try Wall street will deliberately
WITH malice afOrethought. cause the
destruction Of more property than
weafaa war. Wall street will throw
millions Of meu out Of employment
by the closing down of factories and
thousands of people will perish
through starvation OF In the broad
riots that will inevitably follow,
Reoc as We have been made BY tho
~ MStreetbread panic of 1898, we are
to be made poorer if we try to helm
ourselves. Thousands of people lost
their property by the panic of 1Se3
the rest of US are 70 lose what we
have left if We attempt to save the
eountry's finances from the juggling
Of Wall street.
In 1860 Robert Toombs made the
threat that he would call the roll Of
his slaves from Bunker Hill monu.
nent if the United States govern.
ment interfered with his right t.
bold black men in slavery.
In 1896 Henry Clews makes the
threat that Wall street will carry
poverty aud desolatiOn to every home
N America If the United States gov
eminent interferes with his right anC
that of his fellows 10 manage th,
finances OF this country 10 their pri
Fate interest. Tue analogy is com
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