The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-08
PoINTs Eoa &c PEoPLE.

Don't stop now. Reform Press.
California populisb officials have is
sued manifesto declaring that silver
is byno means all the populists de-
maud, and they request that the ma
tional committee call convention to
meet before April, 1897.
All, we see! Returning prosperity
means prosperity going back instead
of coming our way. It's lucky that
point is cleared up or we should always
have thought there was a mistake
about it some way.-0skaloosa Sound
Money Journal
The people don't want the treas
ury notes retired and the banks put in
full control of the government. and if
they submit to such treschery it will
be because they are led into false be-
lief that it is a proper move by the
teachings Of venal pFess.-Iowa Trib-
une.
The New York Independent prints
the statement that ia ], 400 Congrega.
tionsl and /, $50 Presbyterian churches
there was not a single member adj
mitted on confession Of faith last year,
from all of which it seems just to con
clude that the modern plutoeratic
preacher is not an expert soul saver
Andrew Carnegie, owner of the
largest iron and steel rolling mills in
the world, and John D. Rockefeller.
owner of the largest iron ore mines
in the world, have pooled their inter
ests. This combination, backed up
by its immense wealth will be able to
crowd out Of business all other com
panies in either lire.
THE best banking system in the
world" is not strong enough to prevent
the confding depositor from being
robbed of his deposits when the bank
busts. lot of the fellows who have
deposits in busted banks will be paid
in Confidence only. No wonder the
banker wants confidence kept alive. 1t
is his chief stock in trade. -Independ-
ent.
Just before election the Erie rail-
road employed, as we are informed,
from six to ten men on each section.
Those men all Joined the Erie Railroad
Sound Money club, so as to please the
powers that be" and hold their jobs.
The force has now been reduced to two
to each section, and the other fellows
are enjoying the joke Of sound money.
-Sledgehammer.
The republicans who are single
gold standard men and those who favor
bimetallism are already beginning to
clash. There are more of the latter
than is generally supposed, as will be
seen if the ciashing reaches the point
of a direct fight 10 the next congress
and a count of noses In the eyes of
thousands who supported Mckinley
one kind of monometallism is just as
Objectionable as the other
The police in New York city one
day last week found a man wandering
about the streets half crazsd by starva-
ton. A very large per cent. of the
| people of that great metropolis 60 10
bed hungry and cold every night. The
| people who are largely responsible fol-
their condition are the same hypocriti
cal old frauds who are continually
! yelping about reputation and anarchy
in Kansas. Center Dispatch.
Wharton Barker very truly says
that until the farming classes get
more money from the sale of the prod
ucts of their fields, there can be no re.
vival of demand for manufactured
goods, and manufacturers who have
built on an expected revival of demand
as the outcome of Mr.. McKinley's elec
ton will have bitter road to travel,
for in McKinley's election there is nc
promise of better prices for farm prod.
ucts.
The alarming increase in bank
failures and consequent loss to depos.
itors has turned the minds of the PEG,
pie forcibly in the direction of postal
savings banks operated aud lacked by
the government Other nations have
them and have proven them successful
No depositor could lose a cent by
bank failure if his money was in
a postal savings bank for government
banks do not fail Tarl1io (Mo.) Inde-
pendent
The city of Lynn, one of the
largest cities in Massachusetts, got the
Kansas craze" the other day and went
| II, 600 majority for a populist-free-sil
yer mayor. Notwithstanding repub
lican promises of increased prosperity
after the election, the shoe factories 0.
Lynn, cut down their forces and the
result has been that the people mac
Topped over to the peoples party-tht
party of the people.-Paola Kan.
Times,
Gen. Miles felicitates the country
that the army, under his command
''has been called upon only to a limited
extent to act either against Indians" o.
against bodies of men engaged in ''vio
iating the law" That is to say, it ha
not been called upon to kill many saw
ages or workingmen, such Christian
duties being about all that the army i
required to perform at a cost to TIT
| people of about $50, 600, 600 annually
Railway Times.
1t is quite comprehensive to thos,
who thoroughly understand the fnan
cial situation, why the government
under President MeKinley's admins
tration shall have to fail back on tn
/ income tax as a means Of raising reve
| nue.. When it is found that an increast
in the tariff tax viii prohibit importa
tions to such an extent that an insult
fcient revenue is obtained it wilt b
found that tariff, alone, is not the ali
sufficient thing needed to make thi'
country prOspsrous-Paols Kan,
Times.
THE poor ye always have witt
you, said Christ; but all His teaching
supply the Limitation, until the com
ing OF the kingdom" In that King
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