The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-29
PoINTs EoR THs PEoPLE

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il the payment Of debts9-southern
Nenary.
The term national bank as APP
Piled to our present system is like the
banks themselves fraud. They are
| private concerns, run Tor private profit,
and to promote personal enda-Pitts-
burg Kansan,
The paper money Of france is the
most striking fat in the world. It
contains no promise for redempti n, is
not promise to pay, Bat legal tender
money, Whieh eireUlates freely in
France and surrounding provinces of
adjoining eountries.-Independent
| Indiana cast 100000 more votes
than they have adult male inhabitants.
Indiana has either gained SIS, 200 popu-
lation since the lastelect4en or cemmit-
ted a worse job Of ballet-box stufing
than Dudley ever dreamed Of in the
| palmy days of "soap" and "blocks Of
i've A-Butler County (Neb.) Press,
The property of the United States
in 1890 was estimated to be worth $685.
900, 100000 in gold. AS gold has gone
up and everything else has gone down
in value in the last six years the gold
value Of all property in the United
States is about the same as six years
ago, the natural increase being Offset
by falling Prices.-Joliet News,
Our present usury system will
eventually bankrupt nine out of every
ten who engage in business. Our in
crease in national wealth is but three
per cent annually. A system that
exacts more interest than the whole in
crease in wealth viii eventually concen.
trate all wealth into the hands of the
money lenders.-1ndustrial sledgeham-
mer,
Capitalism commands that the PEG
pie ia their organized capacity as a mu-
hlcipality, state or nation never be per
mitted to do for themselves what a cor
poratiOn can make money by doing for
them. Socialism says that the people
should never have a corporation to do
for them what they can in their or
ganized capacity do for themselves
Pittsburg Kansan,
The history Of the United States
since 1868 demonstrates how easy it is
to change nation Of prosperous home
owners into homeless tramps and de-
pendents, and It should teach the peo-
pie how to secure a safe, sure and
speedy return to the conditions they
lost through neglect of the duties of
citizens with the ballot in their hands,
Southern Mercury.
How is it that "the best banking
system in the world is having such
hard time lately since confidence is
fully restored?" Have you noticed
that national banks predominant
among the numerous failures Of late?
Have you also thought about what the
gold-bug press would say about such
failures, if Bryan had been elected?
And do you see how little they say
about these failures?-Eureka Kansan.
The enormity of the Loud bill calls
for vigorous action and that promptly.
Write letter to your United States
senator. Do it at once. Don't wait a
day. Tell him you are willing to foot
your share of the deficit in the postal
department. Tell him eourteously but
firmly thatyou are opposed to the Loud
bill and cali upon him as your agent to
oppose the bill by all the means known
to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
list,
Referring to the decline in wheat
one day recently, a metropolitan paper
said: wheat to-day for the first time
in months came under the control of
the bears. Short sellers caused the IN
loading Of long wheat in large quanti-
ties, and the result was very weak
market, a decline of two cents per
bushel and II cents net loss for the
day, at the close" Yet this same pa
per apologies for option dealing, and
says it does not affect prices.-JOurnal
Of Agriculture.
The man who cannot see the bar
barism and slavery in the specie
basis" financial scheme, the man who
cannot realize the civilization and free
dom in full legal tender paper money
issued by the government only, direct
to the people at cost, and in volume
sufficient to supply the demands Of
trade, does not comprehend the differ
enee between freedom and slavery,
and his vote is a curse, instead Of a
blessing, to himself, his country and TO
posterity.-Southern Mercury.
If to be conservative the new adj
ministration and legislature must fol-
low the do-nothing presidents estab-
lished by republicans, then we are OPP
posed to a conservative policy. If it
means to enact safe, practical legisla-
ton which will be beneficial to the en-
tire people, we are favorable to con-
servatism. We are strictly opposed to
that sort of a conservative policy which
would require that the pledges made
by populists to the people should be
ignored.-Topeka KAN Advocate.
The republican county judge Of
Cook county has decided that the pop
ulists of Chicago, not having cast two
| per cent Of the entire vote at the last
election, are not entitled to representa-
ton on the board of election commits
sioners any more than are the prohibit
tionists, or the gold democrats or the
socialists who had separate tickets in
the field. Acting on this decision Chris
Meier, popuist member OF the board,
has handed in his resignation. That's
tough. So much for voting another
ticket.-Joliet News. Just SO, and
when the smoke of battle has finally
| lifted, it viii be found that the peoples
party has lost its legal standing in
many other localities and must get up
on the official ballot by petition.-G. G.
W.
international Blmstallism.
| Senator Wolcott, Of Colorado, as en-
voy of the republican senatorial caucus