Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22

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all occupations, 1860
being reckOned as
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who worked by the day before the war. Any
young workingman who is at all taken by the
do well to ask one Of these old gentlemen how
much ne really was paid in those bimetaliG"
pay in the way Of neeessaries and comforts
days when we had free coinage of silver. It
TO coinage Of silver on private account would
at once send us to silver basis Eow would
Every man who earns his daily bread by his
SSea 5H desf to IT s this d
Any man who will examine daily quotations
soon discover that they change from day to
day and sometimes change very greatly in the
wages is familiar with the fact that they
change slowly, an increase of 10 per cent in a
~: wages change slowly.
Now let US grant what the advocates of free
silver claim-that going to the silver basis
you'd 'double the prices of commodities"
would be doubled sooa Even if they hey should
be- how much would the wage Garner profit
believes for a minute that his wages would be
increased by more than small per ctntMthat
creased somewhat the prices of the things he
has to buy would be increased very much
work would be greatly diminished. All expe-
sho%s sSas any IN the %
farther than it does wages. This might infiu-
of debasing our currency, but it Is precisely
the reason why workingmen should oppose it.
so far as workingmen are concerned the
whole silver question is to be summed up in
II so, vote for the free coinage of silver
Would Not Help the Farmer.
What INDUCEMENTS do the silver producers
e o4f TO se
higher prices for their products The sensible
naturally ask is. Gould they and would they
keep their promise2 Let US see what the
They claim that s.silver would increase in
value and would carry with it the prices Of
To say that there is any relation between
the price Of metal dug out of our western
peculiar to ITSELF and the price of any of the
vegetable products OF our fields leach OF which
peculiar to itselfb--to tell men that there is
different in their nature and uses. is to insult
the intelligence of those who are addressed.
let us see what the probabilities are that the
promise could be kept.
One would think to hear these gentlemen
talk that silver production is one of the over
shadowing Industries of this country. Let us
make few comparisons
The total value Of the silver product of the
thu pree befo IN i @ and this
was the greatest yield in the history of sill
AeooTdng to the page
2e7. the farm value Of the cotton crop Of this
wheat crop was. in round numbers, s4O0. OOO.
eco. and that of the corn crop was over $500
ten times the value of the silver crop of this
than they did with the rise fall Of the tides.
The underlying fructifying element of this
16 to l movement is socialism II is the same
old enort to get something for nothing. The
Coxeyites wanted grub for nothing. The sin
gle tax cranks want land for nothing. The
Populists want government monopoly OF trans
portation and private monopoly Of the wailing
business for nothing. he 10 to l people want
50 per cent of debts for nothing he Bella1ny-
ties want everything for nothing. And I
might suggest that the new woman wants our
bifurcated garments for nothing. but that is
not pertinent to the subject under discussion
and will not do so.
The movement mems Reputation. All else
is theory, preterse and dreams. 1t is effort
to pass a left handed, bankrupt bill, not for
cannot pay, but for the rich well, who
pay, but want to beat their creditors. The
poor man is not in debt; he never had a chance
to get in debt. The corporations, spectators
and plunGerS generally constitute the debtor
class. Every wage Garner belongs to the cred
itor class No one would be benefited by Is to
coinage except the debtor class Even the
mine owner would not. for the temporary
stimulus given to silver would increase its
production until the price would fall below
what it is now. On the other hand, all would
suffer. If bill for free coinage of silver at
16 to We're pass either house Of congress,
and it was asccrtained that it would pass the
other house and that the president would sign
it, the panic that would would be to
that of 1898 what tornado is to u zephyr.
Creditors, to avoid being paid in debased mon
ey, would crowd and crush for pay ment the
people do for exit in a theater alarm of
fire Credit and confidence, the twin divini-
ties of prosperity, would depart from
All business would be paralyzed, labor unem-
p1oyed, and despair would hang her black
pail in million of homes, only to be lifted
when reason resumed her sway. 1t took
France so years to entirely recover from the
John Law fasco-
How England Is Running Us.
The demagCSues, in order to undermine the
moral sense of the people and make repudia-
ton palatabie. rail about England wealth and
falsely assert that she is trying to dictate our
system and to crush US. England is
rich, but if she is trying to ruin she has
peculiar way of manifesting her hostility. For
the year ending June 90, 1894, she took S423
boo, 900 of our exports. about seven times as
much all the free silver countries in the /!
world. We took SlO7, OOO. eco of her exports, and
she paid us the difference in gold or its equiv
alent. Did You ever hear a butcher baker /
DIT a man with cotton to sell complaining that /
his customers had too much money to spendf +