Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-22
DINGLEY, DING-DONG.

be believed, the Mark Hanna regime Calls ioi
a Mckinley bill, and the permanent retlren'eh.
of $3os 900 900 of greenbacks. 1t is claimed
that more tariff and no greenbacks Is what the
neon;e voted for at the November election.
Asa matter of fact, the Dingley bill was
Republican scarecrow-a wooden man III
tramp's clothes, put forward in the name OF
raising additional revenues when no revenues
were needed. All this is evidenced from re-
marks made by senators i'll recent debate
and from the reports of the secretary OF the
treasury. The treasury has never been empty
and it is not now empty. From Carll5le's re-
cent report we have all overlooking treasury
Uncle Sam has over 500, 900, 600 over and
above the gold reserve available tor govern
mental expenditures deficiency to provide
for in Dngley bill or any other BILL
A year ago, Uncle Sam had S11S,ooo,oo
available for current expenses. II Is true that
expenditures exceed receipts, for time, but
the United States treasury has always contained
surplus of ready cash over and above the
gold reserve of $500 ,ooo, 900. When the
500, ooo, 900 gold reserve fell below the high
water mark of great fnanciering, Uncle oam
sold bonds and bought gold. 1t was the gold
reserve that was menaced, but Uncle Sam was
equal to the emergency. He borrowed gold on
bonds, boarded the gold, and pays interest on
the bonds, the interest being raised by taxation.
Uncle Sam is doing his best to increase the
volume of current expenses. Bonds, haroors
and rivers appropriations, war ships with rot
ten plates, 60 down on surplus like bank
president, and the people foot up in Dingley
or Mckinley bill, or some other bill OF greater
or less proportions, in which the many are
burdened and the few benefited.
Poor old Uncle Sam cannot have an income
tax. Not he Rich men are exempt from
paying taxes in Uncle Sam dominlons. Uncle
Sans country is rich mans paradise and
poor mans desert
Uncle Sam has been fast liver, and has
grown pre1naturely old. He has squandered
his vast landed estate and other valuable pos
sessions, and is almost beggar at the feet of
the great descendants of Abraham, Moses and
Solomon. The hook-nosed Jew, long and
"noble" ancestry has been too much for the
man of few years ago is becoming bowed,
and his hair is streaked with gray All his
actions are instigated by the low, cunning and
avaricious crowd he has blindly chosen for his
companions, and they hold him up and sard-
bag him and play confidence games on him to
the extent of their own sweet will
The Mckinley bill was drag-net, and the
Dingley bill was snipe-bag. The gold re-
serve, with greenback redemption and bond
issues, is an embezzlement of vast proportions
Poor old Uncle Sam, who gave the human
race Washington and Lincoln, holding bags
for snipe-hunters, or being knocked on the
head for his purse of 1eady cash, or forced to
bond himself for baubes! 1t is fall from the
grandeur of high wisdom and vigorous man
hood to the depths of groveling senilty. In a
few words, the peoples supposed guardians
have squandered, and are squandering, the her
itage bequeathed to them by the great founders
and upbuilders of our republic. The jugglery
with our finances and revenues is only fair
illustration of the general rascalty and imbe-
cility of the men who make and administer
eur laws.
Is it true that this is the kind of govern
ment voted for in November? 1t cannot be
that men knowingly voted for their enslave-
ment and the destruction of our republic.
Misrepresentation and prejudice reign for
time, but over all God reigns, and truth is
xightier than error