Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03

telling you what honestly believe Tax.
| they are not Gods holy writ. then / have
not read history right There Is another
objection TO this scheme. however. and
| upon higher grounds than dollars and
cents II is that the whole plan is dishon-
est 1t Is an appeal to the ignorant and
| dishonest side of human nature. The
claim is made that it Will help the farmer.
Did you ever know the farmer to prosper
! when the other classes of people were In
poverty? What he needs is market
and he can only get that market when our
| worknleu well paid and fully en-
ployed- Some farmer who has something
| to sell. and who could dispose of It at a
| higher price in these cheap dollars and
/ could use them in paying his debts. might
succeed, but there are very few farmers SO
/ dishonest as to be caught by this bribe-
There is something in the man who tills
| Mother Earth that gives him rugged hon.
| esty and on the Sd Of November the re-
| turns from the rural districts. in my hum
BILE opinion. viii surprise Mr. Bryan and
| his friends
My friends. I have heard much talk
, about the coercion OF railway employees
| by railway corporations do not believe
there is a particle of truth in it So far
as 1 concerned, the dearest right that
belongs to a freeman is that to vote as he
pleases- Years ago, when had but few
friends and no influence. it was the OPP
portunity of my life to vote pleased /
hope to do SO SO long as life shall last, and
SO long as 1 have the power every man
connected with me. high or low. shall have
the right on election day to deposit his
believe TO be the sentiment of every rail-
way manager in this country All We say
to our employees is that We believe that
this proposition OF Bryan'S Is fatal to the
prosperity of the country. to the prosperity
of the railways, and fatal to your interests
as employees We ask you carefully to
read and consider, SO that on election day
you may vote as your judgment and con-
science dictate
There is something higher in this cam
paign than the mere cheating of your
creditors. il IS the question of the honor
of the country. which is of more conse-
Quence than few dollars which you may
make by beating bondholder. Can you
afford for the sake of paltry gains, even
if you could make them (Which deny). to
disgrace your country? Bryan talks about
England supporting Mckinley: the fact is,
If an Englishman wanted do harm
he could not do il any better than by aiding
Bryan and his populistic crowd No man
could desire anything worse to happen to
his country than would happen if the popu-
lists should succeed 1t would allow the
nation live, but dishonored. Think of
what it is for nation like ours to live
without honor. to have the finger of scorn
pointed at by the civilized world as the
one great nation, with 20. 100000 of people,
that deliberately debased its coinage to
cheat its bondholders- You would not care
to hold up your head when you went cut
of this country to another land Even he
South American republics would desp.se
you They are on 4 silver basis because
they cannot help it,
Nearly four centuries ago Copern.cus,
tie old philosopher. announced 20 the king
of Poland some truths which time has got
iesSened the value Of Among other things
he said that the nation that debaSeS its
COMA &c decays and Perishes- Are you. with
your intelligence. going to allow this great
country OF ours TO decay and perish in the
d attempt at beating a few bondholders?
This nation is the last hope of man Here
has been the experiment of free govern
ulent- So far we have kept our honor as We
received 1t from our fathers. pure and TN
furnished, and the question presented to
each and all to-day is whether we shall
heed the call of duty and, regardless of
party. crush this attempt to Gisnonor the
nation and hand il down our children I'M
sulli-d and fair it was when re-