Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-17

statesmen of the country. They would
have us believe what history does not
support-that gold and silver enjoyed
equal privileges in the mints Of the
United States during all our history
down to 1873. They assert that the
stopping of the free coinage of silver in;
1873 was 1.-The crime of the century,. and
is the cause of the present deplorable,
business condition of the country. They
must know that prior to 1873 we had;
less than 100000 of silver dollars. in,
circulation. We have coined since that
time nearly 5o0.00O,0 900 of silver dollars,
and they constitute part Of the he cur .a1,
us that when the coinage of both gold
and silver was free in the United States
the per capita circulation in this country,
was less than it has been since the 500
called ''crime of 1873" Why. under
the free coinage of both gold and silver
in the days of the fathers we had in
was $500; in 1852 it was S14.63; in 1872
before the resumption of specie pay
ments. and when we were doing business
with unlimited paper currency, it was
S1S-19: in 1894, twenty-one years after
the suspension of free coinage of silver
we had per capita of S24.SS, and every
dollar was as good as gold in every part
capita in the United States than has
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and a greater per capita than has Ger
many. The per capita of the whole
world is about S5.15. The per capita Of
the gold standard countries is SIS, while
the per capita of the silver standard
countries--of which they want to make
one-is about S4.30. Even in the
gold standard countries we have more
silver per capita than they have in the
standard countries, having a popula-
ton of less than one-third of the worlds
population, have nearly two-thirds OF the
circulation of the worlds currency. The
United States has about 51a per cent. of
the total population of the principal
countries of the world, yet it has
s. H. 1.,,I -,r,rr no
sources and nearly 16 per cent of the
total money supply of the world. France
has a higher per capita than the United
States. but the banking deposits in the
United States are $77.16 per inhabitant,
S43 greater for each inha bitant than
the banking deposits of France
Per Capita Rate Would Decrease.
1T must never be forgotten that the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to
1 would not increase, but would decrease
our per capita circulation. 1t would add
nothing to it, but would rob us of the
good money now have and put
where the silver countries of the world
are today-upon a silver basis alone.
There is nothing in our present currency
status, therefore, to disturb US, except
to defeat the party which proposes to de-
base it. 1t is the proposition to debase
our currency standard that has created
CONSERVATION in every business center of
the country; has made times hard, has
driven money from active industry, and
put it behind barred doors, where it will
be kept until confidence is restored.
THE people will not consent to de-
crease of their circulating medium, nor a
debasement of that medium of exchange.
If by your votes this menace to the mon
ey and credit of the country be dispeIled,
and by the same votes you restore the
American protective policy. that will stop
deficiencies in the treasury, and will pro-
tect American industry, and courage
and CONFIDENCE will come back again.
Open the mills and the mines of our
country by judicious protective tariff
and you will stop idleness and distress
in the ranks of labor, and you can't stop
it in any other way. What will be the.
voice of Maryland On the 81 day Of NJ
yemher; iCries of Mckinley, Mekin-
| ley.O What will be the voice of the
great city of Baltimore? (Cries of Nc
| Kinley.O How will that old conservative
| city speak for national honor? (Cries Of
| BY voting for Mckinley and portec-
| tion.0 ;,
i thank my old comrades of tie war
Tor their presence here at my hone TO.
day. I thank my fellow citizens of evefy
vocation for having paid me this yisifff.s
and beg to thank them in the name of
the Republican party for their assur-
ances of loyal support to the principles of
public honor, protective tariff, sound
money, reciprocity, which will bring to
US, trust and firmly believe good times.
from :, which we wildly ran away in
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