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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-30
.EMLs d pEMoNETLZATIoN.
Ia Lana Of Pisaty Hens Wonea and
Children Want fsf Food.
FFnffad States Senator To,res ~ Ne.

Ia Lend Of Plenty Hens WOEen and
Children Went fsf Food
United States Senator Jones. Of Ne
sada, writes as tellcws IN the October
Arena:
wages fall with prices. The cen
tracing Of business naturally throws
great deal Of labor idle on the market,
and in order 10 lind any chance to earn
E livelihood, men ore obliged TO take the
first place thatoffers no matter how lew
The price. Loekouts. long periods Of
enforced idleness, and small earnings
when employed, soon crush the spirits
Of the iaboring people, They are made
to look on the chance to work as favor
aHd not as a right. Thus the standard
Of manhood is lowered; and as the Ccf-
fers Of the rich are being filed to burst
ing by gains which arise largely from
the direct contributions Of the poor in
rents interest, etc, the condition of the
latter gradually grows worse. To this
may be traced most Of the crime and
misery in the land. The prisons and
lunatic asylums teeming with victims,
the charity hospitals, pOorhOuses and
petters' fields filed to overlooking. and
throughout the country those thou
sands Of homeless wanderers known as
"tramps." OF course the gold barons
viii laugh at anyone who says That
these things are results of the demone-
tization of silver. Other causes have
been at work, but this is the chief canse.
we have q country Of boundless re-
sources, possessing almost every va
riety Of climate and soil, capable Of
producing nearly everything that the
heart or mind of man can desire; lnnd
that Is blessed as no other region Of the
earth with splendid rivers, dense for
ests, mountains and valleys, lakes and
plains, and seaboard of marvellous tx
tent, beauty and utility, with harbors
that can hold all the fleets of the world.
It seems impossible to credit that in
such q land and under a just and bene-
ficient government, there can be women
and children wanting for food and
clothes and the common necessities Of
life, and strong men by millions, able
and anxious to work. cannot find the
opportunity to earn a livelihood for
their little ones.
But this condition exists and there
must be a cause for it. Whatever the
other eanses may be, the fundamental
difficulty is the curreney-its INSULT
cheney in volume, the imperfections of
its circulation, and its dearness through
the appreciation of gold.
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secretary in the legislation relating to
the resumption of specie payments.
This legislation does not permit the sale
of bonds payable in gold, and cOngrss IS
has refused to give the secretary power
to sell a gold bond. The present situa-
ton would be absurd if it were not so
serious"
From the foregoing statement of the
situation by Mr.. Harrison, who certain
ly knows what he is talking about, there
is no end to the issuing of bonds under
our present financial goldbug policy,
and, if followed out to its conclusion,
this foolish and Ominous performance
must necessarily end in national bank
ruptcy. We might finally have to quit
claim to the European bondholders a
few eastern states-say, Vermont and
Maine TO begin within order to save
the rest of the union from assignment
for the benefit of ereditors.-Olaf e.
Ray, in Chicago Record.
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aoLD foR &c IREAsURY.
The absurd system from which the Coun-
try Is EoE Suffering.

The Absurd system from Which the C0u1-
Try Is Non Suffering.
If we can afford to pay out Of the
United States treasury gold to take up.
outstanding coin obligations of the gov
eminent, one should naturally find that
the government has some certain means
Of getting gold into its Golfers for such
uses. On this point I shall quote exc
President Benjamin Harrison from his
article on 'gThe Secretary Of the Treas
ury" in the Ladies Home Journal Of
August, 1898; ct would be-out OF place
here 70 discuss the money question. 1t
is enough to say that ever since the
resumption Of specie payments in 1879
the treasury has paid gold for green
backs when gold vas demanded and mas
redeemed in the same way the treasury
notes issued under the Sherman law.
The secretary Of the treasury has never
exercised the discretion given him TO
redeem the latter note in silver, holding
that his discretion was limited to such
a use of silver as would not destroy the
parity of the gold and silver dollars.
And our secretaries have been right,
think. in holding that the parity Of our
gold and silver coins will be destroyed
the moment the government takes
from the holder Of a greenback or treas
ury note the election Of the coin he viii
receive in exchange for it. If he wants
gold and silver is thrust upon him, the
latter is deprecated and the former APP
preciated. If the holder of a United
States note cannot get gold at par for
it he will pay premium for the gold
he must have to meet a gold obligation.
A premium on gold would at once drive
gold out of circulation, for a coin that
is at a premium cannot be used in trade.
No one is bound to pay gold to the gov
eminent for any tax or other debt due
TO it. So that practically the situation
is this: The treasury holds itself bound
to give gold to everyone presenting a
United States note, and has no way Of
compelling anyone to pay gold to it.
Such gold as it gets comes from persons
who choose to take paper money for
gold deposited at the minis or assay
offices, or to pay in gold coin some gov
eminent tax. Formerly all duties on
imports were payable only in gold.
Now, when the gold reserve gets low, il
can only be restored by the sale of
bonds, under the powers given to the
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NO CHEAP DOLLAR.
The Logical Conclusion of Leading Line
OF GOldite Argument.

The Logical Conclusion of Leading Line
of GOldite Argument.
The gold men have founded all their
arguments against the free coinage of
silver on the proposition that free sill
yer means a single silver standard.
They base this assumption upon the
workings of the Gresham law. This So
called law is but a statement of the
observed fact that when two kinds of
money of unequal value are in circu-
Iation the cheaper displaces the dearer.
You viii see that in order for this law
to act we must have a cheap dollar and
a dear dollar. Task our goldbug friends
where the cheap dollar is coming from,
and he tells me that free coinage means
that the government viii call so cents
worth of silver a dollar, and that these
50-cent dollars would drive 5000, 10000
Of gold out of circulation, and make
every dollar of our money worth but
30 cents on the dollar. Let US take his
statement as true, and see what its eff
feet would be. Our circulation, accord
ing 10 the treasury reports, is, in round
numbers, 81, 60O,OOO,OOO. Driving out the
$500, 100000 in gold we have S1,OOO,OOO,-
eco left, but as this is in 5O-cent silver
dollars and their paper representatives
we find our stock Of money has been re-
duced to $5O0,000,OO0. Free coinage
might in a year add $5O,OOO,OOO, making
our stock Of money in circulation $780,
100000. Now, if the quantity Of money
in circulation governs the purchasing
power of the dollar, the silver dollar
viii purchase just three times as much
as it does now. Do you see what the
goldbug has done? In trying to show
the disastrous effects of & cheap dollar
his Gresham law has created a 30O-cent
dollar that even the Rothschilds would
call honest.-J. E. Agnew, in Chicago
Record,
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Universal slsvery.

The creditors Of the world in gold
countries have. since 1873, doubled their
lien upon their neighbor's property
without advancing another cent to
them. For every ounce of human prod
acts which the debtors then owned the
creditors now owe them two. For
every days labor that would then be re-
quired to pay OF the debt it would now
require two. For every life that should
have been spent IN releasing the bond
npoH human energy Olives must now
bs spent. n word. The weight inn
posed By debt upon the sum Of human.
energy, the suffering. the agony, re
quired to emancipste humanity from
the load has been doubled. Nor is this
al. Tie process is a continuing one.
The weight Is stin increasing and Ia en-
Increasing ratio. If it continue much
longer It means universal slavery
Detroit News.
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UEaa 20 II

A groan Of horror escaped from pass.
ing pedestrians as the scaffolding gave
way, and the form Of the house painter
was seen to drop through the air. He
.caromed on the third-stoFy corniee.
struck the telegraph wire in front Of
the seeond-story windows, plunged into
a pile Of bricks on the sidewalk, and
rolled to the pavement with a thud.
Strong men turned away their faces.
A woman tainted. The engineer, who
was getting a breath Of air in the area
way, bounded up the stairs and stopped
over the prostrate form. As he did so
the PROSTATE form rose with a spring
and nearly knocked him Of his feet.
4AFen't you huut3 asked everybody.
in breath.
Hurt" was the oontenptuous re-
Spouse why. I'Fe ridden a wheel
every day sor five gears. - Ch:easo
5engnsl.
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- 80 ReAsnNs.


WY Gut American Ee--lc aloAl-- EAi-t-r
Frse Coinage.
ME. Eugene y. Brewster. in a recent
communication to the Brooklyn Citizen,
cites 60 reasons ia favor of free coinage.
Among them are the following,
because gold-standard money IS dis
honest, and makes the debtor pay back
a dollar larger than the one he boF-
roWed.
Because the gold dollar is appreciat-
ing ia value more and more, making
debts harder and harder to pay.
Because the only objection yet heard
against bimetallism is, We are not big
and strong enough to have 1t without
foreign aid. Can ne not legislate for
ourselyes2
Because the silver dollar would then
necessarily contain 100 cents worth Of
silver and be worth a dollar everywhere.
Because if the miner gets iO0-cent
dollars, then there is no such thing as
52-eent dollars in circulation.
Because it is funny if the dollar can
be q 1OO-eent dollar to the mine owner
and only a 5S-cent dollar TO the laborer.
Because free coinage means rising
prices.
Because wages have fallen II per
cent, under the gold standard.
Because the goldites resort to shallow
10000 81, --r-r7--,nnA
Because there is not enough gold in
the world to do one months business
only $2.5O per capita Of the world.
Because there are only S22,9O per cap
tia in this country, counting all kinds
of money. and less than half of that is
in circulation, the rest being tied mp
and boarded.
Because free coinage would benefit
the people of the silver states only in
common with the people of the whole
United States, giving to all only that
which the act of 1873 took away.
Because Mexico has prospered and
kept the purchasing power of her cur
rency stable under free coinage, ard
her labor in many cases is far better of
than ours. Why does she not change TO
the gold standard if she is not satisfied?
England would help her and welcome
her as one Of her financial colonies along
with the United States.
Because President Andrews, of Brown
university, is neither lunatic, an
archist nor mine owner, and he says;
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-30
What Contraction Means.

Contraction Of the currency is far
more distressing operation than the SEN
ators suppose. Our own, and other ma
tons, have gone through that operation
before. It is not possible TO take that
action without the sorest distress To
every person, except the capitalist ont
of debt, or the salaried officer or an
nuitant. Tt is a period of loss, danger,
lassitude Of trade, fall Of wages, suspen-
sion of enterprise, bankruptcy and dis
aster. It means ruin to all dealers
whose debts are twice their business
capital, though one-third less than
their actual property. It means the
fail Of ali agricultural products, with
out any great reduction of taxesoJohn
Sherman, In 1859.
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HoM a 80 eEIs Az.



Hen GeReasis - City
A perfect gale was blowing. II
rosred through the square and plunged
Into the syenEe beyond, Ike the mar
rowed current Of 8 stream pouring from
a whirlpool into mountain gorge.
Men were cautiously hanging to their
hats. and women fransieally struggling
with their skirts. Storms Of grit beat
against the windows. and pedestrians
bent forward and held their breath
as they met the singing, dustladen
gusts.
Suddenly something white wkirled up
against the soldiers monument. High
en- and higher it rose-ten, twenty, thir-
ty feet. Then it lowered for q moment
ike a bird, and made a swift. slRntiRg
fight into the avenue. TWAS brand
new straw hat-oae Of those that ripen
suddenly at the close Of the season end
fail on the bargain counter.
People on both sides Of the street
stopped to watch its glimmeFing fight
It struck in the center OF the electric
car track, made a low, slIimming bound
Of 50 feet or more, and then settled into
a scoFching gait down the avenue, A
man nearly a block away saw it coming
and ran into the street to intercept it
With feet outspread, knees Rugged to
gether and extended arms, he stood
waiting. The flying hat struck him
midway between ankles and knees,
bounded breast high and flashed over
his shoulder before he had time 70
formulate a single expletiye.
BY this time he had turned sheep
ishly around to see what had become
of the fugitive. It was already bob
bing speck in the distance. Then 8
transverse current Of air caught it, and
it swerved to the sidewalk. Three Oh
four ladies lodged it, with little fem
mine shrieks. Then another man es.
sayed to stop it, but just as he was
bending forward and about TO lay tri'
Umphant hands upon it the eyasive hat
lodged with lightning rapidity and
went bowling down the gutter.
In the dim distance a baTeheaded cit
izen labored in pursuit. His breath and
strength were weli-nigh spent, but still
he kept desperately on, shouting anc
gestieulating. The mania Of the hat
chaser possessed him. He could moi
stop, though nature and reason urged
him to. So long as he could keep his
flying property in view, so long thai
galvanic action of legs, arms and lung
must continue.
At last two men planted themselves
abreast in the path of the whirling hat
Surely thus far, and no farther, i
might come! The hat chaser paused
with all his anxious soul shining in hi
beaded face. Like an arrow the ha
darted upon the two obstructionists
There was 3 moments Wayering OF
their part, a slight change Of position
and between them it flashed. But tn
wirier of the two men was not to b
thus baked. With the speed Of
sprinter he pursued, and, finally, max
ing a tremendous squirt, got abreast o
the hat, and stepped on it.
Five minutes later the perspirinl
owner arrived. He took his hat, nov
a crushed and shapeless mass, from tn
hand of its captor and gazed dark,
upon it. For a minute exhausted ma
ture forbade speech.
Then the man Kissed, with sibilan
rage and disgust:
"ConfounG you! If you were a goa
I'd make you eat itl"-Detroit Ere
| Press.
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PURCHASING POWER.
Free Coinage Means BimetaIiism and
Rising Market.

Tree Coinage Means Bimetaliism and a
Rising Market.
Why viii the free coinage dollar Of E21lk
grains Of standard silver now worth about
90 cents buy as much at the corner grocery
as O gold deliar2
The foregoing question is propcunded
by a subscriber. The answer may be
eompactly stated thus: The present sill
yer dollar of 412h grains viii buy as
much at the corner grocery now as
gold dollar. There is no reason why it
should not continue to purchase as
much as the gold dollar when the mints
are opened to the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver. The congress Of the
United States having "the power to
regulate the value Of the money it
coins" has declared that 1929 grains Of
silver made into a coin shall be equiv
alent to q gold dollar. That edict viii
always, until repealed, make the pur-
power OF the two dollars the
same in this country, But this is true:
When we shah have free and unlimited
eoinsge Of both gold and silver, neither
the gold nor the silver dollar viii have
the purchasing pesgeE taey nov nave.
IN other words. prices VIII be stimu-
iatsd ali along the line and : rising mar
ksf win set the industries Of this eoBn-
try n melton from ocean 70 ocean and
from the lakes to the gulf.-Los Angeles
Hslsld.
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WILL NOT BE DRIVEN OUT.
More Gold WIN Be in Circulation Under
Bimetalism Than Now,

More Gold WIN BE in Circulation Under
Bimetallism Than Now,
The claim of the advocates of the
single yellow standard that free coin
age would drive gold cut Of circula-
ton does not appear to alarm the geE-
eral public, since it is plain to be seen
that there has been no gold in circu-
lation for a long time. Moreover, gold
will never circulate freely so long as
it constitutes prize money, because 1t
viii be controlled and handled exclu-
siveiy by those who make a business Of
dealing in it. The probability is that
there viii be more gold in circulation
under free coinage than is possible un-
der existing conditions, because the ap-
probation Of silver will necessarily be
attended by a corresponding apprecia-
ton of gold. If the yellow metal shall
leave the country as the immediate eff
feet Of the policy Of opening the minis
TO silver, it viii become cheap in the
countries that are flooded with It, ana
those countries viii be glad to use it
in international commerce. Unless the
ports of the world are closed to Ameri-
can products, the United States viii
be able to command as much gold as
they need, when the need Of It is re-
duced by the policy that makes silver,
equally with gold, the money Of final
accounting. When gold has ceased to
be premium money, the trafickers in
It viii have little use for it, and the
people viii see more oft It win then
seek investment in productive enter
prises. because there viii be less profit
IN boarding It OF sinking it IN low in
5erezt securitieS.-Binghsmton sN. y }
leader
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He Spoke truly.

Prof. Laveleyer, speaking in 1892 be
fcre the Belgium monetary commission,
said; IF the policy of claiming industry
and commerce Of the world to q single
metal be persisted in by the United
States, Germany and the other Euro
pean countries acting in concert with
them, money must still rise in value,
and prices continue to fall. The de-
preston il productive industry viii be-
come more deathly, and the number of
idle labosers win indefinitely null
3ibfv.n
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There must be a change if we would
avoid bankruptcy. With free coinage,
every industry would look up. Never
since slavery days has the press dis
played such disregard for truth and
such stubborn obtuseness," etc.
Because free coinage means eontinu-
Gus prosperity, employment and higher
wages, government of the people for the
people and by the people, and not gov
eminent of Hanna for the trusts and by
the plutocrats.
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DisScDest Da.lsr.

6esEd money IS a5tern that can be
applied Win more Propfiety TO the sils
yer dollar that has always contained
The same number Of grains Of fine sil-
yer, and that gras the first dollar known
70 the American nation, than to the
gold dollaF- which has contained three
different amouAts Of fne gold aud was,
for near 50 years. 3 dishonest dollar
70 the extent OF being worth less then
the silver doller.-Ios Angeles Herald.
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Lam for the laboring portion Of our
people. The rich can take care Of then-
selves. We never agreed TO pay bonds
n golds BE man can fad i II the cou-
ttaet, sad vii! asyer Vopssst 70 have
sue payment q tha tqpsaeidees and
ohothgE for he panp.s, j would sink
AaF party end Il ought t1.-seaelsF
ssnjssEin = vase g0risl. IA 1851
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81. Griffin, London, Ensi9pl, .
prominent English hnsaeser and be-
lever In the gold standard ssys. THE
TAI Of prices throughout 2 compass 50
general rs that in which We Row see
them falling is to be referred TO Cd ele-
yatioa IN the purchasing power OF go-d
and IS generally, and I might say, Ehi'
VerealIF. sdElltted
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i Is not ? question OF politics, but
Of continued bad business orproaperisss'
Which do you pys9ef2 Business aaz
ssep getting steadily worse uades Sac
seldgtsaasFs suppose yss try G chang
.~5'hlisdsiphis TEA
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- ~ q 49, e q.

Goiaite orators continue to insist
thst TIE mlns owner wiz take dol
Isis worth q silver 70 The miat, set &
esEned, and thsE pass i OK tos 20 eeatZ
s-lli,a0iA State hssEstS1
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Gold & egsfy Gey ssEetistins .
value. ana e Is spg.ssJa b value
iss loHsF esemss Pliss-.~sssslii p
s
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Brown--This Billy fhe Bihes. fhenes
English middieEeights is well known
OF the othsF side, IS he noF2
nobiusop-Very wei. indeed. If be
mad given mis- attention to verse instead
OF prose he might have been poet lau-
Eesfe.-N. 7. Truth.
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The horse, 40 sooner Is his heaG
;usHsd hensWassi ts.sn ,t iro.E cad
gpsth ehss5fsl'y, and shsl! nos We
WAs aeea ourselves wiser thsn tk8
AosEs. - % 90 A8as eeseyfaligfs
IFss fagrlAs
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1.-The aIshaes isl8hisl, l3Rs-
word Ste safs sa Aitgllsa
PISSED -saie.sll gosl..i
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aRev. Jim Brown"

"But, aunty, it's ioF your ssau6i
daughter"
"He gets the letters an he'll kncg-
who it's fer. and now there's anot5er
one, an it's to Rev, Jim Brown. An.
then IL you amt anything partscl-ler
ter do I'd like ter have yoa write ter
my daughter out on TickfaR, piease
ma'am."
Two hours later the amanuensis }1is
down her pen with q long sigh ofEeiiei.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-16

THE sound money members of the
house banking aud coinage committee
have reported bill permitting national
banks to issue notes to the par value of
the government bonds which they deposit
to secure their circulation. In view of
the fact that the sound money" contin-
gent has contended all along that there Is
enough, or even too much money in the
country now, such Legislation seems un-
called for. The government is now in
dustriously engaged in boarding cur
rency as rapidly as possible. and has sue
ceeded in locking up nearly 1910, oOo, 900
of it Why should any more be issued if
it is not needed in business channelsf
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SPORT AT ROSSVILLE.

The ROSsvi1le Athletic AsSOsciatiOn
for Innocent Sports Is Chartered.
rotary of state by the Rossville Athletic
association.
Its object is to establish and use a BIZ
cycle track, base ball and tennis grounds
and indulge in these and "other innocent
sports" The capital stock is placed at
81 900 and shares are 81 each. The term
of the charter is ten years
The officers of the association are A.
". Gabbey, president; Joe Lane. secrs-
tary; A. F. Jameson, treasurer. These
three, with J. C. Bradley and and
Charles E. Fritz, constitute the board of
diractors