Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15

posing II draws only tnree per cent IN
terest per annum we then find that with
a gold production of fifty million lit is
only forty-six million) we produce only
one dollar in gold for every twelve mil
lion we are obligated to pay. This
scheme is conspiracy to force labor
into the preposterous position of agree
ing to pay Shylock what it has not and
can never get.
Already the American people are
driven to the direful position of paying
interest to foreign money changers
aggregating annually more than twice
as much as our entire gold production.
The creditor classes know that the debtor
classes cannot perform physical impos-
sibility and they hope through a single
gold standard to confscate the homes of
the people and enslave labor for the
payment of the fixed incomes of the idle
rich.
Again the advocates of single gold
standard know that there is not now and
never will be enough gold in the world
to meet ten Fer cent of the demand for
money, and therefore they propose to
destroy all government money except
gold and authorize the banks to issue
currency of the country, which will in
crease the debts of the people another
billion dollars and afford an opportunity
to the banks to compound their incomes
from the necessities of the people and
enslave labor to an oligarchy of specu-
lating wealth.
IF any laboring man doubts that the
real designs and purposes of the gold
power are to destroy every form of gov
eminent money except gold and force
transfer of the monetary prerogatives of
the government to the banks, let him
read house bill No. III, now on the
calendar of the lower house of congress,
and then read a statement from the
committee on banking and currency of
the lower house of congress, published
in the American Banker of New York
City, January 8 of this year. They will
convince the most prejudiced advocate
of gold among the laboring people that
his only interest in single gold stand
ard is to defeat it at the coming cleo
ton.
The money power, in its desperation
to conquer the people, is now closely
canvassing the employees of great corpo-
rations and an implied threat of dis
charge is imposed on employees if they
dare support the free coinage of silver.
They pay employees in silver and then
taunt them with the ridiculous cry about
50-cent dollars, but they never pay off in
gold, for they know that there is not
enough gold in the country to pay off
the laboring people for a single month
if they were all working at dollar
day. It would require the entire gold
production of this country for a space
of more than ten years to pay off twenty
million working people for a single
month if they were all working at the
present low rate of wages. But the
money power is just now weeping and
wailing over the ridiculous statement
that the wages of the poor will be cut in
two if We have free coinage of silver in
this country. Yet from the credit
strengthening act to the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman law,
every statement made to labor by this
combine has proven to be a lie and
every promise they have made has been
false. In fact they have not redeemed
a single pledge they have made to labor
since the day Christ scourged them from
the temple, and every one who knows
their history knows that if free coinage
of silver would reduce wages they would
be among the first to advocate it.
Nearly every campaign document they
issue, nearly every speech they make
and nearly every editorial they write
contains a threat against the people.
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