People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-08


Bryan stands for the restoration Of
silver to its place as money and
higher prices. Let voters keep this
well in mind.
Let not manufacturers deceive
themselves. Mr.. Mckinley is known,
it is true, as the apostle OF protection,
but 50 long as he adheres tn the gold
standard he can stand for but a mere
sham protection. The Republican
party is pledged, it is true, to an il
crease Of custom duties, pledged to
increase the tariff on those manu-
featured goods We make at home, and
many manufacturers hope for higher
prices for their goods to follow 10 the
wake of higher tariff duties. Indeed,
it is from the hope of higher prices
that many give their support to Mr..
Mckinley.
But the Republican party holds out
10 promise of higher prices. 1t has
declared its adherence to the gold
standard until such time 10 the dim
future as our foreign creditors may
see fit to remit the tribute they are
now eXacting from US through the
agency Of the approaching gold
measure Of value with which we are
obliged to measure the wheat, and
corn, and pork, and cotton and other
produce we export in payment Of the
interest and principal on our foreign
Indebtedness. By inducing US to dis
card silver and wed ourselves to the
gold standard, our British creditors
have managed to double the length of
the monetary yardStick which is used
in measuring our Indebtedness to
them. Thus has our Indebtedness
been doubled, not by doubling the
number of dollars that must be paid
on each bOLd and mortgage asinterest
and principal, but by doubling the
value, doubling the purchasing power
of each dollar that must be paid. So
have your creditors pvOfted at our
expense, prOfted by our folly in dis
carding silver, throwing the burden
of the monetary functions on gold
alone and causing that metalin which
we measure our Indebtedness and
those things we export to pay our in
debtedneSs to appreciate. In this
way our foreign creditors have been
enabled to exact two bushels of wheat
and two pounds of cotton where but
one was due.
And to take steps to free ourselves
from this OnerouS and unjust tribute
which is rapidly involving our people
in bankruptcy the Republican party
has declared to be unsafe. To break
the letters that are now weighing
down our producing classes and to
enable our people to lift their burdens
Of Indebtedness we must make no
effort. Towards restoring an honest
measure Of value we must do nothing
until we have the cooperation of
Great Britain, Of nation ruled by
the creditor classes who have reaped
undue profit from the ever appreciat.
ing standard from which we have
suffered, for has not this unjust
measure Of value obliged US to pour
into their laps two bushels of wheat
and two pounds Of cotton where they
were entitled TO but one? Until these
creditor classes become gorged with
unearned gains, until they become
conscience stricken with defrauding
their debtors, we must submit to their
eXactions, permit them to roughly
trample upon justice, equity and our
rights, and humbly accept at their
hands without one word Of protest a
measure OF value that grows in length
from day to day, and which enables
them to subtly increase the burden
of ali debts to their profit and our
great injury
Such is the policy Of inaction and
submission to foreign diCtatlOD and
extOrtiOn promulgated by the Repub-
lican party, With scarce money,
dear money, and hence low prices, we
must be content, until such time as
our foreign creditors, who profit from
this dear money, may join hands with
US to cheaper it! That time will
never come until our people are bank
rupt, until our former creditors have
forclOsed their bonds and mortgages,
and become the owners of our land
and property, and until America has
become a country owned by foreign
landlords, and our people a people of
tenants under tribute to aliens. Not
until our foreign creditors come into
possession Of our property will their
interests prompt them to adopt such
a policy as will cheaper money and
thereby add to the value of such prop
erty. And for such time Mr.. Nc
Kinley and those who say we must
wait for Rritich po-onaration hafora