Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-05-22

sufficient reason why they did not SO under
stand is that it was not being done. This dol
has been money, and good money, every day
England has loaned money at a lower rate
of interest than nybody else would This is
the very head and d 'front.' Of an her Offending
her head for doing this. There is an old adage
which runs 1s this this way m II you want to lose
Want Reputation, Not Free Coinage.
To prove that it is Reputation of debt and
not coinage the 10 to ! man IS after. pro
without the legal tender attachment Ii
there is nothing the matter with silver except
then free and unlimited coinage. without the
legal tender provision. would set it all right
such q test: Your proposition would nauseate
der law ->---'-o-. '-'@'--'S
They propose two plans for forcing a debased
low contracts for payment in gold. Second, il
gold dollar. With reference to the first plan,
maintaining the value of money by legal en-.
countries and has proven an ignomlnious fail
on for nearly 800 years France tried it for
centuries. The north tried it with greenbacks
ey. While it was a death penalty in France &c
refuse the assignats, they fell in value until ii
must have been worth $50 apiece In assignats
Mhat pity our inha atom friends could not
A government can rob one part Of its people
the bp as en e
make its people trade with each other. except
contract. If the money offered to the seller
does not suit him he does not SELL If offered
to laborer. he would need rest. If offered tc
a farmer for his produce, he would have only
enough for home consumption, until he found
ali along the line The proposal to take. away
the right OF tor t d that M n on
that we 90 hold by virtue of contract right.
this. above all things. that Magma Charta was
written When We surrender this supreme
miserable puppets to every mob that may seize
the helm of state
A New Counterfeit Device.
The other method suggested to bring about
a gold dollar. Our government has hitherto
against that kind of statesiiilahip fn>-eed it
has had its deputy marshals busy for lU1 years
to take this near cut to wealth. If this sort Of
to p the eSGf 5 ali As Tidss
liberated and given right of action against the
ernments have honored their pioneers, and
these men Were but the forerunners-the John
the Baptists-of this new religion OF debauch-
a republic rests entirely upon the morals of
Ratchet. told by LOVING lips to INDECENT child;
hood has W Wbde 9 d Of ,b men and
country upon unborn generations OF a story
so corrupt they repudiated one-half of their
debts by paying them in money worth only
half of its face value.
An American in a foreign land looks with a
swelling heart upon Old Glory. as it proud
ly t1aunts the breeze, the Uol of liberty
and honor Pass this act o. repudiation and
he would look upon it with shame. For
thuSing purposes might well pull it
down and run up dish rag.
But, MIR. President and gentlemen, allow me
in conclusion to say that country is in no
danger of reputation. This 10 to coinage
ciamor is but one of the manifestations of hard
times, brought on by the late panic. On low
lands in the night time deadly miasma ac-
cumu l.tes, but when the bright climbs
over the hilltops and shoots has purifying rays
into the bottom. the miasIna is di>pelled, the
atmosphere Is sweetened and made wholesome,
and men go forth to their daily avocations
with assurance of health. In spite of all the
isms that have afflicted us. IN spite of dema-
gogism on the stump and in legislative halls.
tories are taxed to their utmost with orders
and the wages of their employees have been
everywhere voluntarily raised. Prices that
have been depressed by the panic are improv-
ing. Sinister discomfort, with all her tmpS is
fleeing before the benign presence of proSp- r.
ity, and in after years the heresies Of tocIy
will only be renem bered 4 troubled dream.
The American people honest and patriotic.
Upon this rock we build faith, and all the
perstructure.