Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-10
The Republican Party stands
for honest money and the chance
to earn it by honest toll.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
A NEW KIND OF PARITY.
A Fable from Kansas That Shows Where
Silver VIII Land Uncle Sam.

A Fable from Kansas That Shows Where
Silver VIII Land Uncle Sam.
Watson e. Gibson of New York are
sending out the following fable in their
latest market letter. It's a hard nut
for free silverites to crack. The letter
says:
''One of the most distinguished bank
ers in this city sends us with the stamp
of his approval very amusing and in
structive leafet 1t is a fable entitled
the Wise Men of Kansas, and the
scene is laid in the future. We cannot
do better than to quote from it and
thus give it additional circulation as a
specimen of the clever literature which
will be used by the Republicans in this
campaign.
''Ther the governor assembled the
wise men in special session and thus
addressed them:
"'Most noble, brave and mighty yeo-
men, our people groan. The burden is
heavy upon them. Early and late they
toll and eat the bread of disappoint-
ment and bitterness Make ye laws
for their deliyerance.'
1--WE are the greatest state in the
union. We are big enough and rich
enough to have policy of our own re-
gardless of what other states may do
or may not do. Let us be patriotic.
Kansas policy for Kansas is the need of
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the yield is light and uncertain but
we are great on corn. The notion that
the price must be the law of supply and
demand is superstition by means of
which the rich plunder and oppress
honest toll. Make ye therefore law
in accordance with which sovereign
and august statute corn shall be put
upon par with wheat. They shall be
interchangeab BILE bushel for bushel, and
the price of corn shall be the same as
the price of wheat Do this, and the
people of Kansas shall rise up and call
you blessed, and all the world except
money lenders shall hail you as the
mancipators of mankind.
'The wise men passed the law as the
= governor had advised and all the people
of the state rejoiced, for their cribs
were full of corn. They could hardly
contain themselves till the governor
had signed the bill which raised the
price of Kansas corn from Is cents to
as cents a bushel. All the people
now felt rich. They bought many
Injuries and most Of them went into
debt They wondered that they had
never before found out that wealth was
simply matter of legislation, and they
felt great pity and contempt for the
ignorant and superstitious people OF
the other states. Then the farmers
from the other states began hauling
their corn to Kansas. Long lines of
wagons came winding along every
road Boats hoated it down the rivers
and railroads rushed it in from every
section of the country. 1t seemed as il
the county was all corn and it was all
headed for Kansas. The people OF
Kansas took their medicine, that is,
they took the corn and gave up then
wheat.
''The farmers of the other states
thought the Kansas people queer, but
they kept bringing them their corn
Corn came in and wheat went out
And besides all the Kansas people had
gone to raising corn because it was
more easily produced than wheat and
was to bring just as much in the mar
ket as wheat, for the wise men had de
creed that II should. 1t was not long