The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-07-10
HIBs 70 THE PEOPLE.
The Gold Standard win Eaguf the People
Iato Haslstfom Of Rain.
BIZ Hackney WErss the People That the
Time fer selasbness and Partisan
Action Has Passed and Pat
riotism Should Prevail.

l1S seen JIG ertOE OF th6 ways OF re-
pubIicanism of which he was once such
an able exponent. and in a forcibls
letter to The Cleveland CO., Recorder
presents the problem of the coming
campaign, as he sees it, as follows:
u claim that single gold standard
is building up an untitled aFistocFaCY
Of the few and degrading the many.
That the bankers Of London are con-
trolling the bankers of America to the
end that our commerce may be des-
troyed and that of England aggrandi-
zed. That influence has driven our
Tag from the ocean, and by the fore
closure Of their mortgages upon our
railroads., the American holdings there
in have been destroyed, so that to-day
England controls our transportation
on land and on sea, and levies tribute
at her will upon American commodities
from the hour they leave the shop or
farm until the consumer is reached,
whether he live in this country or in
any other country.
"The raising or lessening Of the tar
III cannot change this. We have had
protective tariff since 1861, the Wilson
bill being the highest in our history,
with the exception of the Mckinley
law, and under both, stagnation of
business has been universal and the
miseries of the people perpetual; and
therefore, tariff, high Or low, is not the
cause.
"As Senator Teller recently said,
empty stcmachs do not make PATRIOTS
destitute homes do not make liberty
loving men. No nation can maintain
its freedom and its independence if it
does not have prosperity as the sub
stratum for its people to stand upon.
Not to few, but to all. The system
now in vogue is one calculated to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer.
''The action of the national bankers
in convention assembled in Baltimore,
in Illuminating a financial system that
Cleveland and Carlisle Endorsed, and
which all shortly after abandoned and
none would now indorse, is evidence of
the fact that that influence lacks con-
structive ability, is wanting in pat
riotism and is incapable of aiding US
in the way Of our present difficulties.
"As evidence of the decay of patriot
ism, no law was introduced, OF theory
advanced by Cleveland, Carlisle, Sher-
man or anybody else in the congress
just closed, looking to a betterment of
conditions, we cite the fact as evid-
ence of the baleful influence of Eng
lish views upon our public men.
"Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Foster
recently admitted, that but for the de-
feat of Gen. Harrison in 1892, bonds
would have been issued by his admin
istration, just as they have been issued
by Cleveland's.
"EVery bond that has been issued by
the democratic administration was pro-
vided for by laws passed by republican
congresses, and but for republican
votes Cleveland would have been de-
prived by law of his power to do so.
"The friends of continuation Of the
present gold standard promised the
country prosperity if the Sherman
law was repealed and times grew worse.
Thereupon We we're promised better
times if gold in the treasury was re-
plenished. Three times it was so said
and promised, and each time it was
done, but times have grown worse and
the bonded bebt of the nation has
thereby been increased 500, 100000, by
which the Wall street and London
bankers were enriched millions of
dollars, and this at the expense Of the
people, and the republican party pro-
misses no remedy, but expressly de-
Clares they are in favor of a continue
ton Of present conditions. And we for
ourselves, submit to our readers that
for any party in this country to de-
iiberstely purpose q settled adherence
TO condition so infamous, only shows
what a powerful hold a foreign power
has secured in this country.
"The farmer. with his crops rotting
In the field for want Of a market, sits
in rags and penuEy, while the laborer
and his family, ia hunger and misery,
gaze upon plenty without money to
purchase it and without labor to
earnit.
"Thst we are in the midst Of a pOlit-
ical revolution every man must admit.
Where it will end no one can surely
prophesy. That there is something
radically wrong with present conditions
NO sane man viii deny.
"What viii the people of this Goun-
try, the labOring millions who have the
ballot in their own hands do to change
these conditions? How shall it be
dOne5 These are questions that sd-