Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-16
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is. 1898

''the American people from tradition
and interest favor bimetallism, ant
the Republican party demands the u -
of both gold and silver as STANDARD
money" but in the Republican cam
paign book of that year, on page 157
they authoritative1y declared that
"nine-tenths of the people are bime
ta1lists.''
From beneath the folds of the flag
extends the head of the American
eagle, holding in its beak a scroll bear
ing the legend, st is true to the flag -
and beneath which, upon the outlines
of a shield, are the words, "The Prin-
cip1es and Policies of the Republican
Party. Issued by the National League
of Republican Clubs, New York, 1892 u
"There is grave danger in the un-
qualified adoption of the gold stand
ard. For, as the silver has been taken
out of Europe's coinage, the demand
for gold has enormously grown, and
grown in proportion much greater
than the supply. Measuring both
metals by the standard of commodities,
it is substantially true to say that gold
has sppreciated much more than sill
yer has deprecated. In the silver
| using countries, silver will buy almost
| as much of everything, except gold, as
| 1T would ten or a dozen years ago, and
| this fact sustains the demand for
cheaper money"
James G. Blaine said: "Silver is
the money of the constitution, and
Congress cannot demonetize it."
President Mckinley wrote the fiji an
cial plank in the Republican platform
of 1888, as follows: "The Republican
party is in favor of the use of both
gold and silver as money, and con-
demu the Democratic administration
for its efforts to demonetize silver
We appeal to the Republicans who
believed that Mr.. Mckinley was in
favor of the use of gold and silver as
standard money, and that his utter
ances were from the heart when he
said in his Toledo speech:
''Mr. Cleve' and, during all his years
at the head of the government, was
dish onoriug one of the precious metals,
aud one of our own products. He en-
deavored, even before his inaugural
tion to office, to stop the coinage of
silver dollars, and afterwards, and to
the close of his administration, per-
sisteutly used his power to that end"
You ask, HAS not the Republican
party been the friend of the poor? the
party that maintained the government
in her struggle for existence?" We
answer, yes, a thousand times, yes.
And that is the reason this appeal is
addressed to Republicans. The Re
publican party never stood for the gold
standard till 1896. Her statesmen have
all been against it. The men whose
names are dear to every patriotic
American spent their lives fighting
this thing, and died poor, bequeathing
to their country an untarnished name.
Lincoln, Morton, Chase, Stevens, and
our own beloved PIumb-all these
have left strewn all the way along
their political pathway warnings
against the gold standard. Were they
Republicans? Shall we be governed
by their advice, or shall we follow
these modern Republicans, who have
become millionaires at the expense of
the masses and their country, by trav-
cling along Grover Cleveland's Re-
publican road.
Not only did our patriotic fathe RS
teach that the gold standard was not
best for the country, but every writer
upon political economy agrees with
them. They all agree that the vol
u1ne of gold is insufficient to redeem
the currency necessary to float the
commerce of the world; and that to re-
strict the currency to what gold can
redeem makes money SO scarce as to
produce falling prices.
All writer's on political economy are
agreed upon this proposition. The
Republican party now favors the gold
standard. Secretary Cages plan to
strengthen the credit of the govern
ment at home and abroad is to issue
bonds to redeem the greenbacks, and
to refund all the obligations of the ma
ton into gold-beariug bonds. Mr..
Gage, who was a good Cleveland Dem
ocrat up to the time he entered McKin-
ley's cabinet, said that to do this it
would be necessary to give to the bond
holders $50, 100000 in bonds, but that
it would not amount to anything, be-
Gauss the interest would be the same
at the end of ten years. He has not
said who gets the principal at the end
of ten years, but we presume that is a
small matter. He would lower the
interest, but increase the principal,
and change the medium of payment.
Are you in favor of such a plan?
Whether you are or not, if you are in
favor of this administration, it is your
plan. Your Grover Cleveland secre-
tary said in answer to questions ask
ed him by the house committee:
''The objectI have is: First, to COM
NIT the country more thoroughly to
| the gold standard; remove, as far as
possible, doubts and fears ON that
point; and then strengthen the credit
of the United States both at home and
abroad. Second, to strengthen the
treasury in relation to its demand liza
bilities, in which are included green
| backs, treasury notes, and the Incl