Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12

the expulsion Oh 2OlQ ITOn our ClTculdliou-
DECEASED Money Destroy. Values.
eff there is any one thing which should |
be free from speculation and fuctuation. |
it is the money of country 1t ought
never to be the subject of mere partisan
contention When we part with our labor.
our products OF our property, we should
receive in return money which is as stable
and unchanging in value as the ingenuity |
Of honest men can make it, Debasement
of the currency means destruction OF val
ues- No one suffers so much from cheap
money as the farmers and laborers- They
the first to feel its bad effects and tho
last to recover r. .hers This has been !
tie uniform experience Of all Countries,
and here as elsewhere the poor and not
tne rlcn are the greater sunerers from
every attempt to debase our money 1t
would fall with alarming severity upon
Investments already made. upon insurance
companies and their policy-holders, upon
savings banks and their depositors. upon
building and loan associations and their
members, upon the savings OF tnr1ft,
upon pensioners and their families, and
upon wage earners and the purchasing
power Of their wages.
| Cheap Money Experiments.
1.-The silver question is not the only
| issue affecting our money in the pending
| contest Not content with urging the free
| coinage of silver, its strongest champions
| demand that our paper money shall be
| issued directly by the government OF the
United States This is the Chicago Demo-
cratic declaration The St. Louis Peoples
party declaration is that Our national
| money shall be issued by the general gov
/ erlment only without the iutervect:cn of
| baEks of issue. be full legal teEEar 2cr the
Payment of all debts public ald private
| AID be distributed direct to the people
and through lawful disbursements OF the
| government Thus. in addition to the free
| coinage of the worlds silver, We are asked
| to enter upon an era of unlimited IRE
| deemable paper currency. The question
| which fought out from 1865 to 1879 is
thus to be reopened with all its cheap
| money experiments of every conceivable
form fcisted upon US. This indicates
most startling reactionary policy, strangely
| at variance with every requirement OF
| sound finance: but the declaration shows
| the spirit and purpose of those who, by
| combined action, contending for the
| control of the government. Not satisfied
| with the dcbasement of our coin which in
at 16 to 1, they would still further degrade
our currency and threaten the pubic
honor by the unlimited issue of an ire
deemable paper currency graver menace
to our financial standing and credit could
hardly be conceived. and every patriotic
citizen should be aroused to promptly meet
and effectually defeat it.
Dividing, the People Into Classes.
"It is a cause for painful regret and So
licitude that effort is being made by
those high in the councils of the allied
parties to divide the people OF this coun-
try into classes and create distinctions
among US which in fact do not exist and
are repugnant to our form of government
These appeals to the passion and prejudice
, are beneath the spirit and intelligence OF
free people. and should be met with
stern rebuke by those they are sought TO
| influence, and l believe they will be. Ev-
; cry attempt to array class against class,
the classes against the masses, section
against section, labor against capital, the
D poor against the rich.' interest against
interest in the United States is in the high
: est degree reprehensible- 1t is opposed &c
| the national instinct and interest and should
? be resisted by every citizen we are no'
a nation of classes, but of sturdy, free, in
- deDendnnt and hOnOra BILE people. deSplS1ng
the demagogue and never captivating te
u dishonor This ever recurring effort en-
o dangers popular government and is Z
q menace to liberties. 1t is not new
| campaign device or party appeal 1t is a:
: old government among men, but was
: never more untimely and unfortunate thar
: now. Washington warned against j
: and Webster said in the senate words
e which I feel are singularIy appropriate a
this time: admonish the people aga1ns
o the object of outcries Ike these. 1 ad
q monish every industrious laborer OF thl
n country to be his guard against suci
: delusion- tell him the attempt Is TO pia.
" off his passion against his interest and t
: prevail on him in the name of liberty t
70 destroy all the fruits Of liberty.
" Protection of Supreme Importance
l. Another issue of supreme importane
b is that of protection The peril of fire.
If silver is menace to be feared. We ar
v. already experiencing the effect of partfa
,r free trade. The one must be averted, tn
other corrected. The Republican party
a welded to the doctrine of protection an
re was never more earnest in its support an
J. advocacy than now. If argument wer
i'd needed to strengthen its devotion to tn
70 American system increase the hold G
-y that system upon the party and people,
r, is found in the lesson and experience G
n the past three years. Men realize in thei
is own daily lives what before was to man
lie of them only report. history or tradition
ed They have had a trial of both system
I'd and know what each has done for theu
be washington, in his farewell address
a. Sept. IT, 1876, 100 years ago, said AS
lie very important source of strength and 81
ed curity, cherish public credit One nethe
I'd of preserving it is to it spaFingly
IL possible; avoiding the accumulation of del
r not only by stunning occasions of expens
nt but by vigorous exertfonS in time Of peal
d. to discharge the debts which unavoidao
wv wars NAV have occasioned. not ungene
ously throwing upon posterity the burde
which we ourselves ought to bear
j.. facilitate the enforcement of the maxim
-, which he announced, be declared Tt
| ntial that you should practically be;
y | in mind that toward the payment of deb
aS there must ne revenue; that to have re-
u nue. there must be taxes; that no taxes CO
ne be devised which not more or less
" convenient or unplea SAINT; that the !
"a trinsic embarra ssment inseparab1e frF'
Vi the selection of proper objects (Which
NO always a choice of diffculties) ought to
ise a decisive motive for construction OF {
conduct CT the government in making
measures for obtaining revenue which Z
public exigencies may at any time dictat
an Prompt Protective Legislation ID
it
10 animated by like sentiments the peoI
COO of the country must now face the COM
ian | lions which beset them The public e.
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