Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15
went over to the little town


@W il others of our club /
went over to the little town hall to hear aboat tie
unraveling
The first idea that struck making in
spection of the audience was that the club meeting
called for political purposes had made mistake
TO its calling, the date. and fallen upon an
appointment of the ladies in some way or other;
for, upon canvasing the audience found present
30 ladies and gold-standard voters, the balance
being Bryan voters, aud children. However, after
the meeting called to order several single
standard voters came in and sweIled the number
to Is 20, and of this number several from
Pawnee county and east far Dundee. There
was only sprinking of Bryan voters. Probably
to TO- just before the opening OF the club is when
I.nlade my count. A lady remarked to why,
this appears to be 16 to meeting-I6 ladies to
voter" Ard it was approximate estimate.
1t would be unnecessary to follow the lines in de-
tail of Mr.. Buckiand's speech; suffice 70 say the
greater portion of his time given in e analy
sis of the two tariff sheets Wilson German and
Mckinley. In so doing he read and
many articles in comparison We all know there
is some difference between the two laws. And will
there ever be a tariff law gotten up but what the
range of percentage will vary in accordance with
the congreesman's IDEAS what articles he
wants protected or not, in his special district? And
it is with him, so ii is with the several hundred
ulStrlcES IN the great Tepu therefore, III VIII
always be found of the most difficult parts of
national legislation is the passing of protective
tariff bill. When the speaker referring to the
shortage of collections between the laws, it ap-
pears to that he must have forgotten that gen.
erai stagnation Of business might have something
to do with such matters. For example, protective
tariff on imports if there buyers from any
cause whatsoever, can any collections be made?
If the protection is high that it is shut of
financial distress great that sales down
25 to so per cent, the may be, in either
import domestic lines does it not stand rea-
sor that the collections i'll be in the same
ratio. Ii the speaker should fly yeIrs longer
the chances almost absolute that he would
see tariff bill of the scaling the Mckinley
And thus again Obliged to say that
this tariff talk is only the yelling to conceal the
real referendum financial question "a issue.
The speaker next struck the financial question::
and must say it certainly is matter of intense
perversiou when he asserts that the pnpulists are
not bi-metallists 1t is now and ALWAYS has been
our leading principle. We mean bi aIlism in
its untrame1ed definition, e. coin universal and
equal in all of its bearing. Now this idea of adj
vancing to intelligent audience about the silver
element being SO bolstered up by ownership of
silver mines, whether 81 companies any multiple
of 81 has direct influence to millions produced
and, only be so effective to the patron the
producer when directed by proper legislation and
only hears the same ratio of reality any number
of gold mining corporations whether 81 or any
multiple of 81 one million or any number of hun
dreds of millions of dollars produced We simply
mean primary coin money by the true definition
of b-metallism regardless of its production: since
have determined that the value produced is
nearly equal, and by experience find the natural