The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-18
TURNER WAS TOO QUICK
Employed by the Populists to
Write a Hand Book.
He Makes the Contents Public
Before They Are Approved
By the People Whose Business Tt Is
to Look After the Party's Opinions.

IL. W. Turner, the essayist and liter
ateur, selected to write the hand book
for campaign use by the Populists, is
already involved in a disagreement with
the state committee. Mr.. Turner has
partially completed the address, but be-
fore submitting it to the state commit
tee for approval, he gave it out for pub
LEGATION.
The committee expected Mr. Turner
to prepare his manifesto and submit it
to meeting of the state committee,
which will be held in Topeka during the
Fall Festival, but he has not yet COM
piled with that request and some of the
Populist state officers are demanding
that Turner be ''shut off" and some 9TH
er Populist selected to complete the
work which he has undertaken. Turner
insists that he had a perfect right to
90 as he might please with the 'ad-
dress. and does not seem to be disturb
ed by the plants against him.
inc manifesto goes to show that the
price of wheat has gone up because of
a shrinkage of crops abroad.
The address is headed with the ques-
ton: Wheat has gone up and silver
down; both are a dollar a bushel The
argument of the bimetallist is explod-
ed, !" and is in part as follows:
1.-The foregoing statement is as strong
in reason and logic as our breakfast
beverage would be if made by tying a
its wings, placing it on the bosom of
Lake Superior and leaving it to swim
over its surface.
1T is now and always has been, con-
tended by the bimetalIist that the uni
versal law of supply and demand, when
free from the domination of trusts and
combinations, determines the ex-
changea BILE relations of all the products
of mans industry.
Wheat, in obedience to this law, has
been going up, because the worlds
10, !,
worlds effective demand, is, this year,
relatively small. Silver has been going
down, because by legislation unfavora-
Bile to its use as money, there is no eff
fective mint demand for the present
supply. In other words. the United
States, of all heretofore wheat export
ing countries, is the only one that has
an available supply for sale. while all
the heretofore exporting countries, in
addition to the countries that generally
import wheat, are buying in our mar
kets."
Continuing the address contains the
following:
"As an evidence of prosperity, other
than that produced by famine, the gold
bug may point with p4ide to the bru-
tai murder, under forms of law, of the
1aboring men of Pennsylvania, who, re-
fusing to work at starvation wages for
Mark Hanna's trusts, were shot down
like dogs.
But Mark pleads, by way of avoid
ance, that those shot were foreigners
That is true, but you brought them here
to reduce American labor to the con-
ditions of the pauper labor of Europe.
and they, as well as property, are en-
titled to the protection of government,
and not to be murdered by it.
You said to these men: Vote for
Mckinley, for an honest dollar and
chance to earn it, They took your ad-
vice and today 255, 900 of them are I'M
employed in the mining regions of the
country and not because there is an
overproduction of coal, but because a
shortage of dollars makes an undercOn-
sumption of that article.
But they are not the only sufferers.
Very recently 10000 tin plate workers,
30 600 sheet rollers and 10000 puddlers
and fnishers, 10000 sheet workers and
40. 900 unskilled laborers Joined the army
of the unemployed, and today there are
500, 900 actual tramps scattered through
the different states of the union.
In conclusion Mr.. Turner says:
events now transporting all fortify
and strengthen the position taken by
the bimetallists of the last campaign,
and as time goes ON the truths of our
teachings will become more and more
evident"
TO RALLY SILVER CLUBS.