Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25
John SHERMAN AND MONEY.

the daddy of the Observation-Disclosures party.
John says: 'Of all the evils which a gov
eminent can inAict, none can be greater than
cheap money, whether of coin or paper"
Johns vision is goggled by Wall street, and
facts prove our assertion. We give one fact:
In 1860, the wealth of the United States, as
given by the census, was $40, T59,o 100000 In
1870, it was $50, o6S, ooo, 900. Within the
decade, including the war period, wealth almost
doubled.
Every one familiar with war will admit that
war is the most destructive agency OF wealth
known to man. No nation has ever come out
even, in wealth, from protracted war, and the
rule is for the conquerer to demand large in
demnity
If the people of the United States had as
much wealth in 1865 the close of the war, as
in 1860, it would be good showing, and the
increase in wealth of the decade was accom-
plished in the five years following the war. In
the five years following the war, the nation
used the despsed greenback exclusively. There
was no metal money in circulation. Sherman
will tell you that the greenback was cheap
1noney-very cheap-scarcely any cost, and no
interest. Sherman is refuted by history. The
greatest prosperity to which any people ever
attained, in any period, was under cheap money.
We may mistake Sherman's meaning. In
his estimation, the production OF wealth IS an
evil, and that, inaslnuch cheap money slim
mates the production of wealth, therefore,
cheap money is an evil. We can draw no other
conclusion unless we assume that John Sher-
man is ignorant, or wilfully misrepresents; or,
to be charitable, maybe he measures other peo-
pies prosperity in his half-bushel. If SO,
John is right.
From 1873 to 1896, the government has had
dear money-money ti,at made glad the heart
and inebriated the brain of John Sherman and
the Rothschilds From 1873 to 1896, John
Sherman prospered. His salary was $4,000
pear wear, and he gathered into his ample cof-
fers somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000
per annu,n. Depew fattened, and the Wander
bits bought old-world dukedoms. Carnegie
became rich enough to hire Pinkerton thugs,
and Mark Hanna became the possessor of o,ooo
stalwart and skilled operatives.
No cheap money for John Sherman, because
cheap money makes dear labor, and dear labor
creates fat producers, and fat producers create
intelligent and independent freemen, with fam
lilies, homes and comforts.
Perhaps, from John Sherman's standpoint,
Intelligent freeinen, with families and homes,
are al evil, and tramps and paupers blessing.
If so, showers of blessing have rained upon the
people under Johns great financial system of
dear money John stands for more dear money,
more tramp blessings and more mllionaires
He is even opposed to cheap metal money. All
else may be cheap, but cheap inoney-never!
We may have cheap farmers cheap operatives,
cheap miners and cheap teachers, but money
must be kept dear. Money is greater than
flesh and blood greater than brain and spirit
above human happiness and of more import
ance than civilization, in the estimation of the
daddy of modern Republicanism.
A "BR1GHT and shining" Republican light
of this city said to the writer, the other day:
styNhx, WE are for silver and yo11'l never pet