Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-10

redeemable in that stable and imper-
iShable coin: a business proposition
we lay down that none can controyert.
and that is the whole family of ma
tions in this world. All the people of
the world in consensus of opinion fixes
values to all commodities used by
them. No one nation in that family
ever has independently and alone
been able to fix the price or maintain
the value of anything. fixed and
stable. which was used by all the ma
lions: gold is the foundation. the
basic metal of the whole world, in
practice it is so in those countries
where none of it circulates as money,
though in all those countries where it
does not circulate, it has the theory
of law to give it circulation, and is
worth just as much as it is in any
gold standard cOuntry-that is its
bullion value is the same in those sill
yer monometalic countries that it is
in the gold standard or limited BIZ
metallic countries. Gold is worth just
the same without the coinage stamp
that it is with the stamp everywhere
on earth; all the people in all nations
so estimate it.
Now. sir, can our people be led off
with the idea that by mere fact of
law. by our country alone, any one
article can be by that law, made more
valuable in all other countries2 If
that can be done with silver. why
does not Mr.. Bryan. the populist
candidate for president, take the
grand antimonopoly position that
law can fix the price of our farmers
products to? Why does he wish to
give monopoly in this enhancement
of values to silver alone? His spacious
plea is that he is going to raise the
price of silver, by fiat of law to exact
ly S1-29 per ounce-a parity with gold.
How nicely exact he is going to fix this
intricate question for all the world.
Oh! the power of that man has limit
even in dealing with silver. Exactly
S1.29 is his limit. No more, no less, on
the silver question his power is inf
mite. But on all other commodities
he is going to turn us over to the
owners of silver. He says they, the
silver owners, will do the rest, they
will take care of all the common peo-
pie, and raise the price of their pro-
duce, their property and their labor,
and besides, these silver giants will
break Wall street, Lombard street,
Ikelheimer, Rothchilds, Morgan and
all. Mr.. Bryan is a silver mOnopolist
and with silver he is going to make
everything anti-mOnOpOly against
gold: they are going to send it all back
to England, demonetiZe it, sir, in this
country if it refuses to he the cham
pion, the equal of silver at 16 to 1.
Mr.. Bryan tells the laboring man that
he is going to double the number of
dollars, then they will get double
present pay for their labor. Then he
tells his countrymen engaged in other
pursuits, who are in debt, that he is
going to make their commodities
worth double. and double their wealth,
or rather enable them to pay their
81 obligations with 80 cents: direct
bid for their votes to help him legal
iZe wrong for their benefit.
In light of the worlds experience,
Mr.. Bryan'S assumptions are amazing,
and we are forced to wonder how the
world has endured all these years
awaiting the coming of this miracu-
louS man. If his theories can be utal-
lied as he claims. we are just emerg-
ing from an area of blacklist darkness
as tradeSmen and business nation.
Now, Mr. Editor. let us look further
into their spacious pleas. They say
gold is a 200 cent dollar, and then they
say they are going to make silver the
equal of gold in value, then they pur-
pose making two kinds of 200 cent
dollars; if they mean what they say
about making silver as valuable as
gold. Every sober thinking man will,
on reflection. conclude that they can't
do this, and the conclusion is inevita-
BILE that they strive for the single
silver standards; with all the blessings
and all the injury, that standard
produces wherever it is the. governor
of a nations financial affairs and con-
ditionS. Then to other people they
promise a cheap dollar: draw aside
the curtain behind which they prac-
tice for the grand stand exhibition
and silver monometalism, with gold
baniShed from our financial system is
the best we can see in them. Mr..
Bryan said in a late speech he would
send back to old England. the
gold standard, and his attorney gen.
eral would be the kind promised in
the Chicago platform. We imagine
old England waiting with bated
breath the result of our election. with
Mr.. Bryan and his kind in control of
our government. What harvest
England and other sound money coun-
tries will have competing for our 600
millions of gold. Mr.. Bryan must be the
special friend of England, he is going to
send it all there. Can it be that he
is the chosen genius who is to betray
us with promises into the hands OF
or some other eXecutiOner of
our honor and greatness as people.
They are going to give US cheap
dollar, dollar which we will think
less of. When we have earned it to
follow out their promises they are go
ing to make such a worthless dollar
that those who we are indebted to
will not want it. No other kind of
dollar will relieve US, so long as it is
to pay what we promise
the dollar is sure to be dear.
But when that change which. Mr.
Bryan so glibly promises the people is
assured in, that heathenish custom
which our father established to pay
our just debts to the last farthing and
not to do so if in our power. was