Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-24
EX-GOVERNOR ST. JOHN.
Makes More Trouble for the Syndicate
Protection Scheme.

Protection Scheme.
Denver, Col. Nov. %. "This money
question will never down until settled
right and 1t will never be settled right
until every dollar issued by the gov
ernment is just as good for all pur-
poses and no better than any other
dollar bearing the stamp of Uncle
Sam"
The remark was made by Ex-Gov.
John P. st. John, of Kansas, while
speaking of the financial issue at the
Albany Hotel last evening. Cover
nor st. John, during the recent cam
paign in Ohio, attracted great aud
fences and confounded gold orators by
his mastery of the financial question.
The passage of a free coinage law" Z"
said he last evening, ''wou1d do more
to restore good times in this count y
than any other one law congress could
enact. 1t would not be panacea for
all of our ills, but good times can never
come to the people of the United States
under our present Infamous financial
system
What is the sentiment in Ohio?"
was asked.
"Ohio is free coinage state today"
was the prompt reply "The state
could have been carried for silver at
the last election had the campaign been
run on the free silver issue, instead of
being run IN the interest of single
individual.
'On a fair, square fight, conducted
by the friends of silver, Ohio, in 1898,
will give the white metal a majority
of at least $4,000. The republican
promises of prosperity have so utterly
failed that it will be simply impossible
for Mark Hanna and his crowd to
much longer deceive the people.
According TO Dun's report" con-
tinued the governor, 'there were more
failures last week in the United States
than in the corresponding week of 1896
and except the years of 1896 and 1898,
there were more failures during the
first ten months of the present year
than have ever occurred in a like per-
iod in the nations history. Corn in
the central states is selling at IS to Is
cents bushel, oats at II to 18 cents,
hay lower than for a generation, and
wheat, under present circumstances,
with short crops in all the wheat grow
ing countries, which ought to sell and
would sell if we had unlimited coinage,
at s. bushe1, is selling at rs cents to
95 cents a bushel. Next year, with an
average crop in the world, wheat will
standard.
"The Ding1ey bill is monumental
fraud and sham. 1t was not intended
to protect agriculture and labor. The
sole purpose was to reimburse the
money power, the monopolies and the
trusts for the Doodle furnished to elect
Mckinley.
"The deficit so far during the fiscal
year is crawling up towards $4,000, 900
and this includes Is days of July just
prior to the passage of the Dingley bill
when everybody knows there was q
great rush of imports.
1--WE have reached point where thi:
government can no longer depend or
any tariff system to raise money t.
meet expenses of the government. w,
5 are getting to be great export nation
and imports of dutiable goods will con
tinue to fall off until the revenues frou
that source will be wholly inadequat,
to meet the demands and we will b,
driven to raise revenue by 1evying tn,
: burden upon what the people possess
instead of upon what they consume"
AS an illustration, the visitor pre-
sented an imaginary case, "Say an
a millionaire-which is not correct b,
about 5000, ,99o. / own this hotel, lands
l cattle and $500, 200 in bonds and secur
n tiles. am not taxed a cent on any O
I these things to support the genera
government. am taxed by the gov
ernment only on the clothes l wea
, and the food consume. The poo
e man is taxed to support the govern
l. ment in the same way, and the poo
!. man pays as much to support thi
great government as 1, although 1 an
worth a million, and the whole arm
e of the Union may be called out to prs
e tect my property. There is only on
: honest way to get revenue and that
to tax man on what he is worth, an
to see that the rightfu1 tax is collec
L ed"
L Governor ST. John declared that :
the congressional elections next fal
i Indiana, Ohio. Michigan, Minneso.;
the whole of the middle and nortl
western states, and all of the souther
states, would elect silver men to co,
'r gress. The senate already being
II favor of free coinage of silver, the Law
IF making power of the United Stat,
will be In favor of the white metal.
Under such circumstances. VIII:
d will President Mckinley dor" was Il
question of the reporter.