Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-18
r.. W. turner TELLS WHY THEY
HIVE PaRTED COMPANY.
AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.
STATE COMMITTEE isspEs AN AD-
DRESS 10 F<a,NsXs PoRs-.
No PopuIist Dared Tackle the Job, So
1t Was Assigned to n Free Sill
Yer Rcpublican-Thc COM
-; ing Triumph of BIZ
metnlIism. ..sf'

Topeka, Kas., Sept. 1..-(Special) The
executive committee of the Populist state
central committee to-day issued its first
address for the fall campaign. II was
written by r. W. Turner, q free silver
Republican, now holding The position OF
secretary OF the state board of railroad
commissioners. The Pops had no one in
their party who had the nsrye to. Tackle
tho wheat and silver proposition SO
rHey got Turner 10 do it. The-addrrSr is-an
attempt.to explain why. wheat and sllver
parted company recently. 1t has been
printed in pamphlet form. and Will be scat
tered boardcast for the purpose of isassist-
ing the local Populists in their county
campaign troubles this fall. The address is
headed with the quotation: Wheat has
gone up and silver down; both are. a dollar
a bushel. The argument of the bimetaliist
is exploded" and is in part, as follows:
THE foregoing statement is as strong in
reason and logic as our breakfast beverage
would be if made by tying grain OF coffee
TO a ducks tail, clipping its wings, placing
1t on the bosom of Lake Superior and leay-
ing 1t to swim over its surface. ,,efll
1T is now. and always has been, con-
tended by the bimetallist that the universal
law of supply and demand. when free from
the domination of trusts and combinations,
determines the exciiangeable relations of
all the products of mans industry.
Wheat, in obedience to this law, has
been going up, because the worlds avail
able supply, as compared with the world S
effective demand, is, this year, relatively
small. Silver has been going down, because,
by legislation unfavorable TO its use as
money, there is no effective mint demand
for the present supply. In other words, the
United States, of all heretofore wheat ex-
porting countries, is the only one that has
an available supply-for sale, while all the
heretofore exporting countries,sin addition
TO the counties that generally import
wheat, are buying in our markets.
For the lack of wheat. enough people
this year in India have staryed,to death to
populate eight such states as Kansas as
Ihickly as Kansas is populated to-day. Crop
failure in all the countries mentioned, pota-
to rot@in Ireland, and famine of the direful
y character depicted above and graphically
pictured in Julian Hawthorne's article on
Starving India in the July. August and
September numbers of the Cosmopolitan,
have produced the rise in the price of
wheat; and these conditions are the result
of the seasons.
''on the other hand. but in obedience to
the same great law of supply and demand.
the closing of the worlds mints to silver.
one after.another. has lessened the demand
for that metal and lowered its price-the
statute law of most OF the countries hereto
fore mentioned declaring against silver and
in favor of gold alone asisIandard. money.
THE fruttfulness of the seasons is. in the
keeping of an overruling Providence, while
in all nations statute laws are the works
of man.
in the last few months statutes have
struck down silver in South American re-
IlnblicS nd ptr-ia ND
put gold in its place, thus creating new
demand for gold. and doing away in those
countries with the. mint use or demand for
silver-by statute increasing the value of
gold, and by statute decreasing the price
of silver
In the last campaign you will recall a
cartoon isued by the gold standard adyo-
Gates. 1t represented silver miners draw
ing TO the mint silver ingots In the wagon
the ingots were labeled as being worth
but 80 cents an ounce. They We're thus
passed into the mint and came out silver
dollars. To show the laboring man what
him in another corner of the picture in a
grocery store with silver dollar in his
hand discovering that his dollar would buy
but half as mitch i3od as formerly.
1T was meant 10 teach him by this pic
ture that bimetallism would cause the price
of all commodities 10 rise so that labor
and all products of mans industry would
double in price. and that therefore products
and property would buy two dollars where
before they would buy but one. and 1t was
argued that labor would be the last to
receive the benefit of this rise, and would
therefore. be injured.
Famine in other countries has been the
means of demonstrating to our farmers the
advantage of an increase in the price OF
food products. and they will readily under
stand how much better would be the price
of all products and labor if bimetallisn
We're in force.
But perhaps the goldbug cartoonist who
furnished the picture referred to will give
another representing the laboring man who
since the passage of the Dingley bill, with.
out an increase in wages. and in many in.
stances decrease. must go to the mer,
chant and pay him more for every pro
tected article he uses. In this picture ht
can easily depict the iabOrer'S surprise n.
he learns the price Of sugar shoes, -four
clothes and every other protected artiel,
he buys. Streaming from his mouth NIGH
be printed the legend, 'Buncoed by MARI
Hanna.
LAS an evidence of prosperity. other thar
that produced by famine, the ,soldbug may
der forms of law, of the laboring men Of
PENNSYLVANIA, who. refusing to work a
starvation wages for Mark Hanna $ trusts
were shot down like dogs.
But Mark pleads. by way of avoidance
that those shot were Foreigners. That /.
American labor to the conditions of tn,
paupsr labor of Europe. and they. as wei
as property, are entitled to the protection
BY T. & ,-' :. .., ~. = Ir'e'e'
Kinley his popular and electoral majority
The great body of native born American.
of the white race voted for Bryan. and ar,
anxious to do so again. Don't say thel
were foreigners. for they elected your can
didate. and nc himself represents the golt
standard of England. Neither they no
the present administration are American
and You should stand by your allies.
You said to these men, Vote for Nc
kfnley. fer an honest. dollar and 4 chance
10 earn it,. They took your advice an,
to-day e5j.0o0 of them are unemployed il
because there is an overproduction of coal
but because shortage of dollars make;
an underconsumption of thar article.
But they are not the only sufferers
Very recently 2a.000 tinplate workers 80 90
sheet rollers, 10.o00 puddlers ana iinishers
borers ioined the army of The I,nemnioyaI
and to-day there are 100000 actual tramp
scattered through the different states o
3, ''Iias any prosperity como? Yes. it ha
come 10 the food-produciEg classes of thi
country by reason of famine and qistres
abroad, and il has reached the Mar
H;tIna class of statesmen, as the following
Will show:
- Trust orders a Rise-Prices of Leathe
Reported to BE Showed .Up-Additional Al,
n,lal Profits of 5000. 600 Are Estimated
by reason of the bubonic plague, short
age of crops and famine abroad. our foo
producers have had a rise in the price O
their products, but your legislative pros
sugar. leather. and other trusts-that i!
in the interests of capital and against tn
laboIcr ard producer.
''Bimetallisfn is here to stay: and when
trlumphs. rs Il will in 1900. it will bring wit
Il a clear definition. by statutory enact
ment of thesrights and limitations of IL
ferior federal courts. Il supreme court tina
will stand by the time honored decision
and pronounce constitutional an incom
tax; 1t viii bring protection 10 labor an
the ahclishment or the absolute control {
the tIgsis that now have the American pee
pie liy The throat
Events now transpiring all foriify an
=tronrthcn The position taken by the II