People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-16

leaving a margin of property suff-
Gent to the needs of the family.
The mortgage was paid with inter-
est and The home descended to the
;hild without encumbrance. r
The labOrer was satisfied with his
wages and worked in cheerful hope
realizing enough from his toll to feed
and cloth his family, to educate his
children with a balance left to de-
post for his use in going down the
western slope of life.
Under the money system transmit
ted to Us our labor was employed, our
resources were being rapidly and
proftably developed. Confidence was
full and complete in all departments
Of trade.
Our products of the farm, the
machine, the rancho and the loom
were abundant, Of our surplus we
sold to neighbOring nations in settle
ments large, balances were struck in
our favor bringing into our Golfers
the precious metals in prOfusion.
We had raised the thirteen weak
colonies to thirty-six great states
each an empire within itself.
In the eighty-One years working
under the money system of the con-
stitution we had increased our pOpu
lation from less than four millions to
forty millions, we had increased
our wealth from less than four billion
to forty-three billion.
At the time we demonetized our
silver the world was standing aghaSt
lost in wonder behOlding our advance
ment in wealth, in power and inhu-
ence.
Working under the money system
of 1851 in 1873 we had established in
greatest civilization on earth and
the world conceded the fact.
At the sight of our civilizing hand
the indian and the buffalo had beaten
a haSty retreat surrrendering to our
christian influence all those broad
valleys rich in agriculture and re-
source that lie between the great
oceans.
A paradise had been redeemed by
the American people, the great
wilderness filled with savage life
eighty-one years before now blOOmed
as did Eden'S fields.
American craftsmanship had been
applauded everywhere our genius
had commended US to all. The
ability of the American government
to pay its obligation had never been
doubted. The honor of the Ameri-
can people had never been brought in
question.
Under the money system that guild
ed our star up to 1873 it had never
been necessary for US to issue bonds
in time Of peace.
Working under the money system
Of the constitution the transition Of
the American government was so
nearly instantaneous from state Of
poverty and Obscurity to one Of af-
fuence and influence it seemed, if
possible, she had rode astride the
tapestry of fiction,
The ills and wounds OF the nation
had been so completely healed that it
seemed, if possible, she had smelled
the apple of Arabian story.
The strides Of the nation in the ac-
emulation of wealth and power was
so great and so rapid that it seems
if possible she had looked and wished
in the mirror that exists only in
widest imagination.
In short, so to speak, the nation up
to the characterization Of its silver
had marched in no less light than
that of Alladdiu's lamp and had up
to 1873 been continuously within its
touch.
Years before we went on this gold
standard our country had been truly
christened "the queen of the world,
the gem of the ocean, the child Of the
skies"
This specification continued in
next weeks paper. ]. A. CoRBETT.