People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-12-30

could enact. 1t would not be a pana.
cea for all Of our ills, but good times
Can never come to the people of the
United States under our present in
famous financial system"
What is the sentiment in Ohio?"
was asked.
"Ohio is free coinage state today"
was the prompt reply. "The state
could have been carried for silver at
the last election had the campaign
been run on tue free silver ISSUES. in.
J stead of being run in the interest of a
single individual.
"On fair, square fight, conducted
by the friends o. silver, Ohio, in 1898.
Will give the white metal majority
Of $4,000. The Republican promises
of prosperity have so utterly failed
that it will be simply impossible for
Mark Hanna and his crowd to much
longer deceive the people.
According to Dun'S report" con-
tinued the governor there were more
failures last week in the United States
than in the corresponding week of
1876 and except the years of 1896 and
1893, there were more failures during
the first ten months Of the present
year than have ever occurred ia a like
period 10 the nations history. Corn
IN the central states is selling at Is to
% cents buShel, oats at Il to is cents,
nay lower than for generation. and
wheat, under present circumstances
with short crops in all the wheat grow.
lug countries. which ought to sell and
would sell if we had unlimited coinage.
at 81 a bushel, is selling at IS cents 10
% cents bushel. Next year, with an
average crop in the world, wheat will
drop to 80 or 60 cents under the gold
standard.
THE Dingley bill isa monumental
fraud and sham. 1t was not in
tended to protect agriculture and
LABOR. The sole purpose was to REIN.
purse the money power, the monopolies
and trusts for the Doodle furnished to
elect Mckinley.
The deficit so far during the fiscal
year is crawling up towards S5OOOO.-
900, and This includes % days of July
just prior TO tie passage of the Dingley
bill, when everybody knows there was
great rush of imports.
I'VE have reached a point where
this government can no longer de-
pend on any tariff system to raise
money to meet expenses of the gov.
eminent. We are getting to be a
great export nation, and imports of
dutlabe goods will continue to fail off
until the revenues from that source
will be wholly inadequate to meet
the demands and we will be driven to
raise revenues by levying the burden
upon what the people possess, instead
OF upon what they consume"
"As an illustration. the visitor pre-.
sented an imaginary case. Say | am
milliOnaire-which is not correct by
about 1899, 1899. / own this hotel.
lands, cattle and $500, 900 IN bonds and
securities. am not taxed cent on
any OF these Things to support the
general government. l am taxed by
the government only on the clothes |
wear and the food l consume. The
poor man is taxed to support the gov
ernment IN the same way, and the poor
man pays as much to support this
great government as l, although | am
worth million, .and the whole army
of the Union may be called out % pro-
tect my property. There is Only one
honest way to get revenue and that is
to tax man on what he is worth.
and to see that the rightful tax is
collected"
Governor st. John declared that at
the congressional elections next fall.
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota,
the whole OF the middle and north
western states, iand all southern states,
would elect silver men to congress.
The senate already being in favor Of
free coinage Of silver, the law-making
power Of the United States will be in
favor Of the white metal.
under such circumstances, what
will President Mckinley do?" was the
question Of the reporter.
mckinley is good man." replied
Governor St. John, with a suspicion
of irony in his voice. "He is one Of
those real goody, goOdy men, but he is