Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-16


faithfully perform the duties of sec.
retary of the treasury?
The seoretary's plan is for the bank
to issue all the currency to be redeem.
ed 10 gold, and for the government to
guarantee the payment. In other
words, the secretary says: The credit
of the government will be strengthen.
ed at home and abroad if it will guar
antee that 81, ,12o, 900, 600 of bank cur
rency will be redeemed in gold. MIR.
Gage says the government cannot re-
deem $346, 100000 of greenbacks, and
that these greenbacks are an endless
the government. Some of us doubt
ing Thorn Ises are inclined to think
that if the government cannot redeem
$500, 900, 900 of greenbacks, it might
have to hump to redeem four times
that many bank notes in panic.
Does the President approve of Mr..
Cages plan? Yes; he recommended it
in his message to Congress on the 9th
day of December last. Why does he
favor it? Because if the banks have
the bank notes to redeem there will
never be demand for their redemp-
tion. Nobody wants redemption but
the man that can make money by j..
The banks can make money by loan
ing their debts tnotes); hence they
favor the plan. If you and L could
loan our notes and draw interest on
our Indebtedness free from taxation,
we possibly could be induced to favcr
the plan
John ]. Ingalls, said: "No enduring
fabric of national prosperity can be
built on gold. Gold is the money of
monarchs. Kings covet it. The ex-
change of nations is affected by it. Its
tendency is to accumulate in vast
masses n1 commercial centers and
move from kingdom to kingdom in
such volumes as to unsettle values and
disturb the finances of the world"
Hume once said: "The time will
come when the salvation of dividends
will make it necessary that we cease
to consider the honor and safety of the
country"
Ex-U. 5. Postmaster.Gener Wan
amaker recently startled the entire
country by his warnings against the
gold standard and speculation in office.
Think of these utterances, and act as
becomes patriot, and not as a part
zan. Do you ask why thsoe who have
given utterance to such sentiments re-
main in the party? The answer is,
that the greater part of those who as
sisted in making that part of the rec
ord of the Republican party that you
and ali other men del ght to praise are
dead.
Who is responsible for the demone-
tization of the money of the contra act?
The origional contract bond was pay
able in lawful money. Did the payee
or the payor demand the change?
John Sherman, in 1868, when the bond.
holder was demanding payment in
coin, said that, "if we pay the bond in
that kind of money that was paid for
the bond (paper,) it would be an hon.
est payment" Nevertheless, the con-
tract was, at the solicitation of the
holders, changed: but before that
change was made, and became the
fixed policy of this nation, the follow
ing resolution, expressing the policy
of this nation, was passed by both
houses, and the now chief executive
voted for it:
RESOLVED by the senate, (the house
of representatives concurring,) That
all bonds issued by the United States.
or authorized to be issued, under the
said act of Congress hereinbefore re-
cited, are payable, at the option of the
United States government. in silver
dollars of coinage of the Uni ed States,
containing 412H grains each of stand
ard silver; and that to restore to its
coinage such silver coins as a legal
tender in payment of such bonds, prin-
cipal and interest, is not in violation
of the public faith, nor in derogation
OF the rights of the public creditors"
This appeal is addressed to the Re-
publicans of Kansas by those who
have assisted in making the history
OF that party. We have assisted in
the burden and heat of the day, on the
field of battle and on the stump. We
did this so long as the party stood for
country by and for the people. When
that party declared at St. Louis for a
gold standard, we believe that the
money-changers had obtained control
of the party to as great an extent as
the STAKEHOLDER had of the Democratic
party prior to 1860.
If the r pub1icans who favor the
use of both gold and silver will sepa-
rate themselves from all parties, and
unite in Kansas this fall in demand
ing that no person be returned to Con
gress who does not favor the restora-
tion of silver to our coinage, we can
ect solid delegation favorable to
the unlimited coinage of both metals.
Will you join us for this purpose?
Interest and tradition made us BIZ
metalists in 1873, 1884, 1888 and 1892;
and what was true then is true now, if
the people will express their honest
convictions.
To keep the Republican party from
affirming its oft-repeated promises to