People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-16
SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS.

One must fain yawn disgustedly as one
gazes down the aisle of coming public
time. Politics be fearful mess! And,
betimesl one wishes YEARLY for that
simpler day of the forefathers, when
every man could say prayer and shoot
a gun. And did. Does it occur to We,
who read, that, save in civil war, never
until 1877, at Pittsburg, was the soldier
of the federal government brought to
fix bayonet against the citizen? For
one hundred years nothing of that lethal
sort was called for to keep American folk
in civic order. Those hundred years
were free of any effect of Republican
protection. Is it coincidence? or is it
cause and effect? For a century no fed
eral bayonet or bullet was called for in
the fortunes of manufacturing. For the
last quarter of a century-an age of
protection, to find its hey-day in the
trust!-the federal soldiery have had
had constant calling out of police strikes
and face riot. And by the casual way!
did it ever occur to you that folks don't
strike for fun and that as a rule riot has
a reason? Bad, truly! but still a reason;
and one not possible Of bayonet removal
A score Of times since II the federal
troops have been summoned to CAM
paign against labor. And whatever tim
idity, or vacuity, or servility may say or
think, those bayonets were each time
Iprying and digging at the corner stone
of freedom. Their broad effect was bad.
Even now, and for months, a whole re-
gion in Idaho has been under martial
law; and men have lost money, reason,
life and liberty in federal war waged
to enable the Standard Ola year in
and year ont outlaw, is Standard Oil
tear one more dollar day from poor
folks wages. But let that go2 Well
course another story and another
thought What is to happen? Within
two years trusts have formed; and-stock
and bonds-created $1,000, 100000 of
new credit. Over sixty per cent. Of the
amount is water-a fake! a hope! an ap-
petite! trap! In the same two years
only SI3o,ooo,ooo new money, have
been added to the circulation. What is
to be the story3 What is credit? It's a
VOLTA mouth that howls for money.
Today the banks are stuffed and gorged
with trust securities. They wait for
money-for lenders and buyers. For
every dollar that exists there are twenty
demands. The trust mongers want to
dispose Of, at least, the water in those g.
600, 900. Then they could not lose, let
the storm break how and when it would!
They would be on what sporting souls
term "velvet" And so they crowd and
jostle and struggle for customers for
those trust "securitiesw It is all the
banks can do to preserve order in this
hungry herd and stave off present stam-
pede. What is to happen? Can so slim
a stalk as $4,000, 900 account for and
support a credit Of 100000 ,ooo2 And
sixty per cent. of that no more valid
than moonshine! And if it can't sup
port it, what's to be the crashing con-
sequences? Soon or late, there II come the
smash They talk of present prosperity
Man! it's the prosperity of drunkenness
the prosperity that speculates, but
doesn't earn-that pillages, but doesn't
work. Trust securities" to the siren
song of $1,000 ooo,o 900! have been new
Matched on the market in two years.
They are hunting money. It's as if six
fbillion wolves chased deer! And of
those Sc, 1000, 10000 Of securities" S.
600, ooo, 900 repose on nothing but greed
and fraud. To lure customers to these
securities" the trusts put up prices Of
: commodities They must show a divi-
dend on those 5000, 100000 worth Of
securities Then they may find pur-