Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-01-03

mon sense, how it strengthens credit to incur
debt. Why, it ruins individual credit, and we
know of no reason why it should not seriously
impair national credit; and we predict that this
thing of maintaining gold reserve may prove
a more serious affair to the taxpayer than the
war of the rebellion, if there is to be no end
to it. But, the mean and contemplate thing
is that Cleveland and Carlisle claim that they
could not, and cannot, do otherwise than issue
bonds. It is not true. Greenbacks and silver
certificates are redeemable i'll coin, and coin
means either gold or silver, at the option OF
the secretary of the treasury; and if the secre-
tary of the treasury had insisted upon paying
out silver, the raid on the gold reserve would
have been nipped in the bud; for, as Carlisle
saws, "the gold was not withdrawn for export, I"
but "was taken out by people who had become
alarmed" What people? Not the great
mass of useful citizens who were steadily and
industriously creating wealth for midnight ma
rauders.
There was 10 alarm, but there was we'll
laid plan to rob the people by band of gold
conspirators, and Cleveland and Carlisle are
aiders and abetters in that conspiracy, and all
their specious pleading will not deceive the
people.
We have reached point where we are ready
to wipe ont the senseless gold reserve and re-
pudiate the bonds issued under Cleveand-if
for no other reason as a righteous protest
against the wholesale robbery of taxpayers
Let us not be misunderstood, for we do not ia
vor the reputation of any just obligation,
either national or individual, but there is vast
difference between a just debt and the debt
Cleveland and Carlisle have just foisted upon
the American people. A just debt is debt i'll
which there is value received. Cleveland's
debt is debt in which injury is received 1t
is common law principle that the value re-
ceived vtiates or annuls the obligation If
the people have ever authorized congress or
presidents oto incu- needless debt, we are un-
aware of it, and had the people done so, we
would pronounce them fools; but we have not
descended to that low pitch of ignorance; and
So debt unauthorized and needlessly incurred
should be repudiated in defense of common
rights.
in the near future? No. If the present con-
gress was capable and honest, Cleveland bars
the way, for, like the dog i'll the manger he
will neither eat hay nor allow any one else to
eat it. Too incapable or dishonest to give the
country prosperity, he is too bull-headed to
permit any one else to bring prosperity. But
congress is just as incapable and dishonest as
Cleveland, and in entire accord with him i'll all
that is vicious. Every leading Republican
politician and every leading Republican paper
has endorsed Cleveland's financial policy and
his war policy.
Any man with an ounce of brains can see
that our present financial system will not per-
init us to go to war. If we cannot swim in
time of peace, we would surely sink in time OF
war. John Sherman's golden calf is mill
stone attached to the nations neck with Cleve-
land and the politicians on top, each one wing
with the other in their efforts to sink the nation
We have elected congress of nobodies, and
if we get any legislation, it will be evil, and
evil only. We shall have an exhibition of
profound ignorance, sailed and peppered with
uubrdled extravaganza, but certainly no relief,
financially.