People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-06-09
Forcing Issue, TO Compel the Amer.
lean People to Accept a Perma-
nent Debt and Plutocratic
Control of America.
Mississippi Valley Democrat.

IL is expected that expenses will sO0l
reach two millions a day. In th,
same connection great energy is belnI
applied to the work Of securing vote
TO prevent the taxation OF trusts anC
monopolies for war purposes; to sto]
the coinage Of silver now on hand, o.
the Issue Of certificates against it; tt
render impossible the issue of treasury
notes to pay expenses, and instead o.
this, to force an issue Of from three Il
five hundred million dollars in bond.
to be used as basis for the issue of {
corporation currency with govern
ment endorsement.
As an incident of these plans, which
invoke permanent plutocratic control
OF the government, preparations are
being made to call out between 200
900 and 100000 men, and to commit
the country to the policy Of holding
subject provinces under the same
system Of bayonet rule with which
Mr.. Hanna's speculative associates
support their carpet-bagging agents
in plundering the unfortunate farm
ers OF the South-whO, by the way,
are still struggling in poverty and
patches, under the load Of debt i'm
posed on them at that time by these
"fnanciers." 1t Is said in support of
this new mission Of the United
States, that we are to become
"civilizers" Of the inferior races OF
the Philippines and Hawaii. Which
means, no doubt, that, under Wall
street auspices we are to give them
the same blessings Of famine and
pestilence, Of fraud, robbery and all
the other unspeakable imfamies OF
oppression with which the plutocratic
imperialism thrust on the English
people by alien usurers in London, has
given to Ireland and to India.
1t may be that the "shOt heard
round the worldn was fired at Con-
cord for this; it may be thst the
ten thousand Of liberty.lOving Ameri.
cans who have fertilized the soil Of
their native land with their mangled
bodies died for this, but it is not yet
demonstrated that it is so.
The leading issue OF the war as it is
being carried on by the administra.
tion was thus defined by Senator
Allen, of Nebraska, in a recent speech
in the senate;
We are told, and it is simply false.
hood upon It's face, that IT is necessary
to issue interest bearing bonds with
which to conduct this war. There is
no necessity Tor bonds. There is but
one class of people who Call for them,
and they are the money power, Mr..
President, which dominates both
branches OF congress. l say, In
absolute humiliation, and 10 shame,
that this branch OF congress and the
other is controlled by the money
power, aud the voice Of the people is
here stifled or treated with contempt,
il heard at all,
We might add $40, 100000 more by
the adoption of this amendment, and
We can supply $3.50, 600, 900, and l think
1t ough: to be s2OO,0Oo,OOO, by the
issuance Of greenbacks, thus giving q
surplus, as said moment ago, Of
$3.50, 1855, 2S2.26. Who can claim, that.
under such circumstances it will be
wise to authorize the issuance OF
bonds.
But, Mr.. President, thi. means
more. ltmeans an interest, IL those
bopdsa are not paid-an interest charge
to the people Of the United States of
Sl2O, 0OO,O 900 during the next ten years,
making $500, 600, 900 when the bonds
are paid. 1t means even more than
that. 1t means that at the end of
ten years there will be no money In
the treasury with which to Day the
bonds. They will be refunded and 20
on from year to year as a great blanket
mortgage upon the property and In.
dustrles OF the country. :.
Mr.. President, tidal wave OF
patriotism Is rolling over the country.
THE peace.at-any-price men" of four
or five weeks ago are leading 10 the
war today. The men who were
laggards for peace, and permit the
women and children OF Cuba to starve
by thousands, as they are starving
now-and before we get into Cuba
they will all be gone bJ starvation
those men have put themselves at the
head OF the procession and are carry
ing the flag, and we are In the rear
beating the drums and sounding the
tlfes.
Mr.; President, the Moloch Of greed
Is to be satisfied at any price. On the
2lst Of last month we declared on
high Christian grounds, on grounds Of
ciylllzation-even earlier than that
think-that We would intervene In
the affairs between Spain and Cub
to put a stop to unspeakable cruelty
Within thir:y-six miles OF our shore,
500, OOOold men, boys, women, children
and suckliugs had been starved n
death. The civilized world would moi
stand 1t longer. But here we were
the giant Of the Western continent
and l think when properly organized
the most powerful nation on earth n
all respects, sitting down supinely
watching the process OF extermina