Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-06-10

In an interview in The New York
Herald John Wansmsker again ex-
plains his position IN regard to the
present financial situation. lie says
II chose two arguments TO convince
them that they should stand mp end
keep on working for the public good
"First, because of their ante election
promising speeches, which should he
kept 10 good faith
SECOND, h,cause OF the creeping
paralysis o. business and bitter want
OF the unemployed
"What l said WAS addressed to
Pennsylvanians, and much of it bore
solely on state politics. Much ~ l
love quietness and peace it is not
possible for me to he indifferent or
silent in the present condition OF at
fairs. Neither can l take nor give
opiates
I'm these times campaign epeechea
are only empty shells, without ker-
nels However we'll meaning, or
whoever it il who thinks be- does
good by them must be forgetting
that million of workm"n and their
children are hungry. The man who
looks for bread in such speeches will
not have much to eat.
"The public heart cannot be fired
by eloquence in this way just now,
for the power of patriotism is wet
with tears Of suffering unemployed
Give me hold of somebody's hand
who will do something, not talk about
it month after month.
ITO keep work for the 5000 and
more persons in my employ and turn
away from the several hundred who
apply daily and beg for the privilege
Of labor to keep the wolf from the
door drives me into fever, and l
must speak out. Any citizen has
that right.
II cannot sit on a fence with a stiff
wind blowing and whistle for pros
perity, vanished of beautiful plum
age, to come back.
I'VE ought to have q new, a better
tariff; but il we cannot get it, LET us
settle down to the old one and adjust
ourselves to 1t as best we can II we
caonot move out OF the old house, we
might build a wing to 1t or add
another story"
This reference TO the "old house"
Is dig at President Mckinley, who
reminded Mr. Wannsmaker in a re-
cert speech that I'VE cannot move out
of the old house until the new one if
resdy")
"A republican honse has been IN
session since last December, aud it's
riddled tariff bill still losses about
the other end OF the capitol.
,"It to be impatient IL unpatriotic
when these delays are 10 protracted
aud seemingly Unnecessary in adj
usting these two great questions
uppermost in the public mind, then |
must ask to be forgiven for miscount-
log the pulse OF most people that l
meet.
"There are not few who believe
that since the war no such exigeDcy
fell upon the country as that which
preceded the election In November,
1896
THE spirit which moved the peo-
pie then is still alive. 1t will neither
be ignored nor dallied with. The
tariff, meney, economy of expendi-
lures must be arranged fairly and
promptly il we are find contentment
or prosperity.
"Gatheringing ourselves together
on the monetary question cannot be
done too soon. There is no use of
sending delegations to foreign ma
tions until we have some debate
proposition to make.
"Let authority be given immediate
" for a monetary commission TO de.
termine what the United States want
to do on the money question, and
then let us go after it and get it as
promptly as possible"
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WHEN the Illinois legislature adj