Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08
BRABSTER VESTS LETTER.
WHY WHITNEY Is ACTIvE-CLEvE-
LANDS STREET RAILWAY DEAL
SILVER MEN THREATEEED-THE
REMEDY-WHY GROVER DE-
SERVES THANKS.
Special Correspondence.

Hanna is keeping his hand over Nc
kinley's mouth to prevent any utter
ance by that humbug and office seeker
upon the financial question until the
democratic convention has acted. Gro
yer Cleveland has been fishing at the
mouth Of the James river. His pisca-
torial pursuits will be confined to Salt
Creek next year. Teller has said moth
ing save that he is willing to support
any tried and true friend of silver for
the presidency, and does not desire the
nomination himself. Whitney and Hill
have secured a gold delegation to the
| Chicago convention from New York
State, but am credibly informed that
it was done with difficulty, for the
farmers of western New York are al
most unit for free silver.
Many people may wonder why Whit
ney gave up his trip to Europe and so
suddenly came to the front in the fight
for goldbuggery. l have the inside
facts. About two years ago deal was
entered into whereby Cleveland, Whit
ney Lamont, and several other admin
lstration men secured options upon the
franchises OF the street railway systems
In the large cities of the country. Eu
ropean Jewish financiers loaned them
| the money necessary to buy the roads
upon their agreement to repay it IN
| gold. There is the case in nutshell.
| Ii silver is remonetiZed, the European
Jews who have cornered the gold Will
not let it go except at heavy premi
UNI. The United States as a common
wealth will not need it, for all of our
national obligations are payable in coin
lgold or silver at our optlonl. Thus
the usurerS, who love an unearned dol
lar more than an assurance of eternal
bliss, will exact the uppermost pound
of flesh from those whose obligations
are made payable in gold. Cleveland,
Whitney and Lamont know the gang
they are dealing with, and fear ruin for
themselves if they do not disrupt the
silver forces. can prove these asser-
tions.
This being the case, all the efforts of
the administration are being directed
towards preventing union of the sill
yer forces. 1t is no longer with the
gang question of whether they can
get any more money or loans from the
gold conspirators; it is a question of
avoiding being swallowed up them.
selves. If it were not so serious for
the country the predicament of Cleve-
land ct al. would be laugh provoking.
The administration cuckoos are send
ing out letters to southern democrats.
appealing to them to stay the silver
tide, and threatening that If they per-
sist in their free silver theories they
need look for no further financial aid in
their business enterprises from eastern
capitalists. When their Outstanding
obligations are due, no further extern
sion of time will be given there, and
they will be required to pay up or suf-
fer the consequences. They may turn
to their free silver friends in the west, |
but they are apt to find the latter class
without capital, except what they OBJ
tain through their eastern connections. |
When their debts are due their credi- |
tors will not be satisfied with SO cents |
on the dollar, and the result is they
will demand dollar for dollar or fore
close the mortgages they hold upon
their property. 1t IS understood that |
this is the kind of logic ex.Secretary
Whitney and his sound money associ- |
ates will apply in dealing with the
southern representatives at Chicago,
and it is boldly so stated in the Wash
ington Post.
With regard to this | consulted a |
prominent attorney of this city who
promptly said that such action on the
part of the administration, its cuckoos
and the national bankers, who in the
south represent the gold conspirators,
was in contravention of section sos of
the Revised Statues of the United |
States, which reads thus.
IF two or more persons conspire to
injure, Cypress, threaten, or intimidate
any citizen in the free exercise or en-
joyment of any right or privilege Sc
cured to him by the constitution or
laws of the United States, or because
of his having so exercised the same,
with intent to prevent or hinder his
free exercise or enjoyment of any right
or privilege so secured they shall be fin
ed not more than SIS, 900 and imprisoned
not more than 10 years; and shall more
over, be thereafter ineligible to any Of
fice, or place Of honor, profit, or trust
created by the constitution or laws of
the United States"
Such being the law 1t behooves every
man threatened as stated by a national
banker or creditor to appeal to the law,
for 1t would be righteous retribution
if some of the conspirators were forced
to occupy the cells in which they now
put those whom they have forced to
tramp in search of work.
While abusing Grover, people should
not forget that the nation owes him a
debt of gratitude; for had it not been
for his Dulldozing, plg-headed way of
forcing the gold standard down the
threats of the people, their present
great uprising might have been delayed
for another four years. In recognition
of this service on his part, some people
are talking of raising a popular SUBJ
| aeriDtiOu to hx,u him O ooa;1 y;Ia +hot