People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-08-06
BLAINE AND LOGAN

Two Republican Statesmen Who Are
4 Dead ana Gone Leave Warn
ing to the American People.
Z.gWILL II BE HEEDED?
n. ixiric from speech made by Hon. Jas.
J." { Bla'n ~ h. nltrd States Senate Febru-
*fary7 iS.- fokeu from The Life Of Blaine"
by Jane. Witou Pierce, Ii. D.. page $50.
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ION the much vcxed and long-mOOted
Ia hestion as to bmetallic and mono
cIetallIc standard, NY own views are
N ,tficiently indicated in the remarks
R 1h We made. believe the struggle
now gaing on in this country, and in
h other countries, for single gold
IN standard, would, if successful, pro-
u dace disaster in and throughout the
numerical world. The destruction
Il .ssilVer as money and establishment
II Ig0ld as the sole unit of value must
1--we a ruinous effect on all forms of
4 lfoperty except those investments
I hich yield a fixed return in money.
These would be enormously enhanced
u value and would gain a dispropor-
;lonate and unfair advantage over
livery other species of property. If,
Is the most reliable statistics affirm,
5here are nearly seven Thousand mil
IiOus of coin or bullion in the world,
not very uneQually divided between
fg0Id and silver it is impossible to
strike silver out Of existence as money
without results which will prove dis
tresSing to millions and disastrous to
tens of thousands. | believe
gold and silver coin to be the money
of the cOnStitutiOn-indeed the money
of the An srican people anterior to
the constitution-money which the
organic law of the republic recognized
as independent of its own existence,
No power was conferred on congress
to declare that either metal should
not be money. Congress has there
fore, ia my judgment, no more power
to dem0netize either than to demon
etize both. If, therefore. sill
) ter has been demOnetized, | am in
flavor of remOnetizing it. If its Ce;n-
sage has been prohibited, l am in.
favor of ordering it to be resumed.
If 1t has been restricted, l am in favor
of having it enlarged.
EXTRACT from speech by John A, Logan
Republican senator from I1nois In the senate
January 10. 1914. See Congressional Record,
volrme 2, part l, page 1851
lean see benefit only to the money
holders and those whoreceive interest
and have fixed incomes. can sec as
a reSultOft hisleglslatiOn our business
operations crippled and wages of la
Dor reduced to pittance. | can see
the beautiful plairies of my own
state and the great west, which are
blooming as gardens, with cheerful
homes rising like white towers along
the pathway of improvement, again
sinking back into ildeness. | can see
mortgage fends at their hellish werk.
| can see the hopes OF the industrious
farmers blasted as they burn corn for
fuel, because its price will not nav
the cost or transportation and divi.
dendS of millions Of dollars of fictitious
railway stocks and bonds. | can see
% II people of the West groaning and
I burdened under taxation to pay debts
OF states, cOunties and cities, incurred
when money was abundant audbright
hopes OF the future were held out TO
lead them on. l can see the people
OF our western states, who are pro-
ducerS, reduced to condition Of serfs,
to pay interest on public and private
debts TO the money sharks Of Wall
street, New York, and Threadneedle
street, London, England. And this
will be accomplished by withdrawing
the treasury notes from circulation
and destroying them, until the banks
can control the entire volume of
money and then compel the people to
use perSOnalichecks ia lieu of money
checks passing through the clearing
houses, which the banks will .estab-
liSh in all the larger cities, to enable
them to make a Fictitious showing of
prosperity and fool the people with
the great volume of business. which
they will cause to be published in the
tally and weekly newspapers. But
remember, checks are not money.
Sumner County's Health Resort.